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How about just more third-spaces without the classist gatekeeping?

Believe it or not, cars stuck in traffic is not a good indicator of how well businesses are doing.

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/traffic-down-business-gover...

We already do. It’s called the value of your time. If there’s too much traffic, chose another route. We don’t need more tech shit trying to improve mobility when the solution is clear- fewer cars, more mass transit (and not hyperloop crap)

What about crime from people running lights and hitting bikes and pedestrians with their cars?

What exactly is the superpower here? Having a large chunk of steel you need to micro manage the location of, or pay up the nose to have a dedicated space for?

Have you ever ridden a bike? Taken the subway? Heck, you can just use a taxi to get around. Why would you want to deal with having a car in somewhere like Manhattan? Do you hate your fellow citizens so much you need to be constantly insulated from society?

I'm sure you could ask a historian, librarian, or expert in a field and get a nice, human-curated experience instead of more AI slop.

Do you have any proof or even a hint of a reason that this will be the case? Or is this just nonsense?

Their FAQs even state: > Built-in infotainment systems raise a car’s price, and they become outdated quickly and have high failure rates.

It seems unlikely that a company saying this will throw in a $4,000 infotainment system in a $20,000 vehicle.

What exactly is the scam? That someone isn’t extracting profits?

I've seen this "car free utopia" idea dismissed as an idea by and for "elites" (see Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's comments on people who ride the subway in NYC) plenty of times as a tactic to avoid doing anything about reducing dependence on cars. It's quite a counterproductive argument in my opinion. Even if there are well paid tech workers who are able to enjoy a "car-free lifestyle", why should it end there?

Just because the system we created means that currently the only affordable place for the working poor is in suburbs where they must rely on cars doesn't mean that it needs to continue to be that way. You can support building infill housing and adding transit to eventually reduce the need for so many people to have cars.

It's one thing to call it "bias" and use that as an argument to not make things better instead of coming up with ways to help make car independence available to everyone across classes.

Is there a legitimate reason you believe it will take 9 months to get a MRI? Or is this baseless fearmongering just to protect the status quo?

There are already large swaths of people who can't get a MRI period because they are excluded from healthcare in this country. And if your belief is that a single payer system will be hampered by measures such as austerity, then say that. Because then your issue isn't with single payer healthcare but instead with politicians who believe institutions need to be run as a business instead of what they actually are, which are public services.

The audio of the interview is on the page. The "Surface Mount Technology" bit is at 7 minutes in.

Interesting concept, but the use of AI art is personally extremely off-putting.

Maybe it works for people who like having everything filtered through a modern cinematic cgi filter. In this case, sure, it is a neat tool for seeing how a hollywood studio might have imagined events of the past to look like. At least you admit upfront here that they are "fantastical imaginations" of historical events, but maybe you should clarify that on the website too.

I've always found it better to hear from actual historians, or better yet, dive into the source material when learning about events of the past. This takes some actual work and requires doing good research. It would be nice if AI could help those folks do their jobs more easily instead of being used to generate more fake looking slop.

Yes! Lighter weight would help make them safer and would help with the other big issue which is road wear.

Okay, so maybe they still exist but maybe fewer people have a motive to seek violent solutions?

Hopefully this will accelerate the production of new hardware at some point. I misplaced my old Pebble Time and was excited for the Pebble Time 2 but those hopes were dashed when they closed up and fitbit had no interest in continuing to produce the watches that made Pebble what it was.

The key words here are "proper regulation". In an era where industries have captured governmental bodies, there will likely be no such regulation, and these tech companies will continue to siphon up resources and funnel them to a handful at the top.

A quote from the article is especially ludicrous: > to benefit society by advancing scientific discovery, developing helpful applications, and tackling some of society's greatest challenges

You don't need a quantum computer to do this. We can solve housing and food scarcity today, arguably our greatest challenges. Big tech has been claiming that it's going to solve all of our problems for decades now and it has yet to put up.

If you want this type of technology to be made and do actual good, we need publicly funded research institutions. Tech won't save us.

Great news that it's so effective in women. Less great news is that availability to people who could use it the most is based on the whims of the drug maker.

You'll still be able to ask a person to create art in a specific style if you'd like.

>but, it's a real loss. Both in terms of human knowledge of, say composition, emotion, and so on, but also for style diversity

But that real art still exists, and can still be found, so what exactly is the loss here?

I still would think twice about doing DIY battery work in a multi-family unit. I wanted to get into FPV drones but reading about the concerns with battery charging and issues with minor damage, I decided I had nowhere to safely charge and passed on it.

I haven't looked into it too much, but I'm also curious if your insurance would have a major issue, and if you open yourself to possible criminal/civil legal troubles if you start a fire due to a botched unattended DIY battery setup.

It's great to see people being able to pivot their careers later in life. That said,

> folks overcoming challenges just to be on the same playground as everyone else

This has the same energy as "Kids raise money to buy classmate a wheelchair" news articles, where sure it makes you feel good to see people doing good in the world, but completely ignores that the system we live in keeps certain people down on purpose.

The problem is that when the fine is the "cost of doing business" nothing really changes. Criminal charges/jail time (i.e. holding people responsible for these violations) might help keep businesses in check.

I don't think you get to be the CEO of a big tech company by caring about workers.

From the article

> Alaska Airlines said the off-duty pilot was sitting in the flight deck jump seat -- which is in the cockpit

I'm looking to do something similar, leave behind the high stress and find something more meaningful to work on that covers the bills while my nest egg matures. I admittedly have not looked into what's next as much as I should have, but do you have any tips on how to make such a transition?

It seems like the only metric Amazon is optimizing for is number of items sold, and this seems to be the natural progression of a system where that is the primary goal.

Making a change that decreases the sale of counterfeit products is a change that reduces the sale of products, and in Amazon's case, also leased warehouse space (FBA), and who knows what else - all of which are likely negative metrics.

It's telling, that in the update to the Elevation Lab blog post, it's noted that Amazon doesn't allow 3rd party sellers to sell Amazon Basics products.

https://www.elevationlab.com/blogs/news/amazon-is-complicit-...

Emerdata.

http://www.businessinsider.com/cambridge-analytica-executive...