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by greedo 3y ago
They've built Starbase there, with all the rocket assembly facilities and the new expansions. Unless they're planning on shipping all the rockets via barge, I think it's safe to assume they'll send them to Florida by lau
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by greedo 3y ago
Obviously you don't realize the Apple is currently selling 8 different iPhones (and even more when you consider different storage and color options). iPhone is tremendously popular because it hits all the price points and varieties t
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by greedo 3y ago
Aren't UPS drivers unionized? I know they were back when I was a young punk...
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by greedo 3y ago
Sure, now that he's entrenched after sucking on the government teat, shut that stuff down so competitors can't benefit.
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by greedo 3y ago
I think that unless you're a nation-state with huge budgets, creating a seamless and reliable experience is relatively non-existent. We've tried all the major vendors for conference rooms, and they all have sharp edges that give y
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by greedo 3y ago
We had a Cisco conference setup for two joined conference rooms back in 2014? It was like $500K per site. It was terrible, picture quality was 1080i with bad sound, but something an exec would love cosplaying as a member of the NSC. The thi
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by greedo 3y ago
The morale effect might be real for you, but for a large group of workers, their morale has improved since WFH. On my team of 24, only one chooses to work in the office...
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by greedo 3y ago
I agree with unionization, but I was discussing the current status quo for the majority of workers in the US. Hopefully unions will both grow in number and be strengthened.
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by greedo 3y ago
I understand the stress, having been through it myself. I think that employees should have greater rights than they currently do, but that will take another generation of voters that didn't grow up with the veneration of business imbue
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by greedo 3y ago
As someone who: Had colon cancer Has a colostomy Was fired during my treatment I'm very aware of how companies can try to discriminate against employees who are disabled. If Amazon tries to fire this guy for not meeting his "quota
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by greedo 3y ago
He should be protected under the ADA, and if he gets fired, that's going to be a pretty chunk of change.
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by greedo 3y ago
You should look at inflation rates in the 70s and 80s. This didn't destroy the US, though it was painful.
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by greedo 3y ago
If this is a tipping point, then the way things charted in the past don't really matter...
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by greedo 3y ago
And besides, F-16s have operated from Ukrainian airbases before the war in joint exercises. It's not as if US aircraft are fragile snowflakes.
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by greedo 3y ago
The world's population has more grown by 4.5B since I was born. The idea that this hasn't impacted climate change is naive at best.
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by greedo 3y ago
Super Hornets (F/A-18E/F) have under 60% according to the CBO. F/A-18C/D are even lower than that. F-15C/D are around 50%. F-16s look to be around 60%. A great snippet from the CBO report is: "Availability rate
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by greedo 3y ago
Eley makes really good (but expensive) stuff. It bugs me that they moved their production overseas though. I could understand if they were selling a $5 sprayer or $15 hose reel. I think they could still make a good profit if their stuff was
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by greedo 3y ago
We could implement a Federal tax based on gross vehicle weight...
529.
by greedo 3y ago
I think that LG, Sony and Samsung are doing fine making TVs, perhaps for the lower end, the influx of cheaper sets is pressuring profit margins for this segment. And gross margin is very relevant. Vizio is spending a lot of money either on
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by greedo 3y ago
I can think of plenty of new entrants in the last two decades: HiSense TCL Vizio BenQ Vizio has a 17% gross margin. Just because they mismanage their money doesn't mean I have to put up with their sob stories about not making $$.
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by greedo 3y ago
I think if you had worked/managed a SAN, you might realize that a single disk failure is a non-event. I'm not talking about a JBOD or an storage shelf using RAID5, I'm talking about a Netapp or similar system that can easily
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by greedo 3y ago
Actually, it's not uncommon for a batch of disk from a vendor (the same lot #) to have failures. And again, a backup is fine for deleted data, or fire/ransomware. But for day to day operations, no one is really willing to wait for
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by greedo 3y ago
You try telling a VP that their business unit can't function because you decided to purchase the cheaper drive. All disks fail eventually. Outliers may run longer than the MTBF for that drive model, but they all fail eventually. And ba
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by greedo 3y ago
Wouldn't the methane in Starship still be at the bottom of its tank due to the momentum imparted by the Booster regardless of whether it was still attached?
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by greedo 3y ago
Depends on the org. Some orgs are well managed, others don't want to pay for stuff behind the scenes until it bites them in the ass. They don't know what they don't know.
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by greedo 3y ago
Because if you're providing services to a large business, you're typically not managing servers with physical disks attached. You're using a SAN with fiber connections or NFS mounts. Most SANs require specific drives sold by
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by greedo 3y ago
This is such a uninformative comment. Business/Enterprise storage is far, far more expensive than a drive you pick up at Best Buy or Fry's.
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by greedo 3y ago
That's a straw man. If franchisees were willing to have maintenance people on staff, then there wouldn't be a need for complex, self-managing systems. But they either can't afford to, or are unwilling to pay the added cost.
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by greedo 3y ago
This is an inaccurate meme that needs to die. Yes, McDonalds is a large owner of real estate. Does this mean that's where they get their profits? Not so much. Most franchisees pay roughly 10% of gross sales to McDonalds as "rent&q
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by greedo 3y ago
Exactly! I remember one night closing our store. I was 16, and the dude in charge of cleaning the shake machine and the sundae machine was a bit of a stoner. Back in the day all the cleaning was manual (1982). So the dude would pull out all

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