Would the Internet Lie to You
Would the Internet Lie to You, it's oldest and dearest friend... if it didn't involve sex or money?
We see these pictures with attached "Facts"/description, all the time. Here is one example. http://cellar.org/2015/amazonbullshit.jpg This guy objected. I've been following his site for years, and think he's a straight shooter. Quote:
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I just stopped in to say that this thread title reminded me that episode 3 of Would I Lie To You series 9 is on the BBC site now. Hooray!
Oh, okay, fine. Relevant to the thread topic: I read a whole thing about how Amazon's filing system is completely random, just like a computer's RAM. Stick something in the first open slot, record that slot in the computer system, now we know where it is. Shampoo next to books next to cat collars next to dildoes next to different books, we don't care. |
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Supermarkets are currently facing problems of efficiency/ best use of floor space.
Over here, internet shoppers pick your order from the shop floor, and the items primarily selected via the internet do not conform to the store layouts which have been honed for years by field marketing re yield, impulse buy, connected sales etc. There was an Amazon "expose" over here which suggested it is not a good place to work, but AC was never mentioned as an issue. I think the only safety issue raised was that of the lighting, which is motion sensitive, meaning you could lose serious picking time as blown bulbs are only picked up when someone tries to use/ pass through said section. Don't even start on the whole taxes issue either... |
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Meanwhile, the picking really isn't being done by humans at all. You get on your Segway-equivalent, scan the barcode of the first item that's been printed on the packing slip. Segway tells you "That's section 42, aisle 8, shelf C" and drives you there. You grab it, get back on, and scan the next item. Meanwhile your computer already knows that was the last widget in that crate, and marks that pallet slot as empty for the next delivery of who-cares-what. Amazon sells too much of too many things for there to be "commonly picked" items in any meaningful sense of the word. |
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Of course, the layout (where shipping/receiving/picking/packing areas are) of the warehouse will have some determination in this. |
Speaking of Amazon, it has critics and defenders.
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But a robot would have no trouble.
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I've noticed many of the graphic on the net don't give much source information. WaPo does quite av few, but an awfull lot of them come from dadaviz.
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I've never heard of Chris Hardwick (hard wick, snicker) or Grace Helbig.
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I guess that's why they were googled.
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I love him! He's the Nerdist and Taikng Dead guy. Also has a late night panel show - @Midnight. Hardwick is a stand-up comedian who also does really great podcast interviews and gets really awesome guests. He's involved at various levels in a whole bunch of stuff. The Nerdist (and several others of the Nerdist.com stable of podcasts) is one of my favourite podcasts. Has a massive following. from 2012: The Nerdist podcasting empire: http://nerdist.com/ I highly recommend both the Nerdist and the Nerdist Writers Panel podcasts. The guests they get are just fantastic. NWP gets really indepth with screen writers and showrunners, filmmakers, novelists and comicbook writers (though there's now a separate Comic Writer's Panel podcast). NP interviews all sorts of people. |
Podcaster and Talk Show Host, are different animals over here. Why do you think it's called Nerdist?
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Yes - but he has also hosted talk shows. The Talking Dead is a talk show follow up to the Walking Dead, Talking Bad during the final season of Breaking Bad, was similar.d@Midnight is part game show, part chat show. Also Nerdist was briefly a tv talk show (not sure but I think it was made by BBC America).
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