> it’s unlikely one can link Amazon’s decision to a single factor. It will never happen but imagine if when articles like this were written you had some unders

> it’s unlikely one can link Amazon’s decision to a single factor. It will never happen but imagine if when articles like this were written you had some understanding of how the article came about? In other words was it floated by Columbia's PR department? Did the author just trip over the subject and then decide to somehow write an article that ended up with the very timely link bait title? Paul Graham's 'The Submarine' for context: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html