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I would tend to agree that in person is better/safer, but > they've already researched and selected the best items to stock I'm not convinced at all that the store buyers research and choose with materials consideration (s
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I bring it up for discussion because if enough people start talking about it, maybe something changes sooner. edit - and because web search results lean heavily toward the major sellers, and the most major seller is amazon. So even trying
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Not a bad idea. But what if there is actually no good product for a given category in Amazon? If it were a meta-front-end and could offer possibilities greater than Amazon alone, then that would be great. And actually, there are enough ver
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I think Amazon cloud is "too big to fail", in that there would be an unbeliably high global financial cost if it stopped. As such, I think it's even more imperative that the US break Amazon into some pieces. Let the retail d
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by z9znz 4y ago
#2 is exactly what Walmart and other big brick and mortar US retailers did. At least there is some hope that the rebranded products will share one brand, and so the critical mass of consumer anger will be reached faster. It's still al
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If you're suggesting that AliExpress would be an overall better shopping experience (including appreciating the delivered product), then I will switch!
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I think this mentality is about like saying the earth/climate will correct itself eventually. Yeah it probably will, but long after I would have liked it to (for my selfish benefit).
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I would love to do this. But I don't know the reliable brand; how can I find it in the sea of search results which is mostly this kind of stuff?
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I'm not sure I understand. Can you elaborate on what you mean?
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I'm not sure if the term "classic" can apply anymore. Aside from some upper level executive at Amazon, I don't think there's anyone who is aware and concerned of the scale of the returns they get (most likely due to
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by z9znz 4y ago
If you are so inclined, you should make an essay on how you do this and post it to HN. I bet many of us would be interested!
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As I wrote the Tell post, I was pondering this. I think curated shopping could be a solution, but as evidenced by some of the current popular "curated" sites, they tend also to race to a less-than-optimal level as well. There are
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I'm not going to blame them directly, because there's likely some thick layer of people in the middle who are deciding at a purely $$$ strategic level how to make and sell stuff. They're commissioning the manufacturers to cu
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> calls into question whether I can trust ANY product listings on AMZN I have this same problem, so I end up doing extra research both on and off amazon to try to be sure the product is legit. This boils down to time and work on my part
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Tell HN: Amazon shopping is racing to the bottom of quality
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I would think that NuBank would want to market and promote Clojure to ensure that there would be ample numbers of Clojure developers (since NuBank depends on a lot of Clojure code). Perhaps they do market Clojure in Brazil, but I don'
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> Clojure missed the last step Oddly, it seems to me that Clojure (the established people in its community) don't really care if anyone is attracted to it. It seems like the people who come to Clojure do so because they caught a gli
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Interesting that I had not even heard of this. My previous client was connected to the types of people who were constantly relaying garbage like this, and unfortunately he would pass most of them to me for review. Almost always I would ha
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by z9znz 4y ago
Downvoted with no replies... does that mean "it's true but I don't like to read it", or does it mean "it creates a cognitive dissonance that I can't deal with, and I don't know how to respond... so I downv
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I think Capitalism is too simple or broad a term. It really encompasses a lot of ideas into a single word, and some of those ideas are natural and admirable while others are generally counterproductive. You could say that someone who perfo
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There's a whole other side of this equation that I don't hear much about - the parents of the kids who are producing a lot of the content. I wouldn't want my kid spending hours each day scrolling through various social media,
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There are some life situations where having ADHD is probably a lifesaver. Those situations are likely far less common these days than 100+ years ago, so that aspect of humanity is now less relevant. But the evolutionary behavior will take
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I suspect it is worse now than when some of us were kids. Some of us had less exposure to stuff that could mess us up because there was less stuff available. After all, in my early youth we had only three TV stations. I also see a paralle
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My money is that the reply was itself sarcasm.
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There is the Kit framework https://kit-clj.github.io/ which looks promising. It is rather new, and the documentation is quite limited, but I think it has a good chance at growing into something new people would find an acc
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That video is of a rubbish dump, and it's talking about the amount of trash produced by Bangkok. And as Bangkok has about 10 million people, large amounts of trash are expected. With some quick searching, I found estimates that the US
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> Things aren’t going to change because Google is now showing how streets look like for someone outside India. One can hope that the ease of checking up on ground-level progress would help speed improvement, because global financing orga
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I wanted to say corruption, because that's usually a simple root cause of many such failures... whether it's corruption because of nepotism or graft or just pure theft, the result is delivering something far less than should have
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Ignoring the one or two other problems ;) with this idea, a 170km by 200m mirrored wall isn't going to be the best thing that ever happened for birds.
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I think "ignorant" is the better word. They may be reasonably smart people in other domains, but this seems borderline like satire.

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