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I live in a 130,000 person city. UPS will not drop packages off to your neighbor period, even though that is an option on the "Sorry we missed you slip." UPS will not drop package without signature. UPS took 2 weeks to deliver my replacement part for my vacuum. When I see the UPS driver I tell him UPS policy sucks and is anti-city and his response was maybe there were too many packages taken. "I've lived here for 10 years and never had a package taken and this part is $10."

United States Postal Service allows drop offs without signatures and dropping off at neighbors. I constantly request that my packages are not mailed by UPS.
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It's funny, a few weeks ago someone posted a story of how their Google Home box was recording and saving the data at all times, and he once he complained, Google quickly came and took the box and gave him a new one which was bug free. I was down voted for saying that it wasn't a "bug", but rather, the only bug was that he was able to see what was actually occuring all the time, and that his new box will work just as it was always intended to work, constant surveillance..
Saved a click: it stopped. A human controlled truck did not and grazed the SDV.
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Yeah, that's absolutely the problem they have. One time I ordered some road bike tires. Amazon sent mountain bike tires by the same manufacturer. I told Amazon. They sent me two more of the wrong tires. I told Amazon. They sent me two more of the wrong tires. I gave up. They don't read anything you write to them, they just either send you something or give you your money back.

I guess most people value money over anything else, but if I take the time to help them correct their inventory problem, it would at least be nice if they fixed it.
Having my consumption expenses separate from my actual bank account is quite nice - it means my bank account statement gives me a quick summary of what I spent this month (x went to my mortgage, y went on utility bills, z went on buying things) and then my credit card statement has the details. You could see it as borrowing money for your latte but you can also see it as being billed at the end of the month for your lattes which is normal for many things. In principle I'm all about living within your means, but really why wouldn't I do things this way and get a month's grace on paying for everything and free plane tickets every so often?
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> I have a hard time buying the pessimism

I have an easy time buying it.

Look at the intelligent life we know about on earth. Elephants, dolphins, whales, primates, dogs, etc...

How do we treat those life forms? By and large: Like shit.

How are we, as a species, going to handle "new" life forms... intelligent life forms... advanced life forms... that can "bite back" if we try to treat them like our own earth bound life forms?

I would say, as a standard answer, hope for the best but prepare for the worst.

Humanity... has a large contingent that embodies the worst.
I don't doubt you're right about the "anything but basic refund/reship is a nightmare", but I think the reason people are praising Amazon (and I would too) is that most other companies (big OR small) don't even do that, even though it resolves like 90+% of the customer support issues and leaves happy customers behind.

As for sellers, yes, it's obvious they're getting screwed.
A power outage in all locations? They claim to have "22 datacenters on 4 continents"…

EDIT: The title on HN in misleading, summary from their CEO here – https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/928592231807713280
I’ve only got a couple hundred followers and rarely tweet and it’s been massively effective a couple of times for me. It helps to work in a popular or trending hashtag for good measure.
Is this huge corporation going to look you in the eye, tell you that you've over/double paid, and then return the overpayment with a handshake? Or are they even going to notice? I'm not saying be dishonest about it, but let's not pretend this enormous business is going to take the initiative to make things right. They'll keep your money unless you make the call.
Any account. I’ve had good experiences reaching out on Twitter to Comcast, TMO, and airlines. I complained about having a problem, but also was not rude.
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No. They sent the package and then immediately threatened legal action for their mistake. That is a much different situation. If I were OP I would be personally insulted at this point and would make life as difficult as possible for the parties involved. Nintendo should have a better grip on their customer service. They've had over a century to figure it out.
So... You didn't read the article.

"A week ago, he left the second half of North Dickinson’s loss to Superior Central because of a concussion. He looked ready to return for senior night, then took a turn midweek when he couldn’t remember some of what showed up on the game film of Phillips High, this week’s opponent."

Concussions are common in football, and are not just due to helmet bashing.
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After those 10 years, you can ostensibly sell the car when you feel it has outlived its usefulness to you.

Whether you can then sell that car for $8,000 (and thus finance your next vehicle down payment with it) or have to scrap it for $500 has a huge impact on your total cost of owning a vehicle. The loan payments are factored into our sum of car payments, registration, insurance, gas, and maintenance already, yes, but some of your down payment should be factored into the annual cost. Not all of it, because then you'd be ignoring the value of the car when you sell it. The resulting factor in the sum is equal to the depreciation of the vehicle.
In the UK that only applies to unsolicited goods, not to genuine errors. So, if Nintendo were to send you a switch and then ask you to pay for it, sure, you can ignore the demand. If you buy a switch from Nintendo and they send you two you have no right to keep the second (or third, in this case).

That said, if the seller makes a mistake then they need to rectify it entirely, they can't demand you wait around for a courier at an inconvenient time or get you to pay for postage.
That seems more probable and way more intuitive, but I don't really understand how the mechanics of that mesh with what the researchers are saying happens to the ant muscles.
So they have nothing and have great lives. They just go get a job like normal people.

They live in the Netherlands. They're not going to be left starving and homeless just because they don't have money.
Humans have a long way to, at the right we are making genders up it wont take long to catch up!
There is no shortage of Uber, at least, outside any fancy place that serves $16 cocktails at closing time. And they already have nicer cars for those who want to pay more
Oh no, it's clear which one of us has actual experience with this. :(
In the limit, I agree, but we probably all have these characteristics to a degree, and can sometimes recognize that we do.
Believe me, even if you are home 100% of the time, packages will still not get delivered because "nobody was home".

IIRC DHL is especially prone to this. I think the drivers try to catch up time or whatever.
> SSL provides a service that is immediately valuable to all parties.

And Bitcoin does not provide service that is valuable to all parties?

> Bitcoin mining is done by people who want to get rich by not doing anything.

Calculating SHA256 is hardly anything because we wouldn't be arguing about that, right?

> What if Bitcoin were to fail for some reason?

You're not concerned about SSL failing for some reason? Heartbleed?

> What if Bitcoin were to fail for some reason?

That's highly speculative. Besides Ethereum has several failures already and it's still doing fine because there are serveral mechanisms that can be used to resolve such problem (e.g. hardforks).
Yeah the nasal spray should work within a couple of minutes. But even IM (5 minutes) is going to be pretty brutal.

You imagine going from a numb high... to feeling everything you were blocking out with opiates. Many of these people have legitimate pain. You'd probably not be too happy.

I'd certainly be wary about administering it to a stranger, without their consent and without knowing what their reaction would likely be. It's legally sketchy, especially if the drug is —as it is— not generally available (it's prescription-only in many places). Still, don't let me put you off saving somebody's life from an accidental overdose.
Well Bitcoin is always on because people are constantly using it so it can't "conserve power" just as a constantly on display or CPU can't.
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Also, privacy cant really be locked down. If you dont want people to see your friends, they will still show up on friend recommendations. Same kind of thing with groups, etc
Yeah, threatening him with legal action was absurd.
I'm curious - what's getting "increasingly complex" about rasterizers?
Except that it was presented as a reaction to other unfair situation: being refused the entrance to a school or being bullied because the father is not here..
Amazon lockers are the best thing since sliced bread. They put the ball back in your court to pick it up, when you have time. Removes the stress completely and makes ordering pleasant again.

Keep an eye out for them, if you can.
Take a look at Elixir, it covers most of what you want.
I think we agree then that equal opportunity isn't realistic, and perhaps even shouldn't be attempted. Thus, please avoid making this kind of simple argument of opportunity vs. outcome, as that's not at all what is being suggested.
> while other solutions like proof of stake / space / ... exist and are much more energy efficient.

They are only proposed solutions, not implemented in any existing systems so it's not fair to compare them. Proof of stake for example has numerous drawbacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-stake#Criticism
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Interestingly, a type system was proposed for JavaScript around 2007 as part of ES4, which was later abandoned [1]. The proposed details in [2] are strikingly similar to what we've ended up with in Flow and TypeScript.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#4th_Edition_.28aban...
[2] https://www.ecma-international.org/activities/Languages/Lang...
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> dump all the power to ground

You know all that cooling equipment data centers tend to have?

Dumping power to ground is also known as an electric furnace.

Now you have twice as much heat to move, but you only have the usual cooling system. Toasty servers are sad servers. Toasty engineers are dead engineers.
Your comment has zero relevance to the discussion. Stop being obsessed and stop trying to shoehorn your agenda everywhere.
Could be a bit more involved than that.

The Machine acted in a way that was not expected by the human driver.

This gets to a fundamental issue we will have in the transition to the utopian driverless future. Learning to identify and react to this new class of driver.
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Could you explain why it is good for society for Google to not give a shit about what it promotes?

I mean, the point of limited liability is not to give investors a path to profit regardless of all other things, it is to encourage investments that are beneficial to society. If it isn't working, we should retink it.
This happens to Internap almost weekly... I always wondered why they never make it in the news.
You're selling an apple pie for your own currency piecoin. If I to buy a pie from you I have to buy x piecoins first to match your price whatever it is. My need of a piecoin is defined by the need of our settlement for a pie ('right' price). Usually, pie like yours costs $5 so I have no incentive to pay more for your pie. If your price for a pie is x piecoins then I will buy x piecoins for $5 and 1 piecoin will cost me x/5.

'Wrong' part of a price is about modelling other people need for piecoins which in turn is about modelling need for pies and other people speculation and that's can be incredibly complex. As you can easily see 'wrong' part of a price makes your coin shitty currency.
I wonder if having your picture appear in a relatively high profile publication like this would be wise...
How much does it cost to build a Bitcoin Wallet App?
Surely it's possible to sniff what's being sent back to Amazon's servers? If Amazon are lying and they are storing/analysing everything the Echo hears, surely this would be easy to prove?
Oh god, this should be criminal. Once Dun & Bradstreet have your business information -- because you can't do any contracting without one! -- you start to get really really scummy calls trying to trip you up and get you to sign up for their business "services". They will call you and it will sound exactly like some government agency doing some routine government communication and verification of your information -- not asking you to volunteer any of it, because remember, they have all your information already because it's a legal requirement to have a DUNS number, which only they can issue -- and if you're distracted at all or just not on your game, suddenly you'll be signed up for all this expensive shit which is as sticky as any other scumbag subscription "service" out there. They are scummy dirtbags. What a nightmare!
There's a lot of conjecture in this article. While I'm sure most voice assistant makers would love to be able to tag multiple voices simultaneously in realtime and perhaps even in the background, it's simply not there in today's technology.†

The Alexa works in a crowded environment because it has directional microphones and facing the Alexa makes a big difference.

The Google Home assistant does differentiate requests based on voice pattern, but from my testing it actually only analyzes the word "Google". So person A can say "Okay", person B can say "Google", and person C can say "What's the weather?" and the Google Home will recognize person B (this might have changed since I did my testing, so don't quote me on that).

All this said, yeah of course any company can spy on you, and honestly Alexa is the least of your concerns. Laptops have 1-2 microphones built in. Phones have 3+ microphones. A lot of monitors and "smart" TVs come with microphones. Your intercom system can be wired into, and you can most likely hack into digitally based ones as well. Don't even get me started on IoT devices from non-IT companies.

A lot of malicious things can be done with technology today, but Alexa is most likely the safest device of the examples I gave. So yes – stay vigilant – but don't ignore the more obvious vulnerabilities in your home.

† There are some examples that prove we will be able to get there eventually (like Honda's ASIMO which has a demo of three people asking for different things at the same time), but nothing of the like has been seen in uncontrolled/noisy environments.
I'd never heard of vaquitas. Incredible that yet again a species is terribly threatened due to Chinese fertility treatments.

> But like all cetaceans, the vaquita breathes air, making the gillnets deadly. The nets are set to trap another endangered species, the totoaba. This fish’s swim bladder is used in Chinese medicine to make a soup believed to boost fertility—and demand has skyrocketed in recent years.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/navy-use-dolphins-...
I always wonder, people who leave snide comments like this on privacy related issues:

What is you stance on your own freedom and independence and those of others around you, who might have not want large parts of their lives digitized and centrally analyzed.

See, because it's one thing if you upload your own data and have it analyzed to your heart's content, I think you should be free to do that. But another to do it with unsuspecting strangers, it's infringing on my freedom not to have that done to me.
Indeed, there is a very large amount of parameterisation you can do in D with ease. You can, if you have prior knowledge of the hardware that it will run on, create different versions of the kernels to exploit that (e.g. with template kernels, which we support directly unlike OpenCL C++).

Do you mean adaptive algorithms or dynamic recompilation? And yes I do expect that cross API will be difficult, for both running and getting good perf.

But it is not just the room at the high performance end of the spectrum that is important, but also the lower end that is stifled by the barrier to entry that would benefit from the extra compute.
I think this is even broader. If it becomes harder to verify identities any products that involve post-paid billing will become rarer.
Interesting. I've worked at a few hospitals in the UK (not in IT) and all of them do a generator test one a week. However they do it, only one of them lost all power (for a couple of seconds) every week. It was quite disruptive, but I guess cutting the main power and checking the auxillary power kicks in is a better test than simply powering up the generators.
It's a really cool read. I thought it was neat and a bit more elegant than doing something similar with Window.postMessage (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/post...).
> I've interacted with the french support but like you they had a rather thick accent and seemed to have trouble understanding me at times even though I did my best to speak slowly and clearly.

That's the one advantage of living in a tiny country (the Netherlands) that speaks a language hardly anyone else does. It's impossible to outsource customer support to low-wages countries because you simply can't find anyone there who speaks Dutch.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15654411
ban for what? telling the true? Nice.

edit:
1) I don't think the priority of life is getting a switch for these Kid at Christmas.
2)I don't think he had to call and waste his time for then complaining.
3)We have all at once the same problem but did had written an article about it, because it's useless. When I had the problem, the same day I had my package, because I directly go to the DHL post office get my package. Done. Strict to the point. Same with UPS.
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> The amount of goods you can buy for 1 hour of labour should be equal between USD and BTC.

Why? The amount of goods I can buy isn't equal between USD and GBP. Or between either and EUR. So why exactly should it be equal for BTC?
I think what is becoming clear now is that not all opiate addicts are recreational users. Many are victims of inappropriate prescriptions and lack of follow-up and supervision.
Man... imagine a human weponize version of that!!!?
I'm not sure about Javascript, but why do you have to have two APIs when you have async? At least in C# you write the async version of the API and that's it.

Then you go asyncStuff.Request on it, and it blocks. There are some quirks but I remember that it worked all right.
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Prefacing this with IANAL.

US seems to just have a more broad term for goods delivered that you didn't order and refers to it as "unordered merchandise"[1]. You're pretty much free to keep it, it seems.

The UK is more specific for what is classified as "unsolicited" and what is considered goods delivered to someone else by mistake[2]. Companies have a right to get their product back if it's the latter. Since the author did order a switch, a duplicate delivery would very likely be considered a mistake. If the author never ordered a Switch (and never paid for it) in the first place, they'd definitely be able to keep it.

Regardless, if this is the way Nintendo asked for the second Switch back, they were completely out of line.

[1] https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0181-unordered-merchan...

[2] https://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/money/spending/consumer-righ...
Like I said in my post, it's only a matter of time until you encounter it first hand, especially if you take a short stroll through select neighborhoods in most large cities. Its obvious you've thought about the issue but I urge you to engage with it by witnessing it first hand. Addicts are people too - they deserve compassion from society just as much as you or I do.
How does that explanation tie up with the example given in the article where a girl was being bullied for not having a father? Is that driven by willingness to cut corners?
>I ordered the Switch on October 16th from Nintendo’s UK online store. I wanted to buy direct primarily to support Nintendo

This seems like an odd impulse to me. It isn't like Nintendo is some small mom and pop business or even that they are struggling.
>Actually, they are.
>It's an innate instinctual behaviour inherent in all healthy human beings and we are social creatures that have succeeded through co-operation. If you have never felt the urge to help someone, prevent abuses and exploitation you might actually be a sociopath.

Agreed it's all innate as you said. But think of it for a moment. If a poor man forces me to part with my money, I sure won't be happy. I would tell him to fk off. But if I voluntarily donate, that is another story. No one should be allowed to calibrate my urge of having to have to help someone though force(taxes), it's my decision entirely.

>People like you try to wax philosophical about self-reliance and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps,

You are putting words in my mouth. Stop that.
> A pity that multinational companies can usually afford much better lawyers than the average Joe.

I'm always amazed at how afraid customers are of companies in the US/UK. Like this article, where they threaten legal action and make the customer responsible for being available to hand off the third Switch. As a customer in a western European country, I'd laugh straight in their face and wouldn't lose a second of sleep over threats like that. I may live in a country that has a weird and at times annoying obsession with rules and regulations, but when it comes to being a consumer, it's great.
My sister is a heroin addict I've encountered enough =)

Also I have lived in Salem, Oregon look up it's statistics.

Just because my heart doesn't bleed for people who wouldn't do shit to help you doesn't mean I don't understand the problem.
I don't see much of a difference here. Both are devices that listen to their surroundings. Both can be used to target the devices owner (if they are near their device) or to profile the devices vicinity. The only difference I see is that the phone location changes more often and that the owner is probably more likely to be near it.

I guess people are just more aware of the fact that home assistants listen to everything, so they associate a greater danger with those. Also, everyone is of interest in the eyes of advertising/data collection companies.
This was explored (all the way to its grim dystopian conclusion) in tv series Dollhouse. Might want to check it out.
Interesting ideas about regulation from The Regulatory Review: https://www.theregreview.org/2017/10/10/cramer-bias-computer...
Why were businesses ever allowed to use SSNs in the first place?
During a Q&A at GraphQL Summit, GitHub said that they are accomplishing this by making their REST endpoints use the GraphQL API instead of querying the data directly. They’ve been releasing the talks online slowly so that should be available soon.
Mom and pop business compared to Amazon, and less seedy than GameStop.
> the CEO predicts the exponential growth of his business and others like it, as à la carte human interaction becomes the new norm

That's neither human nor interaction.