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I personally know a number of Amazon warehouse workers and none of them consider the workplace to be harsh. This article smacks of a smear campaign. Note the timing with this piece: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-13/oracle-is...

I wonder if Keurig will have to change their brewer warranty:

"Only the use of Keurig® K-Cup® brand pods and accessories will guarantee the proper functioning and lifetime of your Keurig® brewer. Any damage to or malfunction of your brewer resulting from the use of non-Keurig® pods and accessories may not be covered by this warranty or may result in a service fee if the damage or malfunction is determined to be caused by such use."

http://support.keurig.com/article?id=kA036000000CJGOCA4

The author used the term "monopoly" six times in the article. Facebook is a lot of ugly things, but "monopoly" is not one of them.

Are you familiar with the function of volunteer fire departments in the U.S.?

Rather than getting defensive, municipalities should support these groups much in the same way they do volunteer fire departments.

> do these Googlers honestly think Russia and China and others aren't working on the same thing to be used by their military?

It's been my observation that vehement anti-war activists seem unwilling to admit that there are threats that need to be defended against.

> you mention playing games, watch movies, and browse the web?! All three are possible on all mentioned systems

How is Far Cry 5 on Linux? How about MacOS?

How does the EU propose to enforce this?

If your workers are doing "fairly basic tasks", why should you be forced to pay them more than their work is worth?

I imagine he'll be answering questions provided to CNN by the Facebook PR team.

How long before it comes out that Google does the same thing with search history, Amazon with product browsing, Apple with phone usage, and Microsoft with Windows 10 usage?

It's a sad reality, but regardless of how many times per day a pedestrian is hit by a human-driven car, such incidents involving self-driving cars will be headline news for years to come.

I wonder when Amazon will break itself apart (a la Alphabet) in order to lessen regulatory scrutiny?

It seems as if the problem of increasing cost of medical treatment has corresponded with increasing government involvement in the health care/insurance industry.

> By other metrics, we are being victimized...

Hyperbolic indeed.

How long before we see Amazon break themselves up as Google did into Alphabet? This seems like a solid approach to prevent government anti-monopoly action.

I am by far most productive when working alone from home. It isn't even close.

Sadly, they seem to have taken down the corrected version. :(

You will adapt...by never visiting that site again.

Government setting rates for medicare/medicaid reimbursement is what has driven up prices. One of the brilliant aspects of market economics is that, if allowed to operate freely, the market would establish price points for all levels of service. Government involvement is preventing the market from functioning as it should.

This sounds like a case in which thorough product testing was sacrificed in the rush to make the deadline of the announcement event.

Well said. I've been telling people for years that tech sector interviews select for the wrong skill sets.

This works wonderfully if everybody involved acts rationally and professionally. Otherwise, it can quickly become a nightmare.

"Courage"

> The "auto-rotate around the landmark" feature

I think of this as "Drone View". I keep waiting for the JDAM impact.

Putting one's keyfile in the cloud just seems to me to be asking for it. You're essentially trusting a 3rd party with the keys to your kingdom.

As the former head of a customer support department, I can tell you that the most important aspect of communication with a customer is empathy. Even more than expertise, if you can demonstrate that you care about their problem and will get to the bottom of it, the encounter will most likely result in customer retention.

I want to know if any of the pictures from my trail camera include deer. It sounds like Rekognition might be the answer for this.

Can anybody say with a straight face that this is not a politically motivated report?

Anybody remember that NeXTMail included voice annotations? Seeing that feature almost never used made me realize that text for messaging will always have its place.