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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> most people price housing as mortgage + insurance I would go as far as to say it's actually mortgage + insurance + taxes in most states. Very likely to be paying anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 in county + school taxes per year w
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
Housing in Greenwich Village (the broader area including the West Village) has become outrageous in recent decades. A significant reason, but not the only reason, is because the main NYU campus is located in the middle of the small area an
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
It looks like that Zephyr drone only weighed about 160lbs and didn't carry any payload. I believe these new Skydweller drones can carry an 800lb payload. Maybe that is the significant difference?
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
I'm guessing they can. They just don't want to.
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
Not sure how redlining comes into this. Everyone in my neighborhood provided no fewer than 3 signatures in a contract agreeing to abide by the well-documented community standards for use and upkeep of their property.
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
Oh I don't live in Nevada or Arizona, if that's what you were implying. Also, this thread is about the utility of HOAs, so in the example you're giving, then HOA can actually be more beneficial since they often include byl
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
I question the motivation of people choosing to live in a place where they are constantly at odds with the agreed-upon standards of the community. They should leave if it is really that stressful and onerous.
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
A 3" cut once a month during peak growing season is hardly "over maintained". Every HOA community I've lived in has been perfectly reasonable.
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> One thing that an HOA might actually be good for I've gotten nothing but benefits from living in neighborhoods with HOAs. Basic stuff like funding for landscapers to keep up the shared grassy areas along the streets, to plowing t
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
You're describing the whole internet, and also most of society. Maybe children should be banned from everywhere.
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
YouTube is such an invaluable learning resource that I would have serious qualms about denying a school-age child access to it. You're right that I wish it was possible to turn off the predatory features, though. But ultimately I can&
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
Sure, but that's way too abstract and nobody is going to understand that. They'll say, OK, but what's an example of the problem? And then the gamers have to explain that they can't buy pornos on their gaming rig anymor
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> Democratic legislators and candidates who are desperate for an issue that will garner them support and votes "gamer fury" over not being able to buy porno video games with their credit cards is not exact something that is goi
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> there exist no problems, that require a solution provided by this tool > For instance, you need a webserver, a workqueue and a database to run standalone all together. This is the only real use-case that I would have for a tool like
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> I regularly see articles pop in here about OS development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English It's challenging for open source communities in the west to collaborate with their counterparts in Ch
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> species that evolve with a predator tend to reproduce more quickly As an example of this, a healthy female rabbit will produce anywhere from 20 to 50 additional rabbits in a single year. There have been many documented explosions of r
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> used to be a crown-jewel of US tech I feel like x86 itself is kinda legacy tech. So while AMD has made advancements, they're somewhat in the same boat as Intel. It seems like NVIDIA and Micron are the real "crown jewels&quot
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> You’re not the homebuyer; you’re the mortgage payer. The product that matters isn’t the home; it’s the decades of payments you have promised to make. A very succinct way of describing the actual relationship. New homeowners are not &q
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> Maybe those people are right, though? I think the discussion starts from a place that assumes other people are wrong. I think this is the right approach. We know that io_uring has a somewhat significant history of critical security is
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
USA is a very, very large place. > American infrastructure is legitimately bad. I say that as someone who grew up there and spent the last half decade in UK. "the last half decade in UK" -- so what is that, the last 3-5 years?
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
I don't know. We're talking about 10,000 trains operating over 150,000 miles of track. A few de-railings per day in train yards is probably within an acceptable error rate. But, I don't know.
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
That is a problem particular to King County and their own politics. I-5/90/405 as well has 502 and 99 have always been a divisive issue when it comes to infrastructure investment.
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
Freight rail in USA is massively better than anywhere else in the world.
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
I have been very pleasantly surprised by the usefulness of the USPS Informed Delivery [1] program which emails me pictures of the mail parcels arriving in the next day or two. > Today, the USPS’s OCR technology can read handwritten mail
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
I think it is a legitimate concern in Europe just because their economies are getting squeezed from all sides by USA and China. It's a lot more in the public consciousness now since Trump said all the quiet stuff out loud instead of j
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> has never done and will never do anything in the general public's interest I'm no Meta apologist, but haven't they been at the forefront of open-source AI development? That seems to be in the "general public's
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
The Pirate Party lost their public support after the founder advocated for the legalization of child sexual abuse because (supposedly) without it there could never be any meaningful digital freedom. Obviously that was a bridge too far for p
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> deny access to their premises for any reasons Definitely not. This kind of discrimination is explicitly prohibited by federal civil rights law (Civil Rights Act 1964). It protects people regardless of their national origin (in additi
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by VWWHFSfQ 1y ago
> no foreigners It's such a contrast to USA, where I doubt that such a thing would even be legal. And also the bit about no tattoos. That's lawsuit city.
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> The FTC is required to conduct a preliminary regulatory analysis when a rule has an estimated annual economic effect of $100 million or more. The FTC estimated in a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that the rule would not have a $1

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