> not simply being stupid and indulging in bizarre decisions (eg. inventing one’s own hash function & eschewing binary for ternary)
For those not familiar with crypto trivia, this is a less than subtle dig at IOTA, which is mildly notorious for doing both and still has a market cap of over $2 billion as I type this.
> "Do they still make you guys use doors for tables there? Hah wow really?"
And this is a notorious example of Amazon "frugality".
Props to Gwern for the sourcing. I felt embarrassingly indulgent reading it in a morning over coffee, given the amount of work that obviously went into it.
I think it was more a jab at how tired the widely-known folksy memes about Early Amazon are and how completely nonsensical they are when used in the context of the modern descendant which basically owns the whole of the Internet, physically speaking.
For those not familiar with crypto trivia, this is a less than subtle dig at IOTA, which is mildly notorious for doing both and still has a market cap of over $2 billion as I type this.
> "Do they still make you guys use doors for tables there? Hah wow really?"
And this is a notorious example of Amazon "frugality".