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New comment by jeffrapp in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

jeffrapp — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:57:41 +0000

Honestly, terrible conditions. Factory-farmed style eggs. The “better” eggs were already at the $3-7+ price point depending on the feature set you’re looking for. Organic pasture raised eggs? Closer to the $7+. Plain brown organic eggs were closer to the $3 mark.

The egg industry in the US is a mess of marketing words that aren’t really regulated. Words like free-range, cage free, “access to the outdoors” often have little impact on the well-being of the chickens.

New comment by jeffrapp in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

jeffrapp — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:36:20 +0000

Prior to the price spikes, it was relatively easy to find a dozen eggs for around or below $2.

New comment by jeffrapp in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

jeffrapp — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 15:58:57 +0000

Easily? No. Within the bounds of the US Constitution, yes.

New comment by jeffrapp in "Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023"

jeffrapp — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:13:23 +0000

Is it, though? I’ve given Plaid the user name and password to my bank account. The same set of credentials that I use to log in, to pay bills, transfer money, etc. Plaid stores this information for future use in some sort of reversible encryption. So now we trust Plaid to keep both their data set of user names and encrypted passwords secure, and also to keep their decryption keys secure. Forget that noise. Like the previous commenter , they’re one breach away from exposing millions of bank account credentials. It doesn’t matter if the Plaid API is read only for the integration side - somebody has MY credentials, and that’s not read only.

New comment by jeffrapp in "Soviet scientific calculator gives up its Cold War-era secrets"

jeffrapp — Sun, 18 Jul 2021 17:52:47 +0000

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New comment by jeffrapp in "A blueprint for performance management"

jeffrapp — Wed, 16 Aug 2017 21:35:14 +0000

Seen this as well. Does somebody in management really expect leadership roles to sit down every 6 to 12 months, discuss everything their employees have done, and do it objectively? That's a fast track to giving everybody but the absolute worst a 5 out of 5 every time.

I'm a big proponent of the one-on-one approach, and giving feedback as needed. I am curious, however, typically the review cycle is correlated with the raise and bonus cycle. How would you go about handling that process with the data points that the review cycle provides, however artificial they may be.