SteveGerencser

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by SteveGerencser 3y ago
But you are still billing by the hour. 8 hours in a day. Do work for 4 clients or work for 8 clients and get the same amount of money? There are a few law firms that are heavily automated. But they are mostly larger, class action, pay per r
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by SteveGerencser 3y ago
I would agree with you except I'm still paying $90/mo for 3Mb (yes, meg) DSL from the only copper provider in the area and have been hearing from them for nearly a decade that 'fiber is coming' soon. Every time someone m
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by SteveGerencser 3y ago
The way I understood the story back then was that they wanted a license deal with MSFT just like MSFT had with the hardware companies. MSFT wanted to just buy them out. Lawsuits, court, and so on finally forced the sale of the company to MS
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Agreed. Top CEOs at "top" companies tend to be outliers anyway, so basing how you grow your business on those few unicorns is never a great idea to begin with. A solid mastermind group can to wonders for nearly everyone else. They
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
When I went to high school in the early 80s our in school security / dare officer was known to just take half of whatever he "found" and everyone just walked away with no problems. Unless he didn't like you, then you got
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Because the barrier to entry in programming is zero. Or near enough to it. Code on your free time, learn php on your free time. Suddenly you are WordPress developer. Learning a trade can require very expensive tools, often time as an appren
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
And over the top of every aqueduct, storm channel, and man made 'river' designed to deliver water to large urban areas. Generates power and helps reduce that annoying evaporation.
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Indiana University a Midwest US state school has a 3+ Billion Dollar endowment behind it and ranks 16th right now. University of Texas is #1 at $42B and Berkeley is 20th at $2.6B. These are just state schools. Stanford is at $38B and Yale i
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Ethanol is hard on all the soft bits in an engine. Rubber seals, diaphrams and so on. This is most dramatically seen in small engines that still use carburetors vs fuel injection.
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
My dad's factory went to 4 day work weeks in the 90s and never looked back. Everyone was happier, and the various suppliers and customers learned pretty quickly not to call on Friday because it was rare that anyone was there. And now I
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Matt Damon has a great explanation of why the movie industry has shifted the way it has. It has a lot to do with the loss of DVD sales covering much of the cost of movies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6K2IxC9O8
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
A few local theaters here will let you rent out a whole Theater for about $150 and let you bring your own Blue Ray movie to play. Friend of mine did it to propose to his now wife. Took her to a great dinner, rented the entire theater, showe
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
It was actually suggested by someone at the BGP support team. We had a different employee there create the new listing while sitting in the store. It went live with 24 hours, only none of the old reviews, pictures, or reviews were there. So
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
What baffles me is how these networks flourish so easily yet Google can't tell a real business from a fake. The number of people calling me lately (I'm in the same business) about the Business Profile being removed by Google. Even
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
I was about to say the same thing. I get decent albums in somewhat not great condition at flea markets in the $5 range, but most record stores aren't selling anything that cheap these days. Everyone has discogs and can see what things
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
It's only an ads thing. Facebook, Google, etc., all require to those pages be on a website to run ads. They say nothing about Personal websites, but the EU probably does once you start using GA.
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
The whole site speed thing is purely a cost reduction on Google's part IMO. By convincing site owners that being fast is a ranking factor they can save millions in bandwidth costs as more and more people lighten their page load. I have
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
I live on about 100 acres. I can see 80% of the land from my deck. The drone comes in handy for looking into the tree areas where the cows like to spend most of their without me having to go look for them. Besides, I figure if they won&#x27
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Cattle Trace is great for people with 10s of thousands of acres to manage. But that's not all that many cattle operations in the grand scheme of things. Most of us are small operations that don't interact with major processing pla
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
My primary tractor is 4 years old and it has been in the shop more often than my 35 year old tractor. Most of us, especially the smaller guys, run equipment until it is quite literally gone. The biggest issue that bringing new equipment to
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Farms and farmers have been doing A/B testing for generations with seeds, fertilizers, weed/pest control, feed, medicines, and on and on. And it's a PITA. Running 2 different, smaller, operations takes a lot more time and mon
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
As someone with a foot in both worlds, I have been in tech for 30+ years and we also own a small cattle farm (can't even call it a ranch), there is a staggering amount of distrust in technology of any kind in the ag world. Every new pi
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
I gave up on Spotify a long time ago. Pandora more recently. I find myself just listening to a handful of channels on SiriusXM since the desktop streaming app came with my truck subscription. Anything that I find myself liking a lot I head
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
I agree with you on this. It is not only task based but individual based. When I am at my desk doing tech type work I max out 'productively' at about 30 hours +/- depending on what I'm doing. But when I'm out doing
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
I use headphones exclusively outside on our farm. All of the equipment makes a lot of noise and decent headphones help with the noise. And because my wife gets the 'new tractor' with a cab, radio, and AC, I get the 'old tract
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Apply to be a federally protected wildlife habitat. My daughter did that in a city in Indiana. Ripped out her 'lawn' and replanted with native grasses and things to promote butterfly and bee habitats. The city hates that they can&
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Almonds too. They are a terrible use of water and can literally kill people.
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
Very much this. We were in the middle of designing and installing a total solar array for our farm when the state ended every single subsidy and electricity buyback plan. We could install all the solar panels we want, but any electricity we
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
I have had multiple experiences with CPS over the years through friends and family. Over time I have developed a pretty dramatic hatred of them. We took in our niece for a few months years ago and the way they ran their 'system' w
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by SteveGerencser 4y ago
You could be 2 cups and a long string and beat most of those providers. I've been trapped in their horrible world for over a decade and can't wait for "any" other option. I don't even care how much it costs anymore.

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