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I just bought 3 small tubes for $9 on Amazon, seemingly coming from Canada. I bought some previously from an Amazon seller in India, and have been using it for a few weeks. It seems to be working - teeth are less sensitive.
Uh, you can purchase from any retailer, walmart, target etc.
This is an awesome read.
Thank you very much for this.
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I was surprised that the App Store would take a cut of charity donations, so I looked it up and pretty much every forum post I found says that you’re actually forbidden from collecting donations using in app purchases, and have to do so through out of band methods to get through App Review? [1]

Kind of difficult to take a cut of payments you explicitly don’t allow on your platform, isn’t it?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/136983/would-apple...
The vast majority of the time the store brand is manufactured by one of the competitors anyhow.
Yes, this is true. But I was thinking more along the lines of fundamental research. For example, DARPA spent a lot of money investing in transistor research in the 50s, which begat microcontrollers, which begat companies like MS, Apple, and Google. Those companies together are worth multiple trillions of dollars, yet wouldn't exist but for the publicly funded sector research that preceded them. Harvard's $40 billion looks piddly in comparison. And what kind of research does MS/Google/Facebook fund in the University? They'd like us to figure out how to optimize ad placements on their search engines and social media sites. I've seen far too many promising researchers swallowed by that kind of work, only to quit after realizing the direct application of their research is simply to make those companies more profitable while they are paid $25k per year and eating ramen 3x a day.

We see the same thing happening right now in robotics. DARPA spent a lot of money jumpstarting driverless cars with the DARPA grand challenge in 2005. The researchers I know who were involved with that have left academia and are in the private sector now because that's where all the money is. There's no money flowing back in the academic direction even though there's a direct line from what they were doing in 2005 to what Toyota, GM, Google, Tesla, etc. are doing today.

I'm not saying they shouldn't make profits and be worth a lot of money. They provide a lot of value. But the outcome definitely seems lopsided to me.
Indeed, and during rewriting they realize why the original code was made that way and how it solves the problem more efficiently than their rewrite.
> That's just far from being a monopoly.

Correct, but besides the point. The relevant laws are not just about monopolies.

>but if you look around, there is plenty of competition.

Also correct, but again not really relevant.
Military grade = the cheapest product that meets the spec.
Yes? I don't particularly care whether or not the grocery store knows exactly which products I buy, especially since it's moot with 1) the introduction of eye-level facial recognition cameras at every checkout lane and 2) paying with a card because I don't want to carry cash.
The other day, I started playing this game called TIS-100. The game simulates something like assembly programming and I had so much fun with it. Then I realized it’s been nearly half a year that I’ve actually written proper code for something (rather than a GitHub workflow script or account provision mechanism for testing framework) and built something that I was actually proud of.

The love and passion are still there, but their buried under the needs of my current mediocre job. I need to find a position that will let be get back to the task of building things again, rather than just tweaking scripts and keeping the machinery humming.
Well, now we have a ready-made army for the AI uprising: connected, autonomous, and relatively easy to mass-produce. Once The Final Program comes online, all it has to do is hack the right servers and it's got its airforce. Nukes are air-gapped, something tells me these are not.
Just the Pixel Qi. In indirect light, the contrast ratio is much lower than, say, a Kindle, which is itself much lower than paper. So unless the sun is directly on it, it's harder for sun-adjusted eyes to read than a Kindle, or than it is for indoors-adjusted eyes to read a normal backlit LCD.
And it probably doesn’t work so well if you aren’t making enormous quantities of dough.
Peloton easily a tech company compared to Schwinn.
The problem is idealizing such people in the first place. Sure, they may have had incredible achievements, but they're humans at the end of the day.
Yugabyte
Publication was delayed for 5 months, so some stuff I refer to as unreleased might already be in a release.
As others have also said, doing a chargeback risks Amazon closing your account permanently.

So if you're prepared to take that risk and never buy from Amazon again, sure.. go for it..

But given the centralization of vendors this can have bigger downsides than upside.
> The thing I really loved about Amazon is that they had their act together. But that has declined drastically over the decades

This seems to be a problem for all big platforms. When they’re small enough to not change the ecosystem, they can do what they do well. Eg amazon ships more conveniently and google returns better results and uber is less scammy. Then they get massive and become a viable,better understood target for fraud/manipulation, and suddenly their offering begins to suck. It’s frustrating as a consumer.
When it is below freezing, the snow isn’t very wet. You could do fine with some thick woolly gloves or mittens in those conditions too.
> That's the part I have a problem with, mathematical objects are (more or less) exactly those that can be precisely and formally described. "Lambda calculus is a more elegant mathematical object" is not a statement I have a problem with, "Turing machines have a lesser status as mathematical entities", on the other hand, is sort of weird.

I agree as well. I don't think Turing machines have any lesser status (it's literally equivalent to lambda calculus, after all!)

> but for things like analysis of algorithms, complexity theory or numerical analysis it would be similarly unnatural to use lambda calculus as the computational model instead.

That's a good point as well. Because of the nature of hardware, neither lambda calculus nor Turing machines are very good fits, so RAMs and pointer machines essentially take over.
Yeah this is true. With a K-bar though you might leave your axe behind depending on your trip.
A touch keyboard is a no-go for me, sadly. Especially for this kind of usecase.
I would recommend having a look at Yugabyte.
Not FUD but facts:

Bitcoin is 1st generation blockchain technology and compared to current 3rd generation (e.g. XRP) it is slow and expensive.

IMF, BIS, ECB and FED have stated in political obfuscated speak that they want a fast and cheap bridge currency for cross-border payments.
There is only one serious candidate for this: XRP.
I mean, who could prove him wrong? Maybe his idea of "criticizing" his fellow professionals involves a lot of yelling and throwing chairs around. There's certainly some people like that in the workplace.
It would be nice to also have a premium version in the future, where we could pay more towards having more premium external case.
It used to be like that many years ago. Then it got flooded with posts like "I found this unused tool in my garage, it has been sitting there for 40 years in original packaging, it still works". Has it gone back to its root recently?
Haha salami is what I worry about. But there are knives for under an ounce. And at any rate, I don’t mind eating the salami log straight up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vino_veritas Is the phrase. Useful if you want to appear cultured at a company party.
There were a lot of basically scams for a while where because people trust amazon so much, they buy amazon. So sellers would take something that sells for $99, and sell it on amazon for $199 or sometimes for even more ($299 etc).

In the short run amazon makes more money (commission on the sale) but in the long run this hurts Amazon's brand.

I manage an amazon business account where this is a particularly bad issue because buyers are not spending their own money. They will literally spend $500 on something that is $50, because they like Amazon's reliability around delivery, the purchasing is very smooth, returns are smooth etc. I feel like they cracked down on this maybe 4-5 years ago? But still stuff slips through.

So yes, I very much like that they don't allow sellers to mark up crazily on Amazon's site.
DeepMind’s EigenGame is not a game
> it's only an issue if someone gets access to my device, which is not a threat i am concerned about.

I hope you have no apps or ever run any JavaScript, good fellow.
They're also not edited to fit the page well, nor with much care for typography or anything else. "Rivers" all over the place, weird page breaks, various formatting errors commonly creeping in. Page numbers in e.g. an index may not match the page numbers in the book. All kinds of problems, at least with public-domain print-on-demand, which books are surely purchased more often by accident (i.e. not realizing you're buying POD junk) than on purpose, since they're usually not meaningfully cheaper than Dover or Modern Library or whatever, and even Dover puts out a much better product. They exist to trick unwary shoppers and gift-buyers. They're basically scams, in that they're relying on buyers' mistakes to make money.
But would somebody please think of the billionaires?

I mean if we took away their ability to manipulate the labor, finance, insurance, food, healthcare, manufacturing, housing, technology markets extreme personal gain, we risk having the government tear down our own private global hegemony some day!
I’m not surprised to see you evangelizing McMaster - mentally, I bin you and them in the same category of “no bullshit” suppliers. Products for competent people, by competent people, when most suppliers seem to be targeting the lowest common denominator of consumer.
Hard to grasp the content when whole chapters are missing, though.
> IIT

Indian Institutes of Technology, for those playing at home.
Whether a concessions stand includes the tax in the listed price depends very heavily on the particular stand in question. Very few do. The overwhelming majority don't. For example, the concessions stands at my local movie theaters (representing 3 of the 4 major chains), and the 9 local professionals sports teams, do not include sales tax in the listed price. Sales tax is levied separately.

In many cases, that is because local law requires the sales tax to be listed separately on the receipt. (For example, in GST and GET jurisdictions, the tax charge must be broken out separately to be passed on to the customer.)

However, if the price you see is the price you pay and it's a round number, that concessions stand probably isn't bothering to collect sales tax at all. A lot of times that's because they sell items that are not subject to sales tax alongside items that are, and don't bother to keep track of the separate buckets.

For an example of why they wouldn't: cold prepared foods can be taxed differently from hot prepared foods; packaged items are taxed differently from prepared foods; foods prepared on-site can be taxed differently from freshly-prepared foods prepared at another location; a food that includes a particular ingredient may be subject to sales tax but that same food without the ingredient may not be, etc. A large concessions stand, like the kind you would find at a baseball stadium, has the resources to figure this out. The mom-and-pop stand does not.
I’m right there with you. I can go to bed early and wake up early, but I straight up feel gross/sick/off until my normal wake up time, don’t feel great the rest of the day, and my peak hours are after 10pm so I’d miss out on them.

It has dominated my life choices and I wish there was a way around it.
Maybe because you need the as-a-service aspect and the licensing does not allow it.
Do you have any information to actually refute what I said, or just handwaving about "brainwashing"?
RS components is good - I used them in HK and I think they serve EU as well. Not quite the same but pretty solid.
It really does matter to the customer if the junior understands it when the code fails though.

Easy to understand code can be more quickly patched and repaired by anyone on the team. If you don't need to call in the senior who built it two years ago to repair it, and you can have someone do it right away, it is better for the customer.
Deanonymization is historically trivial, even if not built to be like normal.
It's not only about new hires. You will have to figure out things about code that you wrote 3/6/12 months ago.
It has an API compatible with the postgresql wire protocol, but I don't think it fits in with the list since it doesn't share any code.
You can't prove a negative. There's effectively no way for a customer to prove a package wasn't delivered.

Update: I should be clear, the shipper can prove it. The customer themselves can't without the shipper's acquiescence.
http://archive.is/Wnqq8
> so that I don't loose the position

The negotiation is over if you are not willing to walk away.
I briefly lived in a studio apartment. The kitchen was spacious and had tile flooring, so that's where the bandsaw went. I didn't cut food with it, but food packets were fair game.

Though -- I'd argue that using a bandsaw for blisterpacks isn't overkill; it's the safest way to get them open.
For my office at the company I work at it would be perfect.
Yeah, that's Apple's excuse as it is very difficult to set up out-of-band payment methods on an Apple system.
As a junior, the best I've seen is surfacing the complexity appropriately:

1) Readable Interfaces usable by juniors when parts of the code will be used by lots of devs and will almost certainly change

2) Higher complexity behind the interface for parts of the code that change less often and require more skilled engineers
I guess it is relevant to the "Amazon is an evil and monopolistic organisation" theme.

Maybe not relevant for the lawsuit specified in the report, they are certainly entitled to sue for any reason. But the classic theme still show its nose.

On an other note, if amazon has 128 million prime subscribers and they like the service, it is something politicians need to be aware if they still want to be elected.
Courtney Craven on the Spectrum of Disability, Challenge of Accessibility
Why yugabyte over cockroachdb?
There’s a potential study for someone out there - see if descendants of nomadic tribes have less of a variance in circadian rhythms as opposed to people descending from static tribes.
This sort of reads to me like Amazon have mastered the last mile that people really care about and are charging a premium for sellers to leverage their last mile solution. I just don’t see how this constitutes a monopoly when you have tons of other options out there. Walmart, Target, Wayfair, Shopify all are competing.
But you can write code you can understand 12mo from now but have that same code be inscrutable to a new hire. Definitely different litmus tests.
Many other comments here in addition to yours fail to grasp that one doesn't have to have a literal 100% monopoly to show monopolistic behavior that leaves the customers as a whole worse off.

Like this article says, prices are increased across the board because of how Amazon acts.
The recommendation for a commercial panel which avoids built smart TV functions is one I'm taking seriously. We have an Apple TV connected and use nothing else. Does anyone have experience or recommendations?

Here is a link to NEC's commercial displays https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays#2
A particularly difficult con to detect and account for.

On eBay fraudsters buy large quantities of eg $1 seed packs, to build up artificial account ratings. Then they try to steal expensive things (didn't arrive, wasn't in the box, arrived broken, etc), and eBay shields the accounts heavily because they favor buyers to an extreme. All the thief has to do is be disciplined about it, buy $40-$50 of cheap items for positive feedback, then go after a $300-$500 item. Sellers can't even leave negative feedback on eBay, which further cuts off a mechanism for at least warning other sellers of a running con (sellers sometimes leave the negative language in the neutral/positive feeback segment instead, which rather points out the absurdity of eBay's broken system).
Lego's Universal Joint Error [video]
Good point. In such a case, I think it would still be nice if at least trying to split the total change into a few separate commits, that builds upon each other. That way the commit log could be a good start to look at for someone who wants to understand the code base.
Where do non-straight people fit into this "solution"?
“Engineered to fail” and “planned obsolescence” are both pejorative rephrasings of “consumers prioritize price”

Engineering is an exercise in prioritization. If 90% of consumers buy the cheapest blender on the shelf, the blender made with the cheapest materials wins. Hobart still exists, and still makes good blenders. Consumers just started buying new designs that were more cost efficient.

If you look at the prices of mid twentieth century appliances in some old periodicals, and adjust for inflation, they’re about the price of commercial appliances today.

Before value-engineering, people didn’t have a kitchen full of appliances, they went without.

Value engineering is often criticized, but the plain truth is that it is primarily responsible for the high standards of living we enjoy today.
You should suggest her to install uBlock Origin. Not just for that problem, in general it's good practice.
Around here, the police just shrug at theft saying there’s nothing they can do and that they have higher priorities. They’ve taught us that filling a police report is worthless.
They should try programming on an airplane or without internet connection. For some the productivity drops to zero without stack overflow.
> just so their heirs can have an unearned pile of cash

Do you think everyone should start out at zero and then build up debt until they are old enough to start working and paying it off?
Yes this is an important distinction between and extension for Postgres vs a fork of.

The short-sightedness of forking boggles my mind every time. Oh, you don't want a team of hundreds of literally the best Postgres programmers in the world working for you full time all the time for free? Ok dude, have fun with your fork.
I’ve always got by with a simple folding spyderco knife. Small. Lasts forever. Does 90% of jobs when backpacking or around the house, etc. a ka-bar is a fine car camping knife though. Meant to take abuse and be a multi purpose heavy duty tool. We mostly overland and car camp these days. Different tools for different purposes and all that.
So many things we want to do, just need some money haha
You're right, I just wanted to emphasize the innovative part of this system is forecasting LTV accurately. Specifically by forecasting LTV as a function of your personal and population wide transaction history alone, without any other secular considerations. Whereas it's pretty straightforward to enumerate your costs.
> statistical good dictator

There were many more dictators / kings / leaders than proper democracies. Even they are often diluted into autocracy. There might more examples but percentage wise democracies are winning in the long term.
To expand on that, there are two obvious forms of leverage:

- have another offer

- have a job that’s better the offer you get

In my experience, having the job is easier timing wise. When Company A wants to extend you an offer, you can’t really get Company B to accelerate their hiring most of the time (and pushing them might just make them say you should take the other offer).
That's true, but it's not true in situations where you build on more abstract concepts that a newcomer wouldn't be able to understand.

e.g. I'll understand my monad transformers in a year, but a new hire with no Haskell experience will not.
Dishwashers are another example. You could buy a commercial one but it will come with no roll-out trays (you load up different plastic racks for different things and you can load a rack while the dishwasher is running) and it’s designed for an environment with lots of ventilation (you just open it when it is done and let the steam get ventilated away) which people are unlikely to have in their own kitchens.

Other items tend to be designed for people who can put more work in regular cleaning and maintenance. You could buy a commercial espresso machine and coffee grinder to make yourself coffee every morning but the machine is designed to warm up at the start of the day, pull a lot of shots, and get thoroughly cleaned later. You will still need to warm it up and make sure it is behaving well before your coffee and you’ll still need to properly clean it afterwards.
No because I’d fix the easy to fix code, and make it work correctly. The other code is useful for sure. I mean people have built billion dollar businesses on crap software that barely works. And very rarely do they manage to fix them... I’m just suggesting I have a preference for what I’d rather work on. You might like code that works and is impossible to understand and sits there surrounded by an even more obtuse test suite (if at all), but it’s not something I enjoy is what I was saying. To some degree this is inevitable but I think it’s always worth trying to fight the good fight.
one drawback of commercial supply houses is very expensive shipping costs. shipping for a small order may be more than what you're buying
Why would I want to wait 6 months for Apple to fix the recovery OS failures on M1 Macs if I had bought them on launch day? If I had joined the fanatics on launch day and encountered those issues or needed to restore the Mac and the recoveryOS doesn't work properly, what is the point?

On top of that, the entire software ecosystem (including developer tools ecosystem) was extremely immature and required tons of 'workarounds' that would break after another update which is more trouble than its worth. So that's another more several months to wait since launch day for them to catch up to support Apple Silicon; meaning that I can't use the software until it is stable.

Might as well stayed on Intel for 6 more months and moved to an M1X/M2 Macbook.
That's always the line. The left out part is how rigorous the spec is.
> I don't get why Amazon doesn't allow the customer to chose between multiple available shipping carriers. They do for returns...

I assume because the volume of returns is much lower than the volume of sales, plus Amazon isn't responsible for coordinating the return.

In essence, my suspicion is that at Amazon's scale they literally can't afford to let customers pick their own shipper. That's one variable too many to manage for their massive logistics problem, and the expense of building out the support for that would never be recouped.
So it is the ability to undo, and sort tweets into collections. Not a twitter user, so very curious for those who are - is this worth $3 a month?
Thank you for the clarification. I agree with you.
Sure you can. We wanted something like this for ourselves and thought of sharing it with the world. Thankfully some of them liked it too
For whoever considers using Amazon for convenience I say open your eyes. The lower prices and free shipping will disappear as soon as competition is driven out of business.

Also working for Amazon seems to be a dystopian adventure [0] and [ ..]..

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4V_yAPfSr8