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Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by C1sc0cat »

TulliusCicero wrote: post #391
C1sc0cat wrote: post #264

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So there are not enough lanes open then (sounds like poor time and motion work) and just how much stuff are you buying that you cant fit it on the belt?

> So there are not enough lanes open then (sounds like poor time and motion work) How exactly is having more lanes going to help with the conveyor belt being small? > just how much stuff are you buying that you cant fit it on the belt? So the implication here is that it's my fault for buying too much stuff? I was buying enough for at least a handful of days for a family of 3 that's stuck at home. I was trying to buy…

More lanes less congestion at each lane

Its maybe that maybe Lidl / German stores are cheeping out on the store fit out - you can get lanes that can support two customers packing.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by Certhas »

eru wrote: post #430
pgeorgi wrote: post #411

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> There's something to be said in favour of a method that any village idiot can understand and observe with their own eyes. For example that it's a precondition to fair and open elections? :-)

I don't think so. If you have open source voting machines that can be and are audited, that's probably more than good enough for fair and open elections. Lowering the complexity and thus barrier to understanding just builds an extra buffer of transparency into the system. It's a very-nice-to-have.

In a technical sense, yes. But there is definitely social value in having a system that is in principle auditable by (almost) everyone. An open source voting machine would still be only auditable by the small minority of people who can read code.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by nojito »

40four wrote: post #366

This quality of this article is terrible. It's very short (235 words), there are no concrete sources, or solid evidence that this is real. This is nothing more than speculation. Is this considered journalism is 2020? Even more sad, is when you search and try to find better sources, and realize that it's mostly just a few small, outlier publications, copy and pasting off of each other. Business Insider unabashedly cop…

>Business Insider unabashedly copy and pasted from Charged Retail, and didn't even bother to format/ edit/ paraphrase anything. Even text from the link to sign up for the Charged Retail news letter is in there (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lidl-owner-l...).

it's not copy pasting. BI is also a publishing platform.

Same reason why you see Bloomberg articles in full being posting on Yahoo Finance.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by ghyggg355 »

delcaran wrote: post #155
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #153

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Just out of curiosity what do you do that earns you 100k in Italy if I may ask? Most Italians I met working in Austria and Germany left Italy because of low salaries and they're not making anything close to 100k here either. I've even met Italians who moved to Eastern Europe for higher tech salaries than back home so something doesn't add up.

Can confirm. As senior software developer I made 25K EUR in 2019.

Is this gross or net? I earn 50K EUR gross and 30K net on same role. It's close to top market rate in my country (Poland). I know some top engineers getting 80K. Anyway unless working contract taxes are too high to incentivise putting more effort.

I interviewed a lot and it's hard to get more than 70K EUR / GBP at least with my skillset and would need to move. I wonder if places like Amazon/FB/Google pay more in EU?

BTW are US salaries posted gross(pre-tax)? I wonder if it's worth applying for me.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by acjacobson »

diehunde wrote: post #438
unethical_ban wrote: post #424

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I don't think there is a mapping to this in English. I've studied some Spanish and German - You learn about the various verb and pronoun forms based on informal and formal "you". This is a part of the core language, the spec, so to speak. In English, there is no spec for different levels of formality. There is no universally documented way to being less courteous to bosses and policemen. Saying "sup dude" or "how's i…

When I was learning German I read somewhere that English used to have different forms for "you" just like German. Which wouldn't be weird since the languages are closely related.

Yes, in English we fully adopted the formal which is "You" for both formal / informal speech. The familiar / informal was "Thou" - which is a bit weird because now we think of "Thou" as being a bit formal because it is so old-fashioned.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by mrep »

benjohnson1707 wrote: post #435
TulliusCicero wrote: post #383

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GP said that the salaries would make senior engineers in Silicon Valley pale. That implies that they're much higher. Instead, they're actually much lower, as I suspected. This is true even for the senior engineers, at around half the compensation or so; for the principal engineers and directors, working somewhere like Google or FB gets you 3-5x what's quoted for Lidl. > So they are largely comparable to SV salaries a…

Agreed! Let me clarify: high wages, once you're an engineering manager it's probably comparable. However, you're not nearly as relevant, from a value-sdd perspective. FAANG etc. are software companies. Lidl is an offline retailer. So top notch engineering there is not nearly as critical as for a company like facebook. So let me rephrase: way more buck for way less bang! But a fair critique! Thanks for pointing out.

Most first level managers at G/FB are L6 and thus clearing about 500k a year [0]. Lidl really pays that for first level managers?

[0]: https://www.levels.fyi/company/Google/salaries/Software-Engi...

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by eternauta3k »

unethical_ban wrote: post #428
wolfgke wrote: post #339

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> I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German) when addressing herself to her bosses on the company's hallways Using "du" instead of "Sie" for adressing people c…

English has many faults, but I am proud of our limited number of cases and (standard) conjugations. It must be taught since it's a part of the language, but I almost wish non-native German students could skip the "du" tense entirely, if it's that much of a faux pas to use it in the wrong scenario.

So far Duolingo has always taught me to use du, and never Sie...

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by sudosysgen »

dragonwriter wrote: post #197
ryan-allen wrote: post #145

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> Beating AWS on EC2 pricing is easy. AWS EC2 pricing is insanely expensive. German providers like Hetzner Cloud entered the market at 1/10th of the EC2 price. This has always been my problem with AWS. Cost savings might make sense for someone who actually needs 200 servers but if I just want one I'm paying 10 times as much for half as much in terms of performance. It rubs me the wrong way when a $70/mo AWS instance…

> It rubs me the wrong way when a $70/mo AWS instance is more than twice as slow than a $10/mo 'traditional' VPS instance. Elastic compute of the type provided by EC2 and similar services (Google Compute Engine, etc.) is a fundamentally different service than simple VPS. AWS has something that is, or is very close to, a simple VPS in LightSail, and the pricing is pretty competitive with other VPS providers. LightSail…

80$ a month for 16GB RAM, 4 cores, is a very bad price. If you could buy the machine outright for less than the cost of 6 months, you should not buy it.

Also, 6TB/month is a bit over a day of download at 400Mbps. It's barely even worth mentioning.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by StreamBright »

jawns wrote: post #311
StreamBright wrote: post #211

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>> The Cloud idea very likely was acquired together with a former SAP cloud sales VP. Here is the difference: Core Schwarz DNA is selling packed soup to end customers at a crazy scale, without even intervening in the whole process. Core DNA SAP is a large scale enterprise sales. Go read the Stratechery posting about why Google failed with GCP to understand why Schwarz should not do this. This is exactly what I have g…

> Many of the AWS guys are life timers, do not care about money I've heard, anecdotally, that Amazon/AWS engineers tend to be more money-driven than others in the same tier, or at least they're willing to put up with a lot more headaches because of the money. Is that a misconception? If not money, then what keeps them there?

I don't know. Maybe in the lower engineering tiers. The senior datacenter people are not as easy to move. The made a fortune when AMZN went from 130 to 2000 in a relatively short time. Not sure though.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by pgeorgi »

eru wrote: post #430
pgeorgi wrote: post #411

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> There's something to be said in favour of a method that any village idiot can understand and observe with their own eyes. For example that it's a precondition to fair and open elections? :-)

I don't think so. If you have open source voting machines that can be and are audited, that's probably more than good enough for fair and open elections. Lowering the complexity and thus barrier to understanding just builds an extra buffer of transparency into the system. It's a very-nice-to-have.

> If you have open source voting machines that can be and are audited,

It's extremely hard to verify that whatever code you audited is the one used in the actual devices.

No such problem with pen and paper

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