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I tried it out. It works really well but the price is wayyyyy too high and the nagging way too aggressive for a casual like me who doesn’t have any use case beyond entertainment. Is there a business use case for this?
What does comingling have to do with it? Apparently Amazon was able to destroy this seller’s merchandise specifically, so it doesn’t sound like there was a problem identifying it among commingled inventory. I’m getting the impression from the comments here that a lot of people just have an axe to grind about commingling even if there’s no clear connection to the issue at hand (people do seem to bring it up on all sorts of unrelated stories about Amazon).
Don't even joke.
Most mathematicians still wouldn't care about foundations if you came up with better foundations. It's a separate area of research from most other fields of mathematics, it's not relevant to what most of them are researching, and they just don't have any interest in it. And unlike category theory more broadly, they don't particularly benefit by studying foundations deeply. It doesn't provide any improvement to their own area of study.

Everything I've just said is completely uncontroversial among mathematicians, for what it's worth. The comment I just wrote has probably been expressed on r/math dozens of times at this point.
> I think this is where a change in copyright law would be helpful.

The changes have always gone in the other direction.

What I always thought was odd - why has copyright duration gotten longer and longer, but patent duration stayed the same?
Monochrome icons cause the interface to recede into the background, giving more focus to the content. It's the same logic behind hiding UI elements when not in use. This is a good choice in situations where the user is mainly viewing content rather than interacting with the application—for instance, PDF readers and video players. Google probably found that most users use Gmail mainly for reading, rather than processing, emails—and decided that it should more like a viewer and less like an application.
The problem is not the automation, the problem is that a single authority has a complete monopoly on certain aspects of the e-commerce market. Full credit to Bezos and Amazon for their incredible execution in achieving this. However, monopolies are an example of market failure, and in this case, also an example of an authority able to act as judge + jury where the affected parties have no realistic recourse, while being accountable to no-one. This is why we need government to intervene and ensure competition is restored on both the buyer + seller sides in e-commerce.
Indeed in this situation he's unlikely to win because he is pretty clearly in the wrong and his story is rediculous. My point is just that the insurance company can't just arbitrarily decide to side with amazon because they feel it (for that matter, amazon isn't really a party when it comes to the insurance) they have to look at the evidence and facts of the situation.
Doubtless. Angelic visitation is interesting to some people. Those and "node" figures have about the same value and credibility.
Not to mention that Amazon invented the cloud, and that was built off the back of Bezos' demand that all software at Amazon have interoperable APIs.
>"The supposed scandal around the data analytics supplied to campaign groups by Cambridge Analytica was manufactured by people with a political agenda.

>...UK Information Commissioner’s Office has published the findings of its three-year investigation (predating the scandal) into the matter, which concluded there was no illegal electoral interference whatsoever...In other words, the data was commercially available and concerned US voters. The only ‘special sauce’ in CA’s model was the hyperbole of its sales people..." [1]

the left has pushed a false narratives and misinformation making Cambridge Analytica, like Russia, the convenient scapegoat for all the things. The same tricks are in play now with Hunter Biden's laptop coverage, which is non-existent from MSM

[1] https://telecoms.com/506834/uk-information-commissioner-conf...
I generally agree with the author. I don't have hard evidence but basically feel that the culture, ethos, magic, whatever you want to call it is gone. Does this mean innovation is dead? Of course not! As the author pointed, it will just likely be more spread out.

Also, I think it's important to appreciate that the formation and growth of Silicon Valley was a remarkably special thing but was bound to eventually hit the diminishing returns phase of faster compute, faster internet, smarter software, etc. Silicon Valley started with a transformative and enabling technology (the transistor) and from there we built a remarkable hardware and software ecosystem over the span of a few decades around that technology. Those seem to be the two elements in order to 'replicate' SV: a transformative technology that spurs an ecosystem of technologies, all of which interconnect and benefit from each others innovation.
Wouldn't such bullshit accusations just make him more of a legend in the NSA? It's not like they have a record of speaking honestly to the press.
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I applaud this move. Your employer should not care where you live.

If your job duties include working on location, then in practice it amounts to a de facto restriction, that you must live within a reasonable commuting distance of your worksite.

If you work remotely, it shouldn't matter where you live (as long as it's within the US, there's probably a metric ton of extra paperwork when dealing with another country).

To someone from the Rust Belt, a policy of "We'll only pay you $X if you move to an ExpensiveTechCity and spend a bunch of it on overpriced housing" translates to "We coastal elites are actively trying to keep all the wealth generated by tech in this handful of cities we like, screw the rest of the country, it deserves to stay poor."
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My observation is that "preach" is orthogonal to contribution.

Which is why I think it's the wrong term, and why utxaa was confused.

Your link to Google for a dictionary definition says:

1) deliver a sermon or religious address to an assembled group of people, typically in church.

This wasn't a sermon or religious address, and HN isn't church.

2) publicly proclaim or teach (a religious message or belief).

Okay, so posting a comment on HN is public, which means we're all preaching? This doesn't seem what you mean.

3) earnestly advocate (a belief or course of action).

This is the closest. However, "this is all going to end in X12" seem far from earnest advocacy.

Your own comments seem far more earnest - are you not also preaching?

It's far easier for me to believe you simply used the wrong term.
Can you create throwaway facebook accounts? I've always head stories of people doing this then something happens and they are closed.
I think the idea is that it allows for Amazon to remove some strength from the official wholesaler side. If the wholesaler isn't the only source of goods they have less bargaining power. But at the end of the day the wholesaler has to sell to someone. Here are my thoughts on how this relationship could work to Amazon's advantage.

Think of this scenario:

**Wholesaler**: Give us $10 per unit to list our
products on Amazon.

**Amazon**: No, we'll pay $15 per unit from a 3rd
parties you sell to, but we won't tell you who.

**Wholesaler**: Whatever, we'll still make sales at the
end of the day.

-- Some time passes --

**Amazon**: Hey 3rd parties, if you store all of our stuff in the warehouse we'll be an awesome partner and increase your profits a bit!

**3rd parties**: This is an awesome deal!

*3rd Parties* who are unaware of the fight between the
wholesaler and Amazon sees their business going great
buys lots of stock from the wholesaler, sends it all to
Amazon, has a lot of their sales going through Amazon,
etc.

-- Some more time passes --

**Amazon**: Hey Wholesaler, we have these 3rd parties
and 90% of their revenue is through our platform. You
are going to list your product on our platform at $5
per unit or we're going to either A: Delist the
products and kick the sellers off our platform and/or
B: We're going to use our business intelligence to
launch AmazonBasics™ versions of your product(s) and
throw your customers to the wolves while your demand
crumbles into to dust.

Today YOU are here. This is how they use their monopoly power to get an unfair benefit over the existing manufacturers/wholesalers. And they can use 3rd parties, small businesses, as a way to get leverage. These 3rd parties will go and get business loans, they'll build up their inventories, they provide an abstraction that's hard for the wholesalers to fully peer through to, etc. These 3rd parties are just a pawn in Amazon's games with wholesalers. For every dollar Amazon burns giving these 3rd parties more money than the wholesaler they're really just leveraging indirectly the credit of these 3rd parties and throwing them to the wolves if they don't get their way. Simply a pawn in a game for Amazon to consolidate more power.
This is simply Kafka's "The Trial" at scale.

This will continue until these companies start losing large monetary value cases in court.
You'd have to crack open the skull for photopsins to work. Infrared would scatter wildly unless it were modulated like a hologram. Getting a virus to cross the blood-brain barrier and widely and precisely transfect neurons without killing the victim from encephalitis is extremely challenging. I started writing a sci-fi story about taking this approach to telepathy a while back.

Giving your victims chronic health conditions rather than outright killing them is quite an effective tactic though. Organizations are terrible at accommodating chronic illnesses, and they're seen as not serious if you're not visibly disabled.
It never had a publicly documented API, wish I could have baked it into VS Code and such. Obviously not a clear indicator of a Google offering with a limited time left, but cause enough for concern for me to prepare to find an alternative...
Google has a history of this. I always confused the Play Store and Play Music apps. Cyan Triangle vs Orange Triangle.
> The 'google' colour branding across their app icons is useful as users will instantly associate those colours with being Google's

That seems a lot more useful to Google than it is to users.
Looks like it scales fine to an embassy in Cuba.
looks like this is going into some UI/UX program lead's appraisal/promotion slide-deck. and then will be perfectly forgotten until next one seeks a promotion.

:shrug:
I'm not proposing a unified theory of Google's choices. Google reader is more easily explained by other factors, specifically that it didn't fit nicely into the G+ push by Google and was not otherwise monetized by ads in any significant way at that point. Somewhat tragically, had they built a content-oriented social network around Reader instead of an ill-conceived integration to G+, it would have been more readily monetized and improved Google's chances of success in Social.
Yes, the name "2 minute rule" has been taken, and mixed up with a bunch of other ideas from the same place (and related places). That's why it's twisted.

> I never said Dave Allen's idea was contentious

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you had. I meant, the idea that "the 2 minute rule" is effectively a Dave Allen trademark, is not contentious.

Sorry if I seem antagonistic, totally not my intention. I'm in Queensland sitting underneath a large storm at the moment. I do think we're on the same page re effective executive function techniques themselves. ;)
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If you're outside the US it's often a matter of forking over for multiple streaming subscriptions and a VPN thanks to crappy regional availability.
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As the author of The Best, I am quite surprised and confused by Rhinehart's suggestion that the piece marks the "death" of Silicon Valley. He does not seem to understand me or what I was saying at all.

Also, "my ilk" are the very people he praises, including Paul Graham and YC founders pre-2012. I'm tempted to write a rebuttal, because while I agree that there was a marked change in the startup community around that time, I think it happened for reasons very different from the ones Rhinehart outlines in his piece.

(For reference: https://dcurt.is/the-best )
e2e encryption was only added after being acquired. Not sure why FB leadership would undermine the effort that they helped support in the first place
Maybe they mean in the sense that the numbers are literally comparable :)
With uefi that seems to not be a problem.
Right! Editing now.
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> Who is this man (Biden)? I had never heard of him until very recently.

Wait, what? Just a paragraph before he is talking about having voted for Obama.
So either you voted for someone for the first and only time and didn’t bother looking into the VP on the ticket. Or it’s just a lie.
That's "officer", not "office".
> the geometry is too big

I agree, and find it even more difficult to understand this design direction in our age of ever increasing screen resolutions.
Selection and risk. In clothing especially, people can have hundreds of thousands of individuals skus and only a handful of units on most of them. Amazon doesn't want to stock the long tail.

In some areas people have unique deals and ways to get products cheaper than Amazon, or they pay more but accept a lower profit margin.
> Google knows it's really just a "Lab" experiment.

The change seems happened during the time when Google was switching focus away from "been cool" to profitability. The business reason behind it was probably that Google don't want leak any hit about what they were up to, because a leak may cost a major growth opportunity that is unknown to them when they started the experiment.
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I know people have ragged on non-removable batteries for a decade now--and I'm not saying there shouldn't be any phones with that option--but it was terrible in practice. I've tried juggling batteries and it was super annoying. Sure, on a plane you could swap your dead battery for a new one (after turning off your phone). At the end of the day you have two dead batteries and have to charge one, then swap. Most phones didn't have a way to charge a battery separate from the phone for some annoying reason. And the tab on the plastic door often broke off.

Most people never had more than one battery and there was a lot of wasted space to make that removable door and compartment. Making all of that water resistance, like newer phones are, would be a lot more difficult.

When phones (and laptops) got rid of swappable batteries you could still take off two screws, maybe remove a small amount of adhesive (putty or tape) and unhook the connector to swap it with a fresh one. It's about as user-swappable as RAM is on most workstations.
They had it in their inventory. They could look at what they ship out.
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> things like Google Docs that are just nearing perfection

I'm completely baffled by this statement. The Google Docs UI hasn't changed since it was released ten years ago and it's just an imitation of Microsoft Word from the mid-nineties. What is good or special about it?
How is Amazon a monopoly when customers can easily purchase an item from eBay, Walmart, Target, Aliexpress, and many others.

Amazon is often the most expensive option for me.
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Yeah, I'm not blaming journalists, it just reflects the reality of media consumption habits.
I don't know if it's "dead" but I have known a bunch of teams that, within the past 18 months, all switched from Sketch to Figma, and I certainly don't know anyone that's switched the other direction, soooo...

That said, these were all website and mobile app design teams, and another commenter mentioned that Sketch is better for print design. Still, have to imagine that print is a shrinking part of the overall marketplace.
Look into Walla Walla and Vidalia onions. They don't keep as long as the average onion, but some people with a sensitive palatte use Vidalias in place of yellow or white.
COL adjustments don't make a lot of sense when you dive a little deeper. Just because you reside in a HCOL area doesn't mean you actually encounter high costs. If you happen to have family in the area and you live for free, you still get paid a high salary without the expenses. Similarly, if you choose to have 5 roommates you also don't encounter the high costs. Why should someone be penalized if they simply choose to live somewhere else geographically? If you work remotely, where you work shouldn't affect your compensation, compensation should be based on value added to the company.
It's fine for you to trust the software publisher, that doesn't mean facebook should, especially when they're legally liable for data breaches that could result from it
Just a few days ago I installed a third party launcher app, which allows changing/customizing app icons, on my Pixel phone. I had finally gotten sick of every other app icon being an indistinguishable white circle - with Google's apps being the worst offenders, since they all use the same mix of colors too.
>If I was at differently stage in my career, I would probably be playing Civ and shooting for a religious victory under Canada (the religion would be named "Tim Horton's" of course).

Is this to say that you enjoy your work that much at the present (more advanced?) stage?

Also, have you tried Europa Universalis 4?
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For me in Turkey: Having my tied to a foreign country is kind of inconvenient (paying fees and having to wait for a swift transfer). Having it tied to an exchange rate has benefits that far outweigh the inconveniences of the transfer (With the way exchange rates have been going for the last few years, it feels more like* you get automatic raises throughout the year tied to inflation in addition to your yearly raise)

* I know it is not that, but it feels like that.
Also thankfully not tied to the officially reported inflation rate in Turkey
I'm also considering going back to a custom build desktop. Lots of flexibility, much more stronger, cheaper, upgradable, etc. I'm already connecting my laptop to a display and mechanical keyboard and mouse. Specially now we work from home and probably continue doing so which I enjoy a lot, I can just put the laptop aside for rare cases I need a mobile computer.
I doubt anyone is saying with 100% assurance this is the -cause- but that it would be worth investigating further. If they'll change FDA recommendations for the blowhard in chief, we should also consider lack of certain nutrients as possibly something to look into as well.
Atrocious performance and memory usage. I have to always close tab after I'm done with Figma or laptop crawls.
Google will just point out than any website can block their scraping with a robots.txt and they will just say they will stop using news if they are forced to pay.

And from one of the articles linked:

> But the immediate boost in readership won’t offset the virus’s brutal impact on the pillars holding up the business, publishing executives say. Local advertising spending could fall this year by at least a quarter, amounting to a decline of more than $30 billion, according to one estimate.

The issue is more than online advertisements aren't very lucrative (although Google's monopoly in that area could play a role in that and gives them some power to retaliate).

Frankly, I just don't see the general population willing to pay as much for news as it did in the past. The big stories will be available for free somewhere and even local news can be found on Twitter/social media.
Start a project → delay for 2 minutes
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Because the end of the path here for Amazon is destruction of the inventory in question, I guess we'll never really know what's real or not. There's nothing to be inspected...which seems rather problematic, right? In criminal cases people don't run around destroying evidence. That's viewed rather negatively by judges.

So here we have Amazon destroying the inventory in question. No way to have even a partial sample of that inventory still available for checking? No laws that regulate how and when Amazon can destroy inventory, particularly in the presence of mandatory arbitration? No checks and balances on that process at all?
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have always wanted to know, how watertight are those clauses? surely legal recourse is some sort of right that'd trump a lot of these type of boiler plate contracts?
Sounds like Rincewind. See also the octogenarian barbarians who are so deadly precisely because they've had a lifetime of experience of not dying.
Each bell summons a servant to a particular room.

The pendulum mechanism is on each bell. It is activated by the bell ring, and left swinging to indicate which bell or bells rang.
In a much smaller example, I've been running Instagram ads for the last week. I've been trying to stop this ad for the last 5 days, but there's a bug in Instagram's UI that won't let me. I also can't get hold of an Instagram support person, or FB support. So I've kept spending money I don't want to spend.

FB and Instagram are core parts of society now as one of the major places to advertise. Lack of support of this kind seems like a really bad sign of a future where all you talk to are robots.

Also, average cost per conversion thru Instagram is $16 - $33. That is just a straight up toll that is paid to Facebook by every product that wants to advertise on their platform. I'm not saying it should be free, but surely they can afford better customer service.
doubtful, the body stores vitamin d in fat cells and individuals that have have sufficient levels will also have some stored up. Vitamin D levels in the blood don't work like an on/off switch depending on how long you were in the sunlight on a specific day or even week.
Yep, and you could even prove "nat" is isomorphic to the type of binary numbers "Bin := List (0 | 1)" and transport proofs there too.
Fan of Figma, but would switch to a better one in a heartbeat because of the following huge downside..

Once you are in Figma, you are trapped forever. No way to get out your original editable artwork files.

Buyer beware!
I don’t know if that’s supposed to be an exaggeration or something?

The entire thing reads like something by someone who’s done too many hallucinogens and is a little fried.
There's a real possibility that many of the problems are a result of the placebo effect. If you started hearing that your workplace had potentially been attacked by some secret weapon, it would not be surprising if the stress caused many of the listed symptoms.

It's also possible some US training or accident is involved. Just because a trip to Russia or Cuba was when the problems became unbearable doesn't mean those trips were at fault. Years in combat zones can eventually cause problems.
This is pretty solid.

Text rendering is one of those things that someone thinks they can get a basic version running in a week or so and 5 months later they're still trying to address rendering/memory/performance issues for a production quality renderer(or something on a constrained platform). So much of text is just implicit knowledge and it's amazing much our brains "skip over".

I've written two of them "from scratch" professionally with many supporting libraries and both times they were pretty serious undertakings.
The GQ article was even here on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833757
Why does it matter that this happened with Amazon? It could have also happened with ebay, walmart, or a local uncle bob's discount closet shop.

We have a judicial system to deal with issues like this which generally handles things fairly regardless of the size of each party.