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Comment · 1 day ago
I obviously going to be a balance but gig work has an incredibly low barrier to entry in that all you need is a car, insurance and a phone. The company sets the bar as to how many people are allowed into a "zone" to work via waitlists. They control the labor pool and thus control the payouts. The more people signed up among limited orders, the more people willing to lower their pay standards just to take any order and get paid.
Comment · 1 day ago
From a driver persepctive:

DD plays big games with pay, sometimes hides tips, drives down base pay, and stacks orders with good pay and bad pay offers to try and pay drivers as little money as possible.

In a bad economy, there's less people ordering on DD (although higher income earners who aren't as effective by economic effects don't change habits), however, it drives MORE desperate drivers to the platform that accept the low pay orders since they no longer have an income. This drives down all wages for drivers, and costs, which in turn pads DD's margins.

We actually see this seasonally in the summer when more students and teachers join the platform over the break. There's a glut of drivers, you can't cherry pick higher paying orders and most stuff that's left to fight for is low paying, no tip orders. When school starts back up things return to normal.

This is why DD is trying to sign up as many drivers as possible. If you remove the scarcity of drivers, then every low paying gig will eventually get picked up, driving average pay down and you can ratchet down your base pay hoping customer tips make up the slack.

Comment · 2 days ago
Doesn't look like it folds back or does tent mode. Those are some good use cases for touchscreen PCs, being able to walk around in tablet mode in something like a warehouse, for example.

Dynamic island looks nice.

Comment · 4 days ago
Huh? It still has all the same ports.
Comment · 4 days ago
The base model has always been limited to 32gb. Select a pro or max chip for more memory options.
Comment · 4 days ago
In some parts of EU and the UK there's no bundled power adapter, due to regulations. Historically, Apple has offset the cost of the laptop to accommodate this. Not sure if they're doing the same here.
Comment · 4 days ago
The Pro has a bigger brighter ProMotion display. It has active cooling, larger speakers, more ports, longer battery life, better graphics performance, better keyboard, and a larger default storage option (starts at 1tb).

If the Base M6 is good enough processor for you but want a more "premium" product, then the base Pro makes sense.

Comment · 4 days ago
Leads for what? Restoring Meta accounts?
Comment · 9 days ago
Banks have had a long standing policy that if you willing hand over your credentials, you are responsible for any losses. This applies to AI agents as well as scammers.
Comment · 14 days ago
Would you say a bullfrog that can hop from pad to pad can fly?
Comment · 16 days ago
Yeah, what news is this? Why are we having a discussion about a gripe from another discussion forum?
Comment · 18 days ago
They've published several whitepapers and technical documentation on how the secure enclave works and it's been poked at by security researchers for years.
Comment · 18 days ago
It's a top down view of the TV
Comment · 18 days ago
Any Airpods connect directly to the AppleTV. You don't need the remote, phone or an app at all.

If you're using wired headphones then a $20 Bluetooth dongle will do the same.

Comment · 23 days ago
You give cops an inch, they take a mile. It's been shown time and time again, with Flock and ALPR specifically, that if the technology is easy enough to abuse it will be.

Until sufficient measures are in place to prevent abuse (and I have doubts it's even possible) then the cameras gotta go and they can do their jobs the same way the did decades before.

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