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by coward123 4y ago
Man, if I had even a tiny % of the dollars I saw companies waste on things like this when I rolled in as a consultant, I'd be retired on my personal island. Some of my favorites were when they would demand I fly to some office at the l
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by coward123 4y ago
When I think about when I was most productive or when I saw people who had gone though a monumental burst of productivity, it was a combination of: 1) They had the raw skills, IE: experience, tech knowledge, etc. 2) They had the domain know
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by coward123 4y ago
Haven't read the article yet, but I re-learned the language my family lost about 3 generations ago. Studied over there in university, returned to my ancestral village... felt like it filled in a missing piece. It feels a bit like a sup
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by coward123 4y ago
He / she likely means the IRS or other government regulatory bodies.
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by coward123 4y ago
I get that, and yet the root of my observation is simply that there are are already existing valid political boundaries. The core problem with legislative and congressional districts is that they are utterly arbitrary and subject to change
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by coward123 4y ago
I'd actually be ok with them using less expensive finishes so long as the houses themselves were built to last more than 20 years... there's a house I drive past regularly in a development where it's obvious that the sheet si
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by coward123 4y ago
We've already got states, and under those states we have counties. I don't understand why we can't mandate that congressional and legislative districts must conform to county boundaries (which is fundamentally where people li
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by coward123 4y ago
I'm sure there is a German or two here who can chime in with the specifics, but the parent poster shared a somewhat abbreviated version of the story. There are multiple kinds of high school in Germany (and other European nations) where
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by coward123 4y ago
Solid analysis. If I might add some factors about my particular market that might be similar to other people's markets that I believe confound the issues: -- Builders are not building the kind of properties that buyers want. In my mark
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by coward123 4y ago
What you are missing here is that Jimmy Carter was a man of the people. A guy who liked rock and roll and a cold beer. He was the ultimate Washington outsider. And buried in the article is an important note about how of course the record
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by coward123 4y ago
>The sooner we collectively decide that housing shouldn't be a market Then how would you recommend houses trade ownership? >so developers are incentivized to build more housing How do you prevent the development of shitboxes (it&
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by coward123 4y ago
1.5 hours is like Eindhoven to Amsterdam, IE: from one end of the country to the other... really not bad (IE: trains are fun, have wifi, etc) but I'm wondering here if part of the problem is that you are far away from where you might h
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by coward123 4y ago
I work in a field where we are negotiating over price daily. We often are using "weird" numbers because we know it will push our price just over a competitors, and because the sellers will find our number psychologically "int
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by coward123 4y ago
Not even close? I mean you may be on to something with your hypothesis about the current wave of social media companies, but not if you step back and look at the bigger pictures. People are always looking at ways to connect. The whole premi
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by coward123 4y ago
I can’t help but think of that saying “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” Yes, prices in many markets are very high and appreciating at a rapid clip, but if there are buyers, competition, and houses are contin
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by coward123 4y ago
Very early on in their explanation of the experiment, I found myself asking "What is random?" I'm sure one of you smart mathematicians has a learned perspective on this, but to my thinking, a whole lot of hairless apes sittin
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by coward123 4y ago
Pro tip: Ask your realtor who they recommend. Every serious realtor has a small group (1-3 max) mortgage brokers who they they have vetted. They periodically refresh their list if someone isn't getting it done for their clients as expe
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by coward123 4y ago
You've got to realize that the Puget Sound region is an absolute outlier in every way, the perfect storm of restrictive geography with a high concentration of very successful companies. The only options are: -- Reach a point in your ca
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by coward123 4y ago
All I know is that the cost of Prime keeps increasing, the video content is lackluster, and the last six (!!) things I ordered they either sent the wrong thing, the order was lost in transit, or the item that arrived was clearly counterfeit
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by coward123 4y ago
Here's something that I perceive the UK has going for it that the US doesn't - health care and child care. In the US, you could easily be spending > $1000/mo on child care, and for those families of child rearing age, a he
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by coward123 4y ago
>Relatively crappy homes in town that were 100k back when I was looking are now north of 250k. We'd need to know more about your area to really assess this... $250K really isn't very much money. In my area, you could afford tha
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by coward123 4y ago
Reverse mortgages don't prevent death. In my market, we have a lot of people of advanced age, and when they are gone entire neighborhoods will suddenly be available. From what I can tell, this is true in a surprising number of areas ar
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by coward123 4y ago
I hate articles like this. -- It paints the entire country as one real estate market, but real estate is local . -- Interest rates are still super low by historic standards. If we have a small recession this spring it will likely benefit
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by coward123 4y ago
I live in a town of 35,000 people, where the economies of several counties in each direction are based in agriculture. There are tech people here - and I expected there would be a lot more by now - but it is very slow growth. Internet servi
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by coward123 4y ago
I've been on both sides of this, having been in a male-predominant industry and then in a female-predominant industry. In the male world, there was plenty of "mansplaining" and in the female world - I was actually really surp
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by coward123 5y ago
I suspect you are correct, but at the same time I think about 7 years ago what EV options were available. There could be a lot more options for car buyers 7 years from now. Realistically, the mandate is a starting point - it's just say
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by coward123 5y ago
Keep in mind there are already states like Washington, which has mandated no new licenses for non-EV personal vehicles after 2030. This isn't to say that EV will completely replace ICE in that timeline (or even on a multi-decade timeli
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by coward123 5y ago
They probably were - I read the newspaper at breakfast every morning beginning at age 5 until I went off to college. For some people, learning to read is a process. For others, it's more of an instant epiphany. I've seen two year
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by coward123 5y ago
I still don't quite understand how their diet could have been this troublesome... frankly, when I backpack I have almost the opposite problem, as walking gets me going. I'm just an amateur woodsman, but when I'm in the woods
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by coward123 5y ago
Assuming you wrote the above Ask HN question, your English is probably better than you realize. Seems like you may have more than one goal, as moving to another country is a different matter than just wanting to learn a language. If you rea

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