ejb999

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by ejb999 3y ago
IMO, yes - Its a lot harder to stay in business selling trashy products when you deal with people face to face in a given location, and hope to be there for years.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I agree, cheap taste in things is a blessing in disguise.
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by ejb999 3y ago
If you simply raise wages, then the people that make the furniture will also have their wages raised - which will increase the cost even further - it doesn't solve this problem and may even make it worse.
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by ejb999 3y ago
Same here - I am constantly replacing my LED lights whereas parts of my house still have 25 year old incandescents that have never been replaced since I moved in.
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by ejb999 3y ago
If you think you can make and sell meals for $2.50 and make $2.00 in profit on every meal, you should go into the restaurant business.
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by ejb999 3y ago
In my experience, every scrum project I have been on became an exercise in satisfying the requirements of scrum, versus the requirements of the project. I actually had multiple scrum masters tell the developers that if they finished their a
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by ejb999 3y ago
zoning laws are usually locally voted on and approved - if the locals in any given area want to allow business, they can - but lots of people don't want to live close to businesses - so they vote accordingly. People that want to live n
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by ejb999 3y ago
Fair enough - but point still stands, newer is not always better (to me). Give me a house that is still standing decades after mother nature threw everything it could at it, over a shiny new one any day.
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by ejb999 3y ago
Based on what I have read, Canada is doing far, far worse than the USA - affordability problem up north is ridiculous.
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by ejb999 3y ago
Maybe they still cost $400K, because the purchase of the land, the labor and the materials and the interest to finance the project eat up most of that $400K, not to mention some places charge you building permits that cost ten's of tho
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by ejb999 3y ago
Honestly, if I had to choose between buying a house built 50 years ago, or one today - I personally would take the older one. Nothing scares me more (relative to owning a house) than buying a brand new one. If it has been around for fifty y
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by ejb999 3y ago
why would you think that short term weather forecasts are somehow affected by climate change?
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by ejb999 3y ago
results are still manipulated for political purposes - it is just automated now instead of manually done.
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by ejb999 3y ago
I tend to think this is true - but then again, if they were hiding something from the public, this is exactly what they would say...
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by ejb999 3y ago
It is worse, because it is faster - how many incorrect blog articles can a sigle typical writer publish and post on the internet - maybe 1-2 a day if you are a prolific writer? How many can an AI agent do? Probably hundreds of thousands a d
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by ejb999 3y ago
not to mention the revolving door between drug company execs and regulators - which is ripe for conflicts of interest.
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by ejb999 3y ago
the harm is not all drugs are safe - even if this one was (and we aren't 100% sure of that either), and pharma companies using social media and/or sympathy stories to pressure regulators into approving a drug that would not otherw
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by ejb999 3y ago
one of the problems is, how can a doctor in good conscience continue to renew your prescriptions, if they don't see you and re-evaluate the need? Maybe they put you on 5MG on amlodipine for your moderately-high blood pressure 18 months
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by ejb999 3y ago
sadly, a lot of patients consider that good care - around me, doctors stopped weighing patients, and don't ever discuss lifestyle changes or dietary changes (patients by and large don't want to hear it) - they just give the patien
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by ejb999 3y ago
Do you think if there are more doctors, they are going to be more willing to provide free services? I don't - doctors want to get paid for their services - insurance companies (in general) don't pay for doctors to respond to email
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by ejb999 3y ago
why are you putting effort in quotes? Do you not think there is any 'effort' involved? Why do you think someone else's 'effort' should be free?
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by ejb999 3y ago
its not just you. Yikes.
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by ejb999 3y ago
It’s hard for others to compete with slave labor. Gives the Chinese quite a leg up on pricing power. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/business/economy/china-fo... https://www.washington
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by ejb999 3y ago
>>My career lesson is that being right isn't the hard part of being a senior staff engineer. Not only that, but your own definition of 'right' may or may not align with what is 'right' for the people paying yo
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by ejb999 3y ago
car dealers, like a lot of businesses, don't really need a full blown 'AI powered' chatbot - they have a limited amount of things that they can or want to answer - a chatbot that follows a script, with plenty of branching is
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by ejb999 3y ago
How many millionaire-employees have you created?
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by ejb999 3y ago
Yikes! That is quite expensive compared to what I pay.
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by ejb999 3y ago
The fact that you car is 'cheap', is not the driving force behind the cost - you may drive a $10K used car, but you can still crash into someone else's $120K car and also put the other driver in the hospital with 100's o
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by ejb999 3y ago
The things is - you can't actually know for sure - it is entirely possible to get covid and have nothing more than a sniffle or nothing at all - so I think what the OP you are responding to is saying is that just because someone thinks
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by ejb999 3y ago
thats what makes bureaucracies run (govt and big corps) - and why it is so frustrating if you come from a startup or small consultancy background to operate in huge bureaucracies - many folks in these big orgs only job is to sit in meetings

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