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by breischl 13y ago
Fine, but you're leaving out the cost of the printer, too. And the shelves to put all the papers on, and the cost to dispose of (or recycle) them when you're done with them.
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by breischl 13y ago
Ah, so a "housing speculator tax" or an "unused residence tax." That makes a lot more sense than a landlord tax. edit: Occurs to me that this would help deal with bank-owned properties that can sometimes sit vacant for q
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by breischl 13y ago
>>through multiple non-residence ownership taxation Can you clarify what you mean by this? It sounds like basically a "landlord tax." >>reduction in the required number of parking spaces per residence unit Certainly th
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by breischl 13y ago
I don't track gaming GPU requirements that much, but this strikes me as past high end. Is this even useful for gaming, or is it really aimed at doing crypto, cryptocurrency mining, simulations, etc?
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by breischl 13y ago
I hadn't heard of that episode. That's hilarious - particularly that it was a Linux consultant.
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by breischl 13y ago
So, more or less bad than when Azure let their SSL cert expire last year? http://www.zdnet.com/windows-azure-storage-issue-expired-htt...
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by breischl 13y ago
Looking at the amount of karma, I'd say yes. Yes, you did. Congratulations!
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by breischl 13y ago
They are suing the forum owner/operator for something posted by a forum member. So roughly equivalent to me saying something here, and Paul Graham getting sued for it. Also, the actual quote was "This scam product has been discuss
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by breischl 13y ago
Fun game! Now if only you can manage to get 2048 upvotes for it... :)
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by breischl 13y ago
NoSQL DBs definitely have their place. For instance my current project uses one to handle and do limited querying on data from other systems without needing to have a full schema for that data. You could do it in SQL by breaking out the col
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by breischl 13y ago
If you're taking down a SQL DB to make schema changes then you're doing it wrong. Even resource-intensive changes can be done online by applying the changes in stages.
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by breischl 13y ago
I suspect it will not change because stopping negotiation is not actually achievable. Certainly you could disallow negotiation for direct, monetary compensation, but that would just push the negotiation into other areas. People would start
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by breischl 13y ago
Because playing poker is a much easier way to make a sustainable income! Hm... actually, it might be. At the very least you certainly don't have to shell out as much for software.
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by breischl 13y ago
My hunch is that they use some internal server and don't want to expose it to the world. They could copy it somewhere, but if you're not going to take contributions then why bother? Also, their code explorer is far and away better
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by breischl 13y ago
Yes, but the zoning affects the insurability of the property and also whether it qualifies as "conforming" for the purposes of the mortgage. A non-conforming mortgage cannot be easily resold to Fannie/Freddie or securitized,
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by breischl 13y ago
If the GP had made a more nuanced argument that sort parts of the financial sector are not really providing a valuable service, likely nobody would've disagreed. But what he actually said was: > If you are making money, but not a pr
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by breischl 13y ago
I think you're right in some cases. There are also certainly some legitimate and pretty big gripes to be made about the industry. But as someone in the midst of buying a house with some "interesting" zoning, I currently hate
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by breischl 13y ago
Yeah, but then nobody would ever deposit money in the bank. Much more clever to call it something seemingly unrelated, like "inflation".
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by breischl 13y ago
It's mildly hilarious that you first claim they don't provide anything, and then complain about the services they provide. The financial sector provides the service of matching your savings up with people and companies that want t
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by breischl 13y ago
We definitely have some problems with old infrastructure, particularly when you're talking about phone lines and DSL. Some houses still have really old lines running to them and even older lines inside them (I swear my previous house h
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by breischl 13y ago
I know at one point the US had a somewhat similar arrangement for telephone lines. All the offspring of AT&T (ILECs in industry slang, Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers IIRC) were required to lease their lines to competitors. So someone
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by breischl 13y ago
You can also do it by using fire bombs to kill the crewmembers handling the weapons and then destroy the weapons. Of course you still need to have enough other weapons to get through the shields & destroy the ship, but that's much
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by breischl 13y ago
I didn't find the "move class" feature while I was trialing, but it does sound pretty handy. Symbol search is incredibly useful, that was a revelation when somebody told me about it. But Visual Studio has had that since at le
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by breischl 13y ago
I tried out Resharper for the entire evaluation period and then dropped it. There were a few nice things, but nothing that was just leaps and bounds better than built in VS features. But everyone says it's necessary, so I keep wonderin
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by breischl 13y ago
WA also puts the mass-energy of two solar masses at 3.574 x 10^47 J. So the initial calculation seems about right. My very-amateur-physicist guess is that the difference is because a supernova only converts a small fraction of the star&#x27
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by breischl 13y ago
Sure, languages steal words. It makes perfect sense when you're trying to explain something that is a completely new concept, or at least one that has no close analogue already in the language. The English language didn't have any
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by breischl 13y ago
To extend the point made by @GuiA, many technical terms make reference or analagy to non-technical nouns. Imagine if all technical terms were based in a natural language you don't understand. French would be appropriate in this case, b
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by breischl 13y ago
You're exaggerating somewhat, though not a ton. It's definitely not a lifestyle for everyone - I'm definitely not aiming for that. But a lot of the concepts can be applied to living a less Spartan lifestyle while still spendi
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by breischl 13y ago
Opportunity cost is important to consider, but it's not the same as cash out of pocket. And if you're going to include the opportunity cost of the house, then you also have to look at the cost of other options. Having a mortgage h
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by breischl 13y ago
I see someone already mentioned Mr Money Mustache, which is great. But for really getting to "independently poor" you can't beat Early Retirement Extreme: http://earlyretirementextreme.com/ Similar idea, but

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