DoorDash Is Proof of How Easy It Is to Exploit Workers When Their Boss Is an Algorithm
I love both ‘Cavor’s Gravity Devices’ and ‘The Forbin Project’
ETA they are wrong (sorta) about Yoyodyne. Buckaroo Banzai got it from Thomas Pynchon.
Sleeping Tesla driver wonders why his car ploughed into 11 traffic cones on a motorway
Can’t fix stupid.
I LOL’d at Del Floria’s Tailor Shop.
Man from UNCLE anyone?
The Threat of Communism during Cold War: a constraint to income inequality?
Is anyone up to reading Sony’s page and posting a translation of the highlights?
I’d like to know how this is supposed to work.
(I’m thinking peltier element + rechargeable battery + a bit of electronics to control it. Which leads to the question whether one could come up with a DIY version, maybe using a Pi.)
From the article:
Panera suffered a data leak affecting up to 37 million customers last April. That data included names, emails, physical addresses, birthdays, and the last four digits of customer’s credit card numbers.
And Panera needs to store part of your credit card number why, exactly? Seriously, next time I go to Panera I’m paying with pennies and nickels carried in a change purse. I hope you don’t get stuck behind me in line.
True.
Personal favourite: Mühlen Kölsch, straight from a properly chilled1) 0.33 l2) glass bottle.
1) Cool enough to be refreshing, but not too cold to mar the taste3).
2) Not the 0.5 l bottle, that’s for pouring yourself a glass4). Something to do with the different form factors of the bottlenecks, I think. I stand by my thesis, but further research is needed, obviously.
3) A concise and knowledgeable discussion on this subject is featured in Jirí Menzel’s excellent Vesnicko má stredisková. They do talk about Pilsner, obviously, but their findings are transferrable.
4) Which should be the traditional Stange. They look like large-ish test-tubes with a flat bottom.
Silly money: Before you chuck your chequebook away, triple-check that super-handy digital coin
LOLed at “Tom Servo’s Used Robots”
