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I can use cryptocurrencies from anywhere in the world, I can't use M-Pesa unless I'm in one of the few countries it operates, and even then I'd be at Vodafone's whims. Truly it may serve similar needs (money for the under/unbanked) but the scope is not nearly the same.
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>You're also making the assumption that the buy box always offers the lowest price, which isn't true if Amazon are factoring non-price variables like is the manufacture undercutting Amazon on their own site. So as a seller you could be offering the lowest price with the fastest shipping, but still lose the buy box because you had the audacity to offer a better price on your own site or at Walmart.

I'm on Amazon page right now. It tells me that I can get a product the fastest with the buy box offer, or I can get a cheaper price from other "offers". And when I click that link, it shows me higher and lower prices, but the lower prices have a delivery date (actually a range, between X and Y) more than a week out.

Let me start just by saying that the offer is still shown. It's not immediately in the buy box, but as a shopper, I have access to the lower prices and can buy from a different seller. This information is not obfuscated from me or hidden through some dark pattern.

>This in turn creates a very strong incentive to sell your products everywhere for the same price, regardless of your actual costs. So your prices at Walmart and your own site go up.

>If pricing at other stores wasn't a factor in the buy box algorithm, then consumers could find lower prices else where if they wanted to. Thus allowing competitors to slowly loosen Amazon strangle hold on online retail, and reduce prices for consumers.

The incentive goes away if you don't sell on Amazon, right? Any Amazon "strangle" (your word, not mine) only exists because people choose to sell on Amazon, right?

>How can this ever happen if selling cheaper elsewhere loses you the buy box on the biggest online store?

See my previous point. Don't sell on Amazon.

>Again you're completely ignoring the size of Amazon market share here. Who is voluntarily going to give up 50%-60% of all online sales? It's a bit like US ISPs, if Comcast screws with fees stupid prices on your cable contract you can just go to a competitor right, we'll just ignore the fact the competitor is selling 2mb DSL.

I don't agree with this. Companies like Comcast are deemed monopolies because their customers don't have a choice. Just as you stated, Comcast gives me high speed broadband. But my choice is limited to Comcast, and the only competitor (if there even is one in my neighborhood) will offer 2MB DSL.

This is NOT the case with online shopping.

I can purchase an iPad from Apple, Amazon, Best Buy, and a bunch of other websites.

I can purchase my razor blades online from Target, Amazon, Gillette, etc. including several of the grocery stores in my city (who will ship them.

Yes people shop at Amazon, but it's because they choose to. I have the option of not shopping with Amazon. As a matter of fact, I bought 10 "5 Star" brand notebooks on Amazon. I saw later that Wal-Mart had them for $3 instead of $7/notebook. I sent them back to Amazon and got them from Wal-Mart instead.

With internet service, many people don't have a choice but to go with Comcast, Cox, or whichever single provider offers the service in their neighborhood.
I would have thought strong writing skills were a requirement for diplomats.
Perhaps because we don't feel productive anymore. 90% of the day is meetings, slack, and dealing with production issues because of the unnecessary complexity, then the last 5%-10% of your time is developing - usually involving getting JSON to and from a database.
Yep I've add that to my list. It's a small and quick change. Thanks! :)
> That just wastes both our time.

No. That just wastes your time, not the seller's. And some of these people will just buy the product anyway.
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Seems to me like they tried to do WAY too much. Sure, many board games are complex, but there is usually a necessary complexity to them - for the price of a steeper learning curve, you get game mechanics that are more fun.

In this case, there are 24 different vegetables to grow. That is just way too much in my opinion. How many times would you have to play the game to start appreciating the differences between each vegetable?

Not to mention - yes, $55 is fair market value for a decently complex board game. But the video game itself is only $15 and is probably more fun.

If I want to play a resource-gathering game, I think I'll stick to Settlers of Catan - a tried and true classic with just 5 resource cards.

(Just want to make it clear - I'm not saying Catan is the end-all, be-all of board games. But it proves that you can have a fun, complex board game with just 5 resource cards.)
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I've switched between the two several times – not out of choice, just because that's what was needed. The order was BASIC, C, Python, Java, Go, Python, with Javascript mixed in the for the past few. I mostly prefer dynamic languages because static typing is just redundancy. The point of programming is to express high-level concepts which can't be captured quickly with types - if you don't understand the concept of the arguments and return types, you are missing the contract. Types can be helpful as the beginning of docs, but that's it.
An interesting line of argument, and one which affords a number of potential avenues for enlargement:

- The Internet emerged from a community in which it afforded real and tangible benefits, without any one single locus of control. (Research universities, along with a number of government departments and a few major tech and defence contractors, principally.) Perhaps an alternate payment mechanism might emerge similarly.

- The Internet tools which did emerge ... were well-suited to a small-world network in which local reputations could be assessed and acted on (loss of campus-based access with administrators overseeing populations of a few dozens to hundreds, rarely more than 1,000, through the early 1990s). Effectiveness at larger scales and in more hostile environments has proved ... problematic.

- A clear statement of the problem(s) posed by present currency and payment systems is still lacking. Statements as do exist tend to be ... weakly grounded in emperical truth, strongly ideological (not necessarily a fault, but often one), and strongly resistant to actual demonstrated superiority after decades of effort.
If you read any comment thread on HN, the ones that don't contribute anything meaningful to the discussion get downvoted rather fast. That's the only consensus you're seeing.
Exactly. So his proposal is not a practical solution to the problem of human behavior affecting productivity, but it’s not “sexist”. Many single-sex schools exist and have strong proponents, but are rarely described as “excluding” people.
Are there any anthropological studies of modern day hunter gatherers that find this? If not, that's a reason to be sceptical.
How often do we see a collapsed and failed start up where people will say "Wow there was some good tech at that company". Good code and cool code exist on an independent axis as good business plans.
Long time Harmony user here. Even prior to the Logitech buyout, Harmony was seemingly hostile to Mac and UNIX/Linux users, only reluctantly rolling out support for Mac in later years under Logitech. The Concordance and Congruity projects were a stab at UNIX/Linux support using Harmony's online backend:

https://www.phildev.net/harmony/

If there is any hope of opening up or cloning Harmony's vast database it may be possible to leverage Concordance and Contruity for developing replacement projects to Logitech's original.

Of course another approach is using customizeable IR-equipped devices, but the Harmony database would still be the missing goldmine for universality.
I am not sure why this is flagged - it seems a reasonable and timely opinion piece.

Cryptocurrency is a subject that has to have a deep and public debate. What the OP is saying (which I take to be "the tech world has a duty to point out the flaws in cryptocurrency to avoid giving an impression of a clean bill of health to every ICO out there") - that is a valid socially useful debate.

There are valid real world uses of bitcoin (see Turkey shutting down payment apps recently). but yeah it is also a volatile wild west that is miles away from anyone's expectation of normal regulated currency behaviour.

Yes there is a crying need for an "internet native" currency. What will that be - I don't know. But it is not here yet, and it is reasonable to make that clear and loud.
You’re right, but in practice the IDE regularly catches type mismatches in my code, and it has been hugely beneficial.

Then again, I am a fastidious about adding type annotations to my codebase.
> It’s all cost with zero benefit.

Only because a good chunk of the true costs are externalized. If the vendor would have to pay for disposal of their product, suddenly that socketed fuse would become a cost-cutting measure.
Yep. The same thing happened with LLBean. They used to offer lifetime returns/warranty replacement on all items, which worked when people acted in good faith. After many decades of this policy, a gray market of used LLBean items emerged, people would buy multi-decade-old used LLBean items, then "return" them as worn out for a new one or even a full refund. It became a whole cottage industry, and they now have a one-year limit on their any-reason return policy.

People suck, especially when they are disconnected from the human side of business.
Just because $30/h is a lot in your country it doesn't mean you should get yourself exploited.
If you really have the skill, then you have very very valuable asset and you would want to sell it at appropriate price.
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Very clever, I assume it’s far more difficult to game the system unless you control two bidders.
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There isn't really much to do - you've already concluded negotiation of salary - your choice will be take what they offer or walk.

Your problem is you have only just worked out you negotiated poorly.
Formally: Trying to predict spillover events. Ranking viruses by risk. They do this by having the virus infect human cells, so they can estimate if this would happen naturally in the future. Another is to work on vaccines.

Informally: Military biowarfare defense and offense.

Why are scientists doing this? Military and government funding galore. If you have the equipment and laboratory, you can publish papers forever. It is easier to do GoF, than to actually predict spillover events.

The most prominent critic of gain-of-function research, going so far as to call it gravely irresponsible, is the molecular biologist Dr. Richard H. Ebright.

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/an-inter...

History will remember.
Despite the convenience of not having to move clothes from the washer to dryer?

These combination automatic washing machines are wildy popular in Asia, where seperate dryer appliances are virtually unheard of.

I'm thinking some of the push back against these machines might be from Appliance makers who would prefer customers buy 2 appliances instead of one.
Being made in the USA is absolutely a pretty good quality indicator. It’s not the only country that makes good stuff (most EU countries + Japan are good as well), but in the absence of domain expertise it’s a great heuristic.
Are we cut out for universal morality?
Yup. German minimun wage is 19.968 € (~ 24.353 $)

Interestingly a couple of high-wage countries that come to mind don't have a minimum wage at all: Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden.
The way I describe it to people is like this: some folks like to feel a nicely sanded handle, and other folks like to sand down a handle so that it feels nicely sanded.
You know that guy in movies who weirdly knows waaay too much about the history of every random piece of military screwdriver and seatbelt buckle, and you're always like "that guy doesn't actually exist"? Well, you were wrong. This is that guy.
Well it sounds like one router will tell me about toothpaste so why not diapers
> “Engineered to fail” and “planned obsolescence” are both pejorative rephrasings of “consumers prioritize price”

Yes, and prioritizing price is short term and stupid. Prioritize total cost instead and buy high quality items, it's much cheaper in the long run.

Also, high standard of living is not about having your kitchen "full of appliances", it's about health, education and security.
>The person who wins the lowest price box is not the lowest price. It is the lowest price who agreed not to sell on other sites for a lower price than one Amazon. You as the customer are being tricked.

There's no dark pattern involved here. When the buy box doesn't show you the lowest price, you usually see something like "Available for a lower price from these sellers" or some wording like that. In my 15+ years as a Prime customer, I've seen this quite a bit where I can find a competing offer for a lower price, often though with a longer delivery time.

>Where is the chat button? Where can I ask a question? Where can I let Amazon know something was wrong with the refund they sent?

I'm going to assume you're not writing this in bad faith and that this isn't a rhetorical question. From Amazon.com, I see "Customer service" is the second link from the left just below the search box. From that page, I see a big box in the center titled "Returns and Refunds".
>I am concerned about how to effectively communicate visions to people, because it gets everyone rowing in the same direction. If nobody thinks that you have a vision, when you do, there is no reason they should choose your direction vs just do their own thing.

I used to have visions. Now I have collaborative design discussions driven by some starting designs. I found that if people don't contribute to the overall design then they have little impetus to actually understand it. This tends to lead to a better design and a more engaged team so a win on all counts.
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Just because something is growing doesn't mean it's above criticism, or regulation.
Justin Kan's recent Tweet on why Atrium failed is good.
I stayed at an art school that was housed in an old military barracks. They had a massive steel dishwasher that used hot water and pressurized air to just blast the dirt off. It was extremely loud, and only needed about 10 seconds.

I want one.
Assuming you meant "at-will employment" not "right to work", I unironically agree.

The symptom is that accusations or out-of- context statements or actions can spark a brief but intense reaction on Twitter, and companies frequently fire their employees based on that Twitter reaction. And then those employees may lose access to healthcare or otherwise be in a very precarious position.

So the issues are
- The internet remembers forever.
- Twitter mobs are self- amplifying and the size and intensity of the mob is not significantly correlated to the intensity of the perceived offense
- Twitter mobs don't react based on the most correct information, but rather the most viral
- Companies fire people based on Twitter mob actions because:
- Companies can be liable for creating a "hostile work environment" for failing to act on things their employees did outside of work hours.
- Companies can fire anyone for any reason except being a member of a protected class
- Healthcare is tied to employment, so getting fired is disruptive since you need to get new insurance, which in turn probably requires you to switch doctors, get your medical records transferred over, etc.

The symptom of "people are having their lives massively disrupted by relatively minor things they did decades ago" could be approached from any of these angles. So

1. Fix Twitter (and it is specifically Twitter that is the bulk of the problem) to have a way to disprove of a message without further amplifying it
2. Fix the incentives for businesses so that the business is not responsible for what the employee does on their own time.
3. Fix the social safety net and healthcare system so getting fired is not ruinous.
4. Add more employee protections, making it harder to fire people without cause.

I personally think any of the above would work, though I'm wary of 1 (the laws required to obligate this would probably have significant chilling effects elsewhere) and 4 (depends strongly on quality of legal implementation, and I don't have a lot of faith in our legislators to write well thought out laws). I personally favor 2 - as an employer if you're not paying someone for their time I don't think you should get to dictate what they do with that time.
I’ve had a few failed and a few successful ventures. Every time I have failed, it was due to tunnel vision caused by a poor work life balance.

Now I hardly work at all, but am far more successful than I was while working 80 hour weeks. Making sure to be well rested keeps my mind clear and I make substantially better choices as a result.

Keeping time available to experience the real world outside of my immediate existence is tremendously beneficial. When I am on no artificial clock, I can experience how other people live their lives at their own pace, and what you can learn from them is often surprising.
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> They are so desperate, so disassociated from the current state of affairs that they're willing to listen to snake oil peddlers like Trump, that they're willing to storm the Capitol or at least look the other way when others do, to disparage Science in the face of a pandemic because the class of the educated has left them behind earlier already, so why not this time

The majority of people making over $100k a year voted for Trump, and those numbers jump even higher if we look at race and income, where white people making over $100k were much more likely to vote for Trump.

Similarly, look at the economic demographics of the people who were able to afford to travel to DC on or before January 6th, and the people who attacked the Capitol. I saw a lot of relatively wealthy business owners break into the Capitol, even some IT company owners.
That's one of those things that sounds super fun when you're opting into it on a weekend.

Much less so on a Tuesday night after a stressful day and your goddamn window won't close even though it's raining and you can't play music because the stereo only takes cassettes and you're not gonna listen to that one fucking Hall and Oates tape again and there's no heat and your neck is sore because the headrest is made of plastic and....

Creature comforts are most important when you're not thinking about them. I don't ever want to get in my car and think, "ah, this is what it means to be human! this is REAL!"
I bought some socks from McMaster and they are pretty nice.
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That's a good one and this is what I mostly do.
I thought everyone knew this is how it works.

There's no free lunch. Loyalty programs, free offers, limited time discounts, etc.. are all "priced in" some how.
Thought experiment: Could one incorporate a business, buy Tesla vehicles from Tesla, and then immediately hand them over to Texas residents with at cost markup? The only physical infra would be transport vehicles for hauling Teslas from Gigafactory Austin to buyer homes in Texas. One could even lease trailers and electric Class 8 Semis from Tesla if they were so inclined.
What part are you skeptical of...the waking up and doing stuff in the pitch black of the night, or the splitting sleep into two segments?

The waking up and doing stuff in the black of night doesn't seem too farfetched, considering that in much of the world a large fraction of people do that nowadays. For a good fraction of the year in much of the world the duration of night is longer than the duration of sleep, so you've really don't have much choice about waking up and doing stuff in the blackness of night unless you just want to lie awake in bed waiting for dawn (or you went to bed late enough to sleep until it is getting light--but then you were awake in the blackness before going to sleep).
I really don't understand why you think "web app" is not better than "software?" as a description. But I can't think of any way to convince you, so oh well.

>> Also "that vague description" was referring to "cage with an engine and wheels".

> Are we still talking about a top-level comment on a link that says "Phacility is winding down, Phabricator no longer actively maintained"?

Phabricator is the overall topic. But the line you quoted was responding to a specific argument, which said "the description is about as useful as describing a car as an cage with an engine and wheels". That's why the line you quoted had the word "camry" in it, in the part you cut out.
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That’s great to hear - thanks for the insight. And kudos again on a great project, definitely not easy to get all this functionality!
I don't try to clean myself with my toilet seat. It might "self clean" with water, but that is far from sterile. And yes of course a sink used to wash after using the toilet is dirty, as are the towels used to dry your hands. After a year of a pandemic, we should know that none of this is perfect. As in many cultures, we use separate towels for hand wiping and face wiping for this very reason.
Amazon is also I think still trying to push prime on people. It used to be that stuff arrived basically overnight for me when I bought early enough the day before. When they started prime we suddenly started waiting for our regular free shipping packages. And you can't tell me it's because of volumes and they had to introduce prime. This literally started overnight when prime was introduced, not slowly getting worse until you could pay for priority.

They basically just have the order sit around, sometimes with the tracking number already created and in the system but it takes 3 or 4 days before the shipment actually leaves their facilities. They basically have an incentive not to be fast now unlike when they started out and the fast an free shipping was one of their great selling points over other online retailers.
Thank you so much! This is my first (and only) Rust project so I'm a bit nervous about the code quality.
> Similar items were in your list. I ignored them.

I've noticed a trend here to fixate on individual items on the list. This obfuscates it's point - which is that the modern life = simple bliss analysis omits the vast bulk of everything that is required of us.

Over the course of a year, about how many laws, regulations and requirements do you figure you'll be forced to consider?

Few will only need to be handled once. And all that together is a minor requirement of all that's expected of us.

Honestly tho. Resisting the notion that our lives are immensely complex compared to any point in history is an odd thing to do.

I won't go as far as to tag it complexity-denialism. Not even in a passive-aggressive way.
Your rosy picture of industry is surprising to me. It could be right, and the few takes I've heard (eg. recently, google's AI ethics mess) being only one side or exceptions that prove the rule.

But I have currently no reason to expect better from industry, and will want some proof before putting it on a pedestal.
Everyone should shop at restaurant supply stores. You can get identical metal mixing bowls for a fraction of the price of the heavy bowls most people have. Plus they clean easily and stack, so you can have a dozen at the ready easily.
Read "Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer" https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer...

Discussion (two weeks ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27160934