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Minimum Wage workers not using common sense are the worst.

So I’ve been noticing most of the cashiers at big supermarket keep asking customers to use self checkout but little do they know that these numbers are being recorded and once executive of that big supermarket see customers have learnt to use self checkout then they will get rid of cashiers and replace with the self checkout....

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Weird, every Target I’ve been to has a row of shelf checkouts.

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What’s so bad about that?

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Thank you. I’m tired of these people who think there are sides of equal good or equal bad. There a group of religious fascists that want to control all our lives and then there are the rest of us that sometimes begrudgingly are lumped together because we aren’t wacko nut jobs. Fact is there are very few liberal leaning organizations that I would care if a developer or ceo was apart of because they don’t threaten me for disagreeing.

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What does it matter? They just make up whatever they want. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says or does.

A CEO needs to use logic and reason, and being into Trump shows an utter lack of both, and id argue a similar mindset. Anyone in a position like is probably doing similar things.

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To your last point, Slavery isn’t really over. I recommend watching the documentary the 13th on Netflix en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_(film)

Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition technology (www.nbcnews.com)

Detroit woman sues city after being falsely arrested while pregnant due to facial recognition technology::A Detroit woman is suing the city and a police detective after she was falsely arrested because of facial recognition technology while she was eight months pregnant, according to court documents.

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This is a Systemic Bias; in this case Systemic racism.

The outcome a product or service disproportionately targets Black people. It wasn’t designed to do it, so it’s not overt racism, it just worked out that way.

Camera systems inherently have a harder time with dark skin. That’s a fact. However it’s been found time and time again that these systems are predominantly created by and tested on light skin individuals. So the bias is built into the flawed creation. You can see this in Hollywood where lighting has only recently been set up to highlight dark skin with majority black casts and show runners in shows like Atlanta and Insecure.

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It’s sort of the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument. It just gives a shitty cop cover to keep being shitty. The tools should be improved to eliminate that cover unless it’s far more accurate.

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I’m up to 4 accounts because none of this shit is stable or scaling well. It’s a mess.

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I’ve seen enough AI freak outs to know that’s not true.

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No… the company trying to hide the fact that their product is defective is the point here. Lost data or not, people are paying for a product that’s defective. End of story.

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It’s not bullshit. The Verge is a consumer website. It’s absolutely relevant to inform consumers of a drive during twice and a company perhaps trying to cover up a defect in this way. The rest of us don’t care about what the verge does with their data, we care if it happens to us if we buy the product. I don’t care if I have a backup, I don’t want to buy an unreliable product.

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Plenty of way better movies we’re made for similar or less adjusted for inflation

collider.com/best-low-budget-films-into-blockbust…

It’s not that rare, and Sound of Freedom’s cast wasn’t high tier.

Amazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing (www.vice.com)

Amazon Says It Doesn’t ‘Employ’ Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing::Amazon spent $14.2 million total on anti-union consulting in 2022, filings with the Department of Labor show.

phillaholic ,

They also have the option of not treating them like shit. Happy workers don’t usually want to unionize.

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And our time. I’m sick of googling something and getting nothing out these fluff pieces with little or no real information. It’s made Google near useless for entire subjects. Try searching for troubleshooting on anything Apple for example.

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I tried it for a few days initially but it was confidently wrong a third of the time, or very slow.

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The latter is infuriating to me. If I’m actually searching for a product, by all means show me an ad for the type of product I’m looking for. That’s a win-win scenario. How these mainstream sites put up literal scam ads I don’t understand. How can they be paying better than Ford?

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Google overall has just turned to shit. You can’t trust any new thing they do, and their existing ones are degrading all the time.

End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work (nypost.com)

End of an era: Zoom tells employees to return to office for work::Zoom is asking all of its employees to return to the office for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, when the tech company blew up as one of the main means of communication when people were forced to work from home.

phillaholic ,

Not that clickbait though. They are selling a product that makes WFH possible and yet aren’t fully utilizing it. Where are they located? 50 miles is a long commute.

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He’s not going to pay them shit. He didn’t pay his cloud bills or office rent.

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When you have money you can behave like you don’t and get away with it for a long time.

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Shit Hitler would have better SEO

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I’m convinced they are terrified of finding a trans woman attractive. From time to time the ones “Ok with Gays” are only ok with the flamboyant stereotype. Find a Traditionally Masculine presenting gay man and they get weird around them too.

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Back in 2016 I said that Trump will turn out to be guilty of everything Hillary was even accused of. I should have put money on it.

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It’s the Wild West out here. Different admins who have never worked together on this scale have to figure out how to work in digital society. It’s kind of like handing a libertarian the reins to government and watching how they slowly realize they have to govern instead of just complaining about those in power. It’s going to be messy, there are going to be blackouts, and at some point they’ll realize they can’t do everything they want and some users will complain that they sold out by blocking this or that.

Just hang on for the ride.

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👍

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It dates back further than that. It was a great way to not pay recently freed slaves as much as white people during the Jim Crow south.

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Fire and Rain have gotten so woke

Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)

Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election, Study Suggests::Misinformation thrived in conservative echo chambers—but there were no liberal equivalents, according to the findings.

phillaholic ,

You’re right. The Far-Left has the same problem. Pretty much any anti-establishment group falls into this. Difference is, the far-left has no political power and they don’t want to exterminate people.

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Yea sure. If the topic is how the earth is flat, Jews run the world, or other conspiracy theory or white supremacists bullshit I’m going to shut that shit down immediately. If you make good faith arguments it’s fair game.

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It’s been ten years since I’ve last had a good faith discussion with someone across the isle and it’s not me. Part of that is those who i used to discuss have somewhat distanced themselves from that ideology after 2016, but every topic otherwise devolves into some insane talking point devout of reality. You can’t debate someone who will no agree on simple facts.

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privacy dot com.

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In General, using a part of your business that’s on top to boost another part of your business that is not is typically seen as anti-competitive. Office is clearly the market leader, but Teams isn’t.

IMO, the EU needs to do with Edge and Office. There is now a toggle in Outlook that ignores your default browser and opens everything in Edge. It’s ridiculous.

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IDK, the gaming market is bigger sure, but so are the alternatives to PlayStation. Mobile is huge.

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Making this all the more impressive with shortages relating to covid.

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I’m not sure that’s a fair comparison. You wouldn’t instantly ingest that information and know it. It’s more like photocopying a book and including it in another book that you sell. It’s a paradigm shift, and I’m not sure what the answer is.

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I don’t think it’s that simple. Like I said it’s a paradigm shift. It doesn’t fit into existing laws well. My point is what we consider fair use now, summarizing a book or movie by a human, is based on the limited abilities of humans. When you have AI with limitless abilities, that will change things. The same rules abs considerations may have to be rethought.

Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ?

For a long time, I thought of the blockchain as almost synonymous with cryptocurrencies, so as I saw stuff like “Odyssey” and “lbry” appearing and being “based on the blockchain”, my first thought was that it was another crypto scam. Then, I just got reminded of it and started looking more into it, and it just seemed...

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Any sources in large firms using it? I haven’t seen anything other than generic marketing talk.

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Maybe this is my “too old for this shit” moment, but this all just sounds like convoluted non-sense that’s never going to go anywhere. We still have SMS and ATMs that run XP.

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I think the problem I have with it is the online enthusiasm for it is acting like it’s already going to change my life yet it’s been more than a decade and no one has shown tangible and understandable utility, just marketing bs and grifting.

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Yea I’ve been hearing that for a decade. Aside from missing out on bitcoin at $300, I’m still waiting. 🤷‍♂️

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I don’t see the problem with it. I guess people just don’t like change, but you can customize Firefox’s UI unlike Chromes.

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Safari isn’t Chromium based. Chromium’s engine is forked from Safari.

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You remember what site you’re on right?

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