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That few?

I really don't know what the solution is.

I also don't have first-hand knowledge of the situation on the ground in, for example, China. But my perception (and that of others I've talked to), is that Chinese sellers just sign up to open a new account, no problem. I'm not sure if that means using the info of a relative or friend, or fake documents, or if my perception is just completely wrong.

It'd be interesting to hear from anyone who has seen things on the ground on that side of the world!

Yeah, the difficult part is that the seller just returns under a different name. Enough complaints have come in about marketplace seller GreatElectronics4U? OK, Amazon bans/suspends GreatElectronics4U and the guy behind it starts selling stuff as AllTheBestElectronics4U. Rinse and repeat.

This isn't like the old days when a ban on doing business under your current name would be a death blow ... start a new seller account and your junk still shows up in Amazon search results, just like it did yesterday.

Except step 4 in your second scenario could also be "Visit dickssportinggoods.com" or "Visit finishline.com" or any number of reputable retailers that will sell genuine Nike products. Nike isn't saying they will be the exclusive seller of their products.

Nike is just no longer doing business with one (large) retailer who is apparently 'unable' to separate counterfeit products from genuine ones.

Yeah, but discrimination based on location is different. I've seen remote companies say they'll only hire employees within 3 time zones of GMT, for example.

So if GitLab employs Russian nationals (living outside of Russia) but bans employees of any nationality living in Russia, I'm not sure this is discrimination based on national origin.

I like ads if they're relevant to my interests AND they match the mental mode I'm in at the moment. If I'm flipping through an outdoorsy magazine and I see an ad for a neat new camping tool, I might be happy to have seen that ad. If I'm perusing a photography website and I see an ad for a cool new camera, I might be happy to have seen that ad.

I'm not happy if I'm reading a tech blog and I see ads for a car I was researching yesterday. I'm not happy if I'm checking my local newspaper's website and I see ads for the necklace I just bought my wife. These are like the non-chill guy who loudly approaches you at work, "HEY I HEAR YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A NEW JOB!".

Context is important.

That case involves neither autonomous cars nor pedestrians.

For traditional dealerships, the cars not being on the lot does seem like a potential problem. But I'm seeing plenty of cars on the road with Carvana license plate frames these days, so there seems to be some willingness to buy a used car sight unseen over the internet (at least for relatively new cars in good shape).

If Carve could sign up Carvana as a provider, that could be a major source of cars, and Carvana's customers don't expect to be able to bring their car home today. Right now it looks like Carvana has a nationwide inventory of ~16000 cars, although I don't know where those cars live, relative to human population centers.

On the other hand, Carvana isn't Uncle Willy's Used Car Lot ... if this is such a good idea they've probably got the talent to implement it in-house.

I didn't know that DriveFlow exists but it's exactly what I've been looking for in a service to replace car ownership:

-No manufacturer lock-in (different manufacturers excel at different things)

-No maintenance burden

-No long/medium term commitment to a single vehicle (maybe I want a minivan for a long summer roadtrip but not all summer or all year)

... but the cost is truly eye-watering.

I had my first kid last year so I got a more family-friendly car than the little coupe I'd been driving. I struggled to decide between a midsize sedan (cheaper, more fun to drive, easier to park, suitable for 95% of the family's driving tasks) or a larger SUV (generally worse, but suitable for 100% of the family's driving tasks).

This would have solved the dilemma for me ... except I think I could just own a decent midsize sedan AND a decent larger SUV for $900 or more per month.

The name might not matter but the post you responded to asked if it was set up as a Universal Basic Income, which does matter.

One of the claims UBI-backers make is the fact that giving everyone the same amount of money will be much simpler and require much less bureaucracy than income-based welfare schemes. So, I get my $1k this month, you get your $1k, the homeless guy under the bridge gets his $1k, Bill Gates gets his $1k, etc.

> What irks me the most, is the lack of server-side language support for cloud offerings, on-premise Enterprise products, etc. If Microsoft can support Klingon for translation purposes, then just maybe they could support Inuktitut a little better.

I've noticed that in terms of language support in general. Of course, languages with Western and/or wealthy populations seem to have better support. In Elasticsearch, I can set up a field for Irish or Latvian or Basque analysis out of the box (each with ~1 million speakers or fewer). But Zulu or Uzbek or Malay (each with 10 million+ speakers), and sorry, no support.

But if they want to do winter testing in August they have to go to the hemisphere that is experiencing winter.

Are you supporting the use case where web site providers consider scraping to be hostile? Ie, spinning up new cloud instances until one isn't blacklisted by the site, all behind the scenes so the consumer of your API doesn't have to worry about such things?