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by cko 7y ago
Do landlords drive up prices? I know for residential properties, homeowners are willing to pay way higher prices than what makes sense for landlords. I don't understand the vitriol towards landlords. Do people get angry at the bank for
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by cko 7y ago
I was a practicing Buddhist for years. When I say Zen it's the pop culture connotation of the word, not specifically referring to Buddhism itself. I was 19 before I got a cell phone. Now I travel internationally quite frequently so I&#
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by cko 7y ago
I just moved to Europe from the US so it is not easy to have no backup navigation app. OP mentioned he had moved recently.
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by cko 7y ago
I'm quite interested in your setup. You walk around with a feature phone and some bills? Sounds really Zen. I would like to get to that point. How do you navigate without Maps, Uber, etc.? Do your friends know you won't reply to t
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by cko 7y ago
That stuff is expensive and oats, protein powder, avocado oil, eggs are cheaper.
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by cko 7y ago
Mine requires minimal cooking. It’s 8 eggs a day (soft boiled in a $20 egg steamer)... lots of bok choy or broccoli in avocado oil (oil for calories)... rice... and protein shakes. I microwave the veggies. Protein shake recipe is Greek yogu
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by cko 7y ago
You’re talking addition and subtraction, compounding deals with multiplication.
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by cko 7y ago
You do already have the money for 20 years - that’s what the lender “pays” for you on day one.
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by cko 7y ago
Concussions apparently didn’t hurt his writing style. I loved it. Does New Yorker help with the editing?
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by cko 7y ago
I choose to live in cities because I want to be where the people are. And I'm not much of a "people person." Nothing beats being minutes away from face to face interaction.
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by cko 7y ago
> Ask a wage slave what he'd like to accomplish. Chances are the response will be something like "I'd start every day at the gym and work out for two hours until I was as buff as Brad Pitt. Then I'd practice the piano
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by cko 7y ago
Dallas and most of Texas have some of the highest property taxes in the country. Raising property taxes a couple percent would be... unreasonable.
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by cko 7y ago
Which market? https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2017-25.pdf
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by cko 7y ago
Do you feel dissatisfied though? I’ve felt lazy all my life, even when I’ve averaged 60 hour workweeks.
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by cko 7y ago
As a landlord this doesn’t make too much sense. The value of the property is net operating income divided by cap rate, so vacancies would lower value. It doesn’t matter what the gross scheduled rent is in that calculation.
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by cko 7y ago
A month ago I sold a sizeable amount of real estate. I will quit my job in 6 months (resulting in lower cashflow). Do I buy as many hens as I can right now? I heard of studies that lump sum investing is better than dollar cost averaging two
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by cko 7y ago
> Why would you replace a meal made out of plants with basically the same plants run through a blender and their ingredients extracted by some odd process? Convenience. I use my blender twice a day. I need 3000 calories a day to maintain
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by cko 7y ago
i wasn’t able to locate your email. why did you need three surgeries? i had double jaw surgery done and while it improved my jaw, the unresolved issue is my poor TMJ, which the surgeon pointed out. when i sleep on my back, my jaw still fall
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by cko 8y ago
Ok. What about: sea sponges, starfish, jellyfish, and octopi? (If you’re drawing a seemingly arbitrary line at “has brain / nervous system => able to feel suffering”) Which signalling molecules would qualify?
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by cko 8y ago
Yup I am 170lbs and 3500 Calories a day is just enough for me to play an hour of basketball a few times a week and be able to gain a little bit of muscle.
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by cko 8y ago
Well if you’re gonna go there, the Cakkavatti Sutta, DN 26, of the Theravada tradition in Buddhism, says the upper limit is 80,000 years.
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by cko 8y ago
T420 on eBay with 8gb ram and SSD has been $100-150 for a while now.
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by cko 8y ago
The way it is by Ajahn Sumedho. A collection of talks, perhaps a bit rambling at times, but very insightful, by a Theravadan Buddhist monk. I read this every few months. https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads&#x2F
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by cko 8y ago
I agree, I think the human response to this stuff is instinctive and visceral. I consider myself a highly skeptical and disciplined mind but once in a while I catch myself believing stuff that doesn’t have much rigor behind it. And it takes
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by cko 8y ago
That was a fun read. Many parallels. Head-scratching behavior and a bizarre adherence to the lie even after confrontation.
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by cko 8y ago
They were both emotional bait and also lies that painted a false story of her being a college student. I guess she was 20 and Indian and intelligent so it would be strange if she wasn’t in college, but she’d make up very specific lies, unpr
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by cko 8y ago
I am fascinated by the specificity of this con. Extreme travel? Plastics? I guess it’s the specificity that makes it believable - I’ve recently met a sociopath (if that’s the label for it) who fabricated lies with such detail that no one d
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by cko 8y ago
Yup. No need for a gym membership. I can do a lot with a pull-up bar. Bodyweight squats, one leg or two legs. Pushups, planks, bridges. Dribbling a basketball. Kettlebells. The list goes on.
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by cko 8y ago
I have an older close friend who, after a college reunion, said to me, “Some people stayed the same age they were when they graduated, some people stopped at 40, some people just kept growing.” I’m not 100% sure what he meant by that, but I
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by cko 8y ago
Is that from Tibetan book of the Dead? Never read it, but early Buddhism rejects calling consciousness the “soul” or even supports the concept of a soul. In fact there is one Sutta in the Pali Canon where one monk went around proclaiming co

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