Waymo is a money hole it has never got close to making a profit. Think of all that equipment attached to a luxury SUV and the upkeep. The purpose of Waymo is research - you just get the privilege of paying to be a guinea pig. There is no market for Waymo - just Google who dumps money on it.
Another important thing to think about is that Uber and Lyft are operated by people. Often these working people need the meager salary to live - wouldn't you rather support your local economy instead of being a research subject?
This is great news for people who want to buckle themselves into an uncontrollable 70 mph thin-metaled panopticon : P
I remember reading that these Waymo cars haven't been allowed onto highways until now. If thats true I wonder how that will change these statistics since that dramatically increases the need for the vehicle to think and perform...
So muckbang videos are acceptable, but fitness videos aren't.. oh my
I would say probably the best thing to come out of the social media tiktok and instagram obsession has been a renewed focus on health: workout, diet, food, lifestyle, etc.
The fact that YouTube would announce this instead of just implementing behind the scenes is also shocking - they are getting bold with their manipulations
This is a good point. Life is full of risks and challenges, but I guess in my case I choose to trust in humanity in cases like these... god knows Ive seen enough production software in my life to be skeptical for two.
> I won't be the first in line to take Waymo on a freeway but at some point the results will speak for themselves.
Indeed - lets hope we do get to actually see the numbers in due time.
It does actually, my father was a pilot for Delta and he saw the automation come thru and there are horror stories there too.
On top of this, the software quality is certified, built over decades, and continuously tested on each plane regularly - and of course the pilots are still there ; )
I don't understand why people are so eager to give up autonomy. I doubt the software is certified in any meaningful way (see DO-178B), the algorithms are unknown, and the NHTSA sits on its hands whenever these vehicles have accidents.
Here is a litmus test: would you allow Waymo to drive schoolbuses with your children? I know I certainly will never allow my family or myself to get into a metal box going 80 mph without a driver.
> The merit of OER is that is a measure of the cost of using owned housing as housing instead of renting it out.
I don't follow - can you help me understand? To me there are two metrics that matter: the price of property, and the price to rent property.
Hypothetical: If 50% of the houses in the US were bought by older folks in the 1970 - 1990 (when housing prices were more propositional to income) and they generally don't plan to sell until 2030 - what does it matter what they would rent at today?
I just don't understand the logic here, and to the fact that they are included in the CPI at all means that the CPI is necessarily skewed when it comes to housing imho
Even if that is true (which I am doubtful of), what is the merit of OER at all? Why use it if its A) not really what people are paying B) relying on people not in the market to guess what the going rate is and C) consistently underestimates actual rent.
I see no purpose for it besides the government liking the C) part...
Remember folks, inflation is "temporary" or, i mean, "transitory", or I mean, yes we have inflation, but its the COVID supply chain, OH oh sorry its Putin's fault. Yes lets stick with that...
They are making flat assumptions and trying to recreate the charts from the government CPI, its also a reddit post and not a serious bit of research which examined their actual methods. It could all just be correlation - who knows? All I know is that prices are rising very fast, and I tend to not believe the government. Food pyramid, Iraq war, COVID numbers, etc.
I think the FED and our banking regulations are the true "bad economics" and if you trust that, just go ahead and leave your deposits in the bank or invest in 4% yielding bonds : P
Ok, if you were the government and I asked you to measure rent increases - what would you do? Would you look at the cost of renting on average in a city and compare them to last years? Seems like the most obvious way...
Well, that is not how the government does it now. It currently uses a metric called "owner's equivalent rent". Where instead they call up people who own there houses and ask them how much they would rent it for. It is essentially a survey instead of hard data. This has the effect of hugely underestimating the value of housing - and thats just housing!
Lets talk about measuring food prices, well according to the US government you can have "substitutions". If you think measuring the price of steak is as easy as comparing the number between the years you'd be wrong again, because what they currently do is say "well people are really buying ground beef instead of steak so well use those prices instead". What's next substituting in dog food?
Thats not even to mention "hedonic adjustments"...
When the government relies on a statistic for policy it stops becoming a reliable statistic because the incentive is just too high to not manipulate the numbers
There is no way that matches reality, where does the person publishing such a chart even live? Do they buy eggs or pay rent?
Here is a real alternative - John William's shadow stats. He simply measures inflation as the government used to in the 80s and 70s, and surprise surprise its more like 10% or 14% - no phony "Owner's equivalent rent".
Ada has:
- Labels in the form of: Call (Param_A => 1, Param_B => "Foo");
- Underscores can be used in numbers of any base: X : Integer := 1_000;
- Nested subprograms
- Range based tests