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MickeyFinn posted:Like 200 years ago the train, an extremely efficient method of land transportation, was invented. A hundred years later a bunch of people said “I don’t want to share with poors” and now we are cursed until the end of time to try to make “trains but not for poor people.” Except that was also a thing 200 years ago and solved immediately at the time with car classes.
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Motronic posted:Except that was also a thing 200 years ago and solved immediately at the time with car classes. Yah the class issue is now 'solved' by just not even building rail lines that connect poor and rich areas. LA has had Beverly hills successfully stop that from happening for decades and now that they've finally failed they are having total meltdowns.
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Jun 16, 2022 23:11
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Boris Galerkin posted:Even if it was sentient, and it’s not, does it actually matter? Actually it does, how about we not exploit other sentient beings. You don't need to tell me how capitalism works and it's still wrong. Obviously a fancy curve fitter is not going to gain sentience but this argument rubs me the wrong way.
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Jun 16, 2022 23:43
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i dunno when you think capitalism was invented but it definitely does not predate the domestication of animals into livestock
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Jun 16, 2022 23:55
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:i dunno when you think capitalism was invented but it definitely does not predate the domestication of animals into livestock Or more generally the exploitation of one sentient being by another. The point is, do we actively try to prevent more of this exploitation or do we just take it as a given that can't be changed. Anyway, I think I'm going to rewatch Blade Runner 2049 tonight.
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Jun 17, 2022 00:04
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Rebel Blob posted:Indeed, enjoy 20 minutes of stilt buses: I had a thought that these videos were satire that were made specifically for professional engineers to laugh at for hours, but.... are they actually serious? Why would you need a plane that is tethered to the ground?? 
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Jun 17, 2022 00:10
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Mercury_Storm posted:I had a thought that these videos were satire that were made specifically for professional engineers to laugh at for hours, but.... are they actually serious? This doesn't even scratch the surface of the deranged beauty of Daahir Insaat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_4qKt6Wr5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQsNktD9zW4
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How are u posted:This doesn't even scratch the surface of the deranged beauty of Daahir Insaat. Those are good, but none of them beat the fruit truck.
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Jun 17, 2022 01:09
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quarantinethepast posted:Actually it does, how about we not exploit other sentient beings. You don't need to tell me how capitalism works and it's still wrong. I’m not sure what argument you think I’m making but I’m a vegetarian.
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Jun 17, 2022 01:48
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MickeyFinn posted:Like 200 years ago the train, an extremely efficient method of land transportation, was invented. A hundred years later a bunch of people said “I don’t want to share with poors” and now we are cursed until the end of time to try to make “trains but not for poor people.” they even solved that! there have been first class and steerage cars since basically the start!
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Jun 17, 2022 03:16
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Rebel Blob posted:Indeed, enjoy 20 minutes of stilt buses: the stilt trains have been posted in the gbs osha thread before (also I thought they were posted before 2020), but holy poo poo at the techbro brains of flying trains. like crhist, at all those props and the teather. like wut.
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Jun 17, 2022 05:10
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VikingofRock posted:I'm a little confused as to why MetaPixel was on the hospital page in the first place. Was the hospital trying to have Facebook integration on their website? Or was it pulled in as part of some dependency? Or something else? I loving hate that pixel and google crap, I tried removing it and other tracking code temporarily and the responsiveness of the site almost doubled in pagespeed insights. Pagespeed insights is reporting a lot of issues that could be improved and it's basically all stuff to do with googles own tracking code that's suboptimal. Console says similar things too. Google is the biggest hurdle in getting your websit to do well on it's own metrics...
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Jun 17, 2022 06:06
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PhazonLink posted:
It was the only way to make it expensive enough that poors can't use it.
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Jun 17, 2022 06:53
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Dahir Insaat doesn't even really count as a techbro, it's just one guy pumping out "awesome" concept art like an eight year old. The only difference is that he uses rendering software instead of a box of crayons.
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Jun 17, 2022 07:58
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E: my post has not met quality standards for being funny, nevermind
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Jun 17, 2022 08:27
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How are u posted:This doesn't even scratch the surface of the deranged beauty of Daahir Insaat. (*) This is the only restaurant where I've ever seen them although to be fair, I haven't eaten inside any restaurant since March of 2020.
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Jun 17, 2022 15:02
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Cheesus posted:I'm love all of that useless lovely automation while not addressing the cost of order taking even though my local Chilis(*) has had table kiosks for ordering since at least 2017. Yeah I liked Chili's little portable Kiosks. Taco Bell and McDonalds both have ordering Kiosks now and they work pretty well.
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Jun 17, 2022 15:51
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I literally had the tether plane idea the other day when I was really baked, as a way to do electric planes without batteries. Even when in that state I knew it wouldn't work for all kinds of reasons. So you are saying I can get paid for this poo poo?
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Jun 17, 2022 15:55
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There's no way these aren't shitposts, look at this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8I7O4JJ1ko
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Jun 17, 2022 15:57
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Cheesus posted:I'm love all of that useless lovely automation while not addressing the cost of order taking even though my local Chilis(*) has had table kiosks for ordering since at least 2017. i liked the assertion that the entirely unseen kitchen was fully automated and a dark space with no human input at all if thats the case then there's no need to take orders really because all meals are precooked and simply being heated, or the menu is a very simple collection of foods which can be produced by continuous processing the ridiculous burger making robot thing that was a silicon valley darling is still just a tiny assembly line being carefully tended by fully human prep cooks. you cannot remove people from making food unless you're making it at vast scale, like frozen pizza or something, and even then someone needs to be there to dump sacks of flour into a hopper. there will not be a robot which can cook like a human until long after all of us are dead
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Jun 17, 2022 15:58
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There's some sushi places that have cute little automated conveyors that deliver food past all the tables, but it's more of a buffet-style sort of thing and it doesn't scale well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conveyor_belt_sushi
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Jun 17, 2022 16:01
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Alton Towers (UK theme park) has a restaurant where you can order overpriced mediocre food and it arrives at your table via a little cart on a rollercoaster track that goes round a loop-de-loop and spirals down to you. It’s a fun gimmick for the duration of a single meal only E: according to Wikipedia it’s actually a restaurant chain so looks like Dahir Insaat missed out on a real moneymaker here, too bad! TACD fucked around with this message at 16:52 on Jun 17, 2022 |
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Jun 17, 2022 16:50
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pippy posted:There's no way these aren't shitposts, look at this one: That's no shitpost, that's practically a required safety feature on account of the hotel is prone to collapse as every bed weighs 20,000 pounds
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https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/1537830995323494400 Everything is a comical farce at this point.
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/DelRey/status/1537800064537710593?s=20&t=mHvSDLYfex11ZqEQ_Mr7NQ quote:Pagan began working at the Amazon delivery hub in October and, within two months, had been promoted to a role on the safety committee for the facility. The new role didn’t come with a pay raise, and is on top of a worker’s core tasks, but Pagan saw it as a stepping stone to an official promotion. But in April, Pagan told Recode, he took two days off to have an infected tooth looked at and ultimately removed.
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Cheesus posted:Burn Amazon to the loving ground then salt the earth. “You don’t make an omelet without breaking some eggs, right?” “We’re gonna change the world, Dmitriy,” Maclean said. "Just think of ’em as eggs, man,” Maclean answered, with a smile, and Dmitriy’s blood suddenly turned cold, though he didn’t understand why. His mind couldn’t make the jump, much as he wanted it to do so. It was like being a field officer again, trying to discern enemy intentions on an important field assignment, and knowing some, perhaps much, of the necessary information, but not enough to paint the entire picture in his own mind. But the frightening part was that these Project people spoke of human life as the German fascists had once done. - "Rainbow Six"
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His Divine Shadow posted:I loving hate that pixel and google crap, I tried removing it and other tracking code temporarily and the responsiveness of the site almost doubled in pagespeed insights. Pagespeed insights is reporting a lot of issues that could be improved and it's basically all stuff to do with googles own tracking code that's suboptimal. Console says similar things too. Google is the biggest hurdle in getting your websit to do well on it's own metrics... Probably so they can push for AMP.
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Amazon’s obviously one of the worst culprits but I’m so sure that thousands of mom-and-pop businesses and other small businesses do the bare minimum in terms of entitlements and leaves. It feels like a uniquely American solution to shame these companies into doing better or wait for the market to fix itself, rather than passing halfway-reasonable labor laws like the rest of the rich world.
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Looking forward to Amazon astroturfing the good work they do helping teach marketable job skills to prisoners and moving all their logistics facilities into prisons so they have "the hole" and "get your rear end beat" as motivational tools for their new work force. A little afraid if I google "Amazon warehouse" + "prison" this is already a thing.
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Apple store employees in Maryland voted to organize the first Apple union in the US: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61855301 Next a programmer's union?
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Vegetable posted:Amazon’s obviously one of the worst culprits but I’m so sure that thousands of mom-and-pop businesses and other small businesses do the bare minimum in terms of entitlements and leaves. It feels like a uniquely American solution to shame these companies into doing better or wait for the market to fix itself, rather than passing halfway-reasonable labor laws like the rest of the rich world. Amazon actively conflates the business practices that tend to get practiced at small scale through laziness and incompetence; at scale, with algorithms and intention. It's gross. Remember Jeff Bezos found Amazon on the business model of actively taking advantage of the local tax code and vendor logistics systems. It's leech all the way up and down.
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Cheesus posted:Burn Amazon to the loving ground then salt the earth. "Come back in 90 days" is such gleeful bureaucratic insanity too. Ok if this offense is so minor that you'd be happy to rehire in three months, no problems... why even fire this person?
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America Inc. posted:Apple store employees in Maryland voted to organize the first Apple union in the US:
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YanniRotten posted:"Come back in 90 days" is such gleeful bureaucratic insanity too. Ok if this offense is so minor that you'd be happy to rehire in three months, no problems... why even fire this person? That's kind of the unique tech hell part of it, where they have cases where a manager would normally just work around it, but trying to overrule the algorithm is such a pain that they're not going to bother.
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cat botherer posted:Go check out the comment section on hackernews whenever that topic comes up. By and large, bazingas think of themselves as too smart and elite to need stuff like that, despite all evidence to the contrary. While this has been the general opinion I've gotten talking with devs, there are enough dev-adjacent jobs now that I think it's starting to shift
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YanniRotten posted:"Come back in 90 days" is such gleeful bureaucratic insanity too. Ok if this offense is so minor that you'd be happy to rehire in three months, no problems... why even fire this person? It’s a punishment for behavior that impacts their bottom line by an infinitesimally small fraction of a percent. Next time you’ll do better because you know the consequences. It’s the equivalent of being put on time out, except it might leave you unable to make rent and destroy your life. Tacier fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jun 20, 2022 |
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BlueBlazer posted:Amazon conflates the business practices that tend to get practiced at small scale because of laziness and incompetence with algorithms and intention at large scale. It's gross. Sorry for being anal but your post was hard to read.
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Also presumably they get to treat you as a new hire and reset your progress towards earning any kind of benefits. They don't want anyone to be in a position for years and risk them becoming essential. Firing people regularly may be inefficient, but it reinforces everyone being an identical replaceable cog.
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The Lone Badger posted:Also presumably they get to treat you as a new hire and reset your progress towards earning any kind of benefits. They don't want anyone to be in a position for years and risk them becoming essential. Firing people regularly may be inefficient, but it reinforces everyone being an identical replaceable cog. The armed forces have procedures for that already, where they'll just bust you down a few ranks for loving up; outright ditching someone is something quite different.
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