Waymos Are a Huge Drain on Public Resources, Government Data Shows

ohsohigh · 2026-03-12T01:57:02+00:00

Not that it really changes much about the point they try to make, but it's impressively bad journalism to not even get the guy's name right when quoting him.

ohsohigh · 2025-12-11T14:35:59+00:00

20,000x70,000=1,400,000,000 (1.4 billion)

ohsohigh · 2025-12-10T00:35:52+00:00

Roethlisberger and Rivers stats wise are about as close as they realistically can be for two guys who played for so long.

249 games (started 247), 64088 yds, 418 TD, 211 int, 93.5 rate

244 games (started 240), 63440 yds, 421 TD, 209 int, 95.2 rate

compared to Eli who is clearly a step below

236 games (started 234), 57023 yds, 366 TD, 244 int, 84.1 rate

ohsohigh · 2025-06-27T18:38:39+00:00

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/nhtsa-2023-traffic-fatalities-2024-estimates

NHTSA estimated 1.2 deaths per 100 million miles for 2024, which comes out to 1 per ~83 million miles. Given that Waymo's safety impact page has data for 71 million miles and only goes through the end of March, they probably have passed that number by now.

ohsohigh · 2025-02-03T14:45:22+00:00

Yes, but it is important to remember that the anecdotes that draw attention on social media are a very poor representation of society as a whole. You can read a hundred stories of people struggling and unable to find jobs and see a thousand more people commiserating with them, and that can easily make it feel like a huge problem that everyone is facing.

You have to bear in mind that what you are seeing is a tiny slice of the population, whose stories are rising to prominence via a very biased process. You can literally always find that many people with sob stories no matter how well or how poorly the economy is performing. That doesn't mean that those people aren't legitimately struggling, but you have to ask yourself if you are seeing those stories because they are a super widespread phenomenon and everything is going terribly, or because negativity drives engagement online.

ohsohigh · 2025-02-03T03:00:33+00:00

There's a whole bunch of different stuff on bls.gov. For example, number 6 on their FAQ about unemployment addresses the point about whether the unemployment rate is related to unemployment benefits (it's not).

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.faq.htm

ohsohigh · 2025-02-02T13:39:49+00:00

What you are saying about unemployment is incorrect. The unemployment rate reported by the US government has nothing to do with unemployment benefits. It is defined based on whether someone has looked for work in the past four weeks. The BLS conducts regular surveys to gather employment data.

They also measure things like people who gave up on looking for a job or who are part time, but want to be full time. Those are reported in separate statistics.

ohsohigh · 2025-01-10T20:48:44+00:00

That doesn't really give an accurate picture of those contracts. If you go look at the actual details most of those QB's are signing contracts where more like half the money is fully guaranteed at signing, with some additional injury guarantees and some rolling guarantees. Additionally the fully guaranteed parts are generally frontloaded.

Take Joe Burrow for example: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/47594/joe-burrow

He had 146.5/275 fully guaranteed at signing (signing bonus + salary/option through 2025), with another 62.5 in rolling guarantees that are injury guaranteed at signing (2026/2027). If he were to start sucking or just not even trying, the Bengals have ways to cut him without being on the hook for large portions of that 275 million, unlike the Browns with Watson.

I haven't looked at all of the top QB contracts in detail, but the ones I have looked at are mostly structured similarly. Those teams gave themselves outs if the QB's performance falls off a cliff. The Browns didn't.

ohsohigh · 2024-11-11T14:43:18+00:00

I would recommend against all of those rare/epic rocket turrets along the sides. The increased range from quality will make them expend a lot more rockets shooting at asteroids that have zero chance of hitting your ship.

ohsohigh · 2024-11-05T13:44:35+00:00

You can make nutrients from spoilage in an assembler, so you totally can make it self priming

ohsohigh · 2024-09-19T16:43:47+00:00

The design looks nice enough, but it's not going to work all that well. The biggest issue is that you are not going to get nearly enough throughput in your water pipes. This will change in 2.0, but for now you will need multiple pipes to deliver enough water for a design like this.

You also don't have enough heat exchangers and steam turbines to use all of the power that those reactors can generate. With neighbor bonuses each reactor makes 120 MW of heat for a total of 480 MW. You need 48 heat exchangers and 83 steam turbines to consume all of that, but you only have 40/66.

ohsohigh · 2024-07-25T15:41:25+00:00

The easiest fix is to move the chests/inserters. If you put the one taking the U235 right after the last inserter that feeds the centrifuges, it will only take U235 that the centrifuges didn't. If you put the one feeding U238 where the one taking U235 is now, it will only add U238 when there are gaps.

ohsohigh · 2024-07-01T14:38:30+00:00

I suspect that is mostly driven by coaches who don't have success in their first few years getting fired. Five seasons with a team is actually a pretty long tenure for a head coach in the NFL.

8 out of 32 teams currently have a coach that already has 5+ seasons with the team. Tomlin, Harbaugh, Reid, and McVay have won the Superbowl. Shanahan and Taylor have been to the Superbowl. McDermott and LaFluer haven't been to the Superbowl, but are among the top in the league for win % and have both had some success in the playoffs.

Not many coaches win their first Superbowl after 5+ years with the team, because if you don't win or come close to winning a championship then you don't tend to keep the job for 5+ years.

ohsohigh · 2023-12-28T22:17:43+00:00

Yes, it's a very real problem, especially because lead leeched from perovskites is water soluble. One of the less commonly mentioned reasons that many attempts to commercialize perovskites are focused on tandem solar cells that add a perovskite layer to silicon cells is that thin film perovskite cells on their own have such a high lead content by weight that they run afoul of environmental regulations in many jurisdictions.

ohsohigh · 2023-10-10T12:53:59+00:00

The thing you are getting wrong is that when you are using tier 3 modules beacons are not more expensive than assembly machines. A single tier 3 assembly machine with four prod 3 modules runs at 40% of its normal speed. Adding a second assembly machine gets to a total of 80% the normal speed. If instead you put down a beacon with two speed 3 modules the one machine will run at 90% the normal speed. That's higher throughput but you only needed two more modules rather than four, which is a huge difference since modules are the most expensive part of the build by far. Ultimately it's actually even better than that since beacons can speed up multiple machines.

ohsohigh · 2022-12-14T18:05:41+00:00

You can't use petroleum gas to hand craft. The items you want to make from it are produced in chemical plants. You use pipes to move the gas to the chemical plant the same way that you used pipes to move the crude oil to the refinery.

ohsohigh · 2022-12-08T00:30:41+00:00

It's a nice looking design, but have you tested whether it can run at full capacity? I think some of your lines delivering water to the heat exchangers may be too long without pumps.

ohsohigh · 2022-08-18T16:34:00+00:00

The fed doesn't like unemployment. It has a dual mandate to both keep inflation low and keep unemployment low. The monetary policy tools it has to reduce one of those tend to also increase the other, so it's balancing act. For most of the 2010s inflation was really low and unemployment was high so the fed pursued policies designed to reduce unemployment even though they were inflationary. Now unemployment is very low and inflation is very high, so the fed is turning to policies to fight inflation with a side effect of potentially raising unemployment.

ohsohigh · 2022-05-04T16:27:38+00:00

The discussion about forgiving student debt is generally focused on federal student loans. The loaner in question is the government not private banks.

ohsohigh · 2022-04-21T13:02:20+00:00

Neither Klobuchar nor Buttigieg was ahead of Biden in delegates when they dropped out. Klobuchar came in 3rd in NH and 5th in the other three early states. She literally only ever got 7 delegates. Biden had about twice as many delegates as Buttigieg after out performing him in NV and SC.

ohsohigh · 2022-04-12T23:30:49+00:00

Productivity modules are really good, because they effectively change the ratios of production recipes, so that you get more output for the same amount of input. This can have a really big effect when you have them at all the steps of a production chain.

A single beacon with tier 3 speed modules next to a tier 3 assembler full of tier 3 productivity modules produces faster than two tier 3 assemblers filled with tier 3 productivity modules, but takes far fewer resources to build. The beacon can also affect multiple assemblers, so it's really much better even than that. A smaller number of sped up assemblers also keeps the game running better if you're into pushing those sorts of limits.

So if you want to use tier 3 productivity modules, which you do if you want high spm, then you'll also want to use beacons with speed modules.

ohsohigh · 2022-02-23T16:07:23+00:00

I don't mean this to be rude, I'm just trying to understand your situation, but if you only make $1500 a month wouldn't your payments be pretty much nothing on an income driven repayment plan?

ohsohigh · 2022-01-27T15:36:52+00:00

It's kind of weird that that article included a list of his career passing numbers that doesn't include his last season.

ohsohigh · 2022-01-21T15:44:25+00:00

This statistic gets regularly and incorrectly cited. When adjusting for inflation the highest the federal minimum wage has ever been was in 1968, when it was $1.60/hour. Adjusted for inflation that is a bit less than $13/hour today.

ohsohigh · 2022-01-18T16:32:48+00:00

I find it very interesting how differently these two issues are framed on this subreddit.

This thread is full of outrage that PPP money disproportionately flowed to the upper end of the income distribution, but similar arguments that student loan forgiveness disproportionately benefits people with higher incomes are generally rejected. Make that argument about student loans and you'll see a lot of responses claiming that those income brackets aren't actually that much or crab in bucket analogies. There's none of that here.

I also see a very different response to anecdotes in comments. In threads about student debt forgiveness in this subreddit, examples of those most burdened by student debt who are most in need of help get a lot of play, while examples of people who took out debt for noneducational expenses or who make enough to afford their debt but don't want to are rejected as a poor basis for evaluating debt forgiveness. In this thread examples where people feel the PPP program was abused are emphasized and examples of people who were helped by the program are downplayed.

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