Thank you for your concern. I go through an airport over 100 times each year.
I did not have to empty and refill my bottle, which is convenient. I do not have to remember to empty it or face hostility and confiscation of my (durable, priced-for-reuse) water bottle.
I have asked what I could bring and the answer was "Any liquid! You can bring a case of wine if you like!" so I could bring drinks not easily available in the airport, or gifts of liquid to bring home, and so on.
As it happens, while Schiphol has many good features, its water fountains are currently supplied with water at such low pressure that you cannot fill a bottle from them. So carrying water into Schiphol, rather than purchasing it, is still an advantage.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has had this for some months now. It's great. It's like travelling in the future. I know because I travel there very regularly.
You unload your pocket contents into a jacket, bag, or onto a tray. You put your jacket, bag, etc, into the same or more trays. You don't take anything out of your bags. You also don't take your shoes off unless they are heavy boots.
It all goes through a scanner. You pick it up the other side. Maybe the scanner pass takes slightly longer, but you save time overall because you don't have to unload and reload everything.
The rate of secondary search is far less than with the old scanners, and after a few months' practice the staff are almost as fast with the old scanners too - queues are shorter than they used to be.I take all sorts of stuff in my bag (laptop and cables, several electronics, medicines, keys, carabiners, etc) and I still rarely get a secondary search. Yet, I know from shoulder-surfing the scanner operator that they can identify and check suspicious things more carefully - there's a great zoom-pan-rotate function for inspecting any item in detail. It's a little uncanny.
You can even take any liquid you like through - I often take a water bottle still full of water. Sometimes that gets a secondary check in a liquids inspector, but that's still not a problem.
It is far better than the current USA TSA experience. It is far, far less stressful and much faster.
The staff like it too; they're very pleased with the scanners and the smoother passenger experience. I've talked to them several times about it (try talking to a TSA agent...) and they are enthusiastic about how good the scanners are. Of course, the Dutch security staff are much more reasonable than the TSA overall.
"Maximum penalties for misuse of private data was raised from AU$2.1 million to AU$10 million -- or 10 percent of the company's domestic revenue,..."
That's where the Aussies are going wrong.
The EU is feared because they fine based on global revenues. It's not just a few dollars of Aussie revenue at stake, it's billions at stake for companies who do wrong in the EU.
This also stops games like claiming revenues are low in one country because the money paid by the consumer in that country are sent to a different country to "provide services".
Of course it's the Enterprise version and I'm sure that internally Oracle (mysql division) are billing oracle (cloud division) in funny-money, but the actual cost to provide it for Oracle is very low. There aren't many differences, or much coding effort, between the Community (Free) and Enterprise MySQL - just enough to get Enterprises to pay for the extra audit and thread pool (i.e. helpers for crappy applications that can't use a database correctly) support.
However the big point of Oracle cloud is not that it has MySQL, but that it can supply your on-premises private cloud infrastructure as well as off-premises public cloud. Their aim is to satisfy those people who want their data on-premises for one reason or another, but don't want to have to do the work of building that infrastructure themselves.
MS Azure cloud is wildly popular with Linux people, rather to MS's surprise - there are far more Linux customers than Windows Server customers in Azure. Meanwhile, if you want to run your desktop app back end in the cloud (i.e. Office 365) and have decent Windows hosting, Azure will do that for you with one supplier contract. That's a really strong advantage of Azure. Microsoft still has the global hold on office applications and they can, if they're reasonably smart, transition that into becoming the "inevitable" cloud supplier for companies with a lot of office-application users.
IBM... isn't looking like it has any of the advantages. They don't have the advantage of being the first choice for Chinese companies, nor the cheapest and biggest, nor the public/private single interface, nor the obvious place to keep your MS desktop apps while closing your datacenter. They're also late to the game.
Funnily enough "might as well give all your IP to the Americans" is what the Chinese think about AWS, and also that being at the whim of the US government could be bad for your reliability. Being Chinese, they're already at the whim of the Chinese government - why add trouble by using a US cloud provider?
What's going to be the leading platform for capabilities in the software design?
Is this going to be apps designed for Mac OS first and then adapted for iOS and touch interface limitations?
Or is it going to be iOS applications running on Mac OS with all the small-screen, touch interface, single task, single window restrictions of iOS design in the Mac OS app?
I fear it will be the second one, and Mac OS apps will get worse as a result.
I have an iPad pro and I've tried working on it. I'm using a Mac and not an iPad because the iPad is no use for serious, creative work.
Encouraged by their own self-interest, many stakeholders (governments, tax authorities, retailers, customers) give a small number of oligopolists huge market power to increase their revenues.
The oligopolists do so and everyone is surprised.
You all went cashless, retailers all went cashless, and now you're surprised that the payment infrastructure operators are taking the opportunity to charge more? Why are you surprised that an under-regulated profit-making entity in a position of great power would choose to make more money if they could?
Payment processors have too much power, given to them by retailers and by consumers.
Consumers who willingly said "I never carry cash", who say "I want to pay by card", who choose to let several other people get between them and the person they're buying from. Instead of you handing cash to the merchant, now you have the card issuer, the bank, and the payment processor between you and the merchant. You're surprised that someone would try to extract more money from you?
Don't be so naive. Pay cash next time and thereafter. Reject cashless business as much as you can.
What is the problem that this is trying to solve? The problem that Uber does not make enough money to satisfy the greed of their investors and executives. Also that even externalising costs and breaking laws to reduce costs, Uber still isn't profitable. Malicious, amoral AND incompetent - that's Uber.
What is wrong with these people? They are amoral profit seekers who want to make as much money as possible and have no problem with externalising costs as much as possible so they maximise their profit.
Bonus answer: What is wrong with the other people, the ones who aren't the Uber execs or investors? They are willing to stand by while badly regulated corporations make profits while passing on costs (clean up of broken scooters, hits from un- or under-insured illegal taxi drivers, medical care for people assaulted by their illegal taxi drivers, social welfare costs of supporting their under-paid drivers, pollution and road congestion from their illegal taxis displacing public transport.
Do you have very easily accessible bottle deposit redemption facilities - as easily accessible as the bottle sale facility?
Japan does not do deposit, but does have an empty bottle container attached to most vending machines. You don't have to carry your empty bottle far before you can dispose of it.
In most countries with a deposit scheme, it's not easy to get your deposit back. If you buy a drink in most shops in, say, Helsinki, you can't return it there for a deposit. Similarly in Denmark - only larger supermarkets have the return facility. The assumption is that you will store up your bottles at home and take them to the return facility when you do your shopping, which is an assumption that you will carry the empty bottle (bulky, intact, you can't use the machine with a crushed bottle) around and store it until you next go to a supermarket. It's also an assumption that you can transport those bulky empty bottles with you; problematic for a larger number of bottles without a personal vehicle. California is also like that.
in the USA, yes. In Europe, we find this to be unnatural, irritating, even ridiculous. We do not want to be hectored at high volume from the TV, we want to be informed in a measured and evenly-spoken fashion.
So Alexa is optimising for just one market's cultural communication preferences - a typical internationalisation failure by a large corporation.
They're unrepentant that their tech goes wrong and refuse to say how often it goes wrong - in fact they probably don't even know because they don't care, but even if they do know they're refusing to say how wrong it is.
So their claim to remove 8.7M eeeeevul kiddieporns is just a fiction. They removed 8.7M pictures and less, maybe a lot less, than 8.7M eeeevul kiddieporns.
"Our Community Standards ban child exploitation and to avoid even the potential for abuse, we take action on nonsexual content as well, like seemingly benign photos of children in the bath. " is not an apology of any sort.
After they have wrongly removed a picture, what do they do with the account that posted it? Mark it as "posted a picture that was removed because we guessed it was kiddieporn"? If so what does that do later, when they rank your content down because they say you're a suspected kiddiepornographer? Do they give your name to the police to investigate?
No, there is no apology in this announcement.
When Facebook got caught out in the past by someone important enough that they could not just ignore them (the Prime Minister of Norway), they said they were sorry and would learn from this. They lied - they have not learned from this and are not sorry and you can see this today.
There is absolutely no apology or consideration from Facebook of the false positives. They just don't care that they get it wrong. They're saying that they have to destroy photo-sharing of children to save it.
How much content did they remove that did not violate their guidelines, or was not illegal?
Of course they focus on sex only. No mention of filtering of depiction of violence or violent content - they wouldn't want to upset the sort of President who thinks it's fine to violently assault people he dislikes or disagrees with.
This isn't looking good for anyone thinking they can drive or ride for Uber in the long term. Clearly Uber wants to replace those pesky humans with robots, for taxi service, food delivery service, and I'm sure other delivery services too.
So much for Uber's claims to provide employment and earning opportunities for a wide range of people.
It's good that the Tesla Model 3 has a 5* crash rating.
So do the direct competitors (in cost): Mercedes C-Class, BMW 3-series, Volvo S60, etc and some of lower-cost alternatives: Ford Focus, Chevrolet Malibu, etc
NHTSA 5* rating is not uncommon. This is only Tesla keeping up with the other good cars available today, not worthy of a headline.
Cars in Spain are as loud as anywhere else: not very, unless modified by the owner to make more noise than it did when it left the manufacturer.
Motorbikes and scooters in Spain are as loud as anywhere else in Europe: loud or very loud. In particular, small motorbikes are very much louder than cars.
I strongly suspect that the decrease in ambient noise volume is from two things, neither of them being car engines: Removing the Spanish drivers and their horn buttons from the town, and removing the scooter and motorcycle engines from the town.
Is this going to result in removal of posts by televangelists asking for donations to help God save the donors?
Not only is the God they are peddling an illusion, but televangelists usually spend the money on their own pleasure and comfort instead of any missionary activities of their religion.
They are both useless to the donor and actively fraudulent in their own universe.
This probably explains the great enthusiasm of Facebook to try to get me to download Facebook Lite, "only 2MB", when I use the Facebook web interface on mobile.
Unfortunately for them the reason I don't have a Facebook app on my phone is not that I lack the storage but that I lack any trust that they will not siphon off my personal information for their own uses and abuses.
2MB is pretty small, I bet even the crap-phones have that much storage.
Just make this a LAN party and they'll get plenty of younger male study subjects: free food and fast internet to play videogames for 10 days.
That will lead to bad science, though. Too much medical science is already dominated by younger people, males, and white people. Older people, women and especially ethnic minorities are under-represented in medical trials. That leads to treatments and drugs that don't work as well on older people, women and especially ethnic minorities.
This is a very similar business model to online display advertising click fraud. They are causing hits on a service that then pays themselves per-hit from someone else's money.
The remedies are similar too: look for outlier usage patterns and terminate the contracts of those people.
Hawaii is, mostly, a sunny place. Yet on the Big Island, I see very few solar panels on buildings. In fact the only reference I've seen anytime recently was some dude in the houses near the current eruption who said "I got my solar panels and batteries out, phew, saved $4000 of gear". If Hawaii is serious about reducing CO2 emissions, every house should have solar cells and many should have large storage batteries too.
The mostly fossil fuel-generated electricity is expensive (most expensive in the USA) so electric cars are less of a win compared to cost of petroleum fuels than in the rest of the USA. The average Hawaiian is not rich - buying Teslas is not within their budget. If they had solar cells on their buildings then the incremental cost of recharging an electric car would be far less than buying in power.
Honolulu, like every other hot Asian or American city, is power hungry. Yet there, I still see little solar power, either on buildings or nearby on the ground.
Meanwhile, Hawaii may have been created by volcanoes, but in practice the volcanoes have moved on from Oahu. So Honolulu cannot have a nearby geothermal power plant (source: https://www.hawaiianelectric.c...) The geothermal power plant on the Big Island, at Puna, is currently being reclaimed by Pele - lava flows have mostly wrecked it and that's a risk wherever you get near the hottest ground. Very hot ground is near magma, which may well erupt nearby unpredictably. Not great for an expensive capital investment. Not great for anything you are betting to keep the lights on with (Puna only supplied 20% of Big Island power when it was destroyed, if that had been 80% there would be a lot more problems on the island).
Hawaii doesn't have a lot of precipitation and large rivers to dam, unlike Iceland. So we're back to solar and storage.
Hawaiians, where are your solar panels? Your plan is bust without them.
There are other companies that would expand in Seattle if it wasn't so hard to find office space because Amazon has leased some much of the prime downtown space.
Also, corporate bullies need to be told where to go: don't let the door hit you on the way out, Bezos. Amazon could afford this without a problem, they just don't want to pay.
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Yes. Time zones are great like that.
Thank you for your concern. I go through an airport over 100 times each year.
I did not have to empty and refill my bottle, which is convenient. I do not have to remember to empty it or face hostility and confiscation of my (durable, priced-for-reuse) water bottle.
I have asked what I could bring and the answer was "Any liquid! You can bring a case of wine if you like!" so I could bring drinks not easily available in the airport, or gifts of liquid to bring home, and so on.
As it happens, while Schiphol has many good features, its water fountains are currently supplied with water at such low pressure that you cannot fill a bottle from them. So carrying water into Schiphol, rather than purchasing it, is still an advantage.
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol has had this for some months now. It's great. It's like travelling in the future. I know because I travel there very regularly.
You unload your pocket contents into a jacket, bag, or onto a tray. You put your jacket, bag, etc, into the same or more trays. You don't take anything out of your bags. You also don't take your shoes off unless they are heavy boots.
It all goes through a scanner. You pick it up the other side. Maybe the scanner pass takes slightly longer, but you save time overall because you don't have to unload and reload everything.
The rate of secondary search is far less than with the old scanners, and after a few months' practice the staff are almost as fast with the old scanners too - queues are shorter than they used to be.I take all sorts of stuff in my bag (laptop and cables, several electronics, medicines, keys, carabiners, etc) and I still rarely get a secondary search. Yet, I know from shoulder-surfing the scanner operator that they can identify and check suspicious things more carefully - there's a great zoom-pan-rotate function for inspecting any item in detail. It's a little uncanny.
You can even take any liquid you like through - I often take a water bottle still full of water. Sometimes that gets a secondary check in a liquids inspector, but that's still not a problem.
It is far better than the current USA TSA experience. It is far, far less stressful and much faster.
The staff like it too; they're very pleased with the scanners and the smoother passenger experience. I've talked to them several times about it (try talking to a TSA agent...) and they are enthusiastic about how good the scanners are. Of course, the Dutch security staff are much more reasonable than the TSA overall.
"Maximum penalties for misuse of private data was raised from AU$2.1 million to AU$10 million -- or 10 percent of the company's domestic revenue,..."
That's where the Aussies are going wrong.
The EU is feared because they fine based on global revenues. It's not just a few dollars of Aussie revenue at stake, it's billions at stake for companies who do wrong in the EU.
This also stops games like claiming revenues are low in one country because the money paid by the consumer in that country are sent to a different country to "provide services".
MySQL is also available in the Oracle cloud: https://cloud.oracle.com/mysql
Of course it's the Enterprise version and I'm sure that internally Oracle (mysql division) are billing oracle (cloud division) in funny-money, but the actual cost to provide it for Oracle is very low. There aren't many differences, or much coding effort, between the Community (Free) and Enterprise MySQL - just enough to get Enterprises to pay for the extra audit and thread pool (i.e. helpers for crappy applications that can't use a database correctly) support.
However the big point of Oracle cloud is not that it has MySQL, but that it can supply your on-premises private cloud infrastructure as well as off-premises public cloud. Their aim is to satisfy those people who want their data on-premises for one reason or another, but don't want to have to do the work of building that infrastructure themselves.
MS Azure cloud is wildly popular with Linux people, rather to MS's surprise - there are far more Linux customers than Windows Server customers in Azure. Meanwhile, if you want to run your desktop app back end in the cloud (i.e. Office 365) and have decent Windows hosting, Azure will do that for you with one supplier contract. That's a really strong advantage of Azure. Microsoft still has the global hold on office applications and they can, if they're reasonably smart, transition that into becoming the "inevitable" cloud supplier for companies with a lot of office-application users.
IBM... isn't looking like it has any of the advantages. They don't have the advantage of being the first choice for Chinese companies, nor the cheapest and biggest, nor the public/private single interface, nor the obvious place to keep your MS desktop apps while closing your datacenter. They're also late to the game.
Funnily enough "might as well give all your IP to the Americans" is what the Chinese think about AWS, and also that being at the whim of the US government could be bad for your reliability. Being Chinese, they're already at the whim of the Chinese government - why add trouble by using a US cloud provider?
What's going to be the leading platform for capabilities in the software design?
Is this going to be apps designed for Mac OS first and then adapted for iOS and touch interface limitations?
Or is it going to be iOS applications running on Mac OS with all the small-screen, touch interface, single task, single window restrictions of iOS design in the Mac OS app?
I fear it will be the second one, and Mac OS apps will get worse as a result.
I have an iPad pro and I've tried working on it. I'm using a Mac and not an iPad because the iPad is no use for serious, creative work.
Encouraged by their own self-interest, many stakeholders (governments, tax authorities, retailers, customers) give a small number of oligopolists huge market power to increase their revenues.
The oligopolists do so and everyone is surprised.
You all went cashless, retailers all went cashless, and now you're surprised that the payment infrastructure operators are taking the opportunity to charge more? Why are you surprised that an under-regulated profit-making entity in a position of great power would choose to make more money if they could?
Payment processors have too much power, given to them by retailers and by consumers.
Consumers who willingly said "I never carry cash", who say "I want to pay by card", who choose to let several other people get between them and the person they're buying from. Instead of you handing cash to the merchant, now you have the card issuer, the bank, and the payment processor between you and the merchant. You're surprised that someone would try to extract more money from you?
Don't be so naive. Pay cash next time and thereafter. Reject cashless business as much as you can.
"Facebook is treating this as a critical problem internally, we're told, as the affected apps simply don't launch on employees' phones anymore."
If they were not repeat offenders against user privacy and Apple's store policies, they might not get treated like this.
But they are and they do.
Who needs this? Uber
Who is asking for this? Uber
What is the problem that this is trying to solve? The problem that Uber does not make enough money to satisfy the greed of their investors and executives. Also that even externalising costs and breaking laws to reduce costs, Uber still isn't profitable. Malicious, amoral AND incompetent - that's Uber.
What is wrong with these people? They are amoral profit seekers who want to make as much money as possible and have no problem with externalising costs as much as possible so they maximise their profit.
Bonus answer:
What is wrong with the other people, the ones who aren't the Uber execs or investors? They are willing to stand by while badly regulated corporations make profits while passing on costs (clean up of broken scooters, hits from un- or under-insured illegal taxi drivers, medical care for people assaulted by their illegal taxi drivers, social welfare costs of supporting their under-paid drivers, pollution and road congestion from their illegal taxis displacing public transport.
The summary you need:
"Why did you cooperate with the Americans in space when they are being so rude in other ways?"
"Because we are sensible adults".
Do you have very easily accessible bottle deposit redemption facilities - as easily accessible as the bottle sale facility?
Japan does not do deposit, but does have an empty bottle container attached to most vending machines. You don't have to carry your empty bottle far before you can dispose of it.
In most countries with a deposit scheme, it's not easy to get your deposit back. If you buy a drink in most shops in, say, Helsinki, you can't return it there for a deposit. Similarly in Denmark - only larger supermarkets have the return facility. The assumption is that you will store up your bottles at home and take them to the return facility when you do your shopping, which is an assumption that you will carry the empty bottle (bulky, intact, you can't use the machine with a crushed bottle) around and store it until you next go to a supermarket. It's also an assumption that you can transport those bulky empty bottles with you; problematic for a larger number of bottles without a personal vehicle. California is also like that.
How is it in Switzerland?
"exaggerated modulations and drawn-out pauses"
in the USA, yes. In Europe, we find this to be unnatural, irritating, even ridiculous. We do not want to be hectored at high volume from the TV, we want to be informed in a measured and evenly-spoken fashion.
So Alexa is optimising for just one market's cultural communication preferences - a typical internationalisation failure by a large corporation.
The Ordnance Survey should also have to share its mapping data with the public - most of which was gathered with public (taxation-funded) money!
They're unrepentant that their tech goes wrong and refuse to say how often it goes wrong - in fact they probably don't even know because they don't care, but even if they do know they're refusing to say how wrong it is.
So their claim to remove 8.7M eeeeevul kiddieporns is just a fiction. They removed 8.7M pictures and less, maybe a lot less, than 8.7M eeeevul kiddieporns.
"Our Community Standards ban child exploitation and to avoid even the potential for abuse, we take action on nonsexual content as well, like seemingly benign photos of children in the bath. " is not an apology of any sort.
After they have wrongly removed a picture, what do they do with the account that posted it? Mark it as "posted a picture that was removed because we guessed it was kiddieporn"? If so what does that do later, when they rank your content down because they say you're a suspected kiddiepornographer? Do they give your name to the police to investigate?
No, there is no apology in this announcement.
When Facebook got caught out in the past by someone important enough that they could not just ignore them (the Prime Minister of Norway), they said they were sorry and would learn from this. They lied - they have not learned from this and are not sorry and you can see this today.
There is absolutely no apology or consideration from Facebook of the false positives. They just don't care that they get it wrong. They're saying that they have to destroy photo-sharing of children to save it.
How much content did they remove that did not violate their guidelines, or was not illegal?
Of course they focus on sex only. No mention of filtering of depiction of violence or violent content - they wouldn't want to upset the sort of President who thinks it's fine to violently assault people he dislikes or disagrees with.
This isn't looking good for anyone thinking they can drive or ride for Uber in the long term. Clearly Uber wants to replace those pesky humans with robots, for taxi service, food delivery service, and I'm sure other delivery services too.
So much for Uber's claims to provide employment and earning opportunities for a wide range of people.
It's good that the Tesla Model 3 has a 5* crash rating.
So do the direct competitors (in cost): Mercedes C-Class, BMW 3-series, Volvo S60, etc
and some of lower-cost alternatives: Ford Focus, Chevrolet Malibu, etc
NHTSA 5* rating is not uncommon. This is only Tesla keeping up with the other good cars available today, not worthy of a headline.
Car engines are not the noise issue.
Cars in Spain are as loud as anywhere else: not very, unless modified by the owner to make more noise than it did when it left the manufacturer.
Motorbikes and scooters in Spain are as loud as anywhere else in Europe: loud or very loud. In particular, small motorbikes are very much louder than cars.
I strongly suspect that the decrease in ambient noise volume is from two things, neither of them being car engines:
Removing the Spanish drivers and their horn buttons from the town, and
removing the scooter and motorcycle engines from the town.
Is this going to result in removal of posts by televangelists asking for donations to help God save the donors?
Not only is the God they are peddling an illusion, but televangelists usually spend the money on their own pleasure and comfort instead of any missionary activities of their religion.
They are both useless to the donor and actively fraudulent in their own universe.
This probably explains the great enthusiasm of Facebook to try to get me to download Facebook Lite, "only 2MB", when I use the Facebook web interface on mobile.
Unfortunately for them the reason I don't have a Facebook app on my phone is not that I lack the storage but that I lack any trust that they will not siphon off my personal information for their own uses and abuses.
2MB is pretty small, I bet even the crap-phones have that much storage.
Just make this a LAN party and they'll get plenty of younger male study subjects: free food and fast internet to play videogames for 10 days.
That will lead to bad science, though. Too much medical science is already dominated by younger people, males, and white people. Older people, women and especially ethnic minorities are under-represented in medical trials. That leads to treatments and drugs that don't work as well on older people, women and especially ethnic minorities.
( eg, https://www.acog.org/Clinical-... )
This is a very similar business model to online display advertising click fraud. They are causing hits on a service that then pays themselves per-hit from someone else's money.
The remedies are similar too: look for outlier usage patterns and terminate the contracts of those people.
Hawaii is, mostly, a sunny place. Yet on the Big Island, I see very few solar panels on buildings. In fact the only reference I've seen anytime recently was some dude in the houses near the current eruption who said "I got my solar panels and batteries out, phew, saved $4000 of gear". If Hawaii is serious about reducing CO2 emissions, every house should have solar cells and many should have large storage batteries too.
The mostly fossil fuel-generated electricity is expensive (most expensive in the USA) so electric cars are less of a win compared to cost of petroleum fuels than in the rest of the USA. The average Hawaiian is not rich - buying Teslas is not within their budget. If they had solar cells on their buildings then the incremental cost of recharging an electric car would be far less than buying in power.
Honolulu, like every other hot Asian or American city, is power hungry. Yet there, I still see little solar power, either on buildings or nearby on the ground.
Meanwhile, Hawaii may have been created by volcanoes, but in practice the volcanoes have moved on from Oahu. So Honolulu cannot have a nearby geothermal power plant (source: https://www.hawaiianelectric.c...) The geothermal power plant on the Big Island, at Puna, is currently being reclaimed by Pele - lava flows have mostly wrecked it and that's a risk wherever you get near the hottest ground. Very hot ground is near magma, which may well erupt nearby unpredictably. Not great for an expensive capital investment. Not great for anything you are betting to keep the lights on with (Puna only supplied 20% of Big Island power when it was destroyed, if that had been 80% there would be a lot more problems on the island).
Hawaii doesn't have a lot of precipitation and large rivers to dam, unlike Iceland. So we're back to solar and storage.
Hawaiians, where are your solar panels? Your plan is bust without them.
There are other companies that would expand in Seattle if it wasn't so hard to find office space because Amazon has leased some much of the prime downtown space.
Also, corporate bullies need to be told where to go: don't let the door hit you on the way out, Bezos. Amazon could afford this without a problem, they just don't want to pay.