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Honestly i’ve bought and returned plenty of stuff from Amazon. I never deal with their shit when something comes to me less than par. When I pay for prime, I expect to be paying for any mishandling of my items as well. Nearly every item i’ve wanted to return i’ve been told to just keep and i’ve never had any trouble with them. I always tell them i’m more than happy to send it back but they always refuse and just tell me to keep it anyways. I’ve been refunded several items in the $60-$70 range and told to keep it. It takes a lot to actually get flagged in their system. Especially if you’ve been a prime member for several years. (I think we’ve been members since 2008 or so). Don’t ever be scared to ask for it when it’s necessary and get your hard earned cash back.
Imagine the EU would invest these 5 billions into funding microg, alternative app storrs and other drop in replacements for APIs and Apps.
Got it! Thanks for the note, and we should be able to make this better very soon.
Does it look anything like https://github.com/dan-compton/ecsonnet

How are you managing the registration of service and task definitions?
Would love something like this for single-handed use in Android.

I'm amazed at how poor my typing skills in android are, after years and years of constant use. Something just is not working!
I am curious how they are "very aggressive". What happens with me is they say "what is your phone number?" and I say "no thank you", and they just skip it. Though it may just be my experience with them.

You are correct with the credit card, they will most likely track you, but you have the option to use cash if you wish.
> a community of mattress enthusiasts

This got a hearty chuckle out of me, nice work.
Having worked for an industry-specific arb forum in the past, I'll take a stab @ this.

Assuming that the contract specifies the forum, you'd want to look into how 'fair' the past decisions for matters relating to whatever it is you'll be doing have been.

You'll also want to get a sense of what the forum's arbitrator pool is like, i.e. who are the arbs and how qualified are they to actually sit on a panel.

Additionally, look for language that specifies where hearings must take place, and/or forum rules/policies on specifying hearing locations (or actually how the process works in general). The last italicized bit is quite important because contracts can say just about anything, but fora often have rules that can void contract language that is deemed unfair, unethical, etc.

Other considerations: up-front and long run costs, turnaround times, ability to receive explained decision and to appeal decisions, ability to forum to enforce decisions/judgements... Probably forgetting some things, but those are the major ones. Oh, yeah, precedent. At my forum, past panel decisions had zero bearing on other cases. I mean that literally.

Possible reason not to opt out: you might fair worse trying to go to court, based on costs, turnaround time, precedent, or some other factor. Also, your company may view you as a troublemaker if the typical behavior is simply to sign the agreement

Honestly, based on what I learned, whether in the court system or the arb system, people lacking access to significant resources are at a disadvantage in either.

W/o knowing the specifics, it's difficult to provide a definitive answer. Finally, IANAL.
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Don't most countries with socialized healthcare also have free (or affordable) education?
As a software engineer super interested in genome editing, are there any software out there that will educate me through the process?
I remember years ago on HN, there’d be debates over whether it was ethical or decent to go into a Best Buy store, then do a price check and order on Amazon, effectively using BB and other brick-and-mortar stores as showrooms. I remember the debate seeming split on generational lines, with younger folks pointing out that BB should adapt or die, and older folks arguing that brick-and-mortar was at a huge disadvantage no matter how low they cut prices, and that shuttered stores were a blight on real-life communities.

I still buy most of my stuff of Amazon but the nearby Best Buy stores are good enough that I see them almost as a premium shopping experience. Not at the level of Apple of course, but good enough that I’m happy to spend money there. I think the turnaround moment was a few years ago when I noticed a premium wireless mouse going for an incredibly low $20. When I tried to checkout, the cashier said that according to the system, it appeared the mouse was labeled wrong on the shelf, to the tube of $40 off. But without hesitation he gave me the discount anyway.

I would’ve predicted back when Amazon released its Price Check app that Best Buy would be decimated. I don’t use their tech support/consulting so I still am surprised they are surviving. Ironically, I now take advantage of Amazon in order to buy at BB. When I see something I like on the shelf, I check to see if the Amazon reviews are good. If so, I can buy it without the same level of nagging doubt about the product’s authenticity.
They could. But why would they? They're just going to return it to Apple.
I'm pretty sure the map at the bottom is wrong, at least in CA. The 5 CA metros listed are San Jose, San Francisco, Napa, LA, Santa Barbara, but the map shows 4 Southern CA dots (including one that looks like it's in the southern Central Valley of all places)
I agree that generics should probably be a strong consideration right from the beginning. I disagree that this would mean that it would necessarily be done correctly or that it's impossible to add it later. That was the case with .Net and C#, it wasn't until the 2.0 release that generics were added. [0]

[0]: http://mattwarren.org/2018/03/02/How-generics-were-added-to-...
Did she do it in the US? I was under the impression she did it in Sweden, which would cost her $0.

EDIT: Ok, she lives in San Fransisco now. Didn't know.
That sounds as useful as arguing about whether ff a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Given my rate of book damage, I also have low confidence that the replacement item would arrive in good condition so exchange seems like a waste if time. I want to buy things and have them show up undamaged. Is it so much to ask?
It's not impossible in Java but it does require a strong grasp of graphql-java's execution model and the DataFetchingEnvironment and associated classes.
We accomplish something similar to what you desire when querying our time series database via GraphQL.

The big difference between Java and Javascript when it comes to GraphQL is the amount of noise, tutorials and examples on the Javascript side far outweigh other options right now.

Javascript may be the "happy" path for now but I do hope that we see continued investment in Java/Scala/Ruby/Python/.NET etc as those implementations have the opportunity to be better architected and more performant that the reference JS implementation. The reference implementation uses a very simplistic execution model which for now has been copied almost verbatim into other languages but there is great potential for a proper query planner and optimisation layer at the GraphQL layer.

Disclaimer: I work at MDG on Apollo Engine (the backend of which is Kotlin utilising graphql-java).
I was asking myself the same question - maybe that field customer service and human contact are what makes BB compete effectively with Amazon?
> Like most Americans I order a shitload from Amazon.

I do too but can we say "most" Americans? Are there any stats available on their customers?

I wonder, how many Americans have purchased at least one thing on Amazon? How many have in the past year? What's the average spend per customer per year?
We wrote our own server in C++. We also have a few smaller graphql endpoints running the official JS implementation on express. On the client side we are using relay modern.
I semi-regularly buy stuff from Best Buy with cash without problem.
Other recent articles I saw about this said twelve, this one says ten. Anyone know why?

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/17/629396121/galileo-would-be-st...

If you look at Wikipedia's list and sort by year of discovery, 10 would include the ones in 2018 and 2017, while 12 includes two more in 2016. All 12 are discovered by Sheppard et al. Perhaps those two aren't news anymore?
I don't trust Amazon for technology purchases any more. Best Buy offers the same level of convenience (next day delivery in most places), with the added benefit of being able to pick up something same day in-store. No fear of ever being stuck with counterfeits or missing deadlines on pre-orders.
Yeah I fear like all this will do is give rise to some false conspiracy theories about CRISPR.
The majority of Android phones (including all Samsung phones) have other browsers preinstalled.
Did you try clients like Relay and Apollo?
Now yes, but that took time/energy to create. California wine was a joke until the 70's, and it's dairy industry didn't catch up with Wisconsin until the early 90's (despite massive size differences in the two states).
The Roads Must Roll was Heinlein.

Asimov ran with it in Caves of Steel. But credit where credit is due.
You can pay cash and give fake data.
I noticed that in the article, Joly gave back the employee discount and said it was a big morale booster. I think morale is important, especially for retail. Employees run the business, and store floor employees are the face of the business.

I've gone to Best Buy mainly for store pickups - but generally a good experience. One time I was there for pickups, and in general looking for a new vacuum cleaner...so I wandered over there. An employee approached me with a positive demeanor and asked if I had any questions, and even asked if I wanted a demo. I gently declined, she said I can find her if I have any other questions and she didn't bother me.

I didn't buy my vacuum cleaner from there...I found a clearance at Walmart that had great reviews. But if I wanted to buy one at retail value (or at least, non-clearance price) I'd go to Best Buy...good customer service, and they'll match anyone.

Happy employees = good business. I work for a big company, and management always does surveys. One of the biggest complaints is we don't get free coffee. The executives addressed it and responded...no free coffee. Would you rather want free coffee, or hire more employees? (funny thing is we're not hiring)
It would definitely make sense as a starting point. But it has some specific use cases that would require specialized regulation. Anyway, someday this will become a reality and we will see if the rules fit.
It's covered nearly immediately in the article - it's due to ski resorts such as Jackson Hole, which are havens for the ultra-wealthy.
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Is income inequality also correlated with a lower median income?

If so, then any correlation between income inequality and all of those other things are likely a correlation between them and median income.

Do places with with high income inequality and high median income compare favorably or unfavorably with places with high income inequality and low median income?
Stick to the topic, and don't go meta. Leave out things like "when I was preparing to submit this talk proposal" or "as I was creating the slides for this talk." Talk about the topic, don't talk about the talking.

Know the language and culture of your audience. If it's a mixture of people who don't speak English (or whatever language) as their first language, take care to avoid colourful metaphors that make sense to a native speaker but which confuse non-native speakers. I've confused people with expressions like "inside baseball" or reference to "Goldilocks values" (not too much, not too little). Good metaphors are valuable. Metaphors that depend on too much cultural context are unhelpful.
I hope for another BDFL or at least a king. Democracy is going to be a mess. Choose someone who wants to do it, agrees with Guido on as many as possible fundamental things and isn't too much of a revulotionary please.
That's what they said about IPv4
People don't want to be underground for extended periods. If I were building an autonomous world from scratch, I'd want to design it so people are always above ground but "things" travel below ground.

There's an Amazon patent for an underground delivery system via tunnels that would mitigate against some problems that autonomous cars will bring. Once we have fully autonomous cars that don't need people, most cars on the road won't have anyone in them. Rather than pizza delivery people, shipping delivery, etc -- even something like "oh let me send my friend a key to my apartment while I go on vacation."

It will completely take over the roads unless we do something drastic. So send THAT traffic underground. We are going to need traffic lanes for "stuff." Let somebody commuting to work see the sun during their commute.

Edit: One thing I'd add is that New York and other places used to have a basic version of this - a series of pneumatic tubes that connected the city. There's a city in the U.S. that does trash via pneumatic tubes. I don't think that's the ideal delivery system for other reasons, but worth pointing out that this isn't an entirely new idea. Here's a map: https://untappedcities-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/up...
When I was a freshman in HS, a friend and I were playing Betrayal at Krondor late one night, just talking randomly about the stupid things that nerdy freshman talk about. At some point he just turns to me with this weird look on his face and says, completely ernest, "I just realized... I'm literally a red-headed step-child."

There was this long pause and then we both just started laughing.

File under: shit that doesn't happen any more because nobody plays single-player games side-by-side, late at night any longer.
Because without quotes it would just be improper English and poor grammar; 'same day' is a term, not proper language. I would have to write "It would be nice to get stuff without waiting" or "nice to get stuff on the same day that I purchased" etc..
We already have a progressive tax system where higher income levels are taxed at a higher rate. The question is where to ratchet up those rates and by how much. In order to do that reasonably, we need to understand what the marginal utility [0] of money is for our society as a whole.

Put simply, anyone could spend $100k a year, most people could find useful things to spend $1M or $10M on annually. But the higher you go, the harder it is to find meaningful things to spend money on. Each extra dollar is simply worth less than the last (and a lot less than the first!)

So while a 90% rate on income above $3M[1] might seem insane today, it would not even be a historic high in the United States. Whether it is fair or moral to tax in such a way is another question, but practically speaking high taxes affect rich people less the richer they are, and we as a society have historically been willing to take more from them because of that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_State...
Having said that the crazy mess (tiny isles and disorganized) and $20 USB cables were Best Buy stores made me give up on them a long time ago.

You should pop by again and see if it's still the same. The last Best Buy I went to has massive aisle spacing and was highly organized. That doesn't mean I was easily able to find what I was looking for (headphones are scattered around different departments), but what you describe is not what I've seen lately.

Like other people have said, the only reason I go to Best Buy is because I need something right now. (Replace a failed hard drive, for example.) I don't expect to get the best buy; I'm paying for the convenience.
I'd like to add that correctly designed resolvers allow you:
- to control very easily who can fetch what where it's fetched (permissions)
- to fetch nested data when you need it without writing serializers
- to help your frontend team find what they are looking for without asking the backend team everytime
- mutations are a huge plus when it comes to standardization of your API too

FYI we're using it in production over a django backend (which comes with some drawbacks, since subscriptions == pushed updates are not perfectly implemented) with our react/apollo apps (web and native) and in my opinion the overhead lies surprisingly more in the frontend side (writing data connectors is longer, but way more explicit, than using rest queries returning json)than on the backend (where you just declare resolvers, a thing you don't even need to do in nodejs) and handle permissions.
Google does not even want or need to make money from Android they were/are afraid that iPhone and Windows mobile devices would not default to Google search, having all the mobile devices not defaulting to google gave them nightmares.
Still didn’t answer their question.
And sometimes you end up with two files instead of one.
A better analogy is some sort of third-party API rating system. Consultancies put out big whitepapers about what a "storage service" is, and what the relative quality of things like Amazon/Google/Microsoft's offerings are. The change in definition of e.g.

Pluto might be analogous to that company originally having classified Amazon S3 as a "backup service" before deciding that it was really a new category of service that has now spawned many competitors.

The classification is designed to help us reason and talk about like things. We can all see how Amazon S3 and e.g. Dropbox are fundamentally different categories of service, and they need different names. We shouldn't be afraid of reclassifying things because people will have to change their models. The point of recategorization is that the old models are not as useful as the new models.
Unlike Java, Go doesn't have to worry about bytecode backwards compatibility. That was the main issue that had them reaching for type erasure.

Take a look at C# which added it without many issues (because they were willing to break back compat of their bytecode). Go fits this model a whole lot better.
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Yes, and it's too bad because the irony of pointing out that the 20's were part of the so-called "Progressive Era" despite having robber barons and such horrible inequity is really too good IMO.
Every time I read about gene editing, I think of the short story Sisters by Greg Bear: https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0036/ERBAEN0036___1.htm
The idea of brainwashing is 'pseudoscientific' and 'dehumanises people'
That's your experience. When my fridge was dying, I went to Home depot. They had one, I ordered it, they delivered it, even took off the door off the hinges to bring it in, installed it and placed the doors back on the hinges.
I had filed this one (1) away for next time I have to do a presentation. It sums up a list of bad titles for a presentation.

[1] https://gist.github.com/snare/7f0c4708bf4ea8133204c21e8ba64d...
The misuse of "jealousy" in place of "envy" bothers me as well, but I'm not sure it was misused in this case.

I would assume that if income inequality inspires envy in those on the lower end of the economic scale, it would also inspire jealousy at the upper end.
No I mean that seeing how widespread click-to-confirm emails are I'd think there are best practices for how to implement them to avoid fake clicks. Whether those ideas are followed by everyone is another story, but all the pitfalls that people are pointing out apply in one way or another to the password system as well.
Another "interesting" story from these guys:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_Foundation_Burn_a_Million_Qu...
I can do the same in Germany with public insurance.
Do you though?

... OData ...

It's a thing.
A common idiom on HN is that "ideas are cheap". The artist has the ideas, we often naively credit then with the implementation too; the implementation isn't 'the easy bit', it's an essential part of creating an artistic work.

Duchamp's fountain is a fine idea that continues to inspire newcomers to that age-old what-is-art question; but truly the material science and manufacturing process and craftsmanship that went in to that urinals design and production are a cause celebre - greater than Duchamp's idea by far IMO.

Now reflect on Warhol's prints; derivative instead of visual design rather than artefact production. But Warhol designed and created the works.

IMO: commissioning art doesn't make you the artist of a final work that required artistic and crafting input from others. Warhol is the artist of his self-made silk prints; Duchamp's input to Fountain is curating, or social commentary.

The same is true in architecture,"Wren's" St. Paul's Cathedral would be nothing without the skilled masons. There's a line there somewhere though -- I wouldn't include the sandwich makers, the steeplejacks, et al., A amongst the creators of that work, ...

(This all brings to mind Gaia Hypothesis.)

Ah, says the modern artist, but the art I create is the image/idea in your mind and the medium I use is other artists and craftsmen ...
Maybe, but the choice of words implied that there was some limit on their aspirations. However, she seemed to do very well in the field and clearly represented a competitive differentiator. I'm sure Amazon is taking notes.
But this is one of the things that I think will disappear over time. What parts of the user experience are bad for you? Accessibility? Raw speed? Native transitions?

It's entirely possible to write a completely native app with terrible user experience. Right now making an app with great UX is hard, but I don't think it gets easier by solving it separately for different platforms, I think it's easier to build giants to stand on by focusing on one platform.

Also, people talk about UX a lot, but half of the most successful apps out there have really basic UX, and are basically websites to start with.
Could you all tell about your stack, too ? Do we have to use NodeJS in order to get GraphQL working properly ? I'm aware of the libraries available for other languages, but NodeJS seems to be the only platform with proper support. I wonder if there is any Go developers building servers with GraphQL.
My guess is the role of professional sales people in retail was always over stated. People like having a personal relationship when they can, but often that is a major luxury and probably doesn't actually help in the product selection.
They almost certainly are. Buzzfeed didn't become synonymous with clickbait by random chance. It literally spun out of a research lab studying the viral spread of online content.
Few languages use glibc for their regex implementation. PCRE is probably the most commonly used third-party regex lib, but it depends. Python and a bunch of languages have their own implementations.
Visa/MC/Amex will literally sell your transaction data to almost anyone

There was an article linked on HN last year which indicated that Google gets 80% of all card transactions. My guess is that it's more by now.
So Bezos has $150B in Amazon stock. You want him to give the gov't $149B of that? Am I hearing you correct?
> So the only argument left for hacked viruses is for people with auto-immune diseases or other serious compromised systems, which is in fact rare.

"The only"

You start off making good points then you take this giant leap to absurdity. It's beyond hyperbole.
I've bought plenty of SD cards online for my raspberry pi and dashcam. They all die and start giving errors within a month or two. Even tho I went of my way to buy name brand, and not the cheapest 4 star cards. :-/
We had a baby. Bill is north of 25k. We paid about 3k out of pocket, rest was covered by insurance.

Even then it’s a pretty crazy amount for what is supposed to be a routine delivery. No epidural was administered.

I can see why young people aren’t having babies. You work like a dog to pay rent and barely make it. Having a kid puts those finances in jeopardy.
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