They are a replacement for TV. You know, the thing that people used to watch for hours upon hours a day?

So that would be a dumb thing for a Vietnamese bank to use as a recovery method.

Where? According to "International variations in primary care physician consultation time: a systematic review of 67 countries" Sweden is the only country on the planet with an average consultation length longer than the US.

"We found that 18 countries representing about 50% of the global population spend 5 min or less with their primary care physicians."

My Member of Parliament represents about 130,000 people, does regular door knocking to talk to people, and has a staffed office a few km away the I can walk into anytime I want.

None of that applies to a multinational corporation.

To do well on Substack you need to publish pretty regularly, several times a week to keep and build an audience, and the only thing anyone can generate that fast are opinions. So Substack has really just become a decentralised Op Ed page.

Uber estimated that it costs Waymo $2/mile to operate.

Google says they charge $1.60 to $2.60 a mile, depending on location and demand, so Waymo is already almost certainly at the price you claim you'd be taking it.

I think you dramatically underestimate how much it actually costs to operate a car. Most people think they pay $0 to garage their car, for instance, since the cost was rolled into the price of their house purchase and mostly invisible. But it isn't $0 to a business. Likewise, very few people depreciate their car over just 5 years. Or clean it inside and out every single day.

Here's one attempt at costs for Waymo that finds it costs them about $60,000 a year to operate a single car. Also notice the comments talking about how the per vehicle price is high, how that flows into higher insurance, and all kinds of other things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/waymo/comments/1il5d5i/unit_costs_p...

Maybe someday there will be a discount AV taxi company using 10 year old beat up Honda Civics that only get cleaned once a month and provide extremely barebones support to pull the costs down to $1/mile. That's a 50% drop in costs from today, so hard to see it coming very quickly. But that's still pretty expensive to be using as a daily commuter!

And note that the IRS per mile rate is $0.70/mile. It's not perfect but it is a decent third party estimate of the true cost of operating a car. Hard to see any taxi company charging anything less than that. So a 10 mile commute every day is still going to cost you $280/month in an AV taxi for the foreseeable future.

And in the US more people are using iMessage than SMS thanks to iPhone's 58% market share.

"The equal allocation method calculates prices for large numbers of items in a contract by assigning "support' costs such as indirect labor and overhead equally to each item. Take a contract to provide spare parts for a set of radar tracking monitors. Suppose a monitor has 100 parts and support costs amount to a total of $100,000. Using the equal allocation method each part is assigned $1,000 in such costs, even though one item may be a sophisticated circuit card assembly, which requires the attention of high-salaried engineers and managers, and another item may be a plastic knob. Add $1,000 to the direct cost of the part and you get a billing price. This is what the government is billed, though not what the part is really worth--the circuit card being undervalued, the knob being overvalued. The need for billing prices arises because contractors want to be paid up front for items that are shipped earlier than others."

I've noticed this most in a forum for a country I used to live in where foreigners would come in and post "What's an affordable hotel/restaurant/bar/travel experience".

Uh, I have no idea what "affordable" means to you!?

The "visible from space" here is clearly dumb click bait from The Telegraph.

"Opponents call the amyloid hypothesis zombie science, propped up only by pharmaceutical companies hoping to sell off a few more anti-amyloid me-too drugs before it collapses. Meanwhile, mainstream scientists . . . continue to believe it without really offering any public defense. Scott was so surprised by the size of the gap between official and unofficial opinion that he asked if someone from the orthodox camp would speak out in its favor."

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/in-defense-of-the-amyloid-h...

Python introduce another breaking change than also randomly affects performance, making it worse for large classes of users?

Why would the Python organisers want to do that?

cat's behaviour and bat's behaviour is different, though.

  >cat a.txt b.txt                                                                                                                                                                                         
  It was a dark and stormy night.
  Once upon a time.

  >bat a.txt b.txt
  ───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         │ File: a.txt
  ───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     1   │ It was a dark and stormy night.
  ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  ───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         │ File: b.txt
  ───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     1   │ Once upon a time.
  ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

  >cat *.py
  (thousands of lines of output)

  >bat -r :5 -H 2 --style full *.py
  ───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         │ File: __init__.py   
         │ Size: 0 B
  ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  ───────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
         │ File: editor.py
         │ Size: 2.4 KB
  ───────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     1   │ import collections
     2   │ import contextlib
     3   │ import glob
     4   │ import io
     5   │ import os.path
  ───────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────

I also use the fzf previewer with --range-limited pretty frequently.