It's the age old privatize the profits and socialize the losses.

People lose their jobs, the environment is destroyed, our bills skyrocket and all of the gains go to the people who own all the shit...

I honestly cannot believe some people still believe that we'll ever get to a society where nobody has to work and we can live our lives happily ever after. Maybe too many Disney stories?

For the life of me, I can't understand why your comment is being downvoted or flagged or whatever makes it go gray on HN.

I'm guessing it's people knee-jerking that you're being political?

I can't understand the people who don't see it.

The data centers strain the power grids then electricity costs go up for everyone else. This is de facto a regressive tax because everyone needs electricity and the poor pay proportionately more of their income for the increased cost.

Live in San Francisco? Probably not now unless you're rich because of the skyrocketing cost of living due to Tech and AI money. Another de facto regressive tax, driving away other people.

Environmental damage? The poor are the most impacted and the least able to absorb the costs. Do they have the property or renter's insurance to protect them from these disasters? Another de facto regressive tax.

Need a new phone? Or a computer? Same problem.

Want to dabble in AI? You're not going to get too far on $20/month. It's mostly a wealthy person's game.

Or there are the statistics that the vast majority of successful founders from up upper middle class families or wealthier.

Wealth centralization is what our economic system does. The purpose of a system is what it does. If it wasn't, the system would have been changed.

People are like sheep. Plus those who work are preoccupied and are too tired to react to these changes.

Correct, but they own a coffee shop, they aren't building rockets. The menu is definitely a significant part of it.

If they can barely do that, then I'm sure they're slacking off on more stuff too.

> The menu is definitely a significant part of it

The overlap in skills between photographing your product and being a great barrista aren't obviously overlapping.

The takeaway seems to be to remove images from the menu.

You think this is a signal of some great barista?

Starbucks has an amazingly polished corporate image and at least where I'm from the locales have great wall art done by local artists presented alongside tasteful decor and a minimalistic but well cared for choice of furniture that I can't honestly give it no less than a 9/10 presentation.

The coffee still tastes like a Victorian chimney sweeper's piss.

H... how do you know?

As a customer yes, I would have vastly higher confidence in the quality of a coffee shop with no pictures vs one that uses AI slop.

Why?

I’m not GP but this hits for me so I’ll reply in good faith

I don’t actually care about the menu or sign. It’s a coffee drink and I’ve had thousands if not hundreds of thousands of them. I know what I like and if it’s just stencil letters pinned on a cork board I don’t care. I just want to grab a coffee and go.

A shop with no pictures, just words? Sends a message that their coffee is probably good enough to speak for itself. Fine.

A shop with hand drawn lettering, ornate art? The coffee is probably made by people who care about their craft in some fashion. At least the person making my coffee probably enjoys their job a little. Fine.

Fully AI menu with gen Ai modeled drink pictures? The drink isn’t going to look like that. There is obviously no effort made here. They spent time to create a generic menu my kids could have put together. Worst of the lot, to be honest.

It was just a replacement for those temporary chalkboard menus, the person wo did that previously left. Perhaps she has bad taste but that doesn't mean she was slacking off. Did they spend a lot of time on the chalkboard menus previously?

Just printing this item was reported in the article as costing $150.

How much might it cost to have someone local show up and produce a decent-looking chalkboard display?

This is what people are actually mad about when businesses use AI art. You claim to live in an artistic community, great, ask your staff if they have any friends who draw who want to come by and make a quick $100. You spent more money on a worse result that alienates your community.

Honestly, I'd rather have a word printed doc for the menu than this. It's not that difficult, doesn't require any skills and doesn't take any time.

IDK, you own a business and do this sort of stuff and all sorts of red flags go off for me.

Where do you draw the line? Is buying already roasted coffee beans a sign they are slacking off instead of roasting it themselves?

What if they use a machine grinder instead of a hand grinder?

My coffee shop barely has a menu. None of the current roasts are listed anywhere, you have to ask and they change daily. No signage. It’s consistently the best coffee I’ve had. Not fussy but very very good.

They do slack off on cleaning the chairs and the decor, that’s for sure. The coffee though is phenomenal.

Yes there's an android TV app. It's not the greatest feature-wise but never had any issues

I'm not sure what you propose. Generally speaking we don't get a perfect solution on the first try.

Would it be great if we could make all digital purchases better? Hell yes. Is it realistic? No.

If we can make one company/segment pay or set legal precedent that this is not okay, we're at least moving in the right direction.

Whether or not the people being investigated have guns or not, won't showing up with guns up escalate the situation rather than defuse?

I would be absolutely terrified if people with guns came up to me, whether they're cops or not, and if I had a gun with me, I'd be much more likely to go for it in that scenario compared to a normal human interaction. But IDK, maybe I'm an outlier?

Do we take into account the people they handle in those safety statistics? I'm pretty sure we don't.

A guy got shot after being swatted not so long ago and that would be a data point with no injuries for officers, masking the real victims.

Bubblewrap plus some whitelisting of domains/sockets is all you need.

Docker is always a pain to use and this way I don't have to re-install everything a billion times for every different project.

This is what I currently do, but my software uses docker and docker mounts act as a bypass for the file system restrictions, plus docker processes started outside the sandbox allow network proxy escape.

Currently, I don't allow the agent access to docker, start docker myself, and then do short-lived sandbox-free sessions when the agent needs to do things that interact directly with docker; but that's annoying.

Taking aside the fact that free markets are a myth, all we have to do is look at our current society and you'll see how utopic this view is.

In the real world, oligopolies are the rule not the exception.

Our current society is shaped by its regulation and the regulation is shaped by our current society. Regulated markets and our society are one and the same. To separate some kind of imagined free market out of that while still clinging to the same society doesn't make sense. They are fundamentally inseparable.

In the real world, the markets are regulated. We are talking about where there is a free market. Was your comment posted just to let us know that you don't give things much thought?

Only 1.7? I got $55B up from 41 cents.

I literally almost had a heart attack today.