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Comment by ctvo

6 years ago

A single comment from a throwaway account with no evidence but confirms my personal bias that Amazon is evil? I'm fully bought in before I catch myself.

The economic and reputation cost Amazon would take in ever accessing customer data to come up with some competing B-list product (say ElasticSearch as a managed service) is astronomical compared to potential profits. One thing I know about that company... they care about optimizing profit and are long term focused.

Please provide evidence for your extraordinary claim.

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wolco  6 years ago

Whenever anyone asks for evidence I start to wonder why they need the proof. Why did you need this link? Do you have a business relationship with Amazon?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/amazon...

  • namdnay  6 years ago

    That's talking about Amazon Retail, not AWS

    The customer data on Amazon Retail is Amazon's, not the seller's , just like the customer data when you buy shampoo from Walmart is Walmart's, not Procter&Gamble's

  • webdva  6 years ago

    > Whenever anyone asks for evidence I start to wonder why they need the proof. Why did you need this link? Do you have a business relationship with Amazon?

    I had made an oath to myself to not return to Hacker News and engage with the community after I was once temporally banned on Hacker News. But when I saw your stupid comment and recognized its disingenuous manipulation and misinformation, a pushing of an evil and harmful narrative ultimately made for whatever reason you might have, I returned to Hacker News to downvote your comment. Thanks for creating a vulnerability in the world for me to exploit the loophole in my self-imposed oath that allows me to return. I'm back.

    • krapp  6 years ago

      You last posted posted here just eleven days ago, so that clearly wasn't a very binding oath.

      But welcome back I guess.

  • Aperocky  6 years ago

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    • wolco  6 years ago

      I'd like to ask for evidence for statement 2. This sounds more like your opinion than a substantiated claim.

      1. Someone needs to pay the people who write stories. If proof is important you should not object to contributing to the people who work on your behalf.