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rdtwo
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rdtwo
5y ago
Ha I would pay ford 100 to not have auto start stop. No need to pay me. It’s a total non feature
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rdtwo
5y ago
In the short term companies make incredible profits. Compensation is down but most price contracts are adjusted up for inflation. Most b2b contracts have an annual inflation clause for example
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rdtwo
5y ago
Exactly a lot of These companies are like hmos of appliances. Health insurance in the us isn’t really insurance either. If it was pure insurance most people would only by catastrophic
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5y ago
It’s going to be hard to do taxes for that though
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rdtwo
5y ago
The quality of investigation here is so piss poor. Scalping is a rich man’s game. Highly capital intensive. Margins are good 10-30% depending on product and tax but turn around time is still weeks or months so not good if you have no money.
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rdtwo
5y ago
Why not call it a buying club? You basically use volume to force negotiation of lower price
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rdtwo
5y ago
The math isn’t as simple as you make it out to be. See insurance companies have volume and can negotiate better rates and policies. For example they can get 30-50%labor rate discounts or negotiate lower costs for recurring visits and disco
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5y ago
That’s kind of the point. To get them ready for work. In many jobs just being present is half the responsibility. Many jobs have no way to evaluate performance effectively and most jobs don’t reward it. You just need to be better than the b
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5y ago
The fines are the same for both. It’s like Bill gates doesn’t really care if he runs every red light camera on the way home but his maid does.
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rdtwo
5y ago
Nothing to see here no need to mask just wash your hands 10x a day and go back to work. The economy needs you
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5y ago
Also useful for tracking?
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rdtwo
5y ago
Yeah but now they are commuting 10-20 hrs extra a week. That’s a lot of time to do laundry and make dinner
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5y ago
Yeah I think it’s well known but you need some sort of event to prove the emperor has no clothes. You essentially have to force it to go kaput.
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rdtwo
5y ago
Sarcasm is lost on the internet
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rdtwo
5y ago
I’m not kidding I’m buying more house before all that notional dollar value is tiny. Also 4% internet and 7-9% inflation… eventually wages will catch up.
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5y ago
I’m buying more house.
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rdtwo
5y ago
Try 10c a kilowatt in many places
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rdtwo
5y ago
I have the same problem and I hate it. I’m going to get a bigger phone cause it’s so annoying
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rdtwo
5y ago
Which one does not lock you out on big volume days? A lot of the discount guys completely fail on a 2 sigma or 3 sigma day. TD fails on busy days. I heard e trade was similarly bad
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5y ago
I’d bet on no just cause how long it would take to certify and ratify. I don’t like bets where I put up a lot to win a little.
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5y ago
Do people put money on this because 4:1 odds are pretty good. If definition of fall is a mission accomplished type photo op I’d take those odds. If it’s prolonged stable holding then I probably would not
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5y ago
That’s good ripoff pricing at the dealer is a problem.
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rdtwo
5y ago
Zelle is a no charge back system. It’s preferred by sellers because like cash the buyer causally can’t scam.
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5y ago
It’s cause they are already set in life before they drop out. Work is going great lots of money coming in and College is just a distraction at that point
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rdtwo
5y ago
Maybe Taiwan should try to join NATO. See if that speeds up the invasion
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5y ago
Women are all on the East coast men on the west. But really if you haven’t found love by your mid to late 30s you should probably evaluate life priorities. All my friends that are still single at This age are most single by choice or throu
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5y ago
The Obama book deal is more of a legal bribery than something people actually read
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5y ago
Yes and no you have to be better than the median in all categories some of which you have no control over. For example you need to work in a better than median group for a better than median boss in a better than median division with better
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5y ago
If you think you are the top 10% of management favorites then you will not benefit. If you are a middling engineer then you will
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5y ago
In tech the workers have a lot more negotiating power because you aren’t trapped by heavy capital equipment costs. Still unions help with some of the shitty practices you see like the pip shenanigans at Amazon. There is a cost but if you n
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