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Comment Not convinced (Score 2) 101

I'm from the UK, a reasonably rural part. I spend a significant amount of time in San Francisco with my partner. I've used Waymo while there, partly out of curiosity. I've come to understand that the service is quite limited in terms of geographic extent (only recently did it begin to serve SFO), it has required an insane level of pre-mapping, in addition to the complex sensor system employed on their cars. This has enabled it to work on a straightforward grid system, in one of the wealthiest concentrations of land in the world, where the climate isn't too complex (LIDAR defeats Karl quite easily) and road conditions well monitored and understood. There is no way my local taxi company here in England could justify the kind of expense needed to acquire enough of the vehicles, let alone there be an economic case made for detailed, repeated pre-mapping of the area - which contains very changeable road conditions, a more dynamic climate than San Francisco. It's an interesting service, the vehicles are objectively very good, but is it worth twice the price of an Uber - especially as Uber's can "duck and weave" better to facilitate more convenient drop offs.

Comment Not sure what the goal is (Score 1) 259

There are loads of projections as we know, some whimsical, some functionally practical. Every one has a compromise of some kind. The physical size of a place has nothing to do with its cultural, political, economic and societal potential. The West isn't wealthy and powerful because its bigger on a map. It is because it used that map to get ships to where they need to go facilitating trade. It's a great topic, but this campaign seems pointless.

Comment Obviously (Score 4, Insightful) 69

Because we had gaming before it became a lootbox and in-game purchase hellscape. We had the true Platinum Age of gaming - where a huge variety of disparate concepts started to coalesce. I doubt I'd be as passionate if I'd started gaming in the 2010's. We had the greatest era guys - let us be thankful for that - an era we can continue to enjoy from this "futurestate".

Comment Might be something in this (Score 1) 57

I paid for the the Met Office app (United Kingdom) as I spend 99.5% of my time here these days. It does include a video weather briefing - and in those 2-3 minutes I get told a story - one that is often accurate in its prognostications. So therefore I'm inclined to believe there is value to a human interlocutor to the data - someone that gets it a deeper level than my Dunning-Kruger level meteorology. Their app is not fancy - no animations etc. Just some data. Then a video. But I like it.

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