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Actually in my experience Amazon has always provided prompt and satisfactory customer service. I'm not talking about the sort of issue in this article of course, but just the normal things: Returns, billing problems, charging me for home pickup on two different returns I'm making at the same time instead of just once... I've never had one of these common place customer service issues that wasn't solved quickly & to my satisfaction. Sometimes they'll even go beyond what I was expecting and add a credit.

Of course none of that means they don't rig the review system, although the presence of products with near universally bad reviews would indicate that, if they do rig reviews, it's not a general practice.

No, in my experience, while Amazon is bad in plenty of other ways, good service isn't one of them.
This is probably why JetBrains IDEs suggest to add your projects to antivirus exceptions for you. I rarely ever have performance issues while developing anymore after I let JetBrains do its thing.
Seriously? I've never met anyone inside the business (tech/internet) who didn't believe governments were engaging in mass surveillance. This is going back to the 80s fwiw.
That sounds like it’s solved half the problem, at least it’s not another outdated Linux 2.7 machine with a nodejs app with no rate limiting listening to unencrypted http sessions over WAP “secured” wifi.

But I wonder how it’d fare if someone like the lockpicking lawyer reviewed it’s mechanical lock design? Is it actually a good lock?
What you described can't happen. If you merge one branch into another, both branches must exist in the repo. Deleting the feature branch following a merge, wouldn't delete the commits it contained. But even if that weren't the case. That means multiple people would have needed to all delete their feature branch without checking the code they wrote was merged and working. rm can delete code too, would you blame rm for having a confusing interface you just couldn't understand?

Come to think about it, git does warn you when you tried to delete a branch that's not merged into any other branch.
Well, that's court-ordered production of data based on given search terms. Being ordered by a court to do something is not the opposite of "cooperation" but it's not the same thing either.

What Googlers were angry about was the stuff in the leaks that showed they were tapping undersea cables.
I LOVE how they have a non-swearing version at dangitgit.com :D
The more criteria are used, the harder it will be to game, as you'd have to game all of them.
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Send me an email if you ever want to do a collaboration here in Chile :) victor (at) vgr.cl
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Yes, educational organizations tend not to buy the air quality sensors (CO, CO2, humidity, people load) and use timer control instead. They think they can just put the system on a fixed schedule. Convention hotels are in a competitive business. They don't want to hear "the Textile CEO Association cancelled for next year because their meeting room was too hot this year." If they don't have full automation, there's probably someone in a control room.
The problem is not reverse engineering, but having to reverse engineer.
If they knew the labels were switched, they know which one held caffeinated coffee...even the physicist is too sophisticated...
I'm pretty sure the ballots haven't gone out yet. You probably received a registration form.
The issue isn't whether the compiler knows which data is affected and which isn't, but rather that the compiler doesn't know about the semantics of the mutex.

However, the library knows about the semantics of the mutex, and it could explicitly instruct the processor to only flush certain memory regions from the store buffer when the mutex is unlocked. But then again, that's not Rust-specific – a C++ library could do the same.
Well if one tried to put a munition on target in real time (on the order of few seconds) with classical gravity calculations from 7.6km high (and while moving at a higher rate speed compared to said target), one might be surprised where it lands and less surprised when accounting for things like "time dilation".
I think so, unfortunately many people do not. Ideally I'd be free to express myself however I wanted without facing prejudice for it, but we're not in that world today.
I've only been running it for about a year, but I simply don't get spam --- perhaps partially because it isn't my main email address.

I went by this article, https://www.c0ffee.net/blog/mail-server-guide/ but I only set up Postfix and the various DNS records (MX, DKIM, etc.). I didn't set up Dovecot because I just use Mutt on the same server. And I haven't bothered to set up any kind of spam filter.
This will have interesting impacts on all marketplaces.

Ebay, Walmart, NewEgg, all the app stores on every platform - if a game is malware (or trashes your machine with a bug), is that Steam's responsibility? It's delivered from their servers with their packaging.
Aboriginal Australians have blonde hair arising independently.
You're being nieve. The reporters are set up by the wh staff to "ask" these questions then wh staff whisper to media to cover the non-answer.
... as far as this source is concerned at least: https://www.webmproject.org/docs/container/#video-codec
> One thing I hate is the pesky .DS_Store on Mac. No matter how many times I ignore it, it just wants to be a part of my commit.

Try a global gitignore: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7335420/global-git-ignor...
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It's pretty disgusting that solitary -- considered to "cause such severe psychological damage that it is tantamount to torture" -- isn't torturous enough for you, in the "waterboard or toenail removal" sense:

"Solitary confinement is so egregious a punishment that in 2011, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment condemned its use, except in exceptional circumstances and for as short a time as possible, and banned the practice completely for people with mental illnesses and for juveniles."

[0] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/almost-addicted/2018...
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That didn't work so well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_bag#United_States
Amazon wants to have all the benefits but no responsibility of being one of the largest commerce businesses in the world.

As Amazon customer, who had its fair share of bad experiences with items in recent years, I'm ok with prices going up. I've never used Amazon because of the prices, but because of comfort and safety. I'm willing to pay extra to get this back.
Long-term, it would be good business sense for Amazon to address the counterfeit issue to remove the bad actors from their platform to stay in good standing with consumers so people continue to use their platform and purchase items without worry about getting scammed.

Short-term, at least one idea to fix this is to implement more stringent checks/QA with their FBA policies. Do more stringent verification of imported items going into Amazon FBA warehouses. Or at least add a mark to branded items received from other third-party sources. Simply adding "Shipped by: X, Sold by: X" text on the product page doesn't really help.

There's probably other/better ideas out there. This has been a recurring problem that has kinda gotten swept under the rug so far, but at some point is going to need to be reckoned with.

If Amazon wants to be the best customer experience, then it has to position itself in such a way that it does not devolve into one big flea market + Aliexpress + dropshipping junk bin.
The eBay list will have a rating for the seller, full detailed customer feedback the seller received for the previous 90 days including the listing. It will also have verbatim customer feedback going back 12 months.

This is the top result of my search for "usb stick" -- a seller with 28k transactions and 100% positive feedback. https://www.ebay.com/itm/SanDisk-Cruzer-Blade-Flash-Drive-8G...
There isn't really any fraud. Oregon, a state with mail-on voting only, has a actual fraud rate of 1 in a million. One ballot per year is fraudulent. [1]

This isn't about preventing fraud. Mail-in is proven to be secure. Take the words as exactly what they are--limiting votes. He directly states he wants to limit votes. There's no need to try searching around for other meanings when his statement is so direct.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/06/02/low-rates-o...
Is that correct?

With Higher or lower abstraction instead?
Am I correct in saying that there shouldn’t be any reason that being FUSE would in and of itself cause corruption?

Performance is a different question, since it’s not in kernel.
I'm pretty sure if I went to Target and was told "this toaster was made by NoName Super-Quality Manufacturing in China and if you have any problem you'd have to take it with them, whoever and whereever they are, and we accept no responsibility for anything but processing the payment" I'd not buy it.
Agreed. There have been plenty of people labeled "leakers" inside the White House who have been celebrated by the media, like Eric Ciaramella.
Yeah, my bad. I mis-remembered. Thanks for clarifying!
There's also the potential that they bring it home, causing the op to get sick/die. I'm a little more afraid of dying early, not because I want to live, but because : A. I don't want my kids to grow up w/out a dad, and B. I don't want to miss the important things in life. C. I'm hoping their chance of serious illness is less, but if I were wrong, I'd wish for death quickly afterwards.

I'm also sure things are easier when you have a parent to lean on for support, when a crisis comes up. (Lots of those on the horizon)...i'd rather be here to help them w/ that.

So part of me feels me living is important to their survival (mine are <4 yrs old - 2 boys, I'm 40). So, it might be safer and less traumatic if they stayed in the dorm, assuming they're healthy and have higher chances, and assuming they're good at social distancing / masking up to keep viral load down.

It'd be a hard decision to weigh, but I'd probably have a family council discuss the pros and cons and call a vote or something.

Basically commute or dorms, they can still catch it. At least in dorms maybe they don't infect older more vulnerable people or family members. Honestly, I'd probably teach them to code and say, hey work w/ dad till this is over then go to college :).
In typical Vox fashion, that article is really stretching to make a point.

A few examples:

- "Trump Management Corporation" accused of racism, not Trump himself

- Trump pays for ad saying “Central Park Five” should be executed. They were innocent. But apparently that's racist?

- In The Apprentice TV show, Trump said of a black person “You’re an unbelievably talented guy in terms of education, and you haven’t done anything. That's racist?

- Trump proposed idea for The Apprentice - “an idea that is fairly controversial — creating a team of successful African Americans versus a team of successful whites. Whether people like that idea or not, it is somewhat reflective of our very vicious world.” That's racist?

- Trump claimed, “I heard [Obama] was a terrible student. Terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard?”

Poor taste? Tactless? Unpresidential? Sure.

Racist? Not really.
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It works because he maintains a high approval rating in his party.
You are going to need some sources. You are confusing ketosis with ketoacidosis
i should have clarified that i was asking why Mali is more terrible than Adreno, MediaTek, etc.

AFAIK, all embedded GPU drivers have to be reverse engineered and none are open source.

as you mentioned, it looks like Tegra might have some open-source contrib from the mfg.
Ever heard of "hanging chads"? There is no perfect system.
Great question. For me it's that sometimes I have those traits and sometimes I don't. I don't really have a set of traits and preferences that is consistent from day to day or hour to hour. Some days I'd prefer others see me as a man, other days I find that repulsive.

So, gender fluid, because my gender is dynamic and shifting. I don't always see myself as femme, or masculine, but rather shifting between and around them.
He has control over the FDA, which bungled the early response. He also controls the CDC and has appointed many inexperienced donors to important positions (many of my friends work there, and whistleblowers have come forward).

He is also influential among a large group of Americans, as is any president.

He called for Obama to resign after a single case of ebola[1] in the US. Clearly he agrees with me that the president has an effect in fighting infectious disease.

1.https://www.axios.com/trump-obama-resign-787b042d-0361-48f1-...
> That means multiple people would have needed to all delete their feature branch

That switch might have done something about rewriting history. Or maybe it was rebase, I never do either of these things. Multiple people (except me) have synchronized after that happened. If interested how we fixed — I’ve copy-pasted couple commands from a chat, sent by a co-worker who knows more about git. These commands pushed my local branch under a new name, then people managed to sort it out with a merge.
Focus on what you can control
Considering 3-4 years ago he referred to him as a traitor, I'd say the significant shift in stance is news. Should a pardon happen, this would set an important precedent for future whistleblowers and for the rule of law in the often obfuscated corners of the federal government.

Support the efforts of Rand Paul and Thomas Massie, who have already publicly stated their support for a Presidential pardon in this case.
I worked for a company that manufactured these machines including electro-mechanical systems as well as the software that used for configuration and generating reports.

The way it works is, these machines would either read the printed barcode or take a picture of the label and run through OCR engine, use the zip+4 and sort them to a bin based on some configuration. Then these bins would go on a truck to their destination.

The machines are not doing the routing. So your fears are unfounded.
They do it for blood donations for diseases like Zika.
The whole point of general relativity is to explain the way that the universe behaves as modelled by spacetime (i.e. the Minkowski metric to start)

Does it really exist? Maybe, we don't know (Symmetries and space and time are one of the things we could have right today as opposed to the standard model which is fairly likely to not stand the test of time), but who are we to judge.
Safari page loading is fast but from my experience the actual app is slow (on the newest MBP no less). It's the only browser where I can type something into the URL bar and press enter quickly, expecting it will take me to the top history result (e.g. type 'tw' and press enter to go to twitter.com) but actually beat out the loading of the history / bookmarks results and have Safari simply google the string 'tw' instead. This happens all the time for me in Safari and never happened once in Chrome.
Entirely driven by congressional Republicans.
OK, a California decision on this. I thought the dog-collar case in Pennsylvania was going to be the one that turned this around. Amazon is re-appealing that one.[1]

[1] https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/07/08/53...
In HN's context, this and your other posts in the thread constitute flamebait—that is, inflammatory and unsubstantive. You're violating these two guidelines:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Eschew flamebait."

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules, we'd be grateful.
Was thinking the same thing, sounds like he's looking to win some votes back.
Not sure why the downvotes. I've wondered if Snowden was running a sanctioned op since day 1. Heck even the movie floats this as a plot line (Nicolas Cage character).
The US is eighth on that list. That’s not middle bottom, that’s top.
Everyone has their own pet definition of libertarian. Call it techno-libertarianism if you want. What's clear is Trump has very powerful allies in Silicon Valley and has figured out that he only has to tap the tiny minority of right wing sympathy at Facebook etc and they will let him do whatever he wants. The idea that web companies are liberal and unfair to conservatives is popular and widespread. Appealing to other negative things that people believe about those companies (that they are spying on us, for example) strengthens his position in that regard.
But he did do (or at least started) most of the things you just mentioned. Opiate crisis excluded.
and don't care about "pixel-perfect" rendering or any sort of interesting layout

A common theme in all these "reinvent the web/browser" discussion is going back to the web as a hyperlinked document library and not an application platform, in which case pixel-perfect rendering is neither necesary nor even a goal.

For example, implementing comment parsing per the letter of the HTML4 spec is extremely not-web-compatible

HTML5 parsing is completely specified and definitely compatible, even the error cases. Any stream of bytes will turn into a DOM. (Philosophical question: are they even errors anymore, if all implementations will produce the same output?) Perhaps that would be a good starting point.
Pardoning Snowden is not likely to be popular is his party, most Republicans aren't very big fans of Snowden.

However, it is true that Trump is known for publicly "floating" a lot of ideas that he latter drops if they prove unpopular. But, if everybody cheers him for it it might actually make it more likely to happen.
I think you're misinterpreting that table. USA is in between Chile and Brazil, in eighth place out of 150 countries. It has the highest deaths per-capita of any country over 100M people.
Hmm, I question whether it really would put them out of business. FB made about $18B net income last year. Shouldn't that be more than enough to pay the interest on issuing $500B of long term bonds? It almost seems like a sweet spot of a massive fine that wouldn't kill them.

Also, it would just be satisfying to demonstrate they aren't above the law. Ordinary people don't get to say "but that law is obviously unreasonable" when, you know, it's very debatable, and get exempted.
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Shareholders do not expect companies to be perfect. One of the reasons to be part owner is to push for improvements and to have influence.

You are wrong about detriments to society, and a simple search would have saved you. Just as one example, large income gaps are highly correlated with higher crime rates [1]. This has been shown in many studies, and across cultures. There are other negative effects as well, including both the rich and the poor being less happy. I suggest you do the work of trying to prove yourself wrong and you'll find even more.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/06/07/the-star...
Sure, but the top 10 is mostly Western countries.
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And the retailer has leverage the consumer does not. “Fix this or we don’t sell your stuff.”
It's essentially the 'human blockhead' carnie trick. If you do it right it's strange and perhaps unpleasant, but not painful. The recommended method of learning how to do it is to use cotton swabs.

If you do it wrong, or maybe just have a particularly tight nasal passage, it could definitely be painful. For me, my right nostril is easier than the left.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Blockhead

(Note that performers often pretend to be in pain for dramatic effect. But if they're doing it right, the agony is an act.)
All: there's quite a bit that's interesting here, so please don't post predictable things on any side of the discussion. If it's a political talking point, it's a predictable thing, so please omit those. Instead, remember this from the site guidelines: Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Fortunately there are many commenters in the thread exemplifying that spirit, so no one has far to look for fine examples.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's also always interesting to watch one's comment score quickly bounce up and down by several points multiple times over just 30 minutes. Apparently this comment is controversial, heh.
In a recent interview on the H3 Podcast Andrew, the man behind AGNB, said (paraphrasing) that the crazy people find the camera. Something attracts them to it.
He's done his fair bit of missile-ing and bombing. One also wonders why his silence on the Russian contract killing is so deafening...
I don't think anything in the Snowden leaks really indicates any sort of hidden leadership.

The 'deep state' concept requires more than just secret acts that people don't like.
I had no idea, so I just searched and found there are 201 repositories in their github:

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It's insane to vote for someone who does things you support?

To someone with full blown TDS, sure, a Snowden pardon probably won't sway your opinion at all. But think of someone who leans libertarian and maybe doesn't love Trump but also doesn't hate him, and remembers how the Obama admin forced Snowden to flee and revoked his passport, forcing him to stay in Russia. Seeing a pardon from Trump could move them into being a mild supporter.

A lot of people have one or two big issues that their political allegiance revolves around. It can be abortion rights, gun rights, taxes, the national debt, anything. If someone's core issue is fighting the surveillance state, a Snowden pardon would be a massive change in the landscape.
In our lifetime an election coinciding with a pandemic is unprecedented. There will be, again in our lifetime, with our logistics afforded by modern technology, an unprecedented number of ballots cast by mail.

Casual use of language riled dad up. Give him his clicker and lean the recliner back for him. He’ll calm down.

You know basically every point in history is somehow “unprecedented”. It’s never been that way before!

Save it for when dad says it’s really special though.
It's not that good. For one, rebase mutates history. Also the ui is confusing and inconsistent even if the data model is pure and beautiful.
Umm... it was in his election platform.

And of course he needed help from congress, he can't actually pass a bill without congress.