Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months agoFrench regulator fines Amazon $35 million over its surveillance system of warehouse workerstechcrunch.comexternal-linkmessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1522arrow-down12
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minus-squareOmnificer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·edit-25 months agoThey reported 9.9 billion in profit for their third quarter last year, so I think 458 minutes of profit from that quarter. I assumed 90 days in the quarter, or 129,600 minutes. So dollar or minute wise, that comes out to a 00.35% penalty to that quarter. Edit: Which isn’t even close to the 36 minutes in that article, so I’d err on me being the wrong one. Edit 2: I think I see the difference, I was looking at their profit, not their revenue.
minus-squareSerinus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoYour calculations look right to me. That’s a little under eight hours of profit.
minus-squareAppoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoWe need percentage based fees… Make it a 10% of the quartely gross or something depending on the severity.
They reported 9.9 billion in profit for their third quarter last year, so I think 458 minutes of profit from that quarter.
I assumed 90 days in the quarter, or 129,600 minutes.
So dollar or minute wise, that comes out to a 00.35% penalty to that quarter.
Edit: Which isn’t even close to the 36 minutes in that article, so I’d err on me being the wrong one.
Edit 2: I think I see the difference, I was looking at their profit, not their revenue.
Your calculations look right to me. That’s a little under eight hours of profit.
We need percentage based fees…
Make it a 10% of the quartely gross or something depending on the severity.