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by fr0sty 13y ago
> In college, the kids who were home educated before just seem . . . off This particular bias is probably why the normal people in college who were home-schooled didn't volunteer that information to you.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> Why on earth would anyone think tying healthcare to your employer is a good idea? No one did. Employer-provided healthcare (and other perks) came into vogue during the wage freezes during World War II as a way to attract employees. ht
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Understood, and what you say _may_ factor into the thinking re: loan modifications, but my question was about short sales. In these cses the homeowner wants out and there is a willing buyer at X (which is less than the amount owed on the lo
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by fr0sty 13y ago
I have the same question on short sales. Banks approve these things but then give buyers the run-around for months until they just give up. Eventually the forclosure goes through and the house is listed for 60% of the short sale price and s
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Explain in discrete steps how you imagine this works. What was the prevailing offer at the time you placed your order? How many coins did you buy before exhausting displayed liquidity at 121.46? How do you imaging HTFs front-ran your purcha
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by fr0sty 13y ago
In the interests of correctness, that's a (rather common) misunderstanding of the phrase "immaculate conception". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception "The Immaculate Conception should not be confused with the perpetual vir
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> solicitors (lawyers) are paid based upon how much work they've actually done on the case - with a flat rate. Which is it: a flat rate or an amount based on the amount of work done?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> if he invested some time If he invested some time then he would not just be selling the car as-is where-is. He would be selling the product of the car + his effort which may actually be a net loss depending on how much time he spent a
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Cars which are "written off" by insurance companies are also known as a "total loss" or "totaled" and the title for that car will be branded as such. These things only happen in the case of insurance claims after accidents and such. Those c
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> I got less than half of what the car was actually worth... First, the car is worth whatever someone will pay for it and not a cent more. Also, as of January 2005 you cannot use the KBB value or "fair market value" of your car for yo
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Here is the State of Illinois catch-all approach to addresses (from their voter registration form: http://www.elections.il.gov/downloads/votinginformation/pdf/... IF YOU HAVE NO STREET ADDRESS, below describe your home: list th
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> nobody will care about it. I disagree. If the company in question is large enough having documentation that you were actively trying to avoid disaster, were competent enough to raise concerns and suggest solutions, etc. can be helpful
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by fr0sty 13y ago
For Me: Location: Home Coverage: ~1k sqft Hardware: 1 Buffalo Wireless router/ap Firmware: ODM, tried DD-WRT with no success (~2years ago) Features: Nothing fancy Comments: I originally bought the Buffalo device on
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Ask HN: best commodity wifi routers?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
This one is even more relevant: http://what-if.xkcd.com/16/
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by fr0sty 13y ago
To argue by analogy, are the (no doubt hundreds) of "clocks" listed on etsy that are no more than a cheap prebought movement mounted through a hole in a piece of wood in violation of the same policy? What about the driftwood lamps and such
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by fr0sty 13y ago
And who's to say that every other item on that site was not made by some sweatshop that churns out crates of knick-knacks? This is a "featured item" on the front page: http://www.etsy.com/listing/88946705/tomato-art-print-lovely... Does t
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by fr0sty 13y ago
One additional benefit to the water sign: It doesn't leave the roadway strewn with debris.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Even in the face of "complete information" from a doctor there is a log of "awareness" being raised elsewhere which is almost uniformly in the battle/fight/beat/win direction. In such a case it is very easy to see how it would be possible
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by fr0sty 13y ago
I doubt that is true. The overall market moved less than 1% and I don't think individual names moved much more than their normal daily trading ranges.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Subtitle should be: Realization that Tweet was Fake Creates $136B in Stock Market. In less than 5 minutes everything was back to normal. The interesting question is whether the people panic selling were skittish human traders or twitter-bas
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by fr0sty 13y ago
More info re: formatting: http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Sunday_comics
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Once you "flag" an article the text changes to "unflag" and clicking again changes it back (at least for me). But downvotes are forever.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Does Costco offer free 2-day shipping? (or free shipping, period?) If you are comparing an in-store price to the amazon Prime one you have to factor in the costs (implicit and explicit) of actually making a trip out for a particular item or
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by fr0sty 14y ago
> Mt. Gox is at $120 right now Actually, Mt. Gox has no active market now so the last quoted prices there are irrelevant.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
It is non-trivial to get dollars into accounts on exchanges. It is also not an instant transfer of bitcoins from one exchange to another. your two step process really is a four step one: 0. Get dollars to Bitstamp to buy bitcoins
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by fr0sty 14y ago
That is only effective if you have all exchanges working in a coordinated fashion. Halting trading on a single exchange (even if it is the largest) does nothing to arrest the fall since trading can (and will) continue at other marketplaces.
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by fr0sty 14y ago
Just for reference: as of 2:26ET last trade I can get from the mtGox API was for $157. EDIT: 2:52:00 last trade: $142 2:56:58 last trade: $135 3:10:10 last trade: $117.57 3:20:52 last trade: $106.00 (this is the lowest price I've seen) 3:42
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by fr0sty 14y ago
This is off by at least three orders of magnitude. 1BTC = 10M satoshi. 2012 US Penny Production = ~6B 6bn/10M = 600 Total number of us pennies made in the last 10 years tops 43B which pushes the difference from 600x to 4300x
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by fr0sty 14y ago
It is the non-committal answer. the other '0' options have an attached attitude (interested, not interested, scam) and I people are choosing "other". Also, you can own a fraction of a coin so 0-1 does not overlap completely with 1-9.

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