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> any US company can implement a more stringent data policy beyond the scope of legal remit within the country of operations

Theoretically, yes, you are right. But some companies are just going to say, oh, you are based in the US, let's look for a different vendor.

It's not even necessarily about the GDPR. For example, US companies tend to send really shitty invoices. There's barely any info on the invoice, some don't even include the full legal name and address of the invoicer. That really sucks when the tax authorities audit you and want proof for where all your money went.

If I buy services from the EU, I can assume that they comply with the GDPR, and I know that I'll get a proper invoice with VAT, and I won't have trouble with the tax authorities.
Not seen baby performance issues with this

I'm more completely put off by all the half baked UI decisions especially with the task bar and the explorer. They're really really bad. I hope updates will fix it. I don't mean "oh this is ugly" I mean "this feature I used to use is just gone or takes multiple clicks to use now"
> Looking at the timeline: "The first case of community transmission, because it had no known origin, is confirmed in Solano County, California, on February 26."

Wasn't there a community-spread case in Seattle a little earlier than that?
Is this to say that you agree with me after all?
> That means it would take Europe 3700 years to produce enough batteries to build the batteries we need in the next 50ish years.

It would probably help to show the working here:

600 GWh/year times 3700 years is 2220 TWh, but if you really do need them to last a week, 1000 cycles at one per week means they last about 20 years. As 1000 is an underestimate, this seems broadly correct to me given current battery construction.

However:

First, we will occasionally want them to last a week; most of the time you’d only want a day. This gives us longer to build out whatever solutions, more battery factories or reactors or whatever.

Second, it is very plausible the non-linearity of scaling will reduce costs rather than increase them. After all, that is what has happened so far, and as for workforce there will be a lot of coal miners available to switch to copper etc.

I’m not saying this is certain to happen, just that it’s at least plausible.

Third, my personal favourite combo with batteries is intercontinental HVDC — shift time zones or hemispheres and you don’t need to care about night or winter, but even much shorter links will connect you with a desert with a completely different climate and weather. Every 1 GW of capacity is 1 GW * (your desired storage duration in hours) of storage you no longer need (same for every 1 GW of nuclear, obviously). If we need a week of storage as you suggest, a single 1 GW line would save on 168 GWh of batteries.

I’m only expecting us to do HVDC in the order of length of e.g. EU to Sahara and therefore only limiting our storage requirement to about a day of storage, perhaps even as good as just overnight storage, but the longer the storage period we need the better relative value a planetary scale grid looks like.

(Downside: an antipodal ring big enough for world power use about a decade of worldwide aluminium production, or alternatively five decades of copper[0]. Again, this is why I prefer mixed approaches).

[0] One of my older comments did the maths for just Europe and just to the Sahara, so multiply the “3 months” and “about a year” in the linked comment by 10 for antipodal and another 5 for global electrical demand: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28474201
The James Dyson award is a design award. On second view, this appears to be a master thesis project by a technical design student. So the product does not yet exist, and there are lots of problems with getting it there. I did not properly see all that before posting it; my apologies.

Nevertheless, it's an interesting idea to speculate about. And it seems to be one of the more promising ideas in this area.
Nice. I also looked into this a while ago and came up with a very simplistic (few lines) Python implementation that does this and even allows for some customization: https://gist.github.com/fladd/36c422f1c0e9bf02f41f9fad19609d...
To be fair, coso could be used to refer to any generic thing, male (in Italian language everything is male or female). Unfortunately given the context, this could only refer to that.
You could also, you know, close the page and buy the screen somewhere that strikes more confidence in you.
Spot instances are the equivalent of stopping an instance while it's running. You get a signal (30 seconds prior for Google, 2 mins for AWS) and you are free to try and handoff the work to a different machine in your cluster .

Basically this is good for running short jobs and not long running ones. If you have a service that process chunks of data from a queue it's probably the ideal scenario.

In practice, with AWS your instances don't get killed that often. Some in the comments are claiming months but I was using mine with AWS Batch and they usually lived 1-2 weeks.
while I agree with the sentiment, your analogy about weather is misplaced.

We can model the climate decades into the future, which this situation seems more similar to. Obviously the fracking companies would be biased, so I am not siding with them, just that particular argument feels like a straw man
Testicular ultrasound can hurt, but usually it's only an issue if there's an existing issue like infection or torsion.
How is this possible? Is it that Windows 11 is constantly running code and/or using data so that it consumes more of the L3 cache all the time? But only on AMD? Is this really a linear slowdown of cache speed as the article's wording implies, or is it some more complicated slowdown that they've benchmarked with something that intrinsically measures it linearly?

Problems with the thread migration to certain classes of CPUs I can kind of understand, that's still fairly new code for windows, but how it can slow down the L3 cache in the described way is a bit of a mystery to me.
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Retail businesses have had low single digit profit margins for many decades. Is the claim here that Amazon will be able to destroy all other retail and increase the profit margins?

And is it not easier than ever for a competitor to start a retail business due to the internet? All you need is a website and UPS/FedEx/USPS. Seems like a bad business to get into if your goal is to earn a lot of profits by raising prices after cornering a market.
Restricting shareholding to the upper class? Based
> Adult video chat sites lure targets into downloading spyware

Contrary to all the apps on the proprietary stores of smartphone manufacturers that never spy on people.

Information extraction is a security issue, plain and simple. Smartphones are extremely bad here compared to platforms that allow sideloaded apps. Being dependent on one manufacturer is also a security issue.

So I don't understand the security argument. Apps on shops probably don't contain malware, many of them exploit you legally. The software landscape outside of stores is far less prone to exploitation.
might sound a bit insensitive. But is there a video I can see of this? I cant even imagine how this would look in the hands of an expert.
To be more precise, everything in society is political in some way or another. If you want to get rid of politics, get rid of society [1]. The denser the population, the heavier the politics so it already helps to move out to less densely populated areas. This comes as no surprise given the origin of the term politics - πόλις (polis) being the Greek word for "city" and πολίτης (polites) the word for "citizen".

The same goes for the 'net where the most populous (not so much popular) entities wield an overly large amount of political power. If you want to get rid of those politics you'll have to move out of those environments - in other words, decentralise the 'net.

Source: a classical education as well as personal experience in moving from a densely populated country to one with more breathing space.

[1] by moving elsewhere
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As usual, selling something for inadequately high price is a standard money laundering scheme. Often, VERY often used on modern (or not) "works of art" auctions. It's just a way to transfer sometimes ridiculously high amounts of money in front of everyone's eyes and getting away with it.
“IT experts” is a pretty generous description.
Looking at the inequality-adjusted human development index, the USA has seen a decrease in this measure between 2010 and now at least:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_inequalit...
Honestly it’s not; the legal definition of a religion is so loose in the US that you can literally have a religion based around being rich bringing you closer to happiness. It would be fully legal and sheltered from taxes under the law (you, however, would have to pay taxes on any distribution from the “church”).
> I'm not responsible for flamebait by expressing my opinion.

We're trying to be a specific kind of site. For that we need people to post in a certain way: thoughtfully, respectfully, substantively. If you post that way, you're making a positive contribution. If you don't post that way, then you're contributing to destroying this place (for its intended purpose), which is not in your interest, because the community and culture here are what makes HN worth participating in in the first place.

I'm sure you wouldn't litter in a city park or dump motor oil in a mountain lake, right? You'd treat those resources carefully because you know how valuable they are, and how we all have to hold them in common. It's like that here. I don't see that as an "expressing my opinion" issue—if someone dumped motor oil in a mountain lake and you asked them about it and they said "this is how I express myself", that would not be persuasive.

People tend to vastly underestimate the damage they cause (let's say 10x) and vastly overestimate the damage that other people cause (let's say another 10x), which leads to a 100x bias in evaluating these things. That's why everyone feels innocent and aggrieved and why it's so obvious that other people are the problem. Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear!

If you're interested in reading a much longer explanation, here is an exchange I had with another user who was in a similar situation a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27161491. I took a lot of time to write that out (it's basically an essay) because this comes up fairly regularly. The point is that the issue isn't really a moral one ("don't say bad things") - it's an optimization problem ("how do we sustain an internet forum that doesn't suck"). If you understand that then maybe you'll feel less like the moderation here is against you.
I've been using SSDNodes for some stuff for the past year. Had an issue with my VPS in Dallas, contacted support, they fixed it right away - response in a few minutes, fixed within half an hour.
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> I've proposed such day to be friday and I'll be pushing for all the meetings to be on friday, with the idea being the if I have to go to the office at least let's make it a social event

Friday is also the most common day for people to leave work early or take off entirely. Just my opinion, but as a non-manager, I would not be happy if my manager made that move.
> Anti-vax and anti-mask attitudes, conspiracy theories and tendency to violence are positively correlated with right-wing political views. That's just how it is.

Sounds like a decent reason to maybe keep these people separate from the rest of the population, just for a little while until everything is back to normal. How would you feel about that? Would you cheer? Would you miss a paycheck to protest in the streets?
I visited SF for a few job interview two years ago. I immediately felt that unless you are uber rich, living in that type of city is not great. It's good cor career advancement but other than that you can have most of the same experiences in cities without so much crime.
The prospect of people protesting to save cookies and slogans upon buses saying we could save the NHS millions of clicks a year by scrapping them - has my comedy pen running away with itself.
Retailers generally want to sell brand goods, and the cheaper own label stuff is there to provide a range of prices. An exception would be budget retailers like Lidl who only sell their own goods.
Thanks for your comment, that's true. So you learn the words through notifications, forget it, and learn it again another day util those words belong to you and you move to the next level.
4th, there's no data about return of fertility in humans after longterm use and if it raises birth defects.
People have lost the optimism that working hard will get you ahead. The FI/RE community still has a modicum of that ethos, but they view hard work as a necessary nuisance that should be finished ASAP.
I'll repost my comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28760545, 7 days ago.

This reminds me of 2? years ago, when similarly multiple services failed in a window of a couple of weeks. Or was this last summer? I can't recall.

Anyways, Twitter will be down next week. You've read it here first.
I'm unqualified to answer since I haven't used Chicken Scheme, but the name implies that it's a Scheme, right? Janet is a "modern" lisp-like with [] and {} for arrays and maps. Also, I think Chicken compiles to C? Janet compiles to bytecode.
You mean manufacturers?

Sizing for people is complicated. Even if you get fitted by a tailor there's often some adjustment of the final product.

Maybe there could be more customization that doesn't require personal service, but people probably don't want to pay for semi-custom by and large just like most people don't pay to have tailored clothing. Just standardizing sizes by itself isn't sufficient because it's been well-researched that people are not "average" across many dimensions.
I personally view conflicting information like that as a red flag. I would rather pass up a potential good deal than have to navigate a return from a questionable listing (or more likely, suffer with a bad product because I would blame myself for buying it).
Futons are neither good couches nor good beds.
Just a heads up, your account appears to be shadow banned.
What a train wreck and an epic failure on the part of the flight crew.

I hope this guy gets paid. The moron who flipped out thinking the guy in her aisle was literally looking up bomb making instructions /in flight/ should be civilly liable to the airline and other passengers.

By all means, let’s all disengage critical thinking skills and give equal weight to everyone’s opinion and see where that takes society.

I’ll be fascinated to know just how vintage the camera was and whether it was twin reflex, bellows style, etc.
Here's a better link: https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-...

> We've been playing dice with evolution of the other 4 endemic coronaviruses for centuries with no vaccines and so far nothing catastrophic has happened.

SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV?

> is there any actual scientific evidence to expect that SARS-CoV-2 will follow a different evolutionary trajectory?

SARS-CoV-2 is now in more hosts than any other endemic coronavirus, due to its higher transmission rates. About half (~48% with single dose) of the world is now vaccinated (mostly in wealthy countries). Effectively zero children younger than 12 are vaccinated.

Vaccination produces a body that's much more resistant to replication, via viral suppression by the immune system.

Consequently, we're increasing the difficulty of SARS-CoV-2 reproducing in adults, while holding the difficulty of doing so in children constant.

You'd be foolish not to consider that risky from an evolutionary perspective.
Well, as mentioned in the article, Bezos swore under oath that his company prohibited doing that.
OC compares "executives" and "knowledge workers", does not define "manager".

Spitballing: Director and above are executives, managers remain knowledge workers.

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My observation is that executives at any given publicly traded company are functionally insane. Whatever executive daily activities involve, it's disconnected from real work and real world.

They generally have nicer clothes and hygiene. So it's not all bad.

The transmutation from Manager to Director is kind of fun to watch. The Body Snatchers meets Battle Royale.
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The point is that quantities of alcohol that hurt/kill birds aren't illegal, because those quantities aren't dangerous enough to humans to warrant legal action. It's similar to how we don't accept animal trials as all the evidence required to approve a new drug.

Some things kill animals and not humans. Some quantities of substances kill animals and not humans. Knowing that a product kills your bird is cause for investigation or concern, but not a reason for a blanket ban.
The grocery stores I visit do the same in the Netherlands, maybe even worse, especially the biggest one here, Albert Hein (Ahold), is very skilled at it. They copy the most popular products, sell them slightly cheaper, similar designs as the most popular brand, then go on and display their products at eye height and move the big brands down. Yet every court case against them they've won. And the sentiment is far less negative about them than Amazon. They have a similar significant market share (35% of grocery market) as Amazon here. Maybe in the end, it's slightly more ethical since their strategy is mostly at the cost of the big corporates (Unilever) who can handle and fight them and not the smaller companies; and arguably, the consumer wins in the end.
How do you know it's higher patience rather than the lower stakes (wrt initial investment)?

Also, I'm not sure I agree with the "HODL" philosophy. btc has fallen a lot too, and the assumption "it'll all work out in the end (long term)" is exactly what can't ever be demonstrated (tomorrow never comes) until it all crashes, after which it's too late.
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I write a lot of apps in Blazor. And I also think this is where we are heading. Just write code in C# and it works.
Unfortunately Blazor feels a step back compared to something like VueJs but I really like that I don't have to write JavaScript anymore.
The thin line between Anti-trust and Racketeering is getting fainter.
It makes more sense if you look at the whole option.

... --porcelain[=<version>]

The idea is to present the porcelain at a specific version. So really you should read it as "give me the porcelain (for v1)", e.g.:

git status --porcelain=v1

If it was an environment variable instead it would be

GIT_PORCELAIN_VERSION
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> retailers don't work to hide the name brand option or promote their generic alternative over it

They can put brand option on the bottom shelf while the store brand generics on the mid/top shelf so its easier for customers to pick up.
I think it definitely depends on where you are and what you're doing. In 3 of my 4 years of professional Python experience, we have run up against scaling, maintenance, and parallelism issues constantly.
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It was a cross-promotion agreement. That is payment, and it was extremely insulting that they thought users would believe they advertised a TV show in Firefox just for giggles.
I wonder if he used the special .net compilation setting that reduces quick starts. It requires compiling the function on Amazon Linux 2
There’s another key difference: say you were a peasant who did happen to live near, maybe even worked for the king, so you knew exactly what you were missing out on. Nobody told you that was a life option: quite the opposite, god had put you in your station and you’d be slapped down hard if you tried to change that. Your baseline for comparison was far closer: maybe apprenticing or marrying a child into a skilled trade, ending up in one of the coveted relatively stable service positions, etc. but nobody expected you to ascend too high.
This is what is new:

> A trove of internal Amazon documents reveals how the e-commerce giant ran a systematic campaign of creating knockoff goods and manipulating search results to boost its own product lines in India - practices it has denied engaging in. And at least two top Amazon executives reviewed the strategy.

As far as I understand, those documents were not known before.
It seems a lot of people are filling in blanks left in the article. This is an important quote

>And his boss? “My boss is happy with the work I’m doing,” he says. “Or more accurately, the work he thinks I’m doing.”

This indicates that Gavin is accomplishing all of the tasks that his employer expects him to accomplish. If he's able to do this between the hours of 8:30am and 11am then how is it different from someone who takes from 9am to 5pm to do the same work? It sounds to me like Gavin has already taken an easier, perhaps lower paying position that is not very demanding on his skills and so he is able to complete all of his assigned tasks in a short amount of time and then play hooky for the rest of the day.

If he instead were to work the whole day it's likely he could complete 3 times as many tasks, do you think his employer would willingly pay him 3 times as much though?
I'm currently reading Titan: Rockefeller biography. and it suddenly dawned on me, you don't become a monopoly through excellent business practices. but though unethical means. legal, yes but also unethical. same thing as amazon, do they have excellent leaders, yes. is bezos unethical yes.
> Even if there was Adam Bird's company is welcome to go above and beyond the requirement.

It’s a brand issue. Being EU based signals that you have to obey GDPR by law, not only contract. Just like being a Swiss bank was a brand advantage long time ago.

Of course, for their EU customers any company has to comply with GDPR by law.
Dude the wealthy today have their own personal space programs while the labor class can barely afford food and medicine. We have more wealth inequality than we ever have.
Hehe, that is a great way to spin things...Yes solar costs have come down recently but it is the meteoric rise of the cost of coal in China that is the main reason parity has occured.

I expect there will be some crow being eaten soon as the Chinese ban of Australian coal has been far more painful for China than they expected.
> espite the fact that the only information they had to go off of was my youtube channel which had no references to my actual name whatsoever

Assuming you took the video at the top of the article, it was presumably trivial to figure out who was in the class you were in and then rule out everyone who appears on camera as the camera man. Or just ask the teacher...
What am I looking at? How to write fake reviews?
In Germany Amazon pressured third-party sellers to use their fulfillment/warehousing service, which would reveal to them where those sellers source their goods from. They then just went to those sources and offered them a better deal, cutting out the third-party seller. So basically third-party sellers are doing free market research for Amazon: They take on the entrepreneurial risk and if they're successful Amazon will know exactly how many goods they sell to which customers and from who they get those goods. They can then use that information in their own product strategy and simply take over the business of their most profitable sellers. Really clever strategy IMHO, albeit not very fair.
What about Outerspace or Mars? Looks like an ultimate definition of 'monopolization' is sorely in need.
But at least Windows 11 brings family and friends together with new Teams integration in OS. So all is forgiven.
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