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by pgrote 6y ago
>1) A lot of businesses probably won't be willing to spend a week with reduced internet capacity to upload stuff. Things we as single users might be okay with might not always translate to being a good fit for a business overall. Pe
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by pgrote 6y ago
>800 million monthly users What is a monthly user? What part of the facebook ecommerce platform did they use? Facebook has the centralized marketplace, many local/regional sales groups and paid advertising.
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by pgrote 6y ago
> dominate force on the commerce front During the height of the pandemic Amazon's performance suffered for us. Prior to the pandemic 100% of our online purchases came from Amazon mostly due to inertia. Find something, order it, it s
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by pgrote 6y ago
>From a people placement perspective, a parade and a protest are pretty equivalent. Correct. Regardless of which one is more important, the effects will be long lasting. You won't be able to use public health as a justification for
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by pgrote 6y ago
>The faithless elector was to the Founder's one of the last bulwarks against bestowing the highest office in the country to someone so repugnant, that an isolated bunch of people, accountable to no one but their own conscience, poli
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by pgrote 6y ago
>Twitter should politely respond by closing his account I've thought about this in the past. Why wouldn't they begin closing accounts they think are troublesome? There is no legal right to a twitter account. Except for public b
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by pgrote 6y ago
The method in which he is handling it is wrong, I think. I get twitter, youtube, facebook, et. al. have their own rules and enforce them. The sites couldn't exist without the protections of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
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by pgrote 6y ago
>I guess I'm in the minority I am there with you. We've used instacart and walmart for deliveries and sams's for curbside pick up. Sam's has been wonderful without any issues. Their inventory is spot on 24 hours out.
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by pgrote 6y ago
Boy, glad they missed the video is growing train.
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by pgrote 6y ago
The author asks for an upvote for more inside trivia. Excellent first hand source. Mod responds, "Though this could be construed as a PSA, and thus in violation of Rule 8, it's got a lot of valuable info that even I have never see
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John Krasinski's Some Good News Sells to ViacomCBS Following Bidding War(hollywoodreporter.com)
10 points by pgrote 6y ago|0 comments
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by pgrote 6y ago
I understand why mods of smaller subreddits do it. They are passionate people looking for a community. The volunteer efforts they put into it help them and the community. I do not understand why mods work for free on the huge subreddits. Ab
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by pgrote 6y ago
I know it is a simple way to look at it, but Walmart on whole has been a game changer when it came to handling the lockdown. Where Amazon was taking weeks to get "non-critical" items shipped, Walmart had on average a 3 day wait fo
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by pgrote 6y ago
I know it as messages.google.com. It doesn't work among multiple desktops concurrently.
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by pgrote 6y ago
I am a premium pushbullet user and have it on my android phone. It is the only reliable solution to handle texting and notification from the Windows or Chromebook desktop I have come across. I've never thought about the information the
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by pgrote 6y ago
Is there a replacement for pushbullet? Long time user of pushbullet since I like to be able to text from the desktop. Google has released messages.google.com, which is a nightmare to use among various desktops. Microsoft released their Phon
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Marc Cuban Audited Protocols of Re-Openings in Dallas for Health Compliance(blogmaverick.com)
4 points by pgrote 6y ago|4 comments
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by pgrote 6y ago
>unionization I am confused why there weren't wholesale strikes in the grocery, retail, warehouse, gig workforces during the shutdowns. Workers had complete power to force change.
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by pgrote 6y ago
They have a good track record. The covid19 outbreak seems to have caused some bumps. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/costco-thr... https://www.kuow.org/stories/costco-tells-o
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by pgrote 6y ago
12 hours ago the OP reported the issue was resolved. No further explanation except thanking Pax from amazon.
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by pgrote 6y ago
>I grew up in the St Louis area. There were 2 primary reasons I believe St. Louis as a city and a metro failed to emerge as a large area with great prosperity. 1. The scheme and charter. In 1875 the city forced a divorce from the county.
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by pgrote 6y ago
I understand what you are saying and am grateful I can afford the monthly cost. The cost I pay is worth the value I receive.
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by pgrote 6y ago
Good point. It just seemed odd to me they would subsidize a print edition, but I guess it was for the advertising. We never opened the blue bag except to recycle the paper.
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by pgrote 6y ago
I think it is $59.90 if I added correctly. All are digital only subscriptions and do not include additional tiered access they may offer. IE: NY Times crosswords, LA times in person events, etc. The Guardian is a yearly subscription promo a
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by pgrote 6y ago
>I don't want to subscribe to just one paper. There are so many good articles in all the papers. A few years back I just went ahead and subscribed to the ones I wanted to support to try to support journalism. It was more affordable
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by pgrote 7y ago
Insurance companies are coming out of the pandemic relatively unscathed, because the pandemic isn't a typically covered event for business interruption?
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by pgrote 7y ago
The USA did this for electricity. It is mind boggling it hasn't been done for internet access. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act
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by pgrote 7y ago
"South Korea has used data from surveillance cameras, cellphones and credit card transactions to map the social connections of suspected cases. " None of these things are available to health departments in the United States unless
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by pgrote 7y ago
Should have been 4 bullet points: 1) The Federal government should create and fund a National Health Organization for single payer universal healthcare for all citizens. 2) Workers affected by job loss due to covid-19 will receive 1:1 incom
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A new message on coronavirus in hard-hit areas: Don’t get tested(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by pgrote 7y ago|1 comments

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