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> My favorite part of AMT is always going to be figuring out that if we only paid in $0.07 intervals, their commission algorithm would round down to the nearest
by swyx 1mo ago
> My favorite part of AMT is always going to be figuring out that if we only paid in $0.07 intervals, their commission algorithm would round down to the nearest whole cent when their 20% commission resulted in a fractional cent on the unit transaction level, not the monthly invoice level.
can someone ELI5 because what in the office space
- ramses0 1mo agoGo watch Superman III for more details...
- libria 1mo agoOr Office Space
- owebmaster 1mo ago20% of 0.07 was billed as 1 cent, not 1.4 nor rounded up to 2.
- x0xMaximus 1mo ago1
- rkozik1989 1mo agoImagine your favorite feature of a product was spend 1 cent on a real human being time and effort rather than 2 cents.
- ShinyLeftPad 1mo agoOr spend the same and let the human earn more?
- aftbit 1mo agoThat's on the commission that Amazon took, not on the human.
- x0xMaximus 29d agoAmazon took 20% of all workers earnings for doing essentially nothing for years and years.. of course I take great joy in giving AWS as little money as possible.
- testbjjl 1mo agoIt was cheaper and looser automated billing practices than current AI “solutions”?