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I find the claim that bezos sees “most of those emails” quite hard to believe. Must be thousands of them
how many people know the address though?
Allegedly Victor Hugo sent a telegram, which at the time charged by the letter, to his literary agent shortly after the publication of Les Misérables to inquire of its sales: ? The agent responded: !
Supposedly the story goes that in 1843, after annexing the Indian province of Sind, British General Sir Charles Napier sent home a one word telegram, "Peccavi" implying "I have Sind." Although apocryphal, it's still a great story.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peccavi
For those who don’t get it, peccavi is Latin for “I have sinned” and it’s a pun as Napier conquered/captured the Indian province Sindh.
I find the claim that bezos sees “most of those emails” quite hard to believe. Must be thousands of them
I sent Bezos (@jeff anyway) an email a couple of years ago, about the absurdity of using Alexa.com for the analytics tool, while simultaneously having Alexa the wildly successful voice assistant line. Customers looking for the voice assistant go to Alexa.com, whoops; customers go digging for Alexa on Google and end up at Alexa.com, whoops. A particularly dumb thing for a supposedly smart corporation to do. I went ste…
I find the claim that bezos sees “most of those emails” quite hard to believe. Must be thousands of them
I sent Bezos (@jeff anyway) an email a couple of years ago, about the absurdity of using Alexa.com for the analytics tool, while simultaneously having Alexa the wildly successful voice assistant line. Customers looking for the voice assistant go to Alexa.com, whoops; customers go digging for Alexa on Google and end up at Alexa.com, whoops. A particularly dumb thing for a supposedly smart corporation to do. I went ste…
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It doesn't even make sense. The sentence containing the quotation only ends when the quotation itself ends, not before. `print("abc)"`
It’s a tradition from the fixed-width font typewriter era IIRC. Quote mark followed by period looked bad because of all the whitespace.
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It doesn't even make sense. The sentence containing the quotation only ends when the quotation itself ends, not before. `print("abc)"`
It’s a tradition from the fixed-width font typewriter era IIRC. Quote mark followed by period looked bad because of all the whitespace.
British English puts commas and periods (full stops) outside the quotation marks unless the quotation is also a complete sentence or the punctuation is part of the quotation.
Source: https://www.unr.edu/writing-speaking-center/student-resource...
I find the claim that bezos sees “most of those emails” quite hard to believe. Must be thousands of them
You've heard of the "royal we"? This is the "executive I". Where the potentate uses the former to lend the weight of the many to their words, the executive uses the latter to take personal credit for the work of many and thereby justify the weightiness of their own salary.
haha fair enough. Haven't heard that phrasing before
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Corporations have a wonderful and easy way of measuring how much your time is worth. Your salary. If it costs less (salary * time) for you to decipher the cryptic email than it would cost (their salary * their time) for your bosses bosses ... boss to write a non-cryptic email then you deal with it. This isn't kindergarten and it's not about your feelings.
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They probably want the money and reputation that Amazon gives them. They have that to lose. What you're saying could be applied to anything people do for their own interest. Taken to the extreme - Afraid of starving? Should have just died instead, then you wouldn't need to depend on food.
That’s a pretty steep slippery-slope there.
People often make ridiculous arguments like the GP's without realizing that the same argument also leads to extreme conclusions, so it's probably not really an honest justification for their belief.