FYI, international students have to pay often significantly more as turion fee alone.

Smart local students go to in state public schools to avoid crippling debt.

So no one is going to talk about how the Model is a mathematical model which follows Bayes Theorem in it's core. It updates it's priors based on new evidence presented every day.

The whole point of the Model is to detect things which are uncertain by nature. Being wrong is not bad, it's good TBH.

CMIIW.

CS requires a lot of practice. Both in terms of theory and practical aspect.

Without it is difficult to make connection between theory and actual stuff you can run on computers.

And the subject is vast, making it difficult.

I call BS, that's not even possible. Even the legendary "tourist" cannot do it, in his own words. He programs like 2-4 hours on good days.

Did some Program Manager needed a promotion at Google? Looks like it.

I personally dislike such changes, which no one asks for. Either people are just pushing their BS through Google higher ranks or they have no clue how their users actually feel and use their core product.

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Hey man, why you have to burn someone so hard that they curl up in their bed crying tears of agony like a little pussy?

Slow clap

I can speak 3 languages and can understand close to 3 more.

And I think I am the dumbest person at work, damn why is my Brain so slow? :(

Because ignorance is bliss. The more you know the more you know you don't know.

Which 3?

The amount of wastage I see in online store returns is mind boggling.

I recently ordered something from a manufacturer on Amazon. After couple of days, they dropped price on product by $20. So I called up Amazon for price adjustment. I was politely asked to return it to manufacturer and order a new one.

Seriously, Amazon cannot work with manufacturers to just refund price difference instead of returning the product and ordering it again. It is wasteful at so many levels.

Price adjustments are actually a fascinating area.

Because on the one hand, anyone can get a "de facto" price adjustment by buying a new one, keeping the old one, and returning the new one as the old one.

Now if consumers all actually did this and shipping were offered free for consumers, you'd see every company offering price adjustments within the return window, just so they could save on the shipping and handling they'd otherwise be paying for.

But in reality, a lot of consumers won't go through the hassle because it's not worth it in the end, or just too annoying. In that case, a company can save a lot more money by not offering price adjustments -- clearly Amazon's strategy here.

The most profitable strategy for any particular company on any particular product category can be either of these or somewhere in the middle. Which is why, even for companies that offer price adjustments, they're often predicated on a shorter time window (1 week instead of 60 days), only being on merchandise that was originally full-price (so you can go from 0% discount to 40%, but not 20% to 40%), or other exclusions which result in the most profitable overall balance.

It's kind of fun stuff to get into, actually.

You realize Lululemon makes yoga pants and has a valuation of $30B right?

And Nike makes shoes and has a valuation of $150B?

You don’t need to be a “tech” company to build something worth billions.

Lululemon, Nike, and Away all sell aspiration, hope, and a lifestyle, which get them to valuations higher than shoe, yoga pants, and luggage companies do. There are of course variations on design and differentiation in technology in each of those, but the value is in the brand.

To be fair, a lot of people wear shoes and yoga pants. Probably more people than have a smartphone for the former at least.

A lot of people travel and need luggage as well. I’m not suggesting Away would ever be worth anything close to Nike but is it realistic to think it could be worth several billion? Sure.

The stocks app tells me that Samsonite is worth $3bn+. So yeah, why not?

You do realize people do not run through their luggage like yoga pants or sneakers.

Most people use the same luggage for years, I use mine for atleast 10 years. Where is the logic in your reply?

Not sure why are you correlating unrelated reasoning with MS deal with US Military.

You seem to suggest that MS is poor at Cloud game, which is not exactly true. They are cost effective compared to AWS and catching up.

Maybe military wanted to save money. May be this is all about a better deal after all.

Trump wanted to personally screw over Amazon in this. He even tweeted about it. I’m not sure what’s left there to speculate but okay.

The cost effective argument doesn’t mean much - there’s something here that makes AWS competitive, including cost, or everyone would just use their competitors.

Disclaimer: I have about equal investments (greater than 1MM) in both companies, so I’m personally not biased for one vs the other.

I’ve been reading Jeff’s letters to the shareholders since the early 2000s. He basically says - we don’t care about optimizing for today. We’re in it for the marathon. Agree with him or not, but I doubt Amazon tried to give expensive pricing to the US government. I would wager they might even offer services at a loss - the profit would come from the long term lock in, not to mention all the government contractors who’d have to follow and use AWS.