What Are You Doing Right Now
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@coliver said:
Call Centers... it worked well in other low labor places in the world.
Too late. That is the one business with which Nicaragua is already flooded. Managua is call center central. It's the big business up there.
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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?
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@scottalanmiller mangolassi.IndustrialTitans
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No I am not involved in all of that!!!
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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.
