CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 4y ago
The way Elon is handling it on Twitter is uniquely bad, and could be opening Twitter up to massive discrimination liability. I would say this does actually make a top ten list.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
How many of the books that Yale and Cornell have are hand-written on hand-produced paper and manually bound codexes? The printing press is kind of a big deal .
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I'm not sure this clarification is necessary as we're in a discussion about NYC, on a US-based website, and the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution obviously applies within the US but not to other countries.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Royal Caribbean's ships are flagged and run out of Nassau. I doubt US labor laws are relevant here.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Amazon gives you very few choices on how to return items, oftentimes just 1 (and it'll be something bad like UPS pickup or Kohl's dropoff). They would need to change this too. The problem really is with the overall experience.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's not ironic. Agricultural methods have changed over the millennia and as a result the relative price of many foods has gone way down. See also white rice.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Automated cash registers exist and are widely used, and are much simpler technologically than a scanner-less checkout. Amazon is choosing not to use them.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
The point of spending this massive amount of money on an automated store is to recoup that investment by opening lots of automated stores and make money in volume, taking advantage of your lower labor costs. If they don't actually open
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Well it's definitely a failure of the Amazon cashier less store concept if they railroad you into doing your returns there but then it doesn't even work.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Isn't the whole point of Amazon generally, and these stores specifically in not having staff, that it's supposed to be cheaper? I think you've pinpointed the reason it failed, but I can't imagine why they thought it was
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's a criminal charge, so yes, according to the Sixth Amendment it could go to a jury trial in any jurisdiction.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
It's definitely an Amazon failure, as Amazon controls all sides of this return.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
This is from a shoot in literally the most well known and influential pornographic magazine of all time. Y'all don't even know what the word means if you don't think Playboy centerfold shoot qualifies.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Dude, it's literally porn. This is not hard.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Yeah same. Went there, rented a car, drove from San Juan down to some national park in the south, stayed at a resort a few days, drove back. Nothing particularly notable, and no things did not seem expensive. Yeah there were some touts, but
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Those don't work as well as the apps, plus if you make it obvious that's why you're joining them people won't like you, as that's not the point of them.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Nobody wants to use apps. They're not an end goal in themselves. People want sex, companionship, a relationship, etc.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I think the main reason there is that those areas have been inhabited for so long, and that wood is mostly used for cooking and heating, uses which would eclipse military production. And don't forget clearing forests to make fields for
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Doing an actual repo is much more costly and sometimes involves doing PI stuff like trying to track down the location of the vehicle. The cost of one repo easily wipes out profits on many months' worth of interest payments.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
And it's worth pointing out that this process doesn't take that long. A few seconds per page, plus you're photographing two pages at once so you're only turning N/2 pages, or ~170 times for your average length novel
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Books get pirated via OCR all the time. It's barely even a road bump.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Assuming it is a schtick (which I personally don't believe), it's nevertheless still unhelpful and obnoxious. It doesn't particular matter whether someone truly believes the terrible things they're saying or if they&#x27
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> All these layoffs we’re seeing were planned well over six months ago Source? Most of the layoffs I've seen have been poorly planned and hastily implemented.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
The two companies would likely have more total value separate than together. The stock market doesn't price conglomerates correctly.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
There are lots of video streaming services that don't operate the bulk of their own infrastructure. They would simply become a customer of GCP, AWS, Azure, whatever.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Also the most obvious split would be AWS and then everything else. What does AWS have to do with Prime?
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Just about every reason you've seen for preferring WFO over WFH posted online for the three years of the pandemic so far is true for me. No reason to rehash it all here.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Same, but, they shouldn't be taking away the desks of me of my coworker, as we're in using them five days per week. We come to the office because we find that we're much less productive at home in our shared Manhattan apartme
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I'm a Googler who very much cares about having my own desk. I hate WFH because I find it to be miserable, strongly prefer WFO, and this would make WFO miserable too. I'm not gonna be miserable for 8 hours every day for any amount
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Indian English has lots of loanwords from Indian languages in it. That's the biggest difference I'm referring to. Try reading any Indian finance news without knowing what lakh, crore, and lakh crore mean, for example.

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