This may not be a movie, but there's no way in hell this timeline isn't some bored kid fresh out of doritos playing with random variables in his universe simulation.

And it probably won't let us go back to the Olduvai Gorge savepoint anymore.

City Skylines i think has a plague disaster mod.

If Bezos needs an evil villain lair for his secret headquarters, I know a fortress in the American desert with three-foot-thick stone walls, solar and diesel electricity, and its own water facilities, perched on a mountain ridge for maximum visibility 150 miles from anywhere meaningful.

Last I saw, it was for sale for $750k.

Here's the vice documentary on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mutpYD0Amfk

Not the same one. But good to know there are options. Maybe we can start a bidding war?

He can give Larry Ellison a call to buy his island will all the infrastructure needed (Ellison owns most of Lanai island)

But they already have one! These photos are so spot on, Kevin Spacey in his best time couldn't have done this.

[0] https://www.geekwire.com/2020/jeff-bezos-wants-curb-climate-...

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/take-a-look-ins...

Does it have enough bathrooms though?

More importantly... do those bathrooms come with toilet paper?

Bezos uses the three sea shells. Plebeians like you and me use toilet paper.

We used to ask if we could buy backup batteries already charged. "Oh ... No reason."

I bet they all have fancy japanese toilet seats or bidets.

Do you have anymore details?

do you have a link?

Like so many of the good things in life, this is not on the internet.

Give Bezos a break. His companies allows quarantined people to suffer less.

So do plenty of others? Last I checked, most supermarkets, electronic stores, clothes stores, etc, all have online shops. Oh and mind you, those shops usually have curated list of products, not scamy products imported from China and sold at massive markups and inflated with fake reviews...

Curse you Bezos for your evil plan to supply us with much needed goods.

And much needed jobs.

So evil!

With any job that requires urinating into bottles to keep low tier managers' KPIs good, I somewhat doubt the attribute "much needed".

There are a shitload of jobs that are (as coronavirus crisis and the list of jobs deemed essential in many countries shows) "much needed" for keeping a country running: anything medical, public transport, childcare/education, logistics, groceries/other food, infrastructure upkeep (electric/water/phone/internet/gas grid).

But unlike jobs that label themselves "system critical" such as banks, investment vulture funds and others of their ilk, the really essential jobs have one thing in common: extremely shitty pay, sometimes outright exploitative working conditions.

Lost interest when you claimed medical jobs have extremely shitty pay.

What is more "essential", the job doing the essential work or the job creating the conditions that makes others do the essential work?

The essential jobs are those without which society would collapse and lives be in actual danger, as well as the dependencies of these jobs.

Like all jobs, these jobs are voluntary. Workers can quit any day they want.

Since they keep showing up, they clearly think these jobs are their best option at the moment.

Here's my point: I strongly believe that you or I have neither the information or the right to judge that choice or take it away from them.

The piss in a bottle stories are just that. Amazon and Bezos have much attention and many enemies. Stories about how awful they are will always appear and circulate.

Thing is, delivery drivers elsewhere actually do this by choice. UPS and FedEx drivers are paid for a set of deliveries. If they can do them quicker then they get the same money but for less time. In NYC finding a restroom can be a real pain and a waste of precious time. It’s far easier to urinate in a bottle on the truck and keep moving.

I imagine they eat while on the move too.

So I’m not quite sure this is the indignity you make it or to be.

> So I’m not quite sure this is the indignity you make it or to be.

It is. Eating during driving is dangerous, even more so with a multi ton delivery truck. Pissing in a bottle is disgusting and a public health risk (where to properly wash hands, for one).

If delivery set prices do not cover that employees get enough time to decently work, then they have to be raised!

Their argument is that some employees will piss in bottles no matter what you pay them. Don't fall into the trap of arguing that they'd stop pissing in bottles at 100/hr

Some, yes, but most of those pissing in bottles are doing this because they have no other choice as they are not paid for the time they need to pee.

Just like Uber provides "jobs"?

This is not the case of shit jobs that trap people, provided by a notoriously antisocial company engaging in illegal things. This is a case of jobs critical for the society at this moment, provided at a time where half of the country is about to become unemployed.

At the physical expense of his wage slaves.

The "wage slaves" are given the opportunity to leave and work at any other company that will hire them and yet willingly choose not to. That implies quite a non-traditional definition of slavery.

Can you explain the strikes, complaints about work pressure (having to piss in bottles, ridiculous uncontextual performance requirements), high workplace injury rate compared to competitors, etc given this abundant choice.

It's a large company with thousands of employees, and the company has stepped on a lot of toes by out-competing many, many brick and mortar retailers, so there is "consumer demand" for reports of their inherent wickedness and every malcontent gets a microphone.

I repeat the same question -- if they don't like it there so much, why not go work for Walmart? Or Target, Home Depot, BJ's, etc.?

If the way they're attracting employees is by offering better pay and benefits than competitors rather than by offering a less demanding job, it's not as if that isn't public information. Why would you choose a thing and then object to the trade offs inherent in it?

People have this desire for them to do both, but if the job was less demanding then they could attract employees with less compensation, and they'd have every reason to not pay as much. So why is it wrong for employees to prefer to get paid more in exchange for fewer breaks?

It's like people hate for anybody to have a choice. If you work for Amazon you get paid more but work inflexible hours with limited breaks. If you work for Uber you get paid less but you set your own hours and can take a break whenever you want. Yet somehow both of these are put up as examples of mistreatment. They're just the trade offs inherent in the unskilled labor market.

Yes, it does, doesn't it?

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I appreciate a lighthearted thread among all the depressing scary things going on all day.

With that said - Ramin Djawadi would like to have a word with you.

Idris Elba, who just tested positive for SARS-CoV2...

>Bond (played by Idris Elba) would then cough on Bezos

Thats on the nose enough that I'm wondering if you knew Idris Elba just announced he had Coronavirus.

What do you think this is, Reddit? No silly comments allowed on Hacker News!

(kidding)

> ...before being killed by Thanos.

I read Theranos at first.

In some ways, it thematically works better

Liz Holmes inadvertently stumbles upon the cure, vindicating her reputation.

She will be given a clue for the cure, she stumbles upon it, but nobody believes her this time. Time stone is used to rewind all the way back to 2003 in a third attempt

The Time Stone can't be used to "rewind" anything. Did you not listen to the 10 minutes of exposition by multiple characters on the truth about how time works?

And yet they used it that way at the end of infinity war.

Not to rewind. Rewind implies changing something in your own past, but nobody's past changed. Only the futures of different timelines, if that makes sense.

They made a big deal about that for a movie, considering it is all fantasy. It’s a distinction without practical meaning for storytelling purposes. Just to avoid the scene where Marty sees his own foto fade. They could have just ignored it.

A good way to think of this is a git checkout from anywhere . And then all future commits happen in a branch / detached head state, not affecting the place you checked out from i.e. original timeline.

They made a big deal out of it in the movie, that the stones had to be returned to the exact time they were taken from, or else they would be changing the future of the old "head".

That was exactly how it was used in Doctor Strange. It's just a movie, they play fast and loose with the rules all the time.

Tony Stark then snaps his fingers...

Meanwhile... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22598988

> Meanwhile... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22598988

Jesus christ! That's enough myopic behaviour for one day, no more internet for 24 hours for me.

More like Mr Evil.

Prolly has a base on the dark side of the moon.

Ahem, that’s “Doctor” Evil.

Don't be silly, he doesn't wear a lab coat.

More like Mr. Clean.

But see, unlike Mr Evil, Bezos is competent.

Fortunately, the new moon is just a week away, at which point the "dark side" of the moon will be facing Earth and we'll have a clear view of his base.

The dark side of the moon always faces away from earth. It is more accurately called the far side of the moon. During a new moon the "dark side" is lit by the sun. It receives as much sunlight as the near side but always faces away from the earth.

That was my point.

don't worry, we understood you.

I thought the new moon was a new moon each time!?

It used to be, but they wash it in bleach each time these days.

Think of how much money he will make selling these workers pee-bottles too

If Bezos was a villain then Amazon Basics would have Mao suits. And drones. With sharks. And lasers.

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Fantasy-land aside, Bezos is the CEO of the organization that runs the GovCloud AWS region, which is almost certainly designated critical military infrastructure, JEDI-loss aside.

I would be astounded if there are many billionaires in the USA who are not this moment already taking chloroquine/hydroxychloroquine in the recommended prophylaxis doses, even outside of those deemed mission-critical by the most powerful organization on the continent.

I'm no billionaire, but if I were, I'd either be on my yacht offshore or at my island retreat. Not sure I'd take an anti-malaria drug in the hope it gave me some protection from the pandemic.

Well, maybe in the hopes it would give you weird dreams?

I’m a bit confused why would an anti-parasite drug be used now for covid-19

There is some evidence it may be useful as a prophylactic to prevent infection, and it is presently undergoing trials.

More reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32074550

https://www.recipharm.com/press/recipharm-notes-increased-de...

https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/988648/...

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04303507

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/potential-pipeline-medica...

https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/comment/parallel-e...

There is some evidence supporting its use, e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/32150618/

It should help alleviating the symptoms, but is in no way a antiviral.

There's a phase 3 trial for treating pneumonia associated with coronavirus. This is based on prior work showing anti-inflammatory response in rheumatoid arthritis (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8278823).

Note that the trial is happening in China (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04261517), where the barriers of entry and approval are quite low.

> After randomization, subjects take hydroxychloroquine 400mg per day for 5 days, also take conventional treatments.

Huh. I'm on 200mg/day for rheumatoid arthritis.

I wonder if I ought to double dose for a while.

Sorry for the late reply: I don't see how it would prevent infection. It could be useful post-infection, to prevent complications and inflammation. Compared that with the standard of care right now which is simply observing the patient during their recovering.

There are a fair amount of studies who took the initial in vitro results (i.e. cell culture) suggesting non-specific antiviral activity (at that level coca-cola is also an antiviral, antimicrobial, and antitumoral, by the way), into animal or human, and they just did not pan out, because it isn't an antiviral.

Thank you.

I'll ask my rheumatologist about increasing the dose. In case I get infected, have trouble breathing, and can't get hospital care.

They're looking at it.