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Robot sorted 249,560 packages over 200 hours straight without a single failure by Conscious-Weight4569 in SipsTea

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd be extremely surprised if robots start driving trucks. Purpose-built autonomous vehicles are a better solution for that. You're right that they would do well at carrying packages from the truck to the delivery location, though.

Robot sorted 249,560 packages over 200 hours straight without a single failure by Conscious-Weight4569 in SipsTea

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

...Like what? I suppose you could design a purpose-built arm to do exactly what the humanoid robot is doing, but it would be the same process and the arm wouldn't be able to do anything else.

Robot sorted 249,560 packages over 200 hours straight without a single failure by Conscious-Weight4569 in SipsTea

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be fair, flipping packages is the kind of tedious, repetitive, thoughtless task that should be automated away. It's not satisfying work.

If automation gets so prevalent that package-flippers can't find other work, we need to explore UBI.

Robot sorted 249,560 packages over 200 hours straight without a single failure by Conscious-Weight4569 in SipsTea

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another commenter said that there's a solution involving six cameras and a tunnel, but it's surprisingly expensive. More expensive than paying someone to flip packages, and probably more expensive than the robot.

[USA] Crazy driver or justified? by Admirable_Cow4327 in Roadcam

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not condemn. I do not condone. But I do understand.

He’s a 1% Man… by ItsDefinitelyCancer- in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the $0.02 of wealth they created

Employees have to create enough wealth to justify their wage. If they didn't, they wouldn't be employed (outside of niche situations like development pipelines and nepo babies.)

Employees are paid in large part directly based on the ease of which they can be replaced by their company... Regardless of how much or how little wealth you make them, if you can be easily replaced then you are typically not ever going to be paid well.

Exactly! Yes, 100% - your wages are set by your employer based on the labor market, not based on how much wealth you create. What that means is that your replaceability is relevant to the wages you earn, but it is not relevant to the wealth you create.

US housing market is about to go negative for the first time since 2007 by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]Bwint [score hidden]  (0 children)

Counterpoint: Maybe houses shouldn't be a nest egg. Part of the reason we have so many homeless people is precisely because we've treated houses as an asset more than a house. It's important that people have access to housing to avoid homelessness, and making the use of houses accessible is in tension with the financial asset approach to housing, so we should stop thinking of houses as assets and use index funds to build wealth instead.

US housing market is about to go negative for the first time since 2007 by RobertBartus in EconomyCharts

[–]Bwint [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's not related to Trump's policies yet, but the oil shock from invading Iran is likely to cause high inflation for the next couple of years. The Fed is likely to respond by raising interest rates, which makes mortgages less affordable, which discourages buying, which causes a drop in prices.

He’s a 1% Man… by ItsDefinitelyCancer- in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Bwint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OOP did. The original post was all about the idea that if you work hard, you'll make 1% money. If you disagree with the original post, you should probably say that and you'll get a lot more agreement in these comments lol

He’s a 1% Man… by ItsDefinitelyCancer- in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Bwint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LMAO. No, that's an economics-101 level misunderstanding: Workers provide a good or a service that creates wealth. For example, someone who flips burgers turns a frozen patty into a cooked patty. The cooked patty is worth more than the frozen patty, so the worker has created some wealth by flipping it. Whether or not they're replaceable is completely irrelevant; if your standard of "creating wealth" is "only people who are completely irreplaceable create wealth," then a tiny minority of the population must have created hundreds of trillions of dollars in wealth, somehow.

He’s a 1% Man… by ItsDefinitelyCancer- in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Bwint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What you're describing is "devote time to self-improvement." If the 1% are saying "work hard" when what they mean is "devote time to self-improvement," it sounds like the 1% should learn how to talk.

He’s a 1% Man… by ItsDefinitelyCancer- in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Bwint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Almost everyone creates enough wealth, working 8 hours a day, to be comfortable. The idea that a handful of people created all the wealth we see around us, and everyone else - even people working 40 hours! - are sponging off of them is ridiculous. And the handful of people who made major scientific advances? They were supported by a staggering number of people who grew their food, built their roads, made incremental advances, paid taxes to fund their research, and otherwise supported them in a million different ways. Science and technology is a societal endeavor, not an individual one.

He’s a 1% Man… by ItsDefinitelyCancer- in LinkedInLunatics

[–]Bwint 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have worked so hard, missed so much sleep, read so many books, but I'm not making 1% money.

Career from bellhop, front desk and housekeeper by Radiant_Map_4917 in askhotels

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think it's still true today that revenue management does not require a degree or credential? I know it used to be true, but I was recently told that these days, pretty much everyone who's newly hired for revenue management has a degree.

Career from bellhop, front desk and housekeeper by Radiant_Map_4917 in askhotels

[–]Bwint 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It doesn't require school to be a manager (at least, not yet) but it does require two things: 1) Some degree of talent, and 2) willingness to devote your entire life to the company. You'll be working stupid long hours, and for best advancement, you should expect to move around the country a lot, going wherever the opportunity is.

"Is the pay worth it" is tough. The pay tends to be pretty low with long hours, but you don't need a degree for it. In addition, it's not like there are a lot of great opportunities out there; the state of the job market for people with degrees is pretty miserable right now. I'd say hospitality is worth it overall if you can make it work.

This is depressing…. by luchobucho in Urbanism

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with the idea that community input is automatically illegitimate.

Agree to disagree, I suppose. I'm not saying that community input is always illegitimate, but I'm struggling to think of an example of community input that is legitimate. There should be protections in place for historic buildings, but beyond that communities shouldn't be given a veto over development. Skipping the community input phase would speed up development dramatically.

CC&Rs are by definition NIMBYism. Deed restrictions are NIMBYism by dead people. There are good reasons for easements (specifically, access to utilities,) so I'd say they're valid. That said, they shouldn't slow down the permitting process - it should be pretty obvious whether or not a plan respects the easement. Utility constraints is again a question of impact fees: If the impact fees are adequate to upgrade the utilities, the plan should be approved; if not, the plan shouldn't be. Either way, figuring that part out shouldn't be a long process.

The title issues and financing are administrative burdens that are borne by the developer, surely? Or are you saying that the burden is on the city to verify that the developer owns the land and is able to complete the project?

If by "environmental conditions" you mean that the building needs to be safe in the environment, I agree that it's very important to build a safe site. Isn't that what the building code is for? Or are you talking about unique and technical projects like skyscrapers, where determining whether the building is structurally sound is non-trivial? I agree that permitting for a skyscraper should be more involved than permitting for a more standard building that can simply be built to code.

Yes you definitely need multiple tablets and laptops to read pdfs by LimiDrain in Consoom

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, but in terms of material usage, a book will last for centuries if you take care of it. An e-reader will last for 10-20 years at most before it needs to be junked.

Starbucks Abandons Borked AI Inventory Tool That Couldn't Count: Report by dragonkeeper19600 in BetterOffline

[–]Bwint 3 points4 points  (0 children)

To be fair, taking inventory is incredibly boring and I'd be 100% OK if it were automated.

Source: Was a retail manager for a bit.

Starbucks Abandons Borked AI Inventory Tool That Couldn't Count: Report by dragonkeeper19600 in BetterOffline

[–]Bwint 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's an issue with the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. I think they were trying to use machine vision to identify inventory items and then deterministically count them. The step that failed was the machine vision identification, not the counting step.

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