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Amazon Fair Price Policy doesn't apply in the UK and EU (it's illegal)

The EU are currently running an investigation into how this affects market dynamics, which will be interesting to see

Analogous statement:

Evian use 1.25 million litres of water per employee per year. When can we expect other non-bottled-water corporations to rise to this level of water usage?

$1 removing the slash, $11,999 knowing where to remove the slash from

Substack?

If your competitor is dumping (selling for an unsustainably low price) then competing your way to bankruptcy is not the right option

What's the author trying to say here?

It's good that the law isn't the only line between good and evil. A bit of stigma is a bottom-up way for people to shape society.

If nobody invites you to dinner parties because you run a startup that combines payday-lending and day-trading, that's a good thing. It's free alpha for companies doing more worthwhile things.

Payment links still seem to be working. Just the dashboard?

Crypto isn't bad because it failed to make early adopters rich — it did make them rich. It's bad because it has horrible externalities in scams, war crimes / sanctions evasion, organised crime — which most of those early adopters were well aware of.

I'm upvoting because it's useful to see and debate this viewpoint — shared by many engineers I know

I do think it's a bad take though. Not all new trends are the same: the metaverse was an obvious flop and crypto hasn't found practical applications. AI isn't like those because it's already practically changed the way I get my job done.

It takes time to learn skills, and getting started earlier will means more time to use them in your working life.

What a lovely article. There's a strong correlation between the energy you put out into the world and what you get back.

I often think that as I end up confirming a grumpy/aggressive person's expectation I'll be a bad customer, or confirming a kind/present persons's expectation I'll be a good one

Interesting to see more of this thinking on Hacker News

Perhaps one of the secondary effects of AI replacing developers will be mobilising a group of smart, motivated people to the left

(It's always interesting to think of the secondary effects which kick in past a certain point of growth. High-multiple stock valuations often fail to take these into account. For the East India Company, for example — your company can keep growing until it's the size of a country. But suddenly other countries treat you as a foreign power rather than a pet.)