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I've repeatedly tried to get tested. All in the bay area continue to require that you certify that you have chills, cough, fever etc.

SUPER annoying. Sometimes you are just under the weather, sore throat etc and want to do your part - you cannot do that in the bay area. LA area I hear has removed the gatekeeping.

You also have to have a doctors order.

However, you can pay for antibody tests out of pocket around here - that part seems to have escaped the lock down on testing they have going.

There's going to have to be a point at which they allow you to at least pay for your own test if you want - no certification or doctor referral needed. I don't know how we can take the idea that testing is a priority when they make it so hard to get tested.

Are they really putting folks in jail for longer periods now?

A guy just got killed near where I live by someone who was let out to reduce prison overcrowding during covid.

My test results didn't share what platform was used.

- August

The results I got had a big FDA warning that positive results may be a result of other infections (ie, that the tests are not specific to covid).

I feel like the WHO (body may not produce antibodies as part of beating covid, antibodies have not been shown to confer any immunity) and now the FDA may be talking about true but theoretical issues.

What is the REAL rate, in the USA, of folks who have for example MERS antibodies that will trigger a false positive in this type of test. Ie, do these tests really come back positive for MERS antibodies and how likely am I to have had MERS but not covid so that I get that false positive?

Given the FDA warning (which was the biggest thing on my results) I'm guessing 30%+ of positives are a result of these situations? But interested in actual data

Not totally the same - its worse.

The FCC licenses bandwidth, no one owns it.

The FCC can rezone, they generally then run an auction, keep lots of $$ for the govt, and kick some back to others if needed especially if they force folks like TV stations to move their station broadcasts.

Lightsquared 100% lied when they said they would use the spectrum to serve 100% of users with a sat service. That was a necessary process for the original transfer (like for like use).

And the value they are getting is huge. 40MHz of nationwide bandwidth. Easily worth 10Billion plus.

Be totally fine for FCC to rezone using a normal process, auction to normal business at fair market value, protecting or compensating existing users.

You don't need to trade a physically settled contract for that though! Just hedge on a cash basis or hedge directly on the item you do need delivery on.

Seriously, do people enter into contracts like this in other parts of their life?

Good lord, if you actually need the oil, then take delivery!

The issue here is total speculators using PHYSICALLY settled contracts to speculate who don't want delivery.

The number of people who need WTI are pretty few - refiners and some small others. Seriously - with WTI you still need to refine it - airlines CANNOT just load WTI into their tanks.

These sob stories from folks who supposedly were bidding to take delivery of physical oil (unrefined) from a condo somewhere are ridiculous.

To trade futures you need to certify you understand them. I'd love to see the form this guy filled out listing what was likely a fair bit of bogus experience.

I'm fine with all these idiots getting burned.

For those not in all the details - the spectrum was for earth to space communication.

They bought it and said they would use it to do earth based broadcast.

First - if this spectrum was usable for earth broadcast LOTS more people would have bid on it and used it.

Second - almost all their proposals were totally and obviously disastrous for other existing users of the spectrum.

With enough venture funding and sticking around for 10 years until you find a compliant FCC you can be rewarded for your bad behavior (and yes, they did finally change some of their proposals - but why this company gets to repurpose sat freqs at no extra cost for terrestrial use is ridiculous). .

The history of lightsquared, the company involved, is horrendous. They bought spectrum with a SPECIFIC restriction on it to avoid GPS interference - then proceeded to get a proposal approved that violates that restriction. The amount of bad faith dealing by this company was eye opening.

I thought Garmin / Trimble and basically every GPS company had sued them because of how terrible their proposals and behavior has been.

This is not traditional 5G, it's basically misusing satellite spectrum.

If you deploy / admin linux on production side it just seems to be a lot easier to also basically develop in a linux like environment.

With WSL2 you can go from - I wonder if this would work, do a quick no git checkin no vm no docker quick script, then looks good, let's drop this into git, get a dockerfile going, test on docker then test deploy or start going to production.

And it's all pretty fictionless and you can use your Windows machine still for whatever other desktop stuff you have (which many find easier than getting a linux desktop going especially if you need to interop with a word / excel / microsoft business).

I think Microsoft is finally paying a bit of attention to what developers are looking for. The vagrant / docker on windows solutions were in part providing for this need (windows desktop / linux development). This is also what made MacOS so great (unix/bsd under the hood with a nice gui). Why not bake it in? Linux is open source - you don't even have to license it from someone.

I don't get it either. Developing on windows used to be trivial. Winforms designer was drag and drop, click into code, write an extra module, done.

I was told, oh, you are an idiot, you need to be using XAML / WPF etc etc. I tried - the stuff looks works, much more complicated to develop and does LESS!

Even Visual Basic (remember that?) made GUI development trivial I thought compared to these new improved approaches.

That's not what someone paying on a W2 basis is going to say. Is this is a winning arguement in front of a jury? I worked for company A and then started working for company B - their direct and primary competitor (!!) AT THE SAME TIME I WAS WORKING AND GETTING PAID by company a(uber and lyft drivers drive for both at same time).

Even if not at the same time, if Company A is having to pay for the vehicle or whatever other costs and equipment are being used - in what world can someone driving the comcast truck start installing for AT&T?

This logic is so twisted.

What is up with having to CONSTANTLY sign off on all these privacy policies.

Why not just put control in users hands with their browser. Browse in incognito mode if you want less tracking. Block javascript, use an adblocker etc.

This doesn't require that websites allow you to do this, just do it, delete your own cookies.

Am I missing something. The CONSTANT popups on websites that serve EU visitors is SO SO annoying.

If this is meant to have people think big govt is competent and helpful... not sure it's working.

You can read Uber and Lyfts proposed solution here:

Earnings Guarantee:

Drivers always receive at least an amount equal to 120% of minimum wage, plus 30 cents per mile compensation toward expenses, with the potential to earn more and no limits on how much drivers can make.

Health care

Health care contribution equal to 100 percent of the average employer payment toward a Covered California Plan, or $367 per month to a driver on average.

Drivers start earning this amount at 15 hours per week and reach the full amount at 25 hours per week

Drivers can earn multiple contributions from multiple companies

Occupational accident insurance to cover on-the-job injuries

Automobile accident and liability insurance

It looks like this may be settled at the ballot box.

https://protectdriversandservices.com/get-the-facts/

Full initiative: https://www.oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/19-0026...

Can lyft drivers work for uber? I've seen that happen I think.

This seems different than google employees working for microsoft - which I think would be prohibited.

If these workers are misclassified will they have to work for just one company? Will uber/lyft then be able to set their working hours?

AS does almost all other fraud fighting tools (they all use beacons to try to get as broad a sample as they can of user click / browse trails).

Have a friend doing dropshipping of real products. He mostly goes into amazon. Had a marketing background.

Key things if doing the real version of this.

1) In person supplier visits to vet them (yes, you need to fly to china

2) Amazon reviews are everything to these guys. So ad copy that is not too overblown (disappointment), amazing customer service etc. FBA.

3) Stick your own brand on the product and try to build that in a niche.

Lot's of seedy stuff also, but it does make really good money when its working for sure. These guys live in total fear of their accounts being banned / blacklisted (usually by competitors filing fake reports on them).

I know apple keeps on getting headlines for breaking privacy (and also making phones that supposedly get thrown away because they don't have right to repair)

My own sense is android phones are MUCH less private and secure AND have much shorter useful lives.

Do you understand anything more yourself? The need for some of these steps for fraud control (vs your assume bad intentions initial approach).

I do hiring.

1) Run your own background check and see what comes back. Most will let you run your own check.

2) Don't mention this if you want the job, the the FAANGs did go through a period where they wanted activists / not just the standard coders but I think that might be somewhat over.

3) I would never hire someone with your record if I knew about it.

A note - use straight language if you are committing crimes for moral reasons. For example "defends unborn children from child murders" is committing a murder of an abortion doctor under our current laws, "rescuing animals" may be theft or burglary. "saving the world from GMO" may be destroying a local farm. "saving the world from gentrification" may be multiple arsons (in emeryville for example). 9/11, the US wars in many other countries are often tied to these ideals justify violence and killing language models.

Wasn't spaceX's bid 1/4 the price of Blue Origin / Northrup?

I've heard some horror stories about escrow. Bad wiring instructions in/out (intercepted emails), bogus escrow companies.

Glad to hear these crypto folks have figured it out.

Also because the JSONB is so close to a relational data model it's a bit easier I've found to pick up some relational data work when needed or visa versa.

Accounting for user balances vis a vis some clearing and payment processing accounts? Let's do that with ref integrity and relational model.

Developers want to add all sorts of cruft and notes and weird data to the user record or order record they may want to look back on once in a while or display somehow, give them JSONB.

The alternative seems to a docDB that folks stretch 100 ways to sunday to try and shoehorn a relational model in, or visa versa (exploding schemas and slow dev velocity as whoever manages DB complains).

And with AWS doing hosted postgresql RDS somewhat recently with t3 micros as an option - it's really easy to reach for this hammer. I just do a 1 year reserved instance at $5/month for development, and you can deploy to any size.

Some of the re-platform / train up roles which benefit from lots of experience go to consultants (a great place to have a lot of experience and talk to the C-suite, the big consulting firms have lots of older solutions architects doing $10M+ deals - I've been stuck using those solutions in past!).

You can actually take advantage of your age / experience and hire someone out of college for cheap to do some of the day to day and you deliver the consulting "solution" - can be very lucrative. You may be more likely to get the deal talking to the top as a 40 year old then as a 21 year old.

Where are you starting your product search? For everyone claiming they have found the better amazon, the more ethical amazon they never seem to be actually willing to NAME these great places so others can use them - if you are going legitimately would be great to get the name of these product search starting points.

And I've tried google's shopping - blah. If that's your starting point we are going to be with amazon for a while.

Recently tried to avoid amazon - got some stuff from a name brand retailer. The return process required a 40 minute hold time, and because it was one order they only give one return label even though order came in two large boxes. So now it's around and around to try to figure out the second label. It's apparently an outsourced return provider (is that a thing) so the logic / communication related to the original sellers product is terrible.

The last time this happened they ended up giving a store credit for sale price, a refund and never sent the label! Ended up giving away a pretty expensive item ($150). I mean it's just a totally unintegrated system

Compared to amazon (walk into Kohl's / UPS store even unsealed / drop in a locker / give to mailroom to give to UPS guy, stack item on UPS box in garage etc etc) it's night and day different.

It's not moot at all.

Uber employees (and some cities) can get access to aggregated data showing where uber is driving.

The same employees should not be able to have access to where YOU are driving (rider specific).

This is particularly key for sellers with a unique product. Chairs are selling well? No problem. But detailed transaction detail for a specific seller and product and their decisions there - a problem.

Thanks for this - I'm not an expert at all in the networking space side of things, but even dabbling with ipsec / ipv6 combos made my head spin coming from an ipv4 background.

Basically I was left with the idea - how in the world is the gigantic set of interlocking RFCs (at least to me IPv6 seems to involve a lot of complex stuff) the best way to network these days.

I just wish the wireguard folks did IP6v2 :)

Kidding (kind of)!

As a non shlock product seller you are much more comfortable in local retail I think? I just thought retail was easier to actually talk to real people.

The schlock sellers I think are more expert in the amazon game (image / product swapouts and seller targeting, review spiking games, competitor flag and return / hazard attacks etc). So much BS and so little real recourse - the scale of marketplace must be nuts.

Tim - have you actually ever reped / managed distribution into retail at the moderate scale at least?

Do you have a reasonably high volume ($1M+ sales) amazon account to compare to?

I just ask because for such strong opinions "everything you're saying is 100% false" you don't seem like you have actually worked with businesses in this way.

Beleive it or not, you can actually talk to real human beings at your local retail stores. And yes, you can talk to real people at amazon, but if issue is outside their box (on seller side) you get little mercy. If inside box some of the treatment is amazing (amazon payments for goods they show as lost by them as a sale with no return risk)