Your story proves that Darwin will have his cull regardless of labeling. (Also, take any story where someone makes it to the hospital alive, but dies there of an allergy, with a grain of salt - that's quite rare.)
To me, that's not really the point. I don't want to have to personally investigate the quality of basic foods (high-end stuff marketed as better than normal or specialty, that's different). Having a minimum quality bar before using certain words on a label sounds like simple fraud prevention to me.
By that light, I don't see the problem here: soy, milk is not being fraudulently sold as dairy milk, or used to stretch dairy milk to reduce cost or anything like that. A regulation requiring the qualifier "soy" prominently displayed? Sure, that makes sense.
I know that attention switching leads to reduced ability to focus and go deep, but day-to-day survival and optimization these days don't require those skills from most people. The more important skill is knowing from your phone and text-friends what's up right now and just next, and how not to miss it.
We seem to have a real survival-affecting problem with people focusing on driving and not texting! There are still plenty of times in daily life when you need to focus down on one thing or risk death. Crossing the street, to begin with.
It's a myth that there's a large population of legal citizens that don't have an ID.
The myth is that it's legal citizens that the Democrats are protecting here. It's a lot more difficult to get that ID if you're here illegally, or if you're dead. It would be a horrible burden on e.g. Chicago machine politics - they'd have to get people into jobs in the DMV offices and everything!
Stuff "sold by Amazon" is not mixed with stuff from third party sellers, but that's different from "fulfilled by Amazon". And stuff from different third party sellers can theoretically get mixed, which is just frustrating for everyone. Most people aren't going to be looking for the difference between "Sold by" and "fulfilled by" either, especially for stuff that's "prime eligible". Sold on the main page and "prime eligible" really make it look like Amazon is selling it.
Target doesn't allow third party sellers. You don't have these problems if you stick to stuff "sold by Amazon", but everything else is sort of a flea market. IMO, fraudulent sellers in general are a big problem. If the Chinese seller ships you anything you're better than average.
Amazon needs to get on top of obvious patterns of fraud. If I can recognize that a seller is likely fraudulent, so can an algorithm. Some of the problems are more subtle and require a specialist to spot bad products (e.g., hard drives or camera lenses), but Amazon can hire those.
Btw, think voter ID is gonna fix it? Guess what you need to produce a fake id? Name and address.
Woldn't be a magic bullet, but it would still help. It would require election fraud to be better organized, farther ahead of time, and involve more people in the planning. Much bigger risk of getting caught.
In-person voter fraud is extremely rare.
You can't know that. All we know is how often people get caught - and they only ever get caught by the winning side. Chicago machine politics has been Chicago machine politics for far more than a century.
That is a false and idiotic statement. There is such a thing as uninsurable drivers, and that's where state may have to jump in if the driver is not able to place a 30K bond with the DMV in lieu of insurance.
After a couple at-fault accidents or even just DUI convictions (no accidents), your rates are going through the roof to the point where it isn't affordable to have insurance, and no insurer is "required" to "lose" money by covering you at your older rates.
Everything varies by state, and there may be explicit cut-outs to deliberately screw DUIs in some states. Most states though have some sort of state-managed high-risk plan - heck it's often the only way teenage males can get insurance.
If you have auto insurance, it's going up after you have a wreck - but they'll pay for the wreck. Heck, you can even buy a rider that insures your insurance rate (forgiveness for an accident).
You also have a max you can be charged for your auto insurance - the way that works varies from state to state, but insurers are required to lose money on the highest-risk drivers in order to enter the market. Seems like that would work just fine for health insurance. If you're a fat lazy slob like me, you'll pay more - but not infinitely more.
He's certainly a control freak - apparently the Fire Phone was his pet project, and Amazon made a phone that only he wanted.
But that has nothing to do with greed. Holding on to some stock you got nearly 20 years ago because you don't feel then need to sell it to buy stuff isn't really greed. Turning down compensation certainly isn't greed.
Like most people who become successful CEOs, his Conscientiousness personality trait is way the Hell out there in the thin in of the bell curve. Greedy people take the money and run. Workaholics keep working long after it matters. Different thing, there.
If you were on a boat with a feast sufficient for all which you have earned, and there were starving masses below deck without the opportunities you had, are you evil for not sharing?
Pretty sure Bezos eats less than I do. Having shares of stock lying around deprives no one of any thing.
Do you even understand the distinction between income and wealth? Amazon pay Bezos a token salary. He has vast wealth. But for "limitless greed", there is no "enough", otherwise you have limited greed. The fact that Bezos chooses not to get paid much by Amazon is solid proof that his greed is not, in fact, limitless. QED.
Recall the recent awareness around plastic straws? That was Nat Geo.
So, fake news? Plastic straws are something like 0.03% of ocean plastic (and the US accounts for about 1% of ocean plastic). "Awareness" of them is feel-good hippie nonsense with no practical relevance. Ocean plastic itself is mostly the result of dumping trash at sea - that's the problem to fix.
I installed on some ancient POS, probably 386. I remember 16 floppies for Slackware, and 32 for xwindows. Had to manually configure monitor settings (number of scan lines and timings) for the GUI. Good times.
Trolling has been on a sad decline on Slashdot. and with it the "immune system" of readers able to spot a troll easily. I guess we should thank binary boy for upholding the tradition. Almost nothing marked "Troll" these days is actually trolling, but at least we have one example we can point to for educational purposes. Sigh, I miss DocRuby.
This means more retails shops like Sears/ToysRUs will close down, I am pretty sure this affects retail real estate all over the country. So literally hundred of thousands of people will lose their jobs and there is a cascading effect.
Amazon accounts for around 5% of retail, smaller than WalMart, They're the big dog in online retail, (when they can keep their site up), but they're far from the reason broken businesses like Sears are failing.
The disease of Obscene Greed has proven to be limitless
According to the required federal reporting on CEo compensation, Bezos was paid $80k in 2017 (previously he had been making the Amazon salary cap of $176k). He refused the boards offer of additional stock. I'm pretty sure that's not what limitless greed looks like.
His wealth is all from stock he got when Amazon went public, that he's still holding on to. Seems reasonable to me that someone who starts a company in his garage and eventually takes it public gets some chunk of stock when that happens. Is he somehow evil because the company was quite successful in the years that followed?
Revolutions don't work any more. Militaries and intelligence technologies are too powerful. If you want a revolution to work- you have to have the backing of the military.
Or ex-military, like the American Revolution. Hardly a new thing.
you'll get banks who will deny student loans because the major you want to pursue is on the bank's secret blacklist of college majors not to approve loans for because the default rate for that major is too high.
That list is hardly a secret. Hint: if the major contains the word "studies", you'll still be working at Starbucks afterwards.
It was a direct copy of Singles Day, the highest-volume shopping day in the world. Singles Day was created by Alibaba IIRC, as a sort of joke on Valentines day, first on 11/11/11. It was wildly successful in China (and is one of Amazon's big days as well).
No surprise Amazon wanted a piece of that action, and it turns out people don't need a theme for a shopping holiday, just an excuse.
That's why we need laws to force companies to be good.
"Good" as defined by the state? Seems like we should do the least of that we can to keep a functioning society. Otherwise, to pick a random example, we'd have the president insisting news companies only report "real news" and forcing companies to stop reporting "fake news".
How about his instead: we need laws to prevent fraud and enforce contracts. Gets the job done, doesn't get into whether the state believes abortions are "good" or need to be banned this year.
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Your story proves that Darwin will have his cull regardless of labeling. (Also, take any story where someone makes it to the hospital alive, but dies there of an allergy, with a grain of salt - that's quite rare.)
To me, that's not really the point. I don't want to have to personally investigate the quality of basic foods (high-end stuff marketed as better than normal or specialty, that's different). Having a minimum quality bar before using certain words on a label sounds like simple fraud prevention to me.
By that light, I don't see the problem here: soy, milk is not being fraudulently sold as dairy milk, or used to stretch dairy milk to reduce cost or anything like that. A regulation requiring the qualifier "soy" prominently displayed? Sure, that makes sense.
I know that attention switching leads to reduced ability to focus and go deep, but day-to-day survival and optimization these days don't require those skills from most people. The more important skill is knowing from your phone and text-friends what's up right now and just next, and how not to miss it.
We seem to have a real survival-affecting problem with people focusing on driving and not texting! There are still plenty of times in daily life when you need to focus down on one thing or risk death. Crossing the street, to begin with.
It's a myth that there's a large population of legal citizens that don't have an ID.
The myth is that it's legal citizens that the Democrats are protecting here. It's a lot more difficult to get that ID if you're here illegally, or if you're dead. It would be a horrible burden on e.g. Chicago machine politics - they'd have to get people into jobs in the DMV offices and everything!
Stuff "sold by Amazon" is not mixed with stuff from third party sellers, but that's different from "fulfilled by Amazon". And stuff from different third party sellers can theoretically get mixed, which is just frustrating for everyone. Most people aren't going to be looking for the difference between "Sold by" and "fulfilled by" either, especially for stuff that's "prime eligible". Sold on the main page and "prime eligible" really make it look like Amazon is selling it.
Target doesn't allow third party sellers. You don't have these problems if you stick to stuff "sold by Amazon", but everything else is sort of a flea market. IMO, fraudulent sellers in general are a big problem. If the Chinese seller ships you anything you're better than average.
Amazon needs to get on top of obvious patterns of fraud. If I can recognize that a seller is likely fraudulent, so can an algorithm. Some of the problems are more subtle and require a specialist to spot bad products (e.g., hard drives or camera lenses), but Amazon can hire those.
Btw, think voter ID is gonna fix it? Guess what you need to produce a fake id? Name and address.
Woldn't be a magic bullet, but it would still help. It would require election fraud to be better organized, farther ahead of time, and involve more people in the planning. Much bigger risk of getting caught.
In-person voter fraud is extremely rare.
You can't know that. All we know is how often people get caught - and they only ever get caught by the winning side. Chicago machine politics has been Chicago machine politics for far more than a century.
That is a false and idiotic statement. There is such a thing as uninsurable drivers, and that's where state may have to jump in if the driver is not able to place a 30K bond with the DMV in lieu of insurance.
After a couple at-fault accidents or even just DUI convictions (no accidents), your rates are going through the roof to the point where it isn't affordable to have insurance, and no insurer is "required" to "lose" money by covering you at your older rates.
Everything varies by state, and there may be explicit cut-outs to deliberately screw DUIs in some states. Most states though have some sort of state-managed high-risk plan - heck it's often the only way teenage males can get insurance.
So what happens if google just refuses to pay?
Nice business you have here. Pity if something happened to it.
Google has money. The EU wants money and has guns. The EU will find whatever excuse needed to keep the money coming in.
If you have auto insurance, it's going up after you have a wreck - but they'll pay for the wreck. Heck, you can even buy a rider that insures your insurance rate (forgiveness for an accident).
You also have a max you can be charged for your auto insurance - the way that works varies from state to state, but insurers are required to lose money on the highest-risk drivers in order to enter the market. Seems like that would work just fine for health insurance. If you're a fat lazy slob like me, you'll pay more - but not infinitely more.
Please mod AC up - an informative AC is a unicorn on Slashdot!
He's certainly a control freak - apparently the Fire Phone was his pet project, and Amazon made a phone that only he wanted.
But that has nothing to do with greed. Holding on to some stock you got nearly 20 years ago because you don't feel then need to sell it to buy stuff isn't really greed. Turning down compensation certainly isn't greed.
Like most people who become successful CEOs, his Conscientiousness personality trait is way the Hell out there in the thin in of the bell curve. Greedy people take the money and run. Workaholics keep working long after it matters. Different thing, there.
If you were on a boat with a feast sufficient for all which you have earned, and there were starving masses below deck without the opportunities you had, are you evil for not sharing?
Pretty sure Bezos eats less than I do. Having shares of stock lying around deprives no one of any thing.
Do you even understand the distinction between income and wealth? Amazon pay Bezos a token salary. He has vast wealth. But for "limitless greed", there is no "enough", otherwise you have limited greed. The fact that Bezos chooses not to get paid much by Amazon is solid proof that his greed is not, in fact, limitless. QED.
Recall the recent awareness around plastic straws? That was Nat Geo.
So, fake news? Plastic straws are something like 0.03% of ocean plastic (and the US accounts for about 1% of ocean plastic). "Awareness" of them is feel-good hippie nonsense with no practical relevance. Ocean plastic itself is mostly the result of dumping trash at sea - that's the problem to fix.
I installed on some ancient POS, probably 386. I remember 16 floppies for Slackware, and 32 for xwindows. Had to manually configure monitor settings (number of scan lines and timings) for the GUI. Good times.
Trolling has been on a sad decline on Slashdot. and with it the "immune system" of readers able to spot a troll easily. I guess we should thank binary boy for upholding the tradition. Almost nothing marked "Troll" these days is actually trolling, but at least we have one example we can point to for educational purposes. Sigh, I miss DocRuby.
How is the supercharger network paying for its own growth? Are they charging (erm, financially charging) Model 3 owners, or everyone?
This means more retails shops like Sears/ToysRUs will close down, I am pretty sure this affects retail real estate all over the country. So literally hundred of thousands of people will lose their jobs and there is a cascading effect.
Amazon accounts for around 5% of retail, smaller than WalMart, They're the big dog in online retail, (when they can keep their site up), but they're far from the reason broken businesses like Sears are failing.
The disease of Obscene Greed has proven to be limitless
According to the required federal reporting on CEo compensation, Bezos was paid $80k in 2017 (previously he had been making the Amazon salary cap of $176k). He refused the boards offer of additional stock. I'm pretty sure that's not what limitless greed looks like.
His wealth is all from stock he got when Amazon went public, that he's still holding on to. Seems reasonable to me that someone who starts a company in his garage and eventually takes it public gets some chunk of stock when that happens. Is he somehow evil because the company was quite successful in the years that followed?
He sells $1B a year in order to fund his spaceship company. Otherwise, he's pretty much just sitting on the stock he got when Amazon went public.
Looks more like they divided by zero.
Revolutions don't work any more. Militaries and intelligence technologies are too powerful. If you want a revolution to work- you have to have the backing of the military.
Or ex-military, like the American Revolution. Hardly a new thing.
you'll get banks who will deny student loans because the major you want to pursue is on the bank's secret blacklist of college majors not to approve loans for because the default rate for that major is too high.
That list is hardly a secret. Hint: if the major contains the word "studies", you'll still be working at Starbucks afterwards.
It was a direct copy of Singles Day, the highest-volume shopping day in the world. Singles Day was created by Alibaba IIRC, as a sort of joke on Valentines day, first on 11/11/11. It was wildly successful in China (and is one of Amazon's big days as well).
No surprise Amazon wanted a piece of that action, and it turns out people don't need a theme for a shopping holiday, just an excuse.
That's why we need laws to force companies to be good.
"Good" as defined by the state? Seems like we should do the least of that we can to keep a functioning society. Otherwise, to pick a random example, we'd have the president insisting news companies only report "real news" and forcing companies to stop reporting "fake news".
How about his instead: we need laws to prevent fraud and enforce contracts. Gets the job done, doesn't get into whether the state believes abortions are "good" or need to be banned this year.