What makes you think it wouldn't be programmed to fight back? Or, over time, learn by itself to fight back?

And how is this related to Amazon per se? People can run whatever they want on their AWS services.

You have a rather unfounded way of stigmatizing successful products as addictions. Do you think people are addicted to using Google web search or maps? Do you think startup companies are addicted to using AWS or Azure? Do you think consumers are addicted to shopping online at Amazon?

Why do you hate companies' success? Instead of complaining about them, why not take advantage of these successes by using their platforms to make money or buying their stocks?

The tech companies did not "win", nor did they "exploit", the 2020 pandemic. The pandemic accelerated a pre-existing macroeconomic trend where people work, buy, and communicate online, and these tech companies provided the goods and services to do so. All these companies, particularly Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft, have been investing and developing digitalization products for the last decade. A company would be "exploiting" the pandemic if they released new crucial products at exorbitant prices, e.g. "Try our new Pandemic-safe iPhone for only $4000."

Bro, the consumer has that power by not buying the products and services of these companies. No one is holding a gun to consumers' head and forcing them to buy from these tech companies.

Reading comprehension.

Amazon hasn't put any other company out of business. It's the consumers who have done that.

No, I'm not. Note that I'm only asserting that "a strong case can be made that Bezos is the greatest human ever," not that he actually is.

Bezos, like other business people, found a new way to do things, and consumers have voted with their wallets. Bezos has never forced anyone to buy goods from Amazon. Consumers have been and always will be free to buy goods from other retailers.

I've never seen Bezos or Amazon leadership say that. Bezos takes the same responsibility for products on Amazon in the same manner that the CEOs of WalMart, Best Buy, and Target do.

In other words, people have jobs at Amazon. Have you ever worked a day in your life at a company? If the employees don't like the work conditions at Amazon, they are free to go to another job. I don't see any aspect of slavery involved.

The ultra rich do care for their shareholders; I am such a shareholder. I have no dispute with Amazon. I've bought a lot of products using Amazon Prime since 1998, and they've provided Cloud infrastructure that have helped me as a software engineer. I certainly have no problems with all the AMZN stock I've bought over the years, except maybe that they should pay a dividend.

Amazon hasn't put any other company out of business. It's the consumers who have done that. Amazon isn't holding a gun to consumers and saying "buy from Amazon or else." No, consumers have been free to buy from where they want during the 20+ years that Amazon online shopping has existed. Other stores had could sold goods online before Amazon came into existence, and they could done so after Amazon came into existence. Consumers have spoken with their wallets, and Amazon has been winning. It's really that simple.

If anything, Amazon has increased consumer choice. Amazon as a commerce platform provides digital storefronts and inventory management to 1M+ third-party sellers.

A strong case can be made for Jeff Bezos being the greatest human ever. He reinvented the retail industry and the online cloud services industry. His company employees 100K+ people. He teaches people through his interviews and shareholder newsletters. He donates a lot of money to charity. Certainly AMZN stock has made a lot of money for shareholders, and I count myself among them. Bezos is like a modern day Alexander the Great. It's amazing what a CS degree, incredible focus, and being in the right place at the right time can do.

They're "open" because they publish all their work. Here's the publication for GPT-3. Everything you need to implement your own GPT-3 model is in there. The implementation and model weights for GPT-2 are available through HuggingFace Transformers.

How old are you? If you're under 40 then of course you haven't seen age discrimination. You asked: "where in the process do they not get offers"? I'll tell you where: after all the technical rounds are done, where you've aced every single question, the recruiter will come back to say : "Sorry, the team felt like it wouldn't be a good fit."

I agree with you that older people will lose out against younger candidates. The obvious solution is to not apply for jobs where you are in direct competition against hundreds of younger folks. At some point, you'll need to become a principal software engineer, an architect, or a manager (or higher). Those are potential roles in the software field. Other fields have analogous ladders.

That's not a terrible price. I was expecting something in the millions. I'm interested in doing this, and I'm sure a lot of others are thinking the same. It's a good thing for these companies that there are over 15 million millionaires in the US.

There are two ways to respond to articles like this. Hate this guy for having so much money than you currently do. Or learn from him and take control of your own money.

If any of you think that Microsoft is doing great due to just Azure and Windows licensing, then you've been asleep for the last ten years. Here are Microsoft's business lines:

1. Azure - 25.9% of revenue
2. Office software and services - 25.2%
3. Windows - 16.2%
4. Xbox - 9.1%
5. Online ads 6.1%
6. LinkedIn - 5.4%
7. Hardware (Surface) - 4.8%
8. Plus other stuff

This webpage shows the breakdown of revenue lines from all the major tech companies.

Note that LinkedIn generates only 5.4% of Microsoft's revenue. But that's 5.4% of $41.7B = $2.2B in revenue from the last quarter.

Microsoft hasn't been a monopoly threat in over 20 years. In the meantime, Google has turned into a true monopoly under your nose. Your understanding of technology is so out-of-date and embarrassing that I'll bet you have home electronics running on vacuum tubes.

Well, can it?