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		jeffbee on Oct 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction > Kind of crazy that Dropbox has 2600 employees No, the HN consensus is they are massive geniuses for moving out of AWS. Nobody here ever accounts for the extra datacenter, hardware platform, hardware ops, infrastructure ops, etc.

seunosewa on Oct 30, 2024 [–]

I'm sure that they did their research before making the big move.

echoangle on Oct 30, 2024 | [–]

What kind of argument is that? Everyone does their research, that doesn’t mean there aren’t bad (and even stupid) choices made.

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