The comment here is addressing that, in this scenario, Wallmart would be able to come to your home and "claw back" physical goods like a table or couch that was paid for legitimately IN THE PAST due to THE LATER theft.
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* I just want to do something simple => Solution space presented is too complex
* I have a complex use case => Solution space is easy to map my problem into
I like to think about how much time/effort/energy has been put into designing and indoctrinating people into systems so that that the 95% or so will actually do the work to defend its existence and the elite class can operate effectively as managers rather than ever get their hands dirty. How easy and self-reinforcing it is for people to operate against their own interests is the product of millenia of heavy research into information control, psychology, and power, not an emergent property of social people
>The materials touted that he could make more than $75,000 and perhaps as much as $300,000 every year. The application required that you have $10,000 in startup capital, but the ad he saw also said that the fee might be waived for veterans.
>Aside from Ramos, all of the business owners and drivers interviewed for this piece see themselves as working primarily for Amazon, not for an independent small business. That mentality has added to the disappointment for workers seeking autonomy
>“It’s not a partnership. This is working for Amazon,” the veteran said. “We DSPs are not business owners, we’re paid managers. They control every aspect.”
>After the DSP owner is paid by Amazon, the owner then has to pay the drivers, taxes, leases on the vans, repairs to the vans, new clothing (the physicality of the job means some drivers go through gear every couple of weeks), worker’s comp and other costs.
https://www.protocol.com/workplace/amazon-delivery-program-t...
For static sites or other public access required files setting up cloudfront with an authenticated origin pull is pretty straightforward and in our case we use a terraform module to provision and secure the bucket/distribution. I think this come when you get dev/biz users with console access who are trying to "just get it done" when you are dealing with highly confidential or sensitive data, it's a recipe for leak.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/geomagnetic-storm-warning-solar-fl...
If you E&M questions are just node solving, linear algebra and difeq is all you need for E&M to solve "most" work. You do a lot of specialized versions of that in QM and as mentioned above the people doing the actual semiconductor design are so highly specialized that they are often not transferable to other problem domains and require fundamentally different approaches. Not sure any non-PHD study will really help one advance the field in a meaningful way. Study of QM i would say sufficiently enriches all physics verticals that if you are capable, it's worthy of individual pursuit, but also makes total sense to study as part of a curriculum taking place after intro E&M.
Quantum Tunneling in everyday life: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/how-quantum-me...
On a similar scale I think a "scientific" observer of nature might say one shouldn't worry about local maximums because there is always some input stimuli to disrupt seemingly stable long term maxima, and that measurable dynamism of categorical evolution comes through dipping to local mins, and finding a new path to the new temp max because the topology of the surface changed.
Humanity challenge I think is in recognizing that almost all successful solutions to long term problems is built from small functional systems that scaled up rather than top down predictive and prescribed methodologies (mostly accidents until recent history). We can stand in nature and appreciate the diverse and varied approaches nature has taken to solving the particular localized problem (soil, land topology, etc...) but we don't evaluate the suffering and time frame it might of taken to find that particular solution. The plants that were either prematurely stunted or culled are just as much part of the ecosystem and fertilizer that holds the visible flora.
While appreciable suffering can and should be addressed and planned for, localized short term solutions are the things that take hold and spread until the collapse under their own lack of structural stability. Luckily nature is always at the ready to continue the experiment. Trail blazing is not about clearing the path, but finding it, the shortest path for nature is almost always the most preferred, you could say many of the foundations of physics[0] are rooted in it
> Collective bargaining evens out the power imbalances between workers and their employers. It doesn't really matter if the employer is the government or a private company. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about collective bargaining and democracy since the two are unrelated. There are other ways to handle public sector unions. For example, in Canada the military is not part of a union but their pay is tied to other public sector employees who are unionized. This makes sense since you don't want the military going on strike. When the union employees go on strike to get better pay and benefits the military also gets the same increases. You could do something similar in the US by tying police salaries and benefits to another public sector group like teachers or nurses. I have the feeling that this would be extremely unpopular with the police
Public sector unions "bosses" are the people and politicians, so even though these are "private" unions, their alignment is to protect the political class first, cops (members) second, people third. By focusing on politic over people (bad looking cops = lost mayor, DA political race) their primary interested is not public transparency (where the money comes from, leading to lack of consumer alignment on service rendered b/c cops are serving political interests more than they should).
In a private union, the first people they are protecting are their membership (lot could be said here about how that works in practice), but their transparency problem isn't regarding factory deaths or issues at the work place because that is precisely what they are created to bring awareness to. If Ford's cars are killing people, the union actually wants to bring that up since it can hurt employment opportunities for future members.
The Industrial private prison complex owner group don't want to operate, they want to sell support, training, equipment and materials to public prisons not operate (like a defense contractor), because a prison is very complicated management problem and has little public reward over budget efficiency sadly (things are changing but slowly).
- You value a car on your sales lot on your books: $10,000
- Real value is probably, $5,500, the spoiler and crappy tint doesn't 2x the value
- Your car is currently on fire (act of god) so value is scrap
- Buddy who runs a bank (you pay on the side because, o this ins't the first on fire car you tried to sell trash for cash) offers you $9,500, a bargin
- You are in
- 2 years later, pay off bank buddy (maybe political donation) b/c you are the one of the 9 people who can sell cars
- Throw press conference because you saved tax payers 10k + horrible risk if I failed
- Bank share holders (Tax payers) own pile of scrap
he incentives are mismanaged because the calculated risk of a bank failing is evaluated purely on the chaos induced, not the existing status quo which for joe schmoe is crazy but HFT guy can make bank off of (so sold as all upside if you are smart, but is restricted in apparent but fog like ways). Maybe said bank is actually terrible, but we won't know because they are a rise together, never fall together cartel (malicious or not, fact of reality)
All of that tracking of what my partner and I are making, ingredients, tweaks, etc... is almost entirely in my head or quickly put together google sheets that are categorized but difficult to analyze in any historical fashion.
I'd rather just be better tracking my actions at point of interaction with the goods and free up more time for analytical development and more longitudinal reflection.
I really started focusing on my cooking skills about 4, 5 years ago and have appreciated the result of those efforts. A lot of chef skills I appreciate is the ability to improvise and combine what's around into an incredible dish and I think that something that let my data side push usage and expiration as inputs to that decisioning (arrowroot flour been in there for a year, I should make those fried shrimp we had when we were on whole30).