A few years ago Prime shipping turned into normal shipping and normal shipping turned into bad shipping. It was around that time I stopped renewing Prime.

I feel there are a lot of diseases like that, such as Alzheimer's. Why do we assume two people with the same symptoms have the same disease? They could be totally different diseases that present the same way.

Only good writing is orderly, logical and rational. There is plenty of human generated slop out there that bounces from topic to topic irrationally and without logic.

I've never seen a cookie banner ask for consent to collect and store my IP address. If that is their reason, they completely failed to obtain consent in a manner that meets the law.

The reason for the banners are simple - a court case ruled that cookies are covered by GDRP, but they haven't explicitly ruled on other tracking mechanisms. So ad companies pushed the minimum and most annoying method of conforming with that ruling without changing their practices, and continue to ignore the fact that all the other tracking they are doing without consent is blatantly illegal.

I mean, if your going to impose a steep fee the other qualifications no longer matter much. One could argue an employer willing to pay the fee should be the only qualification for work based visas.

Since Slashdot doesn't allow editing: The people up for renewal had to find new jobs. The company wasn't hiring new workers.

I had the exact opposite experience. The Fortune 500 company I worked at had layoffs, and shortly afterward the government started inquiring why H1-B workers weren't let go. All H1-B applications were rejected for the next 2 years and those people either found new sponsors or moved back to their country of origin.

IMHO the best way to avoid H1-B abuse is to put a floor on the salary across the board, and verify it through the IRS.

This CNBC article had a surprising quote:

The big hyperscalers like Microsoft and Google, he said, have instituted a strategy of “offloading their capacity to other data center providers.” That’s leading businesses to use Oracle. “These are not organic customers to Oracle,” said Luria, who recommends holding the stock. “This is Microsoft, Google and Amazon’s customers that will use Oracle capacity.”

So the Big 3 cloud providers don't own their own data centers? Is the cloud some sort of infinite regress? Is it turtles all the way down?

The battery will last all day without having to be charged!

I've seen so much progress in the education field. It's being truly treated a science, and a lot of important research is being done to understand how we learn, and how to teach. Unfortunately, education in the US is highly politicized and most of that research is ignored in order to score political points.

It's a question of enforcement. Most large cities actually do a good job of it. I only see people "rolling coal" in rural areas with minimal law enforcement.

It should be noted that PM2.5 emissions have been heavily regulated in the US for close to two decades now.

I switched to the online version over a decade ago. Why? It supports Linux. Sure, you may not want your taxes in the cloud. However, the IRS puts your tax documents on the Web no matter how you file.

They've been pretty transparent to reporters that ask about the ingredients. They use genetically modified organisms to produce proteins that mimic meat.

Care to provide a citation on this?