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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 be…

sounds interesting. can you elaborate? Not familiar with what Snowflake does or how it compares. Thanks

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 …

Walmart eCommerce is relatively small, so not really comparable in terms of anti-trust concerns.

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…

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 wh…

> 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…

So if a store decides to sell things on consignment they no longer have power over how the products are displayed?

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 i…

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…

It makes me wonder when behaviors like this becomes an anti-trust issue.

Can someone explain to the uninitiated what halving is?

One would argue the ability to mold yourself, letting go of your ego in the process, is where the challenge lies for many.

Is this the all in cost? Including lease on land/building, staff, electricity etc...

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…

What about part time employees. They often don’t have benefits, or much less.

I think they are the same. Airbnb certainly be a full time job be, just like Uber.

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…

Not simulating slow connection but delaying page display via JS/Tempermonkey. https://jsfiddle.net/16yuzxLr/

This is great news. Making it uneconomical for companies to enforce arbitration will be a big step in consumer/labor protection.

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.

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…

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? …

Thank you. Can you recommend some books on the subject? Or related subjects ?

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 …