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by chrisBob 7y ago
I am not a Real Estate Investor, but I am a little confused who the bad-guy is in this situation. Why is it the investor and not the person who ends up paying top dollar for the flipped "move in ready" home? It seems like the cons
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by chrisBob 7y ago
I built a house last year, and had to work with a few different banks to finally get a construction loan. One of the fist ones said to me "1900 sq-ft? You shouldn't be building a house that small". We made it work, but would
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by chrisBob 8y ago
There are lots of definitions of comfortable. It seems like this article uses "Similar financial resources to your neighbors'", so the number sound right to me. I went to grad school with someone who grew up as a subsistence
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Or infants who aren’t old enough to get the vaccine, but screw them, right?
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by chrisBob 8y ago
France has other unusual photo standards also. Americans traveling to France should be aware that in general you CAN'T photograph an individual in public. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Country_specific
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by chrisBob 8y ago
After a coworker screamed twice from this I made them a pretty RGB-LED display that flashes a rainbow when you press the button at the entrance to their cube. I am surprised I haven't seen any good products in this space. I feel like y
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by chrisBob 8y ago
My customers often use Windows so my options are: 1) Don't bother testing what I write 2) Quit Occasional Windows use seems like a great compromise.
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by chrisBob 8y ago
I still get regular spam calls, but I can always look and identify them. My cell phone has a 315 area code, and the only other person I know with a similar number is on my contact list. Absolutely anything else from a 315 number is spam. If
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Why is Super Bowl travel such a big deal? Doesn’t the stadium only seat about 50k people anyway? I understand that the game is exciting, but I don’t see what travel to one venu would be news.
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Connect-Homes specifically state that they aren't made out of shipping containers, but they do make them in similarly sized sections so that all of the existing shipping infrastructure (road and rail) can move them easily. We looked at
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by chrisBob 8y ago
The problem with an analysis like this is that people have a strong preference about the environment they live in. I know a lot of people that would never consider moving out of a major city. I have similarly established a clear guide for a
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by chrisBob 8y ago
How does the free market account for the cost of researching options? I am sure I could find a better deal on many medical purchases, but the cost to find them is significant. Purchasing the default/readily-available option is often th
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by chrisBob 8y ago
The tech manager is an apt analogy for me because I am currently working on hiring a new boss for (myself and) a team of programmers, high performance computing consultants and geographic information systems specialists. Each applicant has
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Comcast had a deal with UPS Stores when I canceled 2 years ago. I just brought the cable box to the closest UPS Store franchise and got a receipt from them and they handled packing and returning it. That was a wonderful experience.
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Are you just interested in the lowest up front cost in dollars? I went to the US Military Academy. Tuition, room and board are free, you get a small stipend each month and you have a guaranteed job at graduation. You pay for school with 5
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Apple has successfully changed architectures before, and has been developing an ARM version of Mac OS for a while. I am sure that it doesn't have the same level of refinement, it is might not be that far off.
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by chrisBob 8y ago
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | Full-Time | Onsite I am looking for a new boss. The College of Literature Science and the Arts, at University of Michigan seeks a Research Computing Services Manager. They will be responsible for pla
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by chrisBob 8y ago
I have signed up for, but not yet started a study at University of Michigan that is giving out apple watches and blood pressure monitors as part of a health study. Apple Inc is listed as a sponsor that will have access to all of the data. A
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Someone is trying to cheat at the internet :)
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by chrisBob 8y ago
I love my job. Most of the projects are medium sized ones with 100-200 hours of programming involved, so I get to see a good variety. Splitting my time between C, Java Script, MATLAB, Python, Swift, PHP and R means that I am probably not an
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by chrisBob 8y ago
I am a research support programmer at the University of Michigan. My job is to help research labs solve programming problems that they can't handle internally. I write interactive Psych experiments, create data processing scripts based
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by chrisBob 8y ago
I agree that AC is important and helps lots of people, but the impact can certainly be reduced. People adapt remarkably to warm/cold conditions, but the barrier of pushing through for a day or two is difficult. The only reason offices&
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Are you aware that your comment comes across as extremely racist? Punishing an entire ethnic group for a riot can't possibly be a good idea.
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by chrisBob 8y ago
They have some beautiful animations, but can any astronomers confirm if people actually do it this way? From class I remember that you can also determine the distance by measuring the coherence of the light coming from the star at two dista
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by chrisBob 8y ago
For large calculations, the magic of an FPGA is in its throughput. Imagine that you have some mess of addition, multiplication, ... The time for the first calculation hardly matters. Even if the FPGA is slower getting through the first calc
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by chrisBob 8y ago
The biggest challenge I see to starting a government run social network (assuming US here) is the free speech issue. While Twitter and FB can censor hate speech, there would be an expensive legal battle over the government doing the same th
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by chrisBob 8y ago
Our land loan had similar interest to a mortgage, but was interest only with a balloon payment after 24 months. The bank's intent was to issue the loan and roll it into a construction loan with similar terms (which is what we did). Thi
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by chrisBob 8y ago
I don't typically have my lawyer review the TOS of each website I sign up for, but I did have him review my mortgage. Everyone picks a different place to draw the line between careful understanding (or hiring out a review from someon
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by chrisBob 9y ago
You mean why they are putting it off for a whole week and a half!? I don't think anyone would get their taxes done on time if it applied retroactively to 2017, and having a different tax code for December 21-31 seems like a bad idea al
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by chrisBob 9y ago
No problem. I want to stream the Olympic Channel, and I even pay $100 for a cable subscription that includes it. Oh, I can't stream it though. Uverse only lets me stream from 3 of the NBC Sports channels, and not that one. Guess I am g

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