The solution is simple but the shareholders won’t like it: remove third party sellers.
They don't even have to remove them. Just move them to a separate marketplace under the Amazon umbrella.
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filesystem commented on Ice not recommended for soft tissue injury treatment (2019) blogs.bmj.com/bjsm/2019/0... · Posted by u/mhb
"Education" maybe the worst of them. One of the what-to-do steps is... learn what to do? Talk about drawing the rest of the freaking owl.
Yes this one is comically bad. The description is even worse: "Your body knows best. Avoid unnecessary passive treatments and medical investigations and let nature play its role."
So really this is preaching anti-education. Do not seek out information about your injury.
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filesystem commented on Number of unemployed persons per job opening bls.gov/charts/job-openin... · Posted by u/Nicholas_C
I think, with the rise of the gig economy, the number of unemployed persons is not a very good metric anymore, because it doesn't make a distinction between a full-time employee, a shift worker getting 20 hours per week, and an Uber driver working at a loss, if you count the car depreciation.
A better metric could be the number of billable work hours within the last month, or the payroll distribution curve. The latter can be easily computed from the monthly payroll taxes and should show if people are being massively shifted to part-time or laid off and not immediately finding another job.
> an Uber driver working at a loss, if you count the car depreciation
I hate to nitpick but I see this sentiment word-for-word on HN way too much. Uber drivers don't actually operate at a loss unless they only Uber for a short amount of time and they total their car during that stint. They just tend to earn less profit (often way less) than they think they are earning due to the car depreciation and other factors. But a working class person cannot afford to operate "at a loss" without noticing immediately, and a $25,000 car cannot depreciate infinitely.
filesystem commented on Should we let cars use the road as a projection screen? autocar.co.uk/car-news/te... · Posted by u/clouddrover
In over 20 years of driving, even in rural areas with lots of deer and other critters, I can count on one hand the number of times I've intentionally turned on my hi-beams.
If your night vision is that bad, the solution isn't to blind other drivers by turning the road into the midday sun.
You're absolutely in the minority here. Perhaps you have extremely above average peripheral vision.
I grew up in a rural area and still visit quite often. Deer jump out in front of cars all the time. It is physically impossible for me, any of my family members, or anyone I've ever known in this town to be able to see the deer off the side of the wooded areas without high beams on. High beams are not going away.
filesystem commented on ‘Return to the office’ rhetoric needs to end thebluejester.medium.com/... · Posted by u/imhoguy
The commute can optionally be replaced by other activities with a bit of diligence. Personally, I'll go for a run mid day. I know others that will go for a walk in the morning and after work. Others will perform some other task to decompress.
It's all about what's knowing what's best for you. If you need to get in the car and sit in traffic to decompress, you still have that option if you WFH. But just like commuting takes energy, so does getting up and decompressing in a way that is beneficial for yourself.
> It's all about what's knowing what's best for you.
They were implying that separating home from work is what is best for them. Some people like to work from the office - you do not need to keep pushing WFH on everyone.
The product that lifted Apple out of mediocrity and into the public eye was the iPod. The iPod, especially in its initial release, had a feature list that was explicitly derived from the failings of competing products. The idea was to take and dominate the mobile music player market. All of the biggest power moves Steve Jobs made were about eating someone else's lunch.
This implies that the MP3 market was already sufficiently large or saturated by the time the iPod came on the scene, which is false. The MP3 market at the time was mostly an intersection of tech-savvy individuals and musicians. Everyone else was still using portable CD players or walkmans.
you can do all of those things without a billion dollar company... seems like a waste to just use it for breaking into teenagers' phones...
TikTok is mostly adults now.
filesystem commented on Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it · Posted by u/ccleve
As a longtime armchair attorney who has closely read summaries of cases like this on Slashdot for well over the past decade (IANAL, BTW)...you could go the lawyer route but this basically amounts to your kid being a minor in school which means they don't have full legal rights, and the interpretation of 4A is likely up in the air here anyway. Constitutional rights don't necessarily apply at school or anywhere near school (see bongrips4jesus case), your kid is a minor anyway (another special case), and a school doing this for the sake of "preventing cheating" may not fall under the umbrella of unreasonable search.
There was a PA school district back around 2009 that issued laptops to students preloaded with spyware that let school staff watch students through the webcam, while the students were at home and not doing schoolwork. Neither the students or parents were informed of this. IIRC the FBI got involved but nobody actually got in any real trouble, I'm not even sure they were fired.
I wish things weren't this way. You could maybe use Wireshark and black hole anything the spyware tries to connect to at the router, or maybe add the addresses to the hosts file on the machine itself (not sure if ChromeOS lets you do this).
On the flip side of that "minors have no rights" coin you're holding up is the fact that laptop is the parent's property since they bought the laptop for the child to use. They did a factory reset and the problem software still remains. What if the parent did a factory reset to use the laptop for themselves? There is no reason for the spyware to remain in that case. It needs to be removable.
filesystem commented on 38% of remote workers work from bed axios.com/38-percent-remo... · Posted by u/rufus_foreman
> Being in the same space physically I think speeds up a lot of things. In small teams and esp. at early stage startups your whole day is a meeting where things are discussed and resolved spontaneously.
I do not understand how people can get work done in an environment like this. I've had similar experiences and "the whole day is a meeting" only served me for unnecessary interruptions, useless workplace banter and unsatisfactory results.
People who tilt towards extrovert thrive in an environment like this.