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> Rather timely also since Amazon announced this week that it’s working on one day deliveries for Prime customers.

> And those in the know will tell you that same-day (even 2-4 hours!) deliveries are on the roadmap for Prime customers in major metro areas.

In Seattle we already have next day and same day shipping for a lot of merchandise. It drastically reduces the amount of time I spend in physical retailers.

Why was this study done on monkeys instead of apes (closer to humans) or mice (cheaper)?

Facemasks?

Encryption doesn't hide everything. For example, Amazon could estimate the geographical location of everyone watching Netflix and use that information to determine optimal billboard advertisement locations for it's advertisement campaign.

I don't want my data in the hands of my competitors. Amazon is either competing with or threatening to compete with a wide range of organizations.

From the cloud perspective Azure has a better privacy pitch than AWS has.

Amazon is currently expanding into markets at such a rate everyone is afraid their market will be next. Microsoft currently is staying in their lane. If someone is going to be invading my privacy I'd rather it not be a direct competitor.

Why would someone choose Azure over AWS because they currently use Exchange? An Exchange server can easily be ran inside an EC2 instance inside AWS.

> I would have thought open sourcing so much of it's framework

I have a pedantic correction here.

Instead of open sourcing the .NET Framework they wrote a new opensource framework (named .NET core) that is very similar to their closed source framework. Microsoft is currently supporting and expanding both frameworks.

Is there a practical example of a housing not being a commodity that results in favorable housing conditions?

If housing prices outpace wage growth than either housing costs will become a larger and larger portion of people's budget or housing quality will continue to become poorer and poorer.

(Unlikely third option: Wages begin to represent a smaller portion of total income)

5% annual return is significantly higher than wage growth.

> I'm really inclined to believe renting homes shouldn't be legal

Either own a home or be homeless. That's more humane. /s

Plenty. There are, for example, three Waltons with personal valuations above 40 billion dollars.

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

I think purchasing private keys is an unlikely transaction because it would be impossible for the purchaser to know how many copies of the keys existed before the transaction occurred. It could theoretically happen.

I think the question "Is there any billionaire out there whose gains prove not to be ill-gotten" is a good question to ask.

There are over 2000 billionaires in the world, and rich people often pay extra for privacy. Learning about all of them isn't a small feat. It's good and proper to have public discussion about such questions before entering research.

This is speculation. He could theoretically have borrowed money with his bitcoin wallet as collateral in a private transaction.

I think the differences between Latin America drinking cultures and Untied States is much bigger than just the legal drinking age. Changing that one variable won't make a big impact IMO.

It seems like you keep company with other binge drinkers. The decision of how much to drink doesn't happen at the group level during the drinking session, but at the group level when everyone decides to meet up knowing how the group dynamics often play out.

> Rolling back the drinking age to the modern world standard of 16 would drastically reduce student drinking by equating it with kid behavior. Nobody's interested in doing highschool shit in college.

Wouldn't this just move student drinking from college to highschool, not reduce overall student drinking? I don't think it's a good idea to having the driving and drinking age be the same. I'm sure lots of parents of teenagers would be very upset if their children could legally drink.

Science Fiction: The Bobiverse Triligoy [We are Legion (We are Bob)] is a hilarious story about a character not unlike the average Hacker News reader that finds himself in the enviable position of having his consciousness uploaded into a Von Neumann probe (self replicating space exploring robot). It has a good humor, the same attention to details The Martian has, nerdy pop culture references, and several moments of philosophical musings. Ray Porter does fantastic narration.

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https://libro.fm/membership

You could get a library card and checkout DVDs, audiobooks and books for free. Podcasts are free. Network television is free. Assuming you are working and middle class the expensive part about consuming fifty hours of entertainment isn't spending $15 or $100. It's spending fifty hours of your attention.

People buying audiobooks aren't suckers, and most of them are spending much less than $2/hr.

> But it's sold on the basis that people will stay subscribed and thus end up with books they wouldn't of otherwise bought as they are looking for something to spend their credit on this month.

Why would someone feel pressure to use a credit? A person can have several extra credits at time. The credit system has a lot of advantages for Amazon, but time pressure isn't one of them.

Personally? I’ve lived places where Walmart was the only grocery store within 30 miles. I much prefer my neighborhood grocery stores and would rather they not have the competition. Walmart has a history of forcing other retailers out of business.

Yes, I understand that statement is antifreemarket and many people will disagree. I think people should take a more active approach to shaping their local communities.

I think people fit on a wide spectrum ranging from hoarder to absolute minimalist.

I was speaking for myself, and some of the hidden costs associated with buying in bulk.

> More generally, Am I willing to save 30% on bread crumbs or soap if it means buying a 6-12 month supply up-front? Yes, that’s a great ROI!

This depends on the size of your home and the amount of storage space you have. I am generally unwilling to buy a 6+ month supply of household goods because real estate is significantly more expensive than toilet paper.

That's a fight we have fought before and won. I'm confident we can fight it again.

I live in a dense urban area.

I'd consider my neighborhood grocery stores to be the 5,000-10,000sqfoot places scattered around the area so no home within a three mile radius is more than a 10 minute walk to one. They survive just fine by being cheaper than Amazon Fresh and significantly more convenient than the Walmart/Costco that exist on the outskirts of the city.

> A universal checkout experience (one login, saves CCs and contact information) would make Amazon obsolete in my opinion.

Aside from the excellent checkout experience Amazon also offers good product search, a near complete product catalog, and cheap fast shipping.

If no one goes to the physical classroom why not sell the same recorded lecture to a thousand people online instead of the 100 that fit into a classroom?

I think that's why Rust is pulling a lot of developers from C/C++ and not languages like Python or Java.