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No. 3 million miles of observation. You can get a pretty exact and conservative estimate with a bayesian poisson process model. I don't have the time to run the numbers right now, but my guess is the posterior estimate that Uber's fatal accident rate is higher than a human's is >90%, even if taking the human accident rate as a starting prior.
Amen. Uber's fatal accident rate is now 50x that of sober human driver's. At their current rate of driving, they can't have a _lower_ rate until 2028! Inexcusable failure of their technology to prevent a human death in the most basic collision avoidance scenario.
Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:29PM (#14648524)
You're either trolling or have a deep misunderstanding of what a friend is.
Re:Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily? on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:18PM (#14648405)
There's a gui app on top of the script, so not sure if it counts, but I find SelfControl (selfcontrolapp.com) indispensible for staying focused each day.
Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:16PM (#14648384)
Wait, you need facebook to have friends? Huh
Three things:

- Do you have real IP/patents? If not, a "working prototype" is probably going to be hard to sell.

- What specific business problem does it solve, and who is the person with the budget who is trying to solve it. Reach out to them. A "team" trying to solve a similar problem is never going to buy a solution (manager will no longer have a team...).

- Alternative to selling is to offer to do contract work for these companies, using prototype to help close the deal.

Re:Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @03:05PM (#14648266)
Serious question, is a social network like Facebook a public good, in the economic sense? Should it be a publicly regulated utility?