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by strgcmc 3y ago
Late to this comment thread, but Amazon actually excels at this type of long term measurement, through methodologies internally called HVA/DSI and DSE (to name just a couple). - High Value Action / Downstream Impact == using a &qu
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Ex-Amazonian here, and while I agree with the facts you present, I do think the "tall" vs "wide" debate is being misapplied here. Amazon is extremely and perversely obsessed with, and good at, building decoupled systems
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Well, we're halfway to proving this objectively. There's a pretty thorough database of lies told during the Trump presidency, captured here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim..
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by strgcmc 3y ago
I like this framing a lot, but it seems to conspicuously miss who makes "strategy"? Assuming policy != strategy Unless you're making a subtle joke that, nobody makes strategy... Which if so, then kudos for a nice joke
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Not saying I agree or even that the author is referring to these specific ideas, but there's plenty to anger people with: https://www.avclub.com/your-guide-to-the-wall-e-controversy-...
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Well the article paints a pretty clear hypothesis, if you read it -- dowries are rooted in the idea that in a particular kind of society (not the ones where a household is losing out on a woman's labor and hence needs a bride price), t
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by strgcmc 3y ago
This is a wild time capsule of an article to reread now... Whatever happened to Facebook "M"? And why did anyone ever think this would survive as a business model? https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/m
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by strgcmc 3y ago
How about, wildly dangerous relative to other commercial passenger jets? Second in fatal accidents per million miles flown only to the Concorde, which didn't fly very much. Why would you want to continue flying a plane that was statist
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by strgcmc 3y ago
Riffing on this: another aspect of how business-life is harder for Google is, who actually is the customer? For Amazon (at least in the classic retail sense), the customer is clear and obvious: the person buying a thing from your website, w
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by strgcmc 4y ago
This is actually a niche industry, that provides "deposit solutions". A family member used to work at this one for example, who just put a PR release based on the recent news cycle: https://www.reichandtang.com/202
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by strgcmc 4y ago
I'm sorry, but the sports betting analogy is hilariously wrongheaded. In order to set any prices at all, books have reasonably good models for the sports they offer, including NFL. But these models are not and do not need to be perfect
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Remember, the author of the article constructed a scenario where, it was expected that the "main" function ends up treating an empty "CONFIG_DIRS" input as an uncatchable IOError; in other words, an empty array was inval
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by strgcmc 4y ago
I don't understand how you can compare the price of gas (which you convert into an equivalent $/kWh price, no issues so far), with the price of electricity, without trying to account for how long or how often either heating system
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by strgcmc 4y ago
As another former Amazonian (but not near payments stuff by any means), judging from the outside, this doesn't sound like it equates to the death of Amazon Payments at all. The PR statements are very carefully worded to say, strategic
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by strgcmc 4y ago
That makes sense under a certain set of assumptions I suppose, namely that you might think AWS's problem arises mostly from normal customers not realizing that someone has hijacked their account to run GPU crypto mining without their k
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by strgcmc 4y ago
I get your point about small companies occupying a niche as their distinct competitive advantage, but in this case, one has to ask the obvious question: why doesn't Lambda Labs have a problem with fraudulent crypto mining, if the bar f
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Two counterpoints I'd raise, in case they can help broaden your perspective: - Industry wide layoffs != Mistake. By analogy, think about naturally occurring forest fires. Vast majority of ecologists would agree that such fires are heal
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by strgcmc 4y ago
But not all types of music are equally in demand. If consumer tastes change, it would obviously make sense to layoff musicians trained to make music for a genre that nobody wants to buy anymore.
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by strgcmc 4y ago
It's interesting to compare/contrast that, with thoughts like these: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CKpByWmsZ8WmpHtYa/competent-... I think both authors can be correct, and both sets of experiences are
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by strgcmc 4y ago
No one fills that niche because finishing out shows that were otherwise cancelled, is unlikely to be a growth market. At best, you attract a dwindling set of diehard fans, but the reason the show was cancelled is probably because the audien
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Not trying to pile on you individually but this is an interesting line of thought in general, so continuing the thread here... Let's say there are 10 nearby cities with drug addicts. Let's say 3 of them start running needle exchan
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by strgcmc 4y ago
This type of advice does work, but only for some people. I would hazard that "some" isn't even a majority of alcoholics or other kinds of addicts. So, it's an interesting perspective to share, but please don't assum
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by strgcmc 4y ago
I agree with the advice to be your authentic self, and someone who's on the spectrum would probably find it very inauthentic to try and turn themselves into an overnight charmer or "life of the party" type. That being said, I
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Some truths to keep in mind: - Every company is navigating the marketplace, and making decisions with imperfect information - Not every decision will be perfect (or even, good) - Not every decision-maker will be perfect (or even, good) - Ev
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Set aside work/career for now. What do you do in your personal life? Have you had any experience with celebrating small (even tiny) milestones or "achievements? Recent example: I recently moved house. Many of my books and lower-ur
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Well, this isn't prima facie unreasonable without more info (or knowledge of the implicit assumptions you are making but not publishing). - Are cases 1,2,3 named that way, because they are the top priority cases (i.e. the #1, #2, and #
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Appreciate you sharing this anecdote. There's multiple archetypes of "successful" managers (i.e. meaning different ways of being useful, not success in terms of kudos or promotions or whatever), and the one you highlight is w
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by strgcmc 4y ago
Fanatics Betting and Gaming | Software and Data Engineers (up to Staff) | REMOTE (US/Canada) | https://jobs.lever.co/fanatics/4c2cf288-34da-48d8-b2a2-30ebf... (sample role for Staff) Fanatics Betting and Gaming (a
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by strgcmc 4y ago
I think that poster probably meant feedback loops or virtuous cycles (ones that create beneficial second and third order effects, with outsized impact vs what you might assume based solely on the first order change), more so than network ef
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by strgcmc 4y ago
I suspect you're mostly venting and having a wistful mid career crisis, as even a small amount of effort of research into this topic will lead you into a wealth of readily available resources on how to achieve "FIRE" (financi

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