SMTP is a protocol designed back when machines might connect once a day to exchange email. It was designed to work during intermittent connectivity, queue messages, and recover gracefully. We instead decided we like instant rather than reliable by putting all our emails in one basket and then forgot that it doesn't have to be that way.
I don't know. For years Amazon has had a fraudulent item listing problem to the point where it's hard to trust them. They have made no effort that I have seen to solve it. I mean, why would they, their sales haven't declined.
So, I am skeptical books will be any different than all those knock-off drop-shipped items.
I think you're proving his point: You've identified that the fraudulent items make it hard to trust the marketplace, and (reading between the lines) that has affected your habits in relation to the marketplace.
Yes, but I am one person. Their overall sales numbers show that I am a rare breed. With how bad Amazon has gotten in this regard, I would have expected sales to decline if people cared about it as well. Until they feel it in their pocket book (and it doesn't look like they are) they won't do a whole lot about it.
I often trust AliEx more than Amazon these days. At least one of the two isn't pretending not to be what it is.
Plus Amazon has a long history of screwing over sellers. TL;DR if your product is actually successful, they'll make their own "Amazon Basics" version of your product, then deprioritize you (or even ban you over an excuse). They do this a lot. There's a lot more than just this, it's just an example.
I'd say that's hard to judge from the top line sales numbers, their broad sales could remain fine even when they lose larger rare purchases if they're bringing in enough new customers that are fine with only buying the slop.
Sales may not have declined, but returns have skyrocketed. I return at least as much stuff as I keep. Sometimes they tell me to just keep the crap because they know it's crap and it costs them more for me to return it than to just refund me and let me keep the crap thing.
If the origin of the people who created value is the metric, aren't his parents and ancestors those who truly are responsible for creating all that shareholder value?
I prefer the view that the engineers that made GPUs have a bigger hand in the value creation.
But it was the internet that made all the spying, profiling, and tracking possible. Before that, there was no motivation, so all software was developed and sold solely on its benefits to the user.
Today, even free software can have telemetry and ulterior motives.
I searched that PDF for family/families and found nothing, but I did find that you are actually even more correct. Most of that report is about accredited investors. Less than 5% of non-accredited investors own private securities. So, it's actually quite rare.
That said, to answer your question, you could own Flock stock. Private companies often offer stock to employees and others.
I prefer a world where we have to live with zlib, lz4, and xz but have less genocide. I get that I didn't get a vote in which world we have, but I do have an opinion. And you do, too.
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