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Just cancelled my Prime membership a few weeks ago. It's funny how addicted our family was and also how free we feel now.
What makes your feel free about cancelling prime?
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As a gig worker I hope it stays, gig work has been a massive quality of life improvement for me. I think if the unions want to compete with us that's fine but the state shouldn't get to pick the winner.
As a brand new account can you prove you're actually a gig worker, and not some PR firm working for Uber to manage the online conversation about this topic?
Of course many new accounts aren't really new users, but that's not necessarily illegitimate. The site guidelines ask you to Assume good faith for a reason: communities that don't, end up turning on themselves and become poisonous, almost like an auto-immune disorder.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's particularly important to understand and abide by this guideline: "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data." Internet users are far, far too quick to imagine they're seeing this and accuse someone else, someone perfectly innocent, of malicious manipulation. We don't want that here.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20astroturf&sort=byDat...
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As a gig worker I hope it stays, gig work has been a massive quality of life improvement for me. I think if the unions want to compete with us that's fine but the state shouldn't get to pick the winner.
> As a gig worker I hope it stays, gig work has been a massive quality of life improvement for me. I think if the unions want to compete with us that's fine but the state shouldn't get to pick the winner. The fact that you registered a brand new account to post what might be interpreted as a blatant pro-exploitation message doesn't help your argument.
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As a brand new account can you prove you're actually a gig worker, and not some PR firm working for Uber to manage the online conversation about this topic?
Please don't harass new accounts. The odds that you're nailing some impersonator are much smaller than the odds that you're being a jerk to someone who you ought to be welcoming to the community. That's not the kind of place we want HN to be. Of course many new accounts aren't really new users, but that's not necessarily illegitimate. The site guidelines ask you to Assume good faith for a reason: communities that don…
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Please don't harass new accounts. The odds that you're nailing some impersonator are much smaller than the odds that you're being a jerk to someone who you ought to be welcoming to the community. That's not the kind of place we want HN to be. Of course many new accounts aren't really new users, but that's not necessarily illegitimate. The site guidelines ask you to Assume good faith for a reason: communities that don…
Oops sorry, I knew that but forgot, my apologies!
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> customer service, return policies, payment methods, and the entire process of buying stuff is leaps and bounds above somewhere like the European Union. Nonsense. Buying stuff is just as easy here as in the US and my experience of return policies is that they are more generous here. Plus you have a much longer legally enforced warranties. What payment methods do you have in the US that we don't? Apart from cheques t…
I'm constantly amazed how photographer colleagues in the USA order three lenses at the same time, evaluate them for copy variation and send two of them back. That's simply not possible in the UK for example.
I’m pretty sure it is? Online sales have a mandatory 14 day return policy, unless there’s some exception that prevents doing the specific thing you describe
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Are you really coming on HN to try and blame immigrants for this? Do you know the kind of contributions immigrants have had in this industry? Do you know how important open immigration has been to the rise of tech?
You guys can both be right (and I believe you are). Instead of attacking the GP, why not find middle ground? Population growth could be changing the ability to easily get a low skilled job, but I personally believe offshoring is the biggest issue. There's simply less places to go. Anecdotally it used to be super common to walk out of a job on Friday and find another by Monday. We need that back for the sake of worker…
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Thats not an accident. Offshoring and immigration have killed the ability of labor to walk when given terrible choices like this.
> Offshoring and immigration That is a straw man. Instead, corporates need to be forced to follow labor laws and respect human rights.
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> customer service, return policies, payment methods, and the entire process of buying stuff is leaps and bounds above somewhere like the European Union. Nonsense. Buying stuff is just as easy here as in the US and my experience of return policies is that they are more generous here. Plus you have a much longer legally enforced warranties. What payment methods do you have in the US that we don't? Apart from cheques t…
I'm constantly amazed how photographer colleagues in the USA order three lenses at the same time, evaluate them for copy variation and send two of them back. That's simply not possible in the UK for example.
If the quality is so variable wouldn't this generate a bad reputation and thus reduce the sales of the brands that were poor and increase the sales of those that were better?