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Interesting. I think those are all very plausible and yet oddly we also now live in a hyper-sexualized mainstream advertising culture in the West.

I'm curious why and when did those go away exactly on Dutch TV?

Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh are two distinct and different retail entities. The subject of the post is specifically Amazon Go. That being said, on the most recent earnings call Amazon also announced that they were "pausing" the rollout of Fresh stores.

“We’ve decided over the last year or so that we’re not going to expand the physical Fresh doors until we have that equation with differentiation and economic value that we like, but we're optimistic that we're going to find that in 2023,” [1]

[1] https://www.supermarketnews.com/retail-financial/amazon-halt...

If you look at the photo at the top of the first link you can very clearly see that almost every single row has different size package footprints, not only from row but even between packages in the same row. There is no uniformity present. Further from the second link, there is no uniformity from machine to machine which is fundamentally no different the variation and shelf configuration from from shelf to shelf or aisle to aisle in a traditional brick and mortar retail store.

If you are going to state something is fallacy then you might want to substantiate the fallacy. Instead all you provide is your opinion that the elimination of a class of jobs is for "the better."

What I have stated is that entry level positions are a means of advancement in retail environments. This based on empirical fact.

>"There is a reason why for example living human beings do not manually switch phone lines anymore when you make a phone call"

No, the reason "human beings do not manually switch phone lines anymore" is because the growth of subscriber lines exceeded the capacity for manual switching in Central Offices. It had nothing to do with nature of the job.

Cashier jobs are entry level positions. As such they are also a means of advancement to other roles in retail. Countless people started as cashier and worked their way up to roles like customer services, buyer, store manager etc.

These jobs are also an opportunity for students to earn money and get work experience. But yes, "Let's destroy this job" simply because you don't like it?

Since your profile states you are a staff developer at Shopify, here's a Shopify link that outlines the value that the role of cashier brings to a retail environment:

https://www.shopify.com/retail/retail-jobs-common-positions

That hasn't been true in a very long time. A walk through any major airport shows otherwise. The Best Buy Express vending machine is 10 years old at this point and that is just one of many brands now that have similar offerings. See:

https://blog.bestbuy.ca/tv-audio/headphones-tv-audio/best-bu...

and

https://thepointsguy.com/news/things-sold-airport-vending-ma...

From the article:

>"The retailer also opened a number of locations last year in Southern California. As of last month, Amazon operated 31 Go stores in total."

>"With these closures, the company will have 23 Go stores, the spokesperson said."

That's a loss of 8 stores.

Relatedly, this announcement came on the same day they announced they were pausing the second phase of their HQ2 development in Virginia:

https://www.fastcompany.com/90860480/amazon-hq2-construction...

This is significant in that the HQ2 bidding process was basically a competition by local governments to see who could give Amazon the largest tax breaks and other incentives so that Amazon would choose their city as the site its location. See:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/five-economic-development...

Sanction and export controls are used by governments around the world as a means to further their foreign policy and national security interests, not just the US. Further these regulations always govern both the export and re-export of the goods and services being sold. They are useless otherwise.

This is playing out right now in the EU with Switzerland and Germany debating allowing armaments to be re-exported to Ukraine.[1]

[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/switzerland-rethinks-neutral...

>"I have previously presented some suggestions to the Storage SIG on this topic."

Ia there any chance you might be able to provide a link to these? I would be curious to take a look.

>"I worked in this problem space extensively until 2020, and I think that there are paths forward but they require changes in K8S that none of the folks involved seem motivated to make."

Can you say what you see as those possible paths forward and what changes they would require?

What is the CAI filter?

Incorrect. Netflix purchased transit from Level 3 beginning in 2010 and subsequently with Cogent.[1][2]. They then went on to purchase additional transit from Telia, NTT and Tata in order to get routes into the eyeball networks that began making a stink. They eventually agreed to do paid peering with the last mile eyeball networks - AT&T Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Comcast. It seem as though you not understanding peering and transit. Had they been paying for peering there wouldn't have been an issue in the first place. Paid peering was the very thing the last mile networks wanted.[3].

Netflix prior to the roll out of their Open Connect CDN offering used Akamai, Limelight, and Level 3 as their CDN providers. When they rolled out Open Connect they offered ISPs the ability to peer directly with them at number of different peering exchanges.[4] This was a few years after the Level 3 Comcast spat. You seem to be confusing events.

[1] https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...

[2] https://archive.is/2AC6C#selection-735.154-735.169

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/fcc-gets-comcast...

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/04/netflix-open-connect/

This sounds similar to the Netflix and Comcast/Verizon spat from 2014 in the US where Comcast wanted paid peering from Netflix.[1] The customers already pay their ISP for this content to be delivered and Netflix already pays for transit to deliver these bits.

It's interesting Netflix is framing this this as hurting content creators. I suppose this is probably more true today than it was in 2014 given that original content is now the key drivers for streaming services.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/20/5530898/netflix-blasts-co...

The "electricity grid" is composed of many parts both in South Australia and elsewhere. The components are generation, transmission, distribution and retail suppliers. Cheung Kong Infrastructure aka CKI's current position is only 23% of the distribution network.[1]

So no, they did not "sell the grid" to China.

[1] https://www.cki.com.hk/english/ourBusiness/home/inv_au.htm

>"South Australia sold its state owned electricity grid to Chinese owners for 200 years."

That's something of a stretch.

State Grid Corp of China bought a 41% stake in South Australia's transmission network owner ElectraNet. See:

https://archive.is/0yXEH

This appears to be a video discussing the following WSJ article:

"A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life"

https://archive.is/Q4NOR

I see, but doesn't have the same issue as sending an SMS to the phone if the phone has been stolen in that the thief can just say "yes" to the prompt?

>"Also consider that T-Mobile as it exists is the result of years/decades of mergers and acquisitions so they have decades of legacy and non-conforming systems."

This is true of just about every single mobile carrier today. In fact this is true of all telecom companies for most of their history from mobile carriers, to cable companies to ISPs. The entire telecom industry is an unending series of consolidation and acquisition of assets. This is already 12 years out of date but this should give you an idea:

https://archive.is/fjZQ0

What is "Google prompt" here?

Interesting. Was your 2FA setup to use Google Authenticator or regular SMS? It's been a while since I used Google services but from what I recall from a previous company where we used Gmail was that the only way to do 2FA with Google Authenticator if you lost access to the phone was with a backup code you are given at 2FA setup time. Is that no longer the case?

I am failing to understand how your post relates in any way to my comment. Was this meant for somewhere else perhaps?

Yes I think if you work at a software company "GA" as a status in release management has a well-understood meaning - "general availability." However stating something is "generally available" in the headline only to followed by the lede that states it's actually only GA for a premium tier of product users feels a bit disingenuous if not click-baity.

Interesting. I hadn't considered why so many content creators add an intro theme song and animated graphics and a mini ad demonstrating how to subscribe etc. I hadn't considered this is all just padding to increase the length for recommendation optimization.

Or hoarding talent simply to take them off the market and keep them from potential competitors. I feel like this is a relatively new development, at this scale at least.

From your link:

>"The company faces mounting competition from China’s Huawei and Finland’s Nokia as well as weak emerging markets and falling spending by telecoms operators with demand for next-generation 5G technology still years away."

The layoffs are attributed to three things:

1. Competition

2. A slump in investment in emerging markets.

3. Falling spending(it's not clear from the press relase if that was just spending for Ericsson's gear.)

Additionally there was no global Telecom industry slump in 2016. Just in the US alone it was something of a boom year with lots of activity. See:

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/strong-growth-potential-for-...

What is "qemu schmuck" here?

If this was true then we would have seen similar layoffs between UMTS(3G) and LTE(4G) and between LTE and 5G. Is there any evidence of that? Also Telcos around the world are still rolling out 5G and much of the tech's promise of Edge Computing have not yet been deployed or realized.

There's a really good 12 episode BBC podcast called "The Lazarus Heist" that details the extent of this state enterprise.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/w13xtvg9