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Comment · 1 year ago
It could, but then who'd be the ones fighting and dying in the war to make new opportunities for the survivors?
Comment · 7 years ago
They do it through uber eats now, but they've always done it. At least for some locations depending on the manger and market. Honestly, I preferred it back then before Uber. The food was better packaged and it came faster without having to que my order up from a driver picking it up at an order window.
Comment · 7 years ago
I don't understand why BigCo would ever go with the last option after talent exhaustion. The former two make way more sense.
Comment · 7 years ago
Ya, on my reading for english classes I'd do that for my reading assignments. For my engineering and programming classes, i'd take copious notes. It was entirely wonderful. I'd stay at the store from open till close and enjoy all those hours.
Comment · 7 years ago
Be careful taking in this new direction as anything more than marketing PR. As you've stated before, I don't even think this time, it's anything more than the marketing department speaking for everyone. Mozilla has had weak statements on previous PR controversy's before. On a longer timescale, the organization will change it's position again due to economic and cultural pressures.
Comment · 7 years ago
For an app that I no longer use, long since deleted and have forgotten about, hearing that there was a security incident that compromised my password is unsettling. I was relieved that I logged in to their app through twitter and my password wasn't store through them.
Comment · 7 years ago
that 30B in sales is revenue and not a profit. You combine all stuff sales they do together in all their warehouses and logistics and they don't combine together enough to beat the money that their AWS brings in. That 30B revenue costs almost 30B in expenses as well. You take out revenue in the form of advertising and it's almost nothing or negative depending on the quarter. As impressive as the revenue is, it's nothing if you can't turn a profit as a business. Anybody can buy something at wholesale, ship it to your door , not make any money on it and then take it back if it the company is unsatisfied.
Comment · 7 years ago
It was a great device from the get go. the resolution on such a large device is a game changer. detail all the spec you want, but holding it physically in your hands you'd experience what I can't describe. The reading and stylus input is very close to natural paper. Thanks, but I didn't need another shill blogpost about how it works for their coding workflow especially when it was wrong in the first place.
Comment · 7 years ago
Look at their budget. Most of their revenue comes from AWS. So their large AWS clients are their customers. The margins on the retailing e-commerce customers is slim and wasn't profitable on a cashflow basis until recent years. From a financial perspective, they're the people who are going to stock the items and take the risk for products where demand is uncertain. Once more data is collected about their sales, Amazon will use their scale to undercut their e-commerce selling partners. So they are important to their company logistics, just not to the bottom line.
Comment · 7 years ago
This Amazon approach reminds me of how Apple used to do it in the final years of Jobs' executive-ship at the company. He'd send terse replies to people who e-mailed and and for large problems he'd float it to his top lieutenants concerning why the experience sucks so much.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's good enough that for the average consumer, they'd never decide to look in to the source code, edit it and then reload the page with the changes. However this type of stuff just allows someone to easily come along with a counterforce app and scale the paywall.
Comment · 7 years ago
Washington Post and NYT are what the President of the United States says is fake news. At the same time, they're limiting the audience of their coverage to subscribers only beyond a few free articles a month. I wonder how ordinary people who can't/won't pay for subscriptions will receive their information to make up their minds after this retreat.
Comment · 7 years ago
Read the story but they're very short on the data. cited a job fair in Nagoya which had 40 Koreans. Then a Korean job search firm that placed the most people to work in Japan out of any country. Is it just me or is the article short on enough evidence to make this a piece?
Comment · 7 years ago
I clicked on it b/c it made to the front page and I read the entire article but I can't understand why he doesn't like to use react.
Comment · 7 years ago
thanks for putting it clearly and succinctly. I think that's a much better view than what a lot of self improvement books offer.

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