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rogers does the thing where they obsolete the plan you're on every six months or so. good luck comparing the set of features on your bill with the ones on our list of services also everything's on a "two year contract" now, which means on day 731 they're jacking your rates except for the stuff that's month-to-month, that stuff they jack up whenever they feel like it
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flakeloaf posted:rogers does the thing where they obsolete the plan you're on every six months or so. good luck comparing the set of features on your bill with the ones on our list of services When I was with Time Warner month-to-month they would raise the price every month until I called in and got a two-year plan. Then when so got the two-year plan with the locked-in rate they started raising the price of the modem rental a buck or so every other month...
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Shame Boy posted:it either requires very good facial recognition and indexing or it requires you to install the app and let it track your location through the store (and in at least one case spy on you with the camera lmao) and correlate all the information and then have the person running the register actually, y'know, give a poo poo or offering free wifi/sniffing for other wireless signals from your phone/fitbit/wireless headphones
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i've had spectrum in florida for about 2 years now, and can't access my account online because their website says they don't offer services in my zip code
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:A woman I knew who managed a Verizon call center said that once you bought a triple play package they put you on poo poo tier tech support since they had nothing new to sell you. lol makes sense tho
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finally, gig-economy driver partners can get their cars fixed at the company store
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infernal machines posted:finally, gig-economy driver partners can get their cars fixed at the company store wouldn’t it be easier just to reimburse your drivers per mileage they drive, cause even repairs at half price sound like a raw deal without that compensation
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Mar 26, 2019 19:55
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FMguru posted:at no point in that document does the word "peaker" show up. thats the cost for brand new gas if i was king of america i'd overbuild the poo poo out of capacity and use carbon capture plants to suck up excess supply.
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Mar 26, 2019 19:57
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My Linux Rig posted:wouldn’t it be easier just to reimburse your drivers per mileage they drive, cause even repairs at half price sound like a raw deal without that compensation "easier" but like, diametrically opposed to their entire business model
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Mar 26, 2019 19:59
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:if i was king of america i'd overbuild the poo poo out of capacity and use carbon capture plants to suck up excess supply. And use the carbon capture plants to balance demand elsewhere.
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Mar 26, 2019 20:09
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if I was king of America, i would do my part to solve climate change by nuking America
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Mar 26, 2019 20:35
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my client is instituting a global production freeze in anticipation of brexit so buckle up chucklefucks
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https://twitter.com/somospostpc/status/1110563865140649986
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if only there was a solution to opening car doors
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*rubs phone sensually on car* come on baby, open up
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My Linux Rig posted:*rubs phone sensationally i think we need to have a chat about your technique
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infernal machines posted:i think we need to have a chat about your technique god drat it, this is what I get for being illiterate
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don't not be evil https://twitter.com/farbandish/status/1110617061493895169
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:sheev palpatine of the planet naboo
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loving lol https://twitter.com/farbandish/status/1110624709308121088
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lol we're dead
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wait a few days, then add the responsible AI development council to the google project murder list
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they hired the most powerful bigot they could find to see if they could extend bigotry to AIs
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it's never been done before
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we've known for years that computers can create racist/sexist outcomes far more efficiently than any human, but could they truly hate? this is the future infernal machines fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Mar 26, 2019 |
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My Linux Rig posted:what the hell is dzt
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Not a Children posted:Battery tech is one of those finnicky things that I'm scared will not continue to scale down, what with rare earth metals being a depletable resource. If it continues in this direction, though, it could be industry changing as far as making offset solar/wind viable for a large portion of baseline power. the cost of new battery tech dropping is a direct result of reducing the amount of rare earth elements needed to build them
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tbh the purpose of that committee isn't to actually do anything, its to allow for plausible deniability and deflection of criticism so they need a nice "diverse" set of members to make everyone happy from various angles having the beltway bandits make the government happier about contracting with you having the conservatives gives you some ability to deflect attacks of "liberal bias/fake news/etc" having academics gives it the appearance of rigor for liberals and other academics etc
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New Christine remake looking good starring self driving google car as Christine Microsoft Tay as voice of Christine Real doll Randy 3N-2T as zuckerberg
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That one Pigface song that Trent Reznor did lyrics on, but he says "zuck zuck zuck" and the song is actually about selling hate speech
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Nfcknblvbl posted:the cost of new battery tech dropping is a direct result of reducing the amount of rare earth elements needed to build them if cobalt becomes too rare/expensive, they can swap in something else
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My Linux Rig posted:if I was king of America, i would do my part to solve climate change by nuking America if I was King of America, I would invade America and win the American people's hearts and minds by ousting their corrupt government and building roads and bridges
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Also I finally picked up Bad Blood and am about halfway through it. Wowie zowie. I actually did the little "hold book a little further away, adjust glasses in shock" bit when I got to the part where they were doing quality control on their machines by running the tests over and over until they gave the desired result, then using that one
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Sagebrush posted:Also I finally picked up Bad Blood and am about halfway through it. Wowie zowie. the thing is theranos-style blood devices do exist and have for quite some time. its just theyre 1) the size of an industrial freezer, 2) require multiple vials of professionally drawn blood to operate, and 3) cost millions of dollars and 4) require weekly professional maintenance and calibration. making a gizmo that can do "insert blood -> bzzt humm clunk beep -> output accurate readings" is a solved problem - it just cant be done with something the size and price of an ipod
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:they hired the most powerful bigot they could find to see if they could extend bigotry to AIs Can’t have the AI being too sympathetic to the plight of the poor. Things could get bad for the elite if the banking AI sets its empathy and solidarity to 255.
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lancemantis posted:tbh the purpose of that committee isn't to actually do anything, its to allow for plausible deniability and deflection of criticism so they need a nice "diverse" set of members to make everyone happy from various angles the committee is there to green light anything google wants to do while taking the blame for any unpopular stuff that gets called out. a heritage foundation hack is imminently qualified for that.
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FMguru posted:
Yeah the impression I'm getting is that they actually could have built a product that did the whole range of tests they were proposing in an accurate manner. A machine that did everything in one box still sounds better than the alternative of a lab full of equipment, even if it's the size of a fridge and requires a regular vial of blood. But Holmes was just dead set on it being the size of a microwave and using a single drop and wouldn't hear anything else. There's a quote early on that's like "don't listen to those scientists, they're always complaining" which is a sentiment I have heard a number of times from b-school Ideas Guys. It's one of the major fundamental problems with the silicon valley model of "innovation". Also Sunny Balwani is the world's biggest rear end in a top hat, even in a place that is already lousy with assholes, holy poo poo.
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