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Re:Square to acquire Afterpay for $29B on Sunday August 01, 2021 @09:09PM (#28031879)
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)

Re:Windows 11, Amazon, and Uncomfortable Questions on Sunday June 27, 2021 @06:18PM (#27656006)
> "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?

Re:The Document Culture of Amazon on Friday June 18, 2021 @08:20AM (#27549560)
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.

Re:Bumble S-1 on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:30PM (#25795165)
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)

Re:Facebook senior software engineer interview on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @03:19PM (#25661814)
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?

Re:Interview with an anonymous AWS cybersecurity engineer on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:42PM (#25513505)
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.

Re:Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021 on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @03:20PM (#25062527)
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

Re:Sweden offers glimpse of a world without Amazon on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:34PM (#17983903)
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"

Re:Microsoft and GitHub have held acquisition talks on Friday June 01, 2018 @04:02PM (#17209561)
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?
Re:Ask HN: Great science fiction movies? on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @07:28PM (#16120424)
Can I recommend a tv series? Travelers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5651844
Re:How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great on Friday October 20, 2017 @05:57PM (#15519391)
a truly amazing show. it became one of my all time favorites
Re:Young People Need Another Gold Rush on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @10:55AM (#15132608)
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

Re:Ask HN: How much do developers earn in Europe? on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:32AM (#15089524)
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

https://twitter.com/cactuspits/status/890358676300718081

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