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by tyrfing 3y ago
> It is very well optimized and efficient, but you're not going to order something with standard UPS or Fedex style shipping and see it delivered by rail. This isn't actually true, huge amounts of small parcel ground shipping g
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by tyrfing 3y ago
In an ideal world, what would you say should have happened?
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by tyrfing 3y ago
Wages are sticky. Prices of undifferentiated commodity products are not, which is why Tyson (as an example) has falling ASPs and negative margins on many products.
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by tyrfing 3y ago
The PPI time series they use is indexed to the outlier you see in 2020, although that's the incorrect chart - this should be a better one: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU0221 The conclusion is that industry
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by tyrfing 3y ago
> It was basically a case of a politician, Wendell Murphy, who helped pass 28 laws making it illegal to sue a factory farm, then left office and went into partnership with Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned company Said politician was in
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by tyrfing 3y ago
Actually $279 million. An interesting part: > Both the $200 million CFTC award and the $279 million SEC award involved individuals who blew the whistle after the agency had already begun to investigate the misconduct at issue.
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by tyrfing 3y ago
OK. Top rate means the base pay rate (non-overtime) after completing progression, it's not totally clear to me if the "average" is over time or by area.
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by tyrfing 3y ago
Overtime past 40 hours (8 in a day or 6th punch) is the case across the US, I think, typically at 1.5x rate. Exact overtime rules vary considerably by supplement beyond that, particularly for part time employees.
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by tyrfing 3y ago
Correct, the union does not recognize any performance standards. However, getting the (driving) job is done by demonstrating you can meet very high performance standards over the course of 30 days, and other things like even minor dishonest
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by tyrfing 3y ago
> now, who is actually making it, and how many of them are there? Somewhere around 100-125K delivery drivers; any of them with 4 years full time seniority by the end of the contract, since the 5-year contract includes year-by-year genera
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by tyrfing 3y ago
4 years full time, to be specific, unless progression time is reduced. Off the street 22.4 hires from Covid times, who started at $20.50, will be converted to RPCD and making $45 within the next couple years.
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by tyrfing 3y ago
Air conditioning was fairly easy for both parties to agree on, due to a very successful PR campaign that the company wants to bury. Something like an accelerated schedule to retrofit current vehicles would be expensive to negotiate and resu
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by tyrfing 3y ago
0 EFC. No info on parents required (FAFSA) and asset information can also be skipped. Anything past community college won't necessarily be covered, though. About 61% of foster youth in California graduate high school on time. Past 18 t
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by tyrfing 3y ago
BLS data states $1.95 for a loaf of bread. https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...
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by tyrfing 3y ago
Voice commands being usable is the one thing I miss from having an Android phone.
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by tyrfing 4y ago
It's a company with 750M MAU, so very large but still not something most US readers would be aware of. If it was a French or US developer, they would have just used the name of it.
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by tyrfing 4y ago
Sure, if you translate that to "somewhere with blizzards" and ignore that it's nonsense as-is.
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by tyrfing 4y ago
Disagree. Dark Sky was fantastic in the PNW, where the main concerns are just how rainy it will be that day, and the approximate high temperatures coming up. Nothing accurately forecasts (here) whether it will be freezing or whether precipi
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by tyrfing 4y ago
> For example, Oregon had huge protests and weak government responses, and yet prosecutes large amounts of shoplifting. https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/multnomah-co... There were not protes
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by tyrfing 4y ago
What they don't have is a good anti-reflective coating. If you want that, you end up back with Luxottica (Essilor.)
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by tyrfing 4y ago
That elephant from a different angle: adults that grew old staring at glowing rectangles and are now highly resistant to change of any sort. At one point people thought that was stupid, too. What if future change comes mostly from your gene
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by tyrfing 4y ago
Absolutely absurd. I haven't touched it for 13 years, and just received an email that they will be billing me $31.25 with 6 hours warning. This, of course, is a few hours after an email saying that my "free subscription" will
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by tyrfing 4y ago
It took over like wildfire because it had 10x better UX than any combination of alternatives - and you definitely needed a combination to match the features. Start with the fact that it's not just chat, but also video, voice, and inclu
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by tyrfing 4y ago
That's about right for a 40" TV for domestic ground shipping, maybe a bit low. It's more than that to ship it from China to California, and larger sizes will hit breakpoints that significantly increase shipping cost.
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by tyrfing 4y ago
The superior experience with an Apple branded Lightning cable and charger: 5 watts, USB 2.0 speed, and no. Now that's progress!
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by tyrfing 4y ago
> My laptop's charger causes my phone to overheat If it actually overheats and doesn't just get very warm, that's a fire hazard and you are using dangerously faulty equipment.
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by tyrfing 4y ago
That sounds like a mouse issue, there shouldn't be enough jitter for that to happen. Common reasons would be a dirty sensor or maybe surface incompatibility.
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by tyrfing 4y ago
No, because minor increases in labor costs don't change the math much. Amazon is already spending billions to improve automation, these people are doing the jobs that they cannot reasonably automate. If you assume a magic "develop
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by tyrfing 4y ago
Very unlikely. Posturing regarding China is much cheaper than any action, the US was barely willing to take any action regarding Russia, and that's at least an order of magnitude cheaper. Consider that in any outright war, a company li
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by tyrfing 4y ago
I disagree with your maximalism definition, it usually refers to the opinion that all other crypto is worthless garbage and [BTC/ETH/___] is the only one that will survive. It's possible to have those extreme pro-crypto opini

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