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that's only true if Roman were to do a continuous stare. However, it (as with any telescope) has to re-point from time to time in order to look at different targets.


I think it will be interesting to see how this plays out for Waymo, as (unlike Uber in Zagreb) they will be competing with a world-class public transport system. A bold move! But perhaps that only goes to show how far ahead of the competition Waymo is, if they are this confident.


> world-class public transport

It’s really not at all at the same level as other European cities. It’s so bad that basically every year high up officials write a Brandbrief (urgent appeal) to either Deutsche Bahn or Ministry of transport that the situation is unbearable. Having lives in 3 different German cities, it’s by far the worst and most unreliable.

In contrast to the US, many people exclusively rely upon public transport and eg a drivers license costs north of 4K € (approx 5k USD), in addition to much higher gasoline prices - making a car way less affordable.

# 1. State Minister Bernreiter's Brandbrief to DB InfraGO (2026) https://www.bayern.de/kritik-an-langsamfahrstellen/

# 2. Pullach Municipal Brandbrief on the S7 (2025) https://www.pullach.de/buergerbrief-uns-reicht-es-jetzt-geme...

# 3. MVV & Stakeholders Brandbrief to Deutsche Bahn (2022) https://www.abendzeitung-muenchen.de/muenchen/s-bahn-muss-zu...

# 4. Mayors' Joint Transit Funding Brandbrief (2025) https://www.bild.de/politik/friedrich-merz-neuer-brandbrief-...

# 5. Landräte Transit Cuts Warning Brandbrief (2024) https://in-motion.me/articles/2024-12-22_es-drohen-kuerzunge...

# 6. Pro Bahn Munich Analysis & Brandbrief (2024) https://www.pro-bahn.de/oberbayern/pbp/pbp202401.pdf


Uber is doing fine in Munchen as well, afaik. There are still people who want to pay a premium for them to be picked up where they are and dropped off where they need to be.


Taxis and public transport have coexisted since forever. They just serve different occasions and/or people. Why would it be different with Waymo?


market conditions _that they participated in causing_.


Do they claim the opposite?


Can discourse not bring this up?


That makes the typewriter the actual writer and you the credit-taker, just like in present ghostwriting arrangements


> the credit-taker

Isn’t this what society already largely rewards? See the personality cults around CEOs and not even founders.


Nevertheless, those books aren't sold for the writing style, but because they're about the cult leader. So not the "writer" is prized (ghost or not) but the personality.


why do you think that implies leaving out the modern food industry, rather than suggesting that they, too, should be held accountable for flooding us with hyperpalatable foods to addict us? After all, they were literally engineered by the same people as Big Tobacco [1]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/09/19/addiction...


> one could also question the ethics of buying rare, second-hand books and then destroying them

I believe that is exactly what the parent post is doing


this page gives a 404


Oh shoot it had a nice countdown timer to ~8a PT when I submitted it


It's back for me


Thank you for pandoc. I made the (at the time perhaps not transparently wise) choice to go all in on it when I started my PhD, and that decision has paid nothing but dividends since. I owe my career as a scientist to it.


How do you usually collaborate with other authors? I don't know your area, but it's common to use Overleaf to collaborate on papers, and you're stuck with LaTeX there. I wrote the first draft of my thesis in Typst, but then converted to LaTeX to get feedback on Overleaf from other people.


Yes, in my field (astronomy), Overleaf is also ubiquitous, especially for observational papers with long author lists. However, by the same token, this means that most of my collaborators are distant ones, and from experience many are happy (and occasionally prefer) to conduct business by way of emailed PDFs. My close collaborators have been happy to co-edit a Markdown file by way of GitHub pull requests or directly committing to a shared repository.

I have, for a while, been toying with the idea of maintaining a fork of (or plugin for?) Overleaf CE that runs pandoc-powered build scripts instead of using latexmk directly. Perhaps this might be something vibe-codeable.


What is definitely being argued unironically is "it doesn't matter that humans are sentient", and I would still consider that misanthropy


The point is, we have no idea what "sentient" or "intelligent" even means. If we agreed on the definitions, the debate would have been settled long ago.


I don't see where they said that; could you give me a quote? It does not seem to me that they are addressing humans at all, except as a foil to LLMs.


this kind of overt inevitabilism is complicity in the death of good writing.


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