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London cabbys can be hangry or have broken up with their partners that day. What makes you so sure they're fully attentive on any given day?

I think the other way to think about it is that Waymo is probably in the 99th percentile for not being distracted and 99th percentile for reaction time, always, just from a pure se…

I mean, if some subset of those 15% used Waymo, we'd be better off, no?

The argument was for _how_ people react to Waymos. The OP said folks are more careful. The respondent said, no it's the opposite. Neither argued that people do not adapt their beha…

From a purely technical perspective, I would expect a Waymo to react to unexpected external stimuli much, much faster than a human. It gives the Waymo options that are unavailable …

Do you have a solution for preventing humans from driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs? Or even preventing humans from driving while texting?

Yes, but I don't actually trust most folks to be in a "good condition". Even the best drivers have their off days.

This is a state law and it still allows for stricter city level rent control. If the unit is bound under the stricter SF city rent control, the city rent control law may treat disc…

Allowing differing reimbursement amounts seems pretty similar to charging different prices to different patients. Why not remove negotiation entirely and say price is X for all pat…

I use NFC Task Launcher to do exactly this. Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jwsoft.nfc...

One advantage I've noticed: our angel investors seem to like the standardization and quickness of Clerky. They know exactly what they're signing and there's less back and forth. I …

Phone automation: http://launcher.tagstand.com/

How can you list 7 things you want in a futuristic airplane and miss: 0) Get to my destination faster. Where are all those hypersonic planes we were promised?

Hewlett-Packard: I'd give that one to Stanford way more than MIT. From Wikipedia: "Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduated in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 193…

I'm all for new layouts and ideas - people will get over changes like this. Facebook redesigns have taught us many times. From what I can tell though, Sam and James could've done a…

Thanks for your wishes! We're still lurking around news.YC. We, WebShaka, went on to work on Project Wedding after YouOS; when that site was acquired, we and YC had an exit. The fo…

You're right - that should be clearer. I've updated youos.com to more accurately reflect our history: WebShaka went on to work on Project Wedding; when that site was acquired, the …

eHarmony is hiring Java Engineers. Email me at spanguluri at that domain and I can forward to the appropriate person.

Another huge plus for libraries: many of them have conference and meeting rooms that you can book for free. If you're in the Bay Area, mid-Peninsula, the San Carlos library has roo…

I don't think executing long-running DDL with concurrent read/writes is that bad, especially if the DDL is additive and doesn't lock the whole table. Concurrency - isn't that what …

Probably the best demographic in terms of ad click through rate.

Yes - Joe was engaged when we started it; he was having trouble finding good wedding vendors.

Hi, I'm one of the founders of YouOS. Yeah, we're finally shutting it down. We haven't been working on YouOS actively since November 2006. Why it failed is a long blog post for ano…

Another great benefit is that you get an itemized bill at the end of the month. It's a great way to track your spending.