That's not why. Waymo is testing in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. NYC by the way has also recently legalized jaywalking.

The idea that machines don't / won't beat humans at continuous vigilance and precise movement doesn't make much sense to me, since machines are great at that. The safety issue already favors automation and the gap will only grow. (More specifically, safety already favors certain self-driving implementations, like Waymo... obviously in general, "automation" can also be total crap if done poorly).

I know we are only relatively early in the development and adoption of the technology, but I sure can't see any reason to doubt the outcome.

Made me curious. Here's a graph of their headcount over time.

That skill proved useful in his later career.

If Palintir don't think a pricey college education is worth paying for, then I guess they don't want to pay for it. College grads pull higher salaries for those extra years of education, whereas highschool grads can be hired more cheaply.

There's a sizable online sentiment that 'blue-collar' (highschool + on-the-job training) has been unfairly devalued, and in other contexts many people seem to agree that college is largely a waste of time. Yet in the context of Palintir, since it is 'evil,' everybody will adopt the opposite opinion immediately and presume that offering workers a job directly out of highschool is abusive.

Right, "fundamentally" nothing is exactly knowable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Check this out - to transport a pair of shoes from Hong Kong to Rotterdam (18,600 km) via container ship generates 100 g of CO2. Whereas a 20 km trip in a car to get the shoes from the store is 1,800 g of CO2.

https://safety4sea.com/maersk-...

So on a mass-per-distance basis, the container ship is 16,740 times as efficient as a car.

I am not sure exactly how that translates to, e.g., a step van making a couple hundred stops vs. a container ship from China to LA and a train or semi from LA to Phoenix.

But transoceanic shipping is very efficient. True it's still a significant source of pollution, because it transports vast tonnage across vast distances.

Let's not ignore trains either - they move 2/3 as much freight as trucks do within the US.

Air, very little.

These numbers are within the US, not counting import to the US:

https://www.bts.gov/content/us...

Microsoft is paying a ton to develop games. They bought Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion dollars a little over 2 years ago. That's Call of Duty, Diablo, and World of Warcraft. Those are all Microsoft franchises now.

According to this XBox first-party studios has 22,000 employees.

https://x.com/LegalGamerUK/sta...

There's a huge difference between the cost of installing panels on your roof and tying them into your electricity vs. just painting it.

If I could snap my fingers and get rooftop solar I would, but I think, what if some of all those new holes in my roof were to leak? And my roof is 20 years old, I guess you have to un-do all the solar to replace the shingles?

What's wrong with collecting condensation? Seems like the challenge is making it cheap enough to be commercially viable, a big hurdle, but it's not like pseudoscience or something.

That's why the world is so worried about Iran trying to get nukes. Because they'd be crazy not to.

There are only like half a dozen actual (not web) applications out there any more.

I suppose the challenge of matching supply to demand is always having that supply at precisely where and when it is wanted. So, there is some waste.

I also make sure my local archive is the master copy. But it really is impossible to accomplish with some effort and expense. In particular, maintaining an offsite backup. Almost nobody is going to DIY that.

Weird take on "they're buying power from the power company like anybody else."

Demand going up may increase rates in the short term, but google pays those higher rates like anybody else. In the longer term the power companies' higher profits are what fund increased generation.