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Waymo Via 6 years ago

Highway is simpler but it's worse if it goes wrong.

Plus, highway driving is safer and cheaper than average so the bar is higher for self-driving cars/trucks.

I don't think there's any middle ground for driving semi-trucks on the freeway. It's either safe enough to drive without someone watching it or it's not. There's no point in having a person in there sometimes sleeping and sometimes safety-driving.

On the other hand, this kind of bank regulation issue seems right in Warren's wheelhouse and the president might have the power to make this happen through their existing bank regulation powers, or maybe through the CFPB...

Right! Banks are already regulated by the government and this seems like an opportunity for them to improve the retail banking market by requiring interoperation. Maybe it wouldn't work but it would be interesting to hear from him on this topic - can the government make this market work better?

This is the government's job - to make a working market. They should be forcing banks, through their existing bank regulation powers, to allow interoperation.

Amongst other things, the ACA removed the cap on payouts, making them more like actual insurance. What was the maximum lifetime payout on your previous high deductible plan?

Lyft Self-Driving 9 years ago

Good point - maybe buses will stay around just for peak usage, but will be replaced by rented, right-sized self-driving cars for the rest of the time.

Lyft Self-Driving 9 years ago

Buses are not always full. Their average capacity does not have an order of magnitude advantage.

Herb Sutter has a proposal for metaclasses, which involve running some compile-time C++-like code. I don't think it would stretch to this, but it's heading in your direction.

It's hypocrisy from banks/brokerages in general since they actually promote aggregation on their own websites. Vanguard has one, for instance - they're probably using Yodlee. They also charge absurd prices ($10/month) for OFX access. OFX access + very simple read-only passwords would solve this whole mess of screen scraping.

Congo GDP per capita (PPP) is about $729 which is hundreds of years behind rich western democracies. Hundreds of years ago those same western democracies had child labor. It's not that surprising that they use child labor. It may improve things for western consumers to insist on certain standards and let Congo workers raise their prices to compensate.