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undefined1on Show your costs to boost sales

great find. it might've been worth increasing the price though, to see if customers still bought them or not in practice. with a note on the table or menu explaining why the price increased.

undefined1on Amazon Q1 2021 Quarterly Results [pdf]

Q1 revenue

2021: $108.5 billion

2020: $75.5 billion

2019: $59.7 billion

2018: $51.0 billion

2017: $35.7 billion

2016: $29.1 billion

2015: $22.7 billion

2014: $19.7 billion

2013: $16.1 billion

2012: $13.2 billion

2011: $9.9 billion

2010: $7.1 billion

2009: $4.9 billion

2008: $4.1 billion

2007: $3.0 billion

2006: $2.3 billion

2005: $1.9 billion

2004: $1.5 billion

2003: $1.1 billion

2002: $847 million

2001: $700 million

2000: $574 million

1999: $294 million

1998: $87 million

1997: $16 million

undefined1on Americans overwhelmingly say marijuana should be legal

majority support, and democrats have control of the three branches of government. what's the hold up in getting it legalized?

undefined1on Trying to open an S.F. ice cream shop, was no match for city bureaucracy

building in SF is all but illegal. related; "San Francisco Man Has Spent 4 Years and $1 Million Trying to Get Approval to Turn His Own Laundromat Into an Apartment Building"

https://reason.com/2018/02/21/san-francisco-man-has-spent-4-...

undefined1on Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf]

that's a huge problem and terribly short sighted. it assumes a continued hold on power.

undefined1on Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market

up to you. you can look at the real world prices yourself, or ignore that in favor of the entity that has incentive to downplay inflation.

undefined1on Making sense of what’s going on in the housing market

for those downvoting you:

Home Values +8%

Money Supply +24%

Stock Market +23%

Oil +80%

Corn +69%

Steel +145%

Wheat +25%

Coffee +34%

Cotton +35%

Copper +50%

Lumber +126%

Soybeans +71%

this is over the past year.

undefined1on Where’s the evidence that grit predicts success?

> if your father doesn't have a precious gem mine in Africa

“This is a pretty awful lie,” Elon tweeted. “I left South Africa by myself when I was 17 with just a backpack & suitcase of books. Worked on my Mom’s cousin’s farm in Saskatchewan & a lumber mill in Vancouver. Went to Queens Univ with scholarship & debt, then same to UPenn/Wharton & Stanford.”

In a follow-up tweet, Elon said his father “didn’t own an emerald mine & I worked my way through college, ending up ~$100k in student debt.”

His mother Maye responded on Twitter in December 2019 in defense of Elon.

“To add to the truth, we went to Boston Chicken in Philadelphia for Thanksgiving because we couldn’t afford a turkey. And we spent three weeks making our rent-controlled apartment livable in Toronto,” Maye tweeted.

https://moguldom.com/278102/fact-check-did-elon-musk-inherit...

undefined1on U.S. House committee approves blueprint for Big Tech crackdown

wow, you're not kidding. what are the chances they are going to bite their main investments and key donor class?

"About 98% of political contributions from internet companies this cycle went to Democrats"

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/02/tech-billionaire-2020-electi...

https://observer.com/2020/11/big-tech-2020-presidential-elec...

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/30/21540616/silicon-valle...

undefined1on Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?

best possible response. I hope you get voted to the top.

undefined1on Penny Stocks Are Booming, Which Is Good News for Swindlers

it's more the ruling class, that includes both left and right.

undefined1on Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

that would be helpful. is there a stat that does that? removing empty CA desert and empty FL swamp?

undefined1on Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

maybe, but in terms of density overall;

CA: 253.9 residents per square mile

FL: 397.2 residents per square mile

undefined1on Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

Florida vs California is telling. FL mostly stayed open and didn't do much worse than CA, despite Florida's much older population.

undefined1on Show HN: Simplenetes – I replaced Kubernetes with 17k lines of shell script

the 30 million line problem;

https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0031

undefined1on New study detects lottery-like behavior in cryptocurrency markets

how does it compare to the gambling of stocks on Robinhood?

undefined1on Ontario to enter four-week, province-wide Covid-19 shutdown on Saturday

> No indoor and outdoor dining.

why no outdoor dining?

undefined1on Benzene detected in hand sanitizers

also curious if we'll see whether immune systems have been weakened or not by over sanitization.

undefined1on Apple doesn't care about album cover art

what are they changing to?

undefined1on Social media addiction linked to cyberbullying

yes, but it's not their primary mode of aggression and they're not as good at it.

undefined1on Apple's Cooperation with Authoritarian Governments

woke developers are acting as moral crusaders just like Apple is. renaming "master branch" to "main branch" doesn't solve anything. posting the latest Twitter slacktivism hashtag doesn't solve anything. it's just for show, to appear virtuous while still collecting big tech paychecks.

undefined1on Social media addiction linked to cyberbullying

> The study also found that adolescent males are more likely to engage in cyberbullying than females, aligning with past studies that show aggressive behaviors tend to be more male driven.

for a certain definition of aggression. but social media bullying is a Mean Girls phenomenon. it's reputation and character assassination, which is aggressive behavior. male aggression tends to be physical and they spend more time playing video games, while females spend more time on social media. as a result, girls are seeing higher rates of depression compared to boys.

here's the research on this topic that Jonathan Haidt and other academics are maintaining;

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w-HOfseF2wF9YIpXwUUtP65-...

undefined1on 'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter

gamers are simultaneously angry with that Activision example AND the invasion of political activists into the hobby.

undefined1on Amazon union vote count begins this week for Alabama warehouse

tradeoffs. maybe that's part of the reason why Europe doesn't spawn companies like Amazon in the first place? and why Silicon Valley exists in the US.

undefined1on Amazon union vote count begins this week for Alabama warehouse

that stat is missing the context that Americans are terrible at saving and tend to live beyond their means, overconsuming.

also, you are trying to solve a 21st century problem with a 19th century tool. that's not going to work.

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I believe the title's intentionally hyperbolic to reflect the hyperbole that was generated by the media.

undefined1on Ray Dalio: ‘Good probability’ the U.S. will outlaw Bitcoin

there is over $1 trillion held in Bitcoin, which represents a lot of people and companies. how exactly do you unwind that without generating a massive backlash and other secondary effects? would the government buy out everyone's position or what?

undefined1on Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time

I agree, but beware that many people end up filling a religion shaped hole with other things. look at how many of our fellow atheists have joined the church of social justice. adhering to a new kind of religion and dogma. things you can't say, heretics who must be cast out, good vs evil, original sin, preachers, zealots, self flagellation. it's all there, except for a path to redemption.

https://reason.com/2020/06/29/kneeling-in-the-church-of-soci...