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by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, if "good" means they manage themselves, and "bad" means he has to work at managing, that's not a great expectation.
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by smackfu 12y ago
True, but on a new car with relatively low mileage, I would think maintenance is essentially oil changes and tire inflation, and maybe brakes if the car is really abused.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Imagine if you went to buy a used car from Craigslist: Q: Who drove this car? A: Oh, whatever random people wanted to pay me money. Q: What kind of maintenance did you do? A: The bare minimum to get it to last a year. Q: What options did yo
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by smackfu 12y ago
> If you weren't getting low interest rates, you'd be getting a better cash price. Not necessarily. If dealers get a kickback on the financing, they can actually charge less for a financed car then a cash one.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Yes, I do not know where people imagine that this supply of 1-2 year old cars comes from. The ones that do exist are mainly from rental fleets, with 30k of miles per year. Not exactly a winner of a car there.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Thanks, I was a bit confused over what had changed since it still said "coming this spring."
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by smackfu 12y ago
>I worked for a small medical company that had access to 20,000 PHI records I can only imagine the data protection standards at small equipment manufacturers and old-school pharmacies. I'd guess their biggest security measure is ke
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by smackfu 12y ago
Is there anywhere in the world that allows unrestricted drug trade?
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by smackfu 12y ago
True, yet paying your taxes by credit card has always had fees, for the last decade or two. The government really has zero incentive to accept credit cards and eat the fees, so I'm guessing the credit card companies allowed it in this
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by smackfu 12y ago
They charge extra to accept credit cards, they could easily charge extra for bitcoins to cover fees.
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by smackfu 12y ago
IBM is a lot more comfortable with work-from-home than a lot of the rockstar tech companies.
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by smackfu 12y ago
How does a stock price usually move after a layoff? It goes up. Investors like it when a company cuts costs.
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by smackfu 12y ago
>IBM claims low thousands (at a cost of $0.6B, which seems quite high) If you pay 6 months severance, it adds up quickly. A million dollars covers only 20 $100k employees.
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by smackfu 12y ago
True, but not as meaningful as it sounds. As long as you are taking actions with good intentions, you're on solid ground. And you can justify almost any actions under employee satisfaction (which reduces hiring expenses) or goodwill
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by smackfu 12y ago
As far as anyone can tell, dead wrong, but then there are still headlines about "massive worldwide layoffs." Not that 5000 is a small number, but IBM is a large company.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Given that, it's still a huge gap between 5k and 100k.
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by smackfu 12y ago
As the most direct example, layoffs are considered good for the stock.
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by smackfu 12y ago
It's easy to forget that IBM still made $5.5B profit in the most recent quarter.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Reminder that Cringeley's original claim from Jan 22nd was: To fix its business problems and speed up its “transformation,” next week about 26 percent of IBM’s employees will be getting phone calls from their managers. A few hours late
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by smackfu 12y ago
Valencia isn't exactly in the middle of nowhere, I'd be surprised if their rent hasn't been increasing.
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by smackfu 12y ago
>If you're clearing $3k in profit a year you have a very expensive hobby, not a viable business. Depends on whether you pay yourself before the profit or not.
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by smackfu 12y ago
The management was making $28k a year salary. I don't know how viable a business it was even without the minimum wage increase.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I think that if the CEO of a polling company were to come out and endorse a candidate, I would have a really hard time trusting their polls on that race.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Aha, he has a book. Is he running for office soon?
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by smackfu 12y ago
Here's a piece from a conservative think tank that is essentially the same argument as what is in the "non-partisan" Gallup opinion poll: https://www.aei.org/publication/tracking-the-unreported-15-6... I
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by smackfu 12y ago
Bigger issue is that utility f.lux.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Boy, a polling org putting up political opinion pieces sure seems like a terrible idea.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I'm a bit surprised that it is worth it to rework effects for a second trailer.
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by smackfu 12y ago
When people have a company based around abusing your systems, it's never "quite easy" to get around them.
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by smackfu 12y ago
If the paid-for app ratings don't do it like this, I would be surprised.

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