breischl

49 ms·

451.
by breischl 12y ago
But if you were living in the city, wouldn't that acre be a forest anyway? Actually, it would be a little bit bigger forest because the land under your house, driveway, the road leading to it, and lawn/garden/whatever would a
452.
by breischl 12y ago
>>Brick is just siding. What's the frame made out of? Man, that is going to be a shock to my house that has all of the outside walls, and parts of the foundation, made from brick. Just because your house has a brick veneer doesn&
453.
by breischl 12y ago
>>Realistically do you think a lottery winner is comparable to a successful startup employee? In some ways, yes. Certainly there are difference, but people are people. How many college grads get their first job that pays real money an
454.
by breischl 12y ago
That might be true as a rule of thumb for the general population. Although historically people who get large payouts (eg, lottery winners) tend to do very poorly with them. And for someone who is truly "good with money" to the ext
455.
by breischl 12y ago
I think it was that radioactive spider venom stuff. I hear Peter Parker was on it, too.
456.
by breischl 12y ago
It's not exactly carless, but IIRC the article mentioned 56% of Manhattanites don't own a car. Plus they have a massive influx of work commuters, of whom I'm guessing a vast majority don't drive. So it definitely does wo
457.
by breischl 12y ago
Right now much of the true cost of commuting is spread out in periodic costs like vehicle purchase, maintenance, licensing fees, paying for parking/storage, etc. But all anybody looks at is the time and gas. If you're taking a car
458.
by breischl 12y ago
Yes, but carts and horses don't habitually move at 25 MPH or more. It was possible to get run over and killed by a cart, but walking into a busy city street full of cars (without following the signals) is almost certain to get you kill
459.
by breischl 12y ago
This is exactly what the Baby Bells are required to do with their lines. This is why you sometimes see small regional DSL providers - they're leasing the lines from the Baby Bell and reselling them. That might also be why the two compa
460.
by breischl 12y ago
But trivial to make the data available in a machine-readable format to the taxing authorities and let them do the legwork. Which is actually required, per TFA: "In addition, the city requires short-term rental companies like Airbnb to
461.
by breischl 12y ago
You're the only one here who seems to believe that "troll" is an indelible and unchanging character trait. I never said or implied that, and my point does not require it to be the case. I find it difficult to believe that any
462.
by breischl 12y ago
When I was writing my previous comment I was wondering if I was being trolled. Too bad I was right.
463.
by breischl 12y ago
I'm aware that bridge-dwelling, toll-collecting trolls do not exist. I was referring to an internet-style troll, "a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people... with the deliberate intent of
464.
by breischl 12y ago
It's an interesting point to think about. But my first thought was what would happen if you accidentally let a troll into your group. ie, someone who enjoys yelling "change" just to watch everyone else jump. Heck, that person
465.
by breischl 12y ago
Good point. Now that you point it out, depending on your income tax bracket the credits would probably be worth more than the capital gains tax.
466.
by breischl 12y ago
Because in the case where the price legitimately rose by that much it would discourage donating the work. Say you bought the painting for $10k, then the artist becomes world famous and the price really does rise to $1m. Are you going to don
467.
by breischl 12y ago
His point, as I read it, was that the software industry does not operate to the same quality standards as the auto industry. Which may have some validity, but is not as obvious or clear cut as he was implying. "Software recall" do
468.
by breischl 12y ago
Seriously! You never hear about a car would accidentally accelerate when you try to brake, or that the tires would spontaneously blow out, or that they would just plain roll over. I mean, the phrase "automobile recall" is practica
469.
by breischl 12y ago
>>“We can’t operate under the premise that we’re only willing to spend a certain amount of money on our children’s education.” Love that! Instead we must operate under the assumption that we're willing and able to spend an infin
470.
by breischl 12y ago
Presumably because it's not 2015 yet, at least according to my calendar...
471.
by breischl 12y ago
From the link >> Ignoring clouds , the daily average irradiance for the Earth is approximately 250 W/m2 Emphasis added. Seems like clouds might be a non-trivial factor, yes?
472.
by breischl 12y ago
"Critical security fixes must be deployed quickly and holistically in order to be effective. We are fully committed to making security fixes as we always have for .NET." So they apparently have some approach for this, but didn&#x2
473.
by breischl 12y ago
Maybe it's my similar background, but that's how I read it as well. My TL;DR summary of that article is "Java doesn't suck, as long as you use enough tools, libraries and workarounds to avoid actually using Java."
474.
by breischl 12y ago
Huh, that seems like an odd rule-of-thumb. That would guide you to put more money into deals with lower absolute returns, which would lead you to really low ROIs. eg, if you were willing to put down 66% on that property (£100k down, £50k mo
475.
by breischl 12y ago
Officially, no. Actually we've been doing a lot of outbound HTTP for years with no problems. But somebody (they won't tell me who) complained, and they "investigated" and decided that something we're doing looks m
476.
by breischl 12y ago
It is a high number, but it's also just a rule of thumb. You can find a lot of debate about "the 1% rule" if you look.
477.
by breischl 12y ago
To be specific, it's a rule of thumb in the US. I would not be at all surprised if UK real estate works differently. But yeah, in some markets you just won't find things that reach that return. Then you'd have to decide if it
478.
by breischl 12y ago
Interesting, I actually just got one of those "suspicious activity" emails last week. But they just threatened to shut down my services, they haven't actually done it (yet). It's still pretty obnoxious, because they basi
479.
by breischl 12y ago
Rule of thumb is that the monthly rent should be at least 1% of the purchase price. More specific ROI calculations are good, but people typically forget a lot of expenses (repairs, vacancy, time spent managing, etc) and end up calculating a
480.
by breischl 12y ago
>>And I really wish that C# would grow up a little in this regard, as modern programming languages need immutable collections as well, with a nice API to go along with it May I suggest the Immutable Collection library from Microsoft?

More ›