JAlexoid

40 ms·

451.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
I will add another thing - handmade solid wood furniture is never dimensionally accurate. So you can't mix and match, as much as you can with many IKEA pieces.
452.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Nothing is timeless. I see a lot of "timeless" pieces donated on our town's "Buy Nothing" facebook page, after failing to sell at estate sales.
453.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Em.... I'm an amateur carpenter and $200 is probably the least I'll charge you for a custom side table (without drawers). Skilled carpenters charge a lot more. A bar stool will probably run you at $1000. Consider that mass produce
454.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
I suggest you go visit an exhibition on how people in the dark ages or in the middle ages lived. YOu probably live with hot and cold water, that you can drink... and pretty much everyone in the developed world can afford a banana... that ki
455.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
You can build a table out of rough sawn planks for cheap today. It's just going to cost as much labor and material as something much better from IKEA. 150+ years ago life was different and spending a week planing a tabletop was not a w
456.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
> yes they're expensive and could be considered luxury goods They are luxury goods. We know well that melamine board furniture lasts a lifetime, and there's little need to have a $15k coffee table. Getting a local woodworker to
457.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
You clearly haven't tried moving with your local "designer furniture center" "high quality" furniture. IKEA is pretty much as good as the "quality furniture", when it comes to moving.
458.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
> Also did my kitchen with them and they got rid of the finish I picked shortly after, which meant that I couldn't replace panels like I thought I might have been able to. IKEA kitchens are actually one of the best things they sell.
459.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
What did you do to it?!?!?! Lacks are notoriously sturdy for their "cardboardness". People literally turn their Lacks into server racks, they're that sturdy.
460.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Unbless it's oak, you don't particularly want to have solid wood furniture. Solid wood is dimensionally unstable and my oak chest of drawers requires special oil treatments to keep cracks from appearing. Plywood or melamine boards
461.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
My classmates in university worked part time at an IKEA subcontractor. They had probably the best working conditions in the market. Your "knowledge" of IKEAs business practices is "lacking"
462.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
I don't know where you're from... but in US and a number of European countries - IKEA doesn't even come close to being the "garbage option".
463.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
And loosing 5-12 hours of your life. Is the price difference worth that?
464.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Em... The fact that it's listed on the US site, doesn't mean it's available. Selection in Vilnius is very similar as in NYC area, lately.
465.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Cabinetry grade wood is actually expensive.
466.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Have you tried destroying IKEA $10 Lack table? It's straight up cardboard and is one of the most durable things I have ever encountered.
467.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Our Soderhamn sectional was through a lot. 7 years it served us well, and now it serves someone else.
468.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
> IKEA has always fallen apart when you try to move it IKEA has different levels of quality, including amazing cardboard LACK. IKEA also has a lot of solid wood furniture. What pertains to the article, is that IKEA is keeping prices of t
469.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Let's be clear - while Zuck has the majority voting rights(does he?), he isn't the majority owner. But even if he was, his decisions would impact the minority owners... and we have had cases, where devaluing minority shareholder v
470.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
All crypto startups use established banks to transfer and hold USD. I don't know of a single all crypto bank in US. A lot of companies that brand themselves as a "bank" are some regional bank underneath. (I literally work in
471.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
We're not far from NYC. We're able to get a pied-à-terre in NYC for $1-2k, and pay both the mortgage and a small rental... at the same price as our old rental apartment (1br, now going for $5200). In fact, we'd probably be ab
472.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Yep. If we were to refinance our home right now, we'd be paying an extra 1K per month just for the pleasure of it.
473.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Why? Homeowners are the majority voting demographic. No sane elected official will do anything to screw their biggest voter group.
474.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
It is also slowing the seller market. We bought a house at 3% all in... and we're unlikely to sell.
475.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
Okta actually supports the generic 2FA method. I have my company Okta account 2FA with Authy and SMS.
476.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
They went straight for Extinguish. Microsoft Authenticator is far from being any form of "Enchancement"
477.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
It also degrades. At 40 I'm definitely not as sharp as I was at 20. I mean... Give me a leetcode challenge today, and I'll flunk a lot of them.
478.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
You couldn't. You had to literally be there to get access. It was an in-person event with some people deemed to "be worthy enough" to get their hands on "the data". I just hope that some kid got their college paid f
479.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
That's because US regulatory regime is antiquated. Deposit insurance is a pain, payments take ages and some very old cheque rules still apply to transfers. As much as these companies would like to be something separate, they are preclu
480.
by JAlexoid 3y ago
> Americans would start to believe you Europeans really need to get that knife situation under control. A lot of Americans unironically do believe that.

More ›