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       n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 05:10:52 JST     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

   I'm getting tired of software developers berating normal people for buying everyday household items on Amazon, considering that 3/4 of its operating income comes from the cloud computing services it sells to software developers.

   (read it here when you feel all haughty, nerds: https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/01/10/amazon-e-commerce-company-74-profit-this-instead/ )

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         n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦 (n8@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 05:12:20 JST     n8   Doesn't follow you 🇺🇦

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     (...and I appended that particular link because it does a good job of explaining in plain terms that "operating income" is not some esoteric, meaningless statistic cherry-picked for the purpose of making this point. Selling & shipping socks has a margin of < 2%; selling CPU time and disk quotas, > 30%.)

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 05:12:20 JST Rich Felker

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     @n8 AWS margins are more like 95-99%/20x-100x markup.