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He could quite simply have stopped parking like a cunt.
Shameless self-publicity disguised as public service from an arrogant, self-entitled man.
capital is also an abstract concept and doesn't commit sexual assault. the two categories have little in common and it's a bizarre comparison to draw.
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capital is also an abstract concept and doesn't commit sexual assault. the two categories have little in common and it's a bizarre comparison to draw.
This isn't Breitbart. Your nazi kind aren't welcome here. Edit: Let the Trump boys downvote away but this is precisely the hallmarks of nazism, blaming an entire group of people. I will not sit silently while this happens before my eyes. Go ahead, downvote away.
The guy who created the parking fine chatbot did so because he kept getting parking tickets. He could quite simply have stopped parking like a cunt. Shameless self-publicity disguised as public service from an arrogant, self-entitled man.
And top of that, helping refugees is even more of a positive thing. I sense some jealousy...
The guy who created the parking fine chatbot did so because he kept getting parking tickets. He could quite simply have stopped parking like a cunt. Shameless self-publicity disguised as public service from an arrogant, self-entitled man.
Can someone explain how the first chatbot was any better than an interactive form?
It's something I personally find very bizarre, but I've definitely noticed that a lot of people have a very strong mental block about doing things on a computer, or even a browser. These tasks instantly seem 10x more daunting, and people feel like they can mess it up easily. Chat interfaces that are thin wrappers over web forms don't provide any actual functional value, but on the basis of these observations I could…
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Absolutely true - if given the choice, most anyone would rather live in France than war torn Somalia. And given altruism doesn't work particularly well in unstable countries the current system is definitely in a bad state. Borders will have to be closed, as they marginally are now.
That, or we eventually get a dystopia/libertarian dreamworld where borders are replaced by walls around private properties, with a near infinite supply of bodies right at the gates, willing to do almost everything for scraps. Depressing future scenarios like this make me miss the 1980ies, when popularly feared terrible futures had clearly good solutions ("don't blow up the planet") instead of a choice between two evi…
It does not have to be like that, it is just what you believe.
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It's something I personally find very bizarre, but I've definitely noticed that a lot of people have a very strong mental block about doing things on a computer, or even a browser. These tasks instantly seem 10x more daunting, and people feel like they can mess it up easily. Chat interfaces that are thin wrappers over web forms don't provide any actual functional value, but on the basis of these observations I could…
See - I have the opposite issue, if I'm using a computer I want the information on a webpage or form, if it's not then I want to call and talk to someone - never a machine. If I'm interacting with a system, I want to interact with the system as directly as possible - if I'm interacting with a human, I want to interact with the human as directly as possible. Talking to a machine is a terrible UI in my experience.
In this case, I'm sure people would prefer answering these questions directly to a person, but that's obviously way higher cost and the point of this system is that you don't have to hire a lawyer. Given that direct human conversation isn't an option, and given the evidently common aversion to normal web interfaces, I'm not particularly surprised that some people might find this valuable.
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Capital flows completely freely between borders, but people can't. I don't really blame anyone for being economic migrants - they're just refugees of a different type.
Of course I don't blame anyone for being an economic migrant. It's a very natural thing to do: search for a better life. It's what I would do. Economic and technical development has progressed in Africa and Asia so that larger numbers of people than ever are able to consider migration. We see that now on the Libyan coast. However, particularly for European governments, it's now becoming visible that there is a select…