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I respect him even more now. We are all human. Nobody wins this 'moral crusade' that takes up so much airtime. We should be much more focused on the existenti

by rblion 8y ago

I respect him even more now. We are all human. Nobody wins this 'moral crusade' that takes up so much airtime. We should be much more focused on the existential threats that the entire biosphere is dealing with, not the 'dick pics' of the world's richest man. He's just another dude at his core it seems, happens to be founder of Amazon though.

3pt14159 8y ago
Your respect is misplaced. Amazon has some of the worst business practices of any company its size. They region shop. They mix inventory. They engage in anti-competitive behaviour. They use their position as a platform to influence their competitive business objectives. They exploit OSS in a manner that is technically, maybe legal but essentially against the idea of the license. They force companies to buy out counterfeits of their own goods just to stop a mandatory reduction in their price. They do not allow you to remove a product from Amazon once it has been put up for sale by anyone that isn't you and then they have the gall to talk all high minded about investments in education while they (or their founder) pay almost nothing in tax. Bezos can get fucked. He's worse than Thiel[0] or Andreessen.[1] Those two only committed a single capital sin each. And I know it shouldn't mean a damn thing but I'm going to say it anyway, I've never worked with APIs or CLIs as infuriating as AWS's. They're horrible. The documentation is horrible. The service is over-priced and horrible, with unexpected caps and delays and fees that you only hit once you're starting to scale. Fuck Amazon and fuck Bezos. He's like an Elon Musk without the class or philosophy. [0] Thiel and his self-serving, false-but-seemingly-naive libertarianism and hypocritical support of Trump. [1] Andreessen's support for the NSA's lies to congress about what they were doing. I don't support Snowden's actions—they were far too reckless—but I also don't support blatant lies to congress. We either have a democracy or we don't and we shouldn't be lied to. A simple "that is classified" is sufficient, and Andreessen calling Snowden a traitor because "we all know it was going on anyway" is the admission of a kleptocrat or oligarch of their privileged, beguiling position. Edit: Amazon is a plague. I invite the downvotes, Bezos bots or not. Nobody disagrees with what I've outlined because it's fundamentally true. Amazon is fucking trash.
- nindalf 8y ago
  Imagine getting so upset about the API of some service that you write a tirade like this about the author’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.
- yladiz 8y ago
  Regardless of what you've typed, at least don't outright lie and completely expose your troll. A fundamental truth is 2+2=4, and the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. What is typed above is not.
  - futureastronaut 8y ago
    You're really calling a user who joined in 2008 with 12k karma a troll? I think it's nonsense that parent's opinion against Bezos was flagged, instead of the erudite references to Batman and The Wire in these comments.
    - yladiz 8y ago
      Yes, karma doesn’t preclude someone from being incendiary or a troll.
    - ilikehurdles 8y ago
      The user’s tirade was beyond misplaced and off-topic.
      - futureastronaut 8y ago
        On-topic comments like this one aren't flagged: > I think Omar, Stringer and Machiavelli would have gotten along on some level.
- rblion 8y ago
  Nobody is perfect. Gandhi was apparently racist and John Lennon was an egomaniac, I admire them both still for their efforts to make the world better than what it was before. Bezos still a human being like me and like you, whether you love him or hate him. I didn't say he cured cancer but last I checked, he puts ONE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR into Blue Origin to help our species keep evolving towards a spacefaring civilization. How many other people are doing that? I am aware of the grey-area Amazon operates in but it's still better than the oligarchs before Big Tech. I'll give my money to Amazon before Wal-Mart, I know that. Amazon invests billions of dollars in retraining warehouse employees who are getting replaced by automation for high-demand jobs. Amazon didn't have to do that, but they made a decision to and I'm sure Bezos signed off on it. If you disagree with Amazon and AWS that much, build something better.

by rblion 8y ago

3pt14159 8y ago

Your respect is misplaced. Amazon has some of the worst business practices of any company its size. They region shop. They mix inventory. They engage in anti-competitive behaviour. They use their position as a platform to influence their competitive business objectives. They exploit OSS in a manner that is technically, maybe legal but essentially against the idea of the license. They force companies to buy out counterfeits of their own goods just to stop a mandatory reduction in their price. They do not allow you to remove a product from Amazon once it has been put up for sale by anyone that isn't you and then they have the gall to talk all high minded about investments in education while they (or their founder) pay almost nothing in tax. Bezos can get fucked. He's worse than Thiel[0] or Andreessen.[1] Those two only committed a single capital sin each. And I know it shouldn't mean a damn thing but I'm going to say it anyway, I've never worked with APIs or CLIs as infuriating as AWS's. They're horrible. The documentation is horrible. The service is over-priced and horrible, with unexpected caps and delays and fees that you only hit once you're starting to scale. Fuck Amazon and fuck Bezos. He's like an Elon Musk without the class or philosophy. [0] Thiel and his self-serving, false-but-seemingly-naive libertarianism and hypocritical support of Trump. [1] Andreessen's support for the NSA's lies to congress about what they were doing. I don't support Snowden's actions—they were far too reckless—but I also don't support blatant lies to congress. We either have a democracy or we don't and we shouldn't be lied to. A simple "that is classified" is sufficient, and Andreessen calling Snowden a traitor because "we all know it was going on anyway" is the admission of a kleptocrat or oligarch of their privileged, beguiling position. Edit: Amazon is a plague. I invite the downvotes, Bezos bots or not. Nobody disagrees with what I've outlined because it's fundamentally true. Amazon is fucking trash.

nindalf 8y ago
Imagine getting so upset about the API of some service that you write a tirade like this about the author’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss’s boss.
yladiz 8y ago
Regardless of what you've typed, at least don't outright lie and completely expose your troll. A fundamental truth is 2+2=4, and the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. What is typed above is not.
- futureastronaut 8y ago
  You're really calling a user who joined in 2008 with 12k karma a troll? I think it's nonsense that parent's opinion against Bezos was flagged, instead of the erudite references to Batman and The Wire in these comments.
  - yladiz 8y ago
    Yes, karma doesn’t preclude someone from being incendiary or a troll.
  - ilikehurdles 8y ago
    The user’s tirade was beyond misplaced and off-topic.
    - futureastronaut 8y ago
      On-topic comments like this one aren't flagged: > I think Omar, Stringer and Machiavelli would have gotten along on some level.
rblion 8y ago
Nobody is perfect. Gandhi was apparently racist and John Lennon was an egomaniac, I admire them both still for their efforts to make the world better than what it was before. Bezos still a human being like me and like you, whether you love him or hate him. I didn't say he cured cancer but last I checked, he puts ONE BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR into Blue Origin to help our species keep evolving towards a spacefaring civilization. How many other people are doing that? I am aware of the grey-area Amazon operates in but it's still better than the oligarchs before Big Tech. I'll give my money to Amazon before Wal-Mart, I know that. Amazon invests billions of dollars in retraining warehouse employees who are getting replaced by automation for high-demand jobs. Amazon didn't have to do that, but they made a decision to and I'm sure Bezos signed off on it. If you disagree with Amazon and AWS that much, build something better.