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Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by djbusby »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #46
TheRealPomax wrote: post #2

But hey, it could be even worse . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG6KA6V4T7w

A 6 minute video weighting at about 150MiB for "explaining" what can be summarized in a couple sentences of text is another particular version of hell.

Why didn't you explain it? Is this more hell?

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by boredemployee »

scandox wrote: post #28
rvnx wrote: post #8

If you want to get to the point of the story, +/- summary : An old lady in Seattle couldn't understand how to pay for parking using confusing parking apps. The author helped her, but the process was complicated and not user-friendly. He guided her through scanning a QR code and using parking apps, eventually helping her pay with the Park Mobile app using her credit card.

I read the original with interest because it describes very well the absurdly crap systems the world has become infested with and which many of us on this site have become complicit in making. People are spending vast amounts of time fiddling with shit that doesn't work.

Man, exactly.

We not only have created a complex society on all levels, but now a very difficult world to live, even the most simple events is now a pain in the ass.

From restaurants to small markets, you now pay for a robot, you don't have a human to support you.

things that were simple, became full of friction, all to collect our data.

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by canadianfella »

djbusby wrote: post #57
LandR wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my city, in the rougher parts it used to be somewhat normal to pay someone to "look after your car", of course you were paying them not to vandalise it while you were away! Especially popular on football days when parking near the stadium. It was only a couple of pounds or so. I haven't been to these parts of town for years so I have no idea if this practice still goes on.

I'm aware, and have used, this practice in Oakland, CA, Los Angeles, SF, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland OR. One reason I keep a small amount of cash around - just for the vig.

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Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by barrysteve »

Heaven forbid there be an overriding structure that determines who can provide parking apps across the country.

Wait there's another activity a global mega corp can monopolize and overcomplexify.

Incentives are nonsensicle when the primary task is not providing a service, but using the service as a vehicle to explore software.

Parking apps are a solved problem. Why are we submitting that class of problem to tech abuse?

Feynman was right, even smart people get on computers and begin to 'play'. Pointlessly so, in pragmatic terms.

Re: How do we pay for parking?

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Post by paganel »

Parking apps are the work of the devil, and the devs and all the people involved in implementing them should be ashamed each and every day they go to work. And I write that from half a globe away from Seattle, in Eastern Europe, that is. At least some of the cities in here still give you the possibility of paying by SMS, for now.
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