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by tmh79 9y ago
From what I understand, no that isn't similar enough on its own. I do not understand this part of the law "very deeply" but basically, there are a few things that google needs to prove [EDIT: NOTE BELOW](1) Levandowsky took i
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by tmh79 9y ago
OK: Here is some context for those who aren't current on the case. One result of the injunction (all of the hearings up until now) was that uber needs to use all of its power to compel levandowski to testify, the extreme limit of which
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by tmh79 9y ago
From what I see, you're looking at the current set of constraints/opportunities and then just inserting a self driving car, the reality is that autonomy and the way people live is going to change things in many hard to predict way
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Things will change, people raised kids for thousands of years before the automobile. To some extent, the reason you carry around all of that stuff is because you have the car, and the current state is the best of all possible alternatives f
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by tmh79 9y ago
Savers like "money in a bank account" savers, or savers as in "I have a bunch of money I want to put somewhere, where does it go between ETFs/Real Estate/etc". Low interest rates are great for the 2nd group bec
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by tmh79 9y ago
that last edit you made is a very important distinction, and as far as I understand, the future of the case more or less hinges on waymos ability to prove that stolen info made its way into designs. Its entirely possible that Levandowsky st
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by tmh79 9y ago
You could also look at it through a different lens. It seems that the scope of possible harm has been reduced from "everyone must stop working on SDCs" to "maybe you might need to let the Levandowsky guy go, and stop making y
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by tmh79 9y ago
I'm interpreting this differently than you are. It says nothing about trade secret _misuse_ but alsip does discuss trade secret theft, which is an important distinction. So far, there is no evidence that Uber has used any waymo trade s
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by tmh79 9y ago
Biggest open question: what is the long term value of Lyft to Waymo? To me, this seems like a way for waymo to pilot autonomous technology for customers with low initial investment, but I don't see the long term value that Lyft provide
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People prefer the "click button, get transit" UX for its simplicity.
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ridesharing companies come with a lot of potential legal issues and and acquiring company would be exposed to a lot of risk, ambiguity in employee/contractor designation being top of mind. I find a large scale acquisition in this space
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Its complicated from ubers perspective though. Their product is "transportation as reliable as running water". How long until autonomy becomes that reliable? Thinking specifically about: Weather, Supply shocks (morning/eve
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I think you've provided exactly 1/2 of the answer why housing is expensive. The other half of the answer is that (in short) we've created a set of legal structures to prevent land owners from building the amount of housing th
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this is the opposite of what we should do. Spread out living situations contribute hugely to global climate change. We should instead focus on building so much housing in dense urban areas that there will be no scarcity to provide value, an
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also when you need to develop a new feature and it needs to go through A:B testing frameworks, localization (including Arabic Right to Left text/layouts), phased feature roll outs, 99.999% reliability, integration testing, planning for
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by tmh79 10y ago
Hypothetical question for the IP lawyers on here: Lets say we have two companies, evilCorp and goodCorp. goodCorp files a law suit against against evilCorp alleging that evilCorp stolen trade secrets for its self driving cars, and they file
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by tmh79 10y ago
So time to clear up what appears to be a few misconceptions on this thread: The hearing so far has been about Waymo filing a preliminary injunction against Uber. The scope of the injunction requested was along the lines of "uber needs
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as I understand it, some of the details of google's implementation came out through discovery and are available to a teeny tiny team of lawyers of uber (maybe even just one lawyer), but not the engineers. This is standard legal procedu
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Rideshare providers experience both network effects and economies of scale in their mature markets. 1) Economies of scale: You hire an ops team of 10 people, they manage a city of 10k riders, to get to 50k drivers (5x), you only need to a
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I think people misunderstand upfront fares. Its like buying an airplane ticket: the airline charges passengers the appropriate price to fill the plane, and it pays pilots a salary. Pilots who fly more profitable routes don't get paid b
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Andrew Ng Resigns from Baidu(medium.com)
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The first graph is misleading, as it shows a spike, but what really matters is the YoY % change. As you can see in the second graph, the YoY % change relative to inflation has been above 0 since 1979. You can't have an asset (or cost,
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by tmh79 10y ago
It is the responsibility of industry to attract people to a region, so these people can fill the jobs that industry requires; in most other places, this is celebrated. It is the responsibility of government to ensure a well functioning soci
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1 in 10 Cal State university students are homeless [0]. Anecdotally, I know of people with mega commutes (2.5 hrs from central valley), my phd student friends at Stanford live in garages. There is a housing crises in the entire state of Cal
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So if we pay these workers more, and they compete more effectively for housing, then we will get a sob story about how industry XYZ is underpaying their workers and now their workers are unable to afford housing in the SFBA and net number o
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The concept of zoning laws are less than 100 years old, and their spread was mostly due to racist exclusionary policies in the 50s/60s. San Francisco just wrapped up changing the zoning of western SOMA. Mountain View has 28k new apartm
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More of everything. If there are 10 people looking to buy a car (one from each decile of income in the US), and there is only one car for sale, a Honda Civic, the Civic is going to be sold to the richest person of the 10, at a price slightl
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So if we pay these workers more, and they compete more effectively for housing, then we will get a sob story about how industry XYZ is underpaying their workers and now their workers are unable to afford housing in the SFBA and net number o
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by tmh79 10y ago
From what I see, the spin on this phenomena in this story is incorrect. The real story here isn't the tech companies, its the lack of available housing in the area due to a decades long aversion to building more housing and a huge jobs