#Cost

there’s something wrong with my car. it may be the battery, it’s been difficult to start. I really didn’t want to take anymore work until I finished my current queue,
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I know WFM is all the rage and has so many benefits, but what I am observing is the decay of company culture, especially when companies take on new employees
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I spent a good part of my day at my parish hall, so that I could have a few contractors come through and review structural repair needs in the parish
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I find it ironic that laws were placed to stop price gouging of items such as sanitizer & disinfectant bc it is (obviously) wrong to prey on people when they’re
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I'll let you into a secret..Virtually all MPs - whether Tory or Labour - despise Brexit.Even many of those well known as Brexiters hate it.The whole thing is performance.But they
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how do silicon valley tech companies square "equal pay for equal work" with geo-adjusted salary bands?one of the most intellectually dishonest "best" practices i've seen. just admit it's about saving
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About 1000 NZ scientists apply every year for a $85 m grant pool with a 10% success rate. If you’re wondering where New Zealand’s priorities lie, we just spent $75
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HIGHWAY ROBBERY Long threadAs per project information memorandum (IM) dated 2016, the Government estimated cost of Nbi-Nku-Mau Summit at US$550m as shown. The contracted cost is reported at Sh180b ($1.7b)
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When I did this analysis last year of total #PensionForLife for ex Governors and their deputies, the conservative cost to the tax payer since inception was just a little over
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I issued warnings re: these "peace deals" a year ago, based just on my research for Proof of Conspiracy (2019)—not based on me being prescient, omniscient, or in any way
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it’s sad that fast fashion brainwashed yall to think everything should have extremely low prices otherwise it’s not worth it. it’s the contrary actually, ethical brands don’t pay their employees
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1/ It is very common to hear that "network effects" are crucial stopping other assets from replacing current money. But Menger already explained in 1871 that causality mainly goes in
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A quick thread: you know how all those ~data guys~ were circulating homebrew graphs that did little more than illustrate an exponential function starting with data from Australia’s Covo testing
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I estimated it would take 40 years at $7 billion per year to create a fully closed supply chain off-Earth ("closed" = it can replicate its factories w/o anything launched
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Back in 1980 I was “Head of Energy Forecasting” for Shell in The Netherlands (not as grand as it sounds). I visited and climbed one of the first big wind
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Anomaly Detection for @awscloud bills is stupidly hard to get right. I’m optimistic about what they’ve built—now let’s see how it works in the wild!https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws-cost-management/preview-anomaly-detection-and-alert
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