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> now that I've established a reputation and people take my work seriously, I don't have to be snarky or aggressive to get attention drawn to these issues.

like the parent and others here, I've lamented this. I appreciate your considered reply. This callout, in particular, is something I hadn't accounted for, but it makes perfect sense (the general idea that "we're getting serious and our clients are serious now too, so posts have to be serious" is just sort of obvious, and still likely true). Cheers to fighting the good fight!

While I like it, this isn't the title of the linked article.

That's damn fascinating. Thanks!

Curious whether you really mean _everyone_ -- including non-technical roles like Sales? I notice that for instance Sales seems reasonably well document [1] so, maybe so?

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/resellers/

This needs to be a HN post of itself. Hello, people who reactively write blog posts for topical HN discussions, hello?

Are you talking about High Sierra, or iOS devices? Because this just isn't true about my macbook pro running Sierra. There is no granular permissions model as in, for instance, Android 7. I give my (super) user password to install apps on my mac, and then after that, they run. There's no further permissions I can or can't grant, and there's no way to run install many desktop apps without my (super) user password.

Edit: It seems you a many of the others replying to the GP are talking about apps from the App Store, which I basically never use. And that's sort of the parent's point, I think. I get apps from the internet, install them, and use them, like and old-school desktop/PC computer user. I rarely need to use the app store (except for updates, and it's weird UX that OS updates are in the app store to begin with) and have no compelling reason to do so.

I posted this article, and I purchase from Amazon often. I'm not blissful, nor unaware. But it's sort of all-or-none, right? Like the workers in these towns who either work for Amazon (or its contractors), or don't work at all, I can't order anything from Amazon at all without aiding this system.

What I mean is, there isn't some sort of ethical slow-lane when I go to checkout on amazon.com, right? There _is_ slow, free (non-prime) shipping, but anecdotally, that's not serviced via a separate pipeline anymore. I don't _mind_ waiting 5-8 days, I don't _complain_ about the shipping delays. But choosing free shipping also isn't any sort of boon to social justice.

I could certainly just stop shopping from amazon.com, and buy locally (though still from big box stores, often, since that's locally the only options left). But I don't harbor illusions that my conscientious abstention will register on Bezos' balance sheets.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure there's a fix. Certainly not an obvious one, nor easy. As the article discusses, cities _need_ the business, at least for the initial few years. And people _need_ jobs. Structurally, though, what are we as simultaneously consumers, citizens (voters), and people in the workforce going to do? The article discusses attempts to unionize. It discusses cities' attempts to lure Amazon business. It discusses what hard-working people with families do, and think, about the situation on the ground. It even gives responses from Amazon PR. The solutions are subtle, hard to enact, and slow to take effect.

I don't think physical labor is a big deal -- indeed us computer-and-desk workers think a lot about how to stay active -- and I don't take that to be the crux of the article at all.

In fact, I'm surprised that none of the comments here have yet mentioned what I see as the worst, and tangibly different aspect of Amazon warehouse work: the gamification of the tasks.

> blue bars on the scanner count down the amount of time they have left to complete the task

> the company constantly sends messages to workers’ scanners telling them to work faster

> without warning, Amazon changed the amount of time workers had to stow an item from six minutes to four minutes and 12 seconds

This sound absolutely terrible. This would make any normal task stressful. The randomized changes and constant oversight strike me as borderline abuse/interrogation techniques. And while the article doesn't dig into it, I assume this is driven by AMZL software systems, operating on a global scale (using all workers and all warehouses as inputs), with machine-learning algorithms constantly tweaking the timers and count-down bars, and possibly even suggesting to managers "hey, worker A has slowed down in the past 15 minutes, would you like to send this pre-written message X to A? Tap [Yes] [No]". This sort of thing might sound like a brilliant idea to some rockstar developer in Seattle, and to the data science team, and the management team signing off, when in reality it creates a Hunger Games race-to-the-bottom mentality in your actual workforce.

And this is materially different from how Stater Brothers across the street operates (or any other warehouse job), presumably.

509'd. Does anyone have the PDF for it? Google cache seems to just render the document, not give me the PDF (I like to download and read offline, from time to time).

"We ask the hospitality of the Domain."

Noise, buzz, confusion, alarm, welcome.

"We came over the Gobrin Ice."

More noise, more voices, questions; they crowded in on us.

"Will you look to my friend?"

I thought I had said it, but Estraven had.

-- [The Left Hand of Darkness], Ursula K. Le Guin

Well that's going to kill someone.

parent didn't say s/he wouldn't want to work for Netflix. just sayin'

Thank you. Living in a successful metro area as I do, I'm fairly sure that the _entire area_ is one or two failures away from Mad Max-level hysteria. It doesn't take much (a few days without potable water or gasoline, say). And yet, we're balls-to-the-wall consumer capitalism all the way, baby. A bit of planning would make months of difference.

e.g. learn Latin. Or Greek. Or whatever it is that 10 fking years in med school actually gives SMEs in that field. Autoincorrect isn't an expert system, and it's behaving like one. Thank you for the detailed example.

Thank you, saved me having to suggest its "autoincorrect". A thousand times, yes.

For some definition of "value". The reality seems to be that much of Louisiana is terribly polluted. People are stuck in homes which have lost much of their value due to both encroaching industrial plants and (thus) poor environmental quality. I just finished reading Strangers in Their Own Land, and the author goes into a lot of detail about this.

I had never heard of salt dome storage until reading this book. Scary stuff.

https://thenewpress.com/books/strangers-their-own-land

John McPhee wrote about this. Not everyone forgets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature

Nah, US democracy is in dire straits. It is failing. Not "democracy" in general or the abstract, but in the US, as a whole, it is.

Except, it's not Vim, it's Neovim.

The foreshortening seems off. The taller mountain is much taller when at the back, but roughly the same height as the other when at the front.

Just a small concern; looks pretty cool!

Sure, but like, the licensing works well for me. :)

Also, I don't know who decided to put a "Find out about LibreOffice Vanilla..." banner in that damn app, which appears Every. Time. I. Open. The. App. now. They need to be taken out back and code-reviewed harshly. It's not like LibreOffice is without many horrendous flaws either.

I've used Audacity off and on for years. Love that it is still around and pretty much _just works_. It does just what I need, as infrequently as I need it, and doesn't require an idiotic (and steep) subscription fee to use (glaring at you Adobe CS).

You realize this video (or a version of it) is linked in the article itself, yeah?

This is the sort of well-written, detailed reporting that I believe to be true, but which ought to have citations for each claim. Of course, cataloging and adding those sources would mean the article takes a lot longer to write and publish.

Why the downvotes?

oh, wow. you're right, but ... it's the source article's title! ouch.

> This article was originally published on [theconversation.com.](https://theconversation.com/bait-and-switch-anchovies-eat-pl...)

I was not aware of this. Any citations readily on-hand?

Solid questions (no pun intended)!

* FBX export? * scripting/animation? * Displacement maps, collision hulls, etc.

Would also like to know.

Guessing the parent mean Kodon (which I've had bookmarked for a while -- hasn't gone on sale yet): http://store.steampowered.com/app/479010/Kodon/