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841.
by sib 8y ago
Wow - really? I'd say that Facebook is far, far, far worse than Amazon. And Google is certainly worse as well. Look at the data collection on Android phones, for example. At least Amazon, from day 1 of the Echo/Alexa launch, noted
842.
by sib 8y ago
Unfortunately, it's not true. On a standard (US) home outlet (120volts), you charge a Model 3 at about 5 miles of range per hour. So, if I get home from dinner after work at 8:00pm, and have to leave for the office at 7:00am the next m
843.
by sib 8y ago
Agreed - there is a difference that people - especially populists - like to ignore between "rich" (wealth) and high earnings. If you have $10M in a checking account, but choose work at Starbucks as a barista because you like fake
844.
by sib 8y ago
In the center console of my car. Extremely convenient and useful to just drop the phone there and go, rather than having to plug and unplug it repeatedly.
845.
by sib 8y ago
It seems like the existence of these tools implies that all of your papers are "going to be gathered in a centralized database," right? (I'm lucky enough to be old enough that this wasn't an issue. OTOH, we couldn't
846.
by sib 8y ago
I drove stick shifts, by choice, for 30 years. in December, I traded one in for an electric car that can be set to have significant regenerative braking upon throttle lift. I don't miss a thing about the stick, and it's 100x bette
847.
by sib 8y ago
In the US, at least, there is a significantly differently model of validity of written and oral agreements.
848.
by sib 8y ago
Sadly, all previous versions of the BT standard were also fusterclucks.
849.
by sib 8y ago
I just checked and my iPhone doesn't have a physical mic disable switch that I could find...
850.
by sib 8y ago
Here's the funny thing about content being "great" - it's a matter of opinion. I (personally) wouldn't put the Americans in my top 10 shows, or maybe even top 20, and at least 5 of those are from HBO. As opposed to
851.
by sib 8y ago
Southwest was actually grounding these flights yesterday (Tuesday) before the FAA decision. Source: flight was cancelled along with multiple other 737 MAX flights out of SJC yesterday.
852.
by sib 8y ago
Here's the thing: consumers paid (voluntarily) for an iPhone that has the restriction that apps must be bought / acquired / loaded through the App Store . So, yes, they own the device that has this restriction. If they didn&
853.
by sib 8y ago
From GP's comment, it appears that s/he is not referring to the FAA. "It isn't just the FAA and Boeing."
854.
by sib 8y ago
Exactly, so, not a monopoly in ecommerce. And only a single-digit share of commerce . And, of course, there is literally nothing inherently illegal (in the US, at least) about building a monopoly in any case.
855.
by sib 8y ago
Presuming that your goal is to have children...
856.
by sib 8y ago
That's nothing, once e-voting is legal in Chicago, it will be 144% of the vote.
857.
by sib 8y ago
I have a hard time believing that a KBA database would have GP's favorite flavor of ice cream.
858.
by sib 8y ago
Walmart is probably better positioned than anyone else in the US market to do so. It's worth noting that the current CEO is relatively "new" (he's been in the role only 5 years and is only 52 years old - a next generatio
859.
by sib 8y ago
Unfortunately, if "people with high credit scores have less insurance claims," then preventing insurance companies from taking this into account is a deadweight loss to society. People who are more likely to have more insurance cl
860.
by sib 8y ago
I don't know about the "rest of the world" but I would be bet that, in December 2010, when the Volt started selling in the US, far more Americans knew that the word "Volt" related to electricity than had heard of Te
861.
by sib 8y ago
> The way the patent system in the US is set up, there's a huge financial difference (orders of magnitude, IIRC) between "accidental infringement" and "wilful infringement". It's up to 3x ("treble damag
862.
by sib 8y ago
Thanks! It's less a spec and more of, choose the tool that fits the job. A lot of these documents fit the overall structure of "high-level situation & recommendation; industry / product / customer context; more depth
863.
by sib 8y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful comments; Amazon's methods are certainly not the way to do things, but they are a way that works for them and I think it's worthwhile to understand how and why, in depth. > This is very much a cult
864.
by sib 8y ago
Thanks, yes, agree that the "opposites" (as you've listed them) are likely to lead to ineffective meetings. I think that most organizations can learn from how Amazon runs meetings and makes decisions, but those tools and tech
865.
by sib 8y ago
Author here. I think that's a fair comment, but, what I would say is: The goal of a meeting with Jeff (or other senior leader at Amazon) is to make a high-quality decision on something that is generally non-obvious and involves complic
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Writing Documents at Amazon(medium.com)
79 points by sib 8y ago|9 comments
867.
by sib 8y ago
Replied to your similar comment as well, but here is a Medium post that I just wrote on the topic: https://medium.com/@sib1013/writing-docs-at-amazon-e02580861...
868.
by sib 8y ago
> Alexa was not developed internally at Amazon - it was bought in, on the cheap That's a flat-out lie itself. A knowledge graph was acquired. Alexa - which, at this point, represents many thousands of years of engineering effort, wa
869.
by sib 8y ago
I would say that there is no single general template; it depends on the purpose of the specific document. I just wrote a medium post covering some do's and don'ts of these documents: https://medium.com/@sib1013&#x2
870.
by sib 8y ago
In my experience at Amazon, we never wrote a 6-pager if a 2-pager would do, for exactly the reasons that you indicated (and also, we found that breaking complex things into smaller chunks was more effective in many cases.)

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