Unlike airports train stations do not have the number of people who want to rent cars so you cannot have comparable door to door tine experiences without considering the rest of the available transport time and costs.
AI is not a solution. Automation tools can only streamline processes but take a lot of money and time to build effectively. Humans need to still oversee and manage the process, not something that could think for itself. This guy works at the top and expects public money to be used to pay Microsoft and other big tech companies to solve problems when it is the small companies that offer solutions.
Microsoft has been promoting high speed rail for decades and we are no closer to having it being completed. There is no route. There is no source of funding for it. There is no business plan. The costs for building it in Washington are extensive due to the complicated geology that the rail would need to traverse. And even if we were to build it, it would not be completed until 2045 or later based upon what we've seen in California. California approved the high speed rail in 2008 and began building it in 2015, and now expects only the first segment to be completed in 2030-2033. Microsoft is stymieing the most cost effective way to provide rail service which is simply to invest in our existing rail corridor between Seattle and Eugene, and Seattle and Vancouver BC. We can readily achieve average speeds greater than 70 mph over these routes for 1/10th the cost of what it will take to build an ultra high speed project. Those benefits could be had in 10 years time, certainly by 2035. Our existing Amtrak Cascades service with 200 miles of new dedicated track can make the trip reliably in 2 hours 30 minutes between Seattle and Portland and 2 hours 45 minutes between Seattle and Vancouver BC. Microsoft needs to be pragmatic here.
Trying to understand this, a technologically advanced region is the goal, which likely requires educated technology experts who on average male a higher income such as developers, engineers, technical PMs but the type of additional housing is in multi-unit "affordable" housing. I'm an engineer and I want to afford a home with a yard for my growing family. Not to share a hallway with dozens of other units. I'm not convinced.
While AI has great potential and is being effectively realized in medicine and health care, hearing yet another AI proponent fail to even mention regulatory need on AI concerns me. The tool can be used for ill. Without some forms of regulation, it will be used for harm. Just look at what is happening around the world today with misinformation.
As a network admin, I HATE Microsoft for what they have done over the years. It's way too hard to keep up with their changes.
Unlike airports train stations do not have the number of people who want to rent cars so you cannot have comparable door to door tine experiences without considering the rest of the available transport time and costs.
AI is not a solution. Automation tools can only streamline processes but take a lot of money and time to build effectively. Humans need to still oversee and manage the process, not something that could think for itself.
This guy works at the top and expects public money to be used to pay Microsoft and other big tech companies to solve problems when it is the small companies that offer solutions.
You AI can talk to my AI, I am sure they can come to an agreement even if we cannot.
Pretty easy to spend taxpayers dollars to support your vision of making more money.
Microsoft has been promoting high speed rail for decades and we are no closer to having it being completed. There is no route. There is no source of funding for it. There is no business plan. The costs for building it in Washington are extensive due to the complicated geology that the rail would need to traverse. And even if we were to build it, it would not be completed until 2045 or later based upon what we've seen in California. California approved the high speed rail in 2008 and began building it in 2015, and now expects only the first segment to be completed in 2030-2033.
Microsoft is stymieing the most cost effective way to provide rail service which is simply to invest in our existing rail corridor between Seattle and Eugene, and Seattle and Vancouver BC. We can readily achieve average speeds greater than 70 mph over these routes for 1/10th the cost of what it will take to build an ultra high speed project. Those benefits could be had in 10 years time, certainly by 2035. Our existing Amtrak Cascades service with 200 miles of new dedicated track can make the trip reliably in 2 hours 30 minutes between Seattle and Portland and 2 hours 45 minutes between Seattle and Vancouver BC.
Microsoft needs to be pragmatic here.
Trying to understand this, a technologically advanced region is the goal, which likely requires educated technology experts who on average male a higher income such as developers, engineers, technical PMs but the type of additional housing is in multi-unit "affordable" housing. I'm an engineer and I want to afford a home with a yard for my growing family. Not to share a hallway with dozens of other units. I'm not convinced.
Who on average make more*
While AI has great potential and is being effectively realized in medicine and health care, hearing yet another AI proponent fail to even mention regulatory need on AI concerns me. The tool can be used for ill. Without some forms of regulation, it will be used for harm. Just look at what is happening around the world today with misinformation.
Windows was so great, and now Microsoft is providing us with the entire house! LOL.🤣