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>Amazon always claims to focus on its customers, and ignore its competitors

That's not what Amazon claims. The actual Amazon leadership principal is: "Leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. Although leaders pay attention to competitors, they obsess over customers."

I also don't see how this is "focusing more on its competitors". Amazon had previously identified a plan for Kuiper to serve its customers, and SpaceX interfered with that. The tactics to do so are debatable, but I think it's easily arguable that this protest is in the interest of serving its customers.
But having choices doesn't mean that the "Safety and trust" of the app store will go away it simply means that I can choose another option as well.
But they produce ThinkPad during nearly 30 years, is there any patents still alive?
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Have you looked around at other places while still working on this project? It sounds like they don't value you enough. That said, take care of yourself, burn out can be serious.
>This just seems like a massively sympathetic view to the company.

It's the view that the defense is going to argue and the prosecution will have to disprove.

>It's rare for any corporation to distribute most, if not all, of a companies FCF to shareholders

You can't convict people on "rare" behavior.

>then this kind of shareholder enrichment could be argued to be a gross mismanagement of company funds.

It's a private company. They have wide latitude to do whatever they want.

>And despite what the letter of the law says, I can't imagine wanting to support such a system where once can knowingly poison middle America for decades and run away with profits.

Yeah, the flip side is going after them jack ma style.

>This isn't a case where they were just "diversifying" as good financial advice - they foresaw their litigation issues in 2008. The fact it took more than 10 years to get to the court has more to do with the slowness of our justice system rather than the Sackler's financial savvy.

That does raise an interesting issue. If there's threat of litigation, how much money should you have to keep on hand? That should prevent the issue we saw with perdue. Should companies that are currently being sued be prevented from paying out dividends? What about companies that are being sued all the time, or frivolous lawsuits? What if the lawyers in 2008 claim (or even honestly believe) that the lawsuits have a slim chance of succeeding?
echo 212.80.216.76 archive.md >> /etc/hosts
It works like that in France, the concept of tuition makes no sense for Universities. As a result we dont have brand unis like MIT or Caltech or Harvard but more importantly: you want to study you just need to find a way to sustain yourself, the uni is totally free.

Now ofc poorer students have grants they can abuse for rent and food, and they do. But it's not the same amounts and can be distributed regularly along the year instead of in bulk.

And studying in a small french uni, I found that "quality education" is mostly giving you time away from distraction to learn a craft, and the uni is a guide/facilitator, but you're doing the ground work. A terrible teacher can still nudge you towards the right books and focus your studies with exams and you can always compensate for their lack of clarity.
I wonder how they do this outside of US. In Australia we have a regulatory body named Fair Work Commission where you can take your case if you think you were unlawfully fired.
> “ A private program can’t afford to lose anybody,” Branson said.

Worth noting that Virgin Galactic is currently the only private space program to have killed anyone so far. This quote is from before the fatal 2014 crash, but the FAA makes it pretty clear that a virgin galactic had a cavalier attitude towards crew safety[0] back then too. Combined with this article, that paints a picture of Virgin Galactic as a genuinely unsafe company that is going to kill a lot of people if it’s not stopped. Manual processes, no safeties, high pilot work loads, and rockets do not mix well.

0 - This was caused by a design that explicitly assumed that highly trained test pilots were incapable of making mistakes. The design required manual activation, had no failsafes, and the pilots were not told that activation at too low a speed would cause the vehicle to break apart. A breathtakingly bad design for a spacecraft.
There are people in prison who were sentenced to life without parole for selling drugs, and there are some who got life without parole for merely possessing drugs.

The Sacklers get to walk free, though.
You are right, however it may be worth (reference: Michael Lewis's excellent book on Trump) keeping in mind that there will probably be an uptick in the amount (let's say) of government stuff because Trump left a huge amount of positions unfilled for quite a long time whereas Biden to the best of my knowledge hit the ground running with a fairly well drilled plan for what to actually do with all these positions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Risk
Apparently Twitter will experiment with any revenue model except 1) actually just letting people pay to get rid of ads + see content in chronological order without other bullshit, or 2) allowing users to edit tweets which people have been begging for for years.
It's easy to believe that in 2021 we have a unique set of problems that no other generation can relate to. Only recently I read Seneca's "On the shortness of Life." Written two millennia ago, but you can quote it in a YouTube inspirational video with one of those uplifting background music and have lots of views.

That's why the story of Jesus and Pontius Pilate is not so different from everyday politics. Pilate had an image and the full authority of Rome to uphold, he also had to make the Priests happy. What's the life of a mere carpenter worth, however interesting this carpenter was.

What went through Pilate's mind is only something we can speculate today. That's why I recommend the story as it was told in Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita". It might be a fantastic retelling of the story, but how else can you tell it?
I think some of the examples cited by the author make me more confident that kids shouldn't vote.

Specifically the fact that those with dementia can have someone assist them in voting. That seems kind of ridiculous to me, seeing how easy it is for relatives to take advantage of this.

If you aren't cognitively independent then you shouldn't be able to vote. Lower it to 16? That's not that outrageous. But allow a five year old to vote with their parents help? You're just giving two votes to a parent at that point
It's not hard to imagine a scenario where individual downloading is decriminalized but large-scale commercial piracy remains illegal. This would stop Netflix from serving Disney's content without a license but it wouldn't stop Joe Public from downloading Game of Thrones or what have you.

Such a regime would encourage content creators to make it more readily available so that users are willing to pay for the convenience, a la Netflix.
Those requirements rule out Macbooks as well.
Just because its fresh in my mind: Uber Eats - no way of clearing your "cart", it keeps popping up on the bottom of the screen even if you've navigated away from the restaurant and you can't get rid of it until you add something from another restaurant.

Much worse is their help, it's designed to be as unhelpful as possible and make it impossible to actually contact someone.

Uber overall is about as user hostile as you can get. Everything is set to force you on one path and give you no options or recourse. And from the drivers perspective, it's all dumped on them. There is no way to complain or get any help from uber for their awful app, all you can do is complain about the driver.

Also, everything about reddit, and any websites with modal popups.

Edit - honestly, most of the internet fits what you describe, outside HN, some blog sites, and some documentation sites. It might be better to ask about good ux

Edit 2 - I'd add that what is particularly vile, with respect to uber vs others, is that with uber, the user is ostensibly the customer. Websites can be forgiven in a sense because they are not for you, they are for advertisers, so it's not surprising they dont put your interests first. But uber, and some others, have taken this user hostile philosophy and ported it to apps where the user is actually the paying customer.
> My two cents, it's not worth trying to get promoted. Enjoy what you do and once your RSUs have matured, start your exit by interviewing elsewhere.

This is the best advice I've seen so far.

I have refrained from playing the political game, have mostly stuck to helping people whenever they needed technical help (as it turns out, technical skills are critical when fixing things : p ) and that has lead to me being naturally included in interesting projects. If I start feeling like I'm not being asked to work on interesting things anymore, its a good sign to start looking elsewhere.

I guess I am somewhat fortunate/privileged that there are so many opportunities in tech that I don't have to play politics. Its pretty great though; its not like I can't recognize when others are playing political games, but I chose not to get involved in that world.
Since sedatives dilate and stimulants constrict, I just imagine various trips Ive been on to change pupil size.
That's awesome, thanks! It works in about a dozen languages besides English too. I searched a first name in Spanish and the first video it found was so uplifting I watched the whole thing. What a great site. (Also now I know how to say Kubernetes)
Removes the need for numbers and collateral damage in one easy step.

Bonus points if they can target individuals, even the au pair gets to survive these days!
Honestly, Virgin Galactic should be shut down until they can take safety seriously. Space flight is risky, but they’re taking unnecessary risks above and beyond a reasonable minimum. That they’ve already killed 1 pilot out of so few launches indicates that something is seriously wrong there.
> Humanity seems to be faring reasonably OK.

Have you heard of the Opium Wars? Including perhaps the one China is waging against the US right now? Tens of thousands of deaths every year - nobody is even aware.
You're being downvoted but this is actually well-understood and phrased in many different ways, including:

> If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

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I'll be there. Maybe I'll find an Atari 400 or 800. Those were aspirational when all i could and did buy with my Lego money was a Zx81. Or a (white, Forth running) Jupiter Ace.
* As part of any settlement, each side agrees not to engage in further litigation on the same matter*

Individuals injured by the Sacklers are not party to the current case, but are now unable to sue. Or am I misreading?
sounds like management material to me
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The thing that gets me is that you (as someone writing your own client) can't reliably get all the replies to a tweet from Twitter's api. Twitter gives you a conversation_id property[1] on tweets that you can search for, but you can only search for it in recent (in the last week) tweets. Searching for older tweets in a conversation requires registering as an Academic Research Project[2]. I'm just some schmuck that wants to throw a script together to get a tree view of a thread that's big enough to be a pain to read in the web client (the main thread is long enough that replies to individual posts in the thread don't ever get loaded in).

Really curious to see how this tool does it.

[1] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/conversati...
[2] https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/tweets/cou...
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A large Oregon Community College for this academic year:

Oregon students: $130 per credit ($96 tuition + $34 universal fee)

Online students: $130 per credit ($96 tuition + $34 universal fee)

Out-of-state students: $295 per credit ($261 tuition + $34 universal fee)

Some classes have additional fees…
I'm intrigued but concerned about the battery life and heat. Are there any objective third-party reviews of three laptop that address battery life and heat?
Also Audible, a subsidiary of Amazon, has very good customer service and a notoriously generous return policy. So it veries depending on business group as well as region.
I am of Indian heritage, I would say "Just today"
I haven't bought anything from Amazon in a few months and I am proud of it...
The decision about how to allocate doses and the decision of an individual to get vaccinated are not connected. There is no box to check to send this dose to a poorer nation. Given the availability of the dose it is logical for you to both ask for more doses to be provided to those who need them overseas AND consume the doses allocated to your state which otherwise may simply go to waste to nobody's benefit.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPu2YRywmsI This is the roughly the same idea but applied to the Lyrics of Holland, 1945 by Neutral Milk Hotel.

It's very fascinating to watch and almost empathize with the computer as to how it joined these concepts together (i.e. "bullets fly" ends up like a kind of bullet-hummingbird type creature)
I'm 99% certain that you're outraged about a comment that you actually agree with.
Ivermectin was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in medicine. Human medicine that is. That the FDA would label Ivermectin a 'horse/cow medicine' is a new low. But given the direction Twitter is dragging the public discourse in this country, I can't say I am surprised.

https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/1429050070243192839
they actually like the fraud because they can use it to justify larger budgets.
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> The Twitter conversation API only works on tweets sent in the last 7 days. So you can't use this on older threads.
Oh it doesn't, rip.
Thanks, I was afraid the Graviton2 was already as good as it gets. I do need to buy/build my own server however as the m6gd.16xlarge is > $500/mo even at spot prices.
How so. I dont understand.
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The last report is from 2017 I believe, a year when Mozilla's revenue hit an all time high $562 million. I personally doubt her salary is as high, despite her promotion and I believe the overall decrease in amount of executives that accompanied it.

Seriously, "Chair pay is .5% of revenue" seems fair.

And I haven't heard this "bung" rumor but Mozilla's revenue and usage were shrinking long before Baker became CEO in late 2019.
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The thing is they did not do all bad. What the woke cannabis pushing media ignores is that millions of chronic pain patients had access to effective treatments that improved and in some cases saved their lives thanks to oxycotin because older opioids like morphine had already been stigmatised in previous moral panics.
The source is behind a paywall, whereas the Gizmodo article can be read by anyone.
SuperTuxKart 1.3 release candidate is out
> I read that some distributions were unable to mount/repair f2fs filesystems if they were created with newer f2fs-utils

That was definitely the case. The f2fs-utils on the distro I was using was woefully out of date, but I built the latest from source and still had no luck.

Obviously YMMV and I know several prominent phone manufacturers are using F2FS now.

I'm not exactly sure when it was but it was probably 3-4 years ago. My use case was a Raspberry Pi, it's possible that Raspbian support was more of a problem than anything. I didn't use it for very long before switching to exFAT, I'm fully open to the possibility that I got particularly unlucky and my issues were no fault of F2FS.
Would it be a 2, 5 or 10 year multiple? None of my apps have subscriptions. They are all purchase for $.99 or $1.99 and supported for ... well, 10 years now. I've moved about 144K
Units in all.
Someone should carry out a study where they test whether people can create a ProtonMail account and send an email from it (with a control group trying to do the same using Gmail). They could title the resulting research paper "Why Johnny Can Now Encrypt".
Great, now the timeline is going to be full of "just tweeted X to my super follows, super follow me here: ...". Sounds like more ads.

I guess in fairness you probably don't want to follow people who tweet like this but these kinds of tweets will still be hard to avoid. I'd rather just pay twitter $x/yr for no ads.
As the joke goes: "How to become millionaire in the airline industry? starting as billionaire". That speaks to the risky nature of airline business.

Rocket business is even riskier. The market is small and is absurdly difficult to enter. Musk almost got bankrupted when Spacex failed to reach orbit after three tries in 2008. He went all in.

Of the current crop of newly launched rocket companies -- Rocket Lab, Astra, Firefly, Relativity -- do you spot any super rich businessmen?
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It's entirely possible that the net utility of such benchmarks being published is negative; enough people come away with the initial wrong conclusion without critically investigating it.

It's almost certainly true that the net value to the company whose product looks bad in the benchmarks is negative, which is why these clauses exist.
Walmart, Ebay, Alibaba/AliExpress, Costco all jump to mind.
The pilots' willingness to risk their lives for an historic flight. It's a bit of a machismo thing, but it takes guts to do that, and a certain amount of comfort around risk.
This is a very broad question and it would help if you could follow up with your definition of infrastructure.

At Amazon, we would use a variety of solutions to document the build process, how to set up internal accounts, how to respond to pager calls, etc. Amazon has a custom documentation system, but it isn't a whole lot different than the various WIKIs that are available outside of Amazon. Some of what you see as documentation for AWS [1] are an evolution of internal documents from when the solution was used internally before being made public.

My time at Apple was earlier, but the systems were similar. Various internal web sites, files checked into cvs/svn/etc and assorted custom issue tracking tools.

I wish I could say there were amazing and magical tools that made documentation easy and painless, but there weren't during my time at Amazon and Apple.

There might be some very nice tools available that can traverse and document network topology and services that I wasn't exposed to. Hopefully someone will come along and let us know.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/index.html?nc2=h_ql_doc_do_v
Non-coding DNA may also affect its shape. Most of the time when not in mitosis, DNA appears to be jumbled. Thatbshape might be intentional for sone yet unknown reasons.
Are they actually identifiable?

I generally have no clue who's car is parked right beside me, nor who put the stickers on their car
My point is that I never needed one before these 1.5 years of collective hysteria and bureaucrats spouting new rules every day.
Wait for the scandal, because it’s about to leak he was using US military equipment for his thievery. Not even the McMedia will be able to cover up the 22,000 humvees and 33 blackhawks we “donated”.
I have no idea how, but I actually guessed The Prestige... for some reason I just thought it reminded me of a Tesla Coil. Field of Dreams was a guess just based on it looking like a baseball field.

I'm pretty impressed by ones like Ferris Bueller's Day Off having what I'm pretty sure is the Cubs logo and Wrigley Field, plus Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure having multiple phonebooths.
That sounds more like a failure of marketing on Pixelmator's part.
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Who is this person and why should I trust them? Where did all this trivial life advice come from? And so many life coaches? David Graeber save us