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Right, I wasn't commenting about revenue or whether it was good/bad. Being the quality leader in a market means having high margins and low sales, but the comment above isn't 'counter-anecdotal' regarding marketshare, but more of the same.
Wait, so if I own a steel company and I fire a salesperson, I can’t go into the emails they sent from the computer I purchased for them to do negotiations with, to retrieve information about clients?

If that’s so, I’m quite shocked. How does this play out in courts? Does an employer in Germany have to sue an employee in order to access such information?
Haha, where I live we have no natural light even outside half of the year (near the arctic circle).
And we are most productive during the dark season because there isn't anything else to do, or any distractions nagging on your mind (like going to the beach etc) :)
Yes exactly. KISS people!
Every place I worked, I optimized for a window seat. I would volunteer to sit next to the loudest and stinkiest people if that's what it took, because those things didn't bother me (noise cancelling headphones and my nose doesn't really work anyway). I would sit far away from all the other amenities, or close to them, whichever was worse, just to get a window.

Somehow I got really lucky, and in 16 years of working in offices, I spent about 12 of them near a window (thanks in part to large suburban offices of Silicon Valley that offered lots of window seats). And for the most part I didn't have to deal with loud or stinky people or being far/close to other amenities.

Now I work from home, where I can see trees out my window. Sadly, Apple cut some of them down to make room for the offramp to their spaceship, so now I also see lights and power lines, but still tree too.
I don't think banning the monopolists from buying other companies will work nor is it fair. It shouldn't be a thing at all, it should be considered as unfair punishment for natural monopolists. Not to mention, most startups will fail on their own anyway without being bought out.

One idea I have (or maybe I misunderstand the laws) is to modernize these patent laws to discourage buying companies simply for their patents. We need to reduce the length of patents, ban software patents, outlaw the patent trolls (patents need to be produced or lose it), and for both natural and non-natural monopolists, make patents globally licensable from them with no exceptions.

Apple grows and improves its technologies through buying companies, it would never be able to produce TouchID/FaceID without buying companies that has patents on the said technologies. If Apple has a hold on the market, it must be forced to license the said patents to anyone at a fair price.

I'm sure there are cons to this approach but it is not like the remedies shown in the article don't have problems either.
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Smaller tool, not a replacement.

ImageMagick is much bigger, more powerful, and more production ready. Snowy is hopefully a bit more Pythonic and easy to play with.
Mostly agreed. But the reality is that EN isn't a "lifestyle" company, but instead took a ton of VC investment. AFAICT, this generally means a future of terrible mismanagement by a board looking for an exit on a company that didn't turn out to be their darling unicorn.
I'd be fine with "30% from any country in the EU", but "30% from my country" is torture. I mean, have you even seen what movies Germany produces? If I could stand any of that rubbish, I'd be watching cable TV, not Netflix.
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How do you think they got to be a trillion dollar company in the first place?
Taxes aren't as simple as "take from A, give to B." People respond to incentives, and greedy evil megacorps do too.

Also, categories are complicated. One reason Amazon is the target of discussion here, and not Google for example, is that Amazon operates warehouses, and warehouses hire low wage employees. If Google was running as many warehouses as Amazon, would they pay better? Maybe they would, but how much better? If Google's low wage workers are in factories in East Asia run by third parties we've never heard of, instead of actual employees on their payroll in the US, is that better?
As political grandstanding to rally the base around an issue and highlight a contrast between the sympathies of your faction and an opposing one to mobilize voters, it's not too bad.

As substantive policy its a nightmare than would crush the people it purports to be aimed at helping, though, and the danger of grandstanding like this is it can get out of control and build the kind of support for the policy that makes it politically irresistible so that it gets adopted, at least in outline.

I wonder how much of this is the Sanders camp being concerned that Warren had gotten way ahead of them with her recent moves (which are nearly as good as grandstanding and much better as substantive policy.) There's clearly a (mostly friendly, perhaps, but still intense) competition to be the standard bearer of the economic progressive faction of the Democratic Party going into the 2020 cycle.

Electoral maneuvering aside, the simple solution to the policy problem this is aimed at is reducing the preference for capital income over labor income in the tax system, which makes hiring labor at any given wage level less expensive, and thereby more competitive with capital-intensive automation.
I don't think they do. I think they're looking to make deals with nations that have resources they want, nothing more or less. I attribute zero ill spirit to that equation.

Banks typically don't want to see you go out of business when you borrow their money, such that they have to take your collateralized assets or similar. They'd prefer you fulfill the terms of the original loan. Regardless, it still happens routinely that debtors default; sometimes the creditor also lends more good money after bad, hoping the situation turns around. Ethiopia would be considered a risky or subprime debtor, as are most of the very newly developing countries like that which China is lending large sums to. They're not lending money to borrowers like Germany or Canada, with many decades of consistently sound economic operation and stability. Those types of economies don't much need China's capital. The nations that have weak access to global capital markets, or generally weak foreign investment, are drawn to China's money for obvious reasons. China is frequently a lender of only resort (particularly at the scale they're willing to deal).
>"I'm still dumbfounded how we can have advanced so far in so many areas of science and technology and yet we are in the dark ages when it comes to nutrition science. Why is that?"

Perhaps its just easier for non-specialists to understand the issues surrounding some areas than others, eg nutrition research. A lot of the "advance" could be illusory.
It is up to the government, in certain political philosophy, to make sure that its citizens have a livelihood. How do those government pay for it is the object of taxation: hardly any government extract enough value from the service it provides to pay for them, so they never “pay for it”; they organise transfers.

Sanders point is that the current system is de-facto redistributive, in favour of companies who use temporary workers at a large scale and with patterns that appear to be designed to evade regulations on employee protection. Say, there are obligations that kick in when an employee works for more than 40 hours per week; employers who have thousands of employees tasked to work only 39 hours could obviously hire almost as many and be responsible for sick pay, holidays, health insurance.

You response is probably that this means the union decision was badly designed, and no one who knows anything about labor negotiations would disagree with you. It is a case of the spirit of the law versus its letter. I’m sure you want to say that this is not the company’s role to write the law. That would make their lobbyist laugh a bit, but let’s assume this is true. Sanders is precisely trying to fit one to the other. What constitutes a clear breach (and how the numbers quoted in the project are established) is probably a nightmare of analytical ad-hoc decisions, but it’s probably more honest than refusing to support financially basic human needs from people who, de-facto, work full time for you.
I think the author is specifically drawing attention to how current antitrust laws, which focus on a price model, don't protect consumers from more long-term anti-competition. I wish the article would dive into those problems more but I'm not sure anyone knows what the symptoms of this (mis)behaviour looks like.

But in terms of Amazon and Uber:
- Amazon behaviour with diapers.com seems like predatory pricing, which is clearly illegal (and doesn't help consumer pricing after acquisition)
- Uber wants to have it's cake and eat it too. If the drivers aren't employees, they're price fixing; if the drivers are employees, treat them like it, e.g. benefits, etc
Time to put some apple seeds in the ground :)
Scientists / scientists in training are starting to understand it.

I think almost every last field taught in university would benefit from more statistics courses, with at least one of them from a bayesian perspective.

The problem is that statistics is boring. Most things in university are causal. Statistics is kinda fuzzy and unintuitive.
Basically the same question, discussed at considerable length here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17892731
> The business side of running a CA is fundamentally at odds with the security side.

Well, as we're seeing here, they can only be out of phase to a certain degree before both suffer.
This is my thought process as well. Amazon may not be able to immediately automate it's workforce, but can ramp up investment for fewer kmployees with higher output over time.

McDonalds on the other hand, already has kiosks installed everywhere and simply has to decide orders can't be taken at the till anymore. There goes 50% of customer facing staff. And here comes more of the population relying on government subsidies.

Basic income is still a more viable alternative, but I have low hopes of this being taken seriously for another 10-20 years.
There was a tweet going around yesterday with around 500k likes about how we all secretly love to rearrange our rooms to get a "new me" feeling. I think a constant change of scenery is really important for us to not get stuck in negative mindsets.
I suspect the long game here is eliminating user bookmarking altogether. Why would you want to use something as archaic as a saved URL, when there's a service that knows where you want to go to on the Internet better than you could ever decide for yourself?
The second step should be to then raise federal eligibility requirements to levels that allow somebody to survive on.
Disagree. Capital gains should be taxed at wage levels. Also, I don't care for incentivizing investment in enterprises that rely on abusive labor practices.
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It depends of the space you're operating in. From what I've seen in line of business software, the quality is mediocre at best, and Excel is still everywhere. Here a Lean approach on targeted business processes is still viable and can make wonders.

Also sometimes we self-impose complexity with our tools. For example I recently displaced a competitor with a full team having a hard time delivering because of the disproportionate complexity of their stack regarding the problem (full SPA for a simple CRUD app), where I could do it as a solo effort costing ten times less.
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Not necessarily true. Look at Wal-Mart, which out-competes local businesses offering better salaries by cutting labor costs to the bone.
What’s the difference? They’re both forms of eavesdropping.
The distinction seems to be based on the level of disability in the survivors. Dead people are not a burden after the war is over, but maimed people are, and a huge part of that is blindness. Old-style chemical weapons tended to blind people. Post-war civilian life doesn't work so well if a significant chunk of the population is blind.
People do get jobs, but it does end up being a race to the bottom.
aren't there other -tose variants that may be easier? they are all pretty complex.

mars also has lots of interesting isotopes, which I guess helps the equation
That's how I expect Google to make decisions, not Mozilla. I would like to say that I trust Mozilla to appropriately weigh pros and cons and make unpopular decisions when necessary, but it seems like the entire deliberation process was a few individuals in one of the bugzilla threads that jaas linked above: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402890 (and I don't see any mention of how widely used it is, from telemetry or otherwise).
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The comments from that post about his best decision being born to a wealthy family are so moronic.

Sure, the connections probably helped him stay out of trouble, go to better schools, etc. But to say that he owes his success to his wealth is absurd. I would argue that extreme wealth for most people would inhibit ambitions, not enhance them.

I would also argue that today most entrepreneurs wouldn't peruse publicly available Github repos to learn how to code, let alone dumpster dive for printouts of code to study. Some might view that as playing dirty, I would say it shows an incredible amount of ambition and drive. After all, he could have been getting drunk at Harvard and studying pre-law like everyone else was there in the 70's.
Skateboarders do, but then we can't even use the space because of hostile design.
Not sure if I've put in this thread but just to avoid any issues, I work for Digital Science (which is part of Holtzbrinck) though as always only ever speak personally and not for the company.

> This is the EU – and their allies at places like the Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust – negotiating with tanks in public (and not before time, in my personal view).

I don't know I'd see it quite like that, far from a negotiating point they seem to be much more simply the customer. They have decided what they want to do with their work and money, it's entirely up to them how to spend it. It's been a while coming, but publishing is a slow industry.

The risk, really, that the publishing industry has been running with for some time is that it relies enormously on submitted work from a relatively small number of funders (and then the funders are often owned by the same government, and in the EU those governments work very closely together). A change in view from those few customers means larger things need to change.

> Nature/Holzbrinck/Digital Science are arguing the other side, because of course they are, who wants to get disrupted? And Nature is their bully pulpit.

Not sure I've seen DS arguing either side in this really. Personally it'll make my work at DS easier the more that's open access and unless I've missed something doesn't really impact any of the major products - I can't see how it'd change Dimensions for example (apart from making it easier to ingest more full text data). I certainly can't see where it would "disrupt" DS. Would be interested to know what you think would be disrupted.

It's a change to the business model of some of the publishing, but while a big change in the industry hardly one that should come as a surprise - and one that there's already a widely used alternative model already in place. It's a much bigger shift given they aren't accepting hybrid journals, but doesn't rule out commercial operation. Seeing what they choose as their cap for the APCs will be interesting.
As I see it people in the US believe that the whole of the country needs to be treated equally. If you live in rural Kentucky your internet speed has to be the same as someone who lives in NYC.
Pointing out that New York is the economic engine the US runs on and deserves to get priority makes everyone upset.
doesn't seem that odd to me given that the website is "usa today"...
They will remove the data in a future release. I.e. if you don't read the entire release notes for all the software you use, there's a chance that your data will be removed inadvertently, if you happen to use the feature.

Firefox has problems with data loss. I have lost my open tabs on multiple occasions in scenarios where it's totally possible to recover the entire data (just using atomic writes). Recently, I mistakenly opened FF 52 instead of FF 61 (Debian has 52), and all my bookmarks were deleted. Luckily I had a backup of the user profile so that I survived that. I like FF, but I cannot trust it with my data one bit. And now it's no more only mistakes but it's intentional, user-hostile design decisions.
Stupid Apple removed the Ethernet jack from my phone.
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Honestly, 'new' gmail is substantially worse on FF than chrome. Which sucks, because I don't want to use chrome.
I think you have the blame reversed. These problems were caused by statisticians who failed to understand there is always a reason to "adjust" the data. They taught people to apply methods that were inapplicable to the real-life research conditions they would face.
Once you have an amazon.com account, you magically also have an amazon.de account, and an amazon.it account... and it's a few clicks to switch in the app. Maybe that's how it'll go?
There is a certain irony about a dictionary web-page using 3 times more memory than it takes to store the entire Oxford English dictionary (and accessory publications), that is undoubtedly more complete.
I'd rather think about this in the context of healthcare. It would be nice if we had healthcare for all, because it would make hiring people easier, and people could have healthcare even if they aren't employed. This Stop BEZOS Act is like mandating that employers provide healthcare. Why not give healthcare to everyone and avoid the implementation cost for every businesses?
A minimum wage well above the market rate would also be a special tax on some employers while letting others off the hook.

An employer is not your mother. Just because you go to work for someone, it does not automatically endow them with a special responsibility to make sure you can afford to live your life in the way a bunch of other people say that you should be able to.

When we (as a citizenry) get together and decide on how we want to support each other we can't just pawn off the costs of that decision on a 3rd party. We have to accept those costs ourselves.
I'm starting to think a nation sales tax were the rate is based on the revenue of the company would be helpful in companies getting too big and powerful.
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It's things like this that start off small, and then poof! something like a gmail or google maps appears and changes our view of the web.

Very cool.

I haven't had time to think about potential applications (beyond the obvious messaging ones), but I'm sure the list will grow quickly.
Have you considered submitting a bug report? That's likely to get more attention than complaining on some random internet forum.
> This isn't the era of Bell-Labs, this is the era of PMP-certified project managers. In many places the "data scientist" will be dropped into a project and expected to start producing "deliverables", outcomes will be a mixed bag.

I have been on the receiving end of that argument a lot. Given the efficacy of well-thought ML, I suspect that competition will make those companies less durable than they seem to expect.
As an American who doesn't live in NYC or LA, I sympathize with wanting high quality, contextually diverse films; however, I would never want my (in this case, state) government to try to restrict the market of films available to me.
Funny, Canadian ISPs defend their price gouging by saying Canada's low population density is to blame...
Walmart is working on it. Some of the stores have bots going up and down the isles doing inventory. Next will be stocking shelves. I know a manager at one of those Walmarts. They are one of the test stores for this tech.

Amazon use some bots and are working on automating more of the warehouse jobs, IIRC.

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That's interesting, and absolutely not my experience. Search has been robust, finds what I need, and absolutely worth having. Might be worth a support request -- maybe there's some undetected lossage in your account's search indices and they need a rebuild. (Or maybe you can kick that off self-service?)
I don't think prices are a good comparison. You will have much higher prices in places where wealth exist. There is much more wealth in the US than Mongolia or Russia. Maybe a percentage of total income would be the best comparison.
Yes, people abuse freedoms all the time, but to many a lack of privacy is a bigger threat.

Imagine someone who is breaking the law at work and someone who is breaking the same law in their home. Just substitute "employer" for "government" as a reason why people should be constantly and fully monitored without any probably cause. It's basically like saying everyone's electronic communication should be monitored at all times to see if they are feeling sad, angry, etc. which might put them at risk of committing a crime.

The right to privacy is fundamental to freedom and it shouldn't stop once you walk in the workplace.
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You're my hero. I'd like to hear about what else you consider essential before hiring an employer.