Chozo

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[–] Chozo@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago

Just look at what happened with Ken Paxton. Indicted for securities fraud, and they still let him be AG. Fuck this state.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social -3 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I don't get it, it's just gonna be skins, right? Pretty much every fighting game has paid skins these days, that's what funds continued development for balancing and new content.

Unless there's something really egregious being offered for sale, I don't see the issue. Cosmetics are one of the few MTX I'm okay with, for the most part.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just don't search that if you've also been searching for any flights recently.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 23 points 9 months ago (7 children)

an incompatible protocol with less features and worse UX

And yet, they have the one thing that matters: the users.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

People shouldn't drive in a way that gets people killed. Where's the outrage for the problem that we've already had for over a century and done nothing to fix?

A solution is appearing, and you're rejecting it.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

People have been hit and killed by human drivers at much, much higher rates than SDCs. Those aren't hiccups, and those are deaths that shouldn't have happened, as well. The miles driven per collision ratio between humans and SDCs aren't even comparable. Human drivers are an order of magnitude more dangerous, and there's an order of magnitude more human drivers than SDCs in the cities where these fleets are deployed.

By your logic, you should agree that we should be revoking licenses and removing human drivers from the equation, because people are far more dangerous than SDCs are. If we can't drive safely without killing people, then we shouldn't be licensing people to drive, right?

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Instacart is being miserly by not paying their workers a fair wage.

Instacart is paying their workers fairly. It's just that the driver is not an Instacart worker.

They're not employees, they're contractors. And when you, the customer, place an order, they are now your worker as you've entered into a contract with this person. They aren't working for Instacart or the store, they're working for you. And you're the one who pays for their time and labor, that all comes out of the service charges on your order.

That's how all these apps work. They don't get paid anything by the app, they get paid by you through the app.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

2009 was the date the article was posted.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The fleet of cars is summoned back to the HQ to have the update installed, so it causes a temporary service shutdown until cars are able to start leaving the garage with the new software. They can't do major updates over the air due to the file size; pushing out a mutli-gigabyte update to a few hundred cars at once isn't great on the cellular network.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago

It's pretty handy for things like being able to just say "hey Google, unlock the door" when I'm carrying a dozen bags of groceries.

I use automations as well, but sometimes I need something done outside of my otherwise-considered parameters. And it's easier to just yell your wish into being than to take out your phone, open an app, select the device, then pick your command.

[–] Chozo@kbin.social 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

They've already been testing on private tracks for years. There comes a point where, eventually, something new is used for the first time on a public road. Regardless, even despite even idiotic crashes like this one, they're still safer than human drivers.

I say my tax dollar funded DMV should put forth a significantly more stringent driving test and auto-revoke the licenses of anybody who doesn't pass, before I'd want SDCs off the roads. Inattentive drivers are one of the most lethal things in the world, and we all just kinda shrug our shoulders and ignore that problem, but then we somehow take issue when a literal supercomputer on wheels with an audited safety history far exceeding any human driver has two hiccups over the course of hundreds of millions of driven miles. It's just a weird outlook, imo.

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