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by bbarn 6y ago
It's also very location specific. Some areas listing too high will hurt you in the long run, so sometimes people definitely do what you're saying - price it low to get lots of offers hoping to get a bidding war. Other areas are
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by bbarn 6y ago
Home sales always peak when weather is nicer. As do leases for rentals. Leases that were ending a year from today are still ending, and some people are in a great place to buy a home, and inventory is incredibly low right now.
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by bbarn 6y ago
> Restaurant owners are usually not tech people I think a lot of the lashback things like grubhub, uber eats is getting lately is precisely because people have become more tech savvy. The "magic" of the app isn't magic an
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by bbarn 6y ago
I don't know why people think Slack is a remote working tool. The reason slack is popular, is it was better than hipchat, which was better than gchat/hangouts/lync, which was better than IRC. It solves a specific problem, b
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by bbarn 6y ago
Thanks for that link. While I have little use for a graphing calculator these days, the DM-16 is something I could use all the time. Ordered one :)
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by bbarn 6y ago
I've had a private email address and domain for years, sending and recieving via gmail. I'm looking to move away from gmail to some other hosted solution that I can keep my personal domain emails with, without having to have my o
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by bbarn 6y ago
Lots of restaurants that are as much "experience" as they are food. Think of things like Korean BBQ, Benihanas and the like, etc. Also ramen's never stellar in take out mode (most of the great ramen places in my city did it
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by bbarn 6y ago
COVID-19 is the terrorism of this generation. It's the anything goes, doesn't matter how fair, as long as it's because COVID.
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by bbarn 6y ago
Anecdotally, for the first few weeks, everyone I knew was all about supporting their local restaurants. Now that it's been over a month, over 2 in some places, with companies laying people off left and right, and the only place you&#x
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by bbarn 6y ago
This is a bit of a departure from the question you asked, but I'm always amazed how much people tend to hyper-tune their dev environments, when in reality, most of my time is spent thinking how not to write code. I get just as much wo
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by bbarn 6y ago
Every time a new space/rocket/propulsion story shows up, it makes me try to get to the mun and back again for the next few hours.
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by bbarn 6y ago
At the point where more deaths are caused by the global socio-economic collapse than COVID-19 would have caused at even pessimistic projections. At this point, I'm not convinced in either direction.
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by bbarn 6y ago
That was the first thing I said, 2 months ago, and got told I was a selfish asshole and had no clue what I'm talking about. This is going to be a real big history lesson for our grandchildren on how not to handle a situation in one wa
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by bbarn 6y ago
You forgot "Flex PTO"
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by bbarn 7y ago
It’s not the format of the business or the size or the location. It’s the business model itself that defines the resiliency. Bottom line.
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by bbarn 7y ago
No other job paying as well as the one I had for the skills I had, and a bottle.
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by bbarn 7y ago
After I got out of the military (in Electronics) I did a few years as a rework tech at a big telecom company soldering literally 8 hours a day. I got really good at it. We had very little safety equipment, and used leaded exclusively. Ven
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by bbarn 7y ago
That's why this entire thing is a joke. Supply chains needs every occupation short of (although maybe even including) telemarketers. The constant escalation without any escalation of cases should terrify everyone. We're now so f
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by bbarn 7y ago
They are an incredibly homogenous people as well, so generally, most are in favor of the same types of social programs, as they almost all benefit from them. Income inequality is incredibly low, some of the best in the world. So yes, most
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by bbarn 7y ago
Mine worked great for about 25 uses then got clogged internally. I can’t unclog it with destroying it. Expensive novelty
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by bbarn 7y ago
Investment in the market is incredibly volatile compared to real estate. That's why it's called "real" estate.
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by bbarn 7y ago
Yeah, read the article. He was against the merger - regulation drove the forced consolidation, which he did not want. He posted about it a ton when it happened.
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by bbarn 7y ago
Look at what happened to Virgin America? It was a consumer-focused airline that was doing very well financially, and it was forcibly acquired because of regulations that US airlines must be US owned.
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by bbarn 7y ago
There's one key difference in modern, big company software, vs. the software of yesteryear, in my opinion - 20 years ago, most software was written by people who would use the software. Today, software is written and designed by peopl
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by bbarn 7y ago
Ding. Ding. Ding. California has always relied on a steady rotation of people from poorer outlying areas coming, getting broken by the system, then leaving back to the more rural areas that have almost zero representation in the state. Thu
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by bbarn 7y ago
You mean like cable TV, where you paid for premium, commercial free content for years until they realized that they could charge you AND put ads in? Or Twitch Prime? Or any of the dozen other paid services that have done this..
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by bbarn 7y ago
Modern media, especially news outlets, is sd marketing. These are ad marketing companies, and news is the byproduct of selling ads. The more slanted and accusatory an article, the more interesting, and the more ads it sells. it's ea
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by bbarn 7y ago
200K in the bay area is not exactly wealthy. It's a solid middle to upper-middle class wage. Taking a 50K hit for something you did nothing to deserve, just because you love your parent is stupid. I would hate it if my daughter trie
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by bbarn 7y ago
Funny how advice on this site is always "Charge what it's worth!" or "Don't be afraid to charge for your product!", unless of course, it's someone who's already made it, like Microsoft, and then it&#x
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by bbarn 7y ago
Well, you can probably prove the feedback the average person receives from media has become more pessimistic, and if you assume some people respond to that feedback, that's a pretty easy line to draw.

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