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http://constantbetasoftware.com/
Ironically, Klarna, a Swedish-founded company, is pretty big in the BNPL market
according to https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-buy-now-pay-later-wave...
"In Sweden, home to BNPL provider Klarna, installments accounted for 23% of e-commerce transactions last year."
Zoox was acquired by Amazon last year.
https://twitter.com/UnderTheBreach/status/141888964970820813...
this tweet says it's BS (they validated the japan sample)
"I can think of a number of countries who would love to convince Amazon to modify Facebook Messenger to bypass end-to-end encryption, for example."
How exactly can this be done?
If it's an important meeting, it's expected that you've gone through previous reviews with other people who would've given you that feedback
If there are issues that have not been caught until that important meeting, you'll get feedback to come back with the concerns addressed
You are right that HM have little influence, you "hire for Amazon", not for any specific team.
And with the process changes in the US (and EU), candidates are now given the option of picking the team they want to join (which can be different from the interview-HM's team).
This needs to be upvoted a bit more. The article is clickbait, and most comments in this thread reflect how effective it is at it.
The hiring process for corp employees makes the practice the article is claiming very, very, very hard to do.
There's bar raiser, there are 2-3 additional interviewers, and the hiring manager. The initial voting process is blind. The HM would need to be very very good at convincing the BR+others in order to hire a candidate that they don't want (this is assuming no one wants the candidate).
Plus, there are a bunch of other incentives countering you to hire someone that you don't want - it costs money, it eats up your allocated headcount, and it's going to take a while for you to onboard the new hire, which is going to eat up your team's bandwidth.
Recommended listening: https://a16z.com/2019/10/21/free-software-and-open-source-bu...
I always found it curious that Whitney would associate herself with Badoo, but I guess that's business as usual.
Pre-Tinder, Badoo was a fast growing dating app that was shady af, full of dark patterns on the site/app - https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sexual-network [2011]
Then this came out a while ago, and I can't say I was surprised how the founder is portrayed https://www.forbes.com/sites/angelauyeung/2019/07/08/exclusi...
(and I would also not be surprised at all if I found out that Bumble's data was being sold to others - AFAIK no signs of that currently happening)
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008GRDKPG expands to https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Professionals-Soul-...
are you really claiming that "redir_mobile_desktop" or anything afterwards is an affiliate tag?
I don't think he said anything particularly insightful irt all those topics. A lot of the statements were superficial things that you'll pick up while working on adjacent areas (and as we know, it's pretty easy to jump around different teams/fields in Amazon) or from Amazonian friends.
Interesting things he didn't really talk much about: Alexa (there was 1 like 1 very superficial reference to it), Kuiper, and others.
I don't think this is a PR piece, and most likely it is not approved by the company (the reference about Jeff's Sex Life would've been removed). This does feel like a real view from an insider, it's very opinionated, and not all of it is right.
I can imagine that there are literally 100s of engineers involved in trying to fix this ASAP, since this is not only bringing down the systems of external customers, but also critical internal systems, plus the bad PR.
All on the eve of thanksgiving.
sunset?
As a Chinese, I care.
But, IMO, the thing that will actually move the needle more than anything else is if Amazon takes that 2B and actually goes out and builds out renewable sources and replaces their delivery vehicles with EVs.
Even better, they're doing that outside of the 2B fund.
Amazon is creating a futuristic fleet of 100,000 electric delivery vans https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-creating-fleet-of-ele...
AWS is committed to achieving 100% renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/
What's the best way to clear up your immigration record?
e.g. when you overstay less than 6 months, you get "blacklisted" - it becomes hard(er) for you to get a new travel visa, but more importantly, even if you do get it, every time you try to go to the US you get taken to the backroom
if your default address is in ireland, then you don't need to get to checkout to know that the product can't be delivered to you
I always see in the product page an info saying "THIS SELLER DOES NOT DELIVER TO IRELAND"
these talks are actually not new. the same rumor appeared back in 2016 https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/07/github-is-raising-a-second...
imho, github feels a bit too slow innovating, which is kinda surprising since they are still "a startup"
Will this be Google+ v2?
Can I recommend a tv series? Travelers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5651844
a truly amazing show. it became one of my all time favorites
a lot of the altcoins are premined, so you don't really need to be mining
there's a lot of money being made in ICO's
you only paid 1640 in taxes out of an 8650 income?! that's crazy!
even if we include the health insurance, it's still only 2k in taxes out of an 8650 income (less than 25%)
a lot of countries in europe will tax you 40% for that income...
from the article:
Since Trezor has finally provided the hot-fix for this particular hack we can also fully disclose how it works.
But they claim there are other similar hacks
Japanese exchange run by Frenchy gets hacked by Russian, fences BTC through a Bulgarian exchange and is arrested in Greece for USA warrant
For example, do the rear seats fold down? Is there rear air vents? Spare tire? HD Radio? Do the mirrors fold in? Any other vehicle, even on release day, these are trivial questions that are answered. But we cannot answer much about the Model 3, except its range and 0-60.
Here are some answers: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-29/tesla-s-m...
The ventilation system is a marvel, stretching in one long strip that spans the front seat.
The touch screen allows both the driver and the passenger to instantly direct a wide flow of air wherever they want it.
The scrolling dials on the steering wheel move in all four directions and allow you to adjust everything from the side windows to the music playlist.
Plug: why Amazon has a load of terrible products http://constantbetasoftware.com/2015/12/11/bezos-amazon-cult...