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by dkrich 9y ago
Yes there are. That's the whole problem. It's complete chaos. There are several hundred people huddled in one area looking at one giant screen and there are several trains being called in sequence. How would you know that a given
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But there are lots of trains leaving at any given time going to different places. There's no way to know which train somebody is heading to without asking them.
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I wonder if there's any correlation or way to know based on where a train is arriving from to know where it's headed. If that were the case, you could potentially either look for that data, or if it isn't available, have a Wa
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by dkrich 9y ago
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
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by dkrich 9y ago
Try buying a nice watch or high-end stereo equipment there. No such ceiling applies to Amazon, probably because Amazon welcomes re-sellers (which can span all market niches), while Walmart doesn't. Ha- as it happens I just bought a n
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by dkrich 9y ago
Well, that chart only goes to 2015. But in any case, ecommerce and web services are growing businesses, so naturally the growth has been huge looking back. But looking forward, Azure is presenting itself as a greater challenge to AWS each d
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by dkrich 9y ago
I think concerns about Amazon becoming a monopoly are greatly exaggerated. They are getting attacked from all sides, by Microsoft in the cloud and Wal-Mart in ecommerce. As Microsoft grabs share from them in web services it'll reduce A
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by dkrich 9y ago
Yeah, I don't disagree that AWS can survive without Procter and PepsiCo, but the point is that Wal-Mart is just trying to take a cut out of Amazon's bottom line (however large or small). This is becoming an all-out war between Wal
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by dkrich 9y ago
My guess is that they know that Amazon is using AWS profits to fund losses in the ecommerce business. If they can get some large retailers off AWS, that might reduce Amazon's ability to pour cash into ecommerce and hurt their margins.
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I was surprised to read that the reason isn't that green olives are typically used to make martinis. It seems to me that having a jar of olives on a bar would make for a better appearance than a can. Also, green olives are typically st
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by dkrich 9y ago
Is that true? I always assumed it's because on a map and in general, south is associated with down. So "going south" is basically like "going downhill", etc.
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Why do say Walmart can't compete in the grocery business? It seems to me that they've been selling groceries quite successfully for many years. Also, I don't believe Whole Foods owns the land its stores occupy, it's all
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by dkrich 9y ago
I saw this and I give him credit although I think his idea that Amazon will be the only winner is pretty irrational. Less than 10% of purchases made today are online and even with that number growing, there are lots and lots of very smart c
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by dkrich 9y ago
This was exactly my thought. In fact, why would a retailer like Amazon want to have upper-income distribution facilities? The cost of storage would be exceedingly high. And if that's the winning strategy, isn't Costco already pret
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by dkrich 9y ago
I don't mean to be a naysayer, I don't really know what this means. But with all of the euphoria I'm hearing regarding Amazon and the doom-and-gloom regarding "traditional" grocers, I can't help but remind myse
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Amazon is going after Walmart with a discount on Prime for low-income shoppers(recode.net)
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by dkrich 9y ago
Yeah when I read that my first thought was that the CTO reacted that way because he was in fear of being fired himself. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he wrote that document or approved it himself.
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by dkrich 9y ago
My argument is that voice isn't all that useful in general and that if Apple creates a much higher quality product than Echo, for example, that people will want it because it's a very nice speaker that looks really cool and can pl
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by dkrich 9y ago
I think that Apple has bet (correctly) that voice is a feature not a platform and that great hardware will make people buy into its services. Voice is great for a few things but very lousy for most things. Obviously it's all conjecture
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by dkrich 9y ago
> If oilco does default, great, you have ample of collateral in tankers and other tangible assets you might be able to recover, so the recovery rate will be higher than the 30 cents that Goldman paid on the dollar. Also, whatever happens
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by dkrich 9y ago
Then why not buy oil?
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To me it seems that malls aren't dying, there's just been a major shift in who shops at them. Malls that are in prime real estate that cater to wealthy shoppers are doing quite well. Just go to Tyson's Corner in Virginia, or
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by dkrich 9y ago
Window dressing is exactly what they want. We live in a climate where share price is based purely on branding and not on fundamentals. Elon Musk has convinced the market that he's the second coming of Steve Jobs and the market is buyin
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by dkrich 9y ago
I'm in the same boat and this move both surprises me and disturbs me to an extent. I thought Fields was doing a great job but the market just isn't interested in Ford shares right now. But they've beaten earnings estimates ov
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by dkrich 9y ago
As a long time Ford shareholder, this article seems to be applying a cause and effect that is at best speculative. It's important not to confuse share price with company performance, because in the short term the two can have zero corr
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by dkrich 9y ago
I think this mostly has to do with barriers to entry. 15 years ago it was orders of magnitude more difficult to launch a business online than it is today so there was far less competition. But it's important to remember that it was muc
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by dkrich 9y ago
I for a time worked for the USPS- what lots of people don't seem to realize is that pickups and last mile deliveries are precisely the businesses that UPS and FedEx want no part of. They are extraordinarily complex in most areas and ve
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by dkrich 9y ago
They're already doing this to an extent by buying up private label ecommerce brands.
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I think it's important to remember what's good for the customer isn't necessarily good for the business. There's a reason the $35 minimum is in place- because for orders totaling less than that the business is likely los
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One thing I was curious about as I read this was: are there not extenuating circumstances during which the domain registrar can seize a domain? If say, this domain that was unregistered had been registered, is the fact that it's contro

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