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Amazon been in HN recently and I follow many links, learnt alot of interesting things about Mr.Bezos.

To be honest, his picture now comes more like a 21st century version of Don Corleone. Sure Bezoz didnt kill anyone but I bet Don would love to know the key to his success which in case of Amazon seems to be very simple recipie:

- setup website making sure everything goes legal.
- grow big and fast. Hire enough people to cover 80% of your HQ town's business district
- because now you hire 40,000 people in one city, those people have voting power. Congratulation! You become too big to jail
- at this stage, fuck legality. Allow counterfits in an open unmonitored market.
- wait for lawsuit that will come. Those Chineese knockoffs of corridor night-lights? Yeah they dont have any certification and thats why your house burned down when you were vacationing with family.
- sue Bezos but make sure you know the law, at least in Seattle (40,000 workers) where judges seems to agree that he only provides platform to sell and is not responsible for content. Know that many people are rotting in jail for similar behavior, including Sill Road website owner who never dealt drugs on his own but just provide platform to do so (although arguebly he was behaving much darker than that) to any torrent or music website ever existed and died on internet.
- basically at this point with such huge workforce in Seattle and owning a mouth piece to say anything he wants via Washington post, this guy is a hard core mobster, breaking rules he knows he can break and wreacking billions in process. Please - until you hire few thausands in your city, do not attempt to try what he does - you will spent lifetime in jail for counterfitting.
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> Special note:

> this isn't a Chromecast
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Are you asking why use Emacs, or why make this tool? Or are you asking why post this to Show HN?
Ah, it's a bit misleading then
Amazon was first to pull Google products.

History here: https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/02/amazon-still-isnt-s...
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Do you miss queuing up to withdraw money or check the balance of your bank account? I don't see how self service checkouts are philosophically different from ATMs.
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I wonder if there are more such things. Not necessarily for controlling, I can think of a couple games that would be a great fit for just visualizing stuff. Trains for I/o, you can vary number of trains, train length and speed to represent parameters of the io pattern.
Why was buying a computer problematic? SA has computer shops, has had for decades. I bought a zx81 there. Am I missing something?
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Does it say Mach Principle is incorrect? That is good, as a non physicist I could never wrap my head around the distant stars influencing anything.
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I'm a bit late to the party, I just wanted to say how much more appealing this type of donation request is vs wikipedia's extreme guilt trip of "if 1% of people who viewed this page in the next 5 minutes donated a dollar, [..]"
The "Terms of Service" page does not impress. Screenshot https://imgur.com/1ELAQal ... Maybe I am too cynical, but this would be an easy way to hijack one's accounts.
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That argument is very similar to the crazy idea that everything was better in the good old days.

We all like to romanticize, but truth is that present life in the developed world is the best it's ever been, anywhere in the world.

Not saying it can't be better, certain the US has issues :)
that is a year old. I'd be curious the result of that accusation. I'm happy to prove Icahn is an evil __whatever__ but also it's a good chance to calibrate my desire to avoid silly liberal witch hunts, which as a self-identified libtard I have sometimes mistakenly joined.
How many people will be able to even afford Microsoft Word in Ghana? He probably knows most people he's teaching there will end-up pirating it once they can even afford a cheap computer.

He would do a better job teaching them to use LibreOffice or even Google Docs, at least that doesn't have to be pirated.
It is not "Jewish humour", it is American Ashkenazi Jewish humour of a specific era. Humour in Israel is different, humour in non Ashkenazi communities is also different. Even if you look at Jewish comedians in the UK like Sasha Baron Cohen it is a completely different style of humour.
When I googled, the consensus was to wash-as-you-go.

My interpretation is that cooking is an act of creation, and when accomplished, it's over. You don't feel like doing washing up, a non-creation act, because that energy/enthusiasm is gone.

Whereas if you wash as you go, as part of the task, it also uses the energy of creation.

So: not literally time-saving, but enthusiasm-efficiency.
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Well, tbh I don't experience it as lack of interest, I just struggle to keep up with everything. I prioritize work because not earning money isn't an option yet.

That combined with my general depression and lack of support pretty much takes all my energy. I have a little bit left here and there, but it's simply not enough to get far with anything. It's very discouraging to start anything because it instantly feels overwhelming and I know I have more must do queued up that I'm deprioritizing to get this technically optional thing done. How can I read for hours in a day if I need to do house keeping stuff, send bills to insurance for reimbursement that are a year old, get that health checkup done, ... and so on. So much stuff to do. I don't know why I experience life like this. Everyone seems to have so much discretionary time to spend, especially if they do as little as I do.
The dishwasher idea is the dream. My wife just doesn't get this concept somehow though!
Brin and Page are IMO the best benchmark. Gates and Jobs aren't necessarily repeatable successes, as in VCs don't look for people like them to try to replicate success.
How about a dual dishwasher? https://www.remodelista.com/posts/appliances-dishwasher-draw...
Because it is not in EU.
Never ever wait until the dishwasher is totally full. It’s an efficient device: put it on twice a day, on the quickest setting it has, and don’t feel guilty about it.

Result: it’s never “a thing” that needs to be handled. Emptying it is easy. Takes one minute. You always have clean things.

Sounds ridiculous, I know. Trust me.
I specialize in creating useful apps that help me, first and foremost, and then share them with the world.

I have released these two products:
https://callmeprivate.com
https://textmeprivate.com

Working on some apps that I haven't released yet dealing with some telecom API, I got the idea of having a phone number without having a phone number to stop scam callers from calling me. But that evolved, of course... I started a virtual number service that privatizes your phone number with many added options -- basically your phone number can become a very useful piece of software.

I released Call Me Private about 3 months ago on Hacker News ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15905375 ) and just started marketing it a lot the past few weeks.. so far, I've got about 12 customers or so. Since I've released it ... I've also had a few organizations contact me for some minor customization requests, which I was able to make happen. My early customers are definitely helping the product to evolve more to suit their needs... and what they are asking for.. I usually weigh whether it would be beneficial to that one person ... or many. If its able to help many, I spend more time on it. If just that one person.. I might or might not, depending on the usefulness of the feature.
Jack Ma would probably be the next fit for that category. Visionary, and head of a conglomerate.
> No: Google actually has an illegal WalMart / AliBaba / Amazon competitor used ONLY by its voice assistant to get you stuff.

Could you possibly explain this a little further?? This is very interesting!
I see what appear to be fewer AWS examples using Angular, not sure if due to the ongoing YouTube-FireTV "feud". For example the latest AWS Amplify and AppSync JS libraries have proper support for React since day one, but Angular is in future plan.
All the people who suggest donations, just leave them alone. Either donate some good colonial type white people to go there and sort out the mess or let the locals deal with their own problems in their own way and develop their own countries and culture of doing things. Donating things doesn't help anyone.
An argument that begins with "most people" is rejected because of the pure ridiculousness of it. You have no way of knowing what most people thought or knew.
I don't think that makes it legal, since they are still violating the trademark.
So with life in the 30's and 40s? And in lots of parts of the world, still.
You even have mods for Wing Commander and Star Wars, though they are unfinished.
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Dont go with two dishwashers! Thought of this too. You need three. Seriously. You need one extra. Having two only works in theorical or lab situations.

1 for clean dishes

1 for dirty dishes

1 for “overflow” of dirty or clean dishes

you will endup in the situation where two dishes are clean and spread over two dishwashers. This is a serious problem. You have no place to immediately put your dirty coffee cup away, without emptying one of the dishwashers. Emptying one is not a good solution. It defeeds the purpose of having more then one dishwasher. Putting the cup temporarily in the kitchen sink defeeds that purpose as well.
I'm quite sure he was being sarcastic
For me, there's a noticeable process difference :

1. In a pot, I have to get water to a boiling pot, which means periodically checking the water, and this point add salt and rice. Be there exactly (ok, more or less a minute) the good time after that, stop the cooking, drain the rice, and ideally make it that it's now time to eat, implying everything and everyone else is ready.

2. In a rice cooker, I put salt, rice and water (have to measure those), tap "start", and then, from about 40 minutes onwards I have a perfectly cooked rice ready to be eaten for the next 8 hours or so, since it's keeping it hot until I decide to open the thing.

For me, it's just that more versatile, since it no longers needs any attention between the moment where I decide I want to have rice, and the moment I want to eat it.
This one might seem trivial, but I start cleaning by picking up the floor first. This makes it easier to move around, which is a prerequisite for almost every other task.
Yes and my point is that GitHub numbers show you a much better picture of programming languages that programmers actually want to use.

Are we just going to go back and forth saying the same thing over and over though at this point?
Generally, but there are exceptions.

I usually just search for "Amazon Prime" items, but sometimes those items can't be shipped or aren't even available with Amazon prime! It's a total mess.
>Maybe you just identified some big time sink that you could eliminate?

Don't have children or pets, don't live in an oversized place (seriously more space is mostly more junk, which you become enslaved to).

Honestly I'm always kinda uncomfortable with everything that is purely outsourcing to other humans (which is a good part of the suggestions here). It's just creating precarious, low paid jobs. I couldn't bear exploiting impoverished people that way to get rid of minor annoyances. It takes 10 min to hang laundry tops.
It's also true for The Netherlands.
Our family swears by a Roomba. I have selected/modified our furniture for the minimal height and removed door steps. Living room and kitchen is vacuumed every day at 3am (we sleep upstairs). It is a magic. Ps: I did a lot of research 5 years ago and back then I could not recommend any cheaper alternative.
When will they release their recaptcha datasets, and their voice datasets? I'm really happy to see this, but I feel like we're being tossed crumbs here.
It's not that hard to ship a parcel across a border. Maybe having to pay tariffs would destroy the "Amazon experience" or something?
This seems like a parallel to the Jevons Paradox. If coal powered steam engines get more efficient you use more coal as you can now do more and more things with them that previously would have been impractical or expensive.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
It's true for many countries. The biggest reason is because they are not in the EU. The logistics of getting stuck at some border control is something most sellers don't want to deal with.
Are you actually, seriously using the xir pronoun?

Well, either way- that's the most hilarious thing I've seen so far in this thread.

(EDIT: Actually, I think it's even more hilarious if you're serious!)
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Refusing to ship EU-wide is a common UK e-commerce anti-pattern that bizarrely applies even to Amazon. Even before Brexit was a thing. It's really annoying.

Well, more money to German merchants (and amazon.de). Many German merchants even provide English UI for Nordic customers these days. (Amazon.de provides hit-and-miss machine translation to English.)
+1 for Roomba, I'm on my 4th one since 2002, for me it's worth it, I wipe down the tops while he scoots around, unlike many 'gadgets' it really does something I used to spend time doing.
I've been doing a little genealogy lately and seen a few pictures of gravestones belonging to the people I'm related to that emigrated. Not a lot of other traces of them so thats pretty neat, sure!

Here in Sweden we have really good records that are open and free to search online. The church kept an eye on everybody back in the days so the only obstacle is not being able to read some priests old handwriting from the 1700s, or that everybody had the same names back then, "Anders Andersson" might be the worst example of that. I hope AI will take care of that, probably any day now. Might take some of the fun out of it though.

My mothers grandfather that died in 1938 still has his spot, it is going to be there for a few more years. I don't think anybody has visited it for a very, very long time. My mom didn't even know it existed until I found it online, so at least 60 years. I think the standard "lease" was for a really long time back then, and now when the grave yards are overcrowded you have to renew it every 10 - 15 years by default. A lot of people probably makes the first grave into a family grave. So you'll have grandmother, grandfather, father, mother, fathers second wife (awkward :P), and so on in the same grave.
As a Jew, I don't know how I should feel about articles like that these.

This is blatantly racist, in a confusing era where we are to acknowledge positive differences among ethnicities, and ignore negative differences.

One simply cannot do both. It is fundamentally irrational to, with one hand, speak of how a certain race is superior in some way, while pretending this doesn't imply that other races are inferior in some way.

Which is it? This kind of glaring contradiction drives me crazy.
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Hi! Great to hear you love it despite the couple of bugs :)

Direct link to the bug submission form, thanks for the report

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzJ36mrPczSj_whITr...
If you have actual skills look into doctors without borders or engineers without borders. If you don't, I agree with the sibling comment.
The author actually argues that one of the reasons is "the bible isn't funny"?
My own guess would have to do primarily with nepotism and secondarily with the appeal of a different perspective of a foreign culture to an American audience. Whether people like it or not, the Jews actually have a strong lobby in the entertainment industry, and they like nepotism, probably even more than the average american.
Page is blank for me... is it a long read?
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It's an interesting question. I just use loads of water and keep the rice boiling for 12 minutes. Test and if it's crunchy then leave it in for a couple of extra minutes. Once the rice is soft then throw the whole pot in a colander and rinse the pot straightaway. It just feels simple and faster
The distant stars are important because they make space flat. Remember that general relativity says mass bends space, or more accurately is the same thing as space.

So if all the mass was nearby, space would bend inward around the current point and it would fold in on itself - the universe would be like the inside of a sphere.

Because the mass is distributed evenly at the largest scales, it instead continues flatly in all directions.
Marie Kondo’s book really helped our family. We took a lot of clothes, books and toys which hadn’t been touched in a year or more and donated them.

We also decluttered the kitchen a lot, putting in a few high quality pots and plates rather than the motley assortment of hand me downs we’d accumulated over the years.

Bit by bit we whittled down the above and then some - taking it slow.

I also made some serious decisions like ‘do I really need a high end 5.1 surround system and projector?’ or would a sound bar and nice TV suffice. ‘Do I really need a Mac Pro and three displays?’ or would a MacBook and an Ultrawide monitor allow me to get the same work done.

Being a reasonably paid programmer (as a higher than average amount of folk here are) can encourage buying more and having more hobbies and stuff when less will do.

When you eliminate a lot of surplus ‘just in case’ items you really cut down on your cleaning and maintenance work load.
Where do you see any lack of oversight? XChat is a well-established application that exists for over a decade, and a maintainer is even contributing his time to keep it up-to-date. That's what I expect of Debian, and what makes Debian so awesome.

The only take from this blog entry is that the maintainer of a rival project appears to be miffed that one of the main linux distros isn't keen in killing off his rival.
not sure if i read this comment correctly. I agree with taleb, yet found this piece hilarious. It’s mostly aiming at his character, which is undoubtedly a good target for mockery.

the only time I stopped laughing was when the author mis-characterized the idea of skin in the game (it is NOT having “vested interest in an outcome”. it’s pretty much the exact opposite).
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This is an effective threat because it means they lose the whole patent, not just the case against you.
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I understand that no one likes being painted as the bad guy, but this is a very odd claim: "Americans movies will certainly never paint America as the bad guy, despite the fact that millions have died at the receiving end of American weapons. In fact, I can't recall any media where America is painted as the bad guy."

I'm not American but this suggests you have experienced very little of the variety of American movies or general media? There are not only plenty of American movies and media critical of America and American policy but there is a long history of such. Without going back too far in history, the media presentation of the Vietnam war, for example, may be something of a cliché but it's a valid example.
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I really don't see the point of this rant. So, Debian distributes XChat and one of Debian's maintainers even contributes his time and expertise to patch XChat, and someone who forked XChat some years ago is pissed about it. What's the point of all of this? Yeah, Debian is great and this is just a small reminder of the awesome work Debian does to maintain the software they distribute. Why is this suddenly wrong?
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Reminds me of Philip K. Dick's book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? made into the cult movie Blade Runner.
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Not sure if you envision getting down to a consumer level in some way, but I race sailboats. There's plenty of people who use forecasting services to get a forecast tailored to a very small area for their race course or route (think 10 sq miles).

I'd presume that mountain bikers, kayakers, climbers, and really anyone else who is into sports that are dependent on weather may be interested in similar information.

Delivering the information to a community like that seems like it would be too niche for your service, but for the people that already offer services to those people, perhaps there'd be interest.
That explanation doesn't make sense in the current case though. I'd imagine, the usual difficulty in blocking counterfeits is telling them apart from the real product - which you do want people to sell. However, if you already make a point of blocking the real product, shouldn't blocking counterfeits be even easier?

(I could imagine you still have problems with products that just "happen" to look almost - but not quite - like the original, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. The link shows products that look exactly like a Chromecast, even though the actual Chromecast is blocked.)
I laughed at the Pinker bit. Taleb does seem to have a bit of an obsession there.
How is FireTV stupid, well more stupid than any product name? Amazon have a media receiver line called Fire, FireTV fits the brand and tells you what it does, same as Chromecast -- same format.
That generally gets you FBA though - which is where the worst of the counterfeiting problems are.
> it appears that amazon pulled both Apple TV and Chromecast because they didn't offer Amazon Prime.

Amazon pulled Prime Video off of Chromecast themselves to sell the Fire TV (stick). Google did not remove Amazon's apps.
For the Bose headphones, I went online and found some guides that pointed out things to look for.

For the SWISSGEAR luggage, I went to a retail location and inspected the same model ... also, couldn't register the serial number.

Both knockoffs were of pretty good quality, but not at the same level as the originals.
Mozilla Firefox.

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Two problems:

First, you won't be able to get insurance for this case, because it predates your policy. A bit like getting fire insurance when your house is already on fire.

Second, an insurance company won't just write you a blank cheque for legal fees, they will take over the case and look for the cheapest way out, which will probably be settlement.
If you see it that way, it seems unfair. But if you look closer, you'll see that it is at least consistent with other qualities of the state and it's agents, namely that only state agents are allowed to do certain things like, for example, to judge a trial and execute the verdict. If those rights were equally held by individuals, you'd end up with the chaos of people not recognizing each other's jurisdictions. (Perhaps there is a middle-ground, e.g. something like classic anarchism that allows for tiny, hyper-local states. But even micro-states must interact with each other in ordered ways for the system to work.)

"Cracking someone's computer" is, these days, equivalent to acquiring total surveillance on them, past present and future. So yeah, personally I'm very okay with this being illegal, and I'm not really okay with the state doing it either. It's not actually like wire-tapping, it's more like acquiring panopticon with perfect memory over the lifetime of the target, and it seems to me with such a power you could find countless illegal activity in virtually everyone's life.