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ROTOR I SUMMON THEE https://twitter.com/stanedward/status/957535626651492352
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Elysiume posted:if I want to get to the airport my options are a 25 minute lyft or 60+ minutes on public transportation (bus + light rail). that’s not even counting the fact that back when I used to take the bus to work (I walk now), the bus was usually offschedule and sometimes full, which can tack an extra 20+ minutes on to even find a usable bus. pubtrans is awful in a lot of the US public transit is quite often awful all over the world, the us isn't special at all
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Feb 1, 2018 21:57
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those are all the same picture though  
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Feb 1, 2018 21:59
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fishmech posted:public transit is quite often awful all over the world, the us isn't special at all 
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Feb 1, 2018 22:00
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:ROTOR I SUMMON THEE you'd know they stick with a good choice even when surrounded by better, nicer-looking models keep
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Feb 1, 2018 22:01
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Schadenboner posted:Couldn't an uber hold two (or more) passengers for at least some of the trips, reducing the total number of cars? but people hate sharing things with strangers so i guess you could charge an added fee to only be put in cars with pretty people who smell nice
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Feb 1, 2018 22:05
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ate all the Oreos posted:but people hate sharing things with strangers If you could get around disparate impact you could probably do some sort of class-based uber bronze/silver/gold/platinum thing to keep out the prolies?
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Feb 1, 2018 22:07
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Schadenboner posted:If you could get around disparate impact you could probably do some sort of class-based uber bronze/silver/gold/platinum thing to keep out the prolies? it's called uber black, it's basically the service they were founded on. then there's uberx (aka taxis) and uber pool (aka taxis with other people) infernal machines fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Feb 1, 2018 |
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Feb 1, 2018 22:10
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uber black more like uber noblacks
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Feb 1, 2018 22:12
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fishmech posted:public transit is quite often awful all over the world, the us isn't special at all
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Feb 1, 2018 22:22
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Elysiume posted:yeah that's fine, I stand by my point that taking a lyft to the airport doesn't automatically mean you hate poor people you too good for a regular taxi or something
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Feb 1, 2018 22:25
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ate all the Oreos posted:you too good for a regular taxi or something
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Feb 1, 2018 22:28
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Elysiume posted:yeah that's fine, I stand by my point that taking a lyft to the airport doesn't automatically mean you hate poor people why dont you just drive, nerd
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Feb 1, 2018 22:29
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fishmech posted:why dont you just drive, nerd 
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Feb 1, 2018 22:30
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Elysiume posted:the difference between a lyft and a taxi is moot when an uber was being compared to public transportation, because a taxi isn't public transportation it's not moot in determining whether or not you hate poor people tho comrade 
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Feb 1, 2018 22:30
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just fly to the airport... that’s what they’re for ya dingus!
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Feb 1, 2018 22:31
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ate all the Oreos posted:it's not moot in determining whether or not you hate poor people tho comrade
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Feb 1, 2018 22:34
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i wonder how many airports still have uber drivers hugging their fares at departures to avoid being ticketed
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Feb 1, 2018 22:35
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Schadenboner posted:Couldn't an uber hold two (or more) passengers for at least some of the trips, reducing the total number of cars? quote:Leaving the Andreessen Horowitz party, and unable to get a car in the pouring rain, Chris Messina and his friends found a creative solution. Messina, a well-known tech figure who until recently was an executive at Uber, hopped in a taxi that turned out to be occupied. The passenger, sitting shotgun, graciously allowed the group to squeeze in the back. It became a carpool, or as Messina declared, a makeshift UberPool.
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Feb 1, 2018 22:39
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goddamnit i was just looking for that quote i was certain they referred to this novel creation as an "impromptu uberpool"
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Feb 1, 2018 22:47
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jesus fuckin christ
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Feb 1, 2018 22:47
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Elysiume posted:bus m8
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Feb 1, 2018 22:47
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in college I went to an Amazon presentation trying to get CS majors to apply and the guy straight up said they weren't automating fulfillment centers because they'd have to build capacity for the Xmas rush that would go unused most of the year so it was just cheaper to hire temps as part of his regular presentation with a slide deck and everything it was pretty revealing at the time and has only become more so in hindsight
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Feb 1, 2018 23:33
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:goddamnit i was just looking for that quote i was certain they referred to this novel creation as an "impromptu uberpool"
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Feb 2, 2018 01:10
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Munkeymon posted:in college I went to an Amazon presentation trying to get CS majors to apply and the guy straight up said they weren't automating fulfillment centers because they'd have to build capacity for the Xmas rush that would go unused most of the year so it was just cheaper to hire temps as part of his regular presentation with a slide deck and everything uh, pretty sure this guy was full of poo poo, because all robots have speed dials that you can crank up for short periods of time (e.g. christmas).
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Feb 2, 2018 01:17
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a four loko power hour as an amazon picker would be amazing
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Feb 2, 2018 01:37
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President Beep posted:uh, pretty sure this guy was full of poo poo, because all robots have speed dials that you can crank up for short periods of time (e.g. christmas). ah, the lucy setting
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Feb 2, 2018 01:38
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now I’m imagining a robot and its friend cramming boxes in their grills.
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Feb 2, 2018 01:39
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the saddest part is the last sentence
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Feb 2, 2018 02:49
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KidVanguard posted:the saddest part is the last sentence he loved big bezos
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Feb 2, 2018 02:51
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plug my rear end full of bezodiazapam
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Feb 2, 2018 02:52
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Elysiume posted:I don't really get the impression that taxi drivers and lyft drivers are in significantly different income brackets that's not the point, one of them is a large corporation part of an even larger coalition of corporations that's actively trying (and succeeding) to limit their drivers' rights as employees at every level of government under the banner of enabling the new economy. cab companies aren't exactly great either but they don't have anywhere near the kind of clout or the veneer of trendy high-tech whiteness as lyft et al has put it another way, taxis weren't the ones who got my state government to enthusiastically pass a law removing my city government's ability to regulate transportation
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Feb 2, 2018 03:02
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this seems like the sort of thing New York’s Department of Labor would find interesting, between the “unpaid intern expected to do mission-critical work” and the “no women or homosexuals” violations both being present right in the ad text
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Feb 2, 2018 03:20
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ate all the Oreos posted:i really hope he gets cryonically frozen when he dies from a blood clot due to vampirism and then have it somehow actually work and he wakes up in the far future to see a bunch of strange mixed-race people speaking a language he can't understand that kinda-sorta sounds like english and all his money is worthless and what few skills he has aren't at all useful because he's basically the equivalent of a trebuchet mechanic don’t forget everyone living in glorious fully automated luxury space communism where he’ll be permanently on the dole due to his lack of ability to understand more than the barest minimum anything going on around him, thanks to not growing up with the cybernetic implants that make it all possible
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Feb 2, 2018 03:23
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eschaton posted:this seems like the sort of thing New York’s Department of Labor would find interesting, between the “unpaid intern expected to do mission-critical work” and the “no women or homosexuals” violations both being present right in the ad text what do you mean, we clearly said it's fine to be any of the three sexualities currently known to modern science: gay, straight, or hate
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Feb 2, 2018 03:28
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:How the gently caress isn't it most cost-effective to have a robot arm do that poo poo if you're planning on running a sensor array for every single bin Our trainers regaled us with tales of unruly robots. They told us how one robot had tried to drag a worker’s stepladder away. Occasionally, I was told, two Kivas—each carrying a tower of merchandise—collided like drunken European soccer fans bumping chests. And in April of that year, the Haslet fire department responded to an accident at the warehouse involving a can of “bear repellent” (basically industrial-grade pepper spray). According to fire department records, the can of repellent was run over by a Kiva and the warehouse had to be evacuated; eight workers were treated for injuries and one was taken to the hospital. Amazon, for its part, says it “can find no record of an employee being taken by ambulance right after the incident.” One CamperForce worker, a white-haired septuagenarian, told me that she was on the verge of quitting because she found the robots so maddening. The Kivas kept bringing her the same shelf to scan. After it happened to her three times, the shelf began going to her husband, who was working 25 feet away. He got it six times. She told me this outside the break room, as we walked past a cheerful-looking member of the cleaning crew. Trailing off from her story, she stared at the worker and demanded, “How’d she get that job? I’d rather do that! I’d rather clean toilets.” At the start of each of my own shifts, a ponytailed manager in her twenties said “Helloooo, campers!” while her assistant coached us through stretching exercises. Then I spent hours scanning barcodes on whatever the Kivas brought me: everything from gun accessories to dildos (Cloud Nine Delightful Dong). On one occasion, a Kiva carrying 18 boxes of patchouli incense rolled toward my workstation—and then returned twice more to be rescanned. When my shift was over, my coworkers could still smell the incense on me. “Saturday Night Fever!” exclaimed a retired minister. https://www.wired.com/story/meet-camperforce-amazons-nomadic-retiree-army/
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Feb 2, 2018 03:30
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fishmech posted:i really don't get how some of you are mystified as to why people would want a car to drive for them why would you want a car that drives itself if you could take a train instead
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Feb 2, 2018 03:36
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Schadenboner posted:Couldn't an uber hold two (or more) passengers for at least some of the trips, reducing the total number of cars? if you make the cars really big they can carry even more passengers, further reducing the total number of cars at that point they’ll probably be serving a lot of the same points regularly so you could make them run a fixed route too and for additional convenience you could put a dedicated right of way in place for that fixed route and for additional efficiency you could maybe even put in some sort of guides such that the car doesn’t even need to do its own steering along that route, that the route would be “on rails” so to speak
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Feb 2, 2018 03:41
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eschaton posted:why would you want a car that drives itself if you could take a train instead its at least twice as hard to jack off on a train without people noticing
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Feb 2, 2018 03:56
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"challenge mode"
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