1812Overture

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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Probably paying $3k in rent for each of those apartments, $300 in utilities and cable, $800 in cleaning/laundry/expendables, plus probably budgeting $100/month to cover the faster than average wear and tear. So $109k/yea
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
The average value of a house in Palo Alto is now 1.4 empires.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
The bar exam has very little to do with actually practicing law.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Luxuries include: car, insurance, childcare, telephone, internet, and household supplies. We're not talking about caviar and Coach bags here.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
I'm at over 90% occupancy over two and a half years.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
The machine that reads the quantum entagled particles will still occasionally break or have coding errors.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
I'm an Airbnb host. I rent out the guest house behind my house. I have one of those realtor keyboxes so I don't have to be around for guests to check in and out. My Airbnb calendar is setup to sync with my cleaner's ical. I p
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
"For the first time ever, fewer people die today from human violence than from traffic accidents, obesity or even suicide." I don't think many hunter gatherers died of traffic accidents or obesity.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Amazing to me that 3.2 billion people could be watching the same thing at once while I have no awareness at all that it's happening.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
It has nothing to do with that. It's because the person making the purchase decision isn't the person paying. Usually the doctor and the patient will have no idea how much money is actually changing hands behind the scenes.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Well they're worth something to Amazon!
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
My point is that if you consider their total compensation LAUSD teachers make great money and it's still an abysmally bad school district. In other districts where teachers are worse paid there's always people saying that paying t
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
I downloaded the 2016 LAUSD dataset from transparentcalifornia.com and filtered by full time employees with the job title "Teacher". Including the benefits is key, the pension costs are gigantic. *Edit: Actually it was 2015 data.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
Average total pay and benefits for a full time teacher at LAUSD is $98k and it's still a disaster.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
The prison guards union in California is insanely powerful. The guards probably make 3x as much as guards in some other states. This will explain a lot: http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=correcti.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
I've heard people in the same breath complain that a housing development will ruin home values and cause gentrification.
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by 1812Overture 9y ago
It's actually similar to a cryptocurrency in a lot of ways. Decentralized, based on a common algorithm (the design of the 1000 Shilling note), with a price eventually stabilizing on the mining (counterfeiting) cost.
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
The New Yorker intentionally uses a bunch of archaic spelling and grammar to look smart despite the often mediocre content of what they're saying.
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
This is why I keep a roof Korean in my trunk.
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
I think this is what a lot of libertarian types don't get (a lot of overlap with prepper types). Taxes aren't the government stealing money that you willed into existence out of thin air, you're paying to live in a society bu
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
They just have to stay afloat until they can cut out the drivers entirely.
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
Who has time to crash their own car these days?
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
I 100% buy they're using 1960s hardware. I've talked to some people who had to spend half their day on ebay trawling for parts to keep their ancient systems running. I've personally worked with medical offices still using 197
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
"No one gets fired for buying an IBM"
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
On the other hand I know plenty of people with Computer Science degrees from real universities who can't code their way out of a wet paper bag.
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
How the heck do people buy clothes online? Fit is incredibly important and sizes are usually useless as they vary so much even within the same brand. Even something like Indochino where they "custom tailor" it, the people I know
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
FYI this map is based on 26 year old data.
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
Try reading a 50 year old book vs reading a 50 year old reel of magnetic data tape.
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
We have a monopoly. Sign this or you don't get internet.
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by 1812Overture 10y ago
The argument isn't that using knowledge and skill gained working at DOJ/SEC in private industry is bad. The argument is that while working at DOJ/SEC you go soft on your adversaries because you know you'll need them to h

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