“My general take on this whole process was that it was madness,” said Nathan Jensen, a professor at the University of Texas-Austin and co-author of the book Incentives to Pander. “The Amazon public call and then giving cities two months to (respond) was crazy.?Cities can barely put together presentations in that time-frame, much less make meaningful changes.”
“That may be convincing to people in West Virginia and western Pennsylvania, but it's very difficult to make that case the closer you are to the border,” he said. “We know that in El Paso you can walk around at 3 in the morning, even in the darkest alleys, and you’re fairly safe.”
“It does reflect the future of the workplace,” Kantor said of Amazon’s culture. “More efficiency, more data. … The question is, how far is too far? Are there limits on how hard employees can work?”
“That’s an idiotic statement on its face. That is idiocy from a guy who should know a hell of a lot better,” de Blasio says in the episode. “The deal was done. Amazon knew it was done. There was noise; there was posturing by people in the political world. But the deal was done. So all we’re talking about here is the background noise.”
“Our decision to launch all episodes at once created enormous media and social buzz, reinforcing our brand attribute of giving consumers complete control over how and when they enjoy their entertainment,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells wrote?their quarterly letter to shareholders. “Some investors worried that the House of Cardsfans would take advantage of our free trial, watch the show, and then cancel. However, there was very little free-trial gaming — less than 8,000 people did this — out of millions of free trials in the quarter.”
“It is too early to determine the impact that this combination will have on the overall food services sector, but companies that fall within food logistics will be the most negatively impacted in the near-term due to the operational and fulfillment scale of an Amazon and Whole Foods combination,” the Goodwater report says.
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“Ten years ago, we made the decision to build our own customer contact center technology from scratch because legacy solutions did not provide the scale, cost structure, and features we needed to deliver excellent customer service for our customers around the world,” said Tom Weiland, Amazon’s vice president of worldwide customer service, in a news release. “This choice has been a differentiator for us, as it is used today by our agents around the world in the millions of interactions they have with our customers.We’re excited to offer this technology to customers as an AWS service – with all of the simplicity, flexibility, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of the cloud.”
“Our Lancaster facility has the capacity to produce 1,500 buses and we have partnered with Generate Capital to make a leasing program available to accelerate this transition,” said Stella Li, president of BYD Motors, in a statement.
“Once we get a bunch of space tugs … this whole idea is doable,” Volkert said.?The transport system could work like a “space Uber” to carry the hardware from Earth orbit to parking spaces in lunar orbit. “They can float in lunar orbit as long as we need them,” he said.
“Most students enter the program with no prior knowledge of music or piano. There have been many students who began the program speaking no English, but in the Keys of Inspiration classroom, everyone speaks one language — music,” he added.