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CraigRo commented on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Cars Is Turning into a Disaster   futurism.com/hertz-ai-dam... · Posted by u/ls-a
CraigRo · a month ago
Cue the class action lawsuits
CraigRo commented on Vienna has been declared a renters' utopia – here's why   theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/pseudolus
CraigRo · 2 months ago
So the mostly poorer half subsidize the rich through employment taxes
CraigRo commented on 21 Day Experiment #2 – No Sugar   rory.codes/experiment-1-n... · Posted by u/mrroryflint
CraigRo · 3 months ago
8# is not unusual for a new low carb diet. 2-3 of fat loss plus a lot of water due to ketosis
CraigRo commented on AMC Says It Will Show More Ads Before Movies   nytimes.com/2025/06/06/bu... · Posted by u/cebert
CraigRo · 3 months ago
Company is in dire financial straits and depends on selling stock and subscriptions to super fans. So why not extract more revenue from them?
CraigRo commented on Wyze just built a camera into a light bulb, and it only costs $50   9to5google.com/2025/06/03... · Posted by u/01-_-
CraigRo · 3 months ago
You can also get an Edison screw to nema base and stick a USB adapter in it and use that to power a camera for about the same price
CraigRo commented on Banks will "maybe" be done with COBOL in ten years   efinancialcareers.com/new... · Posted by u/ingve
bn-l · 6 months ago
Why is it so hard to replace? Are the algorithms just that good / impenetrable? Is the language particularly well suited for the task?
CraigRo · 6 months ago
Theres a whole mainframe ecosystem of schedulers, databases, disk formats, batches, 3270 screens etc that are hard to replace piecemeal
CraigRo commented on Why Exchange Rebate Tiers Are Anti-Competitive   iex.io/article/why-exchan... · Posted by u/myroon5
CraigRo · 7 months ago
Written by someone who stands to gain, but the argument is still good
CraigRo commented on School phone bans do not improve grades or wellbeing, says UK study   theguardian.com/education... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
CraigRo · 7 months ago
One school that did this reported more face to face time. Unfortunately they used it to gamble on poker games, so I'm not sure it improved well-being
CraigRo commented on It takes 3k sheep to maintain solar panels on rural land   xatakaon.com/energy/texas... · Posted by u/speckx
CraigRo · 7 months ago
Make mutton great again
CraigRo commented on Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens   techcrunch.com/2024/12/05... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
CraigRo · 9 months ago
This is terrible. Taxis don't require fingerprints.

This drives up the cost of providing a service for a population that doesn't have much money to begin with. It is ostensibly safer, but that value has not been quantified. On the margin, it will encourage kids to take less safe forms of transit (e.g. drunk friend) due to higher costs and reduced availability.

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KarmaCake day1284April 23, 2019
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Craig Roche is the pen name of a software developer, data scientist, and occasional writer.
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