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  1. You had better automate those guns, or someone else will.

  2. Any job in which you make less than you need to live is brutal.

  3. Re:The gig economy has been about this since day 1 on Exhausted Amazon Drivers Are Working 11-Hour Shifts For Less Than Minimum Wage (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's the new Amway.

  4. So they should either commit crimes or die? Or maybe you're in favor of more and more people pulling from welfare.

  5. Re:The gig economy has been about this since day 1 on Exhausted Amazon Drivers Are Working 11-Hour Shifts For Less Than Minimum Wage (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Good comment.

  6. Re:Why is this so cheap? on Exhausted Amazon Drivers Are Working 11-Hour Shifts For Less Than Minimum Wage (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And furthermore, take a good look at where ALL the damn money is going.

  7. Re:Why is this so cheap? on Exhausted Amazon Drivers Are Working 11-Hour Shifts For Less Than Minimum Wage (mirror.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    If there were common options that were local but slightly more expensive, then I would ask why it is so cheap. On the other hand, why should I go out of my way to spend more?

  8. These people are obviously desperate for a job for some reason. Don't pretend like anyone can be a candidate for any job that is available. It doesn't mean they should have to starve, or conmit crimes to make christmas bearable.

  9. Re:Driving is a waste of time. on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You have a strange definition of family time.

  10. Re:Who pays if/when it crashes? on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    But if Autopilot gets in an accident, your premiums go up, thus you pay for it.

  11. Re: That's the way to do it on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    if it is put into a car and offers to drive independent of your control, then it's a driving service. Just not a very good one.

  12. Re: Scary, really? on People Keep Finding Hidden Cameras in Their Airbnbs (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    He's the guy taking the videos. "I didn't hurt you".

  13. You know who your housekeeper is. You interview her before you use her services. Or do you let a different housekeeper in twice a month, I would find that creepy too.

  14. The reporter took too long to work out what many people here already know; that letting a person into your private residence really does feel scummy.

  15. Re:Scary, really? on People Keep Finding Hidden Cameras in Their Airbnbs (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    You realize this has the potential to destroy lives right?

  16. regulation on People Keep Finding Hidden Cameras in Their Airbnbs (buzzfeed.com) · · Score: 1

    Does everyone understand the point of regulation now?

  17. Re:Driving is a waste of time. on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm amazed so many people have anything productive they can do in a car. Usually the ride is too short to read a book or study significantly or get any amount of work done. I'm not at home, so I'm missing time with my family anyway. Personally I just want to get to my destination as quickly as I can regardless.

  18. Re:Who pays if/when it crashes? on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    How does taking 5% off translate into paying for it? The real cost comes when the premiums go up after the accident. You are saying insurance companies aren't raising premiums for the driver any more?

  19. Re: That's the way to do it on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yet the human who is supposed to be still paying attention in case the self-driving fucks up out of nowhere is more likely to be texting at that point in time.

  20. Re: That's the way to do it on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Apples to oranges, none of those things are advertised as replacing humans. Therefore, humans are expected to handle them carefully for them to be safe. Tesla on the other hand is offering me a driving service, but have no way to show me how safe their drivers are.

  21. Re:That's the way to do it on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They didn't have the self driving angle before. What are they supposed to do? Offer people in red cars 5% off? This way they have their angle and they get self driving fanatics like you creaming in their pants.

  22. Re:That's the way to do it on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not even a valid question for Autopilot, since humans are doing all of the actually complicated driving anyway. When cars are fully automated, it will be a question not only of how many accidents they can avoid, but how many they cause due to not understanding how humans drive. Humans cut corners in traffic all the time in safe ways. If self driving doesn't learn to anticipate moves such us, a truck backing out slowly from an alleyway and anticipate that correctly by stopping soon enough, driving will be worse for humans. Someone like you will be saying 'see? I told you humans suck at driving', but that will be the fault of self-driving being too robotic, not the fault of the human.

    Once these basic glitches are worked out, then it should be mostly safe anyway. I don't think it is too much for us to ask self driving companies to make it safer than 99% of all humans. Unless they can work out these issues, it will make things worse for everyone.

  23. Re: That's the way to do it on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I change lanes to allow them to yield, if I see them about to yield, I will anticipate where they are coming out. It's not hard. Though it may be for Autopilot.

  24. Re:That's the way to do it on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Autopilot is only just reaching the low hanging fruit. It works where driving is simple. Almost as simple as being in the open air.

  25. Re:Self-selecting set, IMHO on Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So? The point is whether you absolutely know whether you are safer than Autopilot or not. If you don't know, then you shouldn't be using it until you do know.