I've tried a number of things over the years. Sailing, climbing, running, board game meet ups, drinking meetups, golf, crossfit, curling, probably some others I'm not thinking of. Just pick something and see if it sounds interesting to you and give it a go. My big advice is to avoid shelling out on gear. Rent or just get some beginner stuff. Most of these things didn't stick, but I'm a runner and a climber and oddly I've had some great platonic connections through crossfit as well.
Hey, so, I live in a city but visit my parents in the suburbs once or twice a year and at it did take some work, but there are certainly third spaces. After trying a few, I found some very comfy cafes to work out of, I prefer it since my parents can be a bit distracting. Also one cafe I really like is in a 'town center' which does also have a gym. So while you may not be in a city, see if there might be any pockets of walkability you can park at and enjoy the day on your feet.
Yup, for some types of rides it's definitely better, and the not having to chat up the driver is definitely an advantage.
To take off as a real replacement for ownership, self driving cars likely needs to meet at least these criteria: 1) overall cheaper vs ownership for average mileage/year, maybe 12kmiles/yr. 2) consistent delivery of car to rider in <5-10min, 3) a way to ensure the cars are always clean when they arrive (how? route them all through a cleaning station first?/lotsa cameras in the car to monitor cleanliness?/ability to order replacement car in <3min?).
maybe? But also LiDAR just gives a more complete picture of what is around the car. I think this is supported by how many miles waymo cars run unsupervised vs Tesla.
I am skeptical that tesla has this solved but interested in seeing how it goes when as they move to expand their robotaxi service.
This is just off the cuff, but I could go for something sort of like a 'daily paper' deal where I get debited a couple bucks for access to the news papers site for a day, or maybe even just the materials published that day, but that sort of seems more complicated to implement.
Then, if I'm reading it so often that it would be more cost effective to just subscribe they can start pinging me about it.
We have that implemented, it's just that nobody wanted it. Our pitch basically was that "Why can you buy today's paper on the stand, but can't do the same digitally?" Turn out the answer is complicated.
It is, but it is not one of those jobs that you don't take home with you. EMT also has my respect, I could not do their work either but this is a level of nasty that makes you lose any kind of hope for humanity.
They seemed to have given up on this in some areas. I don't think they asked me this once during my visit to France in October. This included Paris and smaller towns.
But tech companies should be complying with subpoenas from governments in countries they would like to operate in. I don't like what is happening in the US either, but to me this feels like a problem with the electorate. Maybe it's possible for Google to provide some of these services without actually having access to the data under subpoena, but I don't know enough about what services they were using or how they work.
I have been able to prototype way faster. I can explain how I want a prototype reworked and it's often successful. Doesn't always work, but super useful more often than not.
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