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by froindt 7y ago
I agree from a purely production point of view. But then the marketing director says "if we're the one on the shelves, people will remember our brand positively and drive up brand loyalty/future sales".
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by froindt 7y ago
I wonder what the current toilet paper manufacturers are going through right now? I'm an industrial engineer, so production issues and supply/demand issues are always of interest to me. A few possibilities: * Adding shifts at ov
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by froindt 7y ago
I've read of people routinely asking Amazon for compensation when their packages arrive in over 2 days. Some ordered regularly enough the $5 credit they hand out like candy more than paid for the entire membership.
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by froindt 7y ago
The article makes it sound like the ventilators have a wide enough range of operation to accommodate. It may not work for the tail end (set of 4 people each with large lung capacity), but could work for many.
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by froindt 7y ago
This is terrible timing for the class of 2020 and 2021. Classes are online or canceled, many are paying rent on apartments they aren't living in (staying with parents after spring break), losing income from their university town/c
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by froindt 7y ago
I have been building a employee scheduling system in a factory environment. New employees need to be trained on machines, for a certain number of shifts, with a limit of how many employees can train on a machine at a time. A question become
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by froindt 7y ago
Absolutely! My company makes thousands of unique specs with a constantly changing mix. The bottleneck is a moving target as business conditions change. It makes things more challenging for sure, but also keeps you on your toes.
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by froindt 7y ago
Unfortunately the process to move money from a 401k to an IRA (and moving money in general in he US) isn't great. In many instances the check is sent to the individual who then needs to send it to the receiving institution. I've a
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by froindt 7y ago
My optimization class was one of the most interesting classes of my undergrad (industrial engineering). My professor was trying to explain why optimization was important. "Optimizing your solution ensures someone else can't come
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by froindt 7y ago
>Well you can be fucked by your employers 401k manager. The day my wife quit, she was locked out of here 401k for 2 weeks. They divest everything during that term, and you have no control over the timing. What type of a company did your
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by froindt 7y ago
Kobe Steel out of Japan was doing similar back in 2017. In one week their stock dropped 41%. Compared to immediately before the scandal, it's down 75% in that time. I'm unsure if the drop is due to their scandal and poor managemen
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by froindt 7y ago
>The university is then forced to hire all kinds of staff to run and maintain these buildings, lest they ruin their reputation by allowing the fancy buildings to fall into disrepair. I talked with one of my professors at Iowa State about
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by froindt 7y ago
Lighting behind a truck is poor (no white lights on the back), and it gives an idea of how bad the roads are getting between snow plows. This is useful since plows often run notably slower than normal traffic can safely run for the conditio
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by froindt 7y ago
My girlfriend's track pad was acting up. The Genius said it wasn't working because she had Google Chrome installed, and wasn't using Safari. I'm not an Apple guy myself, but I lost a lot of respect for them as a company.
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by froindt 7y ago
Every couple years a "failure resume" gets trending on LinkedIn or reddit, and I always love reading the comments. It's also a refreshing reminder that "just because someone is successful and has a great resume doesn&#x2
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by froindt 7y ago
This looks great! I've been looking at tools to do viewshed analysis. Already being familiar with Blender, this is just the type of project I was looking for. I'm interested in some what's visible through the horizon. I wonde
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by froindt 7y ago
We have "rewards" on our credit cards. Rewards aren't free, so they increase the fees. >For banks, the $91.2 billion in fees they earn on credit-card portfolios is now more than the interest they charge on the loans. The f
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by froindt 7y ago
That won't save you. The doctor left the room and did a quick phone consult with a radiologist about your x-ray. Radiologist is out of network, so you'll get a big, fat, separate bill from them.
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by froindt 7y ago
>A piece of software that plays (at least) one sound on every user action, and the sounds are completely arbitrary and 8bit at best. I've worked places that have SAP, Oracle, and one place that had both. I've never personally u
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Charges dropped against pentesters paid to break into Iowa courthouse(arstechnica.com)
493 points by froindt 7y ago|114 comments
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by froindt 7y ago
Planet Money had an episode on it this fall. https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766556249/episode-942-capital...
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by froindt 7y ago
I did an industrial automation class in college. We had a PLC setup with optical sensors and were sorting cylinders by height. We wired it up tested it, then called the TA over to review. It failed despite no changes and working minutes ear
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by froindt 7y ago
I get what you're saying. It does have an anticompetitive/colluding feel to it. I don't know exactly where my opinion lies in this case. I think the cloud backup space currently has many players and that even if all players a
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by froindt 7y ago
>I also think firms should be able to buy "blank space." For example facebook or amazon could pay NOT to have an ad above their result. Maybe they already do, I dont see an ad when I search facebook, however I do see an ad for
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by froindt 7y ago
Is that all within the same city, or is the casino shuttling people from nearby cities? If multiple nearby cities, you could go anywhere in the network via the casino!
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by froindt 7y ago
I'm an industrial engineer, so these sorts of questions fascinate me. My intuition is their revenue is so much higher because of a mix of higher service people are willing to pay for (almost casual versus definitively fast food), hig
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by froindt 7y ago
> But you went to Georgia Tech. Most schools with athletics programs are not Georgia Tech. I don't have a quick summary of all the financials of all the schools in the country and whether athletics is a net positive/negative.
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by froindt 7y ago
I'm from Iowa and went to a high school of around 2,000 students. They built a ~15M dollar stadium which was completed right after the marching band season. Not quite the $50M stadium(s) of Texas, but still excessive.
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by froindt 7y ago
Starting a few years ago, all Iowa public university Athletics programs were required to basically have separate finances and not be pulling funds from the rest of the university. It took the University of Northern Iowa a bit longer to achi
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by froindt 7y ago
> Even if they don't sell, the process would have shown light on potential liabilities and issues they hadn't even been thinking about. If I recall correctly, some VC's make their companies put together quarterly reports o

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