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Water Cooler / Re: Pubcon, Vegas, 6-9 november 2017?
« on: October 24, 2017, 06:54:00 PM »
>>or make our own

I will be there for Affiliate Summit in January (7th-9th) but that conference also overlaps with CES so probably not the best time to do anything.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Ring Video Doorbell
« on: October 20, 2017, 05:17:04 PM »
Everyone I know who has one loves it. Some of them have posted videos showing people trying to steal packages off their porch, testing the door to see if it is unlocked, etc.

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Traffic / Re: The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare
« on: October 17, 2017, 01:30:19 PM »
Was just coming here to post that. I have been following these mattress companies for a while now. Very interesting stuff in regards to properly disclosing relationships, companies trying to bully their way into good reviews, companies trying to control content the reviewers put out, how honest reviews really are, etc.

Purple Mattress also sued a guy claiming the white powder on their mattresses was harmful. Turns out that reviewer used to work at Ghost Bed and still has connections there.

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Water Cooler / Re: Aerial views of Santa Rosa CA
« on: October 12, 2017, 05:46:58 PM »
I don't remember seeing whole neighborhoods destroyed by fire like that any time recently. That looks more like a tornado leveled the place.

My brother-in-law lives in Anaheim and sent some pics very similar to the ones Mackin posted. Crazy.

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Economics & Investing / Re: Death spiral for cars
« on: October 06, 2017, 08:01:43 PM »
>4WD

If I ever move back to Spokane there is a 99% chance I will get a 4WD again. I might only really need it once or twice a year because of the snow (maybe more depending on the winter) but I spent way too many cold, wet days digging my non-4WD owning friends out of snowbanks.

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Water Cooler / Re: The Modern Interpretation of Open Offices is Crap
« on: October 05, 2017, 12:52:17 PM »
Most of our office here is pretty standard cubicles. Not too bad. But one department here needed more employees than we had space for so they put in some big, long tables with about a 1 foot divider down the middle. Our building manager said they could fit something like 30-40% more people in the same space and these set ups are much cheaper than cubicles. They said they won't be doing this for any of the rest of the office and I hope they stick to that. I would hate those open offices. I am pretty sure most of our San Mateo office is more open.

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Traffic / Re: City of Amazon proposed to attract company’s HQ2 to Georgia
« on: October 05, 2017, 12:46:52 PM »
>Amazon.com Inc. is experimenting with a new delivery service

More and more of my deliveries from Amazon have been coming from their Flex program: https://flex.amazon.com/. People use their own vehicles, go to the warehouse, load up, and make their deliveries. As they open more and more fulfillment centers and warehouses around the country they can probably cut out 80-90% of their reliance on standard delivery carriers. For the rural deliveries that don't make financial sense they will probably still keep using FedEx, UPS, and USPS but anything they can deliver themselves for less than they pay the carriers they will figure out a way to do themselves.

$18-25 per hour is pretty decent money for stuff like this. If a person were to drive for Uber, deliver for Uber Eats, pick up groceries for Shipt, and do deliveries for Amazon they will pretty much never run out of work.


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Water Cooler / Re: Hurricane Irma
« on: September 13, 2017, 03:03:06 PM »
>>kill more people in FL than the hurricane did

I heard only 11 people died in the hurricane. My guess is there will be more deaths and injuries from people trying to clean up downed trees. I saw some Darwin award winners up on a roof yesterday with axes trying to chop through a big tree with people standing right below where the tree would roll down.

And there are a LOT of intersections with no lights that should be treated as 4 way stops but every time I go out I see someone barreling through them without even slowing down. And a friend of mine got rear ended when she stopped at one of these lights.

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Water Cooler / Re: Hurricane Irma
« on: September 13, 2017, 02:43:32 AM »
Still no power here. Supposedly they started today with 260,000 in the city without power and now that number is down to 120,000. So hopefully tomorrow.

A friend who got power let us borrow their generator. We have the fridge plugged in, some fans running, and internet and TV. And it is nice to be able to charge up the phones. But no AC sucks. The heat isn't too bad but everything in the house is moist. Very humid the lasts couple days.

If I am still here in Florida next year I think I will invest in a generator of my own. That will pretty much guarantee I will never lose power again.

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Water Cooler / Re: Hurricane Irma
« on: September 11, 2017, 06:01:35 PM »
We lost power around midnight. Probably 15 inches of rain in the last couple days. 11 inches yesterday. About 3 AM was our strongest winds. Guessing 50-60 mph with some 80 mph gusts.

There are quite a few trees down around town and the river is flooding. High tide is right now and they were expecting another couple of feet of flooding. Downtown the river was about a foot higher than the previous high.

Hopefully we get power restored soon but I am not hopeful. Winds have died down enough for crews to start working but there are a lot of people without power.

I did find a couple neighborhood's with power and at the Waffle House there were about 20 people lined up waiting to get in.

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Water Cooler / Re: Hurricane Irma
« on: September 09, 2017, 09:42:33 PM »
Also just heard that the Waffle House out at the beach will stay open.

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Water Cooler / Re: Hurricane Irma
« on: September 09, 2017, 09:37:58 PM »
>tropical storm winds, maybe even Cat 1

That is what we are planning for here. 8-12 inches of rain is what they are predicting and maybe 2-4 feet of storm surge. That storm surge shouldn't do any significant damage up here. 

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Water Cooler / Re: Halo Top Ice Cream
« on: September 08, 2017, 01:55:38 PM »
Tried Halo Top. Flavor was very good, texture was not. Really icy and airy. But it didn't upset my stomach like most other ice cream does.

And $5.49 a pint is pretty spendy.

I can see them riding a big wave of popularity but soon I would guess Ben & Jerrys, Hagen-Daaz, or some other big manufacturer will come out with a similar product and gain back their market share.

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Water Cooler / Re: Hurricane Irma
« on: September 07, 2017, 08:11:05 PM »
I just saw a 3:00 update that showed it heading a bit more to the West. So skirting right up the coast and coming directly over Jacksonville. Hopefully at the 5:00 updates it will show it back to the East.

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Economics & Investing / Re: “They’re going to want a gazillion dollars in benefits,”
« on: September 07, 2017, 03:04:09 PM »
I hope it goes somewhere like Raleigh or Memphis or even Jacksonville or a city along those lines instead of a bigger metro area like Boston, Chicago, NYC, etc.

Even the warehouses Amazon is opening here in Jax are having a huge impact on the employment market. I am guessing we will have trouble staffing our warehouse during Q4 because of that.

If they did choose to open the HQ here I know it would have a huge effect on our compensation packages if they wanted to keep anyone around here. Most departments based here would definitely lose people and they would have to pay more to keep the rest of them around or attract new talent.

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