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Your points covers the entire scenario with self-driving & electric cars.

I totally envision the points mentioned. I put the $$ figures for on-demand hail service subscription a month ago, on a HN thread as follow .

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15644680

2021 : Electric Self-driving on-demand FLEET Car 1000 miles/month SUBSCRIPTION from Google, DiDi, Uber, Renault/Nissan,Tesla, VW,Toyota,GM for $400/month

2024 :same 1000 miles/month SUBSCRIPTION $200/month

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> Literally none of the old assumptions will apply. Let's go through some of them.

> 1. Maintenance. Electric vehicles require far less maintenance than ICE vehicles. (First thing I found on Google: https://insideevs.com/ev-vs-ice-maintenance-the-first-100000...)

> 2. Vehicle size. Once these systems are up and running, do you think Waymo & Uber, once their systems reach any level of maturity, are going to send you a 4 person vehicle to pick up 1 person? This reduces:

a- the capital cost of the vehicle
b- its cost of maintenance (less parts, etc)
c- the amount of energy required to get from point A to point B

Which brings me to...

> 3. Price of electricity. Waymo, Uber, et al will get their electricity at wholesale rates.

> 5. Bulk-buying 1,000,000 vehicles. No dealers, no dealer commissions, zero customizations, less parts, smaller vehicles, no car manufacturer marketing budget...

> 6. Maintenance scaling. The need to scale maintenance operations country-wide is going to lead to its own interesting effects. With a hard limit on the types of vehicles in a network, most cleaning and general maintenance will, in time, be doable by human-monitored robots.

> I'd hesitate to guess at the effects of all of the above, but it's not much of a stretch to anticipate an additional 50% reduction here, barring any unforeseen taxes, of course.

> You might pay more for the network with great coverage and lux vehicles.

> You might pay less for the crappy network with dirty cars and plastic seat buckets.
Etc.
I've been really into politics and government lately, I'd recommend the following podcasts in the genre. I cannot provide links as I'm on mobile but a Google search should suffice.

The Weeds by Vox Media, this is a more 'wonk' and policy based podcast which also focuses on the latest news. This year their focus has been not surprisingly going into the finer details of ACA and Tax reform.

More Perfect by WNYC, this is a spin off podcast from the Radiolab folks which focuses on important supreme Court cases, this podcast features audio from oral arguments and interviews with folks involved in these landmark cases.
Probably because people would be surprised at the juxtaposition.
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I can't say I'm a fan of the Daily Beast, but the RBC link looks legit. The president retweeting an official-looking Twitter account that said something he agrees with isn't great, but it's a bit of a jump between that and collusion.

As far as him echoing propaganda, it's not impossible. He and his staff probably didn't comb through sources on everything they retweeted. Each individual claim of echoing propaganda would have to be evaluated individually.
I've met people who are passionate about finance, usually they are traders though. I've never met a truly passionate accountant. But then I don't know many. I don't know how you would do accounting in your spare time. Maybe volunteer work?
$139 is almost certainly not what the insurance company would pay. It's also largely a price determined by the pharmacy itself, not the drug manufacturer.
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iOS 11 still does this (unless I'm hacked)
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A ransomware scheme that requires stealing physical devices seems hard to scale I suspect I would be more worried about one device being hacked and someone using access to that device to attack other devices.
Pretty easy to build megastructures when you're the Church and you can squeeze the local population for every bit of money they have.

Those things would also take several generations to build. They weren't comparable to highways or railways that got laid down within a decade.
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Ummm doesn’t a regular VC founded startup that IPOs does the exact same thing?

Some of them without even making money... actually loosing money!
From Waymo's 4 million mile announcement[0], they did their most recent million miles in 6 months (May 2017 to Nov 2017). The announcement also has the timeline of when they hit each million mile mark.

Also, I'm not sure this stat says anything besides how many cars they have on the road. Disengagement rates are probably still the most useful to gauge how good any company is doing.

[0] https://medium.com/waymo/waymos-fleet-reaches-4-million-self...
> Is this ultimately what the insurance company is paying out?

They get insanely large profit margin and its pretty much a result of years of lobbying and hard-to-get-in type of market. You are absolutely right with your hopes and when Amazon finally kicks in you will see massive "discounts" from Wallgreens CVS etc al... while they will still rack up nice profits! The whole idea behind Amazon looking deep into disturbing this market is exactly the fact how much lobbying and deals-behind-the-curtain are being made jack up the pricing.

PS. A friend of mine works high in ranking in Wallgreen and all upper management is truly losing sleep over this.

PS2. Same situation applies to aviation. All major players are in shenanigans in price gauging (they simply agree NOT to lower the price) that's why the price of oil went down over 50% meanwhile your average ticket went up 15%. With so much money on hands, I would hope Amazon will eventually disturb flying market in USA; we need it.
How to block website coin miners in Chrome so they don't use your CPU
You can also see emulations of TI based calculators here https://www.cemetech.net/projects/jstified/
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Strangely (I think) this doesn't mention the Sinclair calculators, one of which I purchased in the mid-Seventies and still have in a box somewhere. It was minimalist but gorgeous. I'd like to dig it out now and carry it around... would be v hipster.

It's long ago but mine might have been the Sinclair Cambridge Scientific: http://www.vintagecalculators.com/html/cambridge_scienific.h...

What hath god wrought!
Why do we even have this list? cant we search for jobs in google jobs or other job site? isn't it a lot easy? why to use some script to search the thread? are these jobs only advertised here?

What is the use in asking this question here and then listing down all these info which is not easily filterable?

Is there anything special going on here?
For me, if I open an article on the Internet and it has as little as a popup asking me to subscribe to an e-mail, I close it and move on.
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My name was not used, and it found my actual submission asking to keep NN, so at least I know it worked.
I'm in this camp too, knowing how Python is growing in adoption because of its stylistic expressiveness conventions I wonder what the growth rate of Perl has been. I was at a company 6 years ago that wrote Perl scripts but two companies since I have yet to see it again. Various companies I've interviewed at in the meantime don't have it as part of their tech-stack either. Where is this stuff being used exactly?
I work in devops support for an under-development software project. At request of the developers, I started keeping up a page in our wiki where, whenever something broke that affected the developers, I just logged what happened, why, and what I'm doing to prevent it happening again. The developers really like this so they feel more in the loop about system issues, but it turns out that I really like it because it's just really useful to have that log.

I don't want to keep the wiki page super busy, so I now keep a text file with basically a much more verbose version of the same thing. What happened, what I tried, what I eventually found was the root cause, how I fixed it, and what I'm changing to prevent a repeat.

This has two big advantages. First, the obvious one is that when things act up I can sometimes find details on a previous incident that I don't remember very well. The second and I think even greater advantage, though, is that it forces me to actually think seriously about the root cause and preventative measures every single time, instead of just fixing the immediate problem and then going on to the next thing in a rush.
Yeah no.

I am not normally a conspiracy theorist but Amazon manufacturing things to spy on me with audio, video, being able to unlock my doors and now know my prescriptions, naaah.
As an engaged alumnus and attentive to such matters, I do not recall any open search for an architect for the major new buildings — the selection just happened.

This is a pernicious problem facing Ivy League institutions. Some administrator might complain bitterly that the entire process had been widely publicized and that anyway qualified architects would have known to call, but further review will discover that all publicity took place on a physical bulletin board and several private mailing lists. The faculty have not held the administration to account on numerous questionable decisions small and large, and now the bureaucrats feel they're accountable to no one.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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BAT is a borderline scam. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15722299
Did they get the stock?
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I really enjoyed Mr. Figes book on the Russian Revolution because his writing style is wonderfully accessible and compassionate.

Unfortunately it has been accused of having many pages of plagiarized content and poor sourcing. Which has made me weary of his writings and commentary.

I really hate to color a person with a single brush but my impression is that the problems were significant. Either error on its own would be forgivable but combining plagiarism and inaccurate sourcing points to a sloppiness with history in an effort to create narrative. To me, a historian most break away from narrative and commit to rigor.
So I've been debating subscribing to the NYT, but the sheer number of options has delayed me from doing it. My wife and I both love crosswords and would love to get access to the crosswords, and I'd like to get a subscription to support journalism. Last time I looked it wasn't really clear to me which subscription(s) I should get so I delayed the choice.

Now I find myself actively avoiding most NYT links because I want to "save them" for the stories I'm really interested in which means in general I almost never click on a NYT link anymore. So now I'm wondering if I should even bother subscribing. This seems like it will make me even less likely to subscribe, especially since I don't want to reward this business tactic.
Social Apps Are Now a Commodity
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American universities being fairly conservative architecturally is hardly a new development. Look at how popular faux-Gothic is at any Ivy League school. They are all full of modern buildings trying to look like Oxbridge.
Dublin was fine. But drive 15 minutes outside the city limits and I did a lot of polite nodding and smiling. By the end of my two weeks, though, I could still only catch about 75% of the words being spoken. We spent most of our time around Kilkenny and Cork, though, if I remember correctly.
Which on the top 18 hacking Os’s do you use?
I don’t have a problem with that. It can still be hard if you also want to “use Holly;” which wants some incompatible syntax hack, but at least it is lexically contained. I think the main reason this stuff tends to work out ok is that it’s so rare (in practice there aren’t enough Holly’s and Jolly’s in play so you don’t ever need to use both in the same scope).
The actual app is great so far, really useful and better in real use than Transit App.

Can you address the comments on about Citymapper on Glassdoor [0]? I expect that many folks are held back by this.

Any specific Glassdoor review is just anecdotal, but there is a very strong negative trend. Is it warranted? Are the problems being addressed?

[0] https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Citymapper-Reviews-E1030...