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> Overall, it really just sounds like you are armchair-postulating without any grasp whatsoever on the industry...

No, I was proposing a employee owned version of Lyft. For onboarding screen you use something like "already has 100+ drives with 5+ star rating" or similar.

> You can't really have your cake and eat it too.

True. Rather than paying shareholders and drivers an employee owned company only pays the driver. They are recruiting from the same pool of drivers.

Lyft/uber need to pay drivers and make a profit -- if a rideshare is employee/driver owned the profit is the same as the drive pay out. Margins can stay the same but how could lyft/uber keep drivers and make profit for shareholders?

A very rough approximation would be to describe a wind-up watch (processor) by the smallest tooth of the smallest gear (component of the transistor)

> if you decrease the dielectric thickness

This is why people are moving away from planar transistors to "FinFets" and eventually having an "all around gate"

3nm (or any "node" measurement) is not a measure of the entire transistor, only of the smallest feature size.

> At this point I don't think they physically measure anything on the chip to get that number.

They are measuring the smallest feature size - the smallest shape that is reliably replicated across the wafer. Actually pretty impressive when you think about the lithography behind it.

When drivers are already driving for Lyft and Uber the on-boarding is taken care of.

Uber and Lyft are pushing margins down because they want to extract profit to pass back to shareholders. When revenue only goes to supporting the infrastructure and paying riders the only competition is who can deliver the cheaper ride. Delivering the cheaper ride for Uber/Lyft while also generating a profit means the driver needs to take a hit. Why would the driver take a hit when he can drive on a platform that pays better?

What does WhatsApp have to do with Apple? Sounds like using iPhone's internal messaging app would have been safer than WhatsApp on Android.

What electric cars uses clutches? Which use 2-speed transmissions? Tesla doesn’t seem to use either.

> I think the relatively objective argument is that while Musk was necessary initially to get Tesla into existence and functioning

Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpennin initially got Tesla into existence.

nationalism isn’t racism.....

Nationalism != Racism

This along with the whole TV licence fee both seem so odd.

Network as much as you can. Build your personal brand. Basically be authentic and you will be a billionaire by roughly 35. It's a sacrifice; but anything less wouldn't be true to your genuine self.

/sarcasm

What advice would you give?

> Take the easiest/least time consuming classes you can find and try to work during those 4 years. Don't allow a useless college degree to make you broke.

If you take the easiest/least time consuming classes you will likely end up with a useless college degree. Go to a state university that has a solid co-op or intern program and major in something difficult. Take hard classes and focus on those (EE, CompSci) because they will open up high paying internships during school and an entry job after graduation.

Don't burn yourself trying to balance school and work concurrently, don't waste your time taking easy classes that will leave you struggling after graduation!

> For most jobs/careers, You just need the certificate ~ at least in the long term.

That may be true, but your courses/GPA will matter for the first job... or to get the MS degree required for many jobs in engineering today.

Are you talking about consumer good only? What about buildings? Bridges? Planes? Trains?

> The intermittent availability starts to become stressful; you're never sure when the next thing will break or need repair, you can no longer rely on the thing.

See goals of Industry 4.0

>> The car itself, should last a while but because one part broke the entire product is essentially a brick right now.

Because you won't take the time to fix it! What a waste!

If Sanders had run (and I wish he had), it is likely that Bloomberg would have entered the race. That should be considered.

So would a white LGBT student be allowed to cross?

Wouldn't this sort of behavior play into Trump's view of 'the system' being rigged against him? Shouldn't individuals have a right to have terrible opinions?