Is there a conclusion that the taxi service kind of works and just needs to fix a few minor issues around the edges fixed to work in limited city use in many cities, or is it so far away it's not even close?
Honestly with Curb in NYC have been more than happy with taxis. Wish it would be adopted in more cities.
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#12Is there a conclusion that the taxi service kind of works and just needs to fix a few minor issues around the edges fixed to work in limited city use in many cities, or is it so far away it's not even close?
Videos that show up on the r/self drivingcars subredddit show increasing fluency/confidence in driving from Waymo. But there's always going to be socially weird situations in cities where the answer is to benignly break the law, and it's not clear how well SDC's will ever do with those.
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#14At this point how long before the fed starts to lower rates.
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#15I can’t imagine three layoffs in a year is great for morale. Is there a reason they chose this sort of trickling layoffs approach?
Every time you all drive prices of stocks down, layoffs happen. Think twice before you drive the prices of a stock down again, you're part of the cause. Consider selling at a higher price than you bought the stock for. If you drive stock prices down three times a year, layoffs will happen three times a year. If you drive stock prices up, they'll go on a hiring spree. It's that simple.
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#16I can’t imagine three layoffs in a year is great for morale. Is there a reason they chose this sort of trickling layoffs approach?
Which is to say, assuming you are not actively looking for the exit door, why even bother to do your job? At-will employment and all that, but it is an entirely different thing if the company has announced they have a fixed dollar expense target to hit.
Layoffs have always had a random component to them (I know brilliant people shown the door, yet worthless mouth-breathers who can dodge any bullet). Now we are told to potentially hang on for a year, knowing the axes could strike at anytime to make sure management hits their blood quota?
Needless to say, I expect productivity to be astounding for the foreseeable future.
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#17I can’t imagine three layoffs in a year is great for morale. Is there a reason they chose this sort of trickling layoffs approach?
Every time you all drive prices of stocks down, layoffs happen. Think twice before you drive the prices of a stock down again, you're part of the cause. Consider selling at a higher price than you bought the stock for. If you drive stock prices down three times a year, layoffs will happen three times a year. If you drive stock prices up, they'll go on a hiring spree. It's that simple.
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#18They will survive, but broken up.
So more layoffs to come, unfortunately from the correction of the zero interest rate phenomenon with decades long QE all coming to an end.
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#19To anyone following this space, this was inevitable. Also, What is going on at google these days, I don't see them having a competitive advantage in any industry after this decade..
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#20At this point how long before the fed starts to lower rates.