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Isn’t it more fun to wonder?

• the_other 7y ago
  Not really. Surveillance capitalism is pretty-much always ugly and awful. What surprises me is that the restaurant didn't have a loyalty scheme, or a front-of-house incentivised to recognise repeat customers. These systems are cheaper, more flexible, have fewer gross externalities than facial recognition and inherently promote human interaction.
  • scatters 7y ago
    If you have a system to recognise repeat customers, what difference does it make whether that system is implemented in silicon or carbon?
    • cwkoss 7y ago
      Harder to spin up 1000 duplicate instances of the front-of-house staff or sell the capability to identify customers out-of-house as well.
• stallmanite 7y ago
  On HN there’s always brilliant commentary and there’s always posters defending the undefendable. I’ll be wondering forever.
  • Sohcahtoa82 7y ago
    This certainly isn't unique to HN.
    • stallmanite 7y ago
      My favorite forum is Slashdot so I get that.