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by phil21 1y ago
It’s valuable, it’s it’s the least valuable part of the value chain. A rounding error that looks good due to the immense scale of the numbers involved. Buys you some time. Cheap energy and delivery is many times more valuable than spendin
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by phil21 1y ago
This was predicted far before the latest datacenter investment craze. It’s what happens when a generation of people decide to stop building electrical capacity. Writing has been on the wall for decades and the AI craze was the final tippin
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by phil21 1y ago
When you are being spammed with grifters who are basically using system inefficiencies, subsidy, and dumping externalities onto the public grid there is very little way to keep up. If all the actors here were acting in good faith, I would a
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by phil21 1y ago
> Not my experience using taxi call services in Chicago. Whenever I called them (before Uber) the taxi was prompt and courteous. Not remotely my experience in Chicago, and I lived in a relatively primary service area (Wicker Park). Call
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by phil21 1y ago
Sure. That might work, but the worker has zero control of implementing such a policy. They do have control over doing things that increase their tips. You work in the frameworks available to you, not some idealized version of the world.
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by phil21 1y ago
> But yeah… tipping has very little to do with “work harder => more pay.” You need to examine your logic more. Or just, like… have a few beers with a single person who’s ever worked in a restaurant as an adult. I have had more than a
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by phil21 1y ago
> Of course I always prefer remote work for companies in the same city. Being able to come in easily when necessary helps a lot. I wouldn't really call this "remote work" though. I know the terms are a little fuzzy. My fa
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by phil21 1y ago
> It's all one big pile. I don't believe this to be true. SBA in theory has it's own "pile" that they can of course use to substitute with a FBA third party seller if they deem it cheaper as they are confident t
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by phil21 1y ago
This is effectively my "dream" job for semi-retirement at the moment. I don't need to make top dollar any longer, but I crave doing something "real" that actually matters and I work for/talk to people who actu
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by phil21 1y ago
Right, that’s FBA. I’m talking about sold by Amazon. I’m specifically talking about a case where a sold by Amazon item came from co-mingled inventory from a FBA seller. I also know from direct second party experience (I also personally sa
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by phil21 1y ago
Has this co-mingling of sold by Amazon ever actually been documented at any scale beyond “extremely rare stock/pick” mistake? I am of course aware of the option for manufacturers to enable this for their registered products on FBA - a
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by phil21 1y ago
I have nearly 3 decades (ugh…) now of forming fully remote startups and working remotely. It used to be totally non-controversial and completely validated by direct personal experience that only a minority of the population is built to work
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by phil21 1y ago
The vast majority of BTC transactions are done this way. Anything of any size is traded via OTC desks or other more private avenues.
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by phil21 1y ago
All bezos did was explicitly make the homework a required part of calling a meeting. Correctly putting the majority of the prep work on the person calling the meeting to begin with. Then they simply moved the implied 20-30 minute prep time
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by phil21 1y ago
I looked into this a long time ago, it’s only gotten “worse” since then as far as I know. Assuming your money comes via income and you are not doing anything exceptional to optimize taxes, you are around that 50% or so rate on incremental i
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by phil21 1y ago
Glycemic spikes makes me hungry after the spike. This indirectly caused my obesity, among other factors of course. It was a loop of eat something that spiked my glucose, be super hungry 40 minutes later on the drop, spike it again. Repeat
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by phil21 1y ago
I have sent in drug samples for testing, in my case they were name brand. Variance per dose is about plus/minus 15% across the board. You might get 9mg one day, and 11.5mg another for a drug with a nominal 10mg label. Injectables are
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by phil21 1y ago
> But the biggest tell that housing is valuable is that nobody is spending $500k on housing to rent it out if they could make more money pumping $500k into the stock market. Of course they are. I do. I do so knowing full well that my e
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by phil21 1y ago
> The Reolink does have a separate chime that plugs into a power socket and a way better camera I started using PoE to DC power adapters for most of these use-cases. It lets me centralize my UPS to the utility closet, and offer a ton of
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by phil21 1y ago
I pretty much just use it to book black cars these days - at least in my local city where those require licensed livery drivers. Good experience there for the most part. Most of the time I’m using Uber it’s either a business expense to th
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by phil21 1y ago
They might be horrible but they are far less horrible than nothing. Tenement housing is pretty horrible but way better than not being able to afford anything. Boarding house rooms are horrible but better than not having a low cost/low
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by phil21 1y ago
Airlines already do that for business routes. Just in the other direction on pricing. Pre-Covid there were a couple airlines playing around with business class only flights from NY to LA. Solo business travelers are where the money is made
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by phil21 1y ago
Airlines do sell multi-packs with flexible rebooking. At least United and Delta did pre-covid, I haven’t had a use since then though. With even moderate airline status rebooking/cancellations work more or less as described. I can’t r
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by phil21 1y ago
I wish this existed in the US. I have plenty of somewhat esoteric stuff that a generalized post to FMB or CL may take weeks or months to even give away to someone who knows what it is/has a use for it. And the cost of shipping + eBay
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by phil21 1y ago
As a teen coming up in the industry I always said I’d pay for WinRAR once I “made it”. Happy to say I’ve paid for more than a few copies for myself and friends! It’s the small little things like this that make the grind worth it to me. Sta
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by phil21 1y ago
Very late reply, but as someone who lost a lot of weight on Mounjaro and has so far (2 years after the fact or so) kept it off via lifestyle changes this is how I see it as well. When you are constantly trying something and failing at it, y
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by phil21 1y ago
> How much more effective would they be if he were more willing to eat his own cooking? Zero percent. Folks who scream about the hypocrisy of it would not change anything, those who don't care will continue to not care. It would re
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by phil21 1y ago
Being skinny does not, but being morbidly obese absolutely is a strong correlation to the point of it being a rounding error. Medical conditions that cause it are extremely rare. For better or worse, as a formerly morbidly obese person I c
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by phil21 2y ago
> prod outage Depends on if the outage impacts the entire industry/sector or just his company. If the former, it's relatively fine because stock performance is going to be similar to competitors and investors won't be ask
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by phil21 2y ago
> It looked like a win-win, under a certain angle, back in the day This isn't really true except for perhaps the most naive sort of person. It was well understood by most folks that there were going to be winners and losers. You c

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