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which is why it's insane that it was ever an option for people selling under the prime label. If it's ground, FedEx manages to take the longest possible time they can, even if it's only going a few miles.

online shopping !== amazon

It's also that dishonesty goes unpunished. Any semi-sentient slime mold can set up a new business with FBA and do the same shitty shopping practices. They'll make enough before they're found out.

It's also why every product is like 4.5 stars -- they just astroturf the reviews by giving away product.

yep, yc can't capture the patents if there's no patent system in place.

get back to beijing with the report, let us know what new marching orders are.

with how much love VCs get here, i'm pretty sure that's an accurate sentiment.

wow, what a great way to completely avoid the massive controversy they've been trying to sweep under the rug for a couple months now.

You knew when it was sold to MS that this was gonna happen. It's why that was the day github died.

because this is how they shield themselves while thinking tha half the folks in the office around them deserve to be deported or detained and actively think of most of their peers as less than human.

If they aren't ok having their hand bit, they'll either stop feeding (fire them) or protect themselves (capitulate).

Companies fire the whiners and radicals all the freakin' time. The fact that these folks are still there says that they weren't, in fact, biting that hand.

The amount I am recruited and asked for various forms of interviews -- "grab coffee?", "grab lunch?", "quick 15 minute conversation?" -- can be seen as a counter-example that while cash is our payment, we are not "blessed" to have jobs. They are blessed that I chose to work for them. I can choose to work anywhere at this point. The money isn't the point. I'm not going to contribute to more human suffering, and you won't get to take advantage of my talents if you do.

It's about being a team player for humans first, corporations second. You seem like a bootlicker to the capital class (or an "entrepreneur" trying to LARP). It's the shitty boomer attitude of "you should be grateful to have a job at all." To that, I say "fuck you."

Every developer thinks their salary will be dragged down to "the average" -- aka they think they're all above-average.

Libertarianism was the cancer of our generation.

anyone who thinks this is ok is inhumane. not surprising to see so many black-and-white people here though. "crime means you forfeit all rights forever and ever no matter how petty" is such a shitty, petty way to live life.

do you separate children for jaywalking? or littering? because that's what the "crime" of "being illegal" amounts to. it's a misdemeanor.

so the next time you get caught speeding or get a parking ticket, remember that they could have taken your kids and sold them into sexual slavery. have a good day.

Not just that -- github is now PAYING to support ICE. They're actively engaging in whitewashing. it's a corporate bet to them to continue supporting ICE.

I think also in the age of internet, cell phones, constant surveillance, and more, we're also much more aware of these atrocities and the governments do not always have the power to simply hide it.

I mean: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-01/satellite-images-expo...

It's hard to imagine the average person having access to this kind of reporting 40 years ago. (the 1990 was 30 years ago next year...)

The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件, liùsì shìjiàn), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing (the capital of the People's Republic of China) for the establishment of basic human and press rights and against the Communist-led Chinese government in mid-1989. More broadly, it refers to the popular national movement inspired by the Beijing protests during that period, sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement (Chinese: 八九民运, bājiǔ mínyùn). The protests were forcibly suppressed after Chinese Premier Li Peng declared martial law. In what became known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, troops with assault rifles and tanks fired at the demonstrators trying to block the military's advance towards Tiananmen Square. The number of civilian deaths was internally estimated by the Chinese government to be near or above 10,000.

As well as a dramatically shifted power dynamic whereby the 40 hour workweek is a relic of the past, and people work 2-3 jobs just to scrape by. It's easier to say "burn it down" when you're already in the flames.

It's also, depending on who you ask, one of the few avenues left for people to affect change on a larger scale. Literally nothing else is working, and internal revolts have changed quite a few minds.

Employee activism is a necessary and under-powered force to help manage the insatiable greed of board members.

My mac's primary purpose is to run bash, firefox, intellij, and docker. they've all got their own UI, and I don't feel wanting for power.

glad to see someone else who thinks like this. the way people seem to react to electron apps is very close to "they killed my pappy!" kind of anger.

If you take a parenting class, this exercise is often used with both partners to learn how to deal with pain/discomfort naturally.

My wife could keep her hand in there for a few minutes. I was done after 30 seconds, if that.

Exactly. Magnolia provides a significant source of property tax revenue, yet is constantly ignored when it comes to infrastructure upgrades. It almost makes me want to move out.

but attempting to understate your wealth for purposes of liability is a huge crime. this article is basically telling us that they're dramatically understating their wealth to minimize the settlement damage.

don't let perfection be the enemy of progress.

I guess this is good, but all it means for us is higher prices. Shipping wasn't the thing killing these "small businesses".

i'm going to guess this was an exercise to try to do this, not to be effective as a tool :)

Passing optional objects as method params is bad. The trouble is that an Optional<T> can still be null itself.

So I'm not trying to scam anyone, but is there a way for a business arrangement to be made that doesn't incur this risk? I know you can put together a buy/sell agreement and have successorship/rights of first refusal documents, but is there a legal way a married person can protect assets from their partner if they wanted to, without going into complicated trusts and shit?

Not at all. There's no reason for her to sign it.

It's also grossly dismissive of employment abuse (like not paying wages, making illegal demands, etc), of underemployment, of market forces regarding employment, and more.

This is just the most head-up-my-own-ass article I've ever seen. He's challenging Trump for most egotistical statements uttered this month.