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> Companies can’t start up and fail for zero cost.

Retailing companies? Sure they can. If Walmart started selling products for $5 that retail for $1 elsewhere, anyone could sell the ten they already have in their kitchen to their neighbors for $4.50 each, then use the money they just made to drive to the next town and buy twice as many. Before they've even run out of vacation days at their real job they're doing half the business in the town and can afford to rent a storefront month to month and hire some college students to mind the store.

The second Walmart lowers their prices again, they sell their remaining inventory for the normal retail price instead of the inflated one and then shut down. Assuming they haven't built enough volume and loyalty in the local market by then to continue operating and keep half the town's business indefinitely.
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Wait, you have a 60k USD salary in Poland? Where do you work, what do you do? I'm on 40k and I already feel like this is better than 100k in Denmark, considering their higher taxes and insane cost of living
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Yes. They're ok. You decide to chose what belief system to subsccribe to,and the highest authority within your belief system decides right and wrong(absolute right and wrongs being decided by absolute authority)

While you're bored and comfortable,others are in horrific pain and suffering.

It seems you prefer comfort and well being over doing what's right. In essence,if you (not society) believe doing something is right,you should at the very least not be be vocally against others who are doing it.
Can't trivial subdomains just be colored gray and done instead of getting away with them? Also maybe color blue the .com and similar.
The wage statistics in e.g. Sweden is after a 31.43% "federal" (royal?) pay-roll tax is deducted.

BLS, US median for programmers:

82 240 USD/y

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...

Engineering Union, Sweden, median for union programmers:

61 416 USD/y, as reported.

80 719 USD/y, including payroll tax.

I believe other European countries could report data in a similar manner. The employer cost is similar.
From the original article:

Tesla has long struggled with high turnover involving its senior executives, and its finance team in particular has gone through a period of significant tumult. In the first quarter of this year, the company lost Morton’s predecessor, Eric Branderiz, and Susan Repo, who was treasurer and vice president of finance. CFO Deepak Ahuja retired in 2015, only to return last year when his successor, Jason Wheeler, quit after just 15 months.

And I said:

> A rotating door of financial executives screams financial problems.

3 (4 if you count the return of Ahuja to fill in) CFO/CAOs in the last 3 years.

- Ahuja
- Wheeler
- Ajuha
- Branderiz
- Morton

This doesn't count the VPs that have come and gone or other executives.

More than 50 vice presidents or higher have left the company in the past two years. Mr. Musk has said he sees executive turnover as being in line with that of other large companies and has announced plans for a reorganization aimed at flattening the layers of managers. [1]

Please tell me where I'm making things up.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-appears-to-smoke-mari...
The overwhelming majority of hospitals in the US are non-profits. You can look at their financial disclosures.

Spoilers: you won't find big profit margins.
That's a pretty hefty fee when you compare relative to average annual returns. Plus the compounding nature of those costs is not insignificant. Jack Bogle (Vanguard) has a nice chapter demonstrating this in "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing".
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It is obviously a joke even without the explanation though. He even quotes XKCD.
Of late the delivery hasn't been on time either due to staff strikes. I look on Amazon a lot but I do find myself buying elsewhere for price and availability in specialist stores more and more. The biggest mistake Amazon is making is making it necessary to look elsewhere, after training me it was basically the best place to look first now it is training me to not bother.
Because many devs want to get paid without paying for the tools they use to sell their work.

Naturally with such culture one gets Electron instead.
Two main contributors to this in my experience, and both suggest this is unlikely to change for the foreseeable future.

Part of it is cultural, in that there is still a widespread perception that software engineers are fungible cogs and that no one could possibly be worth that much more than the average technical worker in any other industry -- they value the contribution like industrial labor. I do a lot of work in Europe and many business people find it inexplicable that any software engineer could be worth a senior manager's wage.

The second part is that while wages are relatively low, the cost of employment is astonishingly high in many European countries. Consequently, the fraction of employment cost that gets delivered to the worker as wages is much smaller, all other things being equal. From an employer's perspective, the employment costs are much closer than the paycheck suggests. The company only cares about employment costs, not wages per se. This is unlikely to change anytime soon because it is a manifestation of the social labor ethos common in Europe.
We're about a decade further in the adoption of Wifi from when WPA2 was released. It's a completely different ballpark now that wifi is considered part of the basic infrastructure everywhere and baked in to exponentially more devices.

It took several years for people to pitch their old dell laptops and nintendo consoles that couldn't support the then-new standards. People aren't going to replace their thermostats, baby-monitors, security systems, home entertainment systems, and juicers over night.
And their Two Day Delivery Gaurantee is increasingly neither two days nor a guarantee.
Flater management helps. I have seen developers telling managers that they disagree with some requirement or similar in a way that was not possible in Spain. You will have been fired. Also, the mindset in Spain is that you are lucky if you have a job and people keeps bad jobs as family and friends will not understand "why do they complain if they are far better than other people".

Sweden has been better off economically, and it has a safety net that allows developers (and other workers) to say NO to very stupid things.

When people ask me why I emigrated to Sweden, the answer is easy. It has a healthier work culture than most parts of the world. What use is 20% more salary if I got to live a stressed and miserable life?
Cellphones have a typical 2-4 year life, so these will disappear pretty quickly. I expect many of those 30 items to have a relativly short lifespan - maybe 5-10 years at best.

We're adding more and more connected devices:

Phones, tablets, desktops, laptops all typically have a short life..

Smart home devices with WiFi, well, those claim an incredible life - but I really pity anyone putting today's consumer "IoT" devices in. Those things are often out of support before you even buy them. I doubt they are lasting 10 years, and even when I do, I doubt they'll still be safe to leave in place.

TVs and TV set top boxes - this one really bugs me. I want a good quality dumb panel, because the smarts are out of date well within two years, and the TV itself should be good for way longer. TV Boxes, they go out of date too - but there cheap, so get replaced way more often.

Long story short - I think the devices we're buying today are not designed to stand the test of time. They will IMO die out or be removed from your home much faster than we all hope.

Edit addition: also, forgot to mention - I had lots of stuff that was WEP only. Much of it well after WPA2 came out. There all long gone, I expect the same will happen to the vast majority of people.
Some cost don't vary by location, and whatever you have left over after living expenses is absolute purchasing power. In the SF I could (and did) fly light aircraft. Fat chance doing that on $60k no matter where you live.
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It’s easy to make this argument: Jewish people were in a place where their experience was entirely existential, thus anything is survivable simply because the other option is death (and so it was for their children and their friends).

It’s an absolutely different story when you are being wrongfully interrogated in the USSR and thus giving up simply implies a life in prison. And the other option is another day of torture.

Suffering is relative.
How about, "Jeff, I used to love Amazon, but since you started fronting a bunch of knockoff products I can no longer confidently choose the lowest priced options--I wish your selection was less vast and more select, and I'd even be willing to pay slightly higher prices to ensure that the quality remained consistent even amongst the lowest priced products."

That actually describes the strategy of some other brands like REI which have higher prices but consistently higher quality products
There’s no functional difference between “you can’t have this” and “this is too expensive for you”. Neither affects my original point in the slightest.

“The poor do it to themselves” is an argument that you can take back to the Victorian era where it belongs.
It is pretty clear, want to give your work for free to others as you enjoy using Qt for free? Then give it away for free.

Want to earn money with the work from Qt devs? Give them something back to pay their bills.
Well, I just wish they'd stop trying to convince people to let them into their houses and cars to allow for faster delivery.

It's the means I usually have a problem with,not the ends.
Unemployment is so low that companies have to poach
just keep a different Wifi open for the older stuff, or just don't upgrade as you clearly are not interested in having secure networking.
So, are we sensing a startup idea of "start your own amazon" but for shipping company.
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I see a rising consciousness that "sold by Amazon" products are often likely to be stale-dated or counterfeit. Read the reviews. Read manufacturer responses to complaints. This is broad-spectrum: Fake SDXC cards. Adulterated Moroccan argan oil. Travel underwear that falls apart because it sat six years in a hot storeroom before the merchant went under.

I find myself evaluating each Amazon purchase for provenance, as if I found it in the woods. I never buy from those rural Pennsylvania bargain stores that have stale-dated corn flakes for a dollar; why do we give Amazon a pass on this? As more people make this association, their sales will peak and fall.
And what facts do you base these assertions on?
Was there ever another time in US history when unemployment was this low?
This is why you only buy items that are both "shipped from" and "sold by" Amazon. They are very good about accepting returns.
Thank you this is excellent!
I’ve had a similar experience. The most frustrating part has been the fraud in the ratings system, and I’ve been shocked that Amazon hasn’t done more to stop fake reviews. The always-5-star-reviews that were given a product for free are nearly as bad as the purely fake ones.
Roads are huge and are deteriorating all the time. Keeping the road in a state suitable for people to sleep in a normal bus would not be cheap, and maybe even impossible.
Personally, I would do it in the database. Most established database products have some sort of "import" or "load" tool. Some even have "update_insert" types of ingestion mechanisms depending on your requirement.

So, keep a table of the latest "data" you have. Then import into a separate table. After that, your requirements are solvable with a few SQL joins. The upside is that you also have a local copy of the data in a table, which is always a plus when diagnosing/supporting your deployed product.

The data sets you then need:

Deleted: Orig_table left outer join Import_Table with a null filter on Import_table.
New: Import_Table left outer join Orig_table with a null filter on Orig_table.
Changed: Inner join with not-equal check on all columns, joined by OR.

And each update to the external API also updates your local version of the data. I.e. Orig_table.

I know it sounds a bit verbose and maybe not an "all in one" solution that you're looking for. But sometimes, you just need to solve the problem.
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But in two decades, after your data has been sold and bought countless times, to who knowns which government? In 30 years, when I'm nearing retirement, I have no idea which political system I will live in, what power companies will have over my daily life, or who has bought all the data mined about me.

Best case I will not get any insurance because I googled some weird disease symptoms in 2018, for worst case scenarios just look 30 years back in Eastern Europe.
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I agree it's a blind spot, but also a kind of arrogance and privilege. I know all about the unadvertised work world because I lived it for years. Many other Americans do too, but not the kind of people who frequent this forum. A gross generalization of course, but in my experience it is primarily naturalized white males, Hispanics of both genders (some immigrant some not), and African immigrants that are "fluent" in this part of our economy.

A lot of folks would rather throw up their hands and give up than do most the work I'm talking about - which is too bad because I've seen a lot of success stories start with "casual" jobs. And, in the age of "bullshit jobs" which everyone loves to talk about - a lot of blue collar low-skill work is actually not bullshit. It's necessary and important work that needs to be done, and a lot of it can hardly be automated.
In Germany the German Meteorological Office has their own app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.dwd.warnapp

https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/warnwetter/id986420993?ls=1&...

The basic weather warning features are free. The whole weather app costs 1,99€.

It's been sued recently by a commercial app company (which also uses their data) for providing the service for free. So normal citizens have now to pay for it (even though they pay for the Office already through their taxes but well...that's capitalism for you). They offer a free version for people who work for fire departments etc. though.

This is the only app I've ever payed for on a app store.
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Only anecdotal, but $60k at a startup in Denmark is not uncommon.
Walmart prices do vary. In some places grocery competitors like Aldi do shade many of their prices significantly (and consistently, not just loss leaders).
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Of course, the trouble is that this cuts both ways. Because "science" is associated with trustworthy, evidence-based statements and "activism" isn't, one technique I've seen is people with an audience and a political axe to grind declaring a particular niche theory that goes against the consensus to be "science", and any criticism of the scientific merits of this to be an example of "activists" attacking "science".
Some use-cases:

-I'm in the middle of my codebase and trying to remember the exact parameter order of an outlandish matplotlib method or whether some of the numpy slicing magic I'm using does what I think it does. I can either open up my browser, look it up and have it explained in terse documentation prose so I have to read it three times over and still not be sure when I switch back to my editor, or I can check right here right now by running the snippet and see the output or error message.

-I'm testing a snippet that makes extensive use of all libraries mentioned in my original comment plus some custom ones I wrote and I don't want to waste time polluting my IPython history with import statements. No, %paste won't cut it either, whether it works (or doesn't) has always been too nondeterministic to my tastes.

-Some things I write are quick and one-use only and depend on specific (non-absolute) file paths, typically to load some data. As surprising as it sounds, 'open in a new terminal' that correctly guesses the current directory is lacking in almost all desktop environments and contexts.

-I work with multiple languages, plus some people send me snippets in their own. Instead of opening a different terminal for each interpeter I just highlight the thing to run, it correctly guesses the language and runs it for me.

-I often have multiple terminals open for sessions related to different projects and sometimes it's hard to remember which one is related to which. Linking each repl to each codebase by seamless integration is easier.
The described strategy starts to fall apart when by offering FBA they lose control over quality of products being sold and credibility in their retail operations. The fact that I have to use things like FakeSpot puts me off from shopping on Amazon while I did so without thinking twice in the past. I wonder what portion of AliExpress and Amazon is cross listed.
In Germany, even if you are a German national, there's no guarantee that the state will be able to fund pensions as it does now, due to the shift in demographics.

I love it here, but I operate under the assumption that I'll have to provide for myself in retirement.
> Time does appear in fundamental concepts in physics?

Sure, in that it is a component of a spacetime, and events happen at different points in spacetime.

How you slice up spacetime into space and time is essentially up to you. That is what Rovelli is talking about: it's not that there is no time, but rather that slicing up a spacetime in any fashion will still not produce a global "now".

Setting down a system of constant pseudo-Cartesian coordinates:

> ds^2 = c dt^2 - dx_1^2 - dx_2^2 - dx_3^2

(nit: c^2)

versus some other set of coordinates on the shame spacetime doesn't change a pair of infinitesimally close field-values on field filling that spacetime, nor their relative positions -- it just changes how one describes the latter.

We can still chose a now and describe the difference between now-1, now, now+1 as operations within the "now" spacelike hypersurface. However, does this justify a view that now+1 is undetermined at now-1? What operations happen where in the same volume of spacetime for an observer using a different slicing?

The exact metric is less interesting here than that the spacetime is Lorentzian; that feature is what constrains slicing choices within a causal cone, or alternatively provides the diffeomorphism invariance under arbitrary time parametrisation.

"Timelessness" doesn't get rid of that sort of ordering: a relativistic field's field-values at different points in spacetime depend on it, however one wants to formalize that dependency, e.g. they must transform under representations of the Poincaré group, Poincaré invariance must be implemented unitarily on the state space, or the action must be Poincaré-invariant.

What timelessness does challenge is some notions about operations within any spacelike hypersurface.
and instead of trying to strike it big we sit on comment boards and make comments about why these supposed 3 individuals aren’t required to divide up their gains.

These are whole foods workers. they are not rocket surgeons, they can be easily replaced by stepping outside and finding the next person that walks by. These are the types of jobs that will be automated away in the near future due to stuff like this. Your average skillless worker won’t have a job to go to if they keep making themselves more and more expensive.
Amazon will soon be operating at a scale that no other company in history has reached. There is a good chance they will run into operational challenges that no one else has faced before. Think: challenges on which there is zero academic research because no one has studied them in the past. Think: challenges for which there are no known solutions. Simply chanting that "software is scalable" and "software has zero incremental cost" doesn't solve those kinds of challenges.

Multiple geographic groups, business units, physical locations, data centers, software systems, managers, and employees, by their very physical nature, are able to communicate and coordinate with each other only in statistically noisy ways that are ultimately constrained by the Laws of Thermodynamics. These laws, to put it mildly, impose hard limits of what any company can do with information and energy.

I wonder when and whether Amazon will start running into these limits.
The nice thing about "sold by Amazon" is you can return it at no cost to yourself.
Free education gives an "oversupply" of educated workers. Plus high marginal tax incentivizes payment by other mean than salary (time off, short work hours ...).

Sweden of the Scandinavian countries is the odd one out. The serious hardworking big brother. They always had big companies (IKEA, Volvo, Ericsson) compared to Denmark and Norway. Far stronger engineering tradition. Self-sufficient with nuclear plants, weapons, automobiles and so on under the cold war. Far more open to immigration. Bigger difference between rich and poor. Better and deeper financial markets. More hierarchical.
I think the point is that there is starting to be this shift again to becoming a tradesman instead of getting a degree.
First, regarding the tweet you posted: It ignores the recent years. There are still local maximas in that graph. Second, it only concerns riots and leaves out any other type of violence. But that will be more clear upon how the author interprets 'riots'. It is just a graph without any explanation. Third, I could not find source of the data myself, as the graph is not from a peer reviewed journal so it can be easily discarded. Fourth, tweet is from a person who serves in the current government aka it is like Sarah Sanders, a vested interest always defending the government.

Communal violence under Modi has increased, even if it is a local maxima but their rhetoric is acerbic towards minorities and it shows. Now onto the communal violence sources:-

1. http://ksr.hkspublications.org/2016/07/27/the-rising-tide-of...

2. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/co...

3. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-natio...

WhatsApp specific lynchings:

1. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/16/asia/india-whatsapp-lynch...

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-18/lynch-mob...

3. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/india-dont-bla...
Ever since seeing Sans Bullshit Sans (http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/) I've always wanted to pull a font-related prank at the company where I work.
If the measures they are protesting against go forward, you will have even more to be upset about.

After all, isn't the purpose of a protest to be inconvenient and draw attention?
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> After all DAWs are created to accommodate the need, not the other way around.

DAWs were created for this point. But for a lot of artists nowadays, their whole window into the music-making world is their DAW, and as such, the roles have somewhat reversed, the DAW serving as inspiration for the work and providing the limits of it.

I remember reading a paper a few years ago where they showed that just the color skin used for your DAW had an effect on the music you produced. Humans are fairly influencable.
Why isn’t Google on this list? Is it because they monetize your location data in-house?
That introduces enough friction that I don’t want to bother buying there. I’ll just pay more and wait longer for a product I know is genuine.

Oh, they’ve been banning customers for too many returns! https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/zm8mde/amazon-ban...
To Amazon's credit, they do try to make up for a missed delivery target. [1]

1. http://time.com/money/3955429/amazon-prime-late-deliveries/