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		xnyan on July 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon met with startups about investing, then lau... They are not as competent at sherlocking as Amazon.

jessaustin on July 23, 2020 [–]

What a wonderful verb; thanks for relieving my ignorance. ISTM Amazon misses out on some aspects of the idiomatic definition, since they failed to popularize their own brand of client machines with an OS they control.

I think the original Netscape folks would disagree with your assessment of M$ sherlocking competence.

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