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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 …

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 finis…

or you could use the incentive of, you know, a longer more enjoyable life...

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 barrie…

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 t…

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 perso…

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…

Welcome to the new society - participation ribbons for all!

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.

>> 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 …

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 …

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 h…

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"

chill - I don't think the GP actually suggesting we form vigilante squads to hunt down sidewalk-riding vesparados (see what I did there?)

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 …

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 devel…

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 thes…

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

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 fr…

plus that's tax-free cash!

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 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".

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…

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.

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...