How could this happen? Owners of #Chamberlain #MyQ automatic garage door openers just woke up to discover that the company had confiscated valuable features overnight, and that there was nothing they could do about it.
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"But this impulse to play shell games runs up against the hard limits of physical reality: grocers just can't send an army of rollerskated teenagers around the store to reprice everything as soon as a wealthy or desperate-looking customer comes through the door."
Can't they?
I've never thought about it before, but after reading this paragraph, I'm now AMAZED that the big grocery chains haven't replaced those little price signs on the shelves with digital displays of some kind, so that they can adjust prices on the fly.
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@kingkaufman @pluralistic
Yeah, aren't these kinds of displays normal? Is this one of those things where we Norwegians don't even realize how abnormally digital we are, like with how we don't use cash for anything other than illegal drugs any more?
Cory Doctorow
King Kaufman
Peter Bindels
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