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by snapetom 4y ago
I remember getting a cappuccino from a train station vending machine in Italy and saying, "Hey, this isn't too bad! Much better than Starbucks!" Problem is that, I would say the majority of, small coffee shops in the US make
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Google Wave was also a looong time ago. People were still thinking of them as the "do no evil" company.
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> Why support Starbucks when you can support a mom & pop coffee shop Because small, local is not always better. It's quite common to find coffee shops here in the PNW that make a horrendous espresso. Most roasters here in Sea
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I always ask about the sales team - How many are there, how many years experience does the manager have in this sector, what's the experience of account execs, do they use BDRs, are they meeting sales goals. Then, further, how does the
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Ugh. Tell me about it. There was some poor lost delivery driver in a McHouse subdivision about near me. In one hand she was holding a plastic bag with food containers, and the other she was holding a phone. Two people posted video/p
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> It is more about inertia. Can't agree more. A few years ago, I joined a large healthcare organization to take a break from the startup grind. During my tenure, I witnessed the selection process of an issue tracking system and a
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git's performance increase came around at the right time, too. Code bases were becoming bigger and bigger, and Agile's popularity preached a lot of branching. SVN branches were a full copy, making things way worse.
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I really, really love Shortcut. Unfortunately our org is looking for a traditional Gantt chart, and Shortcut is a bit lacking in that. However, up to this point in our company, it's been great. It's very deliverable-centered. Sto
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It seems the pro-Jira comments here are basically, "It's fine if your organization isn't a mess and you don't abuse it." That's the problem with any tool, framework, language, etc where the defenders main argum
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Calling that a monopoly price shows ignorance on what a monopoly is. Even large metropolitan areas have just a handful of emergency vet hospitals. Emergency vet hospitals don't have an army of vets on standby to handle cases. 2-3 is
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Being able to come up with $500 or $5k at a moment's notice is part of pet ownership. If your financial situation prevents coming up with it, don't get a pet. You're just shifting irresponsibility in the guise of anti-corpo
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This was pre-COVID in suburban midwest, if I recall. On the low-end of the estimate, and nothing happened that required intervention, but certainly possible in the market location. Major city? Good luck.
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Mars was also forced to sell some emergency and speciality clinics about 3 years ago, too. Today's action isn't entirely unprecedented by the FTC.
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My wife's practice has gotten insanely busy post-COVID. She doesn't deal with dogs and cat's so it's not that boom. Decreasing slots due to safety and health was an issue at first, but they've since returned to no
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I lost my shit at a redditor for complaining about a $500 overnight bill. $500 for a doctor and three nurses to watch over your animal like a hawk for eight hours, plus IV and medicine, is a damn bargain. I thought HN crowd would be smart
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Agree with the demand elasticity, but I'd like to add something about higher prices. It's been studied in the industry very well that you can't have good care without higher prices and "things." It's just not
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Ideally they shouldn't care. I was giving an example of why consumers would choose to go to a corp clinic over independent - they simply don't know it's corporate owned. I'm not going to argue whether it's bad. I&
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My wife is a vet and is affected by this. We are not in the states affected, but she works for one of the corporations involved. This has been a long time coming. As another comment said, with a few anecdotal exceptions I can think of,
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Higher prices == worse Yelp reviews. You then get a reputation for being expensive, and Yelpers warn people to stay away. This is an emotionally charged industry where 99.9% of the customers have no clue what goes on business-wise behind t
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It's not as simple as hiriing vets. It's having techs to support the vets. Minimum, you need two techs to support a vet, ideally three. Many states require techs to be licensed and have at least AA degrees, so you're payin
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Most of the corporations don't make it known that the clinic is corporate owned. They sweep in, buy the clinic, and keep the owner in charge. Marketing and branding is kept as-is to keep the small, neighborhood clinic feel. Some of t
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>It is a sad and exploitative industry. What an insulting, belittling comment. I don't know why you think veterinarians are charities, and don't know why feel entitled to pay people less than they're worth. Veterinarians
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Except that the majority of content there are posted from karma-farming bot aggregators. Reddit does the same thing digg did that got them killed - curate submissions, but they wisely didn't announce it. Reddit uses a combo of algos,
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It's staffing, but it's a little more complex than just COVID/defund the police. This has been a long time coming. The Seattle City Council and previous mayors have spent many years prior fucking around with public safety
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Bizarre you think that things are either fucked over/not fucked over. I'd point out that the vast majority of lawsuits are settled before hitting the courtroom, but I think you're too young to understand what those words mea
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My favorite story of "unintended consequences" of belt-tightening like this was when I worked at a startup about a dozen years ago. We did well for a few years, but it was clear to people we were reaching a point of market satura
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This was basically my line of thinking when I filed. I felt I had good evidence, and I felt it all attacked very specific clauses in the contract. I didn't want to give them an opportunity to plan against it. In hindsight, it may not
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I think the market has a lot to do with it. I've bought properties in buyer's markets (recession '08 and '14) and it was barely even mentioned that there was a home warranty included. I got the sense from my agents tha
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Author here. As an aside, shortly before I filed, I told one of the customer service reps to cancel my contract. They said a manager would call me (I assume a retention specialist) but they never did. Coincidentally, my credit card expire
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Author here. As the arbitration attorney said earlier, "They don’t make money by paying out claims!" No insurance company or home warranty company exists to pay out claims. I laugh when I hear them claim that their business is

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