12 comments

  • hollow-moe 36 minutes ago
  • advael 35 minutes ago

    There is no form of surveillance that does more good than harm in the long run. The endless debates about the value of "catching bad guys" or "keeping people on their best behavior" should be rightly seen as opposed to the fundamental notion that human beings are capable of cooperation and altruism at scale. No amount of mass surveillance is justifiable, and there is no version of the future in which we allow it but do not create dystopia

      exe34 22 minutes ago

      I'm okay with the idea of some asymmetry. You need to pay to look up my stuff, but once you do, I get access to yours for free.

  • pera 26 minutes ago

    > I am optimistic about the future of AI at Amazon

    It's scary to think that any answer but "Strongly Agree" will very likely flag you as a risk.

    Is this really the society we want?

      lifeisloving 8 minutes ago

      Its the society ~1k companies want, and if you don't play along you wont have a job or healthcare.

      Capitalism as a practice or an idea needs to be destroyed.

  • sdcfgy 32 minutes ago

    Closed my Amazon (UK) account the other day. Never been happier not to give them money.

      GolfPopper 16 minutes ago

      I closed mine a while ago specifically because of the anti-union behavior. It's not acceptable and Amazon should meet its end as a corporate entity as a consequence.

  • metalman 37 minutes ago

    right, this something that cant be offshored, and only legalised slavery could optimise there labour costs more, and the robots are not performing quite as well as needed, so a holding action untill they can get a legal frame work to start fining employees for fraternisation with intent. not to worry, it's in the works.

  • hndhyc0bdt 44 minutes ago

    Did workforce analytics at a big logistics outfit and this stuff is usually sold internally as "attrition risk" or "engagement heatmaps", never as union anything. Same features though, shift churn, grievance counts, break room badge patterns.

  • slop 18 minutes ago

    Government surveillance is much worse than corporate surveillance but European countries are only interested in restricting the latter, and only when it doesn't get involved with preventing the former.

    AmazonUK now requires ID and a selfie for "bladed items": https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/amazon-uk-now-requires-p...

    The UK is ranked as one of the least free countries for digital freedom: https://eylenburg.github.io/countries.htm. Worse than India, Brazil, and Vietnam.

      ungovernableCat 9 minutes ago

      >Government surveillance is much worse than corporate surveillance

      I think in practice you'll find they go hand in hand together.

      slater 9 minutes ago

      You know, when I want to know country rankings of digital freedoms, the very first place i go to is eylenburg.github.io

      What are their sources for their statistics? "Source: eylenburg.github.io"

      Ah.