Waymo is learning what every American who went through driver's ed learned: you do not mess with school buses. The traffic penalties are some of the highest short of personal injuries, you have one of the most vocal and politically aggressive voting factions backing them (parents), and even America's mighty SUV's and massive pickup trucks will lose in any collision with the bright yellow armored behemoth. The fact that this issue was so rapidly raised to the Federal level by one of the most states-rights centric localities shows just how seriously school buses are taken.

I'm not sure where you took driver's ed, but when I did it, school bus safety was hammered into us. They made it a point that passing a stopped school bus with a sign deployed got you more points than any other traffic infraction that did not involve an injury or collision. In the US at least, you learn early on that you do not mess with school buses, not just for traffic infractions but even our much vaunted SUV's and massive pickup trucks will still lose badly in any collision with one.

A very shortsighted rich, tech-bro. Are they going to be saying the same thing in three years if we get a President AOC who would use the powers laid out by President Trump to push AI regulations in a different direction?

While I shed no tears for the existential crisis faced by the next generation of consultants, I do think their plight reflects the broader challenge a lot of fields, including technical ones, face in terms of training the next generation. We've relied upon the model of giving basic work to junior employees to build their skill sets and then working them up to more and more complex tasks. Now with AI taking away a lot of those smaller tasks, we have to rethink how we train those junior employees.

34 million customers in a country of 51 million people. Considering underage (20) is about 8 million of that number, 34 million of 43 million adults (~79%) in South Korea. Yes, people may have duplicate accounts, foreigners, expats, etc., but overall, it's still an insane number for that country.

The article made the point that the location was picked in part because it is less prone to earthquakes than other sites for consideration - this is important given the sensitivities of manufacturing equipment to earthquakes. It's not a showstopper, TSMC is built in an earthquake prone area, but there are significant costs in terms of earthquake protections in the buildings, recalibrating tools each time you have a significant earthquake, etc. Abundant water and solid electric infrastructure were also important factors.

They may also not want to go head-to-head for talent, power, and water in Kyushu with TSMC and the other established big fabs.

While the race card is played, I think we should step back and remember that education in general elicits STRONG responses from parents across all ethnic, socio-economic categories. The problems are different, but even affluent school districts get regular and aggressive engagement from parents especially if there is any perception that their precious child is not getting their "fair" share of resources, right or wrong. I feel like race is just one tool in the toolbox that parents will use.

No, no, no. First swallowed polonium-210 accidentally, then shot self and fell out a window as the plane exploded midair.

This "implosion" is by design in the Chinese model. The PRC's top objective is to quickly catch up, and in an era where capital was cheap, they essentially decided they would risk overcapacity and waste to beat the West. The central government points at a market they want to enter, incentivizing local and regional governments and private capital to aggressively enter those markets. The government essentially hosts a cutthroat (even by Western standards) capitalist "gladiatorial games" to forge a couple of competitive, tested national champions that the national government would then protect and promote overseas. Again, its wasteful, not even China didn't need 300+ EV companies, and the Chinese government is seeking ways to reduce the amount of waste. The national government realizes that there is debt risk for state and local governments with a lot of this waste, and I'm not sure they can keep doing it in the long run. Yet in the end, the priority remains catch up and take over the market, so they will tolerate some level of waste to take over the global EV market. Same playbook we've seen for solar panels, drones, electronic components, bicycle rentals, etc.

Problem is no merchant wants to be the first (and possibly only) one that integrates taxes, giving the perception that their prices are higher than their competitors. Even if they put in fine print that prices include taxes, people can't easily compare prices on the fly against competitors who don't (or straight up miss the fine print and just dismiss them as more expensive). I think your latter suggestion, that they make weird prices that round perfectly, is the more likely route unless a government entity forces them to do so.

I suspect in the end, more merchants will adopt the "cash discount" approach, charging a flat percentage to all customers who use credit cards rather than rejecting cards. For high rate cards, this will make the merchants whole. If customers are using a low fee credit card, merchants will just pocket the difference. Keep it simple (and pocket a few extra bucks).

You don't even need outside players - most automotive OEM's currently selling within the US are using Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. It will once again be a test to see if people are willing to forgo GM due to this. That said, GM may be feeling encouraged by new car firms like Tesla and Rivian who are having success despite ignoring both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.. though GM may be overestimating their software talents.

I like to say that AI is like a friend who doesn't know anything about the issues that just happens to read a set of random news articles over the last six months and tries his best to regurgitate what he heard in an authoritative tone. They don't understand context, timelines, etc. Just that it sounds kind of right.

Even if you forced everyone to the polls, people would still be voting based on emotional appeals, "gut" reactions, and negative emotions. It's just that those who were too lazy to act on those emotions are now being forced to act on them in the polls.

If you have a washing machine at home and the hookup for a toilet, cloth diapers are not that much more difficult than disposables. Both my kids used cloth with little issue. Solids can be easily washed off. If we still had affordable services to launder diapers, even better. I would still use disposables during travel when washing services aren't convenient or available. That said, there is the interesting question of balance - which is "worse" for the environment, the solid waste from disposable diapers versus the increased water usage for cloth diapers?