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One of the problem I face with Amazon in some other country is that they drop price of the product after I've already made a purchase and price difference is often $10 on $40 item.

I am forced to return the item and cause Amazon so much loss, when Amazon can just offer price matching upto a week but no they don't do that

Second, Amazon tells me that there is lightening offer on some product but the price has only changed like 1% and Amazon compares it with the fake price which it never before charged in its store.
There is also a population that will do it BECAUSE it is illegal.

And no data that I'm aware actually points towards prohibition having significant effect.
Ooh, I need to look into that. I acquired my mobile number about 15 years ago in a town 20 minutes away where I know practically no one. I get plenty of calls that have the first 6 digits pattern and it is virtually certain that those calls will not be from someone I know. It would be great to have them never even ring.
A public service is exactly people interacting. It just prioritizes posterity over profit.
This is the greatest grant money magnet of this generation.
> There was a huge UX regression coming with the move to the cloud.

Maybe in terms of the things you can click and knobs you can twiddle, but moving my music into Google Play and off (e.g.) iTunes means that I can very trivially put music on my mobile device (using either that device, or the computer) that is almost instantly accessible offline, and easy to listen to.

That twin gain - ease of sync and offline availability - completely blew Winamp and iTunes so far out of the water that they're in orbit, as far as I'm concerned.

(There are things I miss; multiple genres for a given song/album. Organizing by folder and playlist. Visualizations. Sometimes Google Play will forcibly replace my uploaded files with the wrong version - I still have a few songs that are "censored", and it grates me whenever I hear them.)
It's not a very useful definition of abuse. Big mac's or running shoes can also be "abused" according to that definition, yet if someone wanted to ban Big Mac's or running shoes because of potential abuse they'd not be taken seriously.
Been using it every day at work for 4 years. Never even noticed the name change to "Azure DevOps".

Has anyone here ever used an online IDE, for anything other than very small tasks?
Even if the outcomes of drug use are undesirable the criminal justice system is not the way to mitigate them.
Concurrency is a bit easier in Go than in C++.
If it's true that "most of the data in the US indicates no correlation between enforcement and addiction rates" then that just means a somewhat different group of people is doing it, while still being about the same number of people.
There's a difference between a plant and extracting and concentrating substances in the plant.
TLDR: Soil rendered sterile by invasive grass was recovered when the orange peels killed the grass and decomposed into soil that the forest could grow in.
Russia is not powerful and China is not fighting it.
Trump says tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods will increase to 25% Friday
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Here's the parallel I'm attempting to draw:

Society must pay for drug rehabilitation -> society should consider banning drugs.

Society must pay for medical bills -> society should consider limiting behaviors that have a high probability of incurring medical expenses.
> Amazon would not put him in touch with the seller and never assumed blame for the fire.

You can't have it both ways. Either you're just a platform, and have no liability, in which case you need to make it clear who the seller was, and how you can reach him, or you own up to selling people dangerous devices.

The culture that produces this sort of behaviour is rotten, and is everything but customer-focused.
Gaël Giraud (Chief economist of the French Agency for Development) said something along these lines: In economy, usually when someone builds a model that predicts the future for 18 months they later get the Nobel. The World III model from the Meadows Report almost exactly described the world for more than 45 years.

If we may think that it's still modelling our world exactly enough, complete civilisational collapse will probably come in the next couple of decades.
I'm not really sure I understand what you're saying. Can you elaborate?
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Problem is we are used to legitimate American-based retailers doing some vetting of cheap Chinese white label products for safety. We know it's probably not going to be the highest build quality, we know it might not last, but we expect it to be safe! When you buy a cheap Chinese-made UL rated charger from Walmart, you can be pretty sure it's actually UL rated. In Amazon's case its close to a free-for-all but has the outward appearance of a legitimate American-based retailer.
My understanding from what I’ve read elsewhere is that changing the AoA sensor from non-safety critical to safety critical is enough for it to be considered a new type of aircraft. This makes sense as you would expect pilots and crew to be trained on how to interpret all safety critical instruments.
I've absurd bugs at AWS,GCP and azure. I love dynamic capacity but clouds are super flakey, especially AWS. Azure networks are the worst. GCP I haven't used in over a year so I wont talk ...
Currently driving functions as a kind of risk tolerance anchor. "Sure, it's dangerous, but no more so than commuting."

If the campaign to eliminate driving from most people's lives is successful (whether through autonomous vehicles or public transit), I expect activists will move on to the next most dangerous activity. Something will always be the leading cause of preventable injury/death and certain people will always be enthusiastic about banning whatever it is.
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"Because most of the data in the US indicates no correlation between enforcement and addiction rates."

This is simply not true.

This notion that legalizing something will incur less addiction is simply not reasonable.

Opiates are available by prescription and that is huge source of addiction, even within that controlled environment. Doctors in Canada now give out the absolute minimum - I had major dental surgery and got two pills. Just two! Because it's that addictive. US doctors are changing as well.

Consider what full opiate legality would mean: it would be infused into tobacco, cola, alcohol, food etc. and available within an arms reach with billions in advertising behind it.

Even though a good number of people wouldn't use it, and another chunk can actually 'handle their drugs' - for a significantly high group of others it would be destructive. If only 5% of our population fell prey to this, and instead of having jobs they were stealing, in hospitals, rehab etc. - it would be a huge crisis.

I'm always surprised by how people put this issue mostly in the context of the here and now, and don't consider how so many things would transform.

Vaping (i.e. repackaging of nicotine) is blowing up massively in the US, Juul is hiring 2000 people just in SF and their business is exploding! This is not because vaping 'tastes good'. It's because it's deeply addictive, and as an ex-vaper (short period) I suggest there's a whole host of problems we haven't seen yet.

No good will come of a generation re-addicted to nicotine.

So yes, Portugual et. al. took a different path on hard drugs, but this is nothing remotely near legalization. It's still a health problem, they just deal with it differently.

Mushrooms are a different thing, they are not remotely addictive, so they're in a different class. That said, they are actually dangerous. Also the inherent demand is just not nearly there. Some degree of de-criminalization ought to be considered surely.
>third-party code

It's third-party cookies, look like first-party cookies, isn't it? Whilst they are "code", that's misleading because it's not being executed; which is what makes it sound like an RCE.

Or did my brief scan pick up the wrong idea?
I trust that they've made the best decision.
Some skydivers will have "ash dives." Your body is cremated, ashes placed into a specially designed pouch, and friends take you up on a final skydive. Everyone exits, joins up in a formation with your pouch making up one of the links, and at some point in free fall the pouch gets opened. You're quickly scattered to the ends of the earth from a couple miles up.

Even though there's no cremation involved, Tibetan sky burial sort of reminds me of that.
"progressive societies" like china that have social credit scores and disappear anyone critical of the "progressive" government ? pretty easy to get things done when you can have critics executed.
If I'm not mistaken you couldn't have ever had 'await' as a field name because it's a reserved keyword.
You can still use it by using the raw string syntax r# and that disambiguates when you access it to because it would be called like: expression.r#await
From the Netscape page:

> NetScape plans to be a cross platform virtual operating system, and has embraced Java as its primary extension language in the long term, even though JavaScript (completely different language than Java) is getting a lot of cycles and attention in the short term.

I guess that short term turned out to be a lot longer than anyone anticipated :-D
I sort of unintentionally did this by buying my first cell phone while briefly living in a small city I no longer have any business with. It was effective for a long time but somehow in the past few months I have started getting robocalls using the area code of the actual city I currently live in.
Big cloud providers or some big VC backed companies have the resource to figure out the issues by wrestling with the gigantic and unyielding vendors, or by working around it with their engineering resource. Not many teams have the time for even wanting to understand the issues. This is not an inherent problem of bare metal, but one aspect to consider if you were to choose the path. But you are right, cloud providers have their own quirks.
My impression is that people give themselves the credit for their successes, and blame somebody else for their failures.

My successes are due to my moral worth, and others' failures are due to their moral failings.
I've given up moving large amounts of money electronically in the US. It just doesn't work. What does work? Write a paper check to yourself on the "from" bank and use the "to" bank's app on your phone to take a picture of the check for deposit, then keep the paper check in a file folder for later auditing.

Seriously. This is disgusting but it works.
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Chicken, fish, and turkey are some of the healthiest delivery mechanisms for protein on the planet.

They can be grown sustainably, as well, so again, veganism isn't required. At the supermarket, just get the expensive chicken breasts - I'm guessing the vast majority of us on this website can afford it.
Very interesting write up, especially for what one might expect to be straight up promotional piece. It's nice to hear that amazon can guarantee the necessary uptime to run a system of such importance.

It'd be interesting to compare this approach to modernization approaches in the government. For example the veterans administration is moving away from their ancient but popular and decently well regarded electronic health record system Vista (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA) to cerner.

https://www.hitechanswers.net/va-establishes-office-of-ehr-m...
I agree with you that eventually governments are the only entitles that could implement solutions on a big enough scale. However it will be too late if this only happens when they are forced to act by social upheaval, mass starvation and economic collapse.

I challenge the ultra rich to put a substantial portion of their assets to work in funding large scale R&D on clean technologies, and simultaneously funding powerful lobbying of governments to act on climate change.

Another thought is that for better or worse we now have the tools for "social engineering" and campaigns might be funded
to sway public opinion to support governments that support clean technologies.
> even if it goes against the wishes of the market

I agree with your general point, but I'd add that the market is itself an artifact partly created by government.

I think it's about time we saw more change to the market itself, which requires cultural change among other things.

For example: Insulating homes was mentioned earlier. Yet, more and more people are renting homes and can't do much to improve home efficiency because that's controlled by the landlord, and "voting with your feet" is financially out of reach. Same with working much less, or not commuting: It's not a serious option to those at the less lucky end of the competitive market for essential life goods and services.

Both of those result from a certain style of capitalism, which is arguably in crisis already, and both of those can be greatly improved, even while retaining capital, when there is a widespread change of cultural pressures about basic expectations of owners and employers.
Cool, thanks. Do you happen to know if Brave has these issues too?
You wait until you have to debug something like that with a VPC. We had to spend couple days to convince our cloud support the issue was on their end during full site outage.
I just want to put something out there since yesterday somebody mentioned that the password manager isn't portable if it's Windows only.

I'd argue that portability is defined by how many people can use your product and a hardware native Windows only password manager runs on 93% of worlds desktop but a RAM hogging electron apps can only run on enterprise grade computers.

Qt apps are cross platform and portable, electron apps might be the former but definitely are not the latter.
What is "architectural future state requirement"? Why didn't the emulation idea work? Isn't that the industry standard for moving old code to new hardware?
I think you're right about 572, although even that wouldn't have been enough without all the other stuff from the past, such as the unicode strings.

I often have to write things like this:

m = re.match()
if m:
do something

So I'm looking forward to the feature. I'm not sure you were fair to the process about the alternative syntax, though. They did give a well-reasoned explanation for discounting it.
The thing is they could have done so much more with breaking changes. They could have fixed the broken module system, removed the GIL or improved performance by an order of magnitude by removing language features that almost nobody uses but prevent important optimizations.

Instead they caused a huge rift in the Python community and 10+ years of continued pain for what? Improved unicode support and removing the ability to type "print x"?
Or one could acquire the other.
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> How to avoid this scam: Don't answer or return any calls from numbers you don't recognize.

Unfortunately, this isn't great for a number of reasons:

1) The last two times I got a series of missed calls every two hours from somebody who didn't leave a voicemail, it was my credit card company (a different company each time) calling to ask me about a number of suspicious charges on the other side of the country that I sure as hell didn't make (I distinctly remember saying, on one such occasion, "What the hell is a Sheetz?"). Both of those times lead to me having my card declared stolen and the bogus charges reversed. If I didn't answer, I probably wouldn't have noticed the bogus charges.

2) My employer covers a large chunk of my phone + Internet bills. This is so I can answer emergency calls from our NOC whenever one of the important applications my team maintains goes kablooey. The whole thing with Android not resolving people's numbers right away includes them, as well. The call comes in as a long string of numbers, and if I miss it, it takes a few minutes before the long string of numbers resolves to a name on my contacts list. I'd rather not develop a reputation for snubbing our internal customers, especially not when they have an emergency.
Super excited to see async/await finally get close to MVP and landing. I am not a huge fan of ".await", but there isn't much more to be said -- my personal preference of "#await" or "@await" does look like line-noise and I think there's no perfect answer to this one (await{} was too messy and no better than prefix-await, and (await foo))? had too many brackets).

I also appreciate that this proposal was insanely bike-shedded and so really, any decision is better than no decision. I would've been happy with "await << f()" if it meant we could get this feature (lots of Rust projects I'm interested in are waiting on async/await before focusing on further development).
Humans are good at being anxious due to the precariousness of life. Especially for things we don’t fully understand.

For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley's_Comet#1910

Why is the environment any different?
I also have a similar experience to the OP. However, I do not get 10 calls a day. It's generally 1-3 during most weekdays but not all.

I use to not travel much, and any traveling I did was pretty basic flight + hotel. No fancy vacations or anything. A bit over a year ago I booked a trip to a resort in Cancun through a travel agency in Florida. None stop spam since. I noticed a massive increase the amount of email spam I got and started to received a large number of phone calls.

I can't say for certain that was the cause as it seems spam phone calls have been heavily increasing over the last few years, but it's the only thing I can point to as an out of the ordinary change.
Cartesian metaphysics has been problematic and disastrous in many ways, but many modern philosophers hold fast to some variation of Cartesianism. For instance, materialists are still Cartesians in the sense that they still hold to a Cartesian view of matter, having dispensed with the Cartesian view of mind. This has left them either seeking in vain for a way to account for things like so-called qualia within matter while preserving an essentially Cartesian view of matter, or left denying the reality of things like qualia altogether (eliminativism).

On the other hand, Aristotle (who is only mentioned by the author in passing) and his philosophical heirs like Aquinas do not deny the common sense view that animals are conscious, have emotions, show affection, etc. However, Aristotelians and Thomists (A-T) don't always appear to be comfortable with the word "soul" perhaps because of the connotations it has acquired in the modern era, Cartesian or otherwise (think ectoplasm or ghost in the machine). For A-T philosophers, the "soul" is the form of the organism, that is to say, that which makes the organism what it is (by analogy, the form of a bronze sphere is sphericity). Thus, at the moment of death, the form is no more and what we have is not an organism nor even a body but the remains of the organism (here, A-T philosophers would say that the substantial form had ceased to enform the organism while the accidental form may persist and hence why the remains of the organism continue to hold the shape and structure of the living organism for some time after death).

In any case, according to this view, all living things have "souls" because the soul is just the form of the organism. However, what A-T philosophers do accept is that the known non-human animals lack immaterial faculties like the intellect (i.e., the faculty by which humans beings abstract univerals from particulars). Thus, animals do not possess general or universal concepts like "Man" or "Number" or "Triangularity". But none of this is to deny that non-human animals are conscious, experience emotion, form bonds, and so on.
But then they'll learn that I only debug with print statements.
The author cites a number of sources which deal with "Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminism" which asserts that Transwomen aren't in fact women at all.

She emphasizes this with a tautology:
>Trans women are trans women

Which deviates from the trans-positive claim of "trans women are women".

Her position is fairly clear in that she doesn't think of trans-women as being interchangeable with "real" women.

From there, you can much easier derive her line of thought.
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I don't think GDPR results in lawsuits - it results in complaints to a regulator resulting in (escalating) fines. The regulators are still trying to apply the legislation to the complaints they have received.
The previous comment was hypothetical. Allow me to explain:

These activities are hazardous. In a scenario where the government manages health hazards as a consequence of managing health, government regulation of ice climbing or paragliding is logical.

Again, this was hypothetical, not extant.
For one thing you're talking about two different businesses. It's very common for companies to rent the space they're in. Then the commercial tenant is providing the value you're referring to but the landlord is the one who receives the increase in property values.

But even regardless of that, it doesn't change the numbers. The majority of the increase in real estate prices goes to corporations rather than individuals. An explanation of why it happens doesn't change that it does.
I think your parenthetic comment hints at the truth. There isn't a typical age, rather a wide age band where individuals may experience different declines.

With dementia, the descent can seem very rapid. One year, they are functioning well and adapting, but suddenly you realize they are in deep trouble. For a while, their adaptive energy may be devoted to covering up deficiencies. So, when this coping mechanism fails, the struggle suddenly emerges for all to see.

But, some people may fit the description of "unable to learn new things" long before that sort of dementia is relevant. They may be depressed, or may have a prideful personality which avoids the unknown because any trial and error learning is embarrassing. Frustratingly, it can also be hard to get elders in this category to go anywhere near a doctor for a better evaluation. And without a better understanding of what is going on, it can be difficult to identify an appropriate intervention or care approach.
What's the business model? Are they monetizing browsing history data?
I had a few CircleCI jobs where downloading and uploading the cache took about 5-10 minutes, while the actual build step only took 1-2 minutes... And of course, it gets worse with time.

In case the author reads this: Thanks for the writeup!
It really depends on what I'm buying. It seems like many product areas have niche retailers online, though finding the right one can be tricky (for instance, I ordered a couple of Z-wave products from one company and fulfillment seemed decent, but now they haven't answered a support email, so I'm less confident with them...).

I'm also trying to find brick-and-mortar when possible.
Seems nice, but the article links to nothing to back it up. What was actually announced today?
We did actually have a team who handles hardware and a networking department, and they couldn’t figure it out. So lots of people had to get involved to do a binary search for the problem. I should mention this is a company with considerable resources.
I definitely agree that in practice it basically works this way. Though I'd expand on it by saying that driving functions as a risk-tolerance + prevalence + utility anchor, as all three of those variables factor into whether society will attempt to limit something.

I think involving prevalence in the equation is ethically inconsistent. A society that bans drugs on the grounds that they incur a medical cost and provide limited utility should clearly ban base jumping as well.
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And, if it came to a lawsuit, you'd be up against Amazon, Facebook and Google all at once (among others).