That's between Waymo and their investors at this point. They claim it's not, but it's not there's any way for them to actually prove they aren't, like the moon landing.
My experience backs up that this is increasing even on the last decade. I worry that it’s yet another hack that the $8000 admissions consultants offer to their clients, potentially pointing (yet again) to a version of DEI that doesn’t mostly amplify privilege.
Original poster explained that the functionality is having a contact list. WhatsApp will either access and use ALL your contacts or none on iPhone as well as android. Having jumped through many hoops to preserve conversations without leaking contacts, I’m highly attuned to this…
nope. he literally wrote "cannot initiate messages if you don't give it access to your contacts" and that's false on iphone. on iphone whatsapp has its own separate contact list if you don't give it access. and it is like this for years.
Not true in India. WhatsApp initially worked without access to the Contact list, and you could send a message to someone by typing their number directly in WhatsApp. But after a few updates, it does not allow you to start any new conversation without access to the contact list. And if you still ignore it, further updates prevent you from using WhatsApp at all unless you give it access to the contact list.
I doubt whatsapp is customized per country and no idea what's going on there. For me it was like this probably 4-5 years ago. Right now whatsapp on iphone allows me to create a new contact and then message that contact. The contact is only saved in whatsapp. App has no access to my contacts.
Hot take - the private doctors tell you they are great but the public doctors can often be spectacular because their motives are not primarily economic.
For example, the absolute best diagnosticians in Houston are at the public hospital primarily serving Medicaid and Harris Health patients. Super evidence based, order tests for differential diagnosis not to make $$. Passionate about what they do. In a unexplained emergency my doctor friends would go there to be diagnosed and then the fancy privates to be treated.
Potential counterpoint. Is it possible that one challenge is the lack of expertise in government? I think it’s clear that most novel permitting situations involve one expert party (who want the permit but are potentially motivated to not report downsides) but the other party (the regulator) has to either develop their own expertise or say “no”/“wait”.
I was unimpressed by the situation described. It seems that existing injection wells often have all sorts of negative consequences that are avoided by bankruptcy. I suspect more “no”/“waits” in the past might have been reasonable
Looking at the discussion I’m struck by how there are really two “goods” that are conflicting in people’s minds. Many of those of us who are parents embrace the idea of sacrificing to make our kids lives easier and better than our own. We recognize how what our parents have provided us has helped us and want to give even more to our own children/grandchildren. It seems to be a general principle of society that we should enact policies that encourage people to sacrifice for their children?
But also the accumulation of wealth drives so many negative issues in society that we want to lessen. And extreme wealth seems to make things even worse.
Society and policy makers seem to have a lot of trouble understanding scale and orders of magnitude. We declare some broad principle, like "It's good to make our kids lives easier and better than our own." and we apply it regardless of whether the dollar value is $10K, $10M, or $10B. But someone passing down $10B to their children is totally different than someone passing down $10K, and needs to be handled differently by the law. We have coarse, ham-fisted step functions like "inheritance tax only affects inheritances over $X" but you can't have a single threshold for these things. It has to be progressive with a sliding scale, otherwise you get all the negative issues around wealth accumulation.
Other Example: why can't we have income tax thresholds that go all the way up to $1T/year? Why is the absolute top income tax bracket something like $600K? Really? Are we really saying that we should tax someone who makes $600K exactly like we tax someone who makes $600M? or $6B?
It would be awesome if we taxed someone making $6B the same as someone making $600k, but we don't even do that. When I was making $600k, I was paying close to 50%. No one making $6B is paying anywhere near $3B in taxes on that income.
I had a friend who worked at a plant and was an author on the side. I don’t think there’s any evidence that good novelists (let alone merely promising ones) are likely to have personalities that make them likely to be bosses.
No, as demonstrated from the retreating from the office. Someone with exceptional written communication, who dose self-starter side projects, commandeeres a truck, _and_ talks a skip-level manager into giving him special consideration is sounding a lot more like a boss.
How does this union thing work - getting laid off then being brought back on again when work picks up? How do you get to be on the union list?
(I'm in the UK, and I tend to associate that kind of approach to casual employment with dock work in sea ports. That ended with containerisation in the 1980s)
Go to the union hall, sign up, pass a test, wait a lifetime (because there's a line of people ahead of you), get called in finally, start as an apprentice, work, do well, get put on the list as a trained apprentice, eventually get called into trained apprentice jobs, train up through the years, become a journeyman and later a master, all while cycling between working and waiting for work. If you're amicable, you can move up the list and get called more frequently because the person in control of the list can just do that, or alternately, someone at a job site can call for you specifically which will get you work faster than simply waiting around for work from the list.
There are still union trades in the US, but they're a dying breed.
I’m confused about who will make our stuff if we decouple from China. As far as I can tell (trying to order advanced parts in smallish quantities), anyone other than China is a ~10x price difference? I have to assume labor cannot fully explain this, but I have yet to see anyone seriously trying to onshore cheap manufacturing?
Automation, scale, locality which comes from scale.
By locality I mean having an expert or a whole company on a very niche thing effectively as your neighbor. Main reason why it is so hard for Apple to leave China.
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