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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Aug 28, 2020
Damn life below the API seems to suck.
DENVER, CO. OCTOBER 28: Kaitlin Myers a shopper for Instacart studies her smart phone as she shops for a customer at Whole Foods in Denver. Myers receives a grocery list for a shopper and then completes the shopping on Tuesday, October 28, 2014. (Denver Post Photo by Cyrus McCrimmon)__User Upload Caption: ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD ** ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM,...
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Instacart shoppers say they face unforgiving metrics: 'It's a very easy job to lose'
Shoppers say its Instacart's policies often ignore the realities of the job, leaving them in constant fear of termination over things out of their control.
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Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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Aug 28, 2020
The robots can’t come soon enough https://wired.com/story/amazon-fedex-delivery-robots-your-sidewalk/…
James Rosen-Birch @provisionalidea@techhub.social
@provisionalidea
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Aug 28, 2020
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@vgr
the robots are driven by people too
Venkatesh Rao
@vgr
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They’ll be semi-autonomous or autonomous soon enough
1:22 AM · Aug 28, 2020
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James Rosen-Birch @provisionalidea@techhub.social
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Aug 28, 2020
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5-10 years at least