Kethal @ Kethal @lemmy.world

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You said "science tends to taxonomize by similarity, form and behaviour in isolation". I am saying that modern science does not form taxonomies on those bases.

The supreme court doesn't make laws. Congress can protect abortion rights. Obviously elections determine the make up of Congress, but ultimately they determine who is on the supreme court too. If Trump weren't elected, protections provided by RvW would have been secure for decades.

You joke, but I have met people with this belief.

Modern taxonomy is based on ancestory. Similarity of form and behavior are ways of assessing ancestory, but they are no longer the basis of the taxonomy itself.

I am no fan of Google Messages for Web, but I have no problem with it constantly losing connection and needing to be repaired. This sounds like you have a different issue.

He was going to spend $100 on a gift without getting anything in return in the first place, whether the gift was lotto tickets or 1000 pairs of used socks. Also, many (most?) states don't have prohibitions on revealing the validation code, and unless you have some information not presented in this post, you don't know what state OP is in.

It is against eBay policy for sellers to ship directly from Amazon. Report them and eBay will, after several months, end the offending account. Include pictures of the Amazon packaging. If you want to go the extra mile, go to the vendor's storefront and search for their items on Amazon. If you find a bunch, tell eBay that the vendor's storefront is full of relisted Amazon items.

https://www.ebay.com/help/buying/resolving-issues-sellers/reporting-item-issue-seller?id=4022

You can also leave negative feedback stating that the vendor simply ships from Amazon at a marked up price.

It is also against Amazon's policy for accounts to use Prime shipping perks to sell items. If your package has a gift receipt, the vendor is violating that policy. The receipt will include their account name, and you can report them to Amazon too. If it doesn't have a gift receipt, they're not violating any Amazon policy, and there's nothing you can do on that end.

Gizmodo's metric for success is that "The last major holdouts in the massive protest against Reddit’s controversial API pricing have relented, abandoning the so-called 'John Oliver rules' which only allowed posts featuring the beloved TV host in certain dissident subreddits."

This doesn't seem like a good metric to me. I'd like to see monthly revenue and traffic. I'm sure we're not going to see revenue, and the sites I found that report traffic are conflicting. One shows a clear decline (https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/#traffic) and the other shows a clear increase (https://ahrefs.com/traffic-checker).

Can someone translate it? The title seems to have nothing to do with the post, unless I'm misunderstanding the title, which I'm sure I am. Because it's nonsense.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say a product sold as a powder, and called Liquid IV, when IVs are traditionally liquid, is not to be taken seriously.

I find it disorganized, poorly designed and buggy.

To test your quality, you need to make a test call, where it dials, rings, and connects. Then it plays a little message and you record after the beep, then it plays it back. For every other program I've used, you hit test, talk, then it plays it back. The Teams methods takes at least three times longer, incredibly annoying when trouble shooting.

If you start a test call, and hang up before it connects, it will ring on your computer forever.

There's a keypad where you dial numbers. When you connect and need to press numbers in an automated menu, you can't use that key pad. There's a different keypad behind a pop-up menu.

Some companies use letters in their phone numbers, like 1-800-AWESOME. It doesn't sort that out for you. If you type letters it tries to call then immediately hangs up without explanation.

These are all pretty small things, but there's already better things out there that don't have these problems. It's also almost unbelievable that it's like this. Teams is at least version 3 of MS's foray into telecommunications software, and it's developed by a team of career professionals. It's absurd that it's so unpolished.

First, it's not a very good analogy. Second, you can put a different radio in your car; you can't remove Teams without removing all of Office. Third, people would be pretty mad at Honda if their cars shipped with a piece of shit radio instead of something at least nice.

Edit: I take back the part about uninstalling Teams. You can do that. I was thinking of Skype for Business.

Yes, I've just said that languages evolve. I'm saying that "technology companies" has not yet and will not ever evolve to mean "companies that develop, produce, license or sell technology or technology services, and also Twitter". When Twitter starts getting involved in tech, it will be a tech company.

This statement indicates that what is technology is decided by popular opinion, not by any inherent meaning in words. Certainly the meaning of words change with time and they have no inherent meaning, so in a very real sense, definitions are decided by popular vote. However, if Twitter is a tech company, then so is every newspaper, magazine, bank, credit card company, any business with a data base for inventory management. It's a useless definition. Let's go with the actual mainstream definition of a tech company, a company that develops, produces, licenses or sells technology or technology services, and Twitter doesn't do any of that. It sells ad space and subscriptions, the business model of a media company.

It seems a lot of people here think that anyone who runs a Web site is a tech company.

A post about a tech company would at least be relevant, but Twitter isn't a tech company.

Twitter isn't a tech company any more than Visa or the New York Times are. Twitter uses technology. They do not develop, produce, or sell technology products or services. It is a media company that sells advertising space and subscriptions, just like a newspaper, something no one would call a tech company.

By your definition, banks and credit card companies are technology companies. Visa has three times as many users and countless more database transactions than Twitter. The finance sector develops and uses algorithms - Fico scores being a notable one. Tons of people use technology. Twitter isn't even notable for it's usage of technology. Tons of companies, including Visa, have more impressive and expansive use of the same things twitter uses. A company is a tech company if it develops and sells technology, not if it uses it.

It's a media company. The only difference between them and a newspaper is a short word limit and they don't pay their authors. No one is paying Twitter for technology that they produce or for technological services. They get money from ads and subscriptions - the media business model.