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Amazon can now let me hire a goat herder[0] to get my lawn eaten down. Is there anything they can't sell? [0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBYDXXQ/ref=vas_sf_GoatGrazing
We wanted flying cars, instead we got goat rentals. :D
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Pedantically, yes. Practically, no. Basically everybody in the US uses the phrase "zip-code" informally to mean postal code even when talking about international addresses.
I've never run across anyone in the U.S. who refers to postal codes as zip codes.
Say what? Where in the U.S. do you live? I've been all over, and I've never once heard them called 'postal codes'; always and every time 'zip codes.'
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Pedantically, yes. Practically, no. Basically everybody in the US uses the phrase "zip-code" informally to mean postal code even when talking about international addresses.
I've never run across anyone in the U.S. who refers to postal codes as zip codes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:usps.com+"zip+code" returns 120k results
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:usps.com+"postal+code" returns 372 results
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It is a negative because Amazon doesn't have that many resources or talent. They are short on engineers. The people building things like amazon movies are being taken off of key things like product search. Bugs I fixed there were regressed in later years and are still broken-- this is key product sales bugs that are still there. The team I was on that wrote the code got dissipated away. Here's a key thing that people…
Seems like you had a very bad experience at Amazon, but you are also spilling a lot of lies about the company, and I'm afraid people might buy it. Amazon is way more than a tech company, and the tech side of it is indeed just a portion of the overall organization, but your use of quotes on "tech company" is just derogatory and unnecessary. I have very little contact with "business" people, and they in no way determin…
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and you being so defensive about a simple comment are NOT a good sign about a company's culture and image.
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do you mean to say drone's are more expensive than people ?
Their drones could easily be $30k+ a pop, and if they crash, need maintenance, irretrievably fly out of range, or simply become targets of angry people wanting to break them... all problems frequently encountered with high grade hobbyist drones.... then their value vs. an employee is questionable. Crucially we're not even talking about R&D efforts, insurance, regulatory clearing costs, and probably the biggest cost,…
Drones could be useful for a lot of things but if the problem is delivering heavy packages cheaply to places with road access, they are not a rational choice.
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The problem is that they are using the Amazon brand to position it. This helps in gaining initial traction, but in the end damages the brand in two ways: - people do not know what to associate amazon with (it's just a bookstore, right?) - when they kill off too many project, or too many projects fail, their brand value hurts. There are other businesses that have many, many product lines, but the most succesful ones (…
people do not know what to associate amazon with (it's just a bookstore, right?) In my experience people couldn't care less about "brand identity" in general. Nobody (outside our tech filter-bubble) cares what Amazon does or doesn't do beyond their shopping and book business.
So true.
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It's an idea that is DOA. It will never work because it will never be economical, nor safe. If you think about it for a few minutes, you'll realize it's a joke-- like an April Fools joke.
I'll address some points here. 1. Safety: drones - multirotors, specifically - are very safe devices, inherently. They are incredibly simple (4-8 motors and no other moving parts). If they are dangerous, it's only because of lack of investment by the manufacturers to make mission critical hardware/software. That's the next step in the drone ecosystem though, as commercial use is gaining traction (multirotors are bare…
The first or second time the blades on one of those drones hits a kid, drone delivery will be as dead as the Segway.
Really hate when web sites assume you live in the US. Don't make me click around menus and finally ask for US Zip code (And don't assume Zip codes have 5-digits only).
> And don't assume Zip codes have 5-digits only Aren't ZIP (it's an initialism, Zone Improvement Plan) codes by definition a US-only thing? Even in countries that don't call them post/postal codes, they're not known as ZIP codes.
It's interesting but I don't understand what problem this solves, at least in the area of home improvement. The problem in this area is finding someone you trust and is competent. I don't see how this solves that. For lower skilled work I guess there might be something here.
Amazon is extending the trust you have for their brand to local workers that they've screened. They'll even guarantee your satisfaction. That's how they're solving trust and competence.