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Hotels turn to robots and room cleanings every 4 days to ease staffing shortages

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Post by SergeAx »

typest wrote: post #474
SergeAx wrote: post #462

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I am playing a video game now, where I should run a nation. Most of the game is about making economical tradeoffs. I want a GDP growth, so I have to develop sophisticated industries with higher throughouput. These industries has better margins and can afford better wages. As a result, no one wants to work in agriculture. There are three ways out of it: 1) make agriculture more sophisticated, like automatization, whic…

This makes sense. And the game sounds really interesting! What is it called? I may try it out.

Victoria 3. By the way, I fount a 4th way: in certain political circumstances there's an option to subsudize wages in certain parts of economy. But that usually makes everything chaotic, with workforce reassigned and goods prices randomizing.

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Post by dahart »

robertlagrant wrote: post #499
dahart wrote: post #490

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Naw, it’s a thin line because the whole point of bump stocks is to make a semi-automatic fire like an automatic. Even the NRA says so, this has nothing to do with the quality of reporting. ‘In the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, twelve bump stocks were found at the scene.[7] The National Rifle Association stated on October 5, 2017, "Devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles shou…

> the whole point of bump stocks is to make a semi-automatic fire like an automatic Then the lawyer should say "we should ban bump stocks" instead of perpetuating the lie that automatic weapons are prevalent in the US.

They did say that, and now we have fewer automatic-like weapons in the US. Hey I have no problem with your suggestion, I like the alternative wording you offered! I’m just pointing out that the quote was mostly reasonable at the time, I agree it’s slightly inaccurate as a shortcut summary of the situation, but I don’t think it’s as egregious as you claim. I’ll add that one quote out of context from one article does not establish a pattern. You jumped to complaining about the pattern without evidence of a pattern.

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Post by rufus_foreman »

supertrope wrote: post #89
Natsu wrote: post #36

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> Hotels have raised hourly wages by 25% since early 2020, and employers are offering greater flexibility in scheduling. Still, workers are nowhere to be seen. I dunno, my pay sure hasn't gone up by 25% in the past 2 years.

Would you work for $16/hr with no health insurance? Hotels are notorious for not only not offering steady 40 hour employment but sending staff home if room count is low or calling people in with minimal notice.

I worked for $3.35 an hour with no health insurance at several different jobs, adjusted for inflation that would be around $9 an hour today.

And the paper route I had probably paid half of that.

Eventually I had to learn to code.

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Post by IncRnd »

josefx wrote: post #140
lotsofpulp wrote: post #108

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Especially since the hotel and the hotel’s insurers ended up paying $800M: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/las-vegas-shooting-settlement-m... > Jim Frantz, whose San Diego-based law firm represents another 199 victims including Romo, said Thursday's settlement is a good first step. Now MGM must strengthen the security protocol at all their facilities, he said. >"I would assume a responsible business, after going through…

What the hell, how would they have resolved this if he wasn't living at the hotel? Add mandatory checks to every apartment in the area?

It's not exactly for that reason. The insurance companies don't want to be liable for a future similar incident, so they are pushing future liability onto hotels that don't do a million things to guard against the last incident from recurring. Then, the hotels put these checks in place, so the insurers won't push liablity costs onto them.

I guess it could be called a decrepit spiral of associative risk management.

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Post by CyberDildonics »

eastbound wrote: post #498
CyberDildonics wrote: post #424

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And then what? Is someone going to hijack a plane by setting their laptop battery on fire?

Yes. Wrap it in some inflammable scarf/coat to get it going. Or find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time. Anyway, it’s no more a risk than guns or water on planes since it hasn’t happened yet; but among this security circus, it’s hypocritical to ban water and not li-ion batteries.

inflammable scarf/coat

I think you mean flammable.

find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time

I don't think that exists.

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Post by robertlagrant »

dahart wrote: post #503
robertlagrant wrote: post #499

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> the whole point of bump stocks is to make a semi-automatic fire like an automatic Then the lawyer should say "we should ban bump stocks" instead of perpetuating the lie that automatic weapons are prevalent in the US.

They did say that, and now we have fewer automatic-like weapons in the US. Hey I have no problem with your suggestion, I like the alternative wording you offered! I’m just pointing out that the quote was mostly reasonable at the time, I agree it’s slightly inaccurate as a shortcut summary of the situation, but I don’t think it’s as egregious as you claim. I’ll add that one quote out of context from one article does n…

I thought it would be tedious to link to however many examples would illustrate a pattern. I think this wording is pretty commonplace though - military-style rifle, which sounds like "military grade" but is a motte and bailey for "looks military". That sort of thing.

I'm not a gun person at all, but I really despise manipulative language in media. That's why I'm harping on.

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Post by dahart »

robertlagrant wrote: post #507
dahart wrote: post #503

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did say that, and now we have fewer automatic-like weapons in the US. Hey I have no problem with your suggestion, I like the alternative wording you offered! I’m just pointing out that the quote was mostly reasonable at the time, I agree it’s slightly inaccurate as a shortcut summary of the situation, but I don’t think it’s as egregious as you claim. I’ll add that one quote out of context from one article does n…

I thought it would be tedious to link to however many examples would illustrate a pattern. I think this wording is pretty commonplace though - military-style rifle, which sounds like "military grade" but is a motte and bailey for "looks military". That sort of thing. I'm not a gun person at all, but I really despise manipulative language in media. That's why I'm harping on.

Fair enough, I hear you.

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Post by sokoloff »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #506
eastbound wrote: post #498

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Yes. Wrap it in some inflammable scarf/coat to get it going. Or find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time. Anyway, it’s no more a risk than guns or water on planes since it hasn’t happened yet; but among this security circus, it’s hypocritical to ban water and not li-ion batteries.

inflammable scarf/coat I think you mean flammable. find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time I don't think that exists.

Inflammable and flammable are very close synonyms. Non-flammable is the antonym.

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Post by IncRnd »

CyberDildonics wrote: post #506
eastbound wrote: post #498

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Wrap it in some inflammable scarf/coat to get it going. Or find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time. Anyway, it’s no more a risk than guns or water on planes since it hasn’t happened yet; but among this security circus, it’s hypocritical to ban water and not li-ion batteries.

inflammable scarf/coat I think you mean flammable. find an Android vulnerability and make several phones burn at the same time I don't think that exists.

> I think you mean flammable.

Inflammable and flammable are both adjectives that mean "easily set on fire". They have slightly different etymologies. In the case of inflammable, in- means "into" and is not a negation.

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