Amazon would be just fine if they were forced to do the right thing now and then. AWS alone nets $20+ mil a day in profit, there's no reason to evade taxes globally, call your workers contractors, have them piss in bottles or eat off food stamps. There's no reason to have a store full of counterfeit crap and fake reviews either when they could have appropriate due diligence instead.
These are all easy problems to resolve when you are the world's richest man and revenue's still growing.
They're also easy problems to ignore if you're OK with being awful until the EU forces you to meet a minimum standard of conduct.
I actually stopped learning new languages with these features because I started to get so frustrated they weren't available. Or I implemented then am everyone got weirded out by their 'strangeness'
From a narrative point of view, the spatial problem as stated is a quite decent post hoc argument for why time travel is usually fraught with danger, even after the science is known, as predicting the exact parameters needed would be nigh impossible.
One could easily argue that big whiteboards laden to the brim with integrals and capital sigma (summation) rich equations indicate a data rich problem rather than a theory heavy one, and that the inevitable squashed, disappeared, or exploded melon fits very well into this framework.
Shooting a water melon at several million miles per hour so it hits a small time travel device correctly in all N>3 dimensions is obviously going to make a royal mess quite a few times, as evidenced in many movies!
Maybe not the case if they looked crooked, but having irregular placement of construction elements is a valid way to decrease tendency for self resonance through different vibration modes being dampened by the mismatched distances.
An irregular structure can be useful for improving earthquake resistance, or sway/vibrations in high wind situations.
I would very much like to have something like Google authenticator, but for billing. With the ability so set it as alarms on my phone (and coworkers), preferably with some smarts to detect short usage spikes.
In essence, settings and updating amount, rate and velocity ( speed of rate change ) caps on the fly.
Then I can set whatever tight limit I want to, and not worry about burning through too much cash because of some simple coding, or config error.
A bug almost cost us several tens of thousands of BigQuery costs when a dev accidentally repeated a big query every 5 seconds in an automated script, and while we still had budget warnings, it still cost us a fair bit of money. Even after this, I found it tricky to set/catch budgets for single services. I think I had to use stackdriver to be able to get any kind of warning.
It was in the ’blinking lights and sirens’- territory fast!
Being frustrated with burned top, and undercooked bottom I figured out that using the broiler together with a couple 2-3 mm thick pre-heated aluminium sheet that I placed the pizza on produced pretty good results. Not that I was aiming for a particular style of pizza though, ymmv.
The sheet itself was placed on an ordinary oven rack somewhere below the middle of the oven.
It seems to align somewhat with their findings. Since the aluminium sheet is only heated by the air, the bottom doesn't get burned, but the slight extra boost of initial heat cooks the bottom about right compared to the top. At least for a bit thicker pizzas as the one I made.
You probably would want maybe an even thicker plate to get a really short cooking times, like the 2min in the article. In any case, you will have to wait for a little bit between each pizza for the plate to reach the appropriate temperature.
Just buy a pizza steel (like this: https://pizzasteel.com/). Warm it in an oven at max for 45 minutes, then turn the grill (broiler) on for 15 mins to get it as hot as possible.
Then bake your pizza on it with the grill still on.
I just went to a part of the city (southern SF) with lots of workshops. Found a steel piece that I liked, and bought it. The whole 50lb chunk of steel cost me ~$50; it's sold by weight.
Then I soaked it in vinegar for a day, and all the rust/grime wiped right off.
Then I coated it with oil and put it in the oven at 500 to season it.
It's satisfying for me, it's an honest answer, and as good as any other.
With enough free time there wouldn't be much need for a direction. And after a while I would probably figure out something I liked doing more than other things.
Only issue is that in my eyes, enough is probably pretty close to immortality.
Largely because I would like to understand the breathd of the human condition, and how language makes us think differently. That probably requires getting to native speaking ability in maybe 100’s of languages, and also the patience to wait for the likely needed cognitive augmentation to be able to do that.
I would also very much like to visit a few stars and nebulae, which could take a while.
If I only had a couple of decades or so, I might take a stab at building tools to make programming the job it should be, but isn't now.
Actually, it's chloramine alone that is the culprit for both the smell and the red eyes according to the actual report. Which isn't reporting any new finding, as far as I know this has been well known since many years.
The short version is; A pool that smells strongly of 'clorine' ( chloramine(s) ) is a pool with a high load of contaminants, and whether or not the chlorine concentration is kept at levels enough to cope with the load can't afaik easily be determined, but it's reasonable to a assume a higher load implies a higher risk for insufficient levels.
Or as the report states:
>What you smell are actually chemicals
that form when chlorine mixes with pee, poop, sweat, and dirt from swimmers’ bodies. Yuck!
>These chemicals—not chlorine—can cause your eyes to get red and sting, make your nose run, and make you cough.
>Healthy pools, waterparks, hot tubs,
splash pads, and spray parks
don’t have a strong chemical smell.
It seems the argument could be that since he didn't object to the new ToS when they were changed, and kept using parts of their service, the clause forbidding arbitration towards RSI is/was still binding.
One oddity, except the usual insanity that click-through agreements should be valid for anything above, lets say $100, is that it appears the newer ToS explicitly states it doesn't apply retroactively. However, since the arbitration would always occur in the future from the later ToS, it might be a moot point.
If all of this is true, and the law correctly applied. Doesn't it create a situation where any ToS for a service - at least those you actually depend upon - are essentially worthless?
Seems like if a change the ToS to include an arbitration clause is applied this way, your only option would be immediately stop using the service, or the provider would be able to do whatever they wanted hereonafter, even completely ignore the rest of the contract/ToS?
> usual insanity that click-through agreements should be valid for anything above, lets say $100
No body reads these. We're talking about the literal <1%, and in most of those are probably lawyers who either write them or the law firms involved in cases like this.
I'm surprised there isn't more backlash against click-through EULAs.
