saltking112

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by saltking112 6y ago
ic. but from Amazon's perspective, if customers want something that is mostly turn-key with the ability to customize, wouldn't they just combine AWS services themselves? I would believe Amazon has DB only solutions, compute only s
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by saltking112 6y ago
sounds interesting. can you elaborate? Not familiar with what Snowflake does or how it compares. Thanks
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by saltking112 6y ago
I agree that the results are important, but in the amazon vs third party vendor the difference between the two parties are large. One is much better capitalized than the other and enjoy many cost advantages. On product and price alone, many
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by saltking112 6y ago
Walmart eCommerce is relatively small, so not really comparable in terms of anti-trust concerns.
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by saltking112 6y ago
Theoretically Amazon has infinite shelf space, but in reality, no one really scrolls past the first few pages. So in reality, if your product is on page 5, it is perhaps as good as not being on Amazon anyway for that particular query. If yo
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by saltking112 6y ago
So suppose Amazon shared sales/behavior data with other sellers/companies, such that everyone is competing on a even footing with regards to product research. Do you still think what Amazon is doing is anti-competative? In other w
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by saltking112 6y ago
> you might imagine a supermarket which stocks all brands, but the first item in every row is the store-brand equivalent of that product which you must remove to get to the branded one. I think this is going a bit too far. "removing
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by saltking112 6y ago
So if a store decides to sell things on consignment they no longer have power over how the products are displayed?
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by saltking112 6y ago
With commoditized products the brand/manufacturer has no pricing power, so in order to go down the cost curve the firm would need to deploy more capital. This means making things in bigger batches, more efficient shipping, more adverti
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by saltking112 6y ago
but some industries clearly needs economies of scale in order to provide the consumer with cheaper and better products. Can you truly argue just because a firm is large they are no longer allowed to offer the same product for cheaper simply
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by saltking112 6y ago
It makes me wonder when behaviors like this becomes an anti-trust issue.
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by saltking112 6y ago
Can someone explain to the uninitiated what halving is?
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by saltking112 6y ago
One would argue the ability to mold yourself, letting go of your ego in the process, is where the challenge lies for many.
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by saltking112 6y ago
Is this the all in cost? Including lease on land/building, staff, electricity etc...
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by saltking112 6y ago
If Trump is talking about immigration and work visas alike, I simply can't imagine how large parts of the American economy is going to function without foreign workers. For one, no labor could be hired to perform many farm duties, and
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by saltking112 6y ago
What about part time employees. They often don’t have benefits, or much less.
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by saltking112 6y ago
I think they are the same. Airbnb certainly be a full time job be, just like Uber.
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by saltking112 6y ago
Not sure what the situation is but because Clovis is a black swan event Canada has expanded the Employment Insurance to include small business owners, who are normally not eligible. I believe unless Airbnb host and Uber driver seek on going
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by saltking112 7y ago
Not simulating slow connection but delaying page display via JS/Tempermonkey. https://jsfiddle.net/16yuzxLr/
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by saltking112 7y ago
This is great news. Making it uneconomical for companies to enforce arbitration will be a big step in consumer/labor protection.
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by saltking112 7y ago
How about insurance though? If it’s included it could easily be the best deal around. For young drivers like me my premiums are through the roof.
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by saltking112 7y ago
I think that highly depends on if the half a mil figure is the average of all top 1% or the income at 99th percentile. With extreme income inequality the income for 99th percentile could get lower
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by saltking112 7y ago
To what extremes does the housing bubble need to go for the government to realize that the historic QE rounds have done much to inflate both financial asset and real asset values? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it's the o
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by saltking112 7y ago
Thank you. Can you recommend some books on the subject? Or related subjects ?
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by saltking112 7y ago
One thing that I really like about the Trump administration is that finally the WH has decided to act against the systemic threat posed by China. Can someone who is well versed in politics shed some light on if this is a trump specific phen
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by saltking112 7y ago
What’s hilarious is that deletion of account might require government issued photo ID. The last step for me to stop doing business with a bad actor is by giving up my privacy.