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by s3r3nity 6y ago
ah good point ... but at this point AWS has its own CEO so it's virtually its own company in many ways.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
TBH this is sort of what Amazon is trying to do with Alexa - albeit it's primarily voice-based.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>First I should say that I understand Google’s intent here, to unify the visual language of the various apps in its suite. Not sure I agree with that this is a useful endeavor. This just reeks of consistency for consistency sake. The po
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>The migration was super botched by the product team because of this. I honestly don't know why Google's Product Team has any positive reputation at this point. I can count on one hand the number of positive launches from that
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Agree on this one - authoritative bodies can be wrong / misled as well, and shouldn't be the only arbiters of truth. Ex: The WHO made many mistakes during COVID, including faulty recommendations and (alleged) influence by a govern
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Just theater - no legislation. Too many senators / congress people have Amazon warehouses with 1000's of jobs in their backyard, and would never support breaking them up on weak committee recommendations.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
You're probably getting downvoted because you're repeating the same line that folks have been saying about Facebook for like 15 years now that keeps getting disproven. It's just the Chicken Little "sky is falling" m
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
With all due respect, your take is naive: just because you need a team doesn't mean some members aren't more essential than others. You can, in theory, have an Oncologist handle your cancer without a nurse; you can't have it
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>...because there's barely anybody who could take their job That's the point: relative pay matters, and an important + scarce job _deserves_ higher pay than others. >If doctors didn't require a medical license, alleviat
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Last I checked doctors, who aren't unionized in the US and are more essential than nurses, are doing just fine.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
See: police unions, teacher unions, etc.
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
ok...so the government approves acquisitions, and then later regrets those decisions. Great way to send shockwaves through the M&A space with governing incompetence: rather than pass reasonable legislation and/or empower an existin
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
I feel like you could add “Nest” as a row soon, and it would be up-to-date
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> Perhaps if you cannot pay your employees minimum wage - regardless of the sort of work they are doing, perhaps you shouldn't be in business. I don't care if Uber is making money or not. So instead of hiring 1000’s of workers
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Uber is still not making profits. So where is this money coming from? You can't raise prices and expect the same level of demand from consumers. So once demand goes down, the # of drivers needed will go down. So you raise prices by res
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
You can't lose FICO score points simply because you missed a dinner reservation, or gave a negative political opinion against the political party in power. This is a weak equivalency, akin to saying they're equivalent to school gr
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>There is nothing surprising that a guy who put “I’m CEO B1tch”... I've commented on this before around HN, but worth repeating: people do change over ~20 years. If I were judged by the shit I did in high school or my 20's, and
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
I think the Facebook site will be _very_ different in the next few years than what we're traditionally used to. The strategy that Facebook has been pivoting towards is in favor of smaller community building, rather than the "mass
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Great idea, but all these posts deserve the same qualifier: this should be considered an experiment / hypothesis, and not a recommendation that every other site / business / experience should apply without question. There are
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Just wait until they figure out what the word for the color "black" is in Spanish...
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> I have a friend in France who is getting an art education for free. Unpopular to admit: we need doctors / engineers / farmers more than we need another art major. As a US taxpayer, I wouldn't want to subsidize just anyon
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Indeed price signaling [1] is a real thing when it comes to anti-competitive behavior among dominant market players - and government economists love analyzing these types of problems for antitrust cases, as they can be like solving forensic
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>That's the entire problem. If a shopping mall was charging every store 30% of their revenue (not profit, revenue!), it would be very quickly going broke and empty. If the same were true for Apple, they would reduce the 30% fee to r
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Half-true. (Source: worked at a big 4 consulting firm >a decade ago for a few projects involving significant antitrust problems in the tech industry.) You need to have some significant market power (yes, vague) such that your elasticity
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Or, you know, go to Android with 70%+ global market share.[1] If you really want to make a radio for Lamborghini's, but they say no, then you go to a different manufacturer. "oh but Lambo owners have so much spend/revenue per
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Imagine if Microsoft only had 14% global market share.* [*] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
Don't work for Apple/MSFT/Google, but have knowledge of usage data for various smart-phone OS's: you'd be surprised at how _calling_ has become a minor use case across the board when it comes to smart phones. It&#x2
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
>It's not regulations we need, it is better education. Especially skeptical thinking. As someone who is pretty much exclusively against regulation - I agree with you. However regulation to ensure competitive markets is totally appro
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> As long as there's an open internet infrastructure, there's no anti-competitive behavior. While I _really_ want to agree with you here, in all due respect this is a naive view on antitrust theory. Elasticity of demand - the e
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by s3r3nity 6y ago
> Why does Google get screwed after the enormous investment they made (with time and money) to index pages on the internet? If that was _all_ they did for the past 20 years to get to where they are today, there wouldn't be any probl

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