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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Water Closet
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    • coliverC
      coliver
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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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      • MattSpellerM
        MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller mangolassi.IndustrialTitans

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        • Minion QueenM
          Minion Queen
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          No I am not involved in all of that!!!

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @coliver
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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.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @coliver
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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?

              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.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                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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                • MattSpellerM
                  MattSpeller @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller well if you come up with anything I'd love to know more

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                  • JaredBuschJ
                    JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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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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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender
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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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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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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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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            In case anyone is wondering which topics are doing this right now...

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender
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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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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                Sadly geographic information is not something included yet.

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                                • RojoLocoR
                                  RojoLoco
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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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                                  • scottalanmillerS
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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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                                    • MattSpellerM
                                      MattSpeller
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                                      Fiddling with my new Note5 - seems nice so far

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                                      • RojoLocoR
                                        RojoLoco @scottalanmiller
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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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                                        • MattSpellerM
                                          MattSpeller @RojoLoco
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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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                                          • RojoLocoR
                                            RojoLoco @MattSpeller
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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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