GarrisonPrime

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by GarrisonPrime 6y ago
Apparently instructions are for the common plebes. :-P
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by GarrisonPrime 6y ago
My business bank (Wells Fargo) didn't even begin taking applications until the day before the money ran out. My personal bank (Bank of America) flat-out refused to talk to me, since I'd never had a business credit or loan through
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by GarrisonPrime 6y ago
Wow, so expensive either way. European card processing is around 1.7% from what I’ve seen. American banks are atrocious. Is the Federal Reserve rate responsible for this. American banks also take forever to transfer payments, which drives m
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by GarrisonPrime 6y ago
I suspect they don’t talk about it or consider appeals at all, because they feel they have no need to bother with any sort of customer service. They are king of the hill, and always have millions of more users eager to sign up. There seems
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by GarrisonPrime 6y ago
>...we should be re-purposing those dollars for societal benefit. _There_ is the moral failing. To see such a dangerous, totalitarian ideology expressed so casually is terrifying.
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by GarrisonPrime 6y ago
Argentina and Germany are hardly in rosy positions at the moment. “I like free money” is hardly a good argument to support statements like “it just makes sense”.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
A pandemic is virtually guaranteed to happen every so often. And if a nuclear war broke out, that'd hardly be unexpected or random. "Black Swan" does not mearly mean "unique and significant". The unpredictability of
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
I wonder if they're giving an artificially long date in an attempt to discourage certain orders so as to relieve the current crush.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
Until the global economy unnecessarily collapses.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
I'll assume you know better than I, but while browsing the past few weeks of that account's comments I didn't see any "nationalistic flamewar" talk. Just a few mentions of Chinese authoritarianism and the stiffing o
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
>How about a GRANT instead of a loan? You mean free money, just because? How could you even begin to figure out who deserves it? That'd be a lot of offices and bureaucracy to set up to solve the question. Unless you just want to giv
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
Actually, yes, once this is over it's reasonable to assume restaurant patronage will see a huge surge beyond prior levels, at least for a time.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
>take the people with excess wealth - providing no utility right now Most "excess wealth" is tied up in business and other investments. It's not like wealthy people just horde cash like Scrooge McDuck. That wealth is curre
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
Don't take this the wrong way please, as I'm sorry this has happened to you...but Yelp being in trouble pleases me greatly.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
If your area has been declared to be in a state of emergency, you might qualify for a small business loan set up just for the purpose of helping businesses such as yours survive this: https://disasterloan.sba.gov/ela/
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
Being devil's advocate a bit here, but efficiency helps prevent boom and bust cycles, or at least reduces their magnitude. Supporting "worthy virtues" is all well and good, except that it's subjective and not always well
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
> I suspected Amazon would do well... Until people camping at home start getting sick, with their common factor being Amazon Fresh delivery.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
Or at least, some people would like to believe that. I suspect an astonishing large number of them will discover differently, should those ideals be put to the test. Just a hunch.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
I suggest a good way to “give advice” is Socratic. Listen. Have them describe their views. Ask clarifying questions. Even if you have the best advice in the world, it’ll be useless if it’s not what the listener needs to hear at that moment.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
“Is it” was the core of the question, which can be yes/no. ;-)
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
The variety of disciplines and sleep deprivation is only about 2 years early in the training. After that the training is highly focused, and again only 2 years or so are sleep deprived. And today, the majority of doctors in practice are les
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
That’s not soon enough of a resolution to avoid affecting the games, I’m afraid.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
I’m just guessing it was a combination of (1) an app could be distributed / authorized to only specific email addresses, so far less chance of interruption than you’d get if the website got leaked to the public, and (2) wanting to simp
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
Pass them through an intermediary, such as Google Drive?
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
For every 1 such study that ultimately proves useful, I wouldn’t be surprised if 100 (or even 1,000) were an utter waste of time. Your argument seems to imply a shopaholic hoarder isn’t wasting their lives, just so long as at least sometime
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
And yet the company is paying for all those pointless clicks. Hopefully they’ll consider “misleading ads” as a possible reason for a low conversion rate.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
It depends on the industry. In retail, for instance, a customer acquisition cost of more than 10% their expected lifetime value is unsustainably expensive. Is suspect retail having only 5-8% profit margin is part of that though.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
What’s disgusting are your conflated examples.
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
How are private schools supposed to offer better service at a lower cost, when public schools are effectively free? This is hardly a market. Even if people wish to move their children out of public schools en masse, it's not like gover
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by GarrisonPrime 7y ago
Are you assuming that everybody who is able-bodied and has a scale degree should be able to find employment? Did over 12 million people in this country really get worthless degrees or become incapacitated? Getting a "good" degree

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