> If they want to salvage Alexa, they need to forget shopping and start doubling down on the smart home and assistant experience [...] and I wouldn't mind paying a subscription fee for it
Why do you say that (both parts)? Alexa has done a good job to integrate with lots of other devices. I can control many aspects of my house through Alexa - lights, blinds, AC, sound, etc. I value that, but I don't think I value it enough to ever want to pay a subscription for it. That's as silly as whoever though selling heated seats in your BMW would fly. I made sure that in each home component I chose a solution that works locally (only AC I had to compromise for lack of options).
And with all that value it provides as a hub? My alexa can't be used to buy anything, call anyone, etc. None of that is configured or permitted as much as I can shut it down. I don't personally see the value there.
I for one am curious where Amazon chooses to draw the line. I don't want to pay a subscription to shout out local hub control commands, but they could be draconian to extra value.
Vancouver is one of the cities where the incumbent taxi lobby won concessions to allow ride hailing, one of those being they all have to charge the same base rate. While some companies like Uber have checkered growth history, ride hailing in general has been a boon where taxi oligopolies have treated their customers poorly (Vancouver was no exception here). I personally love that Evo car sharing in Vancouver extends to the airport, so I have a real option to both.
Having one of the possibly effected devices, I typed in my serial number and it claims to not be effected (has an updated firmware). There is no date on that web page about when the firmware was issue. Is this a case of the issue actually being fixed with the firmware update, so they can just blame those with data loss that they didn't keep up to date, or is this a problem even after?
Curious what the justification is for 0.9375% (very precise number), given the report 0.3% interchange fee cap in EU noted in this thread? The vendor can charge you more than it costs them to accept the card?
I'm not sure. I don't have a personal credit card to check.
I know there are extra fees for business/corporate credit cards, and these are specifically excluded from the EU cap. (The cap was for consumer protection, so business transactions aren't regulated.)
Foreign (non-EU) fees are also not part of the EU cap, as there's no way to control those.
It could be poor wording on the sticker, or it might be including the other fees. The 0.3% is just Visa/MasterCard's fee, there's also the fee from the card processor — HN is familiar with Stripe, but there are many companies offering this.
Certainly it does, but one can guarantee more than 30min wait time at some emergency rooms coming up as they are closing outright due to staffing issues.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/8-more-overnight-closures-on-the-way-f...
It's a real problem, and not just in BC. Some have argued this is a politically manufactured issue to force more talk of private care ... regardless, people are suffering in the mean time.
Most larger places publish these numbers in real-time. But the info can be very limited. Some things can wait, other things can't, and they don't publish the bucketed numbers:
"tax bureaucrats" are what took down Al Capone. These days Al would have much better lawyers and layers of shell corporations in various tax havens. He would be untouchable merely because the effort to sleuth out the truth has become much harder. Laws and regulations subdue any advantages transparency tech could bring.
Are we doomed then? Modern day All Capone´s are now richer than ever, above the laws, buying whole social networks, or becoming potus. Is there anything that can be done?
A key point around Rancher Desktop's k8s (actually k3s) support that stands out is that it allows you to use any k3s version and swap between them. This is great for those that want to test their workloads on different k8s versions right on their desktop.
Why do you say that (both parts)? Alexa has done a good job to integrate with lots of other devices. I can control many aspects of my house through Alexa - lights, blinds, AC, sound, etc. I value that, but I don't think I value it enough to ever want to pay a subscription for it. That's as silly as whoever though selling heated seats in your BMW would fly. I made sure that in each home component I chose a solution that works locally (only AC I had to compromise for lack of options).
And with all that value it provides as a hub? My alexa can't be used to buy anything, call anyone, etc. None of that is configured or permitted as much as I can shut it down. I don't personally see the value there.
I for one am curious where Amazon chooses to draw the line. I don't want to pay a subscription to shout out local hub control commands, but they could be draconian to extra value.