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TrueSlacker0··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
There is absolutely zero repercussions, I hire them after all licensing approval. After the point of any city or state interference. I have run some of the smaller 400-600ppl events with zero police.
TrueSlacker0··on Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security
I guess I live in a different world. I have run multiple large beer events. (4 or 5,000ppl at the last one) These get approved by our city and state. All I have ever been asked is if we have a security plan, not any details, just that one exists. And it's sort of in passing, usually after the we need a copy of your insurance requirement. There were not any requirements to hire an officer. I still choose to hire 3 off duty officers but that is my choice as the event host. I also call them individually as I have met many of them over time and they are worth every penny. They aren't even expensive compared to other services required.
TrueSlacker0··on Pixel 8 Pro
Sweet so I can get $10 off via the website popup and then throw it away in 5 years when it no longer gets updates.
TrueSlacker0··on Square is down
I wonder this as well. I am sitting here with a deadline to run payroll in 38 minutes. I cannot login to square to see how much tips to pay everyone... I know I shouldn't wait until the last minute but such is this life some days, its going to effect when payroll is deposited in their accounts.

Not to mention we cannot sell anything, thankfully we have a second point of sell as an o shit backup on that part.

TrueSlacker0··on Ask HN: Burnout because of ChatGPT?
I'm not sure why your getting down voted so much. This is literally what Henry Ford and others did. He raised wages for staff to be the highest in manufacturing, then improved their throughout by streamlining and removing wastes, then he lowered the cost of cars to customers making the market for them change from a few per year for only the ultra wealthy to what it is today. Thus expanding the needed workers.
TrueSlacker0··on ChromeOS is splitting the browser from the OS, getting more Linux-y
Will that result in longer than a 5 year support life? A LTS Chromebook or EdgeBook would be wonderful.
TrueSlacker0··on When did people stop being drunk all the time?
It will not be poisonous. It will just taste sour.
TrueSlacker0··on When did people stop being drunk all the time?
A very efficient brewery will use 3 gallons water per 1 gallon of beer produced. An average one uses 6.
TrueSlacker0··on How small is the smallest .NET Hello World binary?
.net core is at 7. This article is about. Net framework which stopped at 4.8
TrueSlacker0··on Ask HN: How do you find high quality mobile games?
100% agree. This person's work is outstanding. No ads, no gimiks. Simple to learn, but fun to play. Some of the games have a paid version that can be purchased just to show support.
TrueSlacker0··on Detect Food Adulteration with Easy Home Tests
This is how our area handles restaurant kitchens. When the city health inspector comes for an inspection (supposed to be every quarter) they only inspect our onsite kitchen. They do the normal checklist of food temps, no rodents, food off the ground, etc. This city inspection result is posted publicly as you mentioned. I don't know if they will fine for a low score on this or not. However this inspector does not inspect any of our offsite manufacturing areas, nor where we get our food from (which seems odd) or any form of paperwork besides checking for a food manager permit. All the offsite manufacturing falls under the state inspection as mentioned above, which we have only ever received once.
TrueSlacker0··on Detect Food Adulteration with Easy Home Tests
This states it's for India but I have pretty little faith in the US also. I operate a beverage production plant (alcoholic and non) and finally got an actual ingredient and process inspection during our 8th year. We passed with only a few suggested changes but I was asking the inspector (who was a state inspector employed by health and human services inspecting for the fda) what would happen if we failed. They said basically nothing would happen, they would work with us to correct the issue and we had up to a year(if I remember the timeline correctly) to fix it before fines begin. They mentioned an unnamed place in another major city nearby that had rodents running on the food conveyers for multiple inspections yet they keep operating and just pay the fines rather than fix the issue. They mentioned they were close to shutting them down but it had been going on for far longer than a year. This was around early 2019 so pre COVID. I would only expect their inspections are even less frequent now like the rest of the gov agencies we deal with.
TrueSlacker0··on Archaeologists find 3000-year-old sword, exceptionally well preserved
How many people can really spell that many words correctly today? Without a red squiggly line that is. I know I personally am terrible at it. Like really, really bad. So are most people I know well enough to admit it. English for example is a terrible language with so many edge cases and tons of inconsistency that to me as a layman make zero sense.

For example I try to sound out words with my kids as they learn to read. But it's not that simple. So many words are pronounced "incorrectly". It makes it very frustrating for all parties involved.

So.. is mass memorizing how to spell complicated words truly a sign of intelligence or just applied memorization to a field.

I would simply say I hate spelling but I loathe it so I can seem smarter even though they mean the same thing. English...

TrueSlacker0··on An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
give gusto a try, you will never go back.
TrueSlacker0··on An open-source alternative to QuickBooks
"It understands how to electronically file a W-2 report in all 50 states."

Filing a w-2 is payroll related not accounting related. While lots of accounting software does payroll it is not a requirement for accounting software to do so.

TrueSlacker0··on Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for
Im in the us and have had at least 3 times in the last year that I needed cash due to credit card systems "being down" be it from internet outage or actual issues. Twice while trying to get gas for the vehicle.
TrueSlacker0··on Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for
I don't need fleets in my small business so I'm maybe not your target market but for us it's significantly cheaper to deal with cash than cc fees. We spend about 2-3 hours of person time handling cash per week. Compared to the cost of our cc fees I would prefer to be all cash.
TrueSlacker0··on Pro-cash movement warns that people could be losing more than they bargained for
In this film they used to trust people? What a novelty in today's society. I wish we had more of it.
TrueSlacker0··on The end of the accounting search
Was this in reference to payroll tax, cause I also got screwed on that from them. I paid for payroll but they didn't file any papers. They paid everything but never ever filed a 940 or 941. By the time government speed came around and the IRS notified me I was delinquent for 2 years. I ended paying 2-3k in fees, dropped there payroll that day. But sadly still suffer through their accounting.
TrueSlacker0··on The end of the accounting search
Point 2 is driving me crazy. Everything moved to places that now seem illogical.
TrueSlacker0··on Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)
Using commercially malted barley was the first huge red flag in the article. I would expect Malting the barley would be hugely different from place to place with such limited options. I didn't see the article mention it at all.

Pitching rates don't effect the final flavor all that much. Pitching too little is a problem as it will take longer to ferment, giving wild yeast more time to sour/ruin the beer. But pitching too much yeast would not really result in much change in flavor in this case.

TrueSlacker0··on Recreating Medieval English Ales (1998)
Yeast is one of the most influential flavor creators in a fermented beverage. It would have huge effects on the final beer. But since sanitation was low, bacteria probably had a huge effect (acidic sourness) as well.

Take the same base recipe from the article and ferment it with a hefewizen (banana and/or clove flavors and a resulting yeast in suspension haze), Belgian strain ( bubblegum all the way to barnyard aroma), wine yeast, bread yeast or as they mentioned the lambic yeast (resulting in a slight sourness) and you would have totally different beers.

Modern brewers have access to hundreds of different strains just for beer, resulting in different flavors from each.

In simple terms vinegar comes from bacteria and yeast. Yeast eats the sugar making alcohol, Bacteria eats the alcohol and makes acids. Kombucha style. Eventually resulting in vinegar.

TrueSlacker0··on Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Does donations really count as true revenue? It feels wrong to use the word revenue when it's not really making money.
TrueSlacker0··on Ask HN: Suing Facebook in small claims?
"He has a small business, he should have a lawyer on retainer anyway."

Not all small businesses have lawyers. I would guess 90%+ don't need them and the other 90% cannot afford them. I've founded and operated a small business for 9 years and have only hired a lawyer 1 time for contractual negotiation. For what it's worth I am in a heavily regulated industry and I have no legal background.

TrueSlacker0··on Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients
All you need for a bill of sale is a simple sentence saying on x date I xxx, sale vehicle xxx, with vin number xxx to xxx person. Then write the driver's license of both parties and sign. A lawyer is extreme overkill for such a simple transaction.
TrueSlacker0··on Standoff over 95-year-old judge shows downside of lifetime jobs
I internally debate it but I always seem to come back to the thought that if you can collect social security you shouldn't be allowed to hold public office.
TrueSlacker0··on Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
That link shows revenue not profit.
TrueSlacker0··on More than a third of community college students have vanished
So is dealing with city approval processes. For instance when starting a physical business requiring building permitting.
TrueSlacker0··on Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses
This goes back to Jim Collins book Great by Choice and the idea of Bullets then Cannonballs.

[1]"First, you fire bullets (low-cost, low-risk, low-distraction experiments) to figure out what will work—calibrating your line of sight by taking small shots. Then, once you have empirical validation, you fire a cannonball (concentrating resources into a big bet) on the calibrated line of sight. Calibrated cannonballs correlate with outsized results; uncalibrated cannonballs correlate with disaster. The ability to turn small proven ideas (bullets) into huge hits (cannonballs) counts more than the sheer amount of pure innovation."

[1] https://www.jimcollins.com/concepts/fire-bullets-then-cannon...

TrueSlacker0··on Zero energy ready homes are coming
How will I get to experience opening up a wall in the house I have lived in for a decade to find McDonalds trash stuck in the wall instead of insulation?
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