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--- Quote from: coppercone2 on January 10, 2021, 04:15:31 am ---you know in terms of subsidies I wanna know why the hell Amazon even has a R&D budget, its a fucking ware house. Its like saying "i need goverment money to figure out my business logistics problems' under the guise of 'science'. --- End quote --- Amazon is not "only a warehouse". Its also AWS which actually brings more income than their retail part. Not to say there is much more than being a warehouse in regards to selling goods. |
| coppercone2:
so its a help desk under the guise of r&d r&d brings to mind you know, stuff that can be taught in science class. Cloud storage is about as R&d as the bus station locker you can rent. |
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--- Quote from: coppercone2 on January 10, 2021, 04:19:41 am ---so its a help desk under the guise of r&d r&d brings to mind you know, stuff that can be taught in science class. Cloud storage is about as R&d as the bus station locker you can rent. --- End quote --- AWS does not appear and develop in vacuum :palm:. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services Do you really think that cloud provider with largest market share can exist without R&D? --- Quote ---As of 2020, AWS comprises more than 175 products and services including computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools, and tools for the Internet of Things. The most popular include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Connect, and AWS Lambda (a serverless function enabling serverless ETL e.g. between instances of EC2 & S3) --- End quote --- Not to say retail business does not exist in vacuum as well. What about Echo/Alexa, Kindle and other stuff? |
| coppercone2:
like maid service. not sure if secretary rentals (often not so synthetic as you think for advanced tasks! ask it something complicated that makes it useful and likely it will be a help desk employee deciphering it) qualify you for R&D. I think of new medications, increased process efficiencies, etc as R&D. Clearly the goverment does not but there might be a reason why Biden is so surprised that a fucking giant mail order business manages to get money from the goverment during the troubles of last year. It's like getting a microphone connected to a secretary that just listens and does nothing physical. You could do the same thing in 1920 if you wanted to. 'miss just listen to this voice box and tell the gentleman on the other end of the line the time when he is too lazy to look at the clock and jot down some appointments for him and give it to the next shift'. (probobly happened half the time anyway when you get some broken russian accent yelling into the alexa box, as far as the news reports show). |
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--- Quote from: coppercone2 on January 10, 2021, 04:43:02 am ---like maid service. not sure if secretary rentals (often not so synthetic as you think for advanced tasks! ask it something complicated that makes it useful and likely it will be a help desk employee deciphering it). --- End quote --- Dude, you are so ridiculous it's not even funny. Amazon R&D budget is largest in the world. They spend way more than Google or Microsoft and develop hell a lot of things. https://www.forbes.com/sites/walterloeb/2018/11/01/amazon-is-biggest-investor-for-the-future/?sh=159f7ef21f1d |
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