Every once in a blue moon I'll meet someone who can trace the genesis of their career to neopets. I learned to code from neopets. It started from html, then I fell into a cheats crowd, where I learned Visual Basic (some of the best early cheats were in Visual Basic).

Then one day, a guy coded a program in Python. It was only one with a "modern" style (it used Window XP styles, while most VB6 programs looked like windows 98 programs), and it used threads so it could watch multiple stores instead of having to manage multiple processes.

I must have been 12-13, and I was completely floored with it. I was convinced everyone programming in VB6 was wrong and the future was Python. I eventually self taught myself Python just to write my own cheats, which I eventually sold to others for millions of neopoints. Then my account got frozen and I moved on to other games.

As I understand it, whatever it costs, is strictly less than the market dynamics of providing the ride today.

There is probably some market equilibrium where they could reasonably provide <5 minute pickups for waymo users that would both cover the cost of the automobile and still be less than the price of an uber today.

Charli is a half-british half-Indian. It could be legitimate

>And yet, from the App Store’s point of view, you can build a game with guns and cartoon violence and happily ship it to kids, while tracking your own body needs a 16+ “mature themes” label.

This really isn't an Apple problem, but an American culture problem. This is such a common trope in many forms of media:

* You can sell games with gratuitous amount of gore, but implied clothed intercourse gets you pulled from stores.

* You can get away with a lot of violence and possible sneak a PG-13 rating, but a single boob gets you rated R.

As I understand it, unless the fleet size dramatically increases, the cost of a ride is completely determined by supply/demand.