What Are You Doing Right Now
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@coliver said:
What kind of native materials are available? It seems like importing all of your raw goods would be insanely expensive. Would that offset the low labor costs?
This would be a large part of the numbers.
Yes the raw materials for the items produced in the large Chinese manufacturing locations are also imported. But it built up over time. Initial investments in manufacturing there did not pay off like new investment does. -
@coliver said:
What kind of native materials are available? It seems like importing all of your raw goods would be insanely expensive. Would that offset the low labor costs?
Wood is plentiful
As is gold (new mines just opening up.) Agricultural products are abundant like sugar, coconut, cashew, mango, tobacco, coffee, beef, shrimp and lobster. -
Nicaragua has no tariff import capabilities from the US. So there is always the ability to bring materials in that way.
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@scottalanmiller well if you come up with anything I'd love to know more
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
What kind of native materials are available? It seems like importing all of your raw goods would be insanely expensive. Would that offset the low labor costs?
Wood is plentiful
As is gold (new mines just opening up.) Agricultural products are abundant like sugar, coconut, cashew, mango, tobacco, coffee, beef, shrimp and lobster.So find something to make from that to minimize import costs if you can. Most likely you will also have to import the material anyway because that is raw produce and not refined materials ready for manufacturing.
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What is happening with the forum traffic? Why are we exploding as we approach the end of the day and going into the east coast after hours? This is a bit mental...
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The UK users are at home then, so perhaps more of them use ML from home than from work.
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Do we see any Brits posting right now? I realize that the graph is reads, not writes, but still.
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In case anyone is wondering which topics are doing this right now...
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Not just Brits, but Europeans in general. Being 6+ hours ahead of us, that's their typical evening time.
Can your reports tell you where in the world the hits are coming from?
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Sadly geographic information is not something included yet.
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I just had a moment where I thought I might actually have to justify to the new sales d*ck why I am the only one here who moves equipment.... My indignant look and gruff "I'll get it moved before the end of the day" sufficed, but I thought I was actually going to have to further with it. He is unknowingly glad that didn't happen.
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Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.
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Fiddling with my new Note5 - seems nice so far
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@scottalanmiller said:
Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.
That's why 99% of my contributions are pure snark. Barely worth the effort to type real help to most of the new accounts over there.
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@RojoLoco said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.
That's why 99% of my contributions are pure snark. Barely worth the effort to type real help to most of the new accounts over there.
It's almost always a first post or bright green poster too. Especially with the more crazy questions / issues.
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@MattSpeller or ones claiming to be "new to IT". When they write that, mods won't delete the account, which is BS when the person obviously has no business fixing any technology. Lately, I'm seeing lots of "wah, my home router sucks but I don't want to call my internet provider. Please provide magic IT pro secret to fix".
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@RojoLoco said:
@MattSpeller or ones claiming to be "new to IT". When they write that, mods won't delete the account, which is BS when the person obviously has no business fixing any technology. Lately, I'm seeing lots of "wah, my home router sucks but I don't want to call my internet provider. Please provide magic IT pro secret to fix".
The ones that chap my arse are the ones looking for advice and throwing buzz words around with zero clues (or fks) given. I think of them as someone from Finance or something looking to see what kind of a monster they can create.
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@MattSpeller no doubt... those types should be rectally shocked for trying to snoop around on IT forums. Take 4 disparate ideas and expect some combination of them all to already exist and the IT department should already know all about it.
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@MattSpeller said:
@RojoLoco said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Just provided plenty of good advice to someone on SW and, they deleted their post after I put in that effort. That SW allowed people to delete my posts because they decide that they don't want the advice, feel embarrassed, or whatever is not very cool. I don't like that they let OPs do that. Really discourages you from taking the time to invest in posting if someone can capriciously delete other peoples' posts.
That's why 99% of my contributions are pure snark. Barely worth the effort to type real help to most of the new accounts over there.
It's almost always a first post or bright green poster too. Especially with the more crazy questions / issues.
Yes, newbies who decide it was a bad idea to go public.
