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This gives you high frequency data of common roads at an incredible cost. Street views only need very low frequency data of all roads, so you'd be paying a premium for data that isn't needed while still having a gap.
In boom towns there is a lot of construction. Having up to date data would be exceedingly valuable there. Downtown Springfield, maybe not so much.
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That way they'd know "We're in this Together" (cue dramatic piano)
Also known as virtue signaling. I am sure it is helpful to all those laid off people to know there are readers on Hacker News talking about them.
Uber/airbnb/lyft were considered in the same tier as facebook/google before corona. With google also slowing hiring, are the engineers laid off all going to be absorbed by facebook?
Facebook is surely in a similar ad dollars crunch as Google. I can't imagine they're full speed.
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so... back when the internet was just rich white guys that could afford computers as their hobbies and could get away with making extremely inappropriate jokes without consequence? Yeah, I "miss" it too
You know, my 'white privilege' have me SOOOO much more opportunities than my black afro-russian compatriots ever had in Russia. :-/ Jokes aside, I believe my parents income in 1993 was less than 10% of the poorest non-white guy in the US. So your 'white guy' accusation kinda lands flat.
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The thing is, right now there seems to be a disturbing pattern of the world falling apart at the end of every GOP administration. This is problematic, because we still need the GOP so that we can vote out democrats when they mismanage the nation's affairs. We can't have one party, that's not safe for us as the citizenry for obvious reasons. At the same time, we can't have this, "the world ends", at the end of every G…
> We can't have one party, that's not safe for us as the citizenry for obvious reasons. Why not? If one party doesn't actually want to govern, kill it. In addition, the Democrats are hardly a unified bloc. And, if the Democrats, themselves, split into 2 parties because they have buried the Republicans, that would solve your problem, no? California is your counterexample. Excising the Republican party like a tumor mad…
Just as our legal system is adversarial, where two "teams" enter a court to at least attempt justice, it seems crucial to a successful political system that there be a dialectic between opposing views, hoping compromise benefits the whole.
Comments such as this, dismissing a huge portion of fellow citizens out of hand, without so much as recognizing that "they" might be trying to do what's best in their eyes is so far from a democratic ideal...
- The tech companies having issues during covid-19 are all heavily invested in travel/transportation(Uber/Lyft/Airbnb etc). - They also are in industries that entirely use gig workers with personal contact in 90% of their services(airbnb the least of these). - I don't see other tech companies getting hit this hard(the sky is not falling!). - I really, really hope these laid off engineers find other jobs quickly and l…
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This is a pretty grim path to follow. If States are to go bankrupt and subject to federal imposition of what debts must be paid, then it may push States to seek further sovereignity. An example being pressure to mint their currency. This is currently banned in the constitution, but if things get dire... they could simply ignore?
I would prefer that states have more power and we further decentralize authority away from the federal government. This will limit the see-saw that occurs whenever the president switches parties.
But alas, one of those founders, Jefferson, argued we should rewrite the constitution every 19 years.
And another founder, Hamilton, argued that ambition must be made to counteract ambition. And that government is a reflection on human nature, most directly its citizens. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed51.asp
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End game is: GOP knows they're gonna lose the election. They want to hand the dems the worst economy possible. Then, 4 years down the road, they can start campaigning against "do-nothing-dems" and point to the horrible economy they had to start fixing.
The thing is, right now there seems to be a disturbing pattern of the world falling apart at the end of every GOP administration. This is problematic, because we still need the GOP so that we can vote out democrats when they mismanage the nation's affairs. We can't have one party, that's not safe for us as the citizenry for obvious reasons. At the same time, we can't have this, "the world ends", at the end of every G…
Or another party will rise to power, and one of the current powerhouses will fade away.
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Do they fully instrument their drivers vehicles? I'd imagine a lot of sensor data is needed for self-driving cars.
No, but they have a good understanding on routes and areas with high traffic. That data is going to be worth a fortune for the first fully autonomous taxi service.
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Single party rule in California has been an improvement. We have a functioning government. Kinda helps in a pandemic. When we got rid of our last Republican governor we paid down our debt and California entered this dire period with a big reserve. The notion that some sort of optimal condition is reached by trashing government is just a clueless and stupid idea.
"Single party rule in California has been an improvement." I just moved to California so I don't have too much of a personal opinion yet but that sounds like a bold claim. From what I've seen, people over the age of 30 seem split on whether or not it's an improvement. You look at mismanaged cities like SF where there's insane homeless budgets but very little action and results and wonder if the monopoly on political…
Homelessness is an infinite money sink coupled with very problematic civil rights issues. It takes a unified effort at the federal level when states are willing to just ship their problems to other states. It also requires a unified effort at healthcare--both physical and mental. Nobody has come up with a good solution to homelessness yet--anywhere. If you have one, put it out there as lots of governments are desperate for a fix.
While NIMBY is bad irrespective of party, the YIMBY movement only started gaining traction once the Republicans were purged as the NIMBY movement could COUNT on them as a unified bloc of obstruction. And, as for NIMBY, renters outnumber property owners, yet don't show up to vote. Well, then what results do you think you're going to get?
As for Texas, it isn't as uniformly Republican as you think. The major cities are gaining significant Democratic representation (the Republicans just banned straight ticket voting because it destroyed them in Houston last cycle). You can also see this in the Covid-19 response--the mayors for big Texas cities almost uniformly shut down--Austin declared very early in order to avoid the disaster that would have been SXSW.
Yes, the gerrymandering in Texas is horrific, and the areas outside the cities are as stupid red as it gets. However, Texas isn't as unified as you think--in spite of the human-shaped Senator known as Ted Cruz.