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While I 100% agree with the intent of the HN guideline, there are times when calling out crazy as crazy is fully warranted. I believe this is one of those cases.

I don’t believe parent comment was a “shallow dismissal”, it was an accurate and “deep” dismissal.

Thank you for the references and synopsis. I’d be happy to purchase copy of that book!

Did this re-framing “framework” come from a book, class, etc.? It sounds well formulated, I’d like to learn more.

Also industries that require the ability to relentlessly “sell, sell, sell”.

Many political advertising and online DTC mattresses companies (to name a couple) are based Utah.

Possibly related to our naturally-selected drive that underpins Persistence Hunting[0]? Doesn’t speak to the “irrational” prong of your question, but more along the lines of “past any/all expectation.”

And no idea if anyone has already studied this. I had the thought about this possible connection a few nights ago, funny timing.

(The prevalence of Persistence Hunting in human evolution is still an open debate I believe)

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

The Cherry mechanical switches are big plus on the Freewrite. AlphaSmart uses membrane switches, a deal killer for some.

Yea, you are going to have to provide some references for that one.

Self employed and re-if’d 6 months ago. The 4 brokers I worked with all said they never checked again after closing. So maybe that has changed, but I doubt it)

(Also, unless you have your savings with the mortgage lender, I don’t think the bank can legally check your balances without a some sort of soft credit pull)

The term you are looking for is “Multi Channel Fulfillment”

I wonder if Bezos has thought this through fully for Amazon.com

Well of course, but most people go by what they read on the screen in front of them at the time of purchase.

Amazon has massive network of 3rd Party Sellers who ship items directly from their own warehouses, not relying on Amazon’s currently-hobbled fulfillment centers

You can find these by selecting “other sellers” on the Amazon product page.

This has been the way to get stuff quickly on Amazon for the last 3 weeks.

Then on Friday, with no warning or explanation, Amazon extended all shipping times quoted out to April 20th, including the shipping times provided by 3rd party sellers.

This extension has no basis in reality, as 3rd party sellers have not experienced any shipping delays because they don’t use Amazon’s warehouses.

This was a hugely anti-competitive move by Amazon that has severely impacted 3rd party sellers and directly misleads consumers.

Numerous 3rd party sellers have reported this situation to the DOJ.

If any reporters want more info, please reach out. Email in profile.

True on high volume plastic bottles, caps, etc. Those must be manufactured geographically near final distribution, too expensive to ship billions of empty plastic bottles half way around world.

And lots of the tooling for this high volume plastic bottles, lids, etc is made in Germany. Consensus is Germans make best tools for this volume (100’s of millions of parts per year)

Then why make a bunch of noise about shipping price when you meant landed price?

Amazon has enchanted the world with their “prime” badge. Enchantments rarely end in the enchantee’s best interest.

You realizing shipping price is a completely artificial construct?

Amazon doesn’t magically have power to ship things for free.

You’ve been paying more for items on Amazon because of “free shipping”.

No, but that’s what Amazon wants everyone to think.

Even if still the lowest price, Prime badge/buy box will be removed if price increases higher than some hidden algorithm allows.

To understand how a monopoly is currently being built, please read:

Amazon caused this problem themselves because of hidden pricing policy/behavior that causes artificially low price-fixing. They’ll never admit this is what caused the problem.

Amazon punishes 3rd party FBA/prime sellers for raising prices by removing their listings from the “buy box” or removing their prime badge. Amazon brags to customers that they “found a new seller to sell you this item at a lower price” but in reality Amazon forces sellers to stick to their low prices because if they are ever raised to meet demand, Amazon removes prime status, effectively killing sales. (A class action lawsuit was filed last Thursday for exactly this, Amazon got sued a couple years ago for same thing, I’ll find link and repost)

So you had an entire swath of consumer goods (“essential” and “non-essential”) unable to increase prices in response to demand.

Amazon fulfillment centers are basically the equivalent of toilet paper right now.

I can’t imagine how Amazon continues to get away with such blatant price-fixing. They will drive every major online retailer out of business.

Edit: for all the downvoters, if Amazon allowed sellers to raise prices in response to demand on non-essential items, it would have slowed sales volume and not overwhelmed FCs, and my wife and I would not have a 3 week lead time on children’s Motrin.

Also a seller, this went into effect as early as 4:30am mst on Sunday. I know, because I was awake and saw it.

Amazon nerfed new FBA inbound shipments from sellers thru April 5. This new ~April 20th expected ship date is just about exactly the time it would take inbound shipments starting on April 5th, to distribute thru FCs and become active for sale.

Amazon is attempting to level the playing field for the sellers that got iced out during the inbound lockout.

The economy is 75% of what it was 3 weeks ago. Numerous industries have laid of 50%+ of their laborers. I’m going to wager there is less demand for premium products.

But you realize the reason expensive things are expensive is because there are enough people willing to pay the premium. If demand for premium products diminishes, premium product producers can either lower prices to meet demand at lower price point, or lower production to new lower levels of demand.

Either way there is a present glut of expensive things without enough demand, so existing oversupply is liquidated. So expensive things get less expensive.

In that case, expensive things won’t be expensive for very long.

Mykita. You didn’t mention cheap as a requirement.

I'm trying to understand what is a rational level of preparedness, so also re-evaluating my priors.

My sense is a pandemic is not equivalent to a natural disaster. But a lot of the “be prepared” content seems to conflate the two, which I’d argue is not helping matters.

Copied from above: If you can share one cited example of a water boil alert being issued solely because of persons not showing up to work, I’ll believe your hypothetical.

A natural disaster or pipe break that forces a water boil alert could happen any time.

Again, I am trying to understand if there is any elevated need to have bottled water at home during pandemic fear vs any other time when run-of-the-mill water boil alerts are issued.

If you can share one cited example of a water boil alert being issued solely because of persons not showing up to work, I’ll believe your hypothetical.

A natural disaster or pipe break that forces a water boil alert could happen any time.

Again, I am trying to understand if there is any elevated need to have bottled water at home during pandemic fear vs any other time when run-of-the-mill water boil alerts are issued.

Will someone please explain why stocking up on water is consistently being advised?

Do these people think coronavirus is going to cause enough unrest to destabilize civic services and affect our municipal water supplies?

Or do these people just parrot this stuff without critical review?

Have printed many spools of CF and glass filled nylons using nozzles with tips made from ruby.

Check out “Hardcore Ruby” nozzles, now there are even diamond nozzles.

I print with 0.25mm nozzle in nylon, fine enough for Module=1.5 teeth.

A 0.15mm nozzle would make an acceptable Module=1 gear I would guess.

Geartrax software, it will draw perfect involute splines.

Sounds like you asked a marketing/sales guy this question, and you got a marketing/sales guy answer.

Besides bad wrist angle, if the backside of your elbows rested on a pad, you could have aggravated the ulnar nerve. Same with a handful of other locations in upper neck and the other nerves in the arm. Nerve impingement/inflammation can show up as referred pain in the wrists.

It was wise to take the time off.