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Then why is there an "Amazon Birkenstock Store"?
https://www.amazon.com/Birkens...

Actually, Amazon uses a mix of carriers, and has been making aggressive investments to build its own delivery capacity. The largest carrier by number of packages that Amazon uses is UPS. It also uses FedEx and OnTrac more than USPS based on its financials and its public statements.

USPS is primarily used for non-time sensitive shipping (read: free super saver whatever).

Still, in recent years, they have been making investments in the US and Europe to have a greater stake in regional carriers and to build intra-network shipping capability, as well as true "to the door" capability in major metros which drive high delivery volume.

Amazon is running several jets in both Europe and the US.
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Amazon has acquired stakes in france and the UK
https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Amazon Flex - where Amazon is running its own "Uber" to deliver packages
https://flex.amazon.com/

Thank you for this information. I hadn't paid attention to the microSD slot... that's a plus.

I already have a Bluetooth keyboard, and I'll be using that. It folds in half, so it's conveniently full-sized when you are using it. Important to me: all the keys are where my fingers expect them to be, including things like square braces and the Escape key.

Also important: it has a built-in rechargeable battery instead of using disposable AAA cells.

https://www.amazon.com/Perixx-PERIBOARD-805L-Bluetooth-Folding-Keyboard/dp/B00JXI94IE

I specifically recommend this exact keyboard. The same manufacturer also makes some similar keyboards where the keys are subtly in the wrong places, which is maddening. I'm glad they finally got it right and I hope all new keyboards they make will continue to get it right.

With the ConnectBot SSH client, I can do actual work (software development or sysadmin stuff) on my Android tablet.

P.S. There is a seemingly cool new technology called TextBlade. However, it has been vapor for, let's see, about three years now. If it ever does ship and works as advertised I'd spend $100 and get one.

https://waytools.com/

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you are non-technical, you simply go to an Apple Store. I've only had to do this once, for a three year old phone. It doesn't cost much more than a standalone battery and lasts longer (in all respects).

If you are technical you can simply buy a replacement battery and enjoy many more years of service than I ever got from the replaceable batteries I had to buy quite often for my old flip phones. I hate replaceable batteries, as they represent space wasted on casing that could have held a larger battery.

Thing is... the "GDP Pocket" isn't really different than all the other GDP pocket sized computers. Far as I can tell, it was just using crowd funding as a marketing method.

We are losing knowledge. Knowledge.

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And it could be argued that spending $1000 on a phone when you can get a perfectly serviceable one for a third of that is a form of gluttony.

That's actually an extremely good phone. As a big bonus, it has user-replaceable batteries.

And it could be argued that spending $1000 on a phone when you can get a perfectly serviceable one for a third of that is a form of gluttony.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

What every family needs is a radation suit for those times when man and/or nature goes terribly wrong.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you don't have a use for watches or like them, don't wear them.

The advent of smartphones has changed my watch preferences too. I don't care for complications like alarms or stopwatches; those things are better done on phones so I prefer watches that do fewer things well. This runs current to fashion in the low end of the market, where watches have gotten ridiculously large, heavy, and cluttered. No wonder people prefer to take their phones out of their pockets to check the time.

I prefer watches that are small, light, and legible, with nothing on them that isn't frequently used. If I were a billionaire, I'd wear something like this. But you don't have spend that much to get something which gets things right because it doesn't do too much. The less you do, the less likely you are to get it wrong.

If you don't have a use for watches or like them, don't wear them.

The advent of smartphones has changed my watch preferences too. I don't care for complications like alarms or stopwatches; those things are better done on phones so I prefer watches that do fewer things well. This runs current to fashion in the low end of the market, where watches have gotten ridiculously large, heavy, and cluttered. No wonder people prefer to take their phones out of their pockets to check the time.

I prefer watches that are small, light, and legible, with nothing on them that isn't frequently used. If I were a billionaire, I'd wear something like this. But you don't have spend that much to get something which gets things right because it doesn't do too much. The less you do, the less likely you are to get it wrong.

If you don't have a use for watches or like them, don't wear them.

The advent of smartphones has changed my watch preferences too. I don't care for complications like alarms or stopwatches; those things are better done on phones so I prefer watches that do fewer things well. This runs current to fashion in the low end of the market, where watches have gotten ridiculously large, heavy, and cluttered. No wonder people prefer to take their phones out of their pockets to check the time.

I prefer watches that are small, light, and legible, with nothing on them that isn't frequently used. If I were a billionaire, I'd wear something like this. But you don't have spend that much to get something which gets things right because it doesn't do too much. The less you do, the less likely you are to get it wrong.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

Since when is 80 books a year a "super reader"?

That's how it strikes me as well. I read about three books a week; and I feel like I'm slacking. When I was younger (as in, about 40 years ago when I was 20 or so) I easily read one a day. Lately, that's rare. I'm re-reading David Wingrove's Chung Kuo now, and those are going more-or-less at about 2/days per volume, barring interruptions like Festivus and Saturnalia. :)

But my life is much more demanding now. I just don't have the time to read like I did when I was a young man. I would like to have the time, but it's just not in the cards. People depend on me — what I want as compared to what I must do have diverged a bit.

I do know some folks who, according to them, "don't read books." They do speak of it as if it's some kind of chore. I don't understand why, but honestly... I don't think I want to understand why.

Hope it doesn't end up like this tho... https://www.amazon.com/Three-B...

I thoroughly enjoyed The Three Body Problem and its sequels.

So this is just a snippet the NY Times has shared. Where's the rest?? While the prospect of not being alone is quite horrifying, we shouldn't hide from it. Does a truth like this represent an unraveling of the fabric of our society? So many possibilities with which to contend!

Hope it doesn't end up like this tho... https://www.amazon.com/Three-B...

The aliens came and got their "Get in loser, this planet blows!" souvenir shirt.

You can't call yourself a JavaScript programmer until you've read "You Don't Know JS" by Kyle SImpson. Most JavaScript programmers know enough to get a JavaScript framework working but not enough to figure out how to solve a problem.

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A book that everyone should read is "Artificial Intelligence for Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron. Preorder your copy today.

A book that everyone should read is "Artificial Intelligence for Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron. Preorder your copy today.

A book that everyone should read is "Artificial Intelligence for Dummies" by John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron. Preorder your copy today.

Either "Remember when we had NINE planets?" shirt or "Get in loser this planet blows" shirt will commentate this event nicely.

Either "Remember when we had NINE planets?" shirt or "Get in loser this planet blows" shirt will commentate this event nicely.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own crypto currency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

Heck there's entire books describing how China builds almost entire cities that end up as virtual ghost towns: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-C... [amazon.com]

Heck, there's also entire books describing how Donald Trump is the best president of all time. https://www.amazon.com/Trump-L...

And by the say, that Donald Trump book has five stars and your book about how those stupid, stupid Chinese don't know high-school physics only has four stars, so checkmate.

Heck there's entire books describing how China builds almost entire cities that end up as virtual ghost towns: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-C... [amazon.com]

Heck, there's also entire books describing how Donald Trump is the best president of all time. https://www.amazon.com/Trump-L...

And by the say, that Donald Trump book has five stars and your book about how those stupid, stupid Chinese don't know high-school physics only has four stars, so checkmate.

Twinkies have been thoroughly deconstructed and analyzed.

solar power is unpossible

Not a single comment has ever said that.

What they have always quite consistently said:
1- Solar PV is inefficient.
2- Solar roadways is one of the least efficient ways of making solar PV.
3- Solar roadways doesn't make sense if you have roofs that are not yet covered or land to spare.

China doesn't need to read Slashdot to understand this, they just need to take highschool physics. But while you're being quite facetous about big public works projects which China are very good at, they mostly do it for busy work and utterly fail the cost benefit analysis of doing them.

Only some 1/3rd of the major logistic infrastructure projects make any sense, all the rest do is put the country in debt: https://academic.oup.com/oxrep...
Heck there's entire books describing how China builds almost entire cities that end up as virtual ghost towns: https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-C...

Mind you when I lived there it was incredible to commute to work. An 8 lane highway with maybe 2 cars on it. Traffic you could only dream of.

nVidia Shield running SPMC.

In the specific case of patented drugs, the patent explicitly blocks competition so (a) is immediately off the table.

Niacor is nicotinic acid, vitamin B3. I don't know what it costs.

You can buy the same thing from Amazon for $5.21.

I would say that the "patent" on Niacin isn't very effective at blocking competition. In fact, I doubt there is a patent. I expect the difference is that Niacor is being sold as a drug and thus has the expense of FDA approval for that use; the stuff sold on Amazon is a "nutritional supplement" and doesn't.

This kind of thing isn't new or especially earthshaking. I had something that the doc could have prescribed Ibuprofen for, but he told me to just buy OTC and take two. The only difference between the two products was -- one was twice the dose of the other per pill. The prescription version was one pill, the OTC required taking two. The prescription version had a deep-pocket pharma company that lawyers love to sue (e.g. Celebrex) whenever there are side effects, the store brand was forcing consumers to rely on doctor's orders and violate the published dosage limit.

Before you crucify the maker of Niacor, keep in mind that their market for Niacor is extremely small (why buy Niacor when you can get the same thing for what many people would be paying as a co-pay for the expensive drug?) and their liability is high.

If this were a case of a single-maker death-preventing drug, yeah. But niacin tablets creating such a furor? Really?

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

We need to call John Carter. He would know where the water on Mars went.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

http://www.lg.com/us/mobile-ac...
Took 3 seconds to google it.
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If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

Does that include the Amazon Fire 7 Tablet that I picked up for $30 USD?

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If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.

If you want mine your own cryptocurrency, you need a motherboard with 19 PCIe 1X slots to plug in 19 GPUs and a couple of 1200W PSUs.