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by wbshaw 2y ago
I wish I could say it started with Walmart and their drive to push down costs from suppliers. But I now believe that they just took advantage of a situation that was already in the making. The drive to cut corners in every aspect of manufac
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by wbshaw 2y ago
He lost me by basically claiming with the nuclear chain reaction example that, "If A is possible, anything unknown is possible." The statement in itself is nonsense. By stating that something unknown is possible is simply stating
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by wbshaw 2y ago
I worked for a local government in the early 90s. My swan song project was consolidating 50+ NetWare 3.11 to 6 production NetWare 4 servers. We repurposed the old hardware to run as GroupWise messaging gateways. My most vivid observation wa
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by wbshaw 3y ago
This was one of my favorite technologies in Andromeda.
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by wbshaw 3y ago
In my experience, the higher end of the product and more often you end up paying extra for features you take for granted. The hotel business has been this way for years with extra fees for all kinds of things that a basic, decent hotel give
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by wbshaw 3y ago
It is an urban legend but it lets them claim to be the good guy because they contributed XX dollars to some worthy cause when it wasn't ever their money. Even if they decide to match some small amount from their profits, it's disi
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by wbshaw 3y ago
That is not entirely true. Whereas a company will likely bank that profit, employees are more likely to put that income back into the economy which provides a multiplier effect of the income in overall economic growth.