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Comment Re:Ah, the good old days (Score 1) 37

You probably missed my posts because they were modded into obscurity, but I worked at Amazon for 9 years and it was the greatest job that I've ever had. I got to do challenging and cutting edge work with some of the smartest people that I've ever known, all while they threw piles of money at me (average salary at Amazon is over a hundred grand). It was a great way to wrap up a career.

Walmart advertising pays for a lot of anti-Amazon articles squalling about how badly their warehouse workers (less than 1/5 of the staff) are treated, probably to divert attention from how badly they treat their own employees. I've done warehouse and shipping work in the past and at Amazon worked with people who advanced out of the FCs, and the jobs they describe are head and shoulders better than my own experiences. Their pay, benefits, working conditions and safety are far and away better than any non-Teamster warehouse position out there.

Comment Re:Sensationalism reporting (Score 1) 153

OK. I did some research.

In 1990, Richard Gere offered Julia Roberts $3000 for a week. And that was

a) 35 years ago and
b) in an aehmm... more price conscious oriented market. (but not low budget either)

So as a conclusion: If you pay $500 for food and sex, at least one of that will not be classy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Woman#Plot

Comment Re:Lasers vs drones (Score 2) 250

These lasers require minerals that are in short supply right now, especially rare earth metals. In spite of the name rare earth metals aren't exactly rare, but they are rather difficult to refine.
That is just nonsense.

They are rare, the lazers, because they are complex systems. You have to track the target. To kill shells you need multiple lasers targeting the same shell. The electronics use simple chips. As long as they can make phones, they have enough rare earths for what ever they want.

The lasers are in general CO2 lasers. They only use rare earth, if available, they do not need it for functionality.

The people in the USDOD are certainly working on getting lasers to the front lines but they have a shortage of materials
Nope. They lost the race when they could not deliver 30 years ago as their MIC was to expensive. Now Germany and Austria is selling them for an Apple and an Egg: the Americans do not even want them: NIH syndrome.

It takes china to make them mainstream and some angry words from an american president to push them into the US Army (the Navy has a few, but does not really want them).

Comment Re:Likely to be a short lived buisness model. (Score 1) 26

They withhold services until there's blackouts, because it's more profit for them to see spot prices get high before providing power than trying to keep the grid, and the spot price, stable.
If your market regulators allow that: blame the legislation.

If a price is high at the spot market, it simply means: there is a buyer for that price.
Ordinary customers, who already paid the "overpriced" end consumer price: are not affected.
Giving them a black out is illegal in Europe (and in general technically not possible, reserve power providers would jump in and bill the guilty parties).

Comment Re:The Smartest Guys in the Room Are Back—Wi (Score 1) 26

and they only become profitable at times of peak spot prices due to their inefficiency.
That is nonsense.
Gas turbines are extremely efficient. As efficient as a "single" heat plant can get.
Obviously combined cycle gas plants are more efficient as they use the exhaust of gas turbines to heat a boiler.

Electricity from Gas turbines is expensive: because the plant/turbine is absurd expensive. A single blade of the turbine rotors in the burning area costs as much as a german middle class car.

Comment Re:Despite being called a macbook (Score 1) 95

Well, there are plenty of "terminal apps".

I do not remember which I used. Don't have it my iPhone, I mostly use my Android :D

What took them so long, IMHO, was Apple waiting for iPad Hardware catching up to the task.
The hardware was always up for that. There is nothing particularly demanding on macOS.

Comment Wonder if it's targeted (Score 3, Insightful) 234

I wonder if enforcement is targeted at Amazon workers. I wouldn't be surprised to find it were true, since Rump is jealous of anyone more successful than he is. Even worse, Bezos got to be the richest person in the world by his own hard work and competence, he didn't inherit it like Rump's clique did.

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