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San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code (www.businessinsider.com)
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San Francisco says tiny sleeping 'pods,' which cost $700 a month and became a big hit with tech workers, are not up to code::The pods, which are 4-foot-high boxes constructed from wood and steel, made headlines after tech workers praised the spaces.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Centered in the square carpet of green plastic turf, a Japanese teenager sat behind a C-shaped console, reading a textbook. The white fiberglass coffins were racked in a framework of industrial scaffolding. Six tiers of coffins, ten coffins on a side. Case nodded in the boy's direction and limped across the plastic grass to the nearest ladder. The compound was roofed with cheap laminated matting that rattled in a strong wind and leaked when it rained, but the coffins were reasonably difficult to open without a key.

The expansion-grate catwalk vibrated with his weight as he edged his way along the third tier to Number 92. The coffins were three meters long, the oval hatches a meter wide and just under a meter and a half tall.

-- William Gibson, Neuromancer

Cyberpunk was supposed to be a dystopian vision.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most dystopian books are now used as a manual for some politicians and rich a**holes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ready Player One was a dystopia and Zuck was so enamored it became required reading for building the "Metaverse".

Billions of dollars can't buy you the ability to sense irony I guess.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

hands book to new hire "Make this in 2 years...there's red bull in the fridge. You sleep on that mat."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You sleep on that mat.

Dunno if better or worse than a pod.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

soon the window will go, then the other conforts