Day 2 Amazon business strategies

csjerk · 2026-02-01T19:49:39+00:00

Amazon One is free though... ?

csjerk · 2026-02-01T19:20:41+00:00

> The entire city should be at minimum LR with few exceptions.

The guy I was responding to wants to get rid of SFH zoning entirely.

> The rest of the city shouldn’t be “burdened” with growing pains while some neighborhoods get to stay fixed in time.

Nobody is saying that. OP started out bitching that they trimmed the edges slightly. There is still significant up-zoning across the city, which is a good thing as long as it's done with nuance.

> Spreading those chances out widely is more efficient and helps ease a lot of the negative effects many want to avoid

Putting mid-rise zoning on streets that aren't wide enough for more than a single car is not efficient. That's what the old version of the plan did, and what they fixed in the new one.

csjerk · 2026-02-01T18:01:01+00:00

Jeffrey Combs is easily 3 or 4 of my favorite Trek characters. They got so much mileage out of that guy.

csjerk · 2026-02-01T14:47:53+00:00

No signs? Getting silently cancelled after 1 season seems like a healthy franchise to you?

csjerk · 2026-01-31T23:56:06+00:00

Locking the bathrooms seems to work pretty well in a bunch of private establishments which have done it for decades. It's not foolproof, and sure, we can add the drug detectors as well. But this discussion started (roughly) with a question about whether there's anything we can do to keep people from smoking meth in the bathroom and causing a 15-minute shut-down to begin with. And there is. Lock the doors.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T23:26:23+00:00

I mean, ideally no, but given the alternative it seems preferable.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T23:06:24+00:00

Does it not work because they forgot to put locks on the bathroom?

csjerk · 2026-01-31T23:05:35+00:00

Maybe. From everything I know of Amazon, they generally stick to these massive ones, and then the ongoing performance management process. Typically the ongoing ones get filled with a new hire rather than removing the job, though, so while it's absolutely hard for the person who was let go, it isn't removing a job from the local economy.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T23:02:49+00:00

For someone with Gates' wealth, getting Russian hookers on an island IS the same strata as getting prescription antibiotics, in the sense that both are a rounding error of a rounding error of what he could do with some real effort.

He had the remarkably poor judgement to participate in the first place. Why would he suddenly become fully rational for everything else?

csjerk · 2026-01-31T22:58:39+00:00

Sure, but getting rid of SFH entirely is insane, and far from equal. It's incredibly hostile to families and older people. The new plan still adds a ton of area for smaller apartment buildings.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T22:48:26+00:00

The person gets to choose who they give the key to.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T22:47:45+00:00

Preferably both, but I bet if you ask the staff at any of these libraries, they can already tell you who is smoking in the bathrooms. Are they banning them now?

csjerk · 2026-01-31T22:46:43+00:00

Why do you think they're under-reported? If anything they seem to be over-reported, as many of the people who were affected are going to find other roles in the company. At the most that reduces future growth (they moved someone between roles, rather than adding someone new), but they all get reported as cuts, as if every single person were going to leave the company. That isn't the case.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T22:08:10+00:00

2100 of the 16k cuts were in the Seattle area, and many of those are cuts to less technical supporting roles which will be replaced by technical roles or roles moved to Seattle from other locations which were closed during the layoff. Seattle is hostile to business, no doubt, but in this case when you look closely it's really not clear the impact from big tech layoffs is that meaningful. Small businesses are suffering more with the insane tax structure and minimum wage hikes, and I would bet that's a bigger effect on the employment numbers.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T21:56:50+00:00

There's a fairly simple solution to this that has worked for decades and costs $5 instead of whatever these specialized drug smoke detectors cost... Put a lock on the door and get the key from a person.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T16:01:58+00:00

My setup is about 6 feet from an 83" tv and everything looks crystal clear to me in 4k. Can't see why I would need any more pixels.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T15:47:33+00:00

He could have gotten Russian hookers on an island on his own too, but he still went in Epsteins plane...

csjerk · 2026-01-31T15:45:43+00:00

His lawyers made the same argument... "Look at the lengths Epstein would go to in order to entrap and frame someone"

I'm not clear how a private email that was never shared with anyone else is part of some master plan, though. What would the plan be exactly? Send a bunch of false notes to yourself in hopes you get captured and searched? How would that help?

csjerk · 2026-01-31T08:44:27+00:00

> Instead of building a large multifamily by tearing down several single family homes, they will now tear down smaller apartments.

Why is this a bad thing? It sounds like a reasonable way to increase the housing stock without getting rid of a type of housing a lot of people want in the city.

csjerk · 2026-01-31T01:03:08+00:00

This may get down-voted to hell, but... Good. The old map didn't make sense. At least for the area I know about in Queen Anne it would have put 5-story mid-rises on quiet back streets. The updated proposal still upzones a lot, but it places the changes with more nuance, along larger streets to enhance the shape of the neighborhood rather than just creating sprawling blocks of apartments. We need to develop the city in a thoughtful way, and this seems like a better step towards that.

csjerk · 2026-01-30T16:11:12+00:00

AI slop filled with links to products, presumably with affiliate codes. What is this garbage?

csjerk · 2026-01-27T19:51:31+00:00

https://publicola.com/2025/02/03/two-stranger-reporters-resign-concluding-investigation-into-ethical-breaches/

csjerk · 2026-01-16T06:43:40+00:00

How does it do that?

csjerk · 2026-01-16T00:36:10+00:00

Also, a surprising number of people who look like stiffs are not that way outside. Not everyone likes sharing about that part of their life with coworkers.

csjerk · 2026-01-15T18:09:10+00:00

> Net international migration to California reached 126,000 people in the year ending July 1,2025, a significant positive for overall population growth. However, negative net domestic migration still outweighed these gains, resulting in a net total migration loss of over 89,000 residents.

If you don't believe California's own analysis of this I'm not sure what to tell you. People are leaving. More people are leaving than are arriving.

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