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Several times this past year, the Prime delivery date, stated to me while checking out, was missed. One time, for a birthday present, I paid extra for next-day delivery; they missed that date.

More frequently, I receive very poorly packed boxes. Items bouncing around the box with no or "token" packing material. One package came with all but one of the air pockets, used to provide cushioning, deflated. A substantial, hardcover book was packed together with some loose, higher quality mechanical pencils having unretracted/unretractable lead sleeves, with no padding or protection whatsoever. They were all just swimming around a relatively oversized box. (The product pages for the pencils gave no clue that I noticed that they would come in loose form, unpackaged save for being in small polyethylene bags.)

I don't order that much from Amazon/Prime, so this represented a significant fraction of my total activity with them.

For me, negative change has gone further than the un-differentiation of their catalogue.
If you really mean that maybe more corruption/conflicts of interests are needed, you're going to need to spend more time arguing for that than a couple of paragraphs in a nytimes profile.
I also assume you're using bash. I know there are some cool newcomers out there like zsh and fish

While there is much useful in this post, I always find comments like this one odd. bash was released back in 1989, zsh was released one year later, in 1990. One year difference in age almost thirty years ago means that you can't really call zsh a newcomer. Maybe he's talking about adoption, though.
not sure if this was a successful exit. LinkedIn shows the employee count being cut in half over the last little while. Also 2 of the other cofounders left?
Excuse me. The USA have a ridiculous system of world wide taxation (like Eritrea). Sufficiently qualified people might want to work there for a while, but not become citizens.

If you force the green card or even citizenship onto H1B employees, they might not want to come.

Furthermore, if you're on a green card (or a citizen), you're subject to the exit tax. On an H1B, you can avoid it for a few years at least.
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I'd argue he's dangerous period:

"Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible ... The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of "capitalist democracy" into an oxymoron."[1]"https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
Yeap! If you can't trust the seller, why not go directly to eBay?

The other day we received a parcel from Ukraine. When I openned it my wife said "I don't understand, why is it from Ukraine? I ordered it from Amazon!"

Since then, I cancelled all my family's Amazon accounts and ask everybody to send me links to the stuff they want and I order them for them.

Having third party sellers is the equivalent to Macy's allowing shady street sellers selling counterfeit perfumes in their store. Completely stupid idea if you ask me.
I can't run the IDE.

After signing in to my Google account, the popup disappears and nothing happens.

I seem to get this in my browser console everytime I load the page:

Uncaught DOMException: Failed to read the 'sessionStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document.

I tried disabling adblock as well.
Trivial? Not quite. Possible? Definitely, if you're competent and well rounded.

I'm not sure, but I suspect the outsourcing firms filter more by hard-working (i.e. hours put in) and not quality. After all, that's what people who hire outsourcing firms want. So then, when these poor people want to change jobs, there's not that many roles available. Contrast this to visa holders who work for big tech companies. With that on your CV, getting another role isn't hard.
> you will never see any Docker marketing content criticizing competitors

http://img.scoop.it/vr-SoyYI8yKYsOf0vxriWrnTzqrqzN7Y9aBZTaXo..., from http://www.docker.com/sites/default/files/WP_IntrotoContaine... (page 9)

Don't know if it was marketing material when you published it in that whitepaper, but it definitely became marketing material when the @Docker twitter account tweeted it (https://twitter.com/docker/status/768232653665558528).
There are several areas where America could do well to in adopting a clear tradition, mourning being just one.
Another way to think about the same thing.

The user is the boss of the software. The user is not a peripheral that I get to reprogram. I must accept the user as is, and adapt as best as possible to their actual capabilities.
Yea even though I was not born then, I can imagine. It shattered lots of long held popular beliefs and took mankind to a whole new level.
they have to do that because they live in an expensive area, hence living within your means, this is the part of the comment which you completely ignored. I make good money but I dont work an extra job just so I can live in sf, I just don't live there, its no ones right to live anywhere in particular and if you remove that constraint then "any other good alternatives" doesnt hold true but only for the very few people who literally cannot go somewhere reasonable to live for good reasons other than "it sucks".

Everyone wants to make it sound like these people had a gun to their had and the only option was to be a wage slave to the uber type oppressors, this is completely lacking in perspective to the vast expanse of inexpensive areas there are in which unskilled labor can live comfortably.
> I've always wondered why California keeps electing conservative governors like Reagan and Schwarzenegger while always voting for Democratic Presidents

Bear in mind that a conservative running for President has to turn out conservatives in Ohio and conservatives in Florida.

There are issues on which California voters are conservative (or at least, favor positions usually held by Republicans - not quite the same thing but I won't quibble). We just voted again in favor of the death penalty, for instance.

Conservatives running in only California get to tailor their message to those issues, while on other issues being willing to compromise or even genuinely differing with other Republicans (see Schwarzenegger on climate, for instance).
Actually he's exclusively self-serving, solipsistic. He's an Ayn Rand libertarian (which in fact is a contradiction). If he were not self-serving, he'd be a liberal (which he isn't).
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Unfortunately, in the history of the world, charity hasn't even come close to helping as many of those in need as successful government programs. The incentives to provide enough support to different charities aren't there. Charity follows trends and whims, not needs. For example, the top cumulative donations went to charities that do not serve the needs of the poor, despite how many people are still in need of assistance despite government programs.
The architecture and architect shouldn't be writing software. Complete hack with no knowledge of image editing. Chase down Elle Stone's posts on how fundamentally broken it is.

Shortlist:

1. Hideously over-engineered pixel path makes performance, if at all possible, worse.

2. Broken concept of colour management and pixels. See sRGB debacle and the concept of hard coded spaces.

3. Anachronism of imaging model.

4. Ignored fundamental problems that many people pointed out years ago. See the ridiculous "unbounded mode" that even a 100 level image computer student could have demonstrated would never work.

5. As per 4., ignored all evidence and designed a worthless software model around.

Etc.

The project needs to die.
Canada is brutal with this. They will demand your phone, they will demand your password. If there's anything that makes them think you might overstay your visa, they'll likely deny you entry. The only "reasonable" solution, is to enjoy your trip free of cumbersome electronics, or buy new ones.
There's waaaaayyyyy too much nostalgia for the A10 - partly from its gun and the impression of it as a solid airborne tank of an aircraft.

It's done its job well but it has so many weaknesses on a modern battlefield it's time to move on. It's roles can be done by many other platforms.
>The point is that most people as the supplier aren't doing Uber, AirBnB, etc because they like it. They're doing it because they don't have any other good alternatives.

How do you know this? The last five uber drivers I've had have been

- a bloke on the way home from the gym

- the owner of a small accountancy firm, also on the way home

- an IT student from China who talked about PHP with me

- a Korean migrant who really hated taxi companies and was saving up for a house

- a CFO for a smallish company who was driving people around because he had to pick up his wife from the airport in a few hours

They all seemed pretty okay with uber. Only one, the student, was driving as a primary source of income, and he was doing about 20 hours a week and making more than he would in any other job.
5% of a manual could be hugely valuable, depending on which 5%. I recommend reading the bash man-page end-to-end, though - there's a lot there!
> there is a grace period, I believe, of 30 days, soon to be extended to 60

AFAIK there is no official grace period, but for practicality the USCIS does process some applications within an arbitrary time-frame.
Amen. People say there is a shortage of skilled labor. I just came out of a prestigious public CA university and can't find a job that pays a living wage. If coming out of a CS program with internships and I still don't have the skills maybe these companies should invest in training me as an entry level worker.
Close, but not quite.

> Banks scale up fiat money creation in response

The US money supply approximately doubles every 10 years, it's remarkably consistent modulo the occasional hiccup.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2

You're right, that that the markets will reprice very quickly, and roughly speaking the more there is (stuff, workers, etc.) the lower the price will be. This would be much less of a problem if money was more evenly distributed, or if there was an efficient tax system in the US. Mostly the problem (if it can be described as singular one) in the US, and elsewhere, is the failure to tax the financial sector properly and redistribute that money back into the public infrastructure.
All you get for your money is parole though -- not a visa. You couldn't work for other companies or stay indefinitely without getting another type of visa.
That's true of federal government positions. Is it true of state positions? I don't see how a California law could prevent federal taxes.
The alternatives you suggest aren't GIMP replacements. I am into photography and, for better or worse, only GIMP provides tools for photographers and is an alternative to photoshop. Since Krita and Blender seem to be at a better funding position than GIMP, it only makes sense to donate to it.

Note: I've donated to Krita, GIMP, digiKam and other software, animation projects and libregraphics meetings in the past.
Considering the fact that no other smartphone manufacturer other than Apple and Samsung don't make a profit...
Can someone explain the risk of something like Mac OS Mail asking for your gmail password? There's no address bar so I've wondered if I can really trust that I'm not handing my password to a MITM.
I think it's bizarre he's supposedly considering pardoning Manning but not Snowden when only one of them was acting in a highly-contemplated civic-minded way.
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When did I ever imply those things?

I will bluntly state that if you have the kind of writing talent that OP displayed, and you cannot afford a bicycle, you are simply not applying yourself.

That level of skill alone could easily net you $1500/month+ on various writing services (at an extremely conservative 2000 words/day * $0.03/word * 20 days/month). Nobody said it'd be fun or easy, but hey, you'd at least have a bicycle after you got paid.
Dragon 2 will have abort modes throughout the flight. The Interplanetary Transport System (aka MCT)? Nope.
You're arguing that because a gun or car is dangerous, ownership implies liability. There are few things which can be possessed which cannot be dangerous in the wrong hands, and a car is not actually intended for the purpose of murder, so one should probably not judge it by that standard. However, I did explicitly consider the case of an inherently dangerous object, so I cannot have left out that part as you suggest. I am really not sure what part of this concept you could possibly have an objection to. You know we're talking about a car, right, not a hydrogen bomb? Surely you can do better than that?
What happens to them afterward? Do they get a permanent residency just from operating that venture for 3.5 years?

(Do they need to pass the point-based qualification as well to get the visa in the first place?)

For the US, small business investor-entrepreneurs typically use an E-2 visa but it is non-immigrant and they need to leave the country when the business stops operating.
You can apply for any kinds of visa you want while taking advantage of the parole according to the linked article. You would need to leave the US to change status though.
Yep, was just sitting down on a plane before a flight. Thanks for giving the wider context I didn't have time to add.
Is it at all worrisome that this man, through his donations, has an ear to the president?
I wouldn't have said dishonest.

The only access the baseband running on the SIM800 has to the main processor (Pi) is via the Pi's UART.

It's completely different from the "read and write directly to shared memory" access the baseband that your average Android potentially has.

If you encrypt your SMS on the Pi and send it, ths SIM800 has no access to the keys for decryption, for example.

I'm guessing you're talking about his price calculation for the $27, right? A bit further on he does say:

>In total, it should be 50$ or slightly more.

>Also, price falls quickly if you're assembling one or two more phones for your friend, too - eBay sellers can make discounts when you buy more than XX$ or "make an offer", and PCBs are cheaper (you won't get less than 3 pcs of PCBs in any of usual board houses, so you have to pay extra even if you need only one board - you'll still get two more)

I don't think that's too far off and may be a bit pessimistic. The only component you can't bulk buy easily and cheaply is the Pi Zero as it's STILL one per customer.

ABut none of the parts are expensive in single units either, except relatively speaking the PCBs. Which are non-essential because you could literally breadboard it.

If you're interested, he did an AMA on Reddit earlier.
everyone should remember this is the port of entry body. allowing them to decide in case of urgency makes sense fully.

entrepreneurs already can request a visa in their home country usa embassy.

why the people validating documents at the airport should now decide on startups sounds crazy at least.
You basically can. Almost every modem supports an AT command interface with SMS commands. It can be easy, non-trivial, and sometimes hard to get at your modem directly -- depends on the specifics. Calls are trickier, needing voice i/o, etc.
Can anyone comment on how Apple works with retailers? Do retailers "buy" from Apple (and pay within thirty days of delivery)? Can retailers return iPhones they can't sell without paying a premium?

Sorry I don't know anything about the market. I don't even know if best buy's margin would be public information or if we'd need to make an educated guess.
Counterfeit Jobs is just the media being the media. Lei Ju dressed like Steve and presented like him. They have done nothing remotely innovative as a company. Their phones looked like duplicates of the iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy lineup for years, which from my understanding, is why they haven't entered the U.S. or other markets yet.
> And if you're also applying for a green card sponsored by your company then you have additional issues

If you don't apply for Green Card sponsored by your company, you will have to leave after 6 years anyway - so these additional issues are almost always relevant too.
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A common explanation [1] is that California turned deep blue after Prop 187 passed. The only thing to be explained is Schwarzenegger's election, and that was a rather weird one. (Plus, he's an immigrant and not a typical Republican.)

But not everyone buys this. Another explanation is just that California is 38% non-hispanic white and falling. [2][3]

[1] http://www.latinodecisions.com/blog/2013/10/17/prop187effect...

[2] http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/06/california-and...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_California
I hope this is some sarcastic joke. I really do. If anyone believes this, they have apparently been asleep at the wheel of GIMP development for the past decade.

Hubris. Ego. Not a shred of a clue about image editing. The entire batch of current systemic problems are a byproduct of this developer's efforts and architecture.
If I worked for WhatsApp (Or conversely, if WhatsApp used an implementation of something I've made, thus making it hugely popular in the process) I'd certainly say there's no backdoor indeed.

Conflicts of interest.
Ahhh, my bad, I didn't dig enough to see that you were Canadian. If Trump's policies "work" with respect to employment, you may certainly see similar dominos fall. TBD of course.
Government is a fact of how humans think. Tech isn't going to change how our brains work.
Depending on the cellular modem, you can. Some the USB Huwawai modem dongles have a "call" mode, a YouTube search will give you a run down.
To be fair, I enjoyed the feedback. I see how this could often snowball, though.

Perhaps my "make a less-than-exhaustively-researched statement then wait and see if someone corrects you" method of testing validity of statements isn't very harmonious. I think this was my bad, here.
Except that they didn't. They just offered a nice fat contract to keep it afloat. TFA: "Staving off a fiery end to the 66-satellite necklace and its spares, the Pentagon on Wednesday awarded a projected two-year, $72 million communications contract to seal a new ownership deal worked out in a New York bankruptcy court."

That's like claiming that NASA is "running" SpaceX, since its contracts are extremely important to SpaceX's business model.
This is why we can't have nice things. Open source development that improves the lives of millions of people is still flamed because of choices made far in the past that are very hard to fix means that it "needs to die".

Look - irrespective of the truth of the message, remember that there are humans reading it and framing matters
:.!ls means "filter the current line through ls". Since ls ignores stdin, the effect is that the current line gets replaced by its output. :r!ls just inserts the output, without replacing anything.
And just to update, there's not actually two syllables in there.
I used the term 'regular expressions.' I did not use the term 'regexes'. Regular expressions are clearly defined and have mathematical properties including equivalence to (or the ability to unequivocally and fully describe) finite automata. Conversely, regexes are not clearly defined mathematically.

There's nothing wrong with imprecision when precision is not called for and particularly when the imprecision facilitates communication. Sometimes however the abstractions leak and expecting the string type to embody the properties of human text is one of those...at least in my opinion. Other people may have different opinions.
Companies have no incentive to invest in training when they can brain-drain other countries for less, and force their terms on the people they bring over.
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While I agree with a lot of what you've said, I think you missed much of the point of the article.

It was written by a comedian, and therefore I read it as meaning to be provocative and not to be taken entirely at face-value (eg, the title of the article). Therefore, I think answering something intentionally provocative with another polemic (eg, "move to bumfuck nowhere" etc) only prevents you from engaging with the actual issues being raised in the original piece.

What I think the piece really is talking about is where things are headed on the cultural and socio-economic compass for the peons (sic), and how that's being framed through this clever, winking, yet ultimately Orwellian language of the culture that validates and encourages what are arguably destructive social forces: being "always on" and "shut-in"-style social isolation.
Thank you Mr Trotsky...
Some people do, some people don't, but US policy should be concerned primarily with what's good for the US, not what foreigners would prefer.
I've written people messages in just pinyin and they tell me they don't understand when it's just pinyin. Maybe they were just illiterate?
No VoIP (yet at least), the audio is handled entirely by the SIM800 at present.

The SIM800 is hooked up via the Pi's UART for commands.

Not sure about the SMS software, someone on Reddit asked about that too.
> And repeat that process when traveling, with added emphasis on cultural aspects.

To expand on that, you should do this even when travelling to another state in most countries. In the US for example, Arkansas nearly outlawed street photography: https://petapixel.com/2015/03/31/arkansas-privacy-bill-vetoe...
This has nothing to do with it. Minimizing salaries and a compliant workforce has everything to do with it.
Absolutely correct, it takes five years to be able to apply for citizenship for a green card holder. But a green card holder can move from job to job the way a US citizen does. So ince you have a green card, you are not submitted to the constraints of a visa.
If what you say is true, and child labor is keeping children from starving to death, then how could you possibly oppose it?

The main objection against child labor is that it is extremely detrimental for the children. If you literally believe the children benefit from it, then I can not understand your objection.
Oh I get it didn't want to come across as flippant. Indeed text is hard.
not sure why this is being downvoted.

i live in the tropics, used to have cold fingers, now i don't have cold fingers.

seems like an honest solution to me?
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In fairness, if there had been loss-of-life it probably would have been a much harder process.

I suspect the reason for the swift return to flight is half that fact, and half that SpaceX is more bureaucratically efficient.