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by gist 9y ago
I take it this is your first transaction buying a house. You are basing what you think on that and what people are saying online. I can assure you as someone that buys real estate (as investments) it typically isn't that easy, at least
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by gist 9y ago
You are not 'forced' into using it. You can compile your own information of houses that may be for sale that aren't for sale and approach the owner directly and try to buy it. You can also approach people who had their houses
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by gist 9y ago
You are comparing a case where it only took them 'a few hours' for your particular transaction with all the time they had to spend either showing that house and getting nothing or showing other houses and getting nothing. Do you h
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by gist 9y ago
Agree. But you are wasting your time on HN arguing those points. On HN (many) people are curious, think they rise to a challenge, and think they have the time and bandwidth to defeat any obstacle or achieve any goal they want. And are addi
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by gist 9y ago
> where any buyer can view photos of a house for sale online real estate agents still expect to receive 6% It's not the same as buying a car as you have to gain access to the property to look at it which involves another agent and m
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by gist 9y ago
Write to Fred Wilson fred@usv.com (investor in coinbase) Guaranteed that you will see the escalation that you need. You may want to provide links to others complaints about the same that you can find but make it short and simple.
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by gist 9y ago
Thanks for this. I actually spent a bit of time playing around and learning about dd based on the above. I found that on my machine it is also slower as well. Never really had a need to use dd even with many years of playing with Unix. This
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by gist 9y ago
> And no, people can't troll others by sending them mixed coins. I've often wondered if anyone has set someone up by depositing cash into their bank account (account number easy enough to find) and then created or leaked a back
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by gist 9y ago
> The alleged Haddow is intelligent and capable enough to raise 37 million For one thing generally a portion of any 'success' is linked to either lies or illegal activities. It's quite easy to make money if you fabricate
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by gist 9y ago
> I recognize that this hasn't been "proven", but really what's the chance than there's a shadowy cabal of women who start companies in order to target individual VCs. These women have little to gain from this an
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by gist 9y ago
> The correct solution is to answer the call, say nothing and hang up after 3 seconds. Fwiw this hasn't worked with the calls that I get (landline) which start out with what sounds like a fax tone at the start (but is definitely not
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by gist 9y ago
It's really cherry picking and reverse engineering good outcomes at it's best. Sure Palm said this and that. What about all the thousands of others companies that paid no heed to some potential business threat and made out fine? T
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by gist 9y ago
> It's definitely anti-competitive in spirit Where do you draw the line with that? What if you were in a store, saw a product, and then asked the clerk 'can I use your phone I want to check the price at one of your competitors?
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by gist 9y ago
What I say is: 'I'd rather have your connections than your money'. As someone who helps investors with some of their investments that is often a missed point. Reviewing your list of investors I've worked with several of
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by gist 9y ago
> I read everything And the truth is you shouldn't have even had to 'read everything'.
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Introducing Shadow Banning and Timeouts(blog.disqus.com)
1 points by gist 9y ago|0 comments
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Bashrc generator(bashrcgenerator.com)
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by gist 9y ago
Question. Does DO log access to a clients vps in some way if they do not have the cloud firewall product? In other words if a VPS has traffic to http https ssh ftp and so on coming in from all over. Does DO have logs that show that traffic
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by gist 9y ago
Perhaps also by a clever rebate scheme. Product price is $180. Rebate is $40. Applying for and getting the rebate necessitates signing of a 'contract' which prohibits certain action. [1] [1] May not hold up in advanced legal cases
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by gist 9y ago
What has always been fascinating to me is this. If critics options matter that much why can't they make more money just offering those opinions directly to the company by way of high priced consulting?
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Aligning purpose and strategy: Cloudflare goes nuclear on patent troll(nickgrossman.is)
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by gist 9y ago
I am still trying to figure out if the story that I read in the 80's pointing out the need to always test backup tapes that was reinforced by saying some guy in Sweden erased them by putting on a heated car seat in the Winter was tru
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by gist 9y ago
What did you charge for the work? How long did it take for you to do this? Was the price higher or lower because it was for Apple?
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by gist 9y ago
Would seem to be trival to allow you to either turn off or customize this message.
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How do we turn off the annoying “Woohoo You've read” message? (2010)(productforums.google.com)
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The Darkness Side and Long Honeymoons of Token Sales (Part I)(startupmanagement.org)
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by gist 10y ago
Snarkly I will mention that this is the same company that 'HN darling' Elon Musk was part of prior to his current life. Everything that everyone hates about paypal existed back then.
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by gist 10y ago
Some of what happened after the column was published: http://nypost.com/2017/04/28/times-columnist-blasted-by-nast...
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Climate of Complete Certainty(nytimes.com)
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by gist 10y ago
This means that just like insurance companies often do they put up roadblocks hoping that someone just peters out and decides it's not worth their time to pursue. At the very least even if they don't you buy time and can use the m

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