"The Seattle-based company also has opened its own line of bookstores...A bigger network of stores would put inventory closer to where shoppers live, potentially enabling quick delivery..."
So, Amazon defines progress as essentially converting themselves back into the very brick and mortar model they decimated? Putting inventory "where shoppers live"? Don't make that bullshit sound like it's some 21st century cutting edge concept; it's how the world did business for the last few thousand years.
Well, apparently the old bookstores didn't do it well enough to stay open. I'll be interested to see what Amazon brings to the table.
Me? It make me feel very uncomfortable, and I think we need legal mechanisms in place to take control over our data from these parties - even if we misguidedly gave some control away in the past, usually by having our trust betrayed or being bamboozled by small-print and legal linguistics.
"misguidedly gave some control away in the past"?
That's a nice rewriting of "actually bragged about our preferred politician's supposed tech savviness in doing this exact same thing."
Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America:
"“They [Facebook] came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side,” Davidsen tweeted." https://ijr.com/2018/03/107708...
Indeed. All things are good when done by Democrats, and all things are evil when done by Republicans.
If you disagree, you are guilty of whataboutism. And also probably racism, somehow. I'll figure out how later.
Planners have always created residential streets which are meant only for local traffic, not through-traffic. That is wholly a good thing, because maybe people who live there for one, don't want all the noise and pollution (there is a reason why freeways are surrounded by walls, and why generally one's back yard does not face a freeway directly, without obstruction), and for two, they might want to use that street for something other than a mass of cars flowing through (e.g. their children playing in it).
No, he doesn't have it all wrong.
First of all, our population would be flat or falling if we stopped unnecessary immigration, but I digress... adding more roads doesn't magically make more people and cars appear. (If they do, it's because you were artificially holding road capacity down previously.)
Google Maps doesn't route me through some neighborhood unless the main thoroughfares are insanely congested or blocked by accidents. Why would it?
If your bucolic streets are somehow faster than the highway, then there's a problem, and it isn't with Google Maps.
There was hardly any road traffic last week when kids were on spring break, proving just how much of an impact school alone can be with congestion. We have high-speed internet at home, inexpensive VPN technology, and cloud collaboration.
Well, sure, but "walking out" of your own home all by yourself to make some political point would hardly be as exciting...
The ToS maybe "bullshit", but its not even necessary... they don't have to wait until you violate the ToS they can decide they just don't like your face, without any ToS at all.
Er, almost. There are some reasons they don't like your face that may matter...
As far as I can tell, Amazon is a logistics and service company. They feel they can apply their techniques to almost any product or service type.
And the problem for other companies is that Amazon does those better than most, for reasonable prices.
Other companies, look to thineselves. If you don't want Amazon taking over, do your business better than them. Surely with all your complaints and accusations again them, it shouldn't be that hard...
Sad, as with all institutions of our lives, but at the same time, I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did.
I can't think of anything you can find at a Toys R Us that you can't find at a Walmart, say. Amazon owns online toy sales. And even the nature of toys has shifted a lot.
While technology firms are looking at compensation, they are also finding ways to create the supply of workers themselves, which helps hold costs down.
And this is why the bosses (as opposed to the usually sincere workers) at Google, Microsoft, etc. are all behind these "teach every person on Earth to code" programs.
I'm sorry if little Suzy doesn't want to code, but we need her to help keep down programmer salaries.
You're talking about a society made up of different groups of people with different requirements that are only linked by a common concept of time, and you're surprised that the best way to change anything in this diverse group is to adjust the only handle that is common to them all?
How does that make any sense? We have different groups, only one of which is those who enjoy the "later" sunlight, so the solution is to force everyone to have jet lag twice a year?
Meanwhile one California legislator exploring the idea of year-round standard time discovered that "youth sports leagues and families worried that a year-round early sunset would shut down their kids' after-school games."
If only we had artificial lighting... we could power it with electricity, perhaps.
Nah, let's just give every single human being jet lag twice a year with no way out.
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The tribal effect amazes me.
Obama and co were just super tech geniuses for using Facebook data. Now it's double plus ungood, because something.
"The Seattle-based company also has opened its own line of bookstores...A bigger network of stores would put inventory closer to where shoppers live, potentially enabling quick delivery..."
So, Amazon defines progress as essentially converting themselves back into the very brick and mortar model they decimated? Putting inventory "where shoppers live"? Don't make that bullshit sound like it's some 21st century cutting edge concept; it's how the world did business for the last few thousand years.
Well, apparently the old bookstores didn't do it well enough to stay open. I'll be interested to see what Amazon brings to the table.
mimicking the U.S. government-funded Voice of America that started up during World War II to advance American interests.
Er, yeah, if by "advance American interests" you mean "combat worldwide totalitarian movements that were grinding humanity under their boots".
China, OTOH, is the massive totalitarian movement grinding humanity under their boots.
Me? It make me feel very uncomfortable, and I think we need legal mechanisms in place to take control over our data from these parties - even if we misguidedly gave some control away in the past, usually by having our trust betrayed or being bamboozled by small-print and legal linguistics.
"misguidedly gave some control away in the past"?
That's a nice rewriting of "actually bragged about our preferred politician's supposed tech savviness in doing this exact same thing."
"The Data Crunching Prowess of Barack Obama" - https://politics.slashdot.org/...
Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America: "“They [Facebook] came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side,” Davidsen tweeted." https://ijr.com/2018/03/107708...
Indeed. All things are good when done by Democrats, and all things are evil when done by Republicans.
If you disagree, you are guilty of whataboutism. And also probably racism, somehow. I'll figure out how later.
You just proved my point. His rantings are exactly as insane as reptilian whatever, but we have to pretend that his content is respectable.
Actually, no. You have it all wrong.
Planners have always created residential streets which are meant only for local traffic, not through-traffic. That is wholly a good thing, because maybe people who live there for one, don't want all the noise and pollution (there is a reason why freeways are surrounded by walls, and why generally one's back yard does not face a freeway directly, without obstruction), and for two, they might want to use that street for something other than a mass of cars flowing through (e.g. their children playing in it).
No, he doesn't have it all wrong.
First of all, our population would be flat or falling if we stopped unnecessary immigration, but I digress ... adding more roads doesn't magically make more people and cars appear. (If they do, it's because you were artificially holding road capacity down previously.)
Google Maps doesn't route me through some neighborhood unless the main thoroughfares are insanely congested or blocked by accidents. Why would it?
If your bucolic streets are somehow faster than the highway, then there's a problem, and it isn't with Google Maps.
There was hardly any road traffic last week when kids were on spring break, proving just how much of an impact school alone can be with congestion. We have high-speed internet at home, inexpensive VPN technology, and cloud collaboration.
Well, sure, but "walking out" of your own home all by yourself to make some political point would hardly be as exciting ...
They should only allow content from respectable people like Louis Farrakhan!
The ToS maybe "bullshit", but its not even necessary... they don't have to wait until you violate the ToS they can decide they just don't like your face, without any ToS at all.
Er, almost. There are some reasons they don't like your face that may matter ...
That's of State of Michigan workers, not "Michigan workers". (Before the coasties get too smug)
(Then again, I wouldn't expect much better from a typical company. Anywhere.)
Their *real* mechanical turk ... some live dudes with headsets and voice changers power Alexa!
Pity the utility company.
Why the snark?
Humans work for utility companies, and humans own stock in them.
Why shouldn't those humans be concerned about making enough money?
As far as I can tell, Amazon is a logistics and service company. They feel they can apply their techniques to almost any product or service type.
And the problem for other companies is that Amazon does those better than most, for reasonable prices.
Other companies, look to thineselves. If you don't want Amazon taking over, do your business better than them. Surely with all your complaints and accusations again them, it shouldn't be that hard ...
Sad, as with all institutions of our lives, but at the same time, I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did.
I can't think of anything you can find at a Toys R Us that you can't find at a Walmart, say. Amazon owns online toy sales. And even the nature of toys has shifted a lot.
I am shocked, shocked that Google would want to disassociate itself from solid businesses like pyramid scheme phony currencies!
{your bitcoin winnings sir}
Thank you.
While technology firms are looking at compensation, they are also finding ways to create the supply of workers themselves, which helps hold costs down.
And this is why the bosses (as opposed to the usually sincere workers) at Google, Microsoft, etc. are all behind these "teach every person on Earth to code" programs.
I'm sorry if little Suzy doesn't want to code, but we need her to help keep down programmer salaries.
Er, is being a career spymaster a bad thing for leading the CIA? Just wondering.
Awesome. I can't wait to fly to work so I can snooze and occasionally push my one huge button.
Maybe all those non-white 90 year olds in three piece suits should have launched a spacecraft then ...
You're talking about a society made up of different groups of people with different requirements that are only linked by a common concept of time, and you're surprised that the best way to change anything in this diverse group is to adjust the only handle that is common to them all?
How does that make any sense? We have different groups, only one of which is those who enjoy the "later" sunlight, so the solution is to force everyone to have jet lag twice a year?
Meanwhile one California legislator exploring the idea of year-round standard time discovered that "youth sports leagues and families worried that a year-round early sunset would shut down their kids' after-school games."
If only we had artificial lighting ... we could power it with electricity, perhaps.
Nah, let's just give every single human being jet lag twice a year with no way out.
Alibaba is a great company and I do admire Jack Ma, but who in their right mind would invest in China after Xi Jinping went full dictator?
You ... thought it wasn't a dictatorship before?
Just to Slashdottify this, an AI would have learned by now to not try high speed rail in the US ...
These systems are simple brute force machine learning or "deep" learning systems.
Unlike human brains, right?
Apparently unlike, yes.
Just because we want them to be like, doesn't make it so.