Like you I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon as well. But I'm never in a hurry for it so standard free shipping has always worked for us. If we don't quite hit the $25 minimum order for free shipping, stuff sits in our cart until it does hit $25. $25 is a pretty low amount, which we seem to hit pretty easily.
I, for one, can't trust that someone promoting nullification can actually respect the law or its application
Exactly. When we have no trust in the specific law being tried, nullification might be the appropriate response.
I'm not qualified to comment on the case, but what I've seen so far, I'm not sure the punishment fits the crime.
But, then again, I'm not a soulless corporation, so it follows that most of the laws of our land wouldn't make sense to me, especially in the realm of copyright.
The point here is that it's not possible (yet, maybe forever) to create an AI that can make such abstractions and apply old knowledge to new situations.
It is possible. It has been done.
It just isn't made out of computer chips. It's made out of mushy stuff (humans).
Also note that bonuses don't usually count towards raises. So if you look at giving someone X% raise, the bonus isn't counted in that calculation. So it is beneficial to have "salary+bonus"=$Y over "salary alone"=$Y. That way the "+bonus" part of the equation never counts in compounding yearly raises.
I think your parent post is correct. Financial Aid is causing the rise in tuition prices.
An example:
Bob goes into Cool Stuff Store to buy Cool Thing at $5.
Bob is willing to pay $5 for Cool Thing and nothing more.
Now Frank comes along and says "Here is $3 for you Bob, you may only spend it at Cool Stuff Store".
Bob is still willing to pay only $5 (of his own money) for Cool Thing. Bob now has $5 of his own money plus $3 of someone else's money that he can ONLY use at this store.
Why would Cool Stuff Store NOT raise the price of Cool Thing to $8? They would only be losing money if they didn't raise the price.
If it wasn't obvious...
Bob = prospective student
Cool Stuff Store = some university
Cool Thing = degree
Frank = financial aid
Just to further back this post up... When you say 2% cash back, it can get better than that. I have two cards that do 5% for different things that change each quarter. These are no fee cards too. For example, the categories are things like gas, restaurants, home improvement stores.
For Christmas season, this last quarter, one card is 5% for Amazon purchases and the other includes 5% back on department stores (like Walmart).
5% cash back adds up pretty quickly to a chunk of money.
Because there is literally no good reason for not supporting it besides greed over customer satisfaction? Thus, they deserve every bit of it. Don't rationalize bad behavior away for anyone or anything.
and it's extremely difficult to find qualified people to fill those positions
..."at the rates we're willing to pay"
My department is having the same issue with hiring people. We can't find people with the technical experience we want... at the rates we're willing to pay. We're getting tons of responses from India though.
Pretend we doubled the salary on our open positions... we would have gobs of Americans applying.
Let's do the opposite thought experiment to understand how this works. It's just supply and demand. Pretend 50% of the workforce is H1B and 50% citizens. If the H1B was stopped overnight, 50% of the workforce is gone and the remaining 50% of the workforce just got a lot more valuable. Higher salaries. This is what helps balance things. Higher salaries means it looks like a more attractive field. People in the field would be treated better (because they are more valuable). All of this leads to more people entering the field. Salaries raise and people are treated better until the field is at a better balancing point with the demand. It might even turn into a respected industry!
Wow -- Apple finally has a way to interface conveniently with camera photos on an SD Card?? Welcome to the year 2005, folks.
I'm not sure I'd call this convenient. Wouldn't "conveniently" really mean not having to buy a separate adapter, and having an SD card slot right in the device itself?
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Like you I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon as well. But I'm never in a hurry for it so standard free shipping has always worked for us. If we don't quite hit the $25 minimum order for free shipping, stuff sits in our cart until it does hit $25. $25 is a pretty low amount, which we seem to hit pretty easily.
I, for one, can't trust that someone promoting nullification can actually respect the law or its application
Exactly. When we have no trust in the specific law being tried, nullification might be the appropriate response.
I'm not qualified to comment on the case, but what I've seen so far, I'm not sure the punishment fits the crime.
But, then again, I'm not a soulless corporation, so it follows that most of the laws of our land wouldn't make sense to me, especially in the realm of copyright.
How can we all see different prices if a site like this exists?
https://camelcamelcamel.com/
Can we be a little more precise with the headline editors? The term "crypto" is not, and should never be, solely associated with Crypto-currencies.
Wait, since when does a "drive" convert files before storing them?
What If: Lightning https://what-if.xkcd.com/16
That 0.02 TB is 200 times the capacity of the first external hard drive I bought. I think I remember my first drive at 100 MB.
using this trick to make the numbers look better while also cutting costs and quality.
Want to make sure everyone catches this gem of careful wording.
The point here is that it's not possible (yet, maybe forever) to create an AI that can make such abstractions and apply old knowledge to new situations.
It is possible. It has been done.
It just isn't made out of computer chips. It's made out of mushy stuff (humans).
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... like the body or the subject!)
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
2) Tesla Autopilot is not yet advanced enough to prevent a car from ramming into a parked truck on its own.
Does Tesla release statistics on the number of cars NOT HIT because autopilot was turned on?
Also note that bonuses don't usually count towards raises. So if you look at giving someone X% raise, the bonus isn't counted in that calculation. So it is beneficial to have "salary+bonus"=$Y over "salary alone"=$Y. That way the "+bonus" part of the equation never counts in compounding yearly raises.
These are great examples of times when the computer messed up the day.
You can't make an informed decision based on that alone (well, you can, but science can't).
For balance, we now need to list every time the computer saved the day and see which method really wins.
You left out the key part that we keep having to remind people about...
"We just can't get very many American applications....at the wages we are willing to pay."
I think your parent post is correct. Financial Aid is causing the rise in tuition prices.
An example:
Bob goes into Cool Stuff Store to buy Cool Thing at $5.
Bob is willing to pay $5 for Cool Thing and nothing more.
Now Frank comes along and says "Here is $3 for you Bob, you may only spend it at Cool Stuff Store".
Bob is still willing to pay only $5 (of his own money) for Cool Thing. Bob now has $5 of his own money plus $3 of someone else's money that he can ONLY use at this store.
Why would Cool Stuff Store NOT raise the price of Cool Thing to $8? They would only be losing money if they didn't raise the price.
If it wasn't obvious...
Bob = prospective student
Cool Stuff Store = some university
Cool Thing = degree
Frank = financial aid
I might argue the more appropriate quote would be this:
"I have a Right to Repair my stuff, and HE has an obligation to NOT HINDER me in do so"
In many of these cases, they are putting extra things in place to make it difficult to track down and solve issues.
Just to further back this post up... When you say 2% cash back, it can get better than that. I have two cards that do 5% for different things that change each quarter. These are no fee cards too. For example, the categories are things like gas, restaurants, home improvement stores.
For Christmas season, this last quarter, one card is 5% for Amazon purchases and the other includes 5% back on department stores (like Walmart).
5% cash back adds up pretty quickly to a chunk of money.
So why again is Sony getting shit for this?
Because there is literally no good reason for not supporting it besides greed over customer satisfaction? Thus, they deserve every bit of it. Don't rationalize bad behavior away for anyone or anything.
1999-2000 I had two iMacs linked via built in IrDA networking in my dorm room with my roommate. All out of the box stuff built into the iMac.
It was this model:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Ah... old simple fun tech.
and it's extremely difficult to find qualified people to fill those positions
My department is having the same issue with hiring people. We can't find people with the technical experience we want... at the rates we're willing to pay. We're getting tons of responses from India though.
Pretend we doubled the salary on our open positions... we would have gobs of Americans applying.
Let's do the opposite thought experiment to understand how this works. It's just supply and demand. Pretend 50% of the workforce is H1B and 50% citizens. If the H1B was stopped overnight, 50% of the workforce is gone and the remaining 50% of the workforce just got a lot more valuable. Higher salaries. This is what helps balance things. Higher salaries means it looks like a more attractive field. People in the field would be treated better (because they are more valuable). All of this leads to more people entering the field. Salaries raise and people are treated better until the field is at a better balancing point with the demand. It might even turn into a respected industry!
So we have freedom of speech-ish.
We drove by a large high school this weekend.
My 7 year old son asked me if that was a prison.
I've thought the same thing for years about newer schools going up (but never mentioned it to my son).
Robots are cheaper than Chinese labor now?
Don't forget: https://xkcd.com/1102
Wow -- Apple finally has a way to interface conveniently with camera photos on an SD Card?? Welcome to the year 2005, folks.
I'm not sure I'd call this convenient. Wouldn't "conveniently" really mean not having to buy a separate adapter, and having an SD card slot right in the device itself?