I spend quite a bit on Discord server services, but I'm out.

GFY, Discord and governments, for mandating this bullshit nonsense.

One shipping charge from Amazon (whether thats covered under Prime, or is free or whatever) vs five shipping charges from buying from non-Amazon websites - no one offers free shipping where I live.

New Zealand.

Our Ebay alternative is TradeMe, and it sucks. You can use Ebay.com but Ebay forces most sellers to use Ebay Global Shipping, which charges high shipping and also applies import duties to *everything* up front, even when the item falls under the personal allowance for importing into NZ (I remain convinced Ebay are pocketing that).

Our Amazon alternative is MightyApe, and it sucks. At a pinch you can use Amazon AU or US, but its very hit and miss as to what products can be sent to NZ, and shipping prices are high.

So you presume to know why I moved and what my personal preferences are?

I definitely prefer a world where I can use them. Having used them for so long and then being forced to not use them cements that for me. And the alternatives have not got any better over the past 8 years either.

The whole Uber thing has been quite amusing to watch.

It was pitched originally as "share someone elses journey for less money than a taxi" for the end user, and "make money when you want to" for the driver.

It allowed people who had zero chance of breaking into the taxi business of acting like a taxi - which is why there is a long history of Uber fighting regulation as a taxi company, they didnt want to be regulated like the thing they are competing against. At the same time, drivers didnt want to be regulated as drivers, because they were getting away with only running the trips they wanted, and avoiding pesky things like business insurance on their cars...

The benefit of "work when you like" for Uber was that the driver was not an employee - they could pick up work here and there without commitment, and there was no benefits associated.

The benefit of "work when you like" for drivers was that they could pick up work when they were free, and also work for multiple ride share companies at the same time - just accept or reject work from each app.

Now, Uber is a taxi service - everyone agrees with that. And drivers are taxi drivers, with all the associated extra liabilities that entails. Which means that drivers are also employees now, again with all the associated positives and negatives that entails. And Uber is an employer, again with all the associated positives and negatives...

Over the years, the acceptance of what the situation is has changed from one where the drivers thought they had all the power to one where they realised they needed more power.

And so we are back to the original situation of taxi company and employees.

One shipping charge vs five...

I moved from the UK where Amazon and Ebay were widely used, to a county where they don't exist.

There are local equivalents, and they are shit.

8 years later, I still miss Amazon and Ebay. They had their problems, but I prefer a world where I can use them to one where I cant.

Talking to people in public isnâ(TM)t harassment.

Talking to people on taxpayer funded grounds also isnâ(TM)t trespass.

Tax funded?

Not private property anymore.

And my point still stands.

When the next generation of engines become available, Airbus could choose to do a refresh of the A320 family at a fraction of the cost of a brand new aircraft.

Airbus can choose to do that because theres still a massive amount of development potential in the A320, whereas Boeing has run to the end of the 737 - even if there was still technical room in the 737, the public wont accept it any more.

Boeings only hope is Airbus choosing to do a clean sheet for the A320 replacement.

How does Airbus manage to build its sub-assemblies in geographically diverse locations, and then integrate those sub-assemblies on multiple FALs around the world? Airbus seems to have great success doing that - their only issues recently was with the A380, and that was due to a CATIA software issue at the design stage, rather than the actual manufacturing stage...

Boeing is considering a new plane because Airbus is considering a new plane.

If Airbus decide to refresh the A320 family again (and they can, theres plenty of development room left in it - it hasnt had a new wing since the 1980s for example), then Boeing will be in a bad spot.

The problem Boeing has is that most of the efficiency gains come from the engines, so if Airbus can chuck a new engine under the A320s wing for a fraction of the price and timeline of a whole new aircraft design, Boeing is stuck. They would be bringing an equivalent efficiency aircraft to the market, years later than Airbus, and have to charge significantly more than Airbus for it.

I tend to disagree somewhat.

By the McDD merger, Boeing was on its third iteration of the 737, with no new design on the horizon at all, and its fourth iteration of the 747...

Boeing was no stranger to wringing every last drop out of existing designs.

I highly doubt MS cares.

All the companies I have worked for since 2016 have been using Macs for development, and .Net for the language - deployed in containers on Linux in either AWS or Azure.

The company I currently work for uses Azure completely, and we get assistance from MS for the Mac-.Net-containers-Azure workflow.

The title is very misleading.

The maintainers were not "kicked off GitHub" - GitHub had no part in this, and the maintainers still have access to GitHub.

The maintainers were removed from a private organisation and its repos by the organisation owner.