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Try buying any Apple accessories. I wanted to buy the genuine Apple headphones, but it's absolutely impossible to on Amazon. "Sold by Apple" product shows up from a seller in Boston, clearly counterfeit. Report it to Amazon and they suggest mailing it back for a refund. Zero concern that the seller is labeling their goods as genuine Apple and then sending knock-offs.

Prior to this I got a set of grey market Gillette blades that were fulfilled by Amazon.

Like you, I've been with Amazon for nearly 20 years, but I've recently started being more selective about what I order from them. I'm surprised that they aren't tackling this more.
I've talked to ceos who have said they would love to post a Q over Q decline in opex due to automation of the salary cost center in all orgs.
It is definitely something that I miss. I would actually be pretty happy to pay a $15 premium for a USB-C cable that integrated MagSafe style charging LEDs into its circuitry.
It does not, at least not explicitly, which is a distinguishing feature of policy optimization algorithms. I don't think there's anything about this that makes it worse for non-deterministic problems. Note that the policy can still be stochastic, if desired (not sure if that's a good idea in general). A nice feature of black box policy optimization is that it's almost trivial to apply to either stochastic or deterministic problems.
What is Amazon thinking? They're slowly destroying their brand.
>*I wouldn't rule it out, but no computing hardware platform has ever been dominant for 50 years before so there are reasons to believe we're not about to get started with that kind of cycle now.

"Mainframes, minicomputers, desktop personal computers, laptops, and now tablets and smartphones" -- yes, so we had like 5 generations of computing hardware platforms. And we began with so premature and begging for improvement technologies (when they started in the 50s) and so large form factors that we had Moore's law going on for decades until a few years past.

Now we've reaching physical limits in CPU shrinking, and we have components so small (e.g. Apple Watch) than if they were any smaller you couldn't handle their buttons, or fit a camera lens, or speakers, or a large enough screen in there.

My point is, just because something has been going on for 5 generations of form factors, it's nowhere near enough evidence to be meaningful statistically or otherwise to deduce it will go on forever.

A turkey is fed every day by the farmer for months on end. But after 300+ observations that make it think feeding is never ending and inevitable there comes thanksgiving.
My $200 Canon P&S that I bought in 2013 still takes better low-light pics than my iPhone 7.

Phones are good enough, sure. But top of the line phones still can't do low-light very well.
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Do you think he's referring to a Muslim registry or drones?
Solid review from the link: "The item came in a Ziploc bag and more importantly, it's a fake."
> the most clean GUI code I have ever seen

That's because it doesn't actually do anything...
I should add that when two or more fighters engage in dogfight, their speed decreases dramatically and they become sitting ducks for other fighters.
Hopefully you're right (for the employee's sake). But given the Bezos/Trump feud, if I were Bezos I'd be very cautious about giving the feds any valid reason (with lots of precedence) to shut down any warehouses for an investigation.
Because this particular cheat has happened to us and we added systems to prevent it:

We already do serialize each unit for customers. So when cases started appearing like this we would also apply another code to the box the unit is placed into. Our system then associates both of them - taking photos of each when that occurs.

This prevents the changing of what unit is in a box.

Peeling off the sticker is actually pretty easily prevented entirely by the photo, humans aren't very good at placing stickers exactly the same way as they're initially applied. Compounded by our use of self-destructive stickers where possible.
I simply have to believe that cloud services have taken a big bite of the sysadmin market. We currently employ zero admins (~25 employees, moderate traffic).

In my previous ventures that'd be unthinkable, but we've effecticely outsourced the position to Amazon.
I would love a utility that watched for fast battery drops and then alerted me or automatically killed a process based on rules. The few times I've had battery issues with the new MBP I've checked Activity Monitor to find that something like iTunes has become unresponsive and is pinning a core at 100%, but often not before losing 30% of a charge.
Well as someone who spent $10m shutting down a blog he didn't like, I guess he should know.
>The next big technology revolution is AI. Should be pretty obvious at this point.

I don't think so. I think AI is just one of those fads that come up every now and then, and then get abandoned for the next one.

I'm calling AI as in "actual working strong AI" or useful soft AI stuff as fad.

I'm calling "AI" as in the thing currently every VC/company is investing in and we see various helpers like Cortana and Siri based, the machine learning craze, on etc. Besides some obvious and fitting applications (like in self driving cars) it will go nowhere fast.

VR has already reached this stage, without making any large dent on the market in the first place even temporarily.

Note that this is the second time AI is promised and will get nowhere (the first was back in the 80s, with the "AI winter").
"Biglietto da visita" in Italian, it was used also for accompanying a gift, most people used to have two sets, one, a proper "visit card" without anything but the title and the name (and the title was usually striken with a pen to show familiarity) and one more properly a "business card" with the postal address and (once available) phone number.
I think it's funny that you're seeing people as still wanting to buy a car in that scenario.
The improvements since ENIAC have mostly been miniaturization. It seems like smartphones are about as small as you can make a computer before it starts to become less usable.
Then Amazon closes your account for trying to return this garbage they illegally sold. Short of million dollar fines for every incident, this will never change. I doubt Amazon is even trying to fix this. It's so much easier to shut down the people that complain.
"This inventory is commingled with all other FBA inventory"
My point is that you are confusing things. Neither a visit to a stripclub by a bunch of colleagues nor a gender divided bathroom means that there is any discrimination happening and that if we are to follow your logic a lot of things would be called discrimination which luckily they don't.
Amazon already has some serious issues on the side of returns and issues like this. They accept basically anything - return fraud was another huge issue that came up earlier this year.

Scammer would buy something like an iPhone, take out the phone, fill the box with clay or something, send it back to Amazon.

Amazon just accepts the huge majority of returns and the seller is who gets hurt. (Obviously matters much more to companies not the size of Apple)
It's weird that people who claim unpopular opinions, often at the expense of others, so rarely can find the time to argue their excellent ideas. I have a number of friends that works in "IT" in Europe. The difference between working for a US and European "IT" company is night and day. It simply has very little status as a field in the US. If you had ever seen the things a systems administrators have to deal with from highly educated engineers, you would know that it has less to do with "IQ" and everything to do with domain knowledge.
How about doing something meaningful about the Clathrate Gun?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

Turning the Methane Deposits into a business would be nice.
Wait... So Amazon removed legitimate reviews from people who bought the product being sold on the page being reviewed because the product being sold is sometimes counterfeit ? How are other people attempting to purchase that item from that page supposed to learn that the item may sometimes be counterfeit and act in a rational way or with a correct risk assessment when valid data is being expunged without any other changes ? The valid 1 Star reviews should stay !
Good to know. They may have cleaned things up.

Or maybe I was doing something weird. For some reason the projects I'm trying to accomplish always seem to be the thing the library designer didn't anticipate. :|
I understand statistics but that doesn't make the distinction trivial. Nobody is suggesting (I think) that we should ignore any problems these vehicles represent. That we even need to "argue" this is kind of crazy: lots of people die, get in car minor/moderate/severe accidents that cause injuries, etc. and there is no computer at fault. Getting into a car accident that isn't your fault is basically random.

So why pretend like it's not important to cite how many people die today? We write laws and rules for how to operate vehicles that can be observed and operated by a computer. It's very likely that at a certain point those computers will exceed our aggregate ability to prevent deaths.

There are likely also wins we could get from the design of vehicles by not having to accommodate a human driver. Take for example the window that a person can be ejected from the vehicle through or debris can easily penetrate.
I found this new and quite interesting version of the cloud storage report which talks about the market share of Dropbox, Google and Microsoft. Again not sure how representative it is but it seems like the author has some data to work with.
Yes. It's entirely possible that the other driver was 100% to blame but a rollover accident is actually a very serious accident even if there were apparently no serious injuries in this case. This wasn't some happens all the time fender bender.
void f(std::variant<int, char>)

would be

f(x: IntOrChar)

roughly in Rust, I'm too lazy to make the types _exactly_ the same, but https://godbolt.org/g/pZde2A is roughly it.

Actually, https://godbolt.org/g/1vcMeG might be even better to compare; I'm not an expert, but looks like the only difference is in the size.

last one, adding inline(never) so you can see the calls in main: https://godbolt.org/g/cVDjQH

movabs rdi, 21474836480
call example::f1@PLT

vs

mov edi, 5
pop rbp
jmp example::f2@PLT

so, yup.
>> Uber paved the way for a lot of this. There is no way Google, Apple, Tesla or definitely an established car company would have been able to plow their way in to these local markets, bypassing and ignoring regulations until the point that cities became dependent on Uber. Now it is done, and it isn't particular a moat for Uber. But they fucking did it, they are the ones who need the recognition for it.

I don't understand or like this attitude. A company creating a moat by breaking the law to gain an advantage over people following the law is not something to be admired or celebrated.

(If I've misunderstood your tone I apologise but your final sentence gives me this impression).
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We do pretty much the same on our team with only items for the current and next release on the board. All other items that might be done are on a backlog board with lists for bugs and features by priority. We build a new release from that board.

So, left to right on the main board: Inbox, v.nextNext, v.next, In process, Review Requested, In Testing, Done.next, Done.nextNext

Done lists get moved to a "Releases" board when the version is released.

Inbox is triaged once per week to somewhere on the Backlog board or to a current release only if it's urgent or a regression introduced by those releases (like the bug was found in a beta)

The key to using Kanban, IMO, is to keep the number of cards pretty low. Use a pull to bring cards on when lists get empty -- do not just keep adding.
Yes you did

"(I think you thought deliberately absurd) example you provided downthread, in which a company held business meetings in the men's bathroom."

Furthermore you haven't pointed to a single example of any kind of business being conducted at the strip club.

It's not something I would drag other people to do, but it has nothing to do with gender discrimination to go to a scrip-club especially not when the purpose seemed to be picking up women not discussing the latest strategy.
I also think this added emphasis. I liked the way the author phrased it, i.e. "...everywhere illegal". To me, it gave the impression of focusing on the word "everywhere". (I'm not a native speaker.)
You should report these incidents to your state attorney general as a fraud.

Eventually they'll raid an Amazon DC. Losing a day of revenue will get their attention.
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I have never driven in the US, but isn't it the job of a car to be rather risk-averse when it comes to merging ?

If you're not risk averse, you'd dead meat in 10s in Bangalore - quite lit. if you're riding a motorcycle.

(Watch out for the yellow number plates and the Tata Indicas if you're ever here!)
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The 4s will be 6 years old this year, and iOS 10 dropped support for it in 2016. The iPhone 5 will likely not be compatible with iOS 11 when it arrives in September.

I think 5 years is a pretty good run, and it seems like the standard now.

If you bought your 4s 2 years ago, that's on you. If you're buying your phones used, then it's in your best interest to not buy a phone that's already 3 years old.
I exported my playlists and used the data to create playlists using the Spotify API. Their API is really fast to search and I was able to "import" all but around 2% of my tracks in an evening.
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It doesn't matter much on iOS, where users rarely if at all have to access the filesystem directly. It is very rare that the same files would be accessed and modified by more than a single application anyway.
Solving the Muslim problem would be solving one of the hardest problem to solve.
The dismantling of the rent-seeking civil-liberties-stomping military industrial complex sounds like a good problem to tackle. Palantir first.
Was that necessary?
It does. Many commodities are comingled. That's a big reason why DVD and Software piracy is a huge issue.
>Yes: a) dominant consumer-facing platforms don't tend to last much longer than 10 years these days

Citation needed. Although the addition of "these days" doesn't let us check any historical precedent, as makes the claim more like "it might have been different in the past, but from now on dominant consumer-facing platforms don't tend to last much longer than 10 years".

>smartphones only really took off exactly 10 years ago with the iPhone, so it's presumptuous to think we've hit the perfect sweet spot that will last us much longer.

That's irrelevant, since smartphones are just the continuation of computing platforms, so they herald back to ENIAC's time too. They are more portable computer in essence (that also takes calls -- which are now of course digitally communicated) than some novel technology.

>It's almost like arguing the ENIAC would be the pinnacle of computing for the next 50 years.

At the moment ENIAC has developed everybody knew it was early days, and tons of innovations unexploited for improvement. Heck, computing hadn't even hit the market much yet, it was all research work.

Today we already have exhausted Moore's law, and we're near physical limitations for further shrinking. It's as if people don't understand that innovations in platforms are S curved such that one see more improvement in a platform before it plateaus, before all the low hanging fruits have been implemented, and further research yields marginal returns for very expensive costs.
They'd have to convince amazon to sell it like they would with a traditional store.
To your point I backed off of a purchase on Amazon today specifically because I was afraid of counterfeit. I wanted to purchase a bag in a particular color which no longer seemed to be available on the company's site nor their Amazon store. Another vendor had the bag I wanted in that color for half the price.

Perhaps it's legit. Perhaps I could have gotten what I wanted and saved $50. We'll never know.
That just means you've elected not to hire an operations person, not that Amazon is doing it for you. You're still doing it, you just don't realize it.
it's from 2014
Ageism. I'd bet that Steve isn't in his 20s or early 30s, or he'd already be hired perm.
Actually a lot of what makes our judgements about behaviors salient is precisely what we think about their internal state. We're more likely to forgive someone who seems truly remorseful over someone who takes unrepentant pleasure in killing.

Just taking the action in isolation is not enough, we need to make judgements about how likely the person is to do the same or worse actions again. Uber's management has, through their actions, revealed something about their mental states--you'd be wrong to disregard this information.
Unfortunately that heuristic is useless in deciding when periods of change end. Ditto when periods of stability end.

I could say, "The manually driven, privately owned internal combustion car and truck have been dominant in transport for 100 years, so the safe bet is that they will continue to be." And that is definitely safe bet. But the interesting work will be done by people making the unsafe bets.
I guess you've never been to a bar. People working late are not the only consumers of pizza...
>Yes it is. Mobile phones are incredibly not user friendly. They are just the best thing we have for the moment.

Who said user friendliness is some inevitability?

Some tasks (if not all) have some inherent complexity.

Even if we had strong AI, we'd just delegate the tasks to it to handle -- we wouldn't reduce the complexity of handling them ourselves, we have just bypassed it.
From the comments section:

"I want to support MS, I’m a development partner. But I feel like you guys spend way too much time thinking about how to push intrusive ad’s into the OS and trying to get easy ad-based revenue from your browser: Talking very good security talk but not walking a very good security walk."

The commenter also makes a comment about how Chrome the older browser was found to be much more secure than Edge the newer one. And then a bunch of technical stuff from someone responding to it (the respondent is not the person writing the article).

Am I the only one who feels MSFT would simply be better off not writing these articles at all if they don't particularly care for engaging with their audience?

Oh, and you can't leave a comment without signing in with a Microsoft account. :-)
Have you found any alternative to online shopping?

I generally just roll the dice with Amazon on anything that is not food or electronics. The convenience trumps the money wasted on buying a bad product.

For electronics, I've looked at Walmart and Jet.com which have shady 3rd party sellers that are worse than Amazon sellers.

I believe BestBuy gets all its inventory from authorized sellers so I trust them, although they have limited selection.

I haven't found a solution for food (mainly specific branded supplements like magnesium/vitamin C/etc. that can't be found in regular grocery stores)

The ideal situation would be if Amazon didn't conmingle its "Sold by Amazon.com" inventory with 3rd party sellers and charged a premium for it (to make it economically feasible for them). Right now the current incentives aren't pointing in that direction.

Most customers don't know about the conmingling. If we could spread awareness of conmingling, the economic incentives could lean in that direction.
Yes, I think the person's assertion was that FBA inventory != "Shipped and sold by Amazon" inventory.
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What hype was even mentioned in the parent? I just don't get how you saw hype by the numbers being brought up.
Adam Curtis is, by far, the best documentary maker I know. His origin-of-terrorism doc "Bitter Lake" gives an insight no one else will.

Hypernormalisation is, also because it is simply the most recent, his best docu imho. If you liked this, take a look at The Century of the Self as well.
So crush the competition by being able to underprice for years by not paying sales tax, then once you've won, get credit for being a good corporate citizen by playing nice again.
Fighting hate and white supremacy would be a big one.
Could be that there were very large rounds in 2015 for companies that didn't need to re-raise in 2016?
I guess I'm curious how you came to the conclusion they're major employers where their warehouses are. As far as I can tell each warehouse is about 1,000 full-time jobs. If I look at a list of warehouse locations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Amazon.com_locations

They're pretty much universally a rounding error for total population and jobs in their respective metro areas.
Necessary perhaps not but bitingly sharp, on-topic and worthy of a smile yes.

Also with the canonisation of Mr Thiel around this place it's handy to put his statements in a proper context.

If you think as I do there isn't much to admire about him TBH.
I think were too late.
You are exactly right, not sure why you get down voted. Let's Encrypt does domain validation. It's perfectly fine that it issues a certificate to paypal.com.phishysite.com to the rightful owner of phishysite.com. It's not their fault that some people do not grasp what that type of certificate (which is nothing new) assures and what not. If you really want blame someone you have to blame browser vendors for not making it clear enough inside their UI.

//edit: Trademark protection gets even easier as CT logs present such potential violations on a silver plate.
But is a vast product selection valuable if everything is assumed to be counterfeit junk?
> Now it is done, and it isn't particular a moat for Uber. But they fucking did it, they are the ones who need the recognition for it.

Okay they can have a cookie. A $3B+ cookie. Seems like they've been out hustled. Oh the irony.
Well that's good to know after buying a bunch of their aps off amazon. Although I feel it would be really easy to detect a fake with them.
Check out all these comments... ShariaBlue sure is busy and invigorated by David Brock's heart attack.
It's not unnecessary, you're just not the target audience. I often implement algorithms documented only in academic papers. Those that lack the precision you're complaining about are often useless. I need the math.
Faster compilation times. A good C++ compiler as fast as Free Pascal's (which has units, much similar to modules) would be a killer.
> if they were any smaller you couldn't handle their buttons,

They will connect to our brains.

> or fit a camera lens, or speakers,
> or a large enough screen in there.

Not needed when they are connected to our brains.
And that's where I think Amazon open themselves up to fraud charges. They should never comingle goods under any circumstances, and they certainly shouldn't be deriving revenue from doing so.

Amazon seems to be acting as a counterfeit goods launderer.