privacypoller

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by privacypoller 7y ago
well, this is the general premise of actions like habitat for humanity, to get the owner/occupier to invest sweat equity over purely financial. It probably works but the cost (and scalability) can restrict how fast/far it can be a
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by privacypoller 7y ago
this is similar to our experience in commercial properties as well, which removes the emotionally charged aspects of "taking advantage of poor people" - landscaping, interior finishings, painting, etc are all large costs in nice r
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by privacypoller 8y ago
or you could use the incentive of, you know, a longer more enjoyable life...
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Well if you work in any sort of specialized field or at a level beyond entry, you've got some obvious bias in your sample. If a degree or formal education has been used as a barrier to restrict access for any time only the strongest an
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by privacypoller 8y ago
This reads like a variation on the "many successful products started off looking like toys" post I've seen repeatedly over the years. The problem with this theme is extrapolating that all toy markets/products will grow i
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by privacypoller 8y ago
McDonalds is a great example of this. Minimum wage is headed to $15/hr and they've replaced 80% of the front counter staff with self-order kiosks. Grocery stores can have one person running 4+ self-checkout counters at teh grocer
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by privacypoller 8y ago
You must have grown up on the coast or the island, because I grew up in the interior and they never had trees like that outside of the temperate zones. The majority of the province has logging but it is not giant, old-growth ancients and ne
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Welcome to the new society - participation ribbons for all!
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I'd put a lot more effort and expect far more value out of a private, vetted startup school then I would say, this response.
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by privacypoller 8y ago
>> I'm not sure how the vetting process adds any value What? The entire point of vetting is to increase the quality of the remaining pool. You can argue how successful they are at doing this, but the intent of the process is pr
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I remember at my local K-Mart the commodore products were under the glass display cases with electronics like calculators. Then they'd have a couple of spinning wire racks for the discount ($9.99 and $19.99) shareware and games. Expens
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Except good and bad are relative, not absolute. In your case you seem to be comparing to a personal notion of "good", but it's still relative. You also state that "not everything has to be binary" and then say somet
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by privacypoller 8y ago
It's seems highly unlikely that this is some long game by Google where they're going to "bring down the man from the inside"
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by privacypoller 8y ago
chill - I don't think the GP actually suggesting we form vigilante squads to hunt down sidewalk-riding vesparados (see what I did there?)
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I'm somewhat skeptical that we can draw any conclusions from the total vs. finished based on gross output. Writers are often described as either those who produce prodigiously and then cut mercilessly or those who refine every line bef
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by privacypoller 8y ago
All of these interviewing "tools" (or tricks) attempt to be time/cost efficient proxies for doing the damn job, and they all suck. * Whiteboard coding is awesome for software development shops that don't actually own com
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I don't doubt lots of companies do this, but I skeptical about the coding on a whiteboard. They talk in person, sketch out diagrams, highlight important aspects - why? because these things are all easier on a fluid analog medium like a
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by privacypoller 8y ago
you can have effective curbing and drains without the strict, right-angle demarcation we often see now. retro-fitting all that infrastructure though would cost a fortune
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by privacypoller 8y ago
people dramatically slowing down then speeding up is likely more dangerous than everyone maintaining a speed higher than the posted limit, which makes the cameras a net negative from a safety perspective. Highways built for safety and limit
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by privacypoller 8y ago
plus that's tax-free cash!
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by privacypoller 8y ago
except how is this market captured? Seems to be more supply-chain and scale, or R&D in the actual product. These guys appear to hope for the former, but not sure how they can beat the bigger players other than some vague comments akin t
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by privacypoller 8y ago
the title of this post is literally "Lowest Prices on Contact Lenses" it's reasonable for someone to interpret that as "cheapest price for the contact lenses I wear".
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by privacypoller 8y ago
so, you're basically saying "we're the lowest price, except when we're not because of 'unfair' competition on scale and supply chain, but help us gain these advantages and we'll be competitive" Are yo
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by privacypoller 8y ago
simple answer: there's no water, so unlike your US examples you can't use massive public diversion projects to make these areas fit for habitation.
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by privacypoller 8y ago
I grew up in the desert, so absolutely love the rain. Then I went to school in Vancouver, so I get the negative aspects of endless grey...
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by privacypoller 8y ago
"guns don't kill people; people kill people" "Hey kids what are you going to do with your screen time today? daily endless-runner challenge? collect gems for virtual powerups? or Math Workout?"
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by privacypoller 8y ago
absolutely - teaching my kids how to entertain themselves for a couple of hours has been one of the major challenges in raising them. A combination of parents scheduling the entire life of a kid and always-available media has made it very
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by privacypoller 8y ago
First regular cell phone use is already banned in a lot of places, and everywhere has a general distracted driving law on the books. It's pretty tough to surf facebook or instagram hands-free. Second, your essentially saying I'll
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by privacypoller 8y ago
this is the same problem with photo radar speeding tickets. We know that for learning immediate correction is super-important, so just like getting a ticket in the mail several weeks after speeding, a note after you fail a test will just
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by privacypoller 8y ago
Don't get your causation mixed up though. Most of those people are actually crazy, wild and broke.

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