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by xibalba 5y ago
The preponderance of evidence disagrees.
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by xibalba 5y ago
Wage growth is starting to take off in the US due to extremely fierce competition over job applicants. If, as you say, Amazon doesn't pay employees enough, they will leave in droves for better paying jobs. Of course, if your facts aren
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by xibalba 5y ago
Now do software users who believe they’re entitled to the labor of other people for free…
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by xibalba 5y ago
This seems like a very clear case of the need for personal responsibility. In light of these facts, why in God’s name would anyone opt into this?
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by xibalba 5y ago
Issues like these are why many people conclude it’s best to reduce the size and power of government. The incompetence and apathy in this small, city level bureaucracy is akin to lighting taxpayer money on fire. Now scale that to huge societ
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by xibalba 5y ago
By what definition is Twitter a monopoly?
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Yes. There may be a portion of these items that is excess or obsolete and cannot be otherwise disposed of. There are accounting rules (which are both reasonable and justified) which force companies to write down this kind of inventory (i.e.
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by xibalba 5y ago
I think a better measure of IKEA would be "value"–the intersection of price, quality, and problem-solution fit. IKEA is not attempting to sell the highest quality furniture in the world. They are attempting to sell furniture that
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by xibalba 5y ago
Indeed, you are correct! *blushing face emoji*. Edit made. Thank you!
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by xibalba 5y ago
Just to be clear, I am using the word "productivity" in a very general sense: output over input. I'm not sure I understand your reasoning. How would any of these metrics not rapidly collapse under a 90% workforce cut? Are you
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by xibalba 5y ago
The size and growth of AWS' customer base and financial success is a very strong counterargument to your claims. Is it possible you are confusing your personal preferences for the goals of the AWS business? AWS may seek to advance th
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by xibalba 5y ago
Almost any mainstream business metric. Here is a brief and incomplete sample: Revenue, net income, employee head count, customer satisfaction, customer retention, customer lifetime value, return on invested capital, end price reduction for
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by xibalba 5y ago
A fact that counters your hypothesis: Amazon is obviously one of the most productive companies to have ever existed. *Edited: Turns out I have been misusing the word "counterfactual" for quite some time.
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by xibalba 5y ago
With respect to content, I think the core problem for Clubhouse is its live-centric model. This limits both the total volume of content available to be recommended, but also the data upon which an recommender can be trained. This, of course
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by xibalba 5y ago
Clubhouse 2021 installs[1]: Feb - 9.6 million Mar - 2.7 million Apr - 922 thousand Invites do not appear to be the growth bottleneck. With the Android app having been released in mid-May, installs will shoot back up for a time, but it sur
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by xibalba 5y ago
This whole format is a dead end. Clubhouse user growth and engagement is stalled out (and likely in decline). Not that Facebook minds. The millions spent cloning Clubhouse are a rounding error on their financial statements.
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by xibalba 5y ago
Doesn't Weinstein have PhD in biology? Surely that gives him some credibility.
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by xibalba 5y ago
Seems like a pretty dubious claim. I'd love to seem some sources to support it. Since inception, Amazon has achieved nearly unprecedented growth of revenue, profits, employee head count, customer base, product offerings, and just about
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by xibalba 5y ago
So you believe that performance and cruelty are not different?
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by xibalba 5y ago
I disagree with both elements of this premise: 1) that Amazon is cruel, and 2) that the objectives are achievable by other means. Performance, as I say above, is the point. Amazon pushes very hard for performance. Achieving high performance
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by xibalba 5y ago
It's funny, this was the pull quote for me too. Or at least this part: > the cruelty is the point. However, my reaction is quite different. It became hard to take this article seriously at all after they drew that conclusion. It is
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by xibalba 5y ago
According to Crunchbase, Neo4j was founded in 2007! Is this correct? 14 years in and they are still raising VC money!?
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by xibalba 5y ago
The risk of vigilante mobs was not cited by the Austin-American Statesman. Rather, they claimed a risk of "perpetuating stereotypes". Secondarily, claiming that there is a risk of vigilante mob justice is absurd. If you think I&#x
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by xibalba 5y ago
Ha! You're correct. My apologies.
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by xibalba 5y ago
No, it doesn't. At least not in this case. Austin is 8% black. So 4% black male. Then you narrow it down by age range, appearance, etc and you now have a very narrow pool. The public deserves to know about a violent, armed murderer in
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by xibalba 5y ago
The description was, for Austin, sufficiently specific to drastically narrow down the candidate pool of lookalikes. Keep in mind, this armed and dangerous mass shooter was still at large amongst the public. At what point do the scales tip
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by xibalba 5y ago
In this particular case, one of the shooters was still at large. Do you not think the public has a right to information about a dangerous, armed fugitive who may be in their midst? I do. Take the Boston Marathon bombers. Should the press ha
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by xibalba 5y ago
This is an interesting (and confounding) topic. On a corollary note, Austin recently experienced a mass shooting in a popular Downton area. 14 people were shot. One died. Another is paralyzed. The local paper of record explicitly declined t
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by xibalba 5y ago
So can I stop paying for my 1 user business account now?
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by xibalba 5y ago
> Mark has serious mental issues...mentally ill dude > dangerously under-socialized > lives in a bubble of security and yes-men So you have sustained first hand knowledge of these claims? Otherwise, it sure looks like these are ad

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