This is analogous to arguing against exploring the Americas because Europe had poverty.
It seems to me that over a couple hundred year time horizon the new land, resources, technologies and economies of scale added by the new world were clearly a net benefit to europeans as a whole and paid back the initial investment many times over.
I feel like if you look at the amount of equipment and staff here it obviously costs a huge amount to deliver this care. Regardless of who pays the $100k+ cost remains.
The full process is the better part of a decade in the best case (e.g. expensive lawyers, STEM degree, immigrating from an easy country like Canada). If you're from a country like China or India where lots of other people are also applying for those slots - or if anything else is less than optimal - you're looking at between a decade+ and never.
This is not constructive advice. It is a heck of a lot more complicated than this is making it out to be. You wouldn't leave your loved one with a broken leg until the "found their own way" to the doctor.
@aacook this is awesome! I just showed it to my sister and we're going to sign up for my Grandma's birthday next month. One request:
Snapchat is our native photo sharing app (and I assume that's true for many other millennials) any chance there's a way to send from snapchat in the works?
Hi John, I'm Alex Rodrigues, CEO at Embark. Thanks for your interest. Our testing is legal and we are in close communication with the DMV to ensure we stay that way. In California we restrict our system to Level 2 (like Tesla autopilot), in order to comply with regulations.
I'm one of the founders at Embark. We're super excited to show what we've been working on to the world! Happy to answer any questions.
And also... we're hiring! If you want to work on a small team with a strong vision that's tackling one of the most important problems of our generation, you should get in touch.
This is really cool and well done. I'm unhappy with the stats they chose though.
I thought that 20x less robberies seemed unlikely so I clicked their source. They were using the absolute number of robberies not per capita. The way they used it is sneakiness bordering on outright lies. This kind of bad-faith abuse of stats always irritates me.
When I first heard about this in passing I had to investigate further because I just couldn't believe someone could go to jail for making a youtube video expressing a view. Especially not for decades with no warning.
I was under the (clearly naive) impression that the 1st amendment was a right that belongs to all Americans.
Can anyone explain how this can be legally justified?
It seems to me that over a couple hundred year time horizon the new land, resources, technologies and economies of scale added by the new world were clearly a net benefit to europeans as a whole and paid back the initial investment many times over.