I don't get this. I installed the tesla app and was approved to book a drive in 1 week (last week). I've been in the Waymo waiting list for at least 6 months, and still haven't gotten approval and can still only book in SF. They do move slow.

They've been scaling paid rides per week by about 5x every year for the past 5 years, that is fast in my book.

best course: don't. they have a shitty structure so don't bother. find users who are also buyers.

your comment is not aligned with how science is done. For discoveries you certainly work with limited approaches and certainly don't know if there is a "clear trajectory".

I don't see this to be a problem worth solving.

Some problems are problems but for a startup to succeed it needs to be a very important problem.

Having a unique insight is also not enough. It needs to be a highly leverageable insight or advantage. One that you can use in this startup; as you grow your leverage it will help you get users and revenue.

Neither seem true here. When that happens, the journey is a grind, you try to push hard but people don't seem interested.

how do I get motivated? well I have to believe there is a 'leverageable' insight or angle that will grow when I make progress ;) belief that it's a big problem people care about and that I am growing unfair advantage over time solving it.

I think it's important to highlight that this kind of advice isn't negative and it's well meaning. As engineers it can be easy to form a distortion field about what we're working on and the perception of those who might actually want (or not want) to actually buy it.

Being honest with yourself is the best way to be kind to yourself. Moving on is not giving up.

these examples are all exceptions. how much do the exceptions contribute to the discussion?

> how much do the exceptions contribute to the discussion?

A fair amount, if the number of exceptions are such that the rule of thumb isn't useful.

Do you know what "rule of thumb" means? Did you think you were being helpful?

> Do you know what "rule of thumb" means?

A broadly accurate guide or principle. If there are enough exceptions that it is not broadly accurate, it's not a good rule of thumb.

> Did you think you were being helpful?

By doing what?

I really don't think the 5 provided examples do much - I can't even imagine how "Katz deli in NYC" would be a useful data point at all.

there is so much skepticism on quantum computing that instead of inflated marketing words one should always start by what the biggest problems are, how they are not still solved yet, and then introduce what the new improvement is.

Otherwise there is no knowing if the accomplishment is really significant or not.

Especially if you consider how they choose the words and how they can be interpreted

" Second, Willow performed a standard benchmark computation in under five minutes that would take one of today’s "

Standard benchmark in what sense. Well, it was chosen for task where quantum computer would have better performance.

I am not saying this is nothing. Maybe, use more reserved words, e.g. "special quantum oriented benchmark" or something.

When I think of standard benchmark, I am thinking more common scenarios, e.g. searching, sorting, matrix multiplication.

FCNTX

FCNTX has given me about 450% growth since 2011. Pretty stable & steady, but these days I think I’d just go with QQQ.

question is DOES OLIVE OIL HAVE THIS COMPOUND? HOW MUCH?

> And while [beneficial compound] naturally occurs in olive oil and mature olive fruit, the researchers note that its concentration in those sources is most likely too low to deliver these metabolic benefits.

I'm really sure that drinking olive oil increases bodyweight, not decreases it.

well I wouldn't be so sure. if you cook with it or add it to dishes (not drink it on its own, who would do that) it certainly has beneficiary effects and it is less of a cause for weight gain than all carbs.

very cool, also the coding style looks good.

Yes, he was first like, we're totally doing this on AMD! A few weeks later he's like wtf@#! this is the buggiest thing ever