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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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Look, I know most of you don’t like me, or would never do what I suggest. But as my father said to me fifty years ago, why get up every morning and go to work making someone else money. If you can do it for yourself, do it.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
First decade was books
second was general retail
third was aws/prime

Im not sure anyone has a ****in clue about the next decade. I think they thought Alexa and other Amazon peripherals were next. I'm confident the layoffs are pretty heavy in the Alexa department. Just a bloodbath. I wouldn't be surprised to see Alexa go the way of Cortana.
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AWS carried Amazon since 2005-ish. It’s the reason the company had any ability to become what they have to this day - for better or worse.
 
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I forget it's that old. It's when they migrated from sun servers right?
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I don’t know their old server setup. I was reading about AWS being offered to the market as “cloud computing” to companies that have no idea and don’t care what the actual meaning of cloud computing is. The writer of the article was OUTRAGED. I wanted to suggest that Francis should settle down.
 
AWS is why Amazon will never go anywhere. If every other part of Amazon shut down tomorrow AWS would still make Bezos bank. It is usually a major discussion point in business/economics courses these days.
 
Yeah there really only a few companies that offer what AWS offers at true enterprise scale, so as long as they stay current they'll be incredibly profitable.
 
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Yeah there really only a few companies that offer what AWS offers at true enterprise scale, so as long as they stay current they'll be incredibly profitable.
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AWS is ubiquitous in my part of the federal government. That is a big market.
 
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Right, and Azure is one of the other very few big players. Scale is hard and only a few do it at all, let alone well.



*not disagreeing with you or anything, just adding
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I’m just making an observation. We still have a bunch of engineers certified on aws but our newest platform is all azure.

I could not begin to explain why.
 
Just my latest NYT pitchbot-style musings:


The Aspen airport bar in deep blue Pitkin County may seem like an unlikely place to meet Trump supporters. But over the sound of well-heeled travelers ordering vodka/sodas to curb their post-holiday calorie intake, you can hear whispers that Biden is the reason why a drink is $18.50 without tip.


There is no constitutional prohibition against a governor turning down jobs created by woke corporations who work with our enemies

by Jonathan Turley


Nerd Boy Rick

Former Michigan Gov. Snyder criticized Virginia Gov. Youngkin's accusations of CCP collusion against Ford, but Snyder has his own skeletons from the Flint water scandal. Could the Virginia governor's anti-China gambit earn him the Republican nomination in 2024?

by Maureen Dowd
 
The commoditization of music his absolutely abhorrent.

Good for these guys that sell, I suppose, but having PE firms "own" music as just another holding in their portfolio makes me ill.
 
Speaking of music. Boston's music scene - a rich and vibrant community - is taking two huge hits this year. We've been losing rehearsal and art spaces for years, but two big players are closing in 2023, leaving over a thousand musicians without a place to practice.

One of them, The Sound Museum, has been open for decades and has been a fixture as long as I've been a part of any music scene. Closing imminently, as that area of Allston/Brighton is "cleaning up" and building office parks and condo buildings. Not affordable ones either, naturally.

The other one in Charlestown changed owners last year and the new owners apparently never intended the building to continue as a rehearsal space and are throwing us all out by summer... in favor of storage units.


Boston: We love music! We love art! We support you!
Also Boston: Wait, you want a place to practice? GFY you moochers.
 
While other companies are laying off tens of thousands of workers, Apple CEO Tim Cook requested a 40% reduction in his salary. Enough to pay over 1000 $50K/year jobs.
 
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