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I understand economics of scale. Amazon could order a million machines without raising workers wages.

It is absolutely useful if you're trying to measure the size of a football field. What in the article precisely does your analogy refer to?

Raising the wages of humans so they are the same cost as machines doesn't make the machines cheaper. Amazon could keep workers wages low and still buy machines and create the marke…

That video looks like a demo/marketing video. Are there any videos of the factory working at full load?

> Robots will be able to do the jobs for $15 hour sooner than they'll be able to for $7 an hour This doesn't make sense. Increasing workers wages doesn't change the rate a which au…

I specifically mean wearhouse workers. The automotation technology isn't good enough and whether or not they implement it has little to do with these wage changes.

Exactly, and Amazon is still growing so even as some jobs are gradually replaced by machines the total number of workers is still increasing.

This is a problem with Amazon PR misrepresenting a salary increase that isn't actually what they protrayed it as originally.

The point of the article is that people behave in a civil manner in a disaster and the behavior during 9/11 seemingly supports this. > Cause trouble and a mob sets on you. Do you h…

The point of the article is that your assumption, the assumption that people often make, has been measurably shown to be incorrect.

This is a good podcast breaking down the reporting errors and myths that are repeated after large storms: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/summer-series-episode-1-us...

People should be able to provide constructive and useful criticism of a technology without having to build their own solution.

Because men are statistically more likely to cause auto accidents. There is no evidence that women are not statistically more likely to be bad at getting good work done at companie…

- If you hired this male candidate you may be interested in this identical male candidate.

Every story is a twist. "This one thing you thought you knew isn't actually true". Great for telling friends in the pub but misleading through selection bias as they don't tell all…

"Why all the wasteful discussion about gender politics? Read the last sentence of the abstract" Other comenters seem to be making wild statements about gender differences, extrapol…

I don't think it's a solution to climate change, it's just a personal choice. The solutions are out of my reach and ideling the SUV is much less of a problem than selling the SUV i…

On a personal note, don't have children. I'm not being facetious. It seems like we've had opportunities to do the right thing and consistently haven't so until the outlook looks be…

I highly doubt it. I don't think Banksey is worried about a print being damaged.

From my experience the people writing the most glowing positive reviews are doing it to get you to work there as they are somehow involved in hiring and do so to counter any of the…

Right now everyone has a proof of concept demo and people are pouring money in. It's going to take a while and I really can't see a company like comma.ai being a serious player giv…

I work in the industry and am scptical of even the big players ability to deliver on the promises they made 3-5 years ago including waymo and cruise.

> As far as quality goes it's way more reliable. Most of the "advanced" driver assistance systems would kill you within a minute if you left the car to their control. Do you have a…

Comma.ai has the same constraints. No monocular camera system works without careful user supervision. Even lidar based systems are not that reliable yet that you could trust them t…