TimPC

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by TimPC 4y ago
It's sadly not very marketable as it happens roughly 15-20 times a year in the US and everyone thinks it won't happen to them. When it was designed as a third party product it was a car-seat based weight detector rather than some
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by TimPC 4y ago
>Not really, if the municipality is in fact willing to centrally plan a city down to the micro-management level, and a different level of government wants to prevent it from happening. Some overriding is gonna have to happen here. I neve
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I think you are leaping to a lot of conclusions not in evidence. There is a big difference between "centrally planning a city down to the micro-management level" and overriding any ability for a municipality to assert what it feel
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The recommendations of the committee reflect the fact that they had only one month to work in and as such severely limited the consultations they did. To take just one example of how ridiculous some of the conclusions are: They recommend f
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The buyer doesn't pay the representative. The seller pays for both agents. Having a buyer represented is generally a good thing even if there are problems. It improves access to the market and helps a person in deciding what houses t
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by TimPC 4y ago
The root cause is a handful of cities winning and experiencing unreasonable growth they were never designed for. Winners grow at up to 300K people a year while losers shrink. Governments need to do more so that their national economies aren
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In Canada this is called conditional on inspection and it’s a permitted clause in a sale. The problem is the minute you have multiple buyers there is overwhelming pressure to remove conditions that can make the sale fall through because the
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Some of it is NIMBY. But the officials can’t change the fact that there is only so much land to go around and a disproportionate number of people strongly desire a detached house. Building huge quantities of condos may help some with densit
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It’s still quite possible to stretch yourself. Variable mortgages are common and interest rates are going up at a rapid clip. It’s possible for them to rise further than the stress test numbers. Refinancing in five years may be painful if y
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Houses are listed artificially below market to expand interest and create bidding wars. No one expected to sell for $950k and if that was the only offer they got it would have been rejected. I had this experience on a property in Toronto wh
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The one advantage of blind bidding is the slowness. You’re able to consult with everyone you need to between bids. In a live auction you might not get to call your family before having to decide if you want to go $10k higher. Even if your w
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by TimPC 4y ago
Buying is throwing away money too, often just as much as the rent you were paying. Yes some portion of what you pay goes to principle and you eventually own the home but the following amounts are just lost money: - interest on the loan - ut
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by TimPC 4y ago
The idea of giving random parties immunity from civil action for maximizing interoperability is downright dystopian. The direct effect would be something akin to an open access version of Facebook's API preventing lawsuits over anothe
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Anecdotes are not data. Even in plural form. We can witness isolated instances of what seems to be a phenomenon without it actually being part of a phenomenon. Other posters have already established that some experts can overestimate thei
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Blocking spam calls is not very helpful because the numbers are inevitably spoofed and can be spoofed differently for the next call with near zero effort on behalf of the spammer. The problem is the phone system has inherent poor design tha
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The article is correct. The effect is statistical not psychological. It emerges even from artificial data and occurs independently of the supposed psychological justifications even for data where those justifications are clearly removed.
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I'd argue that if one side is using bad faith techniques and creating a bad faith conflict, no amount of steel manning is going to make the debate into a good debate. You need good faith efforts from all sides to have a good result. N
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by TimPC 4y ago
The law doesn't specify what you get when you turn off the recommendations, largely because there are too many possibilities and it can't adequately define a solution over all products. The net result is companies will likely com
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Twitter and Facebook should either be forced to accept regulation around banning and denial of access to their content or should be forced to remove accounts of government officials and government utilities. It’s somehow become the defacto
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SLAPP may be too strong but I don’t think it’s an unreasonable position that libel rights be enforceable at reasonable levels of financial risk. Some lawsuits are lost on technicalities and missing a technicality shouldn’t force someone to
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I used to think most of NIMBY was shallow. Then my city tried to approve four simultaneous development projects in one city block near me. The projects had tower heights of more than double the zoning. The traffic studies ignored all other
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Steelmanning is a bad idea that needs to go away. It’s pretty condescending to say “your argument was bad I fixed it for you”. It’s also confusing when someone tries to improve an argument before responding to it. Lastly, steelmanning done
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by TimPC 4y ago
This is a poorly informed comment. The main reason title transfer requires a lawyer is that the lawyer checks the legal requirements of the title itself. Not having a title search you may find out that the property was once owned by two p
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by TimPC 5y ago
I think there are legitimate use cases for delayed close. Especially in gaming. Some games play in ironman mode where closing the game could provide a cheat. To avoid this they need to be able to save on exit. Likewise, if the game is in
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It’s literally two straightforward google searches. Search “university entrance GPA admissions USA” has a top result that shows that Ivy League admissions have weighted GPAs above 4.0. Searching “course offerings poor us high schools” shows
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The SAT being a help to low-income students shows how messed up the US high school system is. Normally standardized tests hurt low-income students because they require extra-curricular resources to do well on. In the US they hurt poor stude
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Vouchers don’t simply do anything though. They need to make assumptions when they decide how much to give a student and when those assumptions are made badly they can do lots of damage. There isn’t one voucher system that’s better or worse
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Yes, we live in a pluralistic society. We still have a certain amount of base values and organizations and institutions that accompany that. The right to an education is enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cul
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I suppose the other possibility is the program might be designed in a way that each kid child being educated in a neighbouring district comes with a transfer of tax funds. If the transfer is larger than necessary to educate the child then d

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