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How many quarters after Q1 2016 till Marissa Mayer is unemployed?
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	Her job is guaranteed; what are you even talking about?

socialsecurity: Aug 30, 2003

Big Mad Drongo posted:

Niche is the best way to describe it. I've read various reports from investment banks on whether various food companies are worth investing in, and the consensus with Blue Apron & Co. is that right now there's no way to expand this stuff beyond high-end city dwellers without incurring massive costs; since the food has to be extremely fresh and delivered daily, either you need a ton of distribution centers all over the drat country, or you need some way to transport it from your few central locations and then enough trucks to go door-to-door in places way less dense than cities. Either way, you're either jacking up (already high) prices or eating losses that would make Uber think twice, and that's before the half off coupons every service uses to steal customers away cut into your profits.

This isn't so bad for AmazonFresh because a) Amazon already has the infrastructure (and is building it out even more) and b) it's easier to source tons of ingredients in the state they go to grocery stores than it is to get tons that are all prepared to your unique specifications.

This is weird the food isn't delivered daily, you get a iced cooler once a week with your meals. I used it for a few weeks it was good but the meals were sometimes overly complex and took longer then going to the store and buying something similar. Like it wanted me to make every sauce from scratch and the such.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2016 23:03

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 01:09

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WrenP-Complete posted:

Was there any "cooking ahead" (that might be a regionalism) - like making two portions of something and freezing one? Or making large quantities of things like sauces?

No it was designed for one meal a night and correctly portioned for 2 people. Even the sauces were very small amounts to go with the meal you were making right then like I made like 3 ounces of chopotle from scratch it was weird.

# ¿ Oct 2, 2016 23:13

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Lemming posted:

If you post a picture of someone with text underneath, a significant portion of the people who see it will just assume it's a real, direct quote without any further interrogation. AI stuff will definitely make it *worse* but I'm not sure if it'll be, like, radically worse. Misinformation is already everywhere

Yeah but like the Trump grab them by the pussy thing wouldn't have been as impactful if it was actual audio of him.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2023 16:56

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Oxyclean posted:

Earlier self checkouts were pretty picky about "unexpected item in bagging area" - I wonder if people just had bad experiences with that and have avoided them since, or some areas still just have older /pickier machines/software.

I used to work on Self Checkout machines, the reason this happened is the scales were cheap and would get overloaded easily, typically by a small child sitting/jumping on them. They would have to be recalibrated after that or else the weights would be way off on everything. This doesn't happen as much on the produce scale because they are higher quality and far more closely regulated due to them determining price.

uggy posted:

lol we're back to self check out is killing these minimum wage jobs mostly worked by high schoolers

Do you think grocery stores close during the day?

# ¿ Jul 31, 2023 20:32

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Blut posted:

Even if it saves only an hour of your time (and its probably more between travel time and shopping for most people, and any potential travel costs like petrol or bus fares on top to count too) surely your hourly worth of an hour is a large multiple of a fiver.

Some people enjoy shopping at the grocery store.

# ¿ Aug 1, 2023 14:35

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Main Paineframe posted:

Well, yeah, marketing loving everything up because they're not thinking about how people actually use the poo poo the advertising is plastered all over is far for the course.

But in theory, at the point that these doors are being sold to companies, this is the kind of thing they're being sold on (from Cooler Screens' own website):

That's what the people making the purchasing decisions are imagining - doors that show pretty much everything in the cooler, except with constant "BUY OUR poo poo" popups whizzing around trying desperately to draw shoppers' eyes to the cooler. They've even got different ad sizes that are set to run based on how close someone is to the door. The little popups shown there are intended to run when someone's near the door, and they have full-door ads that run when the closest person is more than a certain distance away.

Of course, in the end it's up to the company's own marketing department to actually make stuff to put on the doors, and that's a massive amount of extra work for them, so in practice you just get absolute poo poo for ads instead.

No one buying a DiGiorno wants to be reminded of the terrible nutritional content.

# ¿ Oct 3, 2023 18:48

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Tarezax posted:

Buddy you just tried to link us a file on your computer, try again

The tech nightmares are coming from inside the thread.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2023 05:30

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BiggerBoat posted:

Agreed.

Related to Elon, I was reading the news this morning and there's a SpaceX launch green lit for tomorrow and it reminded me how funny it is that Musk has to be so cool and synergistic by naming everything with an X; to the point that news outlets are referring to the new "X" platform as "formerly known as Twitter" as if it were Prince changing his name to the symbol. Except that Prince had artistic and business reasons for doing that. He wanted to own his music, which seems fair, and faced the ridicule which made him seem insane at the time but for which he was ultimately vindicated.

Musk just wants a loving X on poo poo because he thinks it's cool or edgy and modern. Why would you change a tech company's name that's so ubiquitous it created its own verb in the modern discourse and invite the confusion of "it's called this now but everyone knows it as this other thing that everyone already knows?" and most people still call it that.

Christ, "X" anything bullshit was played out before the 90's even ended for anything beyond the Xbox or internet porn. If Elon bought Fox News, he'd probably change the name to FoXXX and maybe add "NewZ". Or just Xnews.

Because X's are kewl. What a weirdo.

If we are doing outplayed 90s symbols he could of at least done that stupid S.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2023 03:06

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Nenonen posted:

Would Nickelback also go, or just continue as Back?

They rename themselves to Thomas Jefferson's Backside.

# ¿ Nov 17, 2023 16:35

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Lyesh posted:

Whenever the FDA actually regulates something for real, democrats lose their minds about how they're slowing down innovation.

For example?

# ¿ Dec 1, 2023 21:55

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Professor Beetus posted:

I cannot believe I post on the same forum as some psychopath who would rather play Monopoly than Catan

This is the calm hitlering that Koos wants, a bunch of monsters arguing for playing Monopoly.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2023 21:19

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Star Man posted:

I've never played Catan, but I can't figure out why every geek hates it so much.

And I like Monopoly

Catan is fun but it depends on random chance and people willing to trade with you for it to function. If you get unlucky you sometimes you just sit there doing nothing which isn't great design or if you are the person teaching the game sometimes people refuse to trade with you at all because they think you are going to automatically win.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2023 22:05

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Staluigi posted:

So what is best game i can play with family the doesn't actually inspire murder (monopoly) or backbiting and resentment (Catan) or mass murder (diplomacy)

Azul.

# ¿ Dec 13, 2023 22:58

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BougieBitch posted:

I mean, you say that, but Amazon has already been doing a poor job of preventing knockoffs from flooding their marketplace, and Google hasn't been doing a good job of preventing malicious SEO. AI is perfectly capable of making that existing problem much worse as the tools get more sophisticated, and while Google probably has people working specifically to combat it they are going up against the combined forces of basically the entire rest of the world who can derive any benefit from views

WTF is up with Google and the malicious SEO, like it's to where even not-online people I know talk about how worthless Google is now. Have they spoken about how they plan to fix this or are they just ok with everyone hating how useless their search has become.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2024 22:05

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Cabal Ties posted:

People are bitching about ai today but automation has been eating the jobs of humans who thought only they were the ones who knew the order in which to press button on machine for many years.

Are we supposed to feel sorry for a bunch of monotony disappearing or the force multiplication of creativity this allows for?

People losing their jobs so the rich can get richer is bad.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 01:07

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Cabal Ties posted:

The rich will do what they can to get richer regardless of �people� or technology.

People spending their existence doing mindless bullshit all life long is maybe why there is so little push back on that fact.

This feels like an empty justification that can be used to wash away anything

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 01:22

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Lyesh posted:

Lastly, AI could EASILY be kneecapped by control of the chips needed to run it. There are only a few factories in the world that can produce them, it's not impossible to put the same kind of controls we put on uranium mines on those factories. It won't happen due to our political system, but it's a long, long way from impossible.

What? I run AI art gen stuff on my local PC with a like 8 year old processor all the time, it's not as good as Midjourney but it's close.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2024 13:40

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American truck drivers are often owner/operators meaning any hotel rooms and the such will come out of their own pockets and hurt their already poor profits.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 21:12

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cat botherer posted:

not anymore lol

Ha ok add "stuck in a predatory lease" onto that list.

# ¿ Jan 24, 2024 21:26

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There is so much to see and do in this world I just don't understand the mindset of needing a 9-5 job or whatever to define your life. If you need the structure or whatever than find a place to volunteer, there's always someone needing help.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2024 17:12

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Ruffian Price posted:

Do you have one at home?

96% of "poor" people have used a vending machine!

# ¿ Feb 25, 2024 15:30

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Boris Galerkin posted:

Also this is how out of touch execs are:

75k is about the average household so below that could be considered lower in a broad sense of the term.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2024 21:22

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One of the few nice parts of living in NC 2-3 hours drive to either the beach or mountains. 8-9 hours to either Orlando or NYC so plenty of decent generic holiday options around drive wise.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2024 22:39

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Neo Rasa posted:

LMAO this is amazing, so that "just take your stuff and walk out" advanced camera and sensor technology Amazon has for their stores is being phased out so you'll just have regular checkout and some scanners/screens built into your cart (so you check yourself out while you're shopping).

I'm sure everyone here remembers the many discussions about it in this or similar threads. Won't people just shoplift it to hell anyway, a single sensor is off does it end up charging you $200 for a loaf of bread, if they still need staff on hand to run the store anyway why even bother with all this, etc.

Don't worry, the real reason is a lot worse.

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

So the "technology" that they use is incredibly expensive, because it involves all of these camera...that are being watched by outsourced workers in other countries who then assign what they see you pick up to your receipt, and their accuracy was not high enough. So instead of just paying people to be there they dropped all this $$$ on having these very expensive camera setups so that groups of people in other countries could be observing the footage and adding up your stuff.

It's rare I'm surprised by the depravity of corporations. I shouldn't be but this is just insanity.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2024 16:54

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Is there some huge demand for needing an AI reparse Wikipedia for you?

# ¿ Apr 12, 2024 17:26

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# ¿ May 9, 2024 01:09

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Amphigory posted:

I'm sure the last successful one was Gmail

I like the Google Nests/Home and the Chromecasts, but that's basically it.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 14:32

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