tdmule

When Grubhub acquired Eat24 from Yelp and removed the group order feature in favor of signing up for a "corporate" account, it sent much of my business to DoorDash.

The style of the art on that page is similar to HBO's Silicon Valley opening[1]. Until I scrolled down I thought the page might be some sort of satire.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m2j_0ivw2I

Ed Yong rocks. Another well written science piece that is easy to digest without drifting into sensationalism.

What was the biggest blizzard you witnessed? I visited for a weekend and there was about 4 feet of snow in a 36 hour storm.

While I am not a huge music listener, it is largely true for me.

Spotify launched in 2008. I signed up for an account in 2009. Since then I have bought physical/downloadable music only a handful of times.

I am an avid podcast listener which occupies a chunk of my phone hard drive most days.

There are some historical examples of corporate control of people's lives.

Henry Ford's Sociological Department did unannounced visits to employees' homes to ensure they were "model Americans" and probe for union ties.[1][2]

Walmart "locking in" janitors.[3]

There are a lot more examples of negative environmental and financial impact, I picked these two as they are examples of controlling human freedoms.

[1] Negative source: https://jalopnik.com/when-henry-fords-benevolent-secret-poli... [2] Positive source: https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digita... [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/us/workers-assail-night-l...

Does limiting government limit the powers of the wealthy? It would limit one channel for them to exercise their power, but other channels like corporate control would exist.

The closest I can see to someone asserting they do is

https://www.mhpbooks.com/is-amazon-one-of-the-companies-work...

But the thrust of that article is more suspicion that Amazon is not mentioned in the leaks and questioning the reliability of the company's word. It does cite one source, described in the article as non-mainstream, which asserts that Amazon was a part of PRISM, but that source fails to cite any leak.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article40822.html

Edit: I should mention that the first article casting doubt on Amazon's reliability is published by an independent publishing company, historically an industry that has been at odds with Amazon and harmed by its business practices.

Has this been substantiated? To my knowledge Amazon denies being a part of PRISM and the only thing a quick search reveals is that denial and Snowden criticizing Amazon for not being HTTPS by default on some of their endpoints.

I just found out that Alexa has a funny response to this sentence.

This got me wondering what the AWS services' work load per day was. Best numbers I could find were from this 2013 article about serving ≈95 billion requests per day for just S3. The size and scope of cloud providers is truly cool and fascinating engineering.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-s3-two-trillion-obje...

This an interesting story of data and infographics. I would be curious to see an updated version that includes other large employers of engineers like Amazon or Oracle.

Partner with Amazon? I know when I got a Galaxy S4 the OEM Android included the Amazon App and Google Play stores. While they may do something different in Korea, it seems like a reasonable move in markets where Amazon has traction.

The paper is interesting, I am only partly through it but I am curious to see their code and data.

If we accept the premise of Reddit not as a forum, but as a host, perhaps a more apt analogy would be other hosts.

For example, both AWS (http://aws.amazon.com/aup/) and Google (https://cloud.google.com/terms/aup) have very broad acceptable usage policies that allow for doing anything deemed legal by US law.

I disagree, I think a great many people are willing to trade some privacy for convenience and contact.

Even if we take privacy as great thing, isn't staying in touch and making connections with some people who would otherwise slip away also a great thing?

For example, a childhood friend messaged me recently on Facebook informing me of his upcoming wedding. Getting his message and engaging an old friend in a conversation is a compelling (at least to me) trade for some privacy.

The direct source of this information is the github page mentioned in the article, https://github.com/elvanderb/TCP-32764

It seems as though this tangent has quickly turned into a discussion about consumerism (and indirectly its relation to capitalism).