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I read newsgroups a lot (and posted some) not before the web was born, but certainly back when the web had only hundreds or thousands of users whereas newgroups had millions.

I used to miss some things about newsgroups. For years, I missed the simplicity with which I could make a local copy of a news article for offline use -- something the web was always pretty bad at doing in such a way that I could count on being able to read the article while offline. But eventually I noticed that I almost never read those local copies (even though 25 years later they still exist on my current local machine and being plain text are still easy to read in isolation).

If something on a web page does not register as interesting right away, but only after I've gone on to the next web page, the page after that, then the page after that, I can with .999 reliability go back to the web page that I've slowly come to consider interesting. (In other words, I can use the browser's history menu or history page to return to the page that was current 3 pages ago -- or 5 pages ago or whatever.)

Going back to the news article I was reading 3 articles ago on the other hand was much less reliable. I learned how to use the arrow keys combined with the "tree view" in trn to get the reliability of the operation "go back 3 articles" up to something like .6, and going back one article could be done (with the = key in trn IIRC) with a single keystroke with a reliability of about .85, but if the article I wanted to go back to had fallen off an edge of the "tree view" (which consisted of no more than about 35 columns and 16 lines) then I would just give up on ever getting another look at the article.

Of course this deficiency of newsgroups could've been fixed simply by someone's writing another newsreader, followed by my switching to it, but there were other things about newsgroups not so easily fixed that discouraged reflection and contemplation: for example, chances were about .07 that that the parent or any particular child (i.e., reply to) the article one was looking at was missing from one's news server. Often this had a predictable reason (i.e., many news servers culled articles over 30 days old, and the parent is probably older than that) but it was not rare for it to happen for no discernible reason.

In other words, for me, a reflective reader, i.e., a reader who often wants to revisits things he read 10 minutes ago or a few hours ago that at the time of the initial reading I did not consider interesting and consequently did not bother to bookmark or make a local copy of (the rough newsgroup analog to the making a bookmark to a web page), the web or at least the web of the 1990s was a significant improvement over newsgroups.
This is how you get your Amazon Prime same day/two day delivery.
I’m wondering the same. It’s not like amazon is deeply discounting anything like they used to. Often cheaper to buy stuff at the big box stores - or at least the same price.
> Our world is being changed.

What do we use the internet for? Communication, media, business, government. Most of these work on the internet exactly how they work in the non-Internet world. The only difference is the setting.

Media? We get it for free or for a small payment, both on the net, and IRL. Commerce? We still pay for things with our credit cards, the product catalogs and stores are just digital now. Public services? I apply for a change of address online and not at the DMV's satellite office. Chatting? Group text rather than party lines.

Now, social media certainly has changed people's bubbles. They're now tighter and larger, and reinforce biases and create false information to a much greater degree. But it's not like this wasn't already happening with FOX News, and before that with newspapers and journals dedicated to fringe groups.

I think the biggest problem we face is the world becoming more convenient and insular. Rather than have to pay for a local worker to produce some good for me, it gets churned through a global trade network to squeeze its price down to pennies and exploit the people and environment of the world to do so. And I would never know it unless someone went to great lengths to tell me so. Rather than read a newspaper, we look for what drivel has been retweeted by our friends. It's just "easy" to consume harmful products and information.

So what do you do when convenience is a problem? Give up convenience?
"It's the trend of turning software into services."

I don't see how any western capitalist society couldn't fall into this trend. It's all about making more profits, no different from say buying some land with natural water sources, close it to the public, bottling the water then sell bottles. All perfectly legal and fine, until the day there's no more competition and whoever owns that land raises the prices so that some people cannot afford water anymore. That day ten people dead of thirst or shot by guards while trespassing won't make a difference when a thousand of them still can pay for that water. Still perfectly legal although not fine at all, but capitalism as we know it has no moral limitations. It's not just turning software into service being dangerous, but also what happens next.

And of course the total loss of control of our data. Lawyers using cloud services and social media for exchanging sensitive documents and discussing them may seem crazy, but I've already seen some doing exactly that. Being ignorant about the implications of today's technologies misuse can have disastrous effects.
Some teams at Microsoft have public bug tracking. Edge lets users submit issues from Twitter... https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/08/11/edgebug-twitt...
I would not recommend moving to Chicago proper until Illinois gets their major fiscal problems worked out. If you absolutely can't avoid it, living in Gary, Indiana, or Kenosha, Wisconsin, will do until then. Take the Metra if you need to get into the city.

Indianapolis has some of the cheapest housing in the US, but it also has very low salaries for software professionals. I have a lot of family there, and I just can't move back. Sure, it's nice to own your entire house for only $150k, but the pay cut means you'll spend longer paying it off than you thought.
Bezos. Jeff Bezos is the reason why Amazon treats workers they way they do. Compared to other tech giants, Amazon is incredibly anti-employee. Look at how their stocks vest.

I worked at Microsoft during Balmer's reign. The founder/CEO's attitude dictates the work culture. And causes harm if it's bad.

I live in Seattle and often hear this joke: Being an Amazon customer is the best. An investor is great. An employee not so much.

I worked at Amazon in 2005 and was a customer before that. But I can't support Bezos anymore because he negatively impacts how people are treated. It's not on par with Nike's sweatshops in the 90s, but I still canceled Prime and stopped buying things from Amazon.
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> What if racemic ketamine performs better than esketamine? We'll never know because they won't test that.

It's quite likely some public institutions (e.g., universities, public research labs, etc.) or other countries (e.g., in India, China) will test exactly that. It's also in their interest to pubblish the results. So we'll get to know the differences between racemic ketamine, esketamine and arketamine.

The question is if different variants will also be approved, which is much more expensive.
> while idle

Which never happens on laptops because of the web browser /s
If you had 100k to throw down on a down payment, how are you not able to make rent?

You're comparing two different scenarios.
Exactly. If there's money to re-invest, there should be money to treat employees at least decently.
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It's funny to call this point free when OOP notation like ps().grep(pid).kill(9).or(halt); comes down to the same thing. Just rambling because I'm confused. lol.
It is funnily interesting to me how they prefer to capitalize the word BUG, perhaps as a means of drawing attention to its (apparent) importance.
I worked for a company that was running a pilot with them for a few years to train internal candidates who wanted to go into Software Engineering, almost as a way to

1) outsource employee development
2) satisfy the need to hire lots of devs faster than recruiting could hire them
3) bring down the cost of hiring devs overall.

I left before seeing the results of the pilot, but I remember folks saying that it definitely opened up doors to those looking to switch careers, but that it's a slow process: it takes a lot of time and practice to get to even an entry level engineering position, especially when it's a part-time course.

Overall I like the idea of democratizing education and lowering the barrier people who want to get into the industry; plus, it definitely seems like a solution to the supply/demand problem for devs for companies, so I expect the trend of bootcamp/business partnerships to continue.
I'm pretty sure they could still offer this service and treat employees well. Implying Amazon _needs_ to be like this is largely turning a blind eye to the problem.
You are right. I'm very biased. If I drink two beers I'm drunk. So 7 beers a week means for me being drunk every other day. Which sounds absolutely horrible.

I never drunk two days in a row. Although I've been drunk two days in a row by drinking 6 beers one day and not managing to sober up during sleep.

I had alcoholic uncle but I never noticed how much he actually drinks only that he needs alcohol regularly so I equate any drinking regularly with alcoholism.
So, at least two people disagree with the assertions that:

- Facebook being a paid platform for subscribers would reduce subscribers

- Adding restrictions to what Facebook was allowed to show users would have some affect

Very interesting.
The Feedback Hub app in Windows 10 is how someone can publicly submit and comment on public issues and suggestions relating to Windows (and various other Microsoft-related/provided components).
Yes, as it is, Americans see many of the factors in health care are acting as sole source monopolists - i.e. "we have the American public by the balls - pay or die".
We have seen a number of examples of this, with 15 cents worth of epinephrine being packs as emergency relief syringes (Epi-Pen)for bee/wasp sting reaction and other allergic peak reactions being sold for close to $1000.
Similarly many HIV/AIDS drugs that cost pennies have similar high costs. What is needed is forced competition where several companies are allowed to produce these trademarked or patented drugs under forced licence at a reasonable margin to the rights holder.
It is shocking to see the USA and Cuba at the same rank on the longevity lists. Remember, the rich live close to the Japanese, Italian and Swiss rankings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

and in the USA by race:-
https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/life-expectancy-by...

There is no good reason why the African-Americans in the USA
should not live as long as African-Americans in Cuba!!!

That is the price we all pay, and it is a huge price. Those in the uninsured/enmedicated tiers lose close to 5 years of their peak earnings - those earnings are lost to the economy as well.

You might say Medicare/Medicaid redresses this - but it does not reverse 65 years of lack of good medical care before the care gets worthy. Often by that time these older tier people are doomed to soon die and cost a lot more.

Assess the salaries of the presidents of Medical Insurers, Hospital Administrators.
Also the salaries of doctors and drug company CEOs need to be looked at - they are all guilty of B.O.C. (Bribery of Congress) - sure by lobbyists, with lists of what they give, but what is not listed are the briefcases of $100 bills - it is true.

https://www.fiercepharma.com/special-report/top-20-highest-p...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/hospital-ceo-pay-rise...

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/why-are-h...

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/health-insurance-ceo-...

All from Google.

Surely we need to get cost feedback into this by harsh budgeting. This is a do or die, either you do it or we all die sooner than we should...
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you got it right, it means "hottie". (still awkward to tatto on body though..)
The CDC [1] considers up to 2 drinks a day for a man to be "moderate" alcohol intake, which would be up to 14 drinks a week.

This doesn't sound like alcoholism to me but that's maybe because of the "moderate" part.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/onlinemedia/infographics/excessi...
“Inner space is no longer a neat literary metaphor for alienation. Thanks to mobile technology, it has become virtual real estate”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2100074-mall-tales-an-a...
If that’s true, then charge us more and be a real human.
You wouldn't have happened to have been using the api-v2?
“A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership” by James Comey
For those of you that are youngsters out there seeing this article now, a little context is perhaps appropriate. I remember when this article came out, being a Wired subscriber at the time, as one did if they were in their 20's working at a "dotcom" and thinking this Internet thing was turning out pretty cool.

This article was viscerally and emotionally terrifying at the time. For whatever reason it seemed really real. I remember overhearing people talking about "grey goo" over cocktails at startup events -- the scenario here seemed real and imminent.

As usual, of course, as with most doomsday predictions, the actual future reality turned out to be equally terrifying and completely different.
Reading fail on my part. I missed where they called it a lowball.
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Technology was supposed to leverage human capacity, and not centralize it. The problem is a technology one in the sense that the paradigm for a different business model have been co-opted, and usurped by authoritarian corporations.

What in fact should have been a "protocol" based system has become a dictated, and law based one. That is to say the internet should have emerged as a means to distribute data by means of certain forms of etiquette, and agreements to communicate, but instead has emerged as means to centralize data where the protocol is obscured and dictated by a third party. To this day it is hilariously obscure, especially for the average person, for p2p communication, and so the driver for the "business model" is in fact the convenience that centralization brings, and the headaches/unreliability of decentralized systems.

The problem is a technology one.
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Not all employees are treated poorly. Yeah, the stock vest is back loaded, but they typically give cash upfront, which you could just turn around and buy stocks with..
I remember APL as part of learning how to program at my high school in the early 1970s.

I could touch type APL on the IBM 2741 text terminals (basically Selectric typewriters with serial interface.). And could compose simpler APL codes at that speed.

The principal weakness was APLs narrow view of data type. Text was a 3rd class citizen. There was no substring searching in the early IBM implementation. As a result one had to:

Form a cross product of text with the substring, testing for equality of each character

Rotate each row of the cross product by n steps where n is the row number

(This aligns the tests along columns)

Perform AND reduction along the columns to find the full matches.

None of this was intuitive and no I didn't invent that method.
> Amazon is incredibly anti-employee

They prefer calling it 'customer-centric'

> Amazon, Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company
Centralized marketplaces / price comparison services / middle men etc exist and do a good job

But very often they can't do the optimal prices or all the inventory - eg stock not listed on nasdaq - so it comes down to "are you able to move quickly/cheaply" (and/or is the inventory able to move quickly/cheaply)
It seems like a very interesting detail considering that we don't know how it was done.

Maybe the last (seemingly innocent) clue (or just confidence of previous clues) the hacker needed was present. Or maybe it was just the hacker wanting a distraction (though I could think of better ones...) or doing it for fun.
Costco employees interact with customers.. Having a healthy interaction with customers is important, and treating employees well goes a long way in helping grow a customer base.

Customers will never interact with the person that boxes their amazon shipment. Those individuals are not seen as people, but just a necessity to continue operations.
As a paying customer, I'm genuinely surprised that adblocking is possible with Spotify considering they control both the servers and the client.

That said, I started on the free plan and have friends who still use it and the ads really aren't intrustive at all - it hardly seems like it would be worth the effort?
> which you could just turn around and buy stocks with.

Which just benefits the company even further?

Edit: if you downvote please reply. How will I correct my stance if I get no feedback? I'm not sure why I'm getting down voted.

Edit: Thanks for the comments. I did assume this meant Amazon stock. Didn't think my comment sounded so combative until I was told.
Doesn't this affect more than the employees? If they are peeing in a bottle, shouldn't they sanitize their hands after touching their package so they can safely handle our packages? Should I be inspecting the inner contents using a black light?
Lost and forgotten in favour of more expensive laptops. The same applies to Android One/Go
Would be interesting to know whether it's a local problem or happens in other Amazon warehouses too. I'm fortunate enough to have worked in the USA, Canada and the UK and out of the three, I've found culturally, coworkers in the UK seem to be more afraid of the what the boss will say all the time and there's a lot of micro management going on. This is just anecdotal of course on my experiences and I would like to know if this happened in Amazon's warehouses elsewhere.
A whole 16 million IPs were allocated in 10.0.0.0/8 for private use, and "10" is pretty easy to remember. Trouble is people then used it.

By the time 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24, and 203.0.113.0/24 were allocated in RFC5737, it was too late.

IPv6 makes human IP addresses meaningless, but even they I believe they allocated 2001:DB8::/32

What a stupid address range for examples
How long before Amazon replaces all the warehouse workers with machines? 5 years?
If everything is based on performance metrics alone, surely there's a feedback loop here? Employee A starts peeing in a bottle, so their performance numbers go up, then at the end of the week they have better performance numbers and everyone else's targets are increased to be more inline with employee A. So more people start using bottles and taking shortcuts and the problem just increases over time!
Ironically, programmers should strive to write the least amount of code as possible, while reading as much code as possible.

If we can solve a problem without writing any code at all, then that's the most maintainable and bug free solution.

See "The Best Code is No Code At All": https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-best-code-is-no-code-at-al... .
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I don't understand how managers at amazon can believe this is okay and that it won't blow off in their face.
for anything that aims to be the definitive market for an asset it would try to make it (as) public (as possible/useful).

the technical details (eg performance) is almost it's own discussion imo - there are people who are better experienced/educated to answer it fully qualified.
Unless the public can somehow get politicians to govern according to their desires, the way the world actually is, rather than how it should be, will continue to be defined by alpha leaders like Jeff Bezos and Xi Jinping.
> Technology was supposed to leverage human capacity, and not centralize it.

Where can one find that definition of technology?

> What in fact should have been a "protocol" bases system has become a dictated, and law based one.

Do you think laws should not be applied to the Internet?
Oh cool, thank you.
You can lose your head in rentals with bad tenants and an otherwise good house. It's key to screen and filter candidates or else you're not going to make anything at all, especially SFRs.
Most Costco’s I go to have food stuffs on one aisle and appliances/non-food related consumables on the opposite side. I never even bother to go to the appliance side.

I still thinks it’s setup for efficiency purposes, or at least their perceived efficiency, rather than psychological queues towards the customer.

Even the stuff when you walk in is based on the monthly rebates.
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Thing is they don't need to. They could just tap a bit into their huge revenues before re-investing them in making planes or making huge acquisitions.
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Every year a week before the tax deadline, this exact topic pops up. I've noticed now for the past 4 to 5 years.

The IRS should really advocate for this since it makes their jobs easier due to people making less mistakes. The IRS also has it's own lobby group - the US Congress. It's just not good at lobbying for the IRS...or Americans.
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Concerns about digital sovereignty will be one of the primary forces shaping the tech industry for years to come. Governments are realizing that they can’t depend on companies controlled by potential adversaries. They must expect that other governments will turn their companies into arms of their security apparatus.

This action is ostensibly about sanctions on North Korea, but it’s clearly part of a bigger battle where both the US and China are trying to reduce their technological reliance on, and vulnerability to, the other.

If the US and China got into a war, does anyone doubt that the US would seriously consider ordering Apple and Google to deliver “updates” turning devices in China into spying tools? Or demand that FB hand over the private messages of all foreign users?

And does anyone doubt that China would consider doing the same with Huawei or ZTE phones and networking equipment?
On the other side of the coin, if they hadn't spent the money on reinvesting, they wouldnt be the size they are now or employ as many people.

(This is not saying they shouldn't treat employees better, just that the reason they employ so many people in the first place is bc of reinvesting and expanding to more areas. It's not as simplistic as, 'if they have the money they should spend it on people instead of business')
I greatly appreciate your responses. Putting it as least-worse is a great idea. Had someone told me up front that it would still have religious aspects, chanting, etc. maybe I'd been more likely to stay instead of feeling mislead/broadsided. Or maybe I'd never have gone.

I think your comments here would be a great addition to your paper. These aspects are a huge part of the course and something I didn't feel was well explained at all. If someone is going to react negatively to the trappings of the course then it seems better that they hear of it before they take two weeks to travel to a centre.

Agree that Sam Harris stuff is in no way a replacement. It was his stuff that lead me to go to Vipassana in the first place.

Thanks again.