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I don't own amazon (except through the indices) but I am a customer who buys almost all of my consumer goods through amazon. You are absolutely right.

Amazon is a luxury brand, and amazon doesn't seem to know this. I mean... it really is a pretty great luxury brand? There's a lot of crap I don't have to own if I know I can order it the day before, and I'm willing to pay extra for that convenience.

I mean, there's three tiers of amazon stuff.

1. "Shipped from and sold by Amazon.com" amazon amazon

2. "Sold by X, fulfilled by Amazon" - like ebay, but with fast shipping and reliable returns

and

3. "Shipped and sold by X" - like ebay, except you use the amazon interface.

I mean, really, for me, someone who buys everything on amazon, these markings are clear enough for situations where it's a common item that I don't need to read reviews. If I had ownership of amazon, though, I'd be pissed, 'cause they are pissing on their own brand by not making it super clear when they are actually selling the thing and when they are just acting as ebay for some maybe super shady third party.

(I mean, it may seem like the prime check solves the problem, but this is what I mean by it being a luxury brand. I don't want to have to deal with shiping something back when it wasn't quite exactly the right item or whatever; shipping stuff back is a pain

But amazon has a massive problem of mixing reviews for products in those three categories, and quite often, you end up with reviews for product X which are actually reviews for product Y or product Z that users got when trying to buy product X from a seller that was not amazon, because the reviews are mixed.

It makes amazon a lot less useful for stuff where I need reviews; things like generic brand stuff. There's just no way to reliably line up the review to the version of the product being sold.

I mean, right now? when amazon is willing to do all this shit for near cost? It doesn't really matter, 'cause they are naturally going to be better than most of the competition that has to keep their P/E below 20; It's easy to run a business if you don't have to make money.

But at some point, investors will demand returns.
Unfortunately, yes, but you don't necessarily have to use the TrueCaller app on Android/iOS, the website works just fine. Besides, TrueCaller and WhatsApp won't be the only apps to steal your phone book, and with 100M and 2B installs respectively, the jury is already out on their utility.
I dunno, it's not any more funny than if you substituted tweet in each of those.
Cashier less store is a great idea. I’ve been to it in Seattle. I have concerns as an investor about the long term prospects of Amazon.com, but I do think they’re an innovative company. The cashierless stuff will shift all kinds of retail businesses and it’s a win for consumers IMO.
We've lived without the walled garden for more than 10 years, I'm sure we can manage a few more days.
I think talking about earning is inherently talking about the creation of value, right? Wealth is arguably the proceeds of past value, work income, or income from a new enterprise the proceeds of current value.

There are definitely benefits to rewarding creating new value, I'll grant that. The invisible hand of economics helps distribute value fairly between equals.

But often the rewards of value are monetary, and are captured by those who already have money and power because of past value creation, rather then distributed according to the contributions of all individuals who participated in work.

Power and money further distort the abilities of less fortunate individuals to gain just compensation for their efforts.

I see that as exploitative and problematic. I think it also arguably undermines new enterprises and new value that might have been created had the work that people were doing been rewarded in an equitable manner.

And it's not like this system of exploitation is new, so the wealth that has been accrued by families is itself suspect.
What does "coding" mean in this context?
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Firefox could allow people to sign their own add-ons. Let's not pretend that the terms "software signing" and "walled garden" are synonymous.
I was not able to find any mention about integrity. Is there any document explaining how/when/... all packages and "deltas" are sealed? Thank you!
That sounds like 1.5GB of data/month? You can probably beat that with a MVNO, but not any of the main US carriers. Extreme example being like mint mobile which does bulk purchases (3,6,12months) and goes down as cheap as $15/month for 3GB of LTE.

If you have Comcast home internet, you might be able to use Xfinity Mobile (only BYOP for iPhone atm but they do have a few $100 backs for some phones on their site). It costs $0 for calling/text and $12/gig.
What should be illegal is overdraft fees themselves. They are nothing but a flimsy pretext to steal money from customer accounts.

It is possible to find checking accounts that will treat negative balances as simple interest-only loans. At least one of the major online banks does this if you set it up that way.
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Not that it's required, but it's the effect of progress. Individual progress requires focus. With these new options being available every single day, those that have scarce resources have more and more problems with optimising the for their best outcome.

On a poker table, one that has more chips, has advantage over one that has less. Doesn't make it unfair.
We also seen how the public was trying so hard to blame the pilots so I could see how most of the public would defend Boeing and FAA since they had a very good reputation and they would ask for some unreasonable proof

To me it seems Boeing is still fully at it. They never changed their narative from (I'm paraphrasing here)

"There was a slight technical problem, which may have been a tiny link in the chain, which would have been no problem at all if those planes would have been flown by competent Murrican pilots and not badly trained third world dolts."

I see this argument pushed forward on discussion boards and social media (including HN) and can't rid myself of the impression that Boeing employs sock puppets to push such bullshit.

The arrogance of this company, which literally kills people, to me is beyond comprehension.
Wow great question, I'm just as confused.

I imagine because the absolute distance is still the same, but how quickly it got to that position is what's unknown.

The confusion I have is how much is redshift used to determine the distance of the galaxy vs using standard candle extrapolation?
Haha, except their last mile delivery which is really flaky because they use their own logistics and drivers
Japan will develop computer virus to defend against cyber attacks
The emails have links in them which direct you back to the website where you can continue the transaction/communication/whatever. You can't easily do this on the phone. You do want people to call you back. You as a company, not a specific phone on a specific desk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_emergency_codes
It looks like Betteridge's law of headlines is beaten for once. Daycare is bad for affluent children.

The effect was huge. It was a drop of 0.5% of IQ per month. Not accounting for compounding, that is a drop of 10% in 20 months. Dropping from 130 to 117 is pretty serious. That is nearly a standard deviation.

In some vague sense, the cause seems obvious:

a. shared time with a stranger who at best has an education degree

b. dedicated time with a family member who may be a lawyer, doctor, business owner, engineer, etc.

The study claims to have eliminated disease and breastfeeding as possible causes for the difference.
> "Once housing -stops- appreciating in value in an area, people stop building additional housing in that area."

Philadelphia had experienced this for a time, homes not appreciating in value and roughly 10% of the city became vacant land. Once a house got in enough distress that it needed to be demolished, it was cursed, and that curse would domino to neighboring properties.

housing appreciation is a good thing. if it appreciates, people will build more housing, people will take care of their properties, etc etc
Even next year when the 737 max will no longer be grounded, I will pay special attention not to fly on them. I'm also increasingly worried about flying on 787s...

I wonder what percentage of customers will do the same and how that will impact airline's bottom line.
Many, many years ago, yes. Well remembered.
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> Experimentation is the norm at start-ups, especially young ones. But moves that prioritize balance sheets over growth are more common in firms short on cash or those looking for an exit, either through acquisition or an initial public offering.

This really seems to be a uniquely American (and maybe Chinese?) approach. In Europe you simply don't get the VC, but also the expectations are different - if you're not clear on your plan to become profitable you won't get far.

As of now the scooter companies, like previously some ride sharing companies, seem to be very unsustainable. Where I live at least 3 of them compete, and it's become a real nuisance that scooters are badly parked or lying on the floor and block sidewalks, making it difficult especially for the elderly, disabled and parents with strollers to get around. Clarity on the traffic rules seem to be low - I've seen plenty of risky riding on streets, sidewalks and bike lanes and 2 scooter-caused accidents up close in just a few monts.

One region has introduced fines for companies and riders for bad parking, but I've yet to hear about any actual enforcement. More legislation I'm sure will follow.
Courious they try the same strategy as VW. We all know how that is most likely to end...
>Sure, spend the $1T or so you would get from all the US billionaires on infrastructure. That's a decent fraction of US federal spending--for one year. Then it's gone. Now what do you do?

Again, you're interpreting my moral claim (billionaires are a policy failure) as specific advocacy of a one-time wealth tax on billionaires and no other shift of U.S. policy. I believe in a massive shift in U.S. economic policy to the left, which would entail a number of different reforms aimed at reducing wealth inequality over the long-term.

>What all of this leaves out is that wealth is not a zero sum game. Wealth gets created. If you want to reduce wealth inequality, you need to help more people create wealth, not try to take it away from people who have already created it.

You need to do both. I never advocated for merely expropriating billionaires' wealth and making no other policy changes.

>Jeff Bezos made his billions by serving the needs of the people; that's what Amazon does. Lots of people shop there because it gets them the stuff they need, when they need it, for an affordable price.

Jeff Bezos made his billions by exploiting his workers. Despite the fact that they built the company and do almost all of the work that makes Amazon possible, he reaps all the profits. Workers built Amazon, not merely Bezos alone, and you're totally erasing everyone else's contribution.

>Another way of putting what I've just said is that Bezos, in creating and growing Amazon as a corporation, created lots of wealth. A huge, efficient distribution system for lots of goods people want now exists that didn't exist before; that's a huge creation of wealth.

The technology that enabled this massive creation of wealth wasn't created by Bezos though, it was created through publicly-funded research. Why is Jeff Bezos a billionaire but not Tim Barners-Lee, when by any measure he did far more to enable the creation of wealth? And again, like I said earlier, it is a huge creation of wealth, but that wealth goes into Jeff Bezos' pockets, not ours, nor his workers'.

>Lots of them did so by not creating any wealth at all, just transferring wealth from other people to themselves.

All billionaires get their wealth this way, by exploiting their workers. Furthermore, all the big tech companies participate in anti-competitive behavior (vendor lock-in, etc) which benefits them individually but hurts the wealth of society as a whole.

There's no reason, for example, a publicly-owned or worker-owned company could not have accomplished what Amazon did. All they would have needed is sufficient access to capital -- the basic technology already existed & wasn't created by Amazon, they just built the institutional structure.
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It is also not an issue for "English speakers", just a subset of them.
You're talking about an industry where software is a cost. IT is generally a cost for all those companies whose business is "something else". For me obviously this is short sighted, however, that's the way it is. I have experienced once an ecommerce company where there was a single function with something like 15k LoC, and this was handling with global variables the entire shopping flow. Untouchable and obviously untestable. I'll tell you, the same software I am quite sure it's still running and making money. So yes, it's quite common. All those tech talks, software conferences videos, best practices... And then you work on such crap, it's totally demotivating, I know the feeling.
Likely, elephants are more intelligent then humans in that they realize there's no reason to think they have souls.
This is just overcomplicating the issue I think. How many decisions are made with a detailed macroeconomic analysis? Trump is even trying to influence the Fed’s policy to make himself look better, that is the level of macroeconomic literacy in operation today. You either decide change is necessary and make it work accepting the consequences, or just give up I suppose.

Anyway, it’s not like no one has run the experiment of trying a different system regarding healthcare and minimum wages.
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I like that way of thinking about it.
At some point, someone said off with their heads.... could have been a game of thrones episode, I’m honestly not sure.
I would guess that it wouldn't be worth the hassle of the inevitable inaccurate identifications. The most ergonomic password entry tool I've used is rofi-pass [1]. It's so effortless that I don't think anything smarter could improve on it in practice. It works in a predictable and way in any application (eg SSH pw in a terminal) without any complex integrations being needed and once you get used to using the hotkey it's basically as quick as form autofilling.

[1] https://github.com/carnager/rofi-pass
That really, really isn't a problem. It just isn't.
This is what I run and that fix worked. Are they planning on patching the dev build anytime soon? Doesn't look like there is an update for it. At least one can turn that stupid feature off until there is.
I don't understand why the USA doesn't pass laws to address this.
In the title, "limit" is used as a verb, not a noun. In other words, Boeing pushed to reduce the required amount of safety testing, in order to certify their planes faster.
I was on the reddit thread when it happened - was super confused as I just updated my firefox and it happened at a very similar time frame so I assumed it was from the update

I personally found the issue trivial, my main addon is ublock origin. There was a workaround using about:debugging and installing UBO on there which worked so it's not like the fix was a long process.

Being committed to a single browser, if anyone was using firefox for as long as me, I can't fathom someone leaving their main browser over something like this. I haven't been using it for THAT long but what if Chrome did something like this too? Then they'd move to another browser that's not FF/Chrome?
That's certainly not how the information is presented. But if you read closely you can see how they set it up carefully in the first half.

This is about adding to the narrative of Boeing's "general mismanagement" of the aircraft. Not about adding to the particular 737-800 crash investigation story (directly).
>>An asset isn't necessarily an investment. E.g. cars, merchandise, foodstuff etc. People need somewhere to live, so they'll keep building houses and people will keep buying them and living in them, even if the "smart money" is chasing higher returns.

Yes, people will still build houses, but you eliminate a vast number of more optimal arrangements by taking profit-motivated housing development out of the picture, and that results in less abundance of housing.

Efficiency returns from specialization/division-of-labor, that is enabled by trade, is as close to an economic law as there is. And separating consumption of and investment into housing is a form specialization/division-of-labor.

Many cities that have penalized or restricted profit motivated housing development have seen very serious negative repercussions for housing affordability.

The assumption that long-held economic principles do not apply in a particular industry or sector is a very common one and almost always wrong.
T-mobile is $40 per month with unlimited data, and $30 per month if you have 4+ lines.
Try Red Pocket, Mint, or H2O. They use ATT or T Mobile. The month to month plans are lower than Fi. For bigger saving, get the longer term plans. Sometimes they have sales on Black Friday for deep discount. People would buy the yearly plans on Black Friday, wait until their current plans expire and activate the new plans.
I've worked in banking projects with no automated tests. You end up manually testing only what you think might break with new code. The stakeholders expectation is that things might break once in a while as long as you can fix it.

For me testing at its most basic level is kinda like insurance, you might live without it but it helps a lot when problems arise
As you might expect, law enforcement is specifically exempt from the DMCA's antcircumvention provisions. I would imagine that's true for other countries' equivalents as well.

Same with the CFAA.
Why I still can not install addons after upgrading? On the addon page it shows "only with firefox - get firefox now".
A lot of amazons success was based on the fact that they sued the living shit out of anyone else who had a “buy now” button.

If for whatever reason, you don’t think that’s not the dumbest shit ever, you should watch the most recent game of thrones episode.
LastPass has been breached 3 times, and they’ve had RCEs in their Chrome Extensions.
It gets more complex.

Airbus have designed their A320, A330/A340/A350 planes with almost identical cockpits and handling characteristics to allow cross-crew qualification.

A pilot with an A320 type rating can take a 7 day course to become qualified on the A330 (instead of the 40 day course normally required). And they can maintain the type rating on both types simultaneously.

Since the A330 shares a type rating with the A340 and A350, this allows a pilot to fly quite a few airbus planes.

Given the Max is so close to older 737s, I see no reason why Boeing and the FAA couldn't come to a similar arrangement, were pilots can be cross-trained with a 1 week course and maintain simultaneous type ratings on both the Max and Older 737s.

Boeing does have a few common type ratings: The 757 and 767 share one; The 777 and 787 share another. But as far as I'm aware, pilots can only be qualified on one Boeing type rating at a time.
I'm with ya through the second paragraph... then what the hell happened?
I agree, the problem to solve is compensating people commensurate with their production. I think of rent-seekers as something like the fat of the economic system-- required to some extent but quite detrimental in excess.
It's funny how you can look back at even Smalltalk 70, and contemplate that for more than 50 years, we've all wanted the same damn thing, had it in the palm of our hand, realized more than a proof of concept, but even right now, today, struggle to agree on how to deliver it.

To get web GL and canvas access on desktop Safari, you have to download the technology preview package separately. Linux systems, lotsa luck with your graphics drivers. Windows? I think you might still need Flash and Silverlight installed, and Java SE running it's plugin on a developer preview of Edge or whatever.

FFS, please shoot me now. I no longer wish to gaze upon such abominations.
that same 10s or 100s is true for error returns as well. what do you do with those?

convert it to internal types at the point you're exposed to them, then handle them in common ways. or re-throw as a general runtime exception if you don't have a way to handle it in your application. the difference with checked exceptions is that you have a correct, complete list of error scenarios that a library expects you to handle, and they provide a relatively easy way to defer handling.

there's no need for your `public static void main` to inherit all 100+ exception classes that your application is exposed to - that's just plain bad encapsulation.

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granted, none of this touches on some of java's implementation issues, which essentially suffers from a lack of generics. e.g. you can't build an executor-framework without `raises Exception` or wrapping all errors in an internal wrapper, which loses compile-time safety. typed-exceptions-as-returns (i.e. typed result enums) keeps them within the normal type system, which does have some benefits for sure, but that ship has sailed. few languages are able to force exhaustive error handling at all, java's in a middle-ground with pros and cons.
Soul is the currency that humans use to put themselves above the rest of the natural world as they rape it to death.

Ahck hem... yolo
How about Ford: full self-driving by 2021.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/15/ford-plans-a-ride-sharing-se...

https://corporate.ford.com/articles/autonomous-technology/au...

Tesla thinks they can get there faster by a year.
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We’re also (probably) at the tail end of an enormous credit cycle, with rock bottom interest rates, and that means hugely inflated asset prices (and a correspondingly grown wealth gap). After credit cycles end, though, you get deleveraging. Debts get defaulted on, and asset prices fall, both of which hurt the rich far more than those who have no assets and those who are in debt. Of course, deleveraging also coincides with unemployment and a bunch of other issues that harm the less well off.
Lots of angry people in the comments. Apparently it did affect a number of them quite badly.

What seems strange to me, (and not judging it's just a little weird) are the amount of people hit up for $900-$1000 phones that are overdrawn or cannot buy gas etc because of this event. And certainly that can be a big surprise charge but you still have to pay the $1000 over time, what's wrong with a $250 phone?

Maybe I'm a cheapo who only buys $250 phones and so doesn't understand how much better the $1000 ones are. But if things are that tight it just doesn't seem like the most logical thing to spend extra money on. Even future money a bit at a time. Probably there are reasons I don't understand.
"During 38 per cent of those searches, officers uncovered evidence of a customs-related offence — which can include possessing prohibited material or undeclared goods, and money laundering, said the agency."

If this is true ... wow.
Mozilla bug throws Tor Browser users into chaos
Same here.

Only difference is that I restarted the desktop Firefox and also enabled Shield studies to get the temporary fix. On the laptop I just upgraded to 66.0.4 and only then restarted it.
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I am using coincircle. The rate of return is not so high but pretty enough for someone like me.

https://coincircle.com/l/zH5hmt4s1S
"what kind of digital data is considered a customs-related offence"

It's not the data, it's what the data reveals.

Like an SMS with 'I put $100K in your panama account'.

Obviously a bad example but you get the idea.