> My favorite part of AMT is always going to be figuring out that if we only paid in $0.07 intervals, their commission algorithm would round down to the nearest whole cent when their 20% commission resulted in a fractional cent on the unit transaction level, not the monthly invoice level.

can someone ELI5 because what in the office space

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ramses0 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Go watch Superman III for more details...

	▲	libria a day ago \| parent [-]
		Or Office Space

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owebmaster 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

20% of 0.07 was billed as 1 cent, not 1.4 nor rounded up to 2.

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rkozik1989 a day ago | parent | next [-]

Imagine your favorite feature of a product was spend 1 cent on a real human being time and effort rather than 2 cents.

	▲	aftbit a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's on the commission that Amazon took, not on the human.
	▲	x0xMaximus 12 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Amazon took 20% of all workers earnings for doing essentially nothing for years and years.. of course I take great joy in giving AWS as little money as possible.
	▲	ShinyLeftPad a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Or spend the same and let the human earn more?

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x0xMaximus 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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testbjjl 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It was cheaper and looser automated billing practices than current AI “solutions”?