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by bequanna 3y ago
Race is one of the most important attributes used to describe a person of interest. Sex, race, height, build, hair, last known clothing
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by bequanna 3y ago
We’ll have to build more infrastructure but evening out the peaks and troughs is very good. We shouldn’t have to build more capacity than we need and currently we have a lot of idle capacity most of the day because we build for peak.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> their local public schools decided to keep everyone at the same math level and their children are bored out of their minds. What is the thinking behind this? Is this similar to what was happening in the Bay Area where people took issue
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by bequanna 3y ago
The biggest reason I hear from farmers whey they don't switch to organic farming practices is that yields are too unpredictable (and usually much lower) with current organic methods for field crops. So maybe someone smarter than me cou
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by bequanna 3y ago
Many of us have high caloric needs, high metabolism and have to eat 3 meals a day. This article is about people who would like to eat 3 meals but their financial situation prevents them. Many people don’t have the amount of food they need.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Correct that is my understanding as well. Same with MBS. They are just letting bonds mature and roll off the balance sheet.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Shouldn’t progress simply be defined as equal treatment under the law? Once we get into the mode of granting special privileges for victims (real or imaginary) I think we have a big problem. People should aspire to achieve, not strive to co
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by bequanna 3y ago
I think the issue here is that people see some benefit from being able to claim victim status so there is a push to expand the definition of what a victim is. If you want to know why people have a problem with this consider that both a geno
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by bequanna 3y ago
Is this a thing? Other than one-off communes, I think this is still pretty rare and I’m not aware of it growing due to work from home.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Sounds like a tax problem, not a commission problem.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I agree with you on high density confinement livestock production. But is there evidence of antibiotic resistant strains in animals causing issues for humans?
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by bequanna 3y ago
I don't disagree with your assertion that the Executive branch has probably weaponized agencies against political rivals but what we really need is clear evidence of this happening so we can stop it. Regardless of who is doing it, it i
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by bequanna 3y ago
There must be some “law of bureaucratic empire building” that discusses the inevitable headcount bloat caused by no accountability and ever increasing budgets.
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by bequanna 3y ago
What companies are building and buying? I’m not familiar with an builders who are interested in holding properties any longer than necessary.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Even in the rural areas I’m familiar with, there is an extreme shortage of high quality housing. On the other hand, if you want to move to Detroit or Philly…
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Ahh… planet earth has limited amount of space. We need less people instead. We have plenty of space. Plenty of resources to support some multiple of our current population. We really need to just be more efficient and less impactful on
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by bequanna 3y ago
It would take many, many thousands of homes. Demand is so much greater than supply almost everywhere in the US.
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by bequanna 3y ago
I don't think this is the kind of generation they are talking about. Solar is intermittent and you would need expensive energy storage to even things out. I guess unless you can shift your compute usage to match production. Maybe that
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by bequanna 3y ago
No crash until supply even starts to approach demand. This is likely a minor seasonal correction. We’re nowhere near that. Only chance of this happening in the near term is sharp increase unemployment.
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by bequanna 3y ago
That is quite heavy. It makes you wonder if the intermittent fasting made the participants more aware of when they were actually hungry vs eating mainly out of habit/boredom/coping mechanism.
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by bequanna 3y ago
“Real disposable incomes” <- this is based on an inflation measuring methodology that intentionally under measures inflation
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by bequanna 3y ago
Compare food and housing costs vs earnings now and what they were 5 years ago. In reality, you don’t have to. You know that even if you have been getting a raise at work it is nowhere near what real inflation has been. This is objective rea
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by bequanna 3y ago
Check out a graph showing average income vs monthly housing costs over time.
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by bequanna 3y ago
As someone who considers themselves to be pretty motivated and entrepreneurial, I look around and see very little opportunity. Businesses that actually make money trade at all time high multiples while funding for a new business is non exis
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by bequanna 3y ago
Supply and demand. Decrease the benefits for owning an investment property, then the number of people purchasing investment properties will be lower and prices will likely fall.
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by bequanna 3y ago
> To address your latter point, realtors absolutely bring value to a transaction. The average home is ~$425k and a commission is 5%. I've never met any Realtor that brought $22k in value to a simple single family home transaction.
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by bequanna 3y ago
It says right in the description: cash flow break even. This is not the same as some fiscal year net income calculation. Edit: fixed
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by bequanna 3y ago
> Until we make housing into a much less attractive "Investment" we will see obscene pricing levels. The only way to do that is to increase supply of housing. That isn't the only way. We could eliminate the many tax benefi
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by bequanna 3y ago
We’re talking in circles then. Land value + improvements is already taxed pretty much everywhere I am aware of.
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by bequanna 3y ago
Uh huh, so you’re taxing land based on some theoretical “highest and best use”? This will only serve to punish small businesses who will see a huge jump in taxes, forcing some of them to sell to some large developer. Pure academic nonsense.

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