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Or maybe you could just take my comment as an idea that sparks interest in your brain, and then you can go Google around for stories that confirm what I'm saying?

Wasn't aware that I was being held to such standards of academic rigour on this site where so many others get a free pass, if they're saying the right things that confirm HN's biases.

I enjoyed reading this article and all your behavior does is censor relevant and interesting info.

That you announce it for kudos is even more infuriating.

Any seller who is willing to automate returns and eat costs is good in my book. Sadly, as a small shop, I couldn't automate that process and couldn't eat many costs whether I was in the right or in the wrong. So it was a big problem when Amazon would just automatically side with the customer, no matter how hard I tried to work with them and prove my credibility.

Like I said, I try to avoid issuing chargebacks wherever I can, 99.9999% of my purchases are just fine. But I've charged back 2 plane tickets and 2 parking tickets, believe it or not, and my credit card company was just absolutely stellar in handling the situation for me, since the companies involved were totally corrupt and non responsive.

So the net net of all of this is, unless you have deep pockets to fund your customer service ops (an increasingly large cost center), you will probably get burned on chargebacks and returns.

This will only increase the centralization around Amazon and Walmart, which I would define as "not always a good thing".

On larger problems, I would issue a chargeback with my credit card company. I have won 4 of those for between $25 and $1500!!!

I used to have an Amazon seller account where I would ship video games and books. People who tried to return items and complain to Amazon were literally the death of my business. One chargeback wiped out the profits from 100 successful sales.

So like I said, I'm not sure if I'm wired differently, but I don't like this phenomenon and avoid it 99.99999% of the time.

I also feel that money and political power are on the line too, which just heightens the needs for shaming others into silence, in their minds.

Let's see what happens to our posts.

EDIT: also Damore was attacked non-stop during his interview with Siliconbeat if I remember correctly.

Of course it is a questionable medium to speculating in, since there is no real mechanism holding the ICO-offerer to any obligation to deliver what they say they will deliver.

At least with a traditional stock market that is slightly more regulated, transparent, etc, we can reasonably expect that everyone from Apple to Zapos will attempt to deliver on what they say they will, with theoretical criminal charges being the price to pay for those who deliberately defraud investors.

Of course the real problems are:

1) VCs don't invest here

2) A startup's success is usually based on its ability to sell itself (using networking contacts) to a larger corporation

3) who then REALLY don't want to have an office in Nowhere, Alabama

If they did want to do it, they would have done it already. Lord knows they have the money.

It's worded so that like, "who could be against that?" is what anyone would think.

So some shady ads pushing startup is out there trying to handwave how they're making everyones life better and improving outcomes, despite not providing any innovation.

It would be like saying my meth dealer is improving my life outcome because I have more energy now.

I care about Newegg, I feel they offer me good prices and service. I bought many things from them over the last decade.

So if this suit succeeds and Newegg takes a massive hit (for seemingly real fraud), a few big dogs will make money and the consumers will get shafted.

Will be interesting to see what happens. Part of me wonders why it's "buyer beware" for the consumer, but if you're a big bank and you get ripped off, it's time to sue everyone you can.

I really needed it, considering my former Microsoft manager personally laid me off because he just didn't like me.

No mortgage, no marriage, no restaurants, no fancy gadgets, just a nice relaxing low cost of living life with friends who feel the same way.

Every once in a while I take some controlled investing risks, but hell if I would ever plunk 300k in a mutual fund and just safely assume everything will be fine when I check it 30 years from now.

They WILL audit you. They WILL sue you. They WILL harass you. They WILL deceive you. Period. End of story. And they will make 100k easily off of you.

DON'T use Oracle products unless you are prepared to deal with these types of arbitrary, long, painful battles.

I find myself 50/50 on this issue. When I need cutting edge info, or niche info, I typically read it on a screen.

When I need offline info, or low power info, or simply a different aesthetic for some reason, I love a nice book. Especially for older info.

Surprisingly, discovery of info is pretty boundless and fun at a large University library, because books are sorted by topics. I don't need to endlessly query Google for the most authoritative resources.

Personally I really feel we need both sources of info. Both types of print have pros and cons.

I don't know if I "perform" better with one type of print though.

"Better" is very subjective, and when I was in college in 2010-13, all of my tests were written paragraphs/essays. Totally subjective.

It is often a thankless job and I appreciate that you've provided these numbers. It really shows the income disparity between the top dogs and the unwashed masses and Goldman.

How dare you tell me "hint, blah blah blah" when your source literally confirms what I have stated.

The young and inexperienced workers are just there for data entry and errands for the SMALL percentage of workers who are high powered investment bankers.

What do you think of my estimation?

Unfortunately I'd say yes. Consider that Goldman Sachs has 38,000 employees and the average compensation is 350k-400k per year, per their recent quarterly filing.

It is an elite world based on signaling and deep relationships, because there is a lot of money at stake.

EDIT: I upvoted you twice, HN just loves to downvote anything ;)

Devil's advocate, literally ALL of my personal info is online and (sadly) very easily searchable, so at this point...

might as well get some free food out of it...

Sad reality :(

There are two types of organ-donating motorcyclers, though:

1) speedsters / daredevils

2) law abiding riders hit from behind/side

Sadly there is not much of an appetite for truth that affects any business exploits that rely on misinformation.

If you began informing Ethiopian coffee bean farmers of how much Starbucks charges for a cup of coffee for just a few cents worth of coffee beans...

They would find a way to raise their price ;)

I get so much awesome shit from there, $1, and no tax on groceries. Portion sizes are proper, quality/safety of off-brand food is completely acceptable.

In a world where millions of Americans are spending $10 minimum per day on Starbucks coffee, I am probably spending $1-2 per day on my entire daily intake of food.

And it's all thanks to Dollar Tree, or alternatively Costco if I am nearby, where prices are similar thanks to wholesale prices.

And I'm not unemployed, I should add. Just a complete and total cheap skate, employed or not, both of which I have experience with :)

The nihilistic reality is that none of this matters, everyone will do what they want, people will profit, others will die.

All I ever try to do is provide true information- the user will need to draw their own plan of action from it :)

"We" is a very big blanket term. Quite a few of us care about preventable deaths from bad health choices.

However, quite a few people on this Earth exist that don't care very much about the good of society.

These people run the corporations that are VERY GOOD at selling things that kill us, namely junk foods, alcohol and tobacco.

Voila, now everybody is "using" it

where "using" = sitting dormant.

Hooray! Maybe the US will finally stop being judge, jury, and executioner.

>[read article, which states, "the virus has not yet affected pilots' ability to operate the drones"]

Well, damn. I guess we can keep our fingers crossed.

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Sadly, we live in a world where too often, emotion and reactionary tendencies guide people's opinions.

Scarily, these opinions often become law.

And since too many of these people hold power, the only solution I can see is to blend in or hide.