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by breischl 11y ago
Buying a property does take some capital, but large amounts of financing are much more easily available for property than for nearly anything else. There's also lots of tricks like getting a near-zero-down FHA loan, live there for a co
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by breischl 11y ago
Your thesis seems to be that landlords have massive pricing power that allows them to exploit people by raising prices. But in most (not all) places it seems like that shouldn't be the case... - There are many landlords in an area, ran
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by breischl 11y ago
No, I'm arguing that just comparing mortgage payments to rent payments leaves out a lot of the expenses involved in owning the property, such as maintenance.
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by breischl 11y ago
Fair enough, I did not sufficiently qualify my statement. But my main point is that looking at just mortgage vs rent is leaving a lot of costs out of the equation. If you can get rent for less than the monthly mortgage payment, then the lan
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by breischl 11y ago
It is always the case that the monthly cost to buy is lower than rent. It has to be, because the rent is covering the cost of repairs and depreciation which isn't included in your mortgage payment. And then there needs to be some left
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by breischl 11y ago
Jeez, a whole room full of smart (or at least educated) people and half of them see "10% returns" and get completely wrapped around the axle. Use your brains a bit - the same concept applies at whatever return you happen to think
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by breischl 11y ago
I didn't fund Limit Theory, but I've been following it because it does look cool. You may have missed it, but the developer recently resurfaced. Hopefully he'll get things back on track... http://forums.ltheory.com
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by breischl 11y ago
True, you want the trees and panels on whichever side of the house is sunniest. Since the GP was talking about "trees shading the south side of my roof" I'm guessing that he's in the northern hemisphere. Or maybe he&#x27
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by breischl 11y ago
Deciduous trees on the south side of your house are great for energy efficiency. The shade reduces summer cooling costs, and then the leaves drop so you get solar heat in the winter. You should definitely think about it carefully before cut
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by breischl 11y ago
Sheesh, guy asks for a use case, I give him two real-world examples, and get downvoted for it. Nobody likes examples? (I know, I know, don't complain about the downvoting.)
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by breischl 11y ago
How does one enter coordinates on that device? I'd guess that as an offset from your location ("200m north of my position") might be the easiest way. If that's the case, then starting with a zero offset would be the logi
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by breischl 11y ago
From Brian Thacker's Medal of Honor citation: "Then, in an act of supreme courage, he called for friendly artillery fire on his own position to allow his comrades more time to withdraw safely from the area and, at the same time, i
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by breischl 11y ago
So the proffered solution is ordering new bees from the internet. That seems like magical thinking. I don't think Amazon has figured out how to fabricate bees from base atoms, so presumably somebody, somewhere is breeding those bees fo
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by breischl 11y ago
Looks to me like they wrote an entire, serious article just so they could work in the sentence "I wouldn’t overestimate the effect of cleavage, but it’s there." Which may also explain why the thermostat will end up higher... :)
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by breischl 11y ago
>>Are you seriously arguing for arbitrary units rather than consistent ones, Actually, no, that's what you're doing. You said that that whatever amount is in the container should be "one serving." That's clear
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by breischl 11y ago
Probably untrue for any of the larger sizes of bags. I routinely buy the one pound bags of tortilla chips because they're cheaper, but I have never once consumed the whole thing in one sitting. It gets even more ridiculous for other fo
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by breischl 11y ago
>>A single pot plant can slurp as much as 22.7 liters—just less than 6 gallons—of water per day. I've seen that number several times now, but it seems ridiculously high. I asked several legal growers some of whom grow outdoors (n
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by breischl 11y ago
As usual, Wikipedia has some interesting numbers[1]. Relevant to your particular question, alfalfa uses ~20% of the irrigation water in the state. The amount of alfalfa eaten just by horses requires ~1.9M acre-feet, which is ~620 billion ga
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by breischl 11y ago
Drilling a well takes a long time, and it typically is not worth stopping part way. So it takes a long time for output to respond to price signals. Most of the increased capacity is due to wells that were started before the prices dropped.
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by breischl 11y ago
So the idea is to force yourself to make completely unnecessary and "potentially inconvenient trade-offs"? A wise developer should use an appropriate level of robustness without tying one hand behind his own back. And when somethi
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by breischl 11y ago
If you're unable to debug due to the nature of your software then that sucks but it's life. And notice that lot of devs in that situation try to fix it with various remote debugging tools. The article seems to advocate putting you
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by breischl 11y ago
>>I think it would actually manifest as a failure to track the index No, because the stock was added to the index on the same day. So the fund is tracking the index, and the index is doing what it said it would do. It's just that
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by breischl 11y ago
Our internal system has some integration between Jira and Github, such that if you comment a commit with the ticket number then you can see them all in the Jira ticket.
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by breischl 11y ago
"Software projects" is very generic. A wannabe-Facebook-clone is a software project, my boring corporate accounting program is a software project, etc. But those aren't your target. Seems like you only want open-source (or at
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by breischl 11y ago
I think once they become too problematic, you turn them into Bonsai Kittens. Still cute, but they really can't be a problem anymore! http://bonsaikitten.com/bkintro.php
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by breischl 11y ago
I believe you can still deduct work-related expenses. That's what Line 21 "Unreimbursed Employee Expenses" on the 1040A is for, if I'm reading the instructions correctly. http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-p
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by breischl 11y ago
That's a fair point. If this was on Github I might take that to heart and submit a PR. Since it's hosted on Sourceforge, which I don't have an account on and don't want to given their recent behavior, I'm not going
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by breischl 11y ago
To be a little more specific, the class itself is not marked as thread-safe. Only the AddEntropy() and GetRandomBytes() methods are so marked. So it would technically be permissible for any other part of the class to not be thread-safe. B
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by breischl 11y ago
As noted by other commenters, it's not threadsafe in that two different threads might initialize the class at the same time. However, I don't see that anyone bothered to ask "So what?" If two threads initialize it at onc
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by breischl 11y ago
>>I invested with steady 12-14% returns for 10 years and then watched it all get wiped out. I'm guessing you mean that all your gains got wiped out, not that your investments all went to zero. On the other hand, a lot of people s

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