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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by toomanybeersies on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:06AM (#29930787)
At that point, you may as well just get a plumber delivered with the tools too.
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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by adrianN on Friday January 14, 2022 @01:55AM (#29931368)
Tools tend to be cheaper than trained humans.
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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by anotherman554 on Friday January 14, 2022 @10:53AM (#29935948)
In this scenario the trained human is being paid to operate a VR device. Instead of paying a human to send you tools and operate a VR device as you do the repair you might as well pay them to fix the thing.
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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by adrianN on Friday January 14, 2022 @12:55PM (#29937674)
I imagine that you can guide multiple people at the same time.
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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by spullara on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:47AM (#29976294)
From another country, at scale.
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