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> Why would a government build an expensive, high tech piece of equipment, then not ensure it could fit the operator?Why would they send a $250M probe to Mars, and not ensure a consistent set of units...
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This reminds me of a Planet Money podcast where they try to figure out the characteristics of the most typical American, or as they put it "who is the person I'm most likely to run into?"To ...
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Human Dimension and Interior Space [0] is an interesting book if you're into this sort of thing. I mean, it's actually mostly not. It contains a vast number of tables covering percentiles for various ...
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Per Amazon's policy - no, the seller can not have lower prices on their own website than on Amazon. In practice, for now, it is not enforced (at least in my experience).https://sellercentral.amazon.co...
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Well, because marketplaces like Amazon have a strategy for that: learn from sellers, imitate their products, offer your imitated product prominently on your "neutral" marketplace and crush t...
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
The rules the FBI/DoJ applies to kids on irc are not the same rules the FBI/DoJ applies to multibilliondollar infrastructure companies and/or trusted military defense contractors (Amazon is both).Equa...
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Lets see..Boeing:See 737 MAX, other 737 boondoggle like the vertical stabilizer reversal back in 94'ish.Monsanto, hell, what chemical hasn't hid information they damn well shouldn't:Dicamba, roundup.....
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show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
> If amazon copied all your proprietary data, you would almost certainly never notice, no criminal law would apply, and you'd have a hell of a time proving it in a civil suit.For a thought exercise, l...
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> To do any useful computation on your data (read, what you're using all AWS for) they have to have 100% visibility into your data.This is true, but it doesn't have to be this way [1].[1] https://en.w...
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This comment is based on a misreading of the very testimony you're referencing. As quoted in this CNBC article.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/amazon-tells-house-it-doesnt..."Nate Sutton, associa...
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"Nate Sutton, associate general counsel at Amazon, told lawmakers the company doesn't tap data from individual third-party merchants to determine what new products to create."https://www.cnb...
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show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
> It is not illegal to have a monopoly; but it is illegal to use a monopoly you have in one area to get an unfair advantage in another.This is a very common misconception in the United States. It's ho...
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You forget the other big competitors.Sun pushed OpenOffice to cut MS's profits from OfficeGoogle and MS are pushing into the Cloud to reduce Amazon's influenceAmazon is creating its own ad network and...
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Elizabeth Warren's plan does just this by designating such companies as "platform utilities": https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big...I agree a diverse marketplace is a healthy ...
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Maybe. One distinction I want to argue is placement: Amazon always places the Amazon Choice options at the top of the search and product listings. They also always include them in the "Popular, E...
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You might wish that this was the case, but in the US, the anti-trust law doesn't work this way.The law doesn't prohibit monopoly by itself. Monopolization is only prohibited if it restrains trade, or ...
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Quick link to AmazonBasicshttps://www.amazon.com/s?rh=p_89%3AAmazonBasicsI am happy to buy these products over generics because of the higher quality. Batteries, paper shredders, water filters, electr...
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show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
Sometimes I wonder if Shopify's long-term plan is to do something like this.It's probably the leading direct-to-consumer platform out there right now, it's touted sometimes as the anti-Amazon. The lea...
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> because buyers can see those items side by side when shoppingI can't speak for Costco, but that's not really true in a conventional supermarket though.It's pretty well known that food manufacturers ...
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I think that the relevant laws are those related to the phone/cable companies being public utilities (and thus explicit, by-design, state-permitted monopolies or duopolies). They aren't allowed to wir...
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show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
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