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https://www.nytimes.com/1990/01/17/us/at-t-pinpoints-cause-o...
"Company executives said the malfuction occurred in a program at a giant computer switching station in the New York metropolitan area, causing the computer to send out alarm messages to other switching stations."
Interesting to see MCI taking the opportunity to talk about backup providers.
I would be thankful. I appreciate your time.
More to your question, how would you study something like that? Previously home schooled students who had limited social interactions?
Our productivity at home will be lower and I will have to relearn fractions, but we're going to make it work.
I am disappointed we didn't use the summer to better prepare by starting to teach the kids, but it seemed like none of us wanted to do anything related to school given what is happening.
They do now. They are in the middle of moving most of their sellers to a program called Managed Payments. eBay handles the payment processing through the program. Sellers do not receive money via paypal, but their own bank accounts. eBay batches the proceeds of the sales and ACHs the money daily M-F.
The transition is ongoing, but the goal is all sellers with stores will move to it eventually.
https://pages.ebay.com/seller-center/service-and-payments/ma...
Before now I would agree with you. From what has been reported schools in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Indiana are staying open after large outbreaks. These are elementary and high schools, so maybe it'll be different with universities.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/us/schools-quarantined-corona...
If you are referring to the USA, I disagree. Unless the local county health departments or states require schools to go virtual, I don't see it.
If a large public university experiences an outbreak, I don't think they will go virtual until someone dies. I do not think large private schools will go virtual unless the government requires it.
The USA has no centralized method of handling the pandemic, so each state is making their own rules and guidelines. We have professional sports teams playing outside bubbles and many college football programs are continuing.
Many school districts outside urban areas are opening and seeing outbreaks, but continue to stay open. As a country, we blew it and seem to have decided to go about this piecemeal.
I hope your son and your family stay well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/georgia-school-coronav...
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-america-blew-it-b3d84ea3-7...
You can get Android apps from many locations other than the Google Play Store.
https://twitter.com/ballmatthew/status/1293893660493455360
"Wow. Epic outright promoting direct in-app payment around iOS store but in iOS apps
And users collect 100% of the savings. No monetary benefit to Epic.
Note: McDonalds, Starbucks, et al are 'allowed' to do this today - but not gaming/media cos"
This really could be the end of the thread. For years China has banned systems and applications from other parts of the world. The fact it has taken this long to respond with action is stupefying. China would like the benefits of an open internet, but don't want to participate.
The decision is 100% appropriate, but wasn't handled in the best manner.
Why reward corporations and investors who gambled and lost? Bust them out.
>People will either buy the houses at more reasonable prices or (more likely in this case) the banks will renegotiate more reasonable terms with the original mortgage holders because they have too much supply and no buyers.
Other companies will buy the businesses at more reasonable prices or (more likely in this case) the banks will renegotiate more reasonable terms with the original mortgage holders because they have too much supply and no buyers.
And this was the issue with the 2008 fiasco. The government chose to save large financial institutions instead of breaking them up so the problems would be less likely to happen again. They chose to save large corporations over homeowners.
It is happening now with the pandemic response. I get the federal government wanted to dump a ton of money into the economy through PPP, but man, you cannot tell me the Catholic Church needed it. They are sitting on assets worth billions they could have sold/borrowed against to stay afloat. Same with large private educational institutions and public corporations.
The next round, and there will be a next round, will be more of the same. Carve outs will be rampant.
The USA should have looked at other countries providing direct income replacement to citizens. 70% income replacement sent to citizens and not force them through state's unemployment processes. Other countries did this and it worked.
And?
Seriously. We either have to choose to be a market that is somewhat free or not. At this point, the government is choosing winners and losers. It is a repeat of 2008. Oh no, it is too big to fail.
Someone will come by with the investment to buy what is left. Perhaps they will run it better. Prepare better.
We're going through this with airlines and cruise companies now fighting for more money and loans from the government. Perhaps Delta grew too large to be what they are now. Maybe there are too many malls in existence. Maybe the method in which we collateralize mortgages doesn't make sense anymore.
Our economy has developed the too big to fail mindset and forgotten, largely, you can lose.
Landscaping, too.
I never understood this from an economic perspective. The USA has rules in place for hiring non-citizens to come the country and fill jobs in landscaping. There are X slots a year.
Locally, the landscaping companies were complaining they couldn't do the work without those slots since they couldn't find workers due to the administration cutting the available non-citizen slots. They would come on the radio, complain to a host about hiring college kids to work, but they would leave after a few days.
The landscaping companies weren't raising the wage paid to attract and keep the people who would stay, though. They did raise the wage slightly, but not enough to move the needle.
Shouldn't the wage raise until you attract those people willing to do the work and stay? In turn, the cost of landscaping would rise to the customers.
I understand this with google and accept it. They can extract whatever information they want in exchange for decent results when I search whether it comes from them or not.
I get gmail, a phone os, a browser, an os, remote desktop and more for free from them. I pay for youtube premium.
The value I get from google is worth it. Everything they provide is good enough and when I want a third party site or information I can get it.
As a consumer, Google offers a great deal.
There are two pain points with google. The first is support, but what can you do when it is free. The second is the rollout of new products and then abandoning them.
I do not run a business that is affected by Google's decisions, though. I understand if you are a company competing in an area google participates it is unfair.
It became a self fulfilling prophecy. Our email would trigger a rule in big co's third party security app, which would then report to a centralized rule breaker clearing house automatically. Clients couldn't receive our emails, we would dive in, submit appeal to clearing house, get clear and a week later do it all again.
Everything was configured properly on our end. We passed all the online validation engines. IPs were our own personally owned block and pristine.
It became too much.
Switched to office365 and all problems magically disappeared. Sent emails to same big cos with third party email security and haven't had a single issue.
Speaking from a USA perspective, no, it was a complete shit show. And you know what? That is fine.
Our school district went from completely normal one day to remote learning the next. Huge swing in what to do and how to do it. There were no plans for a global pandemic. School districts learned quickly there were external factors affecting everyone's life at the same time. Parents losing jobs, food insecurity, child anxiety. All at once.
School districts eased up. Remote learning went quickly from trying to dive into things to one on one check ins to group hellos. The semester started winding down. Everyone passed and moved on.
Now, we're in the fall. School districts had months to prepare for an effective remote learning strategy. Let's see what happens.
(Between you, me and the tree, it's not going to go well, either.)
Your opinion is the exact opposite of mine. While I think it won't replace grocery stores, I do think it has brought more flexibility to the process.
As for respect, I've never considered food production and distribution anything other than another business type.
Luckily, a local farmer's market has no contact pick up, so we've been able to use it.
During the pandemic we've had everything as a no contact pickup or delivery. We've saved a great deal of time and actually spend less on groceries per month than we did in the past.
The only issue we have is sometimes items are out of stock by the time the pick up or delivery happens. Well, that and we panic bought industrial size toilet rolls due to FOMO. At least we have TP for the next year.
It was heartening to see everyone sort of pull together to flatten the curve, but with what has happened during the phased reopenings, you'll never have American citizens do it again voluntarily.
I'm on my third TG and absolutely love it. We vacation on the beach and some of my better family photos were taken in the water with the camera. It is a tank that performs.
Six years ago took my son to the beach for the first time and had a blast with him and the other kids. Lots of great photos. Stupidly, I didn't wrap the camera around my wrist, but put it in my pocket. The Atlantic is unforgiving and it knocked me down and with it my camera escaped. Looking for it was hopeless and I went back to the hotel dejected.
Next day we're on the beach and someone walks up to me and hands me the camera. I jumped up and hugged them so hard. Turns out it washed up four hotels down and they reviewed the photos and found our room number and hotel. They were on the way to drop it off when they saw us on the beach. lol
Now I keep a wrist wrap and a floatie on it. Lesson learned.
https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/039...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2016/07/15/i...
Perfect for us. We used to ship small amount of data in the scheme of things on external drives to Amazon for long term storage in Glacier. Worked great. That program was dropped and replaced by Snowball.
We tried Snowball and never could get it to work properly in our location. Amazon support couldn't get it to work, either. It was really overblown for what we wanted to, anyway.
Sending over the wire isn't an option for us.
This is a better solution for us as long as the networking issues are resolved and the pricing works out.
What is a monthly user? What part of the facebook ecommerce platform did they use?
Facebook has the centralized marketplace, many local/regional sales groups and paid advertising.
During the height of the pandemic Amazon's performance suffered for us. Prior to the pandemic 100% of our online purchases came from Amazon mostly due to inertia. Find something, order it, it shows up.
Amazon faltered. Lots of things out of stock, delayed delivery, missing items in shipments. We then turned to ebay and shopify and experienced none of those things. The spending is probably now 50% ebay, 30% amazon and 20% shopify now.
The decentralization approach to ecommerce is really coming through now ... at least for us.
I was surprised what a great experience it was buying from ebay and shopify. I hope they don't work to centralize things in the future.