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		pragmatic on Sept 20, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will Amazon Become the Wal-Mart of the Web? Wal-Mart++? I've ordered lawn mower parts, (kid's) toys, a laptop, a Kindle, hard drives, etc, etc from Amazon this year. My local hardware store didn't have the lawnmower parts I needed but Amazon did.

rhartsock on Sept 20, 2009 | [–]

I ordered a Wii from Amazon, got a better deal and extra crap with it...Amazon is the only place I shop online.

jeffbarr on Sept 20, 2009 | [–]

Yes, but did you launch 100 Linux servers, store a couple of hundred GB of data, or run a MapReduce job?

You will...

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