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by gwbrooks 3y ago
I'm pretty good at budgeting and estimating because I've been at it a long time. The 15-20% are just things that go sideways -- usually on the client's side and I typically make a snap judgment not to get into a scope/bi
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
If we were sane we wouldn't artificially limit or goose supply via zoning.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Possibly unhelpful but: I only do fixed-fee projects, which eliminates the need for time tracking. That said? About 15-20% of my projects run longer than budgeted.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
So the plan is screwing over the company you're buying goods from? Where can I like and subscribe for more of these amazing life hacks? (/s)
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Email infra is cheap; email reputation management is not. If you're sending out a few hundred emails a month? Or even a couple thousand? Absolutely go your own way. But if you need to send out six or seven figures worth of email a mont
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
What's worse: The county government can put an end to it, they choose not too. Most discussions about reforming or ending civil asset forfeiture focus on statehouse and federal solutions, but there's nothing stopping local gover
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
No climate model predicts broad, capitalism-ending economic shock within the next 20 years.
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by gwbrooks 3y ago
Police need to be more highly trained -- I wouldn't equate that 1:1 with holding a degree. U.S. training requirements for police are state-level matters sometimes augmented by local requirements; none of the state requirements, as I
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Bingo. The latter has nothing to do with rights.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
>> This is exactly the type of conversation we need to have as a society. Comments like this always make me wonder: How would that happen? Here in the U.S., there's relatively little appetite for job-saving labor protections and,
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
So, creating a new cost center for online publishers and search engines and directing how the rentseeking profits have to be spent. Neat. There are 100 reasons this is a bad idea -- news sites already have paywalls if they want to restric
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Two different issues, right? Reasonable people can disagree with her PBS and NPR are corporate media. But I am very comfortable critiquing the consistently low quality of NPR journalism. That doesn't mean that they're in the sam
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
The early ones -- make your own cloud chamber for atom splitting, X-ray machine made from vacuum tubes, big metal rocket powered by explosive powdered zinc -- were collected into a volume that's amazing. https://www.amazon
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I don't know how others do it, but my main tools are: * Reading rather than watching/listening. * Going out of my way to consume content from authors/publications whose worldview I disagree with. Ditto for non-U.S. sources. *
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
You're right about the affiliate model. But most NPR stations in all but the largest markets predominantly run nationally syndicated content. Creating and syndicating that content is the NPR mothership's largest cost center, avera
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
PBS is essentially corporate media, getting ~15% of its budget from government. NPR is even less at ~2%. Corporate vs. public ownership matters a lot less than institutional standards and the org's cultural commitment to a rigorous jou
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
^^^ This right here. Most daily-or-faster reporting is so shallow that consuming the information may, at times, be a net-negative to your understanding of whatever issue they're reporting about.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Former newspaper city editor here. With few exceptions, positive stories -- although readers clamored for them in surveys -- never drove newsrack sales the way negative stories did. That's why we had a whole section for feel-good featu
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Six hundred million barrels is one week's worth of global oil production. Spread over 30 years. It's OK to be concerned about the future -- hell, I am. But a lot of hopelessness these days is an the after-effect of doomscrolling t
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Pre-SVB: Silicon Valley is full of self-interested organizations and people building things that, at times, result in wider societal benefit. Post-SVB: Same.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
You can get high deliverability -- the keys, whether you're using your own servers or someone else's come down to a clean list that won't generate complaints and staying within the TOS of your mailserver host or third-party S
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
> If we combined Soviet economics <<snip>> I think I spotted the challenge.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
More than 40% (2022 data, NAHB research) of the cost of new multifamily development is tied to regulation/permitting/zoning. That number has climbed faster than inflation for some time and is the largest driver of increased multif
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
I know of no shared-hosting provider that doesn't throttle emails. The minute you're talking more than about 200 an hour, you're going to either host your own mail server or route through any of the dozens of commercial SMTP
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
So a consumer of free web content, with no rights or claim to it, is ticked because a company: * Spent its money; * Acquired the rights to the content; and * Went in a direction the consumer didn't like. That's a pretty remarkable
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
There needs to be a unique word -- probably long, probably Germanic -- for seeing the sci-fi stuff of your youth start to emerge in the world.
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
So where does one go to log in and be redirected to their personal domain?
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Never change, Teen Vogue...
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
Weegee and W. Eugene Smith were my primary influences back when I was shooting as a hobbyist and, later, as a professional. The former taught me the importance of simply being there and being ready to shoot in the moment, lighting and compo
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by gwbrooks 4y ago
"You" who? He's the largest shareholder both by share count and, even more so, via his super-voting shares. As another commenter noted, the layoffs made shareholders money. Assuming the board is largely made up of equity hold

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