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by hx87 10y ago
I have fairly strong control over how I use my gun, since it's a relatively simple device that doesn't make independent decisions. Less so for my car, especially more recent ones, and far less so for any IoT devices I own. Therefo
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by hx87 10y ago
Commercial persons are sociopathic (by definition, pretty much) and don't have concepts of consumption, experience, and pleasure the way real persons do.
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm not entirely sure that NIMBY is rational with respect to maximizing the value of a real estate investment--wouldn't free construction plus taking out equity loans to build as dense as justified by demand be even better? IMHO,
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by hx87 10y ago
I'd say that 1-year roots are still roots and are every bit worth nurturing as 30-year ones. Even if I live in a place for a single year, I still want to improve it and connect with my neighbors. This idea that an experience is less wo
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by hx87 10y ago
> partying your twenties away and as long as everybody in the house gets on Why the assumption that all roommates everywhere are partying?
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by hx87 10y ago
Both. The marginal cost of an additional bedroom is miniscule compared to that of a studio/1 bedroom apartment, and having people to hang around with/socialize/cook is a plus.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Not allowed to paint the walls, nearly all come with furniture, better make sure you don't damage any of it. This is the part I hate most about renting. Either leave the apartment empty, or at least give me furniture that isn&#x27
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by hx87 10y ago
Houses can certainly depreciate if you don't keep them up to date (e.g. a house with no electricity in 1920) or at least take care of them. The land beneath them, on the other hand...
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by hx87 10y ago
> Sure, I can use my us credit card in France after te weird you-need-a-signature-? look I thought chip-and-PIN was the standard over there?
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by hx87 10y ago
> the random timeframe in which the (still unnecessary) credit is free Are you talking about the 0% APR period, or the monthly revolving cycle? The latter is absolutely predictable, and if you dislike manual payments you can always set u
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by hx87 10y ago
"Best" for what, exactly? The only use for a credit history is getting credit, and having none means you're a risky person to lend to.
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by hx87 10y ago
Even improvements aren't unique; the last time I moved into an apartment I replaced the wall-to-wall carpet with pine boards, replaced the 50+ year old electric receptacles with GFCI outlets and stripped off the old paint and put on a
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by hx87 10y ago
> You might not garden w/ no equitable return on house value (or at least not build a large gardening setup) The return is the experience and joy of gardening, which occurs whether I own or rent. > landlords feel the same way in
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by hx87 10y ago
> Residential properties usually have short term leases. You have minimal incentive as a tenant to plant flowers, buy shrubs, etc. You have minimal inventive as a landlord to make the house look any more attractive than it needs to be. T
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by hx87 10y ago
> many of these people How many, out of all the people you interact with? It's safe to make your assumption the people who revealed their workings to you, but not with everyone else.
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by hx87 10y ago
Not insulting the king while in Thailand or on Thai sites sounds fair enough, but it shouldn't apply to those of us in the rest of the world. Just as US laws and norms shouldn't apply outside of the US, Thai norms and laws should
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by hx87 10y ago
Nobody is claiming that he is a Russian agent. At most, they are claiming that he is rhetorically pro-Russian, perhaps because of admiration for Putin's leadership style, perhaps because of hopes for future deals in Russia in case the
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by hx87 10y ago
Then should have explicitly defined "everybody" as "everybody in the USA/developed countries". The US as a whole isn't being hosed. The USA as a whole benefits from trade with China, but a significant subset of
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by hx87 10y ago
> last I heard, Juarez had a huge problem with brutal gang violence. You last heard a long time ago then--Juarez is much safer these days, though not quite as safe as El Paso.
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by hx87 10y ago
I've stayed in Tucson and environs for months at a time, and I /never/ felt unsafe there--if anything, due to my tanned skin at the time, I was more afraid of Joe Arpaio's thugs up north.
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by hx87 10y ago
> California refugees voting for CA-like policies in their new states That depends on which CA refugees you're talking about--the ones who fled when it was undergoing a red -> blue transition, or the ones that were priced out? Th
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by hx87 10y ago
> Globalization is a threat to everybody as it increases instability across the board except for the very wealthy. Tell that to, oh, every ex-peasant Chinese urban worker ever. The problem with globalization right now is that workers in
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by hx87 10y ago
It's likely that they're all public positions--finance industry professionals are a 'public' like any other.
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by hx87 10y ago
Hillary Clinton is solidly centrist--Sanders had to pull her to a left a tiny bit.
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by hx87 10y ago
> no matter how fact-free, no matter how irrational, no matter how dangerous The allegations against Trump are based on fact, rational, and hardly dangerous.
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by hx87 10y ago
Having a public position and a private position is something everyone does--expressing your private position publicly is often detrimental to getting the goal of that position done, so you craft a public position more amenable to achieving
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by hx87 10y ago
> Side streets need to support their fair share of children walking to school, bicycles, conversations and not-polluted air. So do main streets.
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by hx87 10y ago
If the base car has 3.5mm input jack, getting bluetooth is pretty trivial.
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by hx87 10y ago
Side streets need to support their fair share of traffic. Most cars these days are very quiet, barring the occasional beater, utility truck, and ricer. That being said, if they slow cars down Waze will direct less drivers to them.
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by hx87 10y ago
Swapping out a unit every 2 years (or why it craps out) for $200 sounds like a good deal compared to a terrible one that lasts 20 years and costs $10000 to replace.

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