The value is that many of many of the topics on Reddit are not discussed anywhere else. It isn't that the data is good. It is the only data available.

This is necessary. If you allow people to moderate and post, people will routinely downvote comments that disagree with their own comments. This happens all the time on Reddit. Slashdot forces users to choose to between arguing their points (and generally getting wrapped up in their own viewpoints) and being the quality filter.

Random moderation is also necessary. Moderation should be an occasional privilege not another channel to participate in the thread as it is on Reddit. If volume is slow, as happens on Soylent, frequency of having mod points can be increased or we can accept that if traffic low, very little moderation is needed.

Reddit is hopelessly overmoderated. Redundant posts that express popular opinions are scored way up. Mildly descenting comments with real information and mod'd down to oblivion.

Also necessary. The Slashdot system forces people to think about why they are moderating and expressly omits "disagree". Almost all moderation on Reddit is "agree" and "disagree".

Interesting that there is something but Lemmy.world seems to the same toxic free-for-all moderation scheme as Reddit. I must be missing something. What does Lemmy.world have to draw people away from Reddit?

But Reddit is already manure and has been for... I'm not sure. Has it ever not been manure? And yet it persists. I'm not sure why. It doesn't have the strong network effect of eBay.

Compared to what? It is far superior to what Reddit uses despite being created several years before Reddit was founded. I'm not say that Slashdot moderation is perfect and enough time has elapsed that someone must have a better solution but If Slashdot is "garbage" than Reddit moderation is "toxic nuclear waste". Still an improvement.

One easy thing would be to clone Slashdot's moderation system. Or even improve on it. I mean, it has only been 25 years.

Allowing photos in the comments would also be helpful for image heavy groups, albeit less profound that fixing the current group think exaggerating moderation system.

Maybe even resurrect Usenet's hierarchy so it becomes easier to find appropriate groups.

Services almost never improve end user experience after an IPO. I expect the usual which is that it gets worse. The question is, will it get bad enough to finally inspire a solid competitor?

The certificate gives employers confidence that the applicant has the skills. Without that certificate, job seekers need experience, which they generally can't get without first having the certificate.

While true, this is also another factor. Companies that fire fresh grads generally only want FRESH grads. The graduate fails to find a a job in their field in the first year or two, they are generally screwed. Graduating into a recession can ruin a career before it starts with or without a survival job. Modernizing skills doesn't help. You actually need a new degree.

Only in his own universe. Not this one.

Arguably, that is all humans do too. It is just a much larger and largely unknowable training set. Occasionally, someone does recognize what they think is the training data and the parties end up in court.

The trouble is plastic bag recycling is largely wishcycling. I "recycle" all my plastic bags too but I have little faith that the bags I drop at store recycling boxes actually end up in products. The local recycling center doesn't even take plastic bags.

The are lots of people who do absolutely everything on their phones. I question their sanity but is profitable for companies like Samsung to cater to such people.

HAL-9000 murdered the crew because he was ordered to conceal information but did not know how to lie. We know from TFA that it is really easy to train AI's to lie. Thus, a HAL-9000 problem is unlikely. It is too easy for AI's to lie and that leads to different sorts of problems.

A well known solution to the charging time problem is battery swapping. There are solvable but real issues with battery swapping "in the wild" but these don't really apply in this application.

1. Batteries are heavy so moving them around requires something like a fork lift. Where are you going to find one of those in an Amazon warehouse? Oh, wait..
2. Cars come in a wide range of shapes related to reducing aerodynamic drag. Working with those different ways to accessing differing shaped batteries is a real problem. Forklifts are shaped pretty much like bricks and Amazon has total control.
3. "In the wild", batteries come from who knows who and there is a real risk that the owner of a brand new EV swaps his/her brand new battery for one that is about to die. In an Amazon warehouse, the forklifts are owned by Amazon and, well, that's all