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What does that mean?
700k total compensation* not sure how over how long though.
When people say total comp they are referring to yearly.
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Not to say challenges don’t remain, but it’s undeniable the technology has come a long way in the last few years. https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=318&v=aj8TRtr64xQ
You fell for the boondoggle. Waymo has a very narrow set of routes you can take. They collect ultra HD maps for those routes in SF which has a completely unsustainable human labor cost. It doesn’t scale to “drive me on any road”. Waymo is localized-only driving funded at a major loss by a search ads monopoly. Cruise does the same, just with VC money (and weird low-traffic hours of operation). They have not solved dri…
I’m not hating, there is of course progress being made. It’s a tough problem, but I would not call it “come a long way”.
https://twitter.com/irapolis/status/1631926001700835328?s=20
And https://sfstandard.com/community/stalled-waymo-creates-traff...
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Maybe but there's got to be a less expensive way of doing that. Buying VW's stake?
Realizing a loss isn't bad, it only recognizes that money you have already spent is lost, it doesn't actually cost you anything and it's a nice tax write-off. If you can do that and you get to get keep the engineers, why not do that instead of keeping some fictional value for it on your balance sheet?
A company could write off a value or a partial value for an asset.
Ford could have done that.
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You can't have you basic car that is in-expensive and just a car without buying it from a boring, in-expensive automobile maker. They are the ones who make that kind of vehicle. They are one and the same. What's the 'basic car' that uses gas that you want in electronic form but still a basic car?
Sure I can. Just because I don't like GM doesn't mean I don't like other manufacturers. You're making a big assumption. Some people don't like Ford cars because they are fixed or repaired daily. Some people don't like GM for whatever generic meme saying. Some people don't like Toyota/Honda/et al because they're not American made (to whatever truth there is/isn't to that). Some people just have preferences. Those pref…
I wasn't trying to criticize your choices. I was trying to figure out what brand makes the gas powered car you have that you would like to see translated into an electric form. I am guessing you have some other things that you like in a car, can you share your ideal car then?
Re: Ford Hires 550 Former Argo.ai Engineers, Creates Latitude.ai
#135The name is a little bit unfortunate. There's already a company in the AI space called Latitude: https://latitude.io
Not for long!