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I thought the chaser was going to be that it already exploded and burned down the building. Give it time though.
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It doesnāt help that, in my experience, roofing contractors are just the absolute scum of the earth. Never met an honest one in my life. Whatās going on in LolFlorida right now with insurance rates has a lot to do with scumbag roofing contractors committing a lot of insurance fraud.
edit: Not sure if this roof was done by contractors, so maybe a bit off-topic, i just like to rant about roofers any chance I get I guess.
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Meh but the roof part is also doing a roof job and the solar power backups are doing a separate job. Doesnāt seem that bad to me tbh
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The ROI is over 25 years, itās fine for rich people but isnāt really scalable.
I have another data point for you. Two years ago I got a new roof. I didnāt realize the roofer was in trouble and what he did was take my money, buy the supplies, put the roof on and then didnāt pay the supplier. So, I get a demand for payment in the mail from the supplier. Iām like I guess there was a mixup , call the roofer and it was about that time he started ghosting me. Well I (and I bet a lot of naĆÆve homeowners in my situation) thought āI paid the roofer so this really isnāt my concernā. Then I had new experienceāI was served a lawsuit thingy by a server. Time to do some investigation. I discovered that yes indeed I was on the hook to pay for the supplies again. The way I think of it, its as if I unwittingly received stolen property. I learned a new term āmechanics lienā which the supplier put on my house because of the nonpayment. However, the roofer had made an error. He had let me pay with a credit card. I paid the supplier directly and the credit card company reimbursed me. I should have asked for more than the supply cost because the warranty on the labor and installation is of corse worthless since the guy is out of business.
I actually have a second data point, but Iād have to remember all the details. It was a summer when I was 19 or 20 I worked for a commercial roofer and it was just a comedy of errors. Like me and the other american laborer were paid $6/hr while the much harder working Lao or Thai immigrant got $4/hr.
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Yup, roofers are the WOAT.
I donāt have that strong of an opinion about roofers in particular. Another summer I worked for a friend who put in new kitchens and/or bathrooms. He was a contractor but his specialty was the finish woodwork and would subcontract out the electrical, plumbing and masonry. Its a tough profession because you have to bid correctly. If you bid too much you donāt get the job. Too little then youāre working for free and/or cutting corners. And you have to keep the flow of work right. Enough to keep your guys busy, but not too much where things get backed up. And unanticipated hiccups happen. So, I try to be sympathetic about construction businesses. Having said that Iām 0 for 2 with roofers.
Iām 58 and have owned 5 houses. Thankfully Iāve only done roofs as part of a remodel or once I gave the buyer a check when I sold (there was hail damage on inspection and I was able to get my insurance to pay me). So never dealt with roofers directly.
In the process of doing the same thing- going to put on a shed dormer and will use a general contractor so Iāll be a step removed from the roofer.
Hopefully this will be the last one I ever have to deal with.
USA #111 needs to implement GDPR-like rules, where you can be fined up to 4% of your revenue for breaches. Of course, they never fine 4% but Apple, Google et al have faced some pretty decent fines.
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that law does have teeth though. I spent at least a dozen hours in training about GDPR rules because companies are so afraid of it.
they should make an example out of him.
Oh definitely. Iāve learned more about GDPR and Schrems II (the verdict invalidating privacy shield, the previous mechanism for ensuring privacy rights between the EU and the US) than I ever care to.
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I try and fail to explain to people all the time what a wild west weāre in in the states. Our laws for data protection are virtually nonexistent compared to every other place in the world and thank god for companies like apple actually trying (or pretending to anyway) to do something about it or itād be even more dystopian than it already is (hard to imagine honestly). companies donāt even try. look at all this t-mobile shit right now, itās appalling.
once you realize what they do with your data you will never ever use a home smart device, for instance.
Iāve also been trying and failing to start a data obfuscation revolution.
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Half the country voted for Trump, you think theyāre worrying over whatās happening to their ādata?ā
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Go onā¦ And when you say home smart device, are you talking Google Home/Alexa, or are you talking like a smart TV or a smart thermostat?
Iām not TDA but Iād say all of the aboveā¦
i think google and alexa are egregious but anything connected is spying on you in some way, look up IoT (internet of things).
itās the future but anything connected to something like facebook or even stuff connected to facebook (basically everything) via auth and shit will try to read as much as possible about what it can wherever it is, itās basically spyware.
call me frickin caveman but I dont think itās a good thing alexa perks up any time I say her name. it means itās listening, and thereās been evidence they donāt take super duper care with it either. I just donāt like it. Thereās some thing zuckerberg doesnāt need to know like how often I shit.
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At a previous job I worked on some embedded tech designed to function like Alexa. The software was programmed with a model to match a specific āwake wordā (like āOK Alexaā or whatever) from the ambient mic, and only upon activation (when the model matched against the most recent X seconds of audio) does it activate the āupload audio to the cloud to do an actual queryā part.
My understanding is that this is how that kind of stuff works in general, itās not uploading all the audio it hears or anything like that. But, I didnāt work on Alexa specifically so 
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reports make me skeptical. so much of it is corporate bs and iāve seen so many times what a company says and how things are actually done be way different