j-c-hewitt

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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Maybe his profit quote was vague or excluding Amazon fees. That's not that far off without having to do liquidation. Which is also a viable way to make money selling on Amazon.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Never had as much fun with online gaming as I did over modem direct connection with one other kid!
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
OG Doom has online features, though.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Lots of people get rich in China and the railways, roads, and buildings get built. In the US people just take the money and don't build anything in a lot of corrupt states. In some states there is less obvious corruption and things get
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Well, I know the charity administrator can just pay himself with a cash donation, but they can't do much with cans of food other than either distribute them or destroy them.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
It's not. Failing to protect data that impacts customers/clients whomever is irresponsible and you can be sued for it and you can be ordered to pay the damages that you caused. It sounds mean, but you know what is really mean? Cau
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Yes, negligence is a moral failing. Do you want a negligent doctor? Do you want a negligent lawyer? How about a negligent accountant?
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
It is, though. It takes minutes to just set a set of folders to sync and there are so many services that do this either for free up to a certain size or just cheaply. Manually backing stuff up is a chore that most people will put off, which
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
It's a typo. I missed a 0. My setup tests at about 9.5 ms input lag as do similar monitors in its class. Some monitors measure a little lower.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
They are still context sensitive, just the retargeting guy is bidding higher so that is what is showing.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
30ms is gigantic when most people are accustomed to sub-1ms input lag.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
That's a really big assumption. For a lot of genres the latency is just not going to be low enough.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
>8-core Intel Core processors, delivering Turbo Boost speeds up to 5.0 GHz, while the 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar features faster quad-core processors with Turbo Boost speeds up to 4.7 GHz. Cooled by what? Oh, right, almost nothin
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
I am in the same boat. It should be a lot easier to scrub your FB with the default tools.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
I cursed out a robot trying to sell me solar panels yesterday, but the robot just called me back again the same day, trying to sell me solar panels again. It really is unpleasant. I used to get cruise ship scam calls that always started wit
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Robocalls are a constant annoyance for me (I get maybe 1 per day on average) and almost all of them are criminally fraudulent solicitations of some kind including calls impersonating the Social Security Administration etc. It's like be
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
That number is included in the marketplace vs 1P sales. The 3P seller gets credited when their commingled item is sold. Amazon gets credited for the sale when it is the one they own that is sold. That's how it works. A lot of sellers a
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
About 70% of Amazon sales are from third party sellers. So if you are comparing apples to apples you have to just look at the ~30% that is direct from Amazon. And with first hand experience with Amazon's Vendor program they go further
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Walmart Marketplace on the website runs on a similar business model to the Amazon marketplace, so there are third party sellers on their website. In some cases Walmart sells goods on consignment, so it does not own the goods in question, bu
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Just so you know, Walmart is not the underdog. Walmart sells many multiples the volume that Amazon does, and to boot, most of the products sold are owned by Walmart. Amazon is merely a fee-taker on the majority of the product sales that it
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
This would be impractical. For one thing, scuff-resistant packaging material is also necessarily less attractive than glossy and colorful packaging that holds high detail photographs & illustrations better. This would also be very ineff
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Because retailers do the evaluation for you. We just bought a bunch of scissors and snippers. One of them sells well and some of them look OK and might wind up selling. One packet from a factory came with each product individually wrapped i
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Should also add that Amazon is not really all that good at evaluating lab reports, nor could they be unless they changed what people evaluated the reports. They have a hard time telling the difference between a report doctored by someone wi
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
I think the whole notion of war as a whodunnit crime is pretty moronic at a fundamental level. #1, you don't have jurisdiction. #2, if you hoped to gain jurisdiction, the most important thing is not piecing together the facts of the ca
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Fighting games and head-to-head puzzle games like Bubble Bobble in a popular arcade were pretty cool like this in that people would line up to go up against the reigning champion who could go hours on a single quarter. Sort of weird how mos
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
Ever carried around $20 in quarters in a fanny pack as a five year old? It's pretty heavy. There's a pretty low ceiling on how much you could spend back in the day and it was impossible to silently, digitally spend an unlimited qu
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
It's like a dumber version of dance marathons and things like that from the 1920s. So, a side note on the culture of the time.
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by j-c-hewitt 7y ago
I turn it off and every so often Apple decides that no, I want their dumb news notifications again. Then it goes off again. I have never received an Apple News notification that was not dumb, stupid, and useless. It's sort of like airp
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by j-c-hewitt 8y ago
I don't think it's that urgent because most people do not need to read most news. For people with particular responsibilities, it can be helpful to be up-to-date on the narrow field of news related to your responsibilities. For mo
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by j-c-hewitt 8y ago
Right. If you bill one hour and don't have to issue a refund, you're in the green. Nearly impossible to mess up. Harder to mess up than being an Uber driver with lower capital requirements.

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