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by JCM9 1y ago
I find Amazon’s software for streaming much slower and buggier than other providers. The streams too also seem to have more issues.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Businesses are different but the fundamentals of business and finance stay consistent. In every bubble that reality is unavoidable, no matter how much people say/wish “but this time is different.”
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by JCM9 1y ago
Most folks that are not an engineer building is likely classified as “sales and marketing.” “Developer advocates” “solutions architects” and all that stuff included.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Fundamentally different business models. Amazon had huge capital investments that got less painful as it scaled. Amazon also focuses on cash flow vs profit. Even early on it generated a lot of cash, it just reinvested that back into the bus
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by JCM9 1y ago
Until there’s real liquidity (right now there’s not) it’s just a line item on some system you can log into saying you have X number of shares. For all practical purposes it’s worth nothing until there is a liquid market. Given current finan
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by JCM9 1y ago
For using GenAI as search I’d agree with you but I don’t think it’s as easy/obvious for most other use cases.
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by JCM9 1y ago
These numbers are pretty ugly. You always expect new tech to operate at a loss initially but the structure of their losses is not something one easily scales out of. In fact it gets more painful as they scale. Unless something fundamentally
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by JCM9 1y ago
It means Amazon’s approach to its “see and avoid” responsibility is fundamentally flawed in some way vs this being a one-off fluke with a broken sensor or other anomaly.
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by JCM9 1y ago
The Feds will quickly arrive and take over. Aviation issues are Federal matters. The only role of local law enforcement and emergency response is to provide any first aid and then secure the scene for the Feds. Unless lives are at risk loca
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by JCM9 1y ago
For manned flight instrument approaches the FAA has very nuanced math that defines this which typically comes down to a few hundred feet. That translates pretty well here too. Amazon will need to explain to the FAA why they were flying anyw
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by JCM9 1y ago
That doesn’t make it better. The cable hangs down from the crane and thus the rest of the structure is still nearby. The drone should be well clear of any obstructions precisely to avoid this sort of thing from happening with hard-to-see an
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by JCM9 1y ago
Given the severity of this it’s likely the NTSB will get involved, and Amazon’s ability to operate would likely be suspended pending a review of their operation.
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by JCM9 1y ago
Flying in uncontrolled airspace in VMC is a “see and avoid” environment, meaning this looks like a pretty bad screw up by Amazon. The fact that two different drones crashed into the same object raises even more serious questions on the qual
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by JCM9 1y ago
Not surprised. There’s some good applications but the hype bubble is on the verge of bursting. Many companies are boated and inefficient but it’s highly unlikely that “AI” is the fix. Ironically the thing broken in most cases is poor qualit
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by JCM9 1y ago
It’s not just code, but across the board we’re not seeing AI help people do better things faster, we’re seeing them meh mediocre things faster under the guise of being “good.” The market will eventually self correct once folks get more burn
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by JCM9 1y ago
Generally a fan of Prime. I’ll admit the shipping is pretty addictive. The rest of Prime is pretty meh. It’s a good deal on shipping and then a bunch of second-rate other stuff tacked on. On both .com and AWS, Amazon is reaching a stage of
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by JCM9 1y ago
There are lots of other pathways to do this outside the H1B. The US doesn’t need H1Bs to suck brain drain from elsewhere.
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by JCM9 1y ago
The cold truth is some companies simply like H1Bs since it’s a form of indentured servitude. There are plenty of US tech workers to fill most roles. Probably only ~10% of roles with an H1B would meet the bar for being unable to find a quali
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by JCM9 1y ago
The roles sent to India are those that will soon be replaced by AI. For years US companies have treated India like an API to do menial tasks that we’re hard to automate. It made no sense for that do be done by American workers. Now probably
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by JCM9 1y ago
The H1B program has been abused by employers for a long time. Nobody can reasonably defend it at scale. Some fear mongering now that the party is over, but unlikely doomsday is coming for US tech. Is this a unilateral change that will have
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by JCM9 1y ago
Will just make capacity available for electrification of other infrastructure like heat pumps, electric cars, and so on. Lots of other folks would happily buy that power. The whole AI bubble is just driving up electricity pricing for everyo
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by JCM9 1y ago
A company buys back its stock if it thinks the stock is underpriced. Otherwise when “you have more money than you know what to with” you give it to your shareholders via a dividend. A concept mostly forgotten by tech companies.
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by JCM9 1y ago
This is throwing more cards on the house of cards. Nvidia is “investing” in OpenAI so OpenAI can buy GPUs from NVidia. Textbook “round tripping.” I generally like what’s been happening with AI but man this is gonna crash hard when reality s
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by JCM9 1y ago
I don’t think many people place much stock in these rankings, and if they don’t have “shocking” moves then how are they gonna sell papers and get people to click!?! An article on the site says “Durham wins University of the Year and dismiss
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by JCM9 1y ago
Was burned by counterfeit goods multiple times with my Amazon purchases. Their return policy is good, but still it was really annoying when I’d order something and you get counterfeit product. They were cutting a lot of corners on quality c
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by JCM9 1y ago
Companies have abused the program. At the top end it’s an excellent program, and then there’s the rest where companies are making fake claims that they can’t hire Americans and need to import folks. This is what the administration is cracki
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by JCM9 1y ago
This is like something right out of the show Silicon Valley. You couldn’t have scripted a more cringe-worth demo. It’s like they mashed up the AI and metaverse into a dumpster fire of aimless tech product gobodlygook. The AI bubble can’t po
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by JCM9 1y ago
Intel is a strategically important company for the United States. This smells like a token investment to appease the US government. Not saying it’s bad, but very much looks like that.
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by JCM9 1y ago
I do agree SF and the Bay Area have lost their allure and there are now much better places to live with opportunity and culture in tech. I don’t fully agree with the AI focus of the article. Yes it’s a bubble and the billboards are depressi
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by JCM9 1y ago
Like most Americans I’m pro immigration, but I’m also pro enforcing our laws. The company couldn’t follow the law and got caught. End of story.

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