So they have 1428 W2 workers, and 500 contractors, 1928 employees. They just let 700 people go, so now they're down to 1228.

Effectively they've removed 37% of their workforce. That's a lot of employees.

I assume this is really a ploy for meta to buy almost a thousand AI devs for pennies on the dollar compared to what their salaries would have commanded to be hired directly to meta.

Their shipping subsidiary is very outsourced.

They run the warehouses but franchises effectively do the transportation to users.

it should never be taken public.

It's getting close to human quality with the hallucination rate. I can't wait to not have to work!

Guess what % of drivers punished with this crime will suddenly have businesses with a need for a commercial vehicle? lol

Just another punishment for the poor.

We're in for a giant market crash for everything ML. It's just a matter of time for investors to start panicking.

The ROI on AI doesn't seem to be here to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars of yearly revenue like is being spent on hardware. There's a market, sure, but it's not that big.

no new gpu is available outside of the scalper market and the AIBs are upping their prices well above FE msrp.

Itâ(TM)s a significant price increase if you actually want to purchase one, over prices from just November. Often double or triple price from scalpers. The 4090 was almost msrp when they stopped production.

Just have to look at their news headlines.

Your reply here would be something like âoeWildstoo OBLITERATES delusional critic of common senseâ

Subtag will be there like [NO NONSENSE]

Itâ(TM)s like everything is about a big fight. If not obliterates maybe you âoeslammedâ them.

These guys are paid tens of billions of dollars to run cable and setup networking gear only to turn around and charge us to use it.

The Affordable Connectivity Program was funded by 14 billion dollars of taxpayer money to subsidize the monthly subscription to the telecoms. This is on top of the 42.45 billion they were given to provide service to unserved and underserved areas... all the while AT&T lobbies to prevent nationwide fiber rollouts.

The whole thing is a racket. We should have the cheapest, fastest, most available networking in the entire world with the exception of highly rural areas, the same kinds of areas where Satellite and Cellular networking is preferred due to extremely low density. Any city that is even remotely suburban should at the minimum have municipal at-cost high speed networking connections that are symmetrical gig as once you build it, maintaining it is way cheaper than what the telcos charge.

As a bonus, i've yet to hear a horror story about municipal fiber. I've heard horror stories from pretty much everyone regarding their experience with for-profit telcos.

How else did you know when your baby clocked 50 in a 25?

Without money you can't buy nicotine containing products. The logic is the same as what they are going with...

You take the 12-20k every business pays for each employee to have healthcare and pool the funds together. You stop paying all insurance agencies and the great majority of people handling medical billing.

You start negotiating drug prices and pay 30% or less of current pharmacy benefit prices too.

Ezpz

I don't see how it would make any difference. They only sell things that are infinitely duplicated for effective zero cost. All you can do at best is hurt them via bank fees which will be effectively nothing to a company that pulls that much revenue.

It's been proven that game protests, boycotts and other attempts have all been calls to action with no real outcome in almost all circumstances. Gamers just aren't going to band together because there is no picket line where you must walk past and be seen, so it's pretty much whatever.

I think the best outcome you could realistically push for is to get the game banned in your state. If the business is doing business with russia right now then there's a pretty clear cut argument to ban or sanction them in the US or Europe. I don't think anybody on here has any knowledge or influence to affect public policy though. Nothing ever comes out of slashdot.

Executive leadership needs scapegoats so when they are subpoenaed for doing illegal things they can truthfully say âoeI know nothing about that. Our policy is to do it right.â

Since everything in a computer is typically discoverable business leaders have known forever to never put anything on the record about the illegal things they do to cut corners and make giant bonuses.

I only used it during the pandemic after doordash premium freebies ran out and amazon offered a free year sub. The fees and prices were effectively the highest and they NEVER offered promotions. Meanwhile ubereats is over here spamming me every other day about 60% off orders which comes out to something like 10% less than what I would normally pay if I went and picked up the takeout myself. Even doordash offers some small promotions that mostly just eliminate all the middlemen fees for an order or two rarely.

The fees on these services are enormous and we're just talking the tech part of it - they're taking 30% from the vendor, they're charging us another 5-30%+, and then they are paying a delivery driver sub-minimum wage with the expectation that we will tip (mandatory bribe) the couriers to deliver the stuff because nobody takes an order that doesn't have a tip applied. I honestly have no idea how they think they are providing value by being leech-like middlemen to the whole process. The whole thing feels like something that could be open sourced and run by a nonprofit in terms of infrastructure, and then it would be up to stores to handle the customer service, payment and driver cost.

As a bonus, GrubHub forces you to tip before delivery, when you're placing an order. Unlike ubereats you cannot adjust the tip based on service without contacting support and having them adjust it. It's not a tip at all, but a bribe that says "please actually take my delivery order."

The bottom line to me is delivery fees on top of the inflated prices way above and beyond in-store or first party delivery, the enormous tip, the vendor fees and the frequency of mistakes or extremely long delivery times make this kind of service not worth it as a customer. If the fees were flat it would at least make some sense to do relatively large orders rarely. That's not even the case though, you're just charged way more for the same effort from all parties except for the restaurant.