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2·10 months agoHow about making bootstrapping businesses easier and providing preferable tax strategies floor small businesses? That would show down venture capital backed companies demanding a public offering and short term profit motives over sustainable businesses.
Or opening up platforms to drive increased competition?
Or providing sponsorship for open standards so users get more choice in the market instead of relying on entrenched large companies?
Doesn’t this mean that Meta has ossified and the board no longer sees growth opportunities?
Send like bad news for investors long on growth and prospects of the meta verse.
There’s a lot on it.
It’s not just girls in things standing in a hot tub flossing.
I don’t like the company, I don’t use the product. But it is what Facebook was in 2010.
Amazons average take is over 50%, so naturally it’s not cheap to sell on.
Most of the books I buy are reference books, that site actually has a decent stock, thanks!
Amazon is bad at packaging books lately. I’d say 1/3 orders are damaged. My last one was both misprinted and the envelope was unsealed, so the book arrived bent, wet, and blurry.
Costco can be worth it
Amazon takes 50% on average now
They’re only cutting fees in categories competing with Shein
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-reduced-seller-fees-to-compete-with-shein-2023-12
I’ll go further, I stopped using Amazon entirely and I don’t miss it.
The junky shopping experience is especially clear once you leave and come back.
I only ever order books from amazon anymore, and usually only when I get a gift card or a product isn’t for sale elsewhere.
The prices aren’t even that good anymore.
Oh my God, that’s awful!
I hope the US responds by installing more solar panels this year than China ever has!
3·10 months agoSee also: universal-ctags.
Fold home automation IP into Alexa brand, keep iRobot vacuum brand but increase data exfiltration, and put ads on all searches to increase sales, layoff the
scrubsR&D team would be the natural playbook.
But really, isn’t it the rich who lost the most? And doesn’t that entitle them to more?
It’s like Jesus once said “the meek shall inherit the earth, but only after I let the rich have their way with it for a few thousand years, then maybe we’ll see”
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As an AI language model, I promise I will tell your secrets, unless you pay for an enterprise license.
Yeah. Spend a decade or more building resilient architecture, sure, you can now fire people. Good luck building on it though.
Chesterton’s fence is pretty important in tech, and the community sucks at documentation while working.
Also: I work in tech, holy fuck the burnout I’ve experienced these last two years is being anything I’ve experienced before.
They already don’t even give a shit about their AppleTV app… why would they care about this.
Poor Netflix, it’s not like they’re worth a quarter trillion dollars or anything.
Just sign up for tinder and go on Netflix and chill dates, when your date goes to the bathroom cancel their subscription and slip out the door.
I like to thread the needle between “useful verification of identity” and “not a horrifying invasion of privacy that puts everyone in our society at risk”
Reading these kinds of things will just result in is creating horrible identification laws like having to scan your face each time you want to watch porn.