Companies will only pay sales commissions because they have to. I've seen a mortgage company try replacing its sales staff that with much cheaper salaried employees, but the salaried employees completely failed to sell anything during a peak market (probably because those salaried employees were too afraid to break the law with the puny salaries they received).
On the other hand, when Kinkos decided to stop paying commission to its sales force, all the enterprise relationships had already been established by that sales force, so Kinkos didn't lose a cent cutting them out. Plus, Kinkos didn't even need to pay them unemployment benefits because their base salary was something like $8 an hour, so it just transferred them to work in their shops until they'd quit on their own (those sales people later sued, but lost).
If we compare this to the job of waiters and waitresses, it's the same underlying principle. If restaurants could keep the tips for themselves without increasing wages, they would. Or if restaurants could avoid using waiters and waitresses altogether, they would.
I think you meant to say "I'm sure that the court action in a US court will have a huge effect on that Kazakhstan site, hosted in Kazakhstan, made by a Kazakhstan woman."
Wikileaks actually invited hackers to hack its site. So, I do not think that the hackers were malicious. If nothing else, they did Wikileaks a favor. If a bunch of hackers can do this, the NSA (and other intelligence agencies) can do much worse.
Plus, an intelligence service won't attack when it's invited to do so, it will only attack when Wikileaks is about to dump something that is important to them. In this age of short attention spans, timing can be crucial.
The same goes for Wikileaks. Wikileaks chooses to release information when it thinks it will have the most impact (e.g. just before an election, just before a troop redeployment, not during a Super Bowl, not when Beyonce is having twins, etc).
I'm now certain that whoever comes up with names at that company has a side interest in numerology.
Technically, you're right of course. But this has more to do with how marketing is taught in US business schools.
The idea is that a company should hire a consulting company and pay them millions of dollars to check all the possible meanings of a name and its symbols in all the countries the company will want to operate in.
And please don't get me wrong, this isn't really bad advice in itself. Foreigners can be super arrogant in thinking that a name that sounds good to them will also sound equally good to everyone else in the world. It's just the example that is typically brought up with it that is slightly problematic.
The claim is that GM failed miserably in South America because it launched a car called "Nova", which means "No Go" in Spanish. However, that's not exactly what happened. Nova was initially very successful in the South American countries it launched in. It's just that the Nova car wasn't reliable and the name eventually became a joke because of its associated quality control issues. And yes, the name itself didn't really help, but the name itself wasn't the key lesson to take away from that example either.
In any case, coming back to your original comment. Yes, I'm sure someone versed in numerology checked out all the possible meanings and made sure most of those meanings were positive. And the same goes for local meaning, cultural meaning, historical meaning, color meaning, font meanings, etc. After all, correcting the mistake of an ill-chosen brand name and relaunching the brand can be super expensive. And this is not a risk marketing people want to take.
I'm currently looking at their Google Streetview and I'm having a hard time accepting their explanation. If it's not them, who is the third party? Their finance company? If they were really that innocent, why don't they share the name of that third party sharing that address with them?
Grow the android platform? How much bigger do you want it to become? That fight is won. Google can deliver ads on mobile phones. That was its goal. It achieved that goal. Perfect.
Now it's time to move on to the Cloud and AI related things.
So you'd expect women to do better, say, as software engineers; and men to do better as mechanical engineers.
4 out of 5 people on the autism spectrum are male. 1 out of 5 is female.
I would expect that people on the autism spectrum are more likely to be engineers, not because they're better engineers, but because they didn't develop their skills for other professions.
At least, that's just one more hypothesis, I'm sure you and I could come up with more equally plausible ones. That is why we need to more science on these issues.
I've disgreed with Bruce on this specific issue and I still do. While GRsecurity may be in violation of GPLv2 sec. 6 ("You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. "), the idea that their customers may be liable for contributory infringement and breach of contract is off-the-wall crazy. Bruce's theory is directly contradicted by GPLv2 secs. 2, 4, and 6 -- the customers are free to use GRsecurity's product and there is no potential violation of the GPLv2 unless the customers themselves redestribute that code.
"Yes, we're breaking the license. No, our customers can't be liable for our theft, only we can be." is not going to win them this court case.
Because as soon as they publicly admit that they broke the license and stole the code, then any customer who knowingly uses that code after that would be "liable for contributory infringement and breach of contract". In other words, the company is placing itself in an awkward legal position. It can't publicly admit that it broke the license.
And yet, the company must still prove that Bruce Perens, a non-lawyer, knowingly lied under the guise of giving his personal opinion. It's going to be an uphill battle for them. Plus, the Streisand effect is not going to help either. If you ask me, they should have just kept quiet and not called attention to themselves.
If one has an iPhone, why would one download a keyboard from either Microsoft or Google - why not just use Apple's own?
Not only I downloaded Swiftkey, but it's actually one of the very few apps I actually paid for (before it became free). Please note, I can only speak about Swiftkey pre-Microsoft fuck-up. Before it got purchased by Microsoft and ported to Azure, Swiftkey was awesome!
It supported multiple-languages out of the box and it allowed me to mix French (accents included) and American English within the same message without switching keyboard/dictionary. I use a mixture of French and English when writing to my own family. The second feature I liked was the option of adding arrows to the keyboard. At the time, the Android support for selecting and navigating through text wasn't very good.
Later on, they also added Swipe, but I never really got used to that feature. I just used that keyboard without swiping.
Only thing I've ever bothered to get was a Bluetooth keyboard that I could use to type, if I needed to do extensive typing on a phone.
Me, I did the opposite, especially when I needed to write in French and use French accents. It was much faster for me to switch from my Mac's physical keyboard to my Android phone with its Swiftkey keyboard. Also, my phone knew what I was about to write before I wrote it, before I even typed a single letter or a single word. To this day, no physical keyboard on any Mac or PC can even come close.
Similarly, why would any Apple user use Cortana instead of Siri? Why would any Amazon user use Siri instead of Alexa?
People that have different accents and use different languages for one thing.
Also, not everyone uses iTunes, or Amazon Videos, or Google Play Movies for their latest movie cravings. Even when I was an Amazon Prime member, only a small portion of movies I watched came from Amazon Prime Videos. And thus far, only Google seemed to have realized this, because the media search on Google TV (now Android TV) has no problem detecting that I have Netflix installed and that it should search through Netflix movies when I want to watch a particular movie.
It's too bad Microsoft lost that claim to fame as soon as it acquired Swiftkey and cross-contaminated people's dictionaries while porting the application's backend to its Azure platform.
They brought "depth of field" to small-sensor photography, and that is no easy task. "Depth of field" is what gives you that effect of a foreground in focus and a blurry background (or vice versa, like in some movie transitions).
I think you meant to say HTC and LG brought "depth of field" to small-sensor photography on Android two years ago.
And yes, the iPhone camera sensors, which are made by Sony, are pretty good also.
For EU based employees our legal department has advised be the usage data is confidential and cannot be shared with management without violating EU privacy laws.
No, I doubt that's what they said.
What your legal department probably told you instead was to anonymize the data and create reports using aggregates where possible. And where it wasn't possible, because the identity of the user(s) could be inferred, then yes, do not share that data with management.
You're saying it like it was a decision that was made. The last New Years celebration I was at. Someone got stabbed and a couple of cars got overturned one or two blocks away from where I was at. Does that mean I should be arrested for what those rioters did?
Hopefully, they can find videos on those phones, or maybe incriminating texting/chat evidence like "Hey, the guitar shop has just been breached. Go to the guitar shop and grab a free guitar before all the guitars are taken." or "Hey, let's go to Starbucks, I hate Starbucks. Yesterday, they messed up my frappuccino order. The capitalistic scum needs to pay! Let's break all their windows."
I wish the police luck with their search, but I'm not hoping for much. If I had been the police, I would have just waited for the protesters/rioters to post their incriminating videos on youtube and I would have waited for 4chan do its work filtering, processing, identifying, and doxxing the main culprits.
I have no doubt that Kálmán Dabóczi believed this kid was hacking their system and I also think it is likely that everyone he asked also though the same thing.
Even if that's true, that thinking doesn't explain why the kid would report it as a bug.
No, the only possible reason to call the police is if the books didn't reconcile at the end of the night and no one had read the bug report submitted by the kid yet (or may be someone read it, but had not told Kalman yet). That's the only possible justification.
And yet, that doesn't seem like this is what happened (at least, the article makes no mention of that possibility). So if Kalman Daoczi really did call the police after having read the bug report, he should be arrested himself for filing a false police report and wasting the police's time. Calling the police after someone has immediately turned them self in is a vindictive action and a complete waste of police resources.
Some IT-departments becomes like that. Instead of stopping malware and junk hardware they stop everything. It makes their job easier.
If that happens, it's usually because IT staff is not paid overtime (whether this is a legal thing to do in your area, or not). And that tasks like installing new software, migrating data, updating old software, allowing secure access from home, etc. usually takes far more time than usually imagined by the non-IT employee making the request.
This is the real reason web-based "cloud-based" solutions like Salesforce are thriving, it's because IT doesn't want to sacrifice their weekends and week nights doing unpaid work installing/hosting/troubleshooting some random CRM. And a Sales manager may just have found it easier to give Salesforce a try and put it on his own corporate credit card.
A good IT department tries to figure out what the person they stopped was trying to accomplish and tries to find a secure way of doing that.
This, I do agree with.
Blocking everything would be like a janitor keeping everyone else out since maintenance gets easier that way.
Except that IT work isn't like janitorial work, and maybe that misconception is the root of the problems you've experienced. IT work can easily take exponentially longer the more components you add to a system.
While the method works for their immediate task the company cannot survive such measures.
This is why overtime pay and having enough IT employees is so important. Otherwise, you have to depend on hiring expensive outside consultants and putting everything into the "cloud" (whether you like that idea or not).
The USPS is the delivery service of last resort. In some out of way places, it doesn't make sense to have more than one delivery service for the last leg of the trip. Also as a country, we've decided that it was worthwhile for our postal system to subsidize the US locations that are remote and that do not get much mail traffic at all.
Also, the article used the fixed costs of the post office to arrive at its final figure of what a fair share would look like. But of course, those fixed costs won't change even if Amazon stopped using the post office for those packages. And also what the journalist doesn't seem to understand is that Amazon is under no obligation to be fair, and so even if we demanded that Amazon tripled its cost for shipping packages to places like Alaska or Wyoming (States with low population densities), or for shipping packages to places away from major population centers, Amazon would just pass on that extra cost to its customers and the affected customers may just decide to order less or find an alternative retailer/delivery service (which won't help the USPS either way).
In the end, what this person is really worried about is the purchase of Wholefoods Market by Amazon and that Amazon may capture the upper end of the grocery market with its Amazon Fresh/Now deliveries (mostly in rich enough and dense enough markets that can support it) and that it may capture the lower end of the grocery market with its unmanned pop up stores/kiosks that are opened 24 hours a day / 7 days a week. But personally, whether Amazon is the one to take over those markets or not, I have no idea, but whether it's them or someone else, if I worked in a grocery store, I would certainly be worried about losing my job (or getting a demotion) within the next 3 years, and I would either go into the kiosk repairing business, or I would look into other types of jobs.
Welfare, unemployment, and SNAP benefits issue debit cards. Plus, there are also prepaid debit cards that anyone can purchase.
So it's really the panhandlers that will have problems with this. People already carry less cash because of electronic bus cards, toll bridge/road transponders, Uber/Lyft, and electronic parking meters. And if this trend continues, most people will carry even less cash on them (unless they purposefully put cash aside for panhandlers, which very few will do).
One other issue is earthquakes and other natural disasters. Those will really be a hassle if we don't have the cash for when our infrastructure goes down.
The person you're replying to is anonymous, so he/she may never notice your response.
The Amazon Prime fee used to be $79 per year. They added features, but they also increased that fee to $99. Also, if you were a non-prime member, you could usually ship things for free if you went over $25, now I believe that limit is $50. Not to mention the fact that the shipping delay for non-prime free shipping always seemed to be artificially elongated in order to make Prime membership especially seem more attractive in comparison.
Compared to that, a Costco membership is $60 and Costco.com seems to have good prices for the selection it has. And Walmart.com doesn't have a membership at all, but its prices still seem to beat Amazon's. Please do not take my word for it, your mileage may vary, and there are extensions on your browser you can install that will pull up prices from other websites when you're browsing the Amazon website. One advantage with Walmart.com for some is that the shipping is free if you have it shipped to one of their stores and then pick it up from there.
Thus far, I've only mentioned Russian hacking as fake news because the original poster, Okian Warrior, mentioned it. And also, the only other person I've quoted was President Trump. Say what you will about echo chambers, but I drive for a living, and so I also do listen to lots of AM radio, most of which happens to be super conservative.
And at least, when I replied to Okian Warrior, I didn't reply as an anonymous coward. By using an actual user name, I've actually left the door open for him to reply to my response so we can have further back and forths. In your case however, since you've replied as an anonymous coward, I'm not even sure if you're the original poster or not, nor am I even sure if you would even be able to easily track your own post or any of my responses to your post.
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Companies will only pay sales commissions because they have to. I've seen a mortgage company try replacing its sales staff that with much cheaper salaried employees, but the salaried employees completely failed to sell anything during a peak market (probably because those salaried employees were too afraid to break the law with the puny salaries they received).
On the other hand, when Kinkos decided to stop paying commission to its sales force, all the enterprise relationships had already been established by that sales force, so Kinkos didn't lose a cent cutting them out. Plus, Kinkos didn't even need to pay them unemployment benefits because their base salary was something like $8 an hour, so it just transferred them to work in their shops until they'd quit on their own (those sales people later sued, but lost).
If we compare this to the job of waiters and waitresses, it's the same underlying principle. If restaurants could keep the tips for themselves without increasing wages, they would. Or if restaurants could avoid using waiters and waitresses altogether, they would.
Speak for yourself.
There is no point in having a remote writer's job if you can't stay naked and unshowered 95% of the time.
I think you meant to say "I'm sure that the court action in a US court will have a huge effect on that Kazakhstan site, hosted in Kazakhstan, made by a Kazakhstan woman."
Yes webOS was a decent operating system (and so was Maemo and Meego and Windows Phone and FirefoxOS, etc)
This comment was obviously made by someone who has never tried Meego.
Wikileaks actually invited hackers to hack its site. So, I do not think that the hackers were malicious. If nothing else, they did Wikileaks a favor. If a bunch of hackers can do this, the NSA (and other intelligence agencies) can do much worse.
Plus, an intelligence service won't attack when it's invited to do so, it will only attack when Wikileaks is about to dump something that is important to them. In this age of short attention spans, timing can be crucial.
The same goes for Wikileaks. Wikileaks chooses to release information when it thinks it will have the most impact (e.g. just before an election, just before a troop redeployment, not during a Super Bowl, not when Beyonce is having twins, etc).
I'm now certain that whoever comes up with names at that company has a side interest in numerology.
Technically, you're right of course. But this has more to do with how marketing is taught in US business schools.
The idea is that a company should hire a consulting company and pay them millions of dollars to check all the possible meanings of a name and its symbols in all the countries the company will want to operate in.
And please don't get me wrong, this isn't really bad advice in itself. Foreigners can be super arrogant in thinking that a name that sounds good to them will also sound equally good to everyone else in the world. It's just the example that is typically brought up with it that is slightly problematic.
The claim is that GM failed miserably in South America because it launched a car called "Nova", which means "No Go" in Spanish. However, that's not exactly what happened. Nova was initially very successful in the South American countries it launched in. It's just that the Nova car wasn't reliable and the name eventually became a joke because of its associated quality control issues. And yes, the name itself didn't really help, but the name itself wasn't the key lesson to take away from that example either.
In any case, coming back to your original comment. Yes, I'm sure someone versed in numerology checked out all the possible meanings and made sure most of those meanings were positive. And the same goes for local meaning, cultural meaning, historical meaning, color meaning, font meanings, etc. After all, correcting the mistake of an ill-chosen brand name and relaunching the brand can be super expensive. And this is not a risk marketing people want to take.
I'm currently looking at their Google Streetview and I'm having a hard time accepting their explanation. If it's not them, who is the third party? Their finance company? If they were really that innocent, why don't they share the name of that third party sharing that address with them?
Not reading the article is completely normal, but replying not even having read the summary, now that's embarrassing.
No, this is more like a big-box hardware store finding a legal loophole and not paying 10 billion dollars in corporate property taxes.
It's criminal and its executives should spend a couple of years in prison for it.
Grow the android platform? How much bigger do you want it to become? That fight is won. Google can deliver ads on mobile phones. That was its goal. It achieved that goal. Perfect.
Now it's time to move on to the Cloud and AI related things.
So you'd expect women to do better, say, as software engineers; and men to do better as mechanical engineers.
4 out of 5 people on the autism spectrum are male. 1 out of 5 is female.
I would expect that people on the autism spectrum are more likely to be engineers, not because they're better engineers, but because they didn't develop their skills for other professions.
At least, that's just one more hypothesis, I'm sure you and I could come up with more equally plausible ones. That is why we need to more science on these issues.
I've disgreed with Bruce on this specific issue and I still do. While GRsecurity may be in violation of GPLv2 sec. 6 ("You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein. "), the idea that their customers may be liable for contributory infringement and breach of contract is off-the-wall crazy. Bruce's theory is directly contradicted by GPLv2 secs. 2, 4, and 6 -- the customers are free to use GRsecurity's product and there is no potential violation of the GPLv2 unless the customers themselves redestribute that code.
"Yes, we're breaking the license. No, our customers can't be liable for our theft, only we can be." is not going to win them this court case.
Because as soon as they publicly admit that they broke the license and stole the code, then any customer who knowingly uses that code after that would be "liable for contributory infringement and breach of contract". In other words, the company is placing itself in an awkward legal position. It can't publicly admit that it broke the license.
And yet, the company must still prove that Bruce Perens, a non-lawyer, knowingly lied under the guise of giving his personal opinion. It's going to be an uphill battle for them. Plus, the Streisand effect is not going to help either. If you ask me, they should have just kept quiet and not called attention to themselves.
If one has an iPhone, why would one download a keyboard from either Microsoft or Google - why not just use Apple's own?
Not only I downloaded Swiftkey, but it's actually one of the very few apps I actually paid for (before it became free). Please note, I can only speak about Swiftkey pre-Microsoft fuck-up. Before it got purchased by Microsoft and ported to Azure, Swiftkey was awesome!
It supported multiple-languages out of the box and it allowed me to mix French (accents included) and American English within the same message without switching keyboard/dictionary. I use a mixture of French and English when writing to my own family. The second feature I liked was the option of adding arrows to the keyboard. At the time, the Android support for selecting and navigating through text wasn't very good.
Later on, they also added Swipe, but I never really got used to that feature. I just used that keyboard without swiping.
Only thing I've ever bothered to get was a Bluetooth keyboard that I could use to type, if I needed to do extensive typing on a phone.
Me, I did the opposite, especially when I needed to write in French and use French accents. It was much faster for me to switch from my Mac's physical keyboard to my Android phone with its Swiftkey keyboard. Also, my phone knew what I was about to write before I wrote it, before I even typed a single letter or a single word. To this day, no physical keyboard on any Mac or PC can even come close.
Similarly, why would any Apple user use Cortana instead of Siri? Why would any Amazon user use Siri instead of Alexa?
People that have different accents and use different languages for one thing.
Also, not everyone uses iTunes, or Amazon Videos, or Google Play Movies for their latest movie cravings. Even when I was an Amazon Prime member, only a small portion of movies I watched came from Amazon Prime Videos. And thus far, only Google seemed to have realized this, because the media search on Google TV (now Android TV) has no problem detecting that I have Netflix installed and that it should search through Netflix movies when I want to watch a particular movie.
It's too bad Microsoft lost that claim to fame as soon as it acquired Swiftkey and cross-contaminated people's dictionaries while porting the application's backend to its Azure platform.
They brought "depth of field" to small-sensor photography, and that is no easy task. "Depth of field" is what gives you that effect of a foreground in focus and a blurry background (or vice versa, like in some movie transitions).
I think you meant to say HTC and LG brought "depth of field" to small-sensor photography on Android two years ago.
And yes, the iPhone camera sensors, which are made by Sony, are pretty good also.
Are all these calls just pranks?
Some calls could be coming from traffickers who are about to be boarded by the Coast Guards.
For EU based employees our legal department has advised be the usage data is confidential and cannot be shared with management without violating EU privacy laws.
No, I doubt that's what they said.
What your legal department probably told you instead was to anonymize the data and create reports using aggregates where possible. And where it wasn't possible, because the identity of the user(s) could be inferred, then yes, do not share that data with management.
You're saying it like it was a decision that was made. The last New Years celebration I was at. Someone got stabbed and a couple of cars got overturned one or two blocks away from where I was at. Does that mean I should be arrested for what those rioters did?
Hopefully, they can find videos on those phones, or maybe incriminating texting/chat evidence like "Hey, the guitar shop has just been breached. Go to the guitar shop and grab a free guitar before all the guitars are taken." or "Hey, let's go to Starbucks, I hate Starbucks. Yesterday, they messed up my frappuccino order. The capitalistic scum needs to pay! Let's break all their windows."
I wish the police luck with their search, but I'm not hoping for much. If I had been the police, I would have just waited for the protesters/rioters to post their incriminating videos on youtube and I would have waited for 4chan do its work filtering, processing, identifying, and doxxing the main culprits.
I have no doubt that Kálmán Dabóczi believed this kid was hacking their system and I also think it is likely that everyone he asked also though the same thing.
Even if that's true, that thinking doesn't explain why the kid would report it as a bug.
No, the only possible reason to call the police is if the books didn't reconcile at the end of the night and no one had read the bug report submitted by the kid yet (or may be someone read it, but had not told Kalman yet). That's the only possible justification.
And yet, that doesn't seem like this is what happened (at least, the article makes no mention of that possibility). So if Kalman Daoczi really did call the police after having read the bug report, he should be arrested himself for filing a false police report and wasting the police's time. Calling the police after someone has immediately turned them self in is a vindictive action and a complete waste of police resources.
Some IT-departments becomes like that.
Instead of stopping malware and junk hardware they stop everything. It makes their job easier.
If that happens, it's usually because IT staff is not paid overtime (whether this is a legal thing to do in your area, or not). And that tasks like installing new software, migrating data, updating old software, allowing secure access from home, etc. usually takes far more time than usually imagined by the non-IT employee making the request.
This is the real reason web-based "cloud-based" solutions like Salesforce are thriving, it's because IT doesn't want to sacrifice their weekends and week nights doing unpaid work installing/hosting/troubleshooting some random CRM. And a Sales manager may just have found it easier to give Salesforce a try and put it on his own corporate credit card.
A good IT department tries to figure out what the person they stopped was trying to accomplish and tries to find a secure way of doing that.
This, I do agree with.
Blocking everything would be like a janitor keeping everyone else out since maintenance gets easier that way.
Except that IT work isn't like janitorial work, and maybe that misconception is the root of the problems you've experienced. IT work can easily take exponentially longer the more components you add to a system.
While the method works for their immediate task the company cannot survive such measures.
This is why overtime pay and having enough IT employees is so important. Otherwise, you have to depend on hiring expensive outside consultants and putting everything into the "cloud" (whether you like that idea or not).
The USPS is the delivery service of last resort. In some out of way places, it doesn't make sense to have more than one delivery service for the last leg of the trip. Also as a country, we've decided that it was worthwhile for our postal system to subsidize the US locations that are remote and that do not get much mail traffic at all.
Also, the article used the fixed costs of the post office to arrive at its final figure of what a fair share would look like. But of course, those fixed costs won't change even if Amazon stopped using the post office for those packages. And also what the journalist doesn't seem to understand is that Amazon is under no obligation to be fair, and so even if we demanded that Amazon tripled its cost for shipping packages to places like Alaska or Wyoming (States with low population densities), or for shipping packages to places away from major population centers, Amazon would just pass on that extra cost to its customers and the affected customers may just decide to order less or find an alternative retailer/delivery service (which won't help the USPS either way).
In the end, what this person is really worried about is the purchase of Wholefoods Market by Amazon and that Amazon may capture the upper end of the grocery market with its Amazon Fresh/Now deliveries (mostly in rich enough and dense enough markets that can support it) and that it may capture the lower end of the grocery market with its unmanned pop up stores/kiosks that are opened 24 hours a day / 7 days a week. But personally, whether Amazon is the one to take over those markets or not, I have no idea, but whether it's them or someone else, if I worked in a grocery store, I would certainly be worried about losing my job (or getting a demotion) within the next 3 years, and I would either go into the kiosk repairing business, or I would look into other types of jobs.
Welfare, unemployment, and SNAP benefits issue debit cards. Plus, there are also prepaid debit cards that anyone can purchase.
So it's really the panhandlers that will have problems with this. People already carry less cash because of electronic bus cards, toll bridge/road transponders, Uber/Lyft, and electronic parking meters. And if this trend continues, most people will carry even less cash on them (unless they purposefully put cash aside for panhandlers, which very few will do).
One other issue is earthquakes and other natural disasters. Those will really be a hassle if we don't have the cash for when our infrastructure goes down.
The person you're replying to is anonymous, so he/she may never notice your response.
The Amazon Prime fee used to be $79 per year. They added features, but they also increased that fee to $99. Also, if you were a non-prime member, you could usually ship things for free if you went over $25, now I believe that limit is $50. Not to mention the fact that the shipping delay for non-prime free shipping always seemed to be artificially elongated in order to make Prime membership especially seem more attractive in comparison.
Compared to that, a Costco membership is $60 and Costco.com seems to have good prices for the selection it has. And Walmart.com doesn't have a membership at all, but its prices still seem to beat Amazon's. Please do not take my word for it, your mileage may vary, and there are extensions on your browser you can install that will pull up prices from other websites when you're browsing the Amazon website. One advantage with Walmart.com for some is that the shipping is free if you have it shipped to one of their stores and then pick it up from there.
Thus far, I've only mentioned Russian hacking as fake news because the original poster, Okian Warrior, mentioned it. And also, the only other person I've quoted was President Trump. Say what you will about echo chambers, but I drive for a living, and so I also do listen to lots of AM radio, most of which happens to be super conservative.
And at least, when I replied to Okian Warrior, I didn't reply as an anonymous coward. By using an actual user name, I've actually left the door open for him to reply to my response so we can have further back and forths. In your case however, since you've replied as an anonymous coward, I'm not even sure if you're the original poster or not, nor am I even sure if you would even be able to easily track your own post or any of my responses to your post.