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>Can you truly argue just because a firm is large ...

1. I am not arguing anything, I did not develop Anti-trust law nor did I argue for or against it.

2. I never mentioned the the size of the Firm, because that isn't the legal standard. As I said what matters is unfairly forcing competition out of the market.

What Amazon does is has other businesses develop products and markets for those products on the Amazon marketplace. Then Amazon uses its data to determine which products are selling and what Amazon shoppers are looking for, then Amazon copies the product and uses all kinds unfair practices to force out the market incumbents...and in many case once the Amazon has forced out the market incumbent (again to the detriment of consumers), then Amazon has a history of raising their product price (again to detriment of consumers).

But we get it, to you Amazon hasn't done anything wrong and the consumers are better off and should be thanking Amazon. I'm not argue otherwise, just simply saying that is inconsistent under Anti-Trust laws.
I guess the point is that Fall doesn't mean Autumn in some places, and the way this is phrased it seems to imply something about the rate of infection, that is, they are falling or something but that isn't what this is about at all.
I believe you misunderstood the concept of submission. In life, worship is inevitable. For instance, people could worship material gains or the longing for the acceptance of society. Whether you like it or not, you will worship something(or multiple things) in your existence. In the act of submission, you conclude that there is nothing worthy of worship but Allah, the creator and sovereign of all worlds.

Part of this conclusion involves introspection. I believe there is a false dilemma in your approach where you imply that you can either find meaning in yourself or follow a 'pre-made answer'. These are not mutually inclusive. In fact, in numerous verses in Quran(the word of Allah), you will find that Allah strongly encourages the reader to sincerely reflect and find truth in him/herself and the world. Allah has given us the gift of reasoning and introspection and we can use that to reach the ultimate peace in submission to Allah.

Islam, being very strictly monotheistic, promotes that true comfort and solace is provided solely by Allah(in submission), not in being part of a 'collective'.

I hope that was insightful. :D

Disclaimer: Don't take my word, or anyone's word regarding Islam, for granted. I strongly recommend reading the Quran with an open mind and open heart.
I'm not sure if it's the case but maybe 60% is the possible maximum?

I hope I understand it correctly how germs spread. Is it like this?

Imagine an infected person infects 4 other persons, and the incubation period was 1 year. Probably everyone would get the germ.

But if the incubation period was 1 second, at a certain point 1 infected person would find less than 1 person who is infectable (not already infected / had an infection that is gone now / has had an immunity? / etc.).
I live in the northern hemisphere, there's still no such thing as a "fall" in my vernacular!
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Influenza this year was also particularly nasty. Most people who have anecdotes about feeling terrible October-December in western countries simply had the flu.
Particularly true in US. But less so in Europe.
And worldwide, Amazon is not number one at all.
1. Taobao.com: 16% of worldwide e-commerce
2. Tmall.com: 13%
3. Amazon: 10%
4. JD.com: 8%
(source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/664814/global-e-commerce...)

The lack of competition in US (Walmart and Target took e-commerce seriously only recently) let Amazon take almost 50% of e-commerce. But hopefully Ebay, Walmart, Target and Costco would add more competition.

Painting Amazon like this only online market that we cannot escape is a bit misleading. Amazon has a long way to go to beat the asian e-commerce, and now has domestically more competition with Walmart, Target and Costco.
It's interesting - tho I've just plugged in China and various periods down to the last 5 years, and there's not an obvious jump beyond the seasonal ones until after December this year.
Isn't it also possible that the PCR test was wrong and it was something else, like a cold?
>People are down-voting because they disagree. While it's not something I agree with, it's officially sanctioned on HN.

I think a lot of vote downs are emotional and reactionary rather than genuine disagreement. I think that's the majority. I can't fault people for this as it's part of human nature but I don't think this type of voting is ever officially sanctioned by HN.

>If I push buggy code into production and take down the site then the team is to blame.

And you are not? I propose that you and the team should take the blame. People make mistakes but all the time and they shouldn't be singled out for it, but I don't think it's good etiquette for the team member who made the mistake not to own up to the mistake either.

>Your taking a once sentence philosophy about how to deal with technical incidents and treating it like we're advocating it as a universal and moral absolute

It's a one sentence philosophy that doesn't hold any logic in my opinion. I'm not saying anything is morally absolute here, I'm trying to say that the quotation doesn't even hold up in even the most basic situation.

It's elegantly written, no doubt, but I think that elegance is deceptive and that's why I wanted to say something. The real world in my opinion is nowhere even remotely close to that philosophy. I would argue that philosophy is just a surface level special case. In the real world people get blamed and fired all the time.
Ask HN: What are fastest paths to financial success?
At Digg, one mentor gave me the savvy advice that the fastest path to financial success was working for four years at three different just-about-to-IPO companies. A surefire way to retire by forty. (This is, for the record, pretty good advice.)

https://lethain.com/forty-year-career/

What are other fastest paths to financial success? Currently am a software engineer, so looking for advice in this career choice.
William Gibson was too poor to afford a computer when he started writing; he's said that cyberpunk was pure imagination, and it might never have existed if he'd known what machines were really like.
Right, but his point about that was essentially:

"Why depend on that as a dependency rather than just have a copy directly in my project that I know will never behave any differently?"
Thanks, corrected. I must have typed that two different ways several times in the last 20 minutes...
Hating a group of people is not innocuous.
After visiting my brother in Las Vegas the first week of February I came down with a fever, sweats, and extremely bad cough with wheezing in my chest for over a week. I saw a doctor two weeks in and she thought I had bronchitis and prescribed me an inhaler. The Rx failed to treat the cough or wheezing. I emailed the doctor after over a week and she was surprised the medication wasn't working. It ran it's course for about a month exactly. Now I don't actually think I had COVID-19, but the chance is non-zero for sure. I wish it was cheap/easy to get an antibody test in the U.S. so I won't need to worry as much in the small chance I did actually have it.
I don't know what you mean about 'scheduling the virus', sorry. Generally people are probably best off listening to official advice, not making their own assumptions.
No experience (or affiliation) with it, but I’ve heard some good things about https://ironcast.tv/
This sounds like the sort of thing I hear from folks who have only passively dealt with the Javascript ecosystem but somehow still seem to think they have a really great handle on the entire situation, how it got there, what exactly the root of the problems are, and (sometimes) how it can be fixed.

And while I partially agree in some cases, I don't think this is in any way a problem specific to the JS ecosystem. There is definitely a lack of quality in a whole lot of JavaScript code out there. But I've also seen TONS of horribly written Ruby gems, .Net libraries, Java apps, even Dockerfiles.

It is just much more prevalent when those ecosystems are still "maturing" - which I think JS, Node, NPM, etc still very much are. Even the early Android days were plagued with tons of horrible options for networking libraries, SQLite helpers, or whatever else wasn't fleshed out well. And that was just the _platform_ maturing with a language that was already quite mature. With JS you have not only the language itself maturing and changing rather quickly, but also all the underlying platforms, package management systems, security issues, etc.

Patterns, best practices, and standards often take quite a while to surface and become established. And they seem so obvious in hindsight! Which is why I think we get a lot of people coming from other ecosystems who seem to have selectively forgotten about that happening in their own established tech niche.
> but I don’t cook anything other than fish below 135 F

That's funny; fish is the one thing I'm ultra paranoid about. Many parasites survive in fish up to 145 F, and parasites are much more common than you might think. The gross out factor convinced me to switch away from wild salmon to farmed. Sushi grade fish is a bit different since it's required to be flash frozen in the U.S., but you're still eating parasite corpses (which doesn't bother some people, but personally makes me a bit squeamish).
you lost me at creator
I thought that the point of buying an overpriced macbook was because macOS came with it...
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> Just goes to show insidious partisanship is

I think this is the wrong take away. The corona debate in Sweden is pretty healthy. Not very partisan and neither side has dug their heels in.
We too were affected by the Sectigo / Addtrust expiration. Google's Uptime Checks couldn't verify the validity of the certificate and reported our website was down. While this was a false alert and it was easy to verify and circumvent it just shows that even companies like Google aren't prepared for something like this.
There's a plugin for http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ , and https://www.duplicati.com/
Having a roof over your head.
Software developers have been rewriting legacy codebases since forever. My early career was spent bouncing in and out of projects that the customer deemed in need of a rewrite. If it was perl, it needed to be replaced with Java. When it was Java, it had to be replaced by Ruby. And now all the Ruby needs to be replaced with JS. Now that we are stuck with JS, devs are just finding new reasons to rewrite stuff.

PHP projects never seemed in need of a rewrite.
It's always neat to read reasoned replies to comments like these.

> > The primary reason for this is because the people writing JavaScript do not know what they are doing.

I think GP has a point here, though- it feels (to _me_, someone with only a small amount of programming experience) that there are all too many beginner tutorials that jump straight into framework-of-the-week.js and that leave huge knowledge gaps- if people start with node.js and angular and and and and, they might not know that they can do xyz in a vanilla install of JS, thus making their core knowledge of the language dependent on a particular framework.
100% ...according to the one limited study that it was the subject of.
It's unfortunate that we as a species cannot prioritize the health of the whole over preoccupied defensive posturing in order to hide all weaknesses. Like a decayed tooth that's just a shell of its former self...
>“How could a baby, which can not even tie its own shoes, spell a simple word, or fill a cup with water, ever possibly grow up to write a book, manage a corporation, or formulate a strategy for fighting a war? Impossible!"

I don't think anyone has ever said that and meant it. Except to the very naive, it's pretty obvious that a child growing up into a functional adult is a function of training volume and adaptation. On the other hand, training volume for "AI" tends to be huge and yet there are definite strata that these machines seem confined to.

I agree that that form of argumentation is meaningless though. AI is obviously improved over time, but as far as I know that's due to external modification and not just more training.
Forget robots.

Gather data on how the plans are doing (think lora-wan sensors) and try to minimize both waste and costly investments (like unneeded fertilizers and treatments).

Hire a someone who knows how plants grow and when they are in their better condition.

Surprisingly some plants give the sweetest fruits when they are near death (think grapes and wine).

When you have data, you can focus on investment and ROI.
It is also more prudent ;-)
The other day I was trying to remember a specific children's song - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alouette_(song). At the time I forgot that it was about a lark, and thought that it was about a goose. (In my defense, I'm pretty sure this is because a parent told me it was about a goose when I was little because they didn't want to explain wtf a lark was)

So I went bing.com, ddg, and tried something like

nursery rhyme about plucking a goose

Both were filled with pages and pages mother goose links, none of which had anything to do with what I wanted.

Typed that into google and it had an immediate answer, because it correctly surmised that I'm a dumbass and forgot that it wasn't a goose all along.
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TMRCA relies on accurate information about when specific strains were identified.

There is ample reason to believe Chinese authorities lied about when they observed specific strains.
I completely agree with you. We should not compromise the scientific method to push an agenda.
Yes, they do. That's why I said they "are not arranging those products in relation to a particular request." We are all in the same store, and that store must arrange itself in a way that will serve all customers. Amazon's business model is premised on the idea that they provide a better service than that.
For your situation, existing antibody tests are fine. They are not accurate enough to do mass testing to find out how prevalent SARS2 is in the population. This is because the base rate in the population is pretty low. If you are reasonably sure that you've had it, a false negative/false positive for you is still pretty unlikely (in the 5% order of magnitude range for lateral flow antibody tests, better for ELISA lab tests).
The smoking gun there is the search volume for word SARS has reappeared in Chinese search engines in August-September, and exploded in November.

I believe the quiet whispers of SARS return in autumn last years have been largely validated.

You can even check google.com that is blocked in China. Two regions light up: Hubei, and Beijing.

Another artefact is Chongqing/Sichuan, which also had an early flare up, and severe lockdown. I hears of an opinion that it may have actually started there, and Wuhan only turned to prominence because it being a transport hub, and a more rich city in general.

https://ibb.co/tcp2ZNx

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-07-01%202...

So, this also kind of gives more reason to look at rumors of mass exodus of officials during the winter months in China.
Yep, this me. I haven't been able to see friends or family since March 15th. So I haven't even touched another human in that long. It's been really bad for my mental health. I have a hard time empathising with people who say they've been super lonely but still live with family.
I used DDG until I've searched for "PDF watermark remover free" and the top result is watermarkremoveronline.com, a scam site. Probably with malware as well.

I did the same search on Bing and Google and the scam site is not part of the search result.

DDG emphasizes on privacy. Yet, allow scamming site returned as top result.
I have also worked in the blockchain space, and none of the blockchain companies I previously worked with still exist. I am most certainly not worried about fraudulent blockchain companies becoming a major part of the economy.
I recommend his cover of Adele's "Hello" to everyone. He redeemed that song. It's clear after you listen his rendition that it was meant for metal.

Ed: https://youtu.be/LtQUJMBH8uE
Okay, that sounds conspiratorial, but: is that why Amazon's search is atrociously terrible, so that they can sell the top spots for more? If you could search by attributes reliably, the top spots lose relative value.
In fairness, a lot has also changed/churned in Windows desktop UI development, iOS development, and Android development over the same time period. (I know a lot less about the latter two, but didn’t they at least both change languages and see the significant rise of PhoneGap/Titanium and then React Native and then Flutter?) And those are all ecosystems that, for better or worse, have a single dominant corporation lording over it.
The US Government already knew the virus originated earlier than China admits. During one of the early live briefings on the virus, Trump spouted off about the virus coming out of China maybe as early as late September. The press mocked him for getting the timeline wrong by several months. He wasn't confusing the timeline, he was leaking inside information from US spy agencies, their estimates on its origin date (which he obviously would have seen).
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So suppose Amazon shared sales/behavior data with other sellers/companies, such that everyone is competing on a even footing with regards to product research. Do you still think what Amazon is doing is anti-competative?

In other words, if other well capitalized players had the same data, same ability to manufacture at the same scale, advertise etc... and Amazon's sole advantage is product placement, is it still problematic?
Is it anonymous ? I really don’t see a point either. It’s a snitch app and people of color are usually the ones facing the brunt of the abuse due to profiling, or other hate.
While this might be true, their value is lower now than it would have been had the market not crashed.
Strictly speaking, everyone has a stroke order. It's just that they may not be consciously aware of it, because it doesn't matter to them.
Evaluating whether an opinion is partisan is not ignoring their reasoning or motivation. Quite the opposite, it is evaluating their reasoning and motivation and determining the extent to which that reasoning and motivating is influence and determined by partisanship or group affiliation.

Expert opinion is supposed to be formed by empirical evidence and science. Not political affiliation or personal opinion. For instance, an expert opinion would be, "protests of X size stand to increase rates of infection by Y%" Whether or not a certain protest justified in accepting that increase of infection is a question of personal values not medical science.

Is protesting against police brutality worth the increased rate of infection? Is protesting against the lockdowns and subsequent mass unemployment worth the increased rates of infection? It's fine to form your own answers to these questions. But these are questions determined by values, not science. Expert opinions have no business trying to answer these. But medical experts are making the latter statement, and are doing so in a way that comes off as extremely partisan:

> We can show that support by facilitating safest protesting practices without detracting from demonstrators’ ability to gather and demand change. This should not be confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings, particularly protests against stay-home orders. Those actions not only oppose public health interventions, but are also rooted in white nationalism and run contrary to respect for Black lives.

How on Earth are we supposed to trust these experts' advice on when to lift lockdowns when they openly state that resistance to lockdowns is rooted in white nationalism? Let alone the double standard in supporting some protests while opposing others. As much as I am inclined to defer to experts, messages like these makes it extremely hard for me to do so here. When medical experts are making statements like these, it is highly indicative of reasoning informed by partisanship rather than science.
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Or at the very least half of it, the AC.
I initially did not think it was the flu, because I get the flu shot every year (but yes, I know there are multiple strains which it might not protect from)
The point of the comment was not questioning the meaning of the sentence. The phrase "not unreasonable" is quite common. With some effort, we can decpher the meaning. The point was that there are other ways to express that meaning, using fewer negatives.

For example, something like this:

"I don't consider it unreasonable to believe that supply chains will survive to 2030, so please, don't feel attacked by my beliefs."
We listened to the ones who were already employed to be in charge of this kind of thing, and we haven't had a case in 2 weeks, lockdown is over.
You have no guarantee that the next drug-induced iteration will push you towards another local optimum though. If it redefines your current experiences, it could misattribute many things true positives you have learned throughout your life.
Do not forget to have a small part of the plants as a control group.

I mean, plant that don't get the special treatment (fertilizer/medicine/etx?).

If you don't do that, you're buying snake oil in less that three years
Sure, and it probably helps sell those things, but there are several differences between those to that makes them extremely different in practice.

1. There's limited space at the front of a brick and mortar store. It's not practical to put most of the items at the front, so anyone who's not just there for a bag of chips ends up looking through the aisles anyways.

2. Brick-and-mortar stores usually only sell a few forms of same product. If I want olive oil, there's some store brand, some italian-looking brand, and maybe a brand that advertises some sort of magical health benefits. There might be a few variations for the level of refinement/virginity. It's easy for me to look at all the options and compare them. When I look at a search page on Amazon, there's often 100's of hits, and it's often pretty unclear if there's any difference between them that I'd care about (see https://www.amazon.com/s?k=olive+oil).
That's a very particular definition of "free will": it's either everything follows a deterministic time evolution (so its future behavior is dependent only on what happened in its past light-cone) or not. It's not the "intuitive" idea of "free will" most people are used to, though that isn't a well-defined concept.
What's the problem? Every country has its quirks. You could write plenty of things about how the US is weird.
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The virus alone also doesn’t schedule human behavior. I’m not sure exactly what you are implying.
I have a Dell XPS 13 and have run various flavors of Arch without any problems. I didn't try Ubuntu, however.

Sleep and suspend just work. Battery life is good - typically 5-7 hours. Before this I had no problems with a Thinkpad and even on a MacBook Air (2012).

Maybe I'm just so used to Linux now that I don't notice problems since I've been on it since 1998-ish except for a short stint on OS X.

Dell support is terrible so I can't recommend the XPS. When I had a problem with the battery they wouldn't replace it under warranty since I was not in the country where I bought it, which is total BS.