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Re:Structural engineers are unsung heroes by gregmac on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:55AM (#16612211)
That's not silly. There correct response is "well, what's your budget?" The reply may be a number that's an order of magnitude too small, but then you have a negotiating point to work with, or at least an understandable (and not condescending) answer.
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Re:Structural engineers are unsung heroes by dsfyu404ed on Sunday March 18, 2018 @12:57PM (#16612859)
Yup. Saying "do you want me to remove the brake pedals from your car?" is basically saying "I'm lazy and want to build cookie cutter things and move on to the next paying job"
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Re:Structural engineers are unsung heroes by fjsolwmv on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:16AM (#16638727)
No it's not. You can remove brake pedal from your car but then you'd need to construct an expensive custom deceleration system. It's an apt analogy.
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