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You'd be wrong (source - worked in the Android org).

How long ago?

Or on "a cure for cancer" (according to Gemini, $2.2T 2024 US dollars...)


10 year survival is 50% in 2024 in the UK. It was 25% in the 1970s.

Age-standardised deaths in the US are down by a third since the 1990s.


But it may be much better than dealing with the problems that come with having 500 "random" kids to socialize / interact with. Everything's a tradeoff.


Yeah, wouldn’t want kids to learn how to deal with problems.


Dealing with adult problems shouldn't be something kids have to learn, as long as the problems scale with their development that's not a problem


Stock market seems to agree with their strategy....


Maybe? or lemmings following BH purchase of $4B in Google stock this week assuming "Buffett only buys value stocks; it must be ready to grow!"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffetts-berkshire-hat...


... and has a tendency to disagree past the Peak of Inflated Expectations.


Came to make exactly the same comment. It was funny that the author specifically said that Nano Banana got all five edit prompts correct, rather than noting this discrepancy, which could be argued either way (although I think the "right eye" of a skull should be interpreted with respect to the skull's POV.)


A sports car on the roads through the Malibu hills is very fun...


But not as much as knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GIwTG8V-Ko


Have you driven in LA? Traffic speed is generally bimodal: either stuck in traffic jam or easily 15 mph above the limit. (Source: live in LA, drive regularly.)


Yes, I drive in LA every day, since I have lived here 20 years. I literally have the 405 in my back yard. I can verify that there is always traffic on it by looking out my window.


OK well LA is a big metro... Your anecdotal evidence is not representative of the whole region.


Obviously. I was not trying to make a completely factual and consistent logical claim. I was making a pithy observation.


Not true of many highways in LA, especially after ten p.m.


There are many, many, many airports to which it is easier to travel via public transit from their associated city than it is from Manhattan to JFK. For example, all of these global-top-25 airports have single-train access:

London Heathrow (LHR)

Tokyo Haneda (HND)

Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS)

Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG)

Frankfurt (FRA)

Dubai (DXB)

Seoul Incheon (ICN)

Guangzhou (CAN)

Shanghai Pudong (PVG)

New Delhi (DEL)

Madrid Barajas (MAD)

Beijing Capital (PEK)

Chicago O'Hare (ORD)

Denver (DEN)


I don't get the gripe. AirTrain gets you to A,E,J,Z, and LIRR, all of which get you to "Manhattan" or a significant number of intermediate destinations in about an hour. LGA is far worse.


Having to take AirTrain beyond the terminals at all is annoying. LIRR should just go to JFK directly. AirTrain is slow as molasses, and the fact that it costs money is absurd. It works and I'm glad it exists, but it's nothing like e.g. the Paris RER connecting CDG.

You generally never want to take A/E/J/Z because they're sooo much slower than LIRR, unless you live along them.

Yes, LGA is far worse.


> the fact that it costs money is absurd

Bart from SFO to downtown SF is about $11 due to a surcharge and the combined fare AirTrain + subway is also about $11.50. LIRR is a bit more expensive. The Paris RER is €13. I don’t see how the fare is objectionable.

I personally appreciate the subway connections exist. Taking LIRR would require a subway transfer to most destinations anyway.


You're comparing apples and oranges. The LIRR already is the train ticket. I'm complaining about the fact you have to pay two fares. Using two different systems.

And like I said, you don't want to take the subway unless you live along its route, it's so much slower.

If you need to pay for the construction cost of the AirTrain, it should just be funded as part of the airport generally, because that's what it is. Charging for it is as silly as if you charged to take the AirTrain between terminals.


I've been in plenty of Uber & Lyft rides in what were literally taxis.


That sounds very much like an appeal to authority...

Professional designers put out the Pontiac Aztec and the Apple puck mouse.


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