maym86

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by maym86 8y ago
I understand economics of scale. Amazon could order a million machines without raising workers wages.
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by maym86 8y ago
It is absolutely useful if you're trying to measure the size of a football field. What in the article precisely does your analogy refer to?
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by maym86 8y ago
Raising the wages of humans so they are the same cost as machines doesn't make the machines cheaper. Amazon could keep workers wages low and still buy machines and create the market. One doesn't necessitate the other.
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by maym86 8y ago
That video looks like a demo/marketing video. Are there any videos of the factory working at full load?
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by maym86 8y ago
> Robots will be able to do the jobs for $15 hour sooner than they'll be able to for $7 an hour This doesn't make sense. Increasing workers wages doesn't change the rate a which automation technology becomes available. The
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by maym86 8y ago
I specifically mean wearhouse workers. The automotation technology isn't good enough and whether or not they implement it has little to do with these wage changes.
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by maym86 8y ago
Exactly, and Amazon is still growing so even as some jobs are gradually replaced by machines the total number of workers is still increasing.
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by maym86 8y ago
This is a problem with Amazon PR misrepresenting a salary increase that isn't actually what they protrayed it as originally.
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by maym86 8y ago
The point of the article is that people behave in a civil manner in a disaster and the behavior during 9/11 seemingly supports this. > Cause trouble and a mob sets on you. Do you have anything to support this statement? The original
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by maym86 8y ago
The point of the article is that your assumption, the assumption that people often make, has been measurably shown to be incorrect.
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by maym86 8y ago
This is a good podcast breaking down the reporting errors and myths that are repeated after large storms: https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/summer-series-episode-1-us...
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by maym86 8y ago
Because men are statistically more likely to cause auto accidents. There is no evidence that women are not statistically more likely to be bad at getting good work done at companies like Amazon. It's pretty simple.
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by maym86 8y ago
- If you hired this male candidate you may be interested in this identical male candidate.
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by maym86 8y ago
Every story is a twist. "This one thing you thought you knew isn't actually true". Great for telling friends in the pub but misleading through selection bias as they don't tell all the stories where things aren't di
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by maym86 8y ago
"Why all the wasteful discussion about gender politics? Read the last sentence of the abstract" Other comenters seem to be making wild statements about gender differences, extrapolating from a small result, and using this to suppo
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by maym86 8y ago
I don't think it's a solution to climate change, it's just a personal choice. The solutions are out of my reach and ideling the SUV is much less of a problem than selling the SUV in the first place. I don't think we&#x27
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by maym86 8y ago
On a personal note, don't have children. I'm not being facetious. It seems like we've had opportunities to do the right thing and consistently haven't so until the outlook looks better and we start taking action it'
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by maym86 8y ago
I highly doubt it. I don't think Banksey is worried about a print being damaged.
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by maym86 8y ago
From my experience the people writing the most glowing positive reviews are doing it to get you to work there as they are somehow involved in hiring and do so to counter any of the genuine negative reviews. I have seen this happen first han
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by maym86 8y ago
Right now everyone has a proof of concept demo and people are pouring money in. It's going to take a while and I really can't see a company like comma.ai being a serious player given their approach but maybe I'm wrong. Good l
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by maym86 8y ago
I work in the industry and am scptical of even the big players ability to deliver on the promises they made 3-5 years ago including waymo and cruise.
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by maym86 8y ago
> As far as quality goes it's way more reliable. Most of the "advanced" driver assistance systems would kill you within a minute if you left the car to their control. Do you have any evidence/studies for either of the
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by maym86 8y ago
Comma.ai has the same constraints. No monocular camera system works without careful user supervision. Even lidar based systems are not that reliable yet that you could trust them to the point of not paying attention.
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by maym86 8y ago
They have built a single, forward looking, camera system on an Android platform and are using python for the control system. No serious auto manufacturer would trust a system like that for vehicle safety. It's a less reliable version o
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by maym86 8y ago
Why did MTA agree to it? They were involved in writing and bargaining the contract too. I doubt a private sector union at Amazon would have the power to get such a deal.
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by maym86 8y ago
This would be bargained between management and the union and is not automatic. Maybe it's a threat but not necessarily an issue Amazon would face even with the formation of a union if this is something Amazon really wanted to keep out
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by maym86 8y ago
Agreed. Capitalizm works best when the incentives are not all in one direction. It appears in this case some other incentives are at play be they looking for good PR, the threat of workers organizing or government regulation. It helps when
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by maym86 8y ago
I don't think it's a "knee-jerk" suspicion. It's from experience and knowledge that companies don't generally behave altruistically. Amazon historically has not acted altruistically. There is a considered busin
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by maym86 8y ago
Why would he bother raising wages then? No need for him to raise wages to do that. He isn't doing it for the sake of it. There is some other incentive involved. Automation happens either way and they have been gradually doing it for ye
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by maym86 8y ago
Jeff Bezos in the announcement. “We’re excited about this change and encourage our competitors and other large employers to join us" Is this an attempt to pressure its competition with less money in the bank to do the same, loby for a

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