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by cosmie 6y ago
Hard work isn't enough. Hard work alone is like trying to drive a car in neutral - you can rev the engine all you want, but all that work the engine is doing is utterly irrelevant on if (and in what direction, and at what speed) the
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by cosmie 6y ago
> They get away with this because consumers have absolutely no idea how cards differ and what the options are. Do you have any tips/resources for how an interested consumer can become more informed (whether for personal or small bus
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by cosmie 6y ago
What are the losses they realize shipping last mile parcels? If you're referring to agreements like their NSA with Amazon (the example from your parent post), that shouldn't be resulting in any losses. They're not legally all
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by cosmie 6y ago
That page is a bit misleading. That's total consumption of aviation gasoline , which is what powers aircraft with piston-based engines. Aircraft with jet engines use a distinctly different fuel aptly called jet fuel, which isn't
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by cosmie 6y ago
> Why does Kodak think they can pivot into an entirely new industry? It's not an entirely new industry for them. Kodak's roots in the photography industry built up a good bit of institutional knowledge and capital infrastructur
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by cosmie 6y ago
That's a bit of a different topic. There's the type of generic/private label stuff you mentioned, which both Amazon and Walmart do. Amazon originally had a major competitive advantage here in that they could leverage insights
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by cosmie 6y ago
Absolutely! I didn't intend to give the impression they weren't providing a service for that fee, but meant it in relation to skybrian's comment about "what else you need to set up and how much they charge" . The t
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by cosmie 6y ago
While your premise is true, any supplier giving Walmart seconds has their days numbered. Walmart runs such a tight ship around their supply chain that it'd neither go unnoticed nor unpunished. What appears to be Walmart getting facto
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by cosmie 6y ago
"We're not saying you have to pay us $50/month, but what will potential customers think if your business isn't Google Guaranteed while all your competitors are..." https://searchengineland.com/goog
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by cosmie 6y ago
This DA isn't reliant on the Philly police department for enforcement - he's in one of the few states where DAs have their own law enforcement officers on staff[1]. The "D.A. detectives" referenced in the article are key
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by cosmie 6y ago
They do, it's just an abbreviated disclosure and in small text, at the very end of the article: FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More[1]. Also fun fact: Amazon's affiliate program pays out for any[2] purchase ma
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by cosmie 6y ago
Yes and no. Manufacturing can take many forms: 1. Manufacturers that only produce private label products for others, and have no consumer brands of their own. 2. Manufacturers that only produce branded products, and (for either operatio
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by cosmie 6y ago
My company used to be like that, but was acquired last year and the company that acquired us has such a refreshing travel process: - Booking fees are itemized and stated up front. $3 for bookings handled 100% via the online reservation sys
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by cosmie 6y ago
Corporate bigwig types (whether technical or otherwise) are generally not booking their own travel - that's what executive assistants are for. I'm a technologically literate corporate peon, and still booked >$15k in travel last
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by cosmie 6y ago
> It was expensive, but that didn't particularly matter because the company made it clear they wouldn't sell to consumers or hobbyists. I created an LLC a few years ago to route my moonlighting consulting work through. Even if
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by cosmie 6y ago
This is a really neat trick, and incredibly beneficial if it gets matured to the point of a production-capable alerting system! Question for anyone familiar with this type of work: would nearby submarine traffic be detectable using this tec
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by cosmie 6y ago
True. But in this case, you'd have to ensure you went through the process of truly re-implementing the algorithm of the recipe, and stripping out all non-algorithmic components of the instructions. For example, a step in an icing recip
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by cosmie 6y ago
I can't speak to other forms of copyrights, but literary copyrights also protect derivative works[1]. It'd likely be hard to prove for isolated incidences or sufficiently generic recipes, but but if someone extracted and republish
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by cosmie 6y ago
Copyright applies to the literary work as a whole, and protects derivative works based on it[1]. In this case it's true the derivative work (the recipe) wouldn't be copyrightable, but that doesn't absolve it from being consid
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by cosmie 6y ago
The SEO implications definitely have a massive influence on it, but it's also a consequence of copyright law. A recipe in and of itself isn't copyrightable, but recipes fluffed up with a bunch of prose may qualify as a literary wo
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by cosmie 6y ago
> I've always wondered why someone isn't going around taking other people's SEO-fluffed recipes and just re-formatting them onto standalone fluff-less pages, with good, standardized formatting: Because they'd likely r
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by cosmie 6y ago
> I can imagine that being legal, even then... Ha! Yea, it's amazing how liberal pilots used to be (at least in relation to kids). As a parent now, I can't fathom the thought process of a pilot trusting a kid (even more so one
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by cosmie 6y ago
I used to fly a lot as an unaccompanied minor[1]. It's way different now in the post-911 aviation world, but on several of those flights the flight attendants keeping tabs on me would take me up to the cockpit at some point during the
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by cosmie 6y ago
It certainly fits the government's definition of an entitlement[1]. It's also structured as a non-optional, government-ran insurance scheme predominantly funded through explicit payroll tax obligations[2], which employers aren&#x2
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by cosmie 6y ago
Trump blindsiding officials with mandates via unplanned//unknown public Twitter announcement isn't something new. While it'd likely get resolved before things went nuclear, you could probably do some major damage while p
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by cosmie 6y ago
> My manager is left in the dark about what I'm doing. Then loop your manager in. I work for a marketing agency primarily doing consulting work, and operate semi-autonomously from my manager. For the clients and accounts I support,
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by cosmie 6y ago
> My wife has been mostly off of work, so she maps to what the kids are doing. The biggest struggle for me is having everyone stay up late - I previously had some quiet/alone time in the last hour or so of the day, now I'm goin
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by cosmie 6y ago
If you look at the release notes[1], Outlook for Windows is getting a lot of love too. The majority of updates are performance and bug fixes, but the UI issue you mentioned highlights the need for this type of TLC in the Windows client. Tha
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by cosmie 6y ago
Many hotels have started charging resort/amenity fees for guests as well. Traditionally commissions were only calculated on base room rate, so making up a mandatory fee and shifting some of the rate over acted as a super handy "ta
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by cosmie 6y ago
As vibernum mentioned[1], tax revenue comes into play as well. My municipality's school budget, as an example, is heavily reliant on a portion of local sales tax proceeds in addition to property taxes. So at a time when they're ha

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