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by monknomo 12y ago
A $200 ice machine isn't going after the people who would buy an $800 ice machine so much as the people that want to be people who can buy an $800 ice machine. It's the reason Seikos and Omega exist in the watch market. You get
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by monknomo 12y ago
I think the grandparent poster meant nursing homes where mentally disabled people work taking care of the residents, not nursing homes that care for the mentally disabled.
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by monknomo 12y ago
If you are in the states and are not in a place with an extremely well established rental market run by professional landlords, it is probably like that. Of course, most places require that landlords give the tenant some amount of notice be
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by monknomo 13y ago
During the California gold rush, the hardware sellers made tons of money, but during the Dawson gold rush, everybody knew the guy selling pickaxes made money. What happened was everybody tried to sell pickaxes, and the people selling luxur
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by monknomo 13y ago
I would stockpile parts for the machines and take them off the network. If you have enough spares and your computers aren't exposed to outside attacks, I don't see why they couldn't hum along for another decade or two. If yo
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by monknomo 13y ago
Peter Watts is excellent. Blindsight and the Rifters trilogy are both fun hard sci-fi bent reads
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by monknomo 13y ago
There is the direct method of finding an organization that is helping people and working for them. Not everyone believes this, but working for the government is/can be a good way to help people. I work for the government and I think o