anth_anm

I signed up for motorcycle classes and they said to bring glasses or goggles.

I hopped on Amazon and realized I don't trust any of the things they sell to not be fake/junk/something I don't want near my eyes.

I still ended up buying some because I don't really have time to get to the store, but I spent money to try and get a more repubtable brand. Hopefully they aren't fake.

Bezos says lots of things. Amazon is better at customer service than their competitors, usually.

They still do stupid shit. See the joke that was AIV on Android for years.

IIRC they were trying to start a public bank in LA but they didn't get the votes.

> Even if the guy was really good?

Yes, even if the guy is really good. You can stand not being the center of attention for a few hours.

I took the train for the first time a few months back. Was a couple hundred miles (less even).

I really like it for about the first 3/4.

Then we took forever to get the last little bit done. I looked into it and apparently out west Amtrak has an atrocious record for on time service.

It's a shame because it's a great way to travel if you can take the time. It's comfortable, I had power and wifi. The food isn't great but oh well. I'd rather take the train than my car, driving is dreary. I'd rather take it than the bus, which is just god awful.

I really wish we would put in the time to make our trains better. Passenger tracks and high speed trains would be awesome. Instead we waste time and effort on Elon's tunnels.

Imagine if Boeing got away with just pushing a software update to the 737 MAX8 and saying "it's fixed now".

Said it before, saying it again. OTA updates to safety critical things is not a feature. It's a bug.

> Minimum wage exists, labor laws exist.

Thanks to unions.

> For instance, Ford’s " ‘sociological department’ had to inspect a worker’s home to make sure they ‘deserved’ the $5 first," said Ileen A. DeVault, a professor of labor relations, law and history at Cornell University.

wow.

Yeah, that legislation is a pretty good way to kill unions.

It's gonna be real interesting when the working class finally has enough of this shit.

A lot of the people who work hardest, horrible hours out int he cold doing hard labour before you wake up, only make a reasonable living because of unions.

People have literally fought and died for the right to unions, for unions to be taken seriously. A bunch privileged silicon valley tech workers (not me, I'm a privileged seattle based tech worker, totally different ;) ) write off unions as inefficient and useless.

Well for one thing he got a minimum wage.

Your friend should have been working 80 hours a week for 20 cents an hour instead.

Ban unions!

Doctors and Lawyers protect themselves with professional organizations. Actors too.

> It always seems to degenerate into an "us vs them" sort of thing

It is "us vs them". They just apparently understand that a lot better than you.

> Don't care about the union's bullshit "industrial action" and just want to work and earn some money? Get used to being called a "scab".

If all that's happening is you get called a scab then count yourself lucky. That's a sign that things aren't that bad yet.

> Pay-per-hour would lead to shorter, more thoughtful games, rather than long grindy ones.

Or it ties money directly to length, so you need your game to be 60+ hours to justify it's existence. Or people won't pay that much so we don't get any new dark souls or RDR2 length games.

So um, what do the customers get out of this?

Cloud providers don't distribute the software. GPL doesn't really help, except to make them more afraid about using wrong.

The answer is more aggressively copyleft licensing (AGPL, and others).

If APIs are copyrightable that's a very unfortunate thing, but it would also make it possible to protect FOSS IP much more aggressively. Mongo wouldn't be getting destroyed by Amazon, for example.

> but I don't think the major cloud providers have much of an uncrossable moat

Billions of dollars and years of constructions to just start trying to enter the market, where you will fail because your offerings are relatively pathetic on multiple fronts.

Because they get to use their money and power and seep wealth out of things they had no part in creating.

It's disgusting.

Embrace, Extend, Engulf?

I'm not sure what you call it when Amazon can pretty much just take your project over when you piss them off.

Mongo is getting EEE'ed.

That just results in weird laggy gameplay.

Actually I don't even think this will work properly at all. You can do some prediction, but latency still kills you.

Gamers do.

Sony entered at the right moment with the right tech, MS was at their peak when they started xbox.

> The computer scientist in me is giddy with excitement

Why? What part of this is interesting?

I wish anti-trust was a thing.

Open source makes other people billions.

How many of those doctors lost licenses or were otherwise rebuked?

I'm 30 but I only use mine to read comics.

Doesnt' help that I stupidly bought the 16GB version, crippling it.

Worked for 5 years at big tech.

Never made it above 180.

sigh.