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eschaton posted:"you know, it's funny how employers have stopped getting free press for offering engineers six-figure starting salaries..." it cracks me up that senior "engineers" generally need 3 years of experience in whatever they're "senior" in
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:it cracks me up that senior "engineers" generally need 3 years of experience in whatever they're "senior" in "primary" is the new "senior"
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rotor is primary, yall
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Nintendo Kid posted:rotor is primary, yall principal member of YOSPOS staff
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Instead of narrowing gender gaps, the technology industry created vast new ones for Stanford University’s pioneering class of 1994. “I tell people I graduated from Stanford the day the web was born,” said another alumnus, Justin Kitch, whose senior thesis turned into a start-up that turned into an Intuit acquisition. Yet instead of narrowing gender gaps, the technology industry created vast new ones, according to interviews with dozens of members of the class and a broad array of Silicon Valley and Stanford figures. “We were sitting on an oil boom, and the fact is that the women played a support role instead of walking away with billion-dollar businesses,” said Kamy Wicoff, who founded a website for female writers. “If meritocracy exists anywhere on earth, it is in Silicon Valley,” David Sacks, an early figure at PayPal who went on to found other companies, emailed that weekend from San Francisco, where he was renovating one of the most expensive homes ever purchased in the city. H.P. Hovercraft fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Dec 24, 2014 |
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quote:Uber CEO faces two years in prison for operating illegal taxi service in South Korea 
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drat want me some of that reward money, i hope us cities start offering uber bounties so i finally have a use for that boba fett mask
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 lmao 'I love uber and I will keep using it even if I get into a fight with one of the drivers, it would be the drivers fault (or mine) not uber's fault.'
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it's amazing how loving committed nerds are to the belief that uber is new and groundbreaking and solving hitherto unaddressed issues in private transit. if you manage to hold them down and stuff their face in the fact that jitney cabs have been around for over a hundred years and were legislated out of existence for exactly the same reasons uber is, they just fall back to "it's different this time, because computers" it's absurd how reticent they are to acknowledge that the legislation is not lagging the technology, if anything it's ahead of it
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it's sad that so many cities have allowed their regulated cabs to become worse than jitneys
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what it comes down to is they're just stubborn, completely selfish shitheads. uber works great for them (in their mind), so they don't care what or how bad the downsides are. i've wrangled a couple of self-described "libertarians" to the point where i got them to plainly admit that even if outcomes were clearly and conclusively worse on the whole as a result of their preferred policies (like "you shouldn't be able to arrest someone for drunk driving. you should only be able to arrest them after they've hurt someone"), they would still want those policies enacted. 'gently caress you, got mine' really isn't an exaggeration for a lot of people, unfortunately
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:it's sad that so many cities have allowed their regulated cabs to become worse than jitneys yeah, agreed, which is why i get super frustrated when people say 'oh well cabs are terrible too' like that makes any difference to the argument that 'uber is bad'. now if uber actually gave a poo poo about background checks and providing a safer and better experience than cabs in addition to being cheaper, we might actually be able to say we have something new here.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:“I tell people I graduated from Stanford the day the web was born,” said another alumnus, Justin Kitch, whose senior thesis turned into a start-up that turned into an Intuit acquisition. gently caress stanford forever
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qirex posted:I guess all those websites we made before that didn't exist? FSF lol
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qirex posted:I guess all those websites we made before that didn't exist? what do you mean that i can't have a dot commerce web address for my reboot fan page
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Cold on a Cob posted:yeah, agreed, which is why i get super frustrated when people say 'oh well cabs are terrible too' like that makes any difference to the argument that 'uber is bad'. now if uber actually gave a poo poo about background checks and providing a safer and better experience than cabs in addition to being cheaper, we might actually be able to say we have something new here. the thing is, if that were even remotely profitable or in any way connected to profitability the cab companies would be doing it voluntarily. it's not, and they aren't, they do it because they're compelled by law. so a bad actor like uber that deliberately flaunts regulation as a core component of their business model has absolutely no interest in safety, it's just an added cost. specifically it's a higher cost than simply ignoring the law and paying the relevant fines. if uber is anything they're the ultimate expression of laissez faire capitalism
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infernal machines posted:if uber is anything they're the ultimate expression of laissez faire capitalism a harried, contingent workforce assumes all risks and costs, while a handful of already-rich men thousands of miles away take all the profits not to put too fine a point on it, that's the capitalist end-game for every industry
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my friends pro-uber arguments summarize as: taxis are over-regulated, uber is fighting those regulations, those regulations are bad without specifying what those regulations are and what is wrong with them fallbacks include boston taxis suck and are never available, surge pricing is good because it is supply and demand in action
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Dec 24, 2014 19:00
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Bloody posted:fallbacks include boston taxis suck and are never available, surge pricing is good because it is supply and demand in action yes, truly price increases imposed by Uber on a schedule at the home office, truly the free market determining the price
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:a harried, contingent workforce assumes all risks and costs, while a handful of already-rich men thousands of miles away take all the profits yeah a completely on-demand workforce is kind of the endgame
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qirex posted:yeah a completely on-demand workforce is kind of the endgame employment-as-a-service
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remember when we thought the endgame was robots but then we realized we need to maintain robots whereas people can just be thrown away? yay capitalism
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hey you know we just want people who happen to be in the area and happen to own their own welding equipment to be able to make some extra money on the side building cars for us. they're not employees though, they just happen to live next to an auto plant and have these skills so it's a win/win [17 hours a week]
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Dec 24, 2014 19:19
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Cold on a Cob posted:remember when we thought the endgame was robots but then we realized we need to maintain robots whereas people can just be thrown away? roboticized fast food places are gonna be weird
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Bloody posted:fallbacks include boston taxis suck and are never available, surge pricing is good because it is supply and demand in action I hate Uber as much as the next person but Boston taxis are truly terrible
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triple sulk posted:I hate Uber as much as the next person but Boston taxis are truly terrible I had a very acceptable cab ride the other day
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Cold on a Cob posted:remember when we thought the endgame was robots but then we realized we need to maintain robots whereas people can just be thrown away?
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:roboticized fast food places are gonna be weird one of the main things preventing that might be that people use cash at mcdonalds more often than at chilis or whatever otherwise the first thing to go would definitely be the people at the cash registers
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:roboticized fast food places are gonna be weird its laughable how anybody pretends that a single human being needs to work at a mcdonald's that is a place that is absolutely begging for 100% automation
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Jonny 290 posted:its laughable how anybody pretends that a single human being needs to work at a mcdonald's Automats already existed and died
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I really liked this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
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Nintendo Kid posted:Automats already existed and died they were just ahead of their time
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Nintendo Kid posted:Automats already existed and died they still have them in amsterdam but that's probably because the locals don't want to have to touch all the tourists it's not all bad though http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/02/21/tokyo-hamburger-vending-machine-has-a-human-touch/ 
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Nintendo Kid posted:Automats already existed and died werent they mainly in the cities tho? gotta shovel that poo poo out to the burbs. put them in The Wastelands
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Jonny 290 posted:werent they mainly in the cities tho? gotta shovel that poo poo out to the burbs. put them in The Wastelands As if there's going to be anyone left in the wastelands to justify putting your expensive robots there.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Automats already existed and died those had a dude in the back makin all the food tho and it was all cafeteria food anyway
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Jonny 290 posted:its laughable how anybody pretends that a single human being needs to work at a mcdonald's it'll eventually happen sooner if the minimum wage explodes past the break even point later if the automation becomes cheaper and when touchscreen ordering becomes more widespread
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humans are way way cheaper than what it would take to automate a mcdonalds.
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the minimum wage should be pegged to the point right below where mcdonalds automation makes financial sense
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