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by froindt 7y ago
> It also makes people not want to go there if they don’t have spare change. Aldi doesn't have a membership fee, but it has a culture and following akin to Costco or Trader Joe's. It works for some people, but not for others. T
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by froindt 7y ago
I'm an industrial engineer and geek out about Aldi frequently. Here are a few things I've noticed (and researched) which differentiate them from others. -they have barcode on 5 or 6 sides of their products, and they're typica
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by froindt 7y ago
If I remember right, Best Buy did get some heat years ago for setting their online prices higher if accessed through their intranet compared to their public website. Shady to say the least.
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by froindt 7y ago
We had a couple thousand people participate if I remember right. It was a moderately high percentage of the student body. This was 2014 era.
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by froindt 7y ago
Out of curiosity, did you go to Iowa State? I helped run the study, and there were very good results. Unfortunately we ran into some mistakes in the communication between DARPA and the university which cut things the project short. We were
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by froindt 7y ago
>Their willingness to match prices with Amazon has been key. Heck, I've had Best Buy associates whip their phone out and price check something without me even asking. I was super surprised because "don't price match unless
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by froindt 7y ago
No universal sales tax, it varies by locale. Sometimes specific blocks or neighborhoods have different sales taxes than surrounding areas. For rough reference, is not uncommon to see 7% sales tax. Sometimes higher in bigger cities.
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by froindt 7y ago
>unlikely you'll ever collect from that 401k friend! Like WillPostForFood, I'm baffled about where you're even getting this idea. The 401k is their money. Right now they could withdraw all the money. If their employer
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by froindt 7y ago
My biggest complaint is how long it takes for facial recognition to occur. I like searching by name, and if I do a large upload, I might have to wait a couple weeks to get the groupings. I don't get a push notification, I have to go ch
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by froindt 7y ago
The limits for Chapter 12 are quite low when you look at the consolidation of farms that's happened in the last 10 years. Corn land in Iowa runs, say, 5-10k/acre depending on quality and location. 640 acres per square mile. 3.8 mi
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by froindt 8y ago
I've considered that. When I buy my best next car (hopefully 3+ years from now), I'd like to upgrade the model year for the marginal gain in safety. 2015 or so might be my target year.
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by froindt 8y ago
>Do cars even come without 'smart' options nowadays? This will be much harder to find on new cars in the US. As our May 2018, all new cars are required to have backup cameras ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by froindt 8y ago
>...I hear they get teased (and sometimes bullied) if they don't have a half decent smartphone. I've also heard of kids getting left out of things socially for the same reason. One family tried the "you don't need a s
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by froindt 8y ago
You used to be able to go to a username or password field, hit the down arrow, and it'd let you select through your various accounts. I hate touching my mouse and loved that interaction. Really wish that came back. I hope they took it
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by froindt 8y ago
It's possible they paid off the wayback machine to make it look like they did it when they opened. /s
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by froindt 8y ago
> If you don't leave a message, I don't care about you. Unfortunately spammers have started leaving messages, for me, in the past ~2 years. Prior to that, this heuristic worked very well!
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by froindt 8y ago
> I've learned that I should never answer a call from a number I don’t know (not that easy), but it doesn’t have to be this way. Not only that, but you basically need to program in all the random numbers you do business with to make
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by froindt 8y ago
Thanks for the tip on Twinkies. I've been trying to find a good article that summarizes things. Does this one leave much you're thinking of out? https://www.manufacturing.net/blog/2013/07/long-live-t
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by froindt 8y ago
Thank you for posting this! I've been trying to figure out what it was called for years! There was an attack I read about for garage door openers or numeric entry doors where they didn't have an enter button. So entering they en
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by froindt 8y ago
I love finding those high impact, straightforward changes! I support dozens of spreadsheets at work and am the person people call when one breaks. * Conditional formatting cut a 2 hour weekly job down to under 5 minutes. * The intern, who w
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by froindt 8y ago
Why does mode of communication matter when the end result is the same - investors being misled on material facts about a company.
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by froindt 8y ago
Might as well link directly https://xkcd.com/2059/ And mobile https://m.xkcd.com/2059/
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by froindt 8y ago
I was in the back seat of a car when the co-pilot tried using Apple Maps to navigate in the Seattle area. I don't know how many times it'd pipe up with "Turn right on ____ Avenue" when we were in the left most lane, alm
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by froindt 8y ago
Thank you for mentioning this! I'd never heard of Zooniverse, but it looks very interesting. Have you used Zooniverse in the past? If so, what was the outcome/experience like?
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by froindt 8y ago
I guess as with everything - context matters. Their overall goal was to be as effective as they could be. The cost savings went along with operational improvements. It was also a non-profit, which has an entirely different dynamic compare
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by froindt 8y ago
There are companies out there who organize salary surveys. Every company pays in a bit to cover the costs/overhead with putting together a market report, and also submit the job titles and salaries of their workers. Possibly more data
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by froindt 8y ago
Neat idea, thanks for sharing! Are attorneys licensed in all the states they're reviewing documents to? Playing devils advocate here. Do you have a vetting policy for whether filing for bankruptcy is a good idea, or encourage other st
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by froindt 8y ago
> There was this idea that support just had to be in the valley because straight up the managers and folks working there didn't know there were technical people... anywhere else (this was before we had other islands of tech in the U
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by froindt 8y ago
I believe this is the simulation. https://forio.com/simulate/mit/cleanstart/simulation/index.h...
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by froindt 8y ago
>Anything telling me to install an app whose mobile experience is fine already is very fishy to me. Facebook is my #1 example of this. The app bloated up like it's primary purpose was to take up space on your phone. So I removed it

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