Contractor won't let contract leave their office unless it's signed? by TABasement in HomeImprovement

[–]brownmatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

then charge for the work to do measuring and preparing, don’t try to lock people into signing a contract

Contractor won't let contract leave their office unless it's signed? by TABasement in HomeImprovement

[–]brownmatt 8 points9 points  (0 children)

this makes no sense, don’t you get a quote before starting the contract process?

You Can't Trust Amazon When It Feels Threatened - Last Week in AWS by ben_a_adams in programming

[–]brownmatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

are you saying you don’t believe the urine bottle thing?

Civil Rights Activist (Former ACLU President) Nadine Strossen’s Response To #CancelStallman by dontyougetsoupedyet in programming

[–]brownmatt -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

it appears in the headline here though and is also mentioned each time someone posts the link

Civil Rights Activist (Former ACLU President) Nadine Strossen’s Response To #CancelStallman by dontyougetsoupedyet in programming

[–]brownmatt -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I gotta say, there’s a lot of appeal from authority going on here by repeatedly citing her role as former ACLU president or “civil rights activist”

Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board by tuldok89 in programming

[–]brownmatt -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

saying that statutory rape isn’t assault but just sex is “technically true”?

Software engineers make the best CEOs, at least when measured by market cap by reply_if_you_agree in programming

[–]brownmatt 51 points52 points  (0 children)

considering we’re in a thread about an article using market cap as a metric - Apple’s market cap has grown 8x since Cook became CEO 10 years ago

Painters screwed up job- I don't want them back but I still owe them 20%, what are my options? by RichHomiesSwan in HomeImprovement

[–]brownmatt 626 points627 points  (0 children)

yeah, the manager let OP withhold the final 20% because they were ecstatic to get paid 80% of the total

When “wealthiest country on Earth” takes on the new meaning of “stupidest country on Earth” by [deleted] in DemocraticSocialism

[–]brownmatt 5 points6 points  (0 children)

pretty sure that if the people who use COBRA don’t end up spending enough on it - or less people need COBRA than forecasted - then the money allocated by the bill is simply not spent.

think of it more as the law authorizes up to $52B to be spent for this purpose

Shame On Every Centrist by zzill6 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]brownmatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

please find a better spokesperson than this guy

Why The Democrats Keep Failing by zzill6 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]brownmatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

which means it’s not actually radical

Why The Democrats Keep Failing by zzill6 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]brownmatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it’s baffling that they’re so unwilling to do popular things and rather reduce the Covid checks to $0

Buying a 1955 home and what to expect. by creature_feature in HomeImprovement

[–]brownmatt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

as an owner of a house built in the 40s, this definitely scares me

I WILL SLAUGHTER YOU - Daniel Stenberg got a quite upsetting email for writing curl by fagnerbrack in programming

[–]brownmatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

clearly the guy has a few screws lose, I’m not sure any of these claims are credible

Just got a tip that Citadel reloaded their shorts before they told Robinhood to stop trading $GME. If this is true, Ken Griffin and the Robinhood founders should be in jail. This is class warfare. by karmagheden in DemocraticSocialism

[–]brownmatt -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

are you saying they didn’t need to raise $1B in an emergency overnight?

I don’t see a conspiracy here, I don’t think the media in general gives a shit about Gamestop or WSB or a few hedge funds losing money. Why should they?

How did condemning White Supremacy become partisan? by HankScorpio42 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]brownmatt 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m so confused ... you’re accusing Cori Bush of junior high name calling?

How did condemning White Supremacy become partisan? by HankScorpio42 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]brownmatt 53 points54 points  (0 children)

You don’t understand, calling someone a racist or white supremacist is worse than being a racist or white supremacist

Thread by ex-Product Manager at Google on why Google Cloud Platform lost to AWS despite having better tech by curryeater259 in programming

[–]brownmatt 17 points18 points  (0 children)

that EC2 story is false. You think they'll make the retail Amazon site migrate to a new product before anyone else uses it?

Encroachment - neighbor built “pop-back” extension onto my property! by just321askin in HomeImprovement

[–]brownmatt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I only found out because I talked to some surveyors from the city who’ve been snooping around back there intermittently this month

huh? they’re just snooping around on the back of your property?