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I'm not a huge fan of Shopify. Their default setup and theme requirements are abysmal.
But it's light-years ahead of WordPress+Woocom.
Neither of these are well set to run a proper ecommerce without heavy customizations though.
Where's your control group showing that people who don't age don't have an increased risk of cancer?
+1 for Ritual.
The interface is a little clunky, but the service as a whole works really well. Order ahead, walk in to pick up.
Does this interfere with lazy loading?
I wonder how services like Stadia will play into this moving forward.
Why not get a copy in Nigeria, have a server hosted there, and just play it streaming.
New startup idea: learn foreign languages by playing pirated copies of foreign language games.
Thanks for this insight. It's a good reminder that reality is nuanced and complex.
Google marketing trying to spread FUD about "ad blocking".
This is a malicious ads blocker, which should be a default feature of it's browser. It's not an ad blocking extension at all.
This telemetry thing is surprisingly overlooked in these discussions. I've disabled tracking and reporting on at least 4 separate occasions since windows auto updated my laptop from Windows 7 to windows 10 without user permission. They just keep adding auto-enabled features that override the previously disabled features doing the same thing.
"We heard you when you said you didn't want cameras automatically monitoring you. So we added this new feature where you can disable cameras based on DAY OF THE WEEK and turned every day on for your convenience"
Microsoft knows it lost the online tracking game, so it's playing dumb and putting in privacy-invading features and overriding user selections yearly. Why rely on a browser when you control the OS?
The paranoid part of me thinks windows is giving away windows 10 for free because it's making money selling the user data and access to intelligence agencies.
I know apple has received some flak for updates slowing their computers, but windows is no better. My 4 year old laptop is basically unusable at this point because every action takes 10-15s.
To be fair, people said this about Tesla and SpaceX as well.
Given his track record, I'm inclined to believe he understands the problem space and how to solve it better than you or I.
Yes, the burden is on him to execute, but that will take him years. The argument that "I don't understand it therefore it's invalid" holds little meaning. Musk isn't a person who gets this deep into a project without a high likelihood of success, historically.
I just did this last month. It's a solid risk management move.
Never had an issue with PayPal debiting funds though, in 10+ years using them.
Ironically, I tracked the real world identity of someone using stolen credit cards in my ecom site BECAUSE he posted a tutorial/how-to on YouTube showing the vulnerability tool (script kiddie), under his real name. SMH.
This won't stop this information from being disseminated, but it may save some idiots from themselves.
It's not just CBD. Hemp seeds are an amazingly nutrient rich food. Sibling comments mentioned it can be used in fabrics and paper. It's an amazingly versatile product that's been unfortunately supressed in the war on drugs.
Not really. They were profitable, they just invested heavily in infrastructure (warehouses) and developing new services (AWS).
They may have been unattractive by wall street's standards (eg. Pay outs) but they were far from unprofitable.
Cloudflare was returning a 502 this morning, wonder if they're related. Lots and lots of sites down for about an hour, including all of Shopify.
This.
It's not just that one block of minecraft was once forest and is now dirt. It's a loss of ecosystem for huge numbers of species.
It's additional GHG as they transport the wood.
Some of that wood will end up being burnt, adding more GHGs.
That's not to say anyone outside the Amazon is entitled to it, but it's not just "not so bad", it actually is bad.
This.
She was also white. And blonde. And non LGBT. And non obese.
Are all these groups now disadvantaged?
The authors trysera company had a truly horrific business model. Selling consumer data to companies based on website _visit_. No opt in.
They claim it's legit because the companies feeding them customer data "opted in".
Shelf companies is an interesting approach I hadn't considered.
I wouldn't call anything you described easy, but I'm not a nation state trying to illegal smuggle banned goods. I disagree that you can churn and burn these, but you've made a good point.
Thanks!
diet, semen quality, reproductive hormones, and lifestyle factors
So it doesn't look like body fat or weight was factored in, unless they were lumped under "lifestyle factors" for some reason.
It should also be noted that they're confounding "Western" and "high fat". High fat diets are actually great for hormone production: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4271636/
No link to the actual study. I need to know if they controlled for body fat and lifestyle.
It's well established that high body fat percentage is correlated with lower sex hormone production. Among other factors, this could be due to decreased bloodflow to the genitals.
It's not unreasonable to think maybe the people eating the junk food were simply fatter.
Another concern is whether they're getting adequate nutrients from other foods. There's a bit of substitution going on when a higher percentage of calories coming from junk food, but it's completely possible to eat McDonald's for lunch every day and still get 100% of your recommended vitamins, minerals and fiber from other meals.
This is just poor reporting.
Yes, it would. The application process is a bitch, and fairly invasive. This isn't something you can churn and burn.
As far as I'm aware, this applies to the person filing the documents. If a person does this on behalf of a company without referencing the company, he's personally liable. If the company is listed on the paperwork, they'd be flagged.
There's a big difference between sending something personally at the post office, and registering as an exporter/importer. If you're registered, you use your broker account number.
Can the company have thousands of employees attempt to send packages personally? Sure. But if discovered, the company would itself be shitlisted, with probably no way to undo it. The executives and any company that helped facilitate the fraud would be investigated.
I can't speak to whether the CBP maintains employment data or affiliations, but my guess would be yes. I'm sure they have back-office integrations with the NSA.
Misrepresenting information is lying under oath to a government agent. Even honest to God mistakes will get you fined, and flag you for closer inspection in the future.
As a non US citizen, the CBP is scary. I've been to exporter training sessions put on by them jointly with brokers and lawyers. I can't stress how seriously they take this, and how far their influence reaches. Even as a US citizen, I'd find them scary.
Remember it? There's a squatter on a domain I want, who is offering to _rent it_ for $2000 _per month_.
An archive.org search shows it was rented for 2 months in the last 7 years.
I don't agree with ICANNs proposal in the article, but squatting is an issue.
Thanks, I hadn't seen this article.
And yes, they might save money on snow removal. Downtown Toronto though, I don't see it. Even if 3 blocks have heated sidewalks, the sidewalk plow has to drive over them to reach the next segment. Those costs wouldn't decrease.
Saving on salting and sidewalk damage from freeze/thaw could be impactful.
But the cost of digging up sidewalks (which happens _all the time_) would increase significantly. Then there's the added expenses of maintenance - leaky pipes that requiring digging up the sidewalk.
The installation and maintenance requires skilled labour - union plumbers. Installing concrete sidewalks and plowing requires much lower wages.
Overall, the article makes no solid argument for it saving money, and does nothing more than speculate it could be cost saving. Where's the actual numbers from other cities who have implemented this?
An explanation of every style being applied would be useful. I can't tell what the purpose of this entire thing is.
I work with a company that imports and exports physical products to the U.S. regularly.
Yes, you could probably get away shipping a dozen phones a few times. But they will catch it eventually. They do actually inspect paperwork and sometimes contents.
And if they find out you've lied on the paperwork, you've earned yourself a shit list that's going to extend to any travel you do to/from the U.S. for life, on top of penalties and possibly arrest warrants.
They don't mess around.
I should add: CBP shares offices at the border with the couriers. They're literally down the hall from each other. They're inspecting packages crossing the border all day long, but it's a random sampling, so whether it's your day or not is a matter of luck. They also have mobile x Ray trucks that scan full semi trailers.
The heated pavers would be terribly wasteful. It's a bad idea.
And awnings aren't a replacement for good indoor walkways. Shitty weather is shitty weather. But they're a huge benefit on sidewalks, for the 90% of rain/snow that isn't shitty weather. I live in a build that has these along the entire block and it's a godsend.
But mass timber / cross-laminated timber is actually projected to be an ideal future building material. Even for high rises. It's not folksy. Almost every architect I've talked to would love to build a mid/high rise with it.
https://www.constructiondive.com/news/mass-timber-101-unders... https://globalnews.ca/news/4957218/canada-mass-timber-high-r...
There's a lot here that isn't typical of Toronto.
Wood/timber in commercial buildings and condos.
Public awnings (snow and rain suck).
Better transit to new neighbourhoods, outside the "core".
It's nothing mind blowingly bleeding edge, but it's an improvement over current practices. I see nothing committing them to any of this though, so who knows what gets cost engineered out of the project.
But you're right. It's misdirection. They want more data, and to establish a precedent.
Google is a highly profitable company with tons of smart engineering talent, that can put the time and effort into planning future projects like this. I honestly believe they have good intentions. I also honestly believe that corporate interests will win in the end and this wouldn't turn out well in 20 years.