ikeboy

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811.
by ikeboy 7y ago
Why is suing over copyright infringement an "exploit" of the court system?
812.
by ikeboy 7y ago
Is VistA usable by sole practitioners?
813.
by ikeboy 7y ago
There's no real email spoofing problem anymore because we have signatures proving the source on every email. There's a phone spoofing problem because carriers are allowing spoofing, when they don't have to.
814.
by ikeboy 7y ago
Not the content. The caller ID.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
I specified the fine would be for spoofing that broke the laws. That would eliminate spoofing, which would make it much easier to identify where the bad calls are actually coming from.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
A network shouldn't allow a $20 prepaid cell phone to spoof numbers. Give it one number, if it starts spamming it can easily be blocked.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
The solution is simple, and I've proposed it before. If someone used spoofing to break the law, there's strict liability for some kind of statutory damages, say $100, applicable to everyone across the chain. I.e. I can sue Verizon
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>Transparency program will eliminate a lot of the middle men playing the arbitrage game all together. Transparency isn't that new, over a year old by now. And it doesn't eliminate middle men since it requires the manufacturer t
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by ikeboy 7y ago
That's a lot of words to say "Amazon is conspiring to raise prices, benefiting manufacturers at the expense of consumers". Sounds like an antitrust violation to me.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>Amazon won't even know and/or care about what happens off Amazon Incorrect. They used to ban it, now it's officially allowed but they will actively monitor and block the buybox if your price is cheaper elsewhere. I'v
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by ikeboy 7y ago
There's numbers for Amazon logistics in the article. More to the point, Amazon themselves use UPS/Fedex under the hood in addition to their own system. But they hold sellers responsible for using UPS/Fedex if it's late o
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by ikeboy 7y ago
You can buy from sellers offering FBM SFP (seller fulfilled prime) which has a 2-day guarantee and Amazon enforces it and kicks sellers out if they can't keep it.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
The argument is they're tying usage of FBA to selling on their marketplace, which unfairly boosts FBA usage even if more expensive or worse service than competitors such as FedEx or UPS. In particular, if you use FBA you aren't he
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by ikeboy 7y ago
https://outline.com/2fHaL8
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Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint(bloomberg.com)
371 points by ikeboy 7y ago|157 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Same happened to me on a larger scale and I was forced to take legal action against the complainant. The article hints at it, but it's hard to be prepared for the reality that major brands will file complaints against sellers without a
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California hits Philly-area Amazon seller with $1.6M sales-tax bill(inquirer.com)
3 points by ikeboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
Also, there are some jurisdictions that appear to block the recap extension; at least I've noticed I can't load PDFs but incognito works, and turning on the extension in incognito makes it fail again. Where would be the best place
829.
by ikeboy 7y ago
I use the recap extension. Usually an uploaded PDF or docket is immediately available on courtlistener, but every so often there's a period of time where nothing gets updated; this happened briefly yesterday, for example. Is this some
830.
by ikeboy 7y ago
It's $15, not $50.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
We don't have that. We have some populations that are charged significantly more than market value for their annuities and some that are charged significantly less. Social security is a combination of mandatory purchasing of annuities
832.
by ikeboy 7y ago
The alternative is privatized social security with payments based on the market price of an annuity. It makes no sense to redistribute wealth from those poor in years to those rich in years. You can require everyone to pay in without also h
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by ikeboy 7y ago
They mainly redistribute wealth from those with low life expectancy to those with high life expectancy. It's been calculated that for certain groups with particularly low life expectancies (for instance, African American men), social s
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by ikeboy 7y ago
If you assume lifespan keeps increasing but productivity stays flat then sure. If productivity increases at least as fast as the ratio of workers to retirees, then a smaller number of workers can easily cover a larger number of retirees.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/1/20943772/amazon-marketpla... Turns out it was all a mistake.
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Amazon blames ‘error’ for blocking Nintendo resellers from listing products(theverge.com)
1 points by ikeboy 7y ago|0 comments
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by ikeboy 7y ago
You've been making stuff up throughout this conversation. I'm quite well informed; my information on brands comes both from direct experience as well as from talking to brand owners and others in the field. >Brands want to have
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by ikeboy 7y ago
It's not true. Amazon tracks which seller sent which product.
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by ikeboy 7y ago
How so? If you can't survive without committing crimes you shouldn't be in business. Some of these lawsuits are about brands that would not be viable without the blackhat tactics they use. See e.g. KDC Direct, LLC v. Ravage Holdin
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by ikeboy 7y ago
>But I sympathize with the business that can’t do that and are trying to stop the damage to their business. If the way they're doing it is committing perjury (the infringement form requires you to swear under penalty of perjury), I

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