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What should they have done? They put Ghislaine Maxwell in jail then had to wait until her appeal about Epstein's immunity deal made it to the Supreme Court.

The safety stats are per road mile, so it is normalized. https://waymo.com/safety/impact/

A lot of human drivers blasted through intersections with lights that were out. There were indeed accidents, and so yes, human cars were in fact stopped in the middle of traffic.

I've heard from English and German visitors that 4 way intersections are frequently disambiguated by a concept of priority roads, and they seem surprised by the relatively smaller …

The Tesla example is a single oncoming car, clear right of way, and ample time in a simple 4-way intersection. The Waymo video has over a dozen cars, at least 6 pedestrians crossin…

I saw plenty of Waymos managing to make it through intersections. They were slow and tentative, but definitely made forward progress. I think the emergency "phone home" protocol re…

So maybe the point was to consider a different store or route. Or look at the traffic and decide if you REALLY want to spend an hour or more in gridlock for whatever activity you a…

Actually that is specifically not true at Google, and I expect it applies to Waymo also. People get promoted for running DiTR exercises and addressing the issues that are exposed. …

Yes, that is the same law in California, but so many people drift through stop signs that the guidance is close to meaningless. In addition, there are 4-way stop signs all over SF …

I was driving across the east side of SF and hit a patch of lights that were out. The Waymo's were just going really slow through the intersection. It seemed that the "light is out…

Umm - there was a network capable computer and a display. There was no way to build that for $100 to $200 at that time. Our Cobalt Networks boxes were about $1k. Take out the disk,…

This was obviously going to happen once they turned the Village into Portmeirion Hotel.

SF is worse, except for the snow. You can complain about Boston drivers, but they are pretty predictable compared to SF tourists. Snow is an issue, but they'll get that done.

Lots of surplus power in any ICE vehicle. 1 HP is over 700 watts. A few extra HP to generate power isn't any big deal.

You need to distinguish "hardware" and "consumer hardware". Google wouldn't exist as you know it if they didn't didn't build great data center and network hardware. Their problems …

Depending on the numbers involved, previous generation hardware can waterfall to infrastructure apps that are throughput based. Things accessed through network APIs and billed per …

Interesting. My Kaiser almost doubled from COBRA and coverage went from better-than-platinum to high deductible gold. Google / SF market.

That 2016 phone couldn't be protected from Spectre family attacks without a ridiculous performance penalty. What is the point in "security updates" for a CPU that can't be made sec…

While at Sun in the early 2000's, I was part of the due diligence team for an acquisition and had two days to review the entire code base of a 3 year old, 50 person software team. …

For example see : https://www.semianalysis.com/p/the-dark-side-of-the-semicond... I think you are overestimating the value and amount of help from ARM, especially in the more recen…

Impossible to know from the outside. We know what they are selling it for, but that isn't the same. True TCO needs to include the cost to develop the chip - after all, that is fold…

Cloud services have a lot of back end. Cluster management, file systems, disk / storage systems, network management, database systems. None of those require user or OS instruction …

And with Coolidge's great persistence, he helped build the foundation for the Great Depression. It is possible to "press on" in the wrong direction.

Nope. The Sun-1 MMU was segment and page registers indexed hierarchically off the physical addresses. It was a full page based system with segment and page level sharing and protec…

The front and rear wheels have different angles of attack on the vector of the car, so they have slightly different friction vectors. The result can be oversteer (when the back sli…