Apple was late to the game. In fact they tried to change the name away from podcast (in reference to the iPod). The TWiT team started calling them NetCast to appease Apple. In the end, Apple embraced the technology and dropped the name complaint.
By then the RSS feed tech was already well established along with a few podcast software aggregators.
That is the worst way I’ve ever heard of being fired.
Sit at home and wait for an invite for a virtual meeting. After the meeting you will receive a email specifying if you have been fired. What the hell! Oh and forward that email because you are about to lose access.
Given the size of the layoffs I'd imagine it's preferable to be at home and receive the news virtually if you're being laid off. It might be unpleasant being part of the group making their way to the exits en masse.
You are right, though there probably exists an even worse way: the same layoffs, but it happens while you are on paid leave, so you don't get the memo, but the announcement, meeting and effect occur in 2-3 days and you find out the day after that:
- there are layoffs
- you are to be impacted
- you are no longer part of the company
- you don't have access to your work email address and work site
All at once after a nice deserved vacation, when you are returning to work with fresh ideas on how to improve the operational safety of the Mars Sample Return mission ready to share to your now ex-colleagues.
In the past quality was maintained because it cost money to publish a book.
The solution is to charge a nominal fee to self-publishing a book. Maybe $100. The author now has to be confident in the quality of the book and is betting it’ll generate at least $100 in profits.
Why would 20 cars be constantly on the road? The cars would sit in parking lots, ready for a call. The actual road traffic, will not change. 1000 people going to work is 1000 people going to work irrespective whether they own the car.
The biggest change would be the lack of a need for parking. This will allow us to build more densely.
You'd have more cars constantly on the road because the smaller pool of cars has to also travel to where the people are. If I go from A to B and later from B to A, a robotaxi would also need to get to A and B when I need them. It really won't matter if they're in use or drove off to a parking lot somewhere else, that is extra traffic.
The amount of traffic will increase because people who couldn’t drive before and would ride with other people or use public transit (eg. children and the elderly) can now hail cheap autonomous cars, inefficiently using an entire car for their trip.
Induced demand economics. Make something cheaper and people use more of it.
If Autonomous cars make ride hailing cheaper we’ll see an explosion in its use, and traffic will increase as cars are space inefficient and road size fixed.
Wait, are there 1000 people going to work, and then the car parking outside of work? Or are those cars leaving where the people work to go elsewhere? the later creates more cars on the road. Sure those 1000 cars can go somewhere to park - but now we can't build much denser as we still need parking for the cars. Maybe we can move the cars out a bit for more density where people work, but then we need roads to get those cars back out.
