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Employs millions, but is ultimately a nationwide make work program to satisfy congressional districts. USA encourages a byzantine system that substitutes waste for the appearance of choice.

It's possible your sample is not representative of the larger sample.

My understanding on this matter is Amazon is going the way of giving the brand owners more control of the brand as one part of the solution. Ultimately they know their product(s) the best and are likely most aware of matters no heuristic is going to catch. Maybe it can be used to train an automated counterfeit identifier since this solution only scales for large brands that have resources already dedicated to the problem. You still get stuck with a McDowell's vs McDonald's problem of brand erosion from very similar knockoffs that tread the legal grey line.

It's funny because I had one of these I put in my bathroom above the toilet paper to resupply bulk orders of cottonelle and wet wipes. I took it down after 2 months.

I like that it was smart enough to dedupe multiple presses. I didn't like that guests were compelled to push the button. I realized it was time to kill the experiment when I had a year's supply of toiletry.

Good, now maybe they can fix the textbook industry which is woefully inept.

Or one of the many collect call phone numbers.

The bias about intelligence modeling on human intelligence is certainly one of familiarity. Other intelligence models that we can observe like cephalopods are about as foreign as you can imagine on the animalia tree of life. Who can say if some cephalopod aren't capable of more diverse communication via color fluctuations/rhythms and postures than we are with our vocal cords and body language?

At some point a human form of self awareness could have formed, but I think the key is not triggered by physiology alone. Feral humans exist and it's important to understand that there is an observed malleability of the mind which tapers with age. Such individuals have been found and in some cases rehabilitated into what we consider functioning, self-aware, cognitively capable humans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_child#Documented_cases_o...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_period

Edit: It reminded me of this story I saw recently about a girl neglected until age 7. Today she is like a 2 year-old in a 20 year-old's body. Keep in mind there is nothing physically wrong with her other than neglect. Consciousness is emergent behavior. Having the physical elements alone is not enough.

http://www.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/neglect-...

Yeah, but that's getting to the very crux of communication: trust. If you're not sharing information it's pointless to call whatever it is 'social'. Anonymity is the form of least trust and you could argue the highest form of honesty. There's a very thick veil of soap scum on the Facebook ecosystem. Only the dumbest of the very tech illiterate are themselves.

Actually, I bet you could find people that would like the idea of a social media platform that wipes your history or disassociates your account every January 1st. Like a musical chairs, but the chairs never get reused.

I wouldn't be surprised if the actions Google took to push Amazon results off the first page product results skewed the Amazon product catalog towards gamed marketplace results. Amazon was getting a free ride on Google's results sort of like Wikipedia for a fairly long time. Now you have to dig to find links to either of them. The effect on Amazon may also be a result of pricing changes Google made around 2015.

That’s closer to manufactured consent. No evidence, vague justification and mainstream parroting to reinforce the narrative.

It probably depends on the value funnel. As you get closer in rellavance to the target the ability to influence ought to be most valuable. I question if they are monetizing the ad value funnel fully.

I think he’s fucked speculating shorts and bulls alike. His shit stopped the squeeze triggered by the PIF news. Calls are basically options of an option.

It’s not just the shorts that ought to be pissed. He’s intentionally tanking his public companies so they can go private at a discount.

Pulled a similar maneuver with solarcity just before profitable revenue could taint the red. Repeating the same shit with Tesla.

Right, that in itself should have forced a squeeze. I'm not suggesting a takeover by VW, but a business deal. $23 billion for tech that builds the tech. Elon already said there would need to be maybe 100 GFs built, not just by Tesla. People have grossly underestimated the value of the path forward and VW has been coy about who the $23 billion is going to.

Well, there’s one other I can think of: VW

Hear me out. VW announced $25B worth of batteries secured in March then followed up with an increase to $48B in May. The $25B went to Samsung SDI, LG, and Contemporary Amperax.

Leaving $23B unnacconted for.

https://cleantechnica.com/2018/05/04/volkswagen-doubles-ev-b...

Bingo.

1st the Lure: bonu$ with first month check + $10K+ in relo

2nd the Hook: 6 month blushing period

3rd the Sinker: layoff old team, give threatening overtures and about lost trust and missed deliveries

Meanwhile everyone is in a 12-month lease, certainly spent the relocation, and definitely not in the mood to relocate again. Anyone that dipped into that bonus is really hooked, anyone that didn't is annoyed at the thought of giving up their signing bonus to cover relocation which would make the whole venture a wash.

So yeah, the further away from Seattle recruits are from the better. Luckily Seattle's geographic location enhances this. Ironically, an east coast HQ2 would probably weaken this trapping mechanism for all but foreign labor who are verily fucked no matter what thanks to visa,H1B,L1 fun.

Heck, I've had power companies offering google home for free if I select a green energy provider.

True, but to be fair, it's possible to clean it up by running the power through storage first and have the consistent energy on the other side of the storage. No different than using a UPS to clean up electricity with a lot of spikes in it (something that will kill most pc power supplies over time).

This is much better than the least likely consipiracy: Kennedy's head just inexplicably exploded on its own.

Of course the argument is also the employees are paying taxes. Besides, Amazon is notorious for pouring money back into the business and growing instead of reaping profits, so good luck taxing that. By any account that's exactly what a city should want.

Having used ANTLR recently I would tend to not only agree, but say most cases of disagreement are circle jerking instead of getting to a quick solution and shipping. I just updated our grammar 2 weeks ago. Effort? Update the *.g4 grammar file and run a build target in ANT. Done. Next problem. Performance wise it's parsing deeply nested SQL queries in sub millisecond time which meets our need. If someone requires better performance than that I'd be curious what they're doing.

Well, the CEO fluff on the ER call was amusing. Probably doesn't help to brand yourself the same thing as a food stamp program, but I digress.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/08/11/analyst-caught-in-hot-...

I would dump that shit if I owned it.

That's more than maddening. One company is working on the forefront of an entire ecosystem transformation in a 100 year old entrenched customer base the other...well, let's just say in another 100 years you'll be lucky to find anyone that knows what snap was.

Cue head explosion...

Bingo. You should see the patterns near Newark. There's drone circles like this constantly.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/FBI-M...

A subsidy, a tax cut, and an MLP walk into a bar. Each pays $5 for a draft beer. Each saved $1. The only difference is when they receive that $1. The punchline is thinking they're different.

Curious, do you know the EROI difference for fossil fuels? How much difference is there in the opportunity cost? All energy is subsidized. Solar actually doesn't qualify for the subsidies oil does, same for electric cars. That's why they have a separate subsidy. Unlike oil's 15% the subsidy declines to 10% for solar and the EV car subsidy vanishes. All the things you mention can be covered by that 5% difference. That's opportunity cost.

I'm not the person that wrote that. My discord is the state of journalism. This article doesn't inform anything that prevents the business model from working. People also attempted flight many centuries before succeeding. Arguing why the physics won't work or the ROI is not possible would be informative. This is just sad click bait.

Could care less about challenging Musk's reputation, that's his problem. It's the fallacies of argument. Good engineers are awash in self doubt and questioning.

I lost faith in the average tech writer's ability to not trigger Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect a long time ago. Thanks for saving me the time. Nothing more annoying than reading a journalist with a soap box and more time for word count than correctness.