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That minimum wage you thought was below your value line may start to look pretty good as Americans slowly learn their real value as a plug-and-play employee is approaching $0. On a long enough time line, someone ends up building a robot. As we’ve reported extensively here at Zero Hedge (Walmart, Google, FoxxConn, KFC, Starbucks), robotics have been the clear go-to decision when one wishes to abolish those pesky employees always looking for timeoff and the proverbial “fair treatment”. But now we bring you the newest member of the robotics club, none other than your every other weekend series X-whatever funding round superstar Uber!

Uber now has a robotic security guard patrolling the lot used to park cars awaiting inspection in the Mission Bay area of San Francisco. Knightscope designed and manufactured the device, which is known as K5.

As Fusion reports, the robot can see 360 degrees, possesses a thermal sensor within its camera, and able to decipher the character of the surrounding environment (weather, distance, sounds, facial recognition). Lest your imagination run wild about how this robot would defend any private or public property, rest assured Uber’s robotic security guard is a glorified mall cop.

Meaning the robot will merely set off an alarm and record everything it can if there is some form of a threat or breach.

As Fusion explained, the robot is keen on what is happening around it:

“The bot was spotted by a friend of Fusion, Alan Sanchez, who stopped to take a photo of the bot and found that when he did, the robot stopped moving around to focus its stare on him”

And the encounters are, at least in this instance, humorous.

“The robots were patrolling at 2 a.m. Some clown came onto the property and was engaging our machine in a way that suggested he was going to attempt damage,” said Stephens. “He was kicking and punching at the machine. It set off all the alarms and sent an alert to the security guard’s mobile device. When that happened, this guy turned white and took off like a little girl. We turned the evidence over to police, who said it made him a suspect in some vehicle break-ins that occurred around the same time in the direction he ran.”

First they came for the parking lots. Now the robots are coming for European delivery jobs. According to Bloomberg, food delivery service Just Eat Plc will be using robots to deliver food. Just Eat will enter an exclusive group using robotic delivery alongside Hermes logistics, Metro AG, and Pronto Technologies.

Beyond Just Eat there is a firm named Starship which will be bringing robotic food delivery into the realm of possibility. Per Bloomberg:

“The little robots, which are designed to operate on sidewalks rather than roads, make deliveries within a two-to three-mile radius. They can carry loads weighing as much as 20 pounds, at speeds of up to four miles per hour. Starship will operate the …read more

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By Tyler Durden

Real Vision TV’s Grant Williams offers a true look into what is known as an absurd debt level and unimaginable central bank manipulation. Less than a week ago we highlighted Grant’s comments on commodities. Although the information contained in the video below is nothing new to Zero Hedge, we do enjoy the way the information is presented. Set aside some time to listen as Grant tells a story about debt and the current investment landscape.

Grant sees people “with more power than you can possibly imagine” as the ones responsible for experimental economics that led the world down a path of self destruction.

“I don’t think there is any argument about whether or not the central bankers of the world should have done something in 2008. The question is ‘should they still be doing it 8 years later‘?”

We recommend viewing the entire clip

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Source: "Crazy" – The Complete Story Of Debt, In A 40 Minute Video

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The gating of billions of dollars in commercial real estate funds by six U.K. institutional money managers has quite properly roiled markets. But, as Bloomberg's Richard Breslow notes, it's not because of the absolute size of the funds or because it will take some time for investors to get their cash out; rather, because it has exposed the manifold flaws continuing to drive investment psychology and practice.

Flaws reminiscent of some of the most obtuse assumptions that led to the financial crisis and have been the cornerstone of extraordinary monetary policies since then.

These funds exist because of the desperate search for any sort of yield. Can’t make any money from sovereign bonds? Just substitute into your portfolio a slice of a retail warehouse in Northampton.

A naive sense of liquidity in long-term investments with no ready market was built on the belief that prices could only go up. That you’d always be selling on the offer. After all, these funds are backed by household names, no need to read the fine print in the redemptions section.

It’s said identifying bubbles before they burst is nearly impossible. People know what a bubble is. They’ve just come to depend on central banks providing a put if any nasty surprises happen. Or warn them personally to get out before everyone else if the band is going to take a break.

The reason it’s so hard to ring-fence this sort of episode is that when investors can’t get liquidity where they thought, they have no choice but to find a piggy bank somewhere else. A property fund slows payments, ergo some currency fund ends up having to scale back its positions, even if they’re on a great run.

When I watch BOE Governor Carney, I see a man who knows he has to nip this in the bud. In doing so, he needs to encourage more of the same investment behavior that created these risks. Round and round we go.

“Whatever it takes” remains the new normal.

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Source: "Whatever It Takes" Remains The New Normal

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Submitted by Chris Martenson via PeakProsperity.com,

The sorts of predicaments the world faces — ranging from over $200 trillion in debt, to our unsustainable addiction to fossil fuels, to our over-stressed ecosystems — all require that we get deadly serious about confronting them ASAP, and make difficult decisions and trade-offs.

However, our global leaders always seem to opt to kick the can down the road if at all possible. Short-term thinking and near-term priorities dependably get precedence over doing the right thing for the future. Tomorrow’s generations are thrown under the bus by selfishly motivated actors today.

As I’ve put forth over and over again: we’re simply not going to make it unless we get much more serious about our efforts than we have been to date. Yes, it’s a wonderful thing that Elon Musk is building sexy electric cars; but even a single minute spent with a pencil, paper and the aggregate energy statistics on transportation will reveal that there’s an enormous gap between where we currently are and where we need to be.

Most will never spend that minute; which is why I continue to do what I do.

For example, many people wave their arms lazily at the statistics for wind-generated electricity and never bother to ask if its current growth rates can be sustained. Or wonder just how tremendously massive the scale of the effort will need to be to meet any realistic sustainability goals.

In a prior companion piece to this article, I quoted a study which determined that to simply meet the wind power goal put forth in the recent Paris accord, the world would have to massively upshift from installing 37 wind towers per day currently to more than 1,300 per day by 2028.

Can we do that? Maybe. But not without a maniacal commitment to making it happen. And that’s the thing: the world is instead hoping that somehow ‘the market’ will deliver sufficient wind power in time. Given the state of the global financial system — with its more than $200 trillion(!) in debt — is that really something we want to leave to hope?

But leaving the economic and political issues of that challenge aside, I’d like us to focus on the more practical issues of the energy investment required to build out a new energy infrastructure, not to mention the longevity and durability of the components we'd be installing.

I’ve always found this time-lapse video of a single wind tower installation mesmerizing. The skill on display is amazing:

Here’s a brief summary for those of you too busy to watch this construction process right now: Diesel, diesel, diesel, reinforced concrete, diesel, petroleum, diesel. That is, installing a wind tower like this requires a huge amount of fossil fuels to accomplish.

To focus in further, watch from the 45-second mark to one minute. What you’ll see there is 96,000 pounds of reinforcing steel, and 53 cement trucks used to pour the windmill's base.

Which brings us to an overlooked and very important part of the story: …read more

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