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> does it work equally fast and cheap when you send money to japan or australia? Of course not. Not that I've ever had to do that in my entire adult life. > a popular exchange like…

> You (most probably) did have to go (physically) to a bank and prove your identity and your credit record in order to maintain any credit card. Didn't have to go there physically.…

To pay with my credit card online I just need to fill in the card details (which are often stored on the website anyway, or auto-filled by my browser). To pay with card in person, …

So the receiver pays you for access to the service and the sender also pays you for access to the receiver? I hate everything about this double-dipping-middle-man-in-an-otherwise-f…

Which field are you looking at? On the topics that I've been interested in - programming, math, statistics, ML - there many really good books that are completely free.

My concern about Google isn't big enough to justify going through this.

> I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before. I have - I found the results far less useful than Google's, the whole experience far more frustrating…

First, > "Amazon is a big company and they don't enter lawsuits they won't win" this simply isn't what I said. Second - my evidence ? We're not in court and I'm not trying to prove…

> The "enough" here is zero. No, it isn't. Legally it might be zero, but multi-billion dollar companies don't enter legal processes that last years and cost them millions just for …

I don't know what evidence they have. Not sure why you decided that it's zero.

Imagine that they aren't suing simply because they lost. Imagine that there was actual evidence for corruption, and Amazon lost a $10-billion contract because Trump put his finger …

Either company could have won the project - this isn't about their merit. It's about whether the decision was personally influenced by Trump because he hates Bezos.

Actually, only one of these companies has had its CEO personally attacked by the president.

There's enough evidence for Amazon to take legal action. Then the courts decide if it's good enough.

The original post is a good first source.

So how does being vegan and taking public transport contradict with being a software developer? I really think that you're approaching this backwards if you decide "this is the val…

I'm not a C++ developer but I really enjoyed reading this.

> It's time these big corporations get broken up. Or you can create and enforce laws that apply when they abuse their monopolies. Breaking up a company because it's above an arbitr…

I think that's used in a completely different context.

I was incredibly unproductive during the first half of my 20s and procrastinated to the point of setting my career back a few years. Around the time I turned 26 I was suddenly able…

Your values, your actual values, are what you do, not what you say that you like because it sounded good on the internet.

> So much of work today that takes place in big cities can easily be done from home Not all that much - not everyone works in software, and not everyone who does will be most produ…

Asimov-level AI is still fiction and most likely remain that way for a long time.