Airlines weren't so optimized 30 years ago - many flights you could get standby seats reliably (I remember flying "student standby", which is lower than standby, for $30 or so). Other flights were always overbooked. Oddly enough, there were a lot of airline bankruptcies back then.
I've gotten a half-dozen refunds from Steam on the basis that "I didn't like it". All that Steam cares is less than two weeks, and less than two hours of game time. I think that's overly restrictive, personally, since I sometimes buy a set of games on sale, but it certainly enough to take a risk on a game.
Their financials have started to be less secretive. It's been clear for a couple of years now that the core businesses, retail and AWS, are quite profitable before reinvestment. Whether they'll grow into their stock price is anyone's guess, but it's not impossible.
The cargo planes are a different matter - it's not a new business, it's all about owning the distribution side. Amazon is getting too big for FedEx and UPS.
I guess. The weed store only takes cash, though, and the personal toy that comes in brown-paper wrapping shows up on the credit card bill as Amazon (probably why Amazon is the worlds largest sex toy vendor).
The thing about buying anything, unless you pay in person with cash, is that the seller has your info anyhow.
The value of BTC is
- the ease of sending money (as with email over snail mail).
- reasonable anonymity.
Why do people imagine that BTC has any sort of anonymity? Your IP address (with timestamp) is about as anonymous as your physical address to the government, and that's permanently recorded in the blockchain. I guess you could be anonymous to the other party, but how often is that useful?
It's not the same order of magnitude of risk or volatility, though. I worry that unchecked US government spending might hurt the currency, for example, but that's a worry that inflation may rise by 3-5 percent a year. That would be a shocking (and unlikely) move for the dollar. There's more risk and volatility in the CNY, but that's still nothing compared to BTC.
The investment banks play only a predatory role in the economy. The economy would not have been the worse for their absence. The difficulty normal, retail banks -- banks in the business of checking/savings accounts and loans and so on -- were having was being handled in an orderly fashion by the Fed. The weak were being culled, but there was no danger of "collapse". The investment banks, OTOH, were on the brink. But they do nothing useful to begin with, so nothing of value would have been lost.
All Bush and Obama did was hand a couple of trillion dollars over to bankers. Single largest looting of a nations treasury in world history. Had they instead simply allowed all the investment banks to fail: the world would have kept turning, the sun would have risen, and people would have found a way to accept payment from one another. Oh, it might have taken a couple of weeks to become efficient again, to route around the damage, but commerce would have gone on with barely a hiccup.
But no, we paid nearly $20,000 per taxpayer to bankers. That shows who the real power in America is, and it doesn't seem to matter much who's president.
Donald Trump has (well, will soon enough) the presidential alert system, so he can message everyone's phone instead. With a piercing alarm, at 3AM, and you can't disable this (unless you root your phone). Trump will be fine.
But where will the Twitter hate mobs go to get their outrage on? What if a scientists wears the wrong shirt - how will they know to be outraged? How will they live if Twitter goes under?
Without either reloading the entire page or using JavaScript, how can a comment section like this load newly posted comments when the user requests new comments or load comments below the previous score threshold when the user requests to lower the score threshold?
I read Slashdot in the mode where there's none of that. It's fast. Well, faster - because it's still making the advertisers happy.
You're talking about fast, as seen by the user. They don't care about that at all - they're optimizing for fast as seen by the server: less bandwidth. Anything they can offload is a win, no matter how much the user experience sucks.
Right, so fake news is what the other side reads, while the news I read is the unimpeachable truth (except when it's wrong, but that's still not fake news).
What I find most aggravating are the red light runners. You don't have to cycle for long to realize that cars don't look for cycles when turning left, so inviting that collision is the height of folly.
Learn something about the industry. Uber is not a taxi service - uber cars aren't specially marked and lit, you can't hail one from the street, they aren't metered, etc. Uber is a new kind of hired car service - a low end version of a towncar service. Uber's first service was just internet-dispatched towncars.
Heck, in a lot of places (including where I live now), it's cheaper to take a towncar to and from the airport than a taxi. There seems to be some cultural barrier to wide adoption of towncars, though, so Uber went downmarket.
When I was studying logic in college, I heard a story of an older logic professor who was famous for his honesty. One day a student asked him outright if he had ever told a lie. He thought for a long time, and then answered "yes".
No, then you have how humans lived for most of the history of the species: rule by social norms and peer enforcement. Not at all what I would welcome, but I think all those horrible normal people would be just fine.
Very true. It's just that 99% of cyclists give the other 1% a bad name. It's rare to see a cyclist in Seattle that isn't breaking the rules of the road as you watch - it must take real effort to break traffic laws so continuously.
I'm sure that one is actually fake, but then so is "hands up don't shoot" and Rathergate. Any source you turn to for fact-checking anything remotely political is also on one side or the other these days, so how do you check more subtle stuff? As a historian about the accuracy of written sources, throughout history. Heck, the "children's crusade" fooled a lot of people who should, professionally, have known better.
Well, the GOP establishment was the most useless bunch of wankers in modern politics, so no loss there. If you object to rule by family line, I can only hope you were against both Clinton and Bush this time around. If you're against the president having too much power, well, the Constitution is a start - now if we could only get a few SCOTUSlings who respected it.
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Airlines weren't so optimized 30 years ago - many flights you could get standby seats reliably (I remember flying "student standby", which is lower than standby, for $30 or so). Other flights were always overbooked. Oddly enough, there were a lot of airline bankruptcies back then.
Maybe "they didn't like it"?
I've gotten a half-dozen refunds from Steam on the basis that "I didn't like it". All that Steam cares is less than two weeks, and less than two hours of game time. I think that's overly restrictive, personally, since I sometimes buy a set of games on sale, but it certainly enough to take a risk on a game.
Their financials have started to be less secretive. It's been clear for a couple of years now that the core businesses, retail and AWS, are quite profitable before reinvestment. Whether they'll grow into their stock price is anyone's guess, but it's not impossible.
The cargo planes are a different matter - it's not a new business, it's all about owning the distribution side. Amazon is getting too big for FedEx and UPS.
I guess. The weed store only takes cash, though, and the personal toy that comes in brown-paper wrapping shows up on the credit card bill as Amazon (probably why Amazon is the worlds largest sex toy vendor).
The thing about buying anything, unless you pay in person with cash, is that the seller has your info anyhow.
OK, but my point was: who else would you want anonymity from, besides the government?
If you make a bet at a casino and win, that doesn't mean it was a good bet.
The value of BTC is
- the ease of sending money (as with email over snail mail).
- reasonable anonymity.
Why do people imagine that BTC has any sort of anonymity? Your IP address (with timestamp) is about as anonymous as your physical address to the government, and that's permanently recorded in the blockchain. I guess you could be anonymous to the other party, but how often is that useful?
It's not the same order of magnitude of risk or volatility, though. I worry that unchecked US government spending might hurt the currency, for example, but that's a worry that inflation may rise by 3-5 percent a year. That would be a shocking (and unlikely) move for the dollar. There's more risk and volatility in the CNY, but that's still nothing compared to BTC.
The investment banks play only a predatory role in the economy. The economy would not have been the worse for their absence. The difficulty normal, retail banks -- banks in the business of checking/savings accounts and loans and so on -- were having was being handled in an orderly fashion by the Fed. The weak were being culled, but there was no danger of "collapse". The investment banks, OTOH, were on the brink. But they do nothing useful to begin with, so nothing of value would have been lost.
All Bush and Obama did was hand a couple of trillion dollars over to bankers. Single largest looting of a nations treasury in world history. Had they instead simply allowed all the investment banks to fail: the world would have kept turning, the sun would have risen, and people would have found a way to accept payment from one another. Oh, it might have taken a couple of weeks to become efficient again, to route around the damage, but commerce would have gone on with barely a hiccup.
But no, we paid nearly $20,000 per taxpayer to bankers. That shows who the real power in America is, and it doesn't seem to matter much who's president.
If it's a US phone, you can turn off weather alerts and EAS alerts, but not presidential alerts.
Of course she's a witch! They wouldn't have accused her of being a witch unless she was involved in some malicious crap ...
Donald Trump has (well, will soon enough) the presidential alert system, so he can message everyone's phone instead. With a piercing alarm, at 3AM, and you can't disable this (unless you root your phone). Trump will be fine.
But where will the Twitter hate mobs go to get their outrage on? What if a scientists wears the wrong shirt - how will they know to be outraged? How will they live if Twitter goes under?
Without either reloading the entire page or using JavaScript, how can a comment section like this load newly posted comments when the user requests new comments or load comments below the previous score threshold when the user requests to lower the score threshold?
I read Slashdot in the mode where there's none of that. It's fast. Well, faster - because it's still making the advertisers happy.
Huh - this didn't summon APK. Maybe he's taking a week off for Christmas.
You're talking about fast, as seen by the user. They don't care about that at all - they're optimizing for fast as seen by the server: less bandwidth. Anything they can offload is a win, no matter how much the user experience sucks.
Right, so fake news is what the other side reads, while the news I read is the unimpeachable truth (except when it's wrong, but that's still not fake news).
What I find most aggravating are the red light runners. You don't have to cycle for long to realize that cars don't look for cycles when turning left, so inviting that collision is the height of folly.
Learn something about the industry. Uber is not a taxi service - uber cars aren't specially marked and lit, you can't hail one from the street, they aren't metered, etc. Uber is a new kind of hired car service - a low end version of a towncar service. Uber's first service was just internet-dispatched towncars.
Heck, in a lot of places (including where I live now), it's cheaper to take a towncar to and from the airport than a taxi. There seems to be some cultural barrier to wide adoption of towncars, though, so Uber went downmarket.
When I was studying logic in college, I heard a story of an older logic professor who was famous for his honesty. One day a student asked him outright if he had ever told a lie. He thought for a long time, and then answered "yes".
110010001000 vs creimer! Who will win? I'm rooting for ... casualties!
No, then you have how humans lived for most of the history of the species: rule by social norms and peer enforcement. Not at all what I would welcome, but I think all those horrible normal people would be just fine.
Not all cyclists are assholes
Very true. It's just that 99% of cyclists give the other 1% a bad name. It's rare to see a cyclist in Seattle that isn't breaking the rules of the road as you watch - it must take real effort to break traffic laws so continuously.
I'm sure that one is actually fake, but then so is "hands up don't shoot" and Rathergate. Any source you turn to for fact-checking anything remotely political is also on one side or the other these days, so how do you check more subtle stuff? As a historian about the accuracy of written sources, throughout history. Heck, the "children's crusade" fooled a lot of people who should, professionally, have known better.
Well, the GOP establishment was the most useless bunch of wankers in modern politics, so no loss there. If you object to rule by family line, I can only hope you were against both Clinton and Bush this time around. If you're against the president having too much power, well, the Constitution is a start - now if we could only get a few SCOTUSlings who respected it.