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by noirbot 7y ago
I can tell you that multiple lawyers looked over this contract and found no problems with it.
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by noirbot 7y ago
I think the argument is that AWS would be a better player in the market if it wasn't directly owned by Amazon. They still get the benefit of having been built by all the money of Amazon, and they could still be owned by Bezos as a sepa
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by noirbot 7y ago
The "non-competitive" thing they're doing with AWS is using it as a profit center so they can do anti-competitive things with all of their other businesses. If they weren't making so much money on AWS, they wouldn't
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by noirbot 7y ago
Sure, but that doesn't really change the point. If you decide that cloud is where you have to go, Netflix doesn't have an option that's not competing with them, really. Doesn't mean they love bankrolling Amazon.
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by noirbot 7y ago
It's not the SaaS partner caring, it's Kroger going "We'll buy your SaaS product, but you better be off AWS in 2 years or we go somewhere else". I've heard first-hand of multiple contracts like this.
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by noirbot 7y ago
But is Netflix an example of a company that's happy to be paying Amazon whatever they're paying them? I don't know the exact chronology, but I think Netflix pre-dates Amazon being in the Media business much, if at all? Netfli
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by noirbot 7y ago
I think the buried and more convincing point in there is that Bezos and Amazon's continued expansion into new markets mean there's more and more industries that feel threatened by Amazon, and thus more worried about funneling them
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by noirbot 7y ago
The folks talking about the JEDI/WaPo issues are missing the bigger concern, which is other retailers pushing down to their SaaS partners a hard message to get off of AWS. I've heard of multiple contracts that came with a clause o
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by noirbot 7y ago
Potentially, but just because people aren't doing the 100% most altruistic thing all the time doesn't mean they should be shamed for doing something that seems, at worst, neutral to everyone else. "What if rich people gave aw
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by noirbot 7y ago
But doesn't that just mean that the public fire fighters are essentially getting "free" assistance from the private crews? If anything, this is rich people paying to help prevent the spread of fire, which is a good thing for
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by noirbot 7y ago
I think I agree, but I don't see that as an indictment on the system or the folks doing supplemental hiring. Plenty of people have home security systems, or if you're rich/important enough, hire a bodyguard or private securit
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by noirbot 7y ago
I think the case here is that, say, the companies that were contracting with Foxconn or the like weren't doing anything explicitly illegal, but a large portion of people would see it as immoral/unethical. I'm certainly not sa
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by noirbot 7y ago
For sure, that would be a worse case. That said, defending a case against the government, even for a company as large as Exxon, isn't without cost. They're certainly an unsympathetic victim here, but in general, you want the gover
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by noirbot 7y ago
Perhaps a better example - is it illegal to not disclose that your supply chain includes companies with inhumane/unethical work practices? I don't see most companies talking about how their factories are potentially mistreating fo
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by noirbot 7y ago
Not the OP, but my guess would be that they're worried about the precedent set by fairly explicitly using a law meant to outlaw X to punish someone for doing Y just because the government dislikes that someone is doing Y. If the govern
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by noirbot 7y ago
I had a similar process recently. Went from recruiter through to offer with only a couple design problems and generally talking about projects I'd worked on, no code whatsoever. If anything, it made me want to work for the company less
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by noirbot 7y ago
It's more of a "You're not good enough to do anything but copy others" sort of thing. Tracing a Picasso will give you a pretty piece of art, but it doesn't make you a legendary artist. Most people don't care th
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by noirbot 7y ago
I'd assume there's some stability to knowing that X% of the market is passively invested in indexes. It could give active traders some extra edge, since it would make things more predictable? If everyone's an active trader, i
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by noirbot 7y ago
Obviously anecdotal, but when I interviewed with Stripe earlier this year I saw both sides of this - I had a recruiter ghost me for almost a month and a number of times important information about interviews got lost in an email chain. It w
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by noirbot 7y ago
Now I want someone to make a password generator that's just fancy hyphenated names. I can't imagine it would be too hard to make.
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by noirbot 7y ago
Yea, it was played as almost a "Soylent Green is People!" sort of reveal, but I couldn't help but just think it was pretty much the only reasonable way to handle food in the setup. If it tastes good enough, and you've go
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by noirbot 7y ago
I've certainly seen this opinion around Disney, especially around how much they're milking Star Wars releases, and the recent run of live-action remakes. It's not a universal thing, but "Enormous media company Disney chu
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by noirbot 7y ago
I can't remember where I heard it originally, but it suffers from the "This racism is a metaphor for racism" problem that a lot of sci-fi tends to get close to. The issue ends up becoming that by making the discriminated part
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by noirbot 7y ago
But at the same time, I only have so many hours in the day to research companies. If you asked me what companies I was interested in working at, you'd mostly get big-name stuff, even though right now I work somewhere you've likely
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by noirbot 7y ago
I'm legitimately curious what books you'd recommend as tech reading? I'm sure it's out there, but outside of reference docs/books, I'm not sure I've really read much of any books that were directly relevan
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by noirbot 7y ago
It's a bit different, since there actually is a fall-off with age in sports. A 45 year old basketball player is almost definitely more injured and less capable than a 20-year old. In most sports, you get better for the first 5-10 years
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by noirbot 7y ago
I would argue the same thing does happen in other positions - salespeople usually cap out at some point or go into management (Though it can be a little odd since they have a commission portion usually. If you're really good, there&#x2
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by noirbot 7y ago
Interesting, but surely it has to retain some information about the past to be able to know how to update that belief vector? Outside of directly being on a mission, the only major "good" or "evil" actions are voting for
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by noirbot 7y ago
This seems like it would suffer from a lot of the sorts of AI problems in games, where computers are better at memory and ingesting information than people generally are. Games like Avalon or Secret Hitler tend to be much less fun if people
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by noirbot 7y ago
I think they meant that it wouldn't be an issue if you're a visitor and just looking to hike through the area. It's obviously not a good thing, but if I don't live there, I don't have a car to get broken into, so it

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