AnssiH

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by AnssiH 7y ago
Sure, I completely agree. That's why it's called commingling.
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> Amazon makes this easy to do by commingling inventory and not matching/tracking sellers to inventory items. That is not correct. Amazon's seller help pages and Amazon spokesperson comment on e.g. this FT Alphaville article h
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Amazon does track the original supplier. From their seller help pages: > Note: Amazon ensures that the initial source of the commingled units can be traced throughout the fulfilment process. > Important: Amazon ensures that the exact
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Related article: PostgreSQL's fsync() surprise https://lwn.net/Articles/752063/ (April 18, 2018) And the followup coverage from LSFMM summit (linked also in the OP discussion): https://lwn.net&#x2F
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by AnssiH 7y ago
IIRC in the WD drive case the drives were on backorder so Amazon had a longer time window for cancellations. Similar things have happened on past Prime Days / Black Fridays, I remember some smartphones (Moto?) being sold for under $3 -
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> I thought I read in HN many times that commingled items can be supplied from any vendors supply and not the one a buyer chose. Correct. > What does it mean that they track it but don't ensure that proper items are delivered It
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by AnssiH 7y ago
"GNSS" just means satellite positioning systems in general, and e.g. "GPS" and "Galileo" are examples of GNSS systems. At least regular receivers (e.g. in phones) utilize signals from multiple satellite constel
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There are a lot of people in countries that have no Amazon Prime shipping benefits - Prime Video is $5.99/mo or €5.99/mo in those places.
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> For context, concealment is bad here because co-mingling means Amazon doesn't even know which vendor shipped the defective product That is not true. From Amazon documentation on commingling: > Note: Amazon ensures that the init
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Audio link: https://areena.yle.fi/1-50142295 starting at 04:05.
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But this is not a physical book, so it is not a "unique" copy. All of my e-books are entirely replaceable by buying them again from a different store (or as a physical book).
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I doubt the law requires anything more than the full refund which MS is providing. Similarly, if someone sells you a physical product that is faulty, the seller is not required to produce a replacement, they can just refund you instead.
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They will fully refund all purchases, seems reasonable to me.
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According to this 2013 news article it is "up to €10,000": https://helpv2.orf.at/stories/1717004/index.html
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Austria has had a ban on dashcams for years, though, so it is not a new thing brought by GDPR. Another EU country with a similar ban is Luxembourg.
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Not working here either (Finland), that page shows HEL for me. shadow.tech shows "Error 1020 Ray ID: 4ec1c24b2a945b25 • 2019-06-24 21:22:45 UTC Access denied What happened? This website is using a security service to protect itself fro
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> However, why not just tag each individual item with the supplying vendor as it arrives? Amazon does track the original source of the items it fulfills already. See e.g. Amazon comment in this article: https://ftalphaville.ft
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> The problem is that the current gcc gfortran front-end doesn't do this for CHARACTER* 1 strings, and there's C code expecting that extra string length argument. Is it? My reading of the article is that gcc gfortran expects
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Robocalls were in the news a couple of days ago here in Finland as well. The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority has started receiving reports of marketing robocalls being made, and they issued a notice noting that such robocalls mad
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Previous discussion on ZFS on Linux 0.8.1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20186458
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I have used a phone=>Photos=>Drive=>computer setup for several less technical people to have their photos sync from their phones to computers automatically so they can use local apps to browse and edit them. I guess I'll have
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The non-GSuite announcement is here (as linked from the linked article): https://www.blog.google/products/photos/simplifying-google-p...
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Makes sense. Somewhat related, I'm guessing from this that card usage limits are not common in US? Here almost(?) all debit/credit cards have daily limits that you can change via web/app/call, so there can be no arbitrar
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by AnssiH 7y ago
> Plus, if you're traveling, you really don't want to put hotels or rental cars on a debit card - they put a huge hold on your balance. Isn't any hold equally large on a credit card? I've never noticed any differences
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> I don't know what country you're in, but here in the UK "building credit" is very much a thing; I'd be very surprised if it had no impact whatsoever on your creditworthiness in your country. In Finland Luottoti
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Here the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority stated in Jan 2018 that this practice is not allowed: https://www.finanssivalvonta.fi/en/regulation/interpretation...
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If you are not seeing the page with OP link (which shows a region-specific page), try this direct link to the US store page: https://store.google.com/us/product/stadia_founders_edition
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From http://stadia.com/faq : > Do I need to use your Controller? (Stadia Controller) > No, you can use many popular HID compliant controllers when playing via USB cable on Chrome or mobile. To play on your TV you will
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> If the controller is indeed "dumb" (just sending inputs), why wouldn't there be compatibility with Xbox or PS4 controllers? The controller is not dumb, it connects to Google. Also, as I understood it other "supporte
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by AnssiH 7y ago
Probably housing allowance ( https://www.kela.fi/web/en/housing-benefits ) and/or basic social assistance ( https://www.kela.fi/web/en/social-assistance ), the latter of which covers es

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