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Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by cwmoore »

kitchi wrote: post #41
cwmoore wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lower wages mean more jobs though, right? BTW, why don’t we tax the bots for UBI?

I'm not sure how lower wages == more jobs. The assumption with that statement is that there is a net amount of money to be dispensed, and either a few highly compensated employees get those jobs or many low wage employees. But the very fact of wage theft indicates that the employers want to keep more money in their hands, and distribute less of it. So it really just amounts to small numbers of underpaid jobs.

People/politicians argue for more jobs, because arguing for more money generally goes nowhere. First comment was satire or sarcasm.

Second one is I think what garnered downvotes, and said sincerely: TAX.THE.BOTS.FOR.UBI.NOW!

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by benj111 »

autoexec wrote: post #55
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He doesn't. I think you misread this passage (it's the only thing that comes close): > When discussing how he would distance himself from racist groups, Mr Schnatter said that Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, had never faced criticism for using the N-word, Forbes reported.

It's worth pointing out that there's no evidence that Colonel Sanders ever did that. It's not as if he was directly quoting someone. Even if he really wanted to bitch about how unfair it is that someone else was able to be racist without being called out for it, he could have phrased that in any number of other ways. Schnatter was just spewing bullshit and threw out that slur without any reason for doing so.

He was born in 1890. Wasn't it/ negro basically accepted terminology back then?

As such, we can't really complain when people use acceptable words of the time.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by sail0rm00n »

charcircuit wrote: post #59
autoexec wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He admitted that he said it ( https://www.businessinsider.com/papa-johns-founder-apologize... ) and years later he said that not saying it anymore was one the goals he'd been working on ( https://www.businessinsider.com/papa-johns-ceo-2-years-remov... )

The claim trying to be argued here was the he hated black people and your additional sources still do not back that up. The second article seems to instead provide evidence against that claim. In reality this event happened during peak wokenness where saying a slur no matter the context made you a bad person deserving of being cancelled.

In which context is it okay to say the n word?

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by thx67 »

sail0rm00n wrote: post #63
charcircuit wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The claim trying to be argued here was the he hated black people and your additional sources still do not back that up. The second article seems to instead provide evidence against that claim. In reality this event happened during peak wokenness where saying a slur no matter the context made you a bad person deserving of being cancelled.

In which context is it okay to say the n word?

When you are racist pos and want everyone to know.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by solarkraft »

Alternative framing:

Instacart sells data to Papa Johns for better pizza ad timing.

Papa Johns isn’t somehow able to predict this based on their own data (which is the impression I initially got from the headline), they are buying it from Instacart.

Name and shame.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by dotancohen »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #52
rootusrootus wrote: post #16

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Especially when kept in a fridge, since ketchup is shelf stable. In the fridge it should go well past the pull date.

Ketchup is vinegar-based. I don't think it makes much of a difference.

The ketchup doesn't go bad, but the plastic container offgasses directly into the ketchup and also into the air void above the ketchup.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by dotancohen »

dlcarrier wrote: post #6

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  > All american fridges contain at least 20% expired condiments, by volume.
Refrigerators are generally sized between 300 and 500 liters. Are you suggesting that most (I won't even say all) refrigerators have 60 liters of expired condiments?

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by autoexec »

benj111 wrote: post #62
autoexec wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth pointing out that there's no evidence that Colonel Sanders ever did that. It's not as if he was directly quoting someone. Even if he really wanted to bitch about how unfair it is that someone else was able to be racist without being called out for it, he could have phrased that in any number of other ways. Schnatter was just spewing bullshit and threw out that slur without any reason for doing so.

He was born in 1890. Wasn't it/ negro basically accepted terminology back then? As such, we can't really complain when people use acceptable words of the time.

Negro would have been the acceptable term.

Re: Papa Johns Can Predict When Your Fridge Is Empty

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Post by sokoloff »

kitchi wrote: post #41
cwmoore wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lower wages mean more jobs though, right? BTW, why don’t we tax the bots for UBI?

I'm not sure how lower wages == more jobs. The assumption with that statement is that there is a net amount of money to be dispensed, and either a few highly compensated employees get those jobs or many low wage employees. But the very fact of wage theft indicates that the employers want to keep more money in their hands, and distribute less of it. So it really just amounts to small numbers of underpaid jobs.

Most things experience higher demand when the clearing price is lower. I expect that jobs (or at least “labor hours”) would be firmly in this set.

The mechanism would be some business somewhere would have thousands of hours of tasks that were worth around $12/hr to the business. If the market wage was $15/hr, that work doesn’t get done. If the market wage is $8/hr, it gets done, at least to a much greater extent than in the $15/hr case.

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