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Other reasons could be people have poor delivery from their UPS driver, stolen packages, some people prefer not having people come to their door, some people feel empowered by going out and getting what they want, when they want to get it.

The biggest reason could be that it's ultimately a lower price for everyone, assuming its cheaper to hire junior employees to walk the store and pick my groceries vs hiring a driver and a truck to take the stuff to everyones door (plus someone to do all the picking).

this will be a game changer for me. Big time. The day when I order online, check-in on my mobile app in the parking lot, pull up to the delivery dock, Johnny comes out with a box of my stuff and puts it in my trunk, and I drive off. That will be my nirvana.

I have mild social anxiety, but walmart, for some reason, amplifies it considerably. Grocery stores too. Partly because I dont do proper meal planning/shopping planning, but partly because it just feels so inefficient to wade around the store and just feeling...handicapped ? Like, I just want to get my things and go, but ther'es always something impeding me: forgetting items, people in the way, employees restocking shelves during busy hours, long lines, bottlenecks at the one exit, etc.

Drive-thru supermarkets/walmarts/amazon pickup is going to change the world.

or the market has somehow succeeded in depressing wages to the lowest possible rate. I've heard you have to have a minimum of a BS degree to break into the field of bio/chem. And then you're just a lab monkey following orders from a superior. yet "biotech firms" generate enormous profits, whether its in genetic engineering, healthcare, pharma, etc. It makes me sick.

If they achieved another gain by migrating to HG, why shouldn't they have ?

If they achieved further gains by migrating to git, why shouldn't they have ?

Perhaps instagram is immune to that because it's harder to articulate the "I'm angry" emotion with a camera ?

apparently the "All Writs Act" of 1789 is the "constitution doesn't apply to you" trump card.

switch is hardly a hidden edge, it's an important control structure in the language. You want a "hidden edge", look at designated initializers [1] which I just heard of yesterday (thanks to HN), despite having 17 years experience using C. Or bitfields, or function pointers.

[1] http://www.drdobbs.com/the-new-c-declarations-initialization...

Even if you couldn't infiltrate the chip foundry, you could order a bunch of the chips, reverse engineer them, and in a few months, ship a duplicate with a neutered "enclave". Then interdict the shipment to the phone manufacturer (this isn't tinfoil, it's been done) and "supply" them with your version of the "secure enclave". There's no limit to this cat and mouse game.

I think where it counts is the "last mile", similar to the cost of telecom. But I dont see that many package car drivers being laid off, since the demand is "inelastic". The driver still needs to cruise the neighborhood whether 1 guy or 100 guys are getting packages. If UPS's volume gets cut by 20%, there's no way they're going to need to cut 20% of their drivers.

What I predict amazon will do is just have delivery stations. I would gladly drive a mile or two to pick up my stuff from an automated locker, versus contend with some of the tricks that I hear about so much with at-home delivery (that I'm thankful has never happened to me).

If you eliminated the "last mile" package cars, all you'd need is hubs (which UPS is well on their way to fully automating for pkg sorting), long-haul drivers/pilots, and a few delivery drivers to load up the "automated lockers" in each neighborhood.

Re: world container index, I'm assuming that includes marine shipping, which should be independent of amazons network?

exactly. I dont agree with you that women have "never been" discriminated against, but I do agree that vocational fields are not homogeneously populated (and that is not the result of discrimination).

* I dont see very many women police officers

* (this was mentioned on HN last week) not very many oil-rig workers are women

* I dont see many heterosexual men working as hair dressers or bridal shop/wedding planners/fashion designers/makeup artists ("this is clearly a glass door organized by the Gay Male Establishment to prevent heterosexual men from breaking into this field. Such abuse of privilege" /s).

* I don't see many women working as bouncers at night clubs

* I don't see many women working as commercial pilots.

But you know, for all the "I don't see"'s , when I do see one that defies the norm, I dont think much of it. They're people just like anyone else, free to pursue whatever they want. But it's not automatically discrimination when groups of people gravitate to certain fields.

you're using gender stereotypes ("girls like dresses", and implied its corollary, "boys like machines") in an argument against gender exclusion.

But then I recalled an article earlier this year about how "campus PD" have been intervening in sexual assault cases and trying to get them handled by the university instead of the justice system, where there's public record and of course publicity.

my point is that there have always legions of people who believe ridiculous things. They've been around for every single previous election. So we shouldn't be surprised when the scientific community says "civilization has changed the climate" but people still don't believe it (even when the claim is supported by evidence).

How is that any different than people in the Bible Belt who believe the earth was made in 7 days ? Or elderly people who become vulnerable and fall prey to exploitation (because they believe phone scams, or sob stories from strangers, etc) ? (Edit: or young people who think they're going to grow up and be an astronaut or NBA star). There will always be a sizable proportion of the population who believes wacky stories.

I know you weren't implying this, but NYT and WaPo's hands aren't clean either. I really didn't appreciate how they pushed the "Russia HACKED the election" narrative. That's predatory on the same level: take advantage of the nebulous word "hacking" and misapply it to something that doesn't even rely on computers, do some hand-waiving, and voila, there's some "fake news" to dish up to the masses [which is ironic when your other stories are about the spread of "fake news"].

Just to clarify, I (gladly) fell out of love with my idea and dont so much worry about people "stealing" it. I'm more worried about a business partner building an "escape hatch" in the partnership contract and screwing me out of ownership/stake. Not sure if that changes your answer or not.

or conversely, operators shouldn't be allowed to tweak the AI logic, but if they program the AI to tweak itself, like review its moves and adjust its algorithm automatically, that would be reasonable, then the AI and nothing but the AI is responsible for the victory.

my team can't even have one call-in member (a few states away) join a teleconference without it sounding like she's underwater.

I bought a xilinx spartan dev board 10 years ago and it was just like this. ISE was 4gb of java bloatware, 2 gb (!) more of "updates", crashed frequently, barely ran, imploded under its own weight. I managed to make some lights go blinky and said "eff this".

It's sad to hear that 10 years later nothing has changed.