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by yterdy 3y ago
> If people were paid a non-subsidized wage I think that “silicon-based” automation would begin to take even more of a substantial amount of manual labor. This is the opposite of most takes, which hold that automation takes over when wag
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by yterdy 3y ago
No one is going to argue that the world isn't your oyster as a tall, fit, cis white man (many people's definition of "sound mind and body"). However, the rest of us deserve a chance. That we're not always able to ge
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by yterdy 3y ago
>I'd argue that working in a fast food restaurant isn't in the same category as working in a diner or other actual restaurant, being a chef, or working for a big box retailer. I don't disagree. I'd like you to think c
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by yterdy 3y ago
Again, if you'd been in one of these establishments lately, you would know that all of those tasks are likely done by one person. Including the ones with kiosks (which are often broken or can't take special orders).
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Incorrect.
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1) *Silicon-based manual automation (which is mere decades old and has hit a people-shaped wall) 2) You're conflating and categorizing jobs to benefit your argument, not as an accurate reflection of what I presented. Chef work is bruta
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by yterdy 3y ago
>If it can be taught to a teenager in a couple of days Most can't. Hence the frustration you are likely to feel dealing with a teenager in his or her first week on the job.
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Thank you. I wanted to put this in but couldn't figure out where it would fit. In particular, the emotional and interpersonal regulation needed to do well at these jobs sometimes borders on superhuman. People stress over office politic
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by yterdy 3y ago
I worked at a big box retailer. I enjoyed helping people find solutions to their problems. I assume many chefs enjoy making good food and interacting with their regulars. Ask old-school diner workers or department store salespeople how they
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This is how I can tell neither of you have ever done gig delivery. I'll give you one guess as to how smoothly pick-up goes when there's no one at the cash register. We haven't gone full-automat yet, and I still need someone t
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by yterdy 3y ago
You're conflating individual decisions with social structures that determine opportunity systemically.
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Whatever you'd like, you have to look at reality. It's clear that AI is coming for jobs that are about manipulating information before jobs that are about switching between manipulating objects and serving people. Service jobs COU
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Every retail/food service job is understaffed. You ask what people displaced by AI will do for a living? That. They'll do that. Because, actually, we do need people at PoS, if we're selling to other people. Hint hint as to wh
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by yterdy 3y ago
Waiting for someone to port Pokemon to MTG and then run that one exploit that allows you to execute arbitrary code using in-game commands in order to play Pong.
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Interesting that none of the comments so far have said anything about one of the primary points of the article - not just the nature of the bunker, but the impact on the locals. It's not insignificant that Zuckerberg is building a litt
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by yterdy 3y ago
>So if I understand your position, you want information to always be free in every transaction, so when you go to the store to buy a pack of gum, you can look up the entire supply chain, figure out the entire cost for that gum and come
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by yterdy 3y ago
>Are you trying to kill rentals Yes. I've paid more than 100% of the presumed costs of owning the rental unit I'm in, and have recently received a rude awakening as to my rights to the property whose equity I have fully funded
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I have less sympathy for people afraid of neighborhood change after having been pushed out of a neighborhood that changed (gentrified) anyway. In any case, I tend to think that outlawing for-profit ownership of multiple SFHs or multifamily
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by yterdy 3y ago
>Itzhak Rabin was assassinated By who? Your phrasing suggests it was a part of Hamas' terrorism campaign. Central to the conflict is the Israeli refusal to accept responsibility for the current state of affairs, or to recognize any
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by yterdy 3y ago
Oh, boy, here we go. Your word-wall-no-jutsu is strong. I shall respond to certain statements as I see fit, because bless you that's why. >When the asset changes hands, it is sold and the then current market price is known. Volume i
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by yterdy 3y ago
I cannot tell you how many times I've seen a video I wanted to watch on Youtube and had it disappear on reloading the page/clicking another video and going back. Even opening in another tab doesn't work sometimes? (It registe
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by yterdy 3y ago
You know that's not what I was suggesting. I'm saying that if precedence is anything to go by, companies will be perfectly happy extending the paradigm established with sentencing software to anyone who can't pay or leverage
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>At some point the truth will come out I don't agree. >Without risk, there is no chance of reward I also don't agree with this. What you're saying is that we have a mechanism to prevent people from scamming each oth
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by yterdy 3y ago
The software that already exists along these lines already exhibit bias against marginalized groups. I have no trouble foreseeing a filter put on the end of the spigot that exempts certain people from the inconvenience of such surveillance.
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That's just your phone.
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I'm not sure GP is accurate, even without that. The privileged descending to the lower quarters to hobnob with the masses is as old as civilization, and of course the working lower class generally have to go where everyone else is to s
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by yterdy 3y ago
>If I can effectively rebut that commentary with a meaningless platitude Therein lies the rub: you can't. Or, at least, didn't. Each of your statements is falsifiable, particularly the last, which is a confession masquerading
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You're not describing a problem, you're describing an opportunity to make the world a better place.
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Likewise, a society forced to spend 2x or more the cost of a home-cooked meal on fast food is not going to be a healthy one. From a broad economic perspective, rentals that cost so much more than purchases (which are inaccessible in part be
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by yterdy 3y ago
No need to throw out the legal system, just change the law. Currently, failure to adhere to norms can lock you out of the market entirely (thanks to companies like SafeRent). If the spectrum is homelessness -> rental -> homeownership,

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