squaresinger

You can make real good humus out of celery.

Why go out when home's better?

When I was living in a bedroom at my parents' house, going out was hugely desirable.

When I lived in a single-bedroom flat during university, I could finally invite people without my parents' supervision, and I used that a lot, but the tiny flat with no decent equipment wasn't great for inviting people over. Now I got space and a projector and a play room for the kids, so of course it's easier and more freedom to invite people over than to go out where I have to constantly watch out that the kids aren't bothering anyone.

"Oh, I thought you bought a cheap knockoff like anyone who can handle money. Looks just like one."

Again someone who thinks that public policies are natural laws...

NASA could do and did do what SpaceX is doing now, but they are beholden to the government and if the government says "we don't do that for ideologigal reasons" then it doesn't matter what can be done.

Minor crimes like that rarely carry prison sentence, so yeah, wouldn't really matter.

So escaped naked to avoid stealing prison clothes.

In almost any other county, calling the police won't get anyone hurt.

In my country the dispatcher would probably even just send a social worker instead of police.

Thanks for the summary! That sounds freaky!

Well, the trade-off between trusting a huge corporation or a single dude on the internet.

What exactly happened there? It was the big thing, then I didn't use it for a month or so and then it was gone.

In a company I used to worked in, they hired a new guy for our team. Contract was signed, he resigned from his last position. New budget comes in a week before he was supposed to start, and his position was cut.

He was basically let go before he started working for us.

Even if you make them in large quantities, material cost alone will be at least €50k. You will need a skilled operator nearby, and constant maintainance, and if you lose even one per year, a regular underpaid human worker will be much cheaper.

These things are pure marketing devices to pacify investors, generate headlines and make unions and workers afraid.

Because it's not real. It's purely for marketing, not for actual wide-spread implementation.

Even in the best of cases, even factoring in economy of scale and all that, a robot like that will cost upwards of €50k at least, probably closer to double that, will require constant maintainance, and the risk of vandalism or accidental damage is really high. And you'll likely need a (skilled) human operator nearby anyway, because the delivery vehicle doesn't drive itself.

The purpose of projects like this is marketing and public perception.

• The company looks futuristic and future proof. That's good to get investors.
• The company looks like they could replace humans with robots at any time. That's good with negotiations with unions and workers.
• The company gets into headlines worldwide. That's advertisement they don't have to pay for.

This robot is not meant to ever go mainstream. Maybe there will be a handful of routes where they will be implemented for marketing purposes, but like drone delivery and similar gimmicks, it won't beat a criminally underpaid delivery human on price, and that's the only metric that counts for a company like Amazon.