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Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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Post by i_play_stax »

Nextgrid wrote: post #14
ilvez wrote: post #5

If this would come out for Bolt that my tip won't reach 100% to driver/delivery guy, I would quit using it. Lying to users about especially when they want to be generous is like fake beggars.

It doesn't matter if 10% of users quit using it if the stolen tips from the other 90% more than cover it. And where are you going to run? The competition isn't any better.

The answer is simple, do not use the apps. It's not about comparing competitors. Simply abstain entirely. The gig economy is an exploitation engine.

Re: I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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Post by qcnguy »

dns_snek wrote: post #309
qcnguy wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He got caught because someone recognized his uniquely bushy eyebrows from the wanted photos. This is all documented, no need for advanced theorizing.

> This is all documented, no need for advanced theorizing. Something being documented doesn't make it true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

The woman who reported his location said that.

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Post by fuckinpuppers »

mns wrote: post #166
nxtfari wrote: post #135

Believability aside (I do think it’s believable personally) this is pretty much how “evil” (from outsider perspective) is done at every company, including mine. Inside it’s all sprint meetings, KPIs and terminology that are either intentionally or unintentionally designed to keep engineers far from thinking about impact on real people. It’s easy to convince a 25 year old whiz kid to optimize human assets, it’s just l…

Engineers are completely blindsided by technology. I work with some brilliant people, technically speaking, but in some cases they seem to have 0 awareness towards the things they are building and how that affects the people using the things that we built. I had a couple of months ago an engineer that's working on various AI things in our company telling me how we can use and build an AI tool to rate the performance…

Jeff Goldblum said it best “so preoccupied if they could, they never stopped to think if they should”

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Post by cindyllm »

dns_snek wrote: post #310
mlrtime wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I am 95% convinced he was caught because we live in a surveillance panopticon. I'm sure this is unpopular opinion but I'm glad we can catch murderers quickly which technology. The flip side is worse. Note: This has nothing to do with the reasons for murdering which I'm not going to debate.

> I'm glad we can catch murderers quickly which technology. According to whom? Homicide clearance rates in the US have been getting worse for decades [1][2]. The same is true in the UK, another surveillance state, where only 10% of violent offenses get solved [3]. This promise of a crime-free utopia has been nothing but a deceptive manipulation of the public and the scary part is that it keeps working. [1] https://ww…

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