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Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by bpt3 »

vel0city wrote: post #195
everforward wrote: post #126

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If they’re bigger folks or starving and someone doesn’t want bone-in chicken, I could see it. 3 large 4 piece combos is $55.50 in Miami, and I think there are other things in that range (eg a 5 pc tender meal if someone hates bone-in chicken so they can’t get a family meal). The family meals are substantially cheaper than individual meals, if you can get everyone to agree on bone-in chicken and the same 2 sides. A 20…

Who is out there paying a 20% tip at a Popeyes?!

The same people who claim they're spending $68 for a 3 person meal at Popeyes or other similar establishments and that there is no alternative (i.e. people who aren't very good with money and/or willing to put even the slightest amount of effort into comparison shopping).

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Post by jmathai »

kraquepype wrote: post #236
TheGRS wrote: post #225

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Whoa...harsh words. I consider their fried chicken sando the best in the biz, yes even over Chik-fil-a

Yeah 9 times out of 10 I'd rather go to Popeyes. It is greasy but it's spiced well and I can't think of a single bland thing on their menu. I'll say though that the customer experience at Chick-fil-a is top notch, and they really have drive through down to a science. Buying the food their has always been a pleasant experience.

They employ 3-4 people to man their drive through. No wonder it's such a great experience. Subconsciously, I think I pick CFA over alternatives, in part, to not have to deal with poor customer service.

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Post by bpt3 »

__turbobrew__ wrote: post #239
gruez wrote: post #110

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>Tech looks high compared to everyone else, but it is more that everyone else's wages got suppressed. Where do you draw the line? Maybe everyone should be earning $10M/year like AI researchers, and anything to the contrary means it's "suppressed"?

> Where do you draw the line You can own a house and support a family of 5 on a single income and retire at 65. Where I live that is only really possible for SWE, lawyers, doctors, and execs.

You're welcome to move to one of the many, many places in the US where it's still possible.

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Post by ryukafalz »

bityard wrote: post #203
chasd00 wrote: post #171

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> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. That’s $22 per person. Would like to see what they ordered. Not saying I don’t believe it but that’s pretty high. My family of 4 can eat chilfila for that and chikfila is kind of pricey for fast food where Popeyes is pretty much trash.

No, that's about right in my (very limited) recent experience. It's _very_ easy to spend as much at a fast food restaurant these days as you would at a sit-down restaurant, especially if you don't do one of their combo meals, or add one or two extra items to your order The crazy high prices and general unhealthiness aside, my main beef (if you'll pardon the pun) with fast food places is that more and more of them are…

Where is this happening? I think I would walk out and never come back if I walked into a fast food place and couldn't order until I downloaded an app.

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Post by zubiaur »

gabriel-uribe wrote: post #229
shagmin wrote: post #199

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Think I've heard anecdotes about Tokyo being pretty affordable as well. Quick search shows less than 1/3 of income typically spent on housing, which is much better than major US cities.

Yep. Counterintuitively, housing in Japan depreciates unlike most of the world

Wonder how it is like in other countries with shrinking populations. Say, Korea.

Intuitively, it would make sense for housing prices to decrease when the demand decreases, supply being equal (It's not like housing deteriorates significantly in the short term).

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Post by thewebguyd »

kraquepype wrote: post #230
chasd00 wrote: post #171

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> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. That’s $22 per person. Would like to see what they ordered. Not saying I don’t believe it but that’s pretty high. My family of 4 can eat chilfila for that and chikfila is kind of pricey for fast food where Popeyes is pretty much trash.

Menu prices in the restaurant are ridiculous now. The only way I can stomach buying fast food is through deals on their apps, which I find very anti-consumer and predatory. It's also super annoying when you just want a quick and cheap meal but you need to spend an inordinate amount of time on their app to figure out how not to get taken advantage of by their pricing.

Yeah, fast food just isn't worth it anymore. Used to be super cheap comparatively to regular restaurants. Now I can go get a generous serving of pad thai from a local place here for less than a 10 pcs McNugget meal, and is usually ready just as fast as McDonals have gotten slower over the years.

I don't know how fast food is still in business. Around ~$36 before tip and tax to feed my family of 3 Thai food & the local Teriyaki place or maybe ~$45 for Chinese, and I'm in a HCoL area. Fast food ends up even more than that.

Agree on the apps, I hate them and they are not only predatory but buggy pieces of junk.

Re: Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%

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Post by thewebguyd »

ryukafalz wrote: post #244
bityard wrote: post #203

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No, that's about right in my (very limited) recent experience. It's _very_ easy to spend as much at a fast food restaurant these days as you would at a sit-down restaurant, especially if you don't do one of their combo meals, or add one or two extra items to your order The crazy high prices and general unhealthiness aside, my main beef (if you'll pardon the pun) with fast food places is that more and more of them are…

Where is this happening? I think I would walk out and never come back if I walked into a fast food place and couldn't order until I downloaded an app.

You aren't required to but you will pay substantially more by not using the app and creating an account. They offer "exclusive" deals that usually amounts to roughly ~20% off menu price, while they raised all their base prices that much or more so you are subjected to data harvesting in order to pay the normal pirces.

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Post by AngryData »

arjie wrote: post #108
mothballed wrote: post #83

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It’s true that you don’t need much expertise to build the house but electric and plumbing does need some, no? You don’t need to sell the property perhaps but how did you get labor? Surely you didn’t just do it all yourself. I have to say, pretty cool all told if you managed this!

Like the other guy said, electrical and plumbing are not hard to do correctly with a just a little bit of knowledge or experience with modern building practices.

You can't just throw random trash together but there are simple "standard" ways of doing things with standard available wires and pipes and fittings and as long as you follow common practices you will be 95% of the way to a code compliant install. It is only when you want to do something in an unusual or shortcut way that you may run into real compliance problems.

Certainly don't try it if you are completely clueless, but reading a diy book or watching some diy instructional videos will get you pretty far and show you how standardized most residential construction is with hardware store materials.

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Post by TheGRS »

3pt14159 wrote: post #101
mothballed wrote: post #83

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I’m sorry but this comment is hysterical. I have experience with construction and engineering and I shudder to think what type of monstrosity you’ve built.

We should all appreciate that most homes were not done by teams of professionals back in the day. Multiple things can be true here, 1) building your own home will take a lot of time to get right (so time being used in place of money), 2) the skills involved are all completely learnable and do-able for an able-bodied person who again is willing to put the time in, and 3) its not worth it for the vast majority of people who don't want to learn these skills and would rather focus on their own work and pay someone else to be a professional in the space. And yes 4) I've seen quite a bit of DIY work in homes and sometimes its impressive but usually its questionable and sometimes even horrific.

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Post by socalgal2 »

bpt3 wrote: post #238
socalgal2 wrote: post #219

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Prices in California seem out of control to me. Recent examples, BLT + Coffee = $36, Plate of broccoli, plate of peas, small pizza, tap water = $95. Plate of 2 tacos, burger, 2 drinks = $120. 2 sandwiches = $60 As for Japan. ATM food is often cheaper. If you want cheap though, there are plenty of much cheaper places in the world. For rent, there are cheap options I wish existed in the states. As many point out tho, s…

Or you can eat much better food all around for much less in other establishments. Businesses charge what they can get away with, and you're actively wasting money if you're referencing prices you actually paid for those meals recently.

You are correct I can find places that charge less. The point is, I used to go out to lunch and not have to worry about it. Now I go and get price shock.
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