sharkmerry

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by sharkmerry 6y ago
>>On a per hour basis, my current job pays 95% of the non-union position, but the main difference is 7.5 hours vs. 8 hours a day. That means my yearly salary is more like 87%. Over your career, doesnt getting raises matter more than i
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
the compressor makes heat in addition to being loud. Thats the other strike against portable AC units. The compressor is heating up in the room you want to cool
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
random speculation. Could cheating in ways you can only do at home contributed? Not sure how you could test it. but would be interesting
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
> It'd be quite unrealistic to have Amazon own the tools and perform QA testing on all the millions of items on their site. You see a similar problem with knock off headphones, even plugging them in and listening to a song wouldn&#x
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
> Airbnb is certainly a market. So are restaurants. You do see people supporting their local restaurants in this crisis don't you? Yes, people are patrons of restaurants, because restaurants are still providing food.
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
> There is no direct link between Bezos net worth and allocation of resources to laborers, and attempts to paint that picture are misguided. If they raised wages of factory workers, profits go down, stock goes down, Bezos net worth go do
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
> If you try to be more engaged you end up exhausted due to the energy required to cross check information for veracity. This came up in a similar vein in the PG tweet thread yesterday. There is an assumption when commenting that everyo
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
I never said Marx wasn't. Just that the people who spread the views beyond just the "anti-Semites and white nationalists" seem to be both themselves. We don't know how deep the anti-Semitism and white-nationalism go in A
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
those right wing politicians and media personalities mentioned are Pat Buchanan, Andrew Breitbart, Jordan Peterson, all of whom have been tied to anti-semitism. I think people just arent as blatant now. Reminds me of the Lee Atwater quote.
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
By that same token, how big are the companies at the end of the tail? If large corporations are cutting marketing budgets, small shops on tighter budgets probably are as well
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
Perhaps I am naive. It seems they do benefit from hate, in that negative emotions drive more engagement. IF they truly didnt want to benefit from hate, they would find a way to not always rate negative engagement (arguing) as "engaging
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
ghost kitchens can absolutely make money. Them being done at scale with VC money, most likely not. But as the below commenter said, if you can use same ingredients across multiple dishes, it reduces waste and can reduce COGS. A small restau
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
> 2) Gross Margins (GM). As we grew, our burn rate grew too. We were losing money on every meal. If only we could get to critical mass. > We had epic revenue growth w/ burn rate growth. Soon we were burning $1.5-2M/mo! >
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
> buy wholesale stock from elsewhere The issue im presenting is they are buying them to be prepared to treat Americans IF it worked. But because they bought so many so quickly, it put Americans in a position where they weren't able
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
I think the issue was, as another commenter stated, it has current uses for patients and the price almost doubled. So people had shortages or couldnt afford needed medicine. because of a (apparently) dubious study
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
Whats intriguing is the person doing the "calling out" in the article/on twitter is pointing out that these are supposed to be owner-occupied if listed on AirBnb.
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
> So, big waste, nothing gained, Are you asserting that case count in the US would be the exact same without Shelter in place?
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
> On most streaming devices, OANN offers a stand-alone app that allows users to subscribe to its online news channel for $5 per month. This app is available on Roku along with Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV devices, and Android TV devices, and
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
I understand that. but what is the suggested alternative? These students simply cost more to educate, is that the students fault though? Leave them behind and underfunded like in the past? Lock them up?
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
They had an anti-poach between companies. Shared Blacklist isnt that far from that. https://fortune.com/2015/09/03/koh-anti-poach-order/
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
Is it entirely due to re-allocation to special needs education? Seems like with population growth, we are trying to educate more and more kids, and unlike in the past, we dont just discard that parts that would be expensive or difficult. In
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
This seems to be a post about this person launching a blog. It does not feel like the type of substantive post we need
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
This largely depends on remote work right? These people arent moving across the country, they are going to Marin, or maybe Tahoe. If the business is still centered in this area, they wont move quick. Also, SF isnt the only issue with homele
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
Is amazon the only way to pubish an ebook? Surely he could just post a PDF for paid download and have readers send the PDF to kindle if they really need to read it there. Calling a book "unreported truths..." while things are rapi
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
? Parent post did not mention qualified immunity it doesnt seem. > Right now, convictions of officers for actions done while in uniform are astronomically low. We need to work the other parts of the problem (gathering evidence, getting p
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
they have better SEO. Grubhub doesnt answer the call, they just generate a phone number that forwards to the restaurant phone and then get that new number higher ranking (including google sidebar)
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
Wow, thats a long piece. He ends his essay with > You know what would’ve been brave, Mr. Eich? Charging users for your software—on the idea that personal privacy is worth it—and puncturing the myth that web browsers must be free. Which m
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
Ads are here to stay unless human nature about paying for shit changes. Brave's approach while still having ads may nor may not be worse than FireFox who receive the majority of their revenue by partnering with search engines, who, y&#
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
agreed, was just explaining.
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by sharkmerry 6y ago
if you are running brave browser, it just allows you to launch a video call, gives you a link to share

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