No personally identifiable data is collected, so the option can be opt-out by default. Not sure about not being able to disable it though.

That's not an argument. People say the same thing about voting or polution, it adds up. Also, AWS is not a smart part of Amazon, AFAIK most of their profit comes from it. They sell products for cheap, so they can push competitors out to keep growing and then they balance the loss with AWS profits.

>>> Then Amazon enters your business space in direct competition to you. Through your business with AWS you are now funding a large, fierce, and direct competitor.

>> What is the relevance of funding your competitor?

> That's not an argument.

Sure it is. It's a great argument. Do you somehow think Amazon is limiting itself to copying businesses on the AWS platform only? No: they'll copy any successful business anywhere.

Unless your business is Netflix, you, by yourself, are not contributing enough to their bottom line to boost their efforts to compete with you. And guess what: Netflix doesn't believe that the money they're paying AWS is enough to hurt their competitiveness with Prime Video. The 10 VMs your company is going to run aren't going to matter.

Voting is not a good way to pursue your own self interest, which is the typical context of business decisions (bounded of course by morality and the law). From a standpoint of classical rationality, it only makes sense to vote insofar as you are pursuing collective goals, but what is the collective goal with regard to Amazon?

You can certainly object to Amazon business practices and take a principled stand against doing AWS business with them, but that's something you would presumably do whether or not they were competing with you.

I've bought google products before by shipping them to a middle man in Germany. I wonder if this would work with Stadia, as it requires recurrent payments and online activation.

Also body language and eye contact (or lack of it) is a very important part of the session which cannot be recreated online.

I notice this trend of not covering dentistry through many countries. I think the issue is that a lot of dentistry work tends to be aesthetic and because of that it's hard to draw the lines on what should be covered.

> a lot of dentistry work tends to be aesthetic

Is this true? This is so far from my experience I'm actually curious what the numbers are. If you have a study on this, I'd love to read it.

Just a guess from my personal experience. Might probably be wrong.

Spent 30 minutes on your site. Feel pretty shitty about myself as a result. Thanks.

I'm sorry. I am free to talk (https://philosopher.life/#Contact%20h0p3).

Tiddlywiki is an awesome tool! It's fun and productive.

In 2040 after billions in investments.

They could create an electronic payment system to raise capital for their rockets.

And before we jump into this rabbit hole, yes, they can totally fund their own payment system with $4K and a small yellow pages startup. :o)

SpaceX was launching Falcon 9's 8 years after they were founded.. 2030 should be achievable.

For me it was poll() due to it's simple and intuitive API. Also, it's much faster then select() when you have a large number of file descriptors being monitored.

For some reason the book (Beginning Linux Programming, Wrox Press, 1998 edition I think) explained select() first, so like the proverbial little duck that names 'mother' the first think it sees moving after hatch, select() caught my heart.

It's becoming more and more important, especially in the embedded world, because a lot of hardware vendors are based in China.