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by jbarberu 7y ago
6% seems to be the norm down here in Central Florida. Paid by the seller, or baked into the selling price, and split between the listing and buying agents. 10% in rural America doesn't sound too strange to me.
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by jbarberu 7y ago
If the company renting out the couch didn't come out on top, they'd just put their money in index funds instead of buying inventory...
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by jbarberu 7y ago
Nah, it's the same in Sweden :)
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by jbarberu 7y ago
They recently changed the lower limit of the down payment to 15% in Sweden. But yes, you'll generally get a better interest rate if you put more of your own money into the purchase. As a Swede in the middle of buying a house in the U.S
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by jbarberu 7y ago
"In mobile, a good first step is to open up the app stores and allow the browsers to have the same access to the operating system as native mobile apps." From a security perspective this sounds like an absolute nightmare.
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by jbarberu 7y ago
Me and my 4 year younger sister share our birthday. Growing up people would often gasp and ask themselves "what are the odds??", to which I'd usually reply "1/365?". My father and step-sister also share their b
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by jbarberu 7y ago
That seems to have become the norm. To me that's just people misunderstanding how to use a gradual scale. I recently got a phone call from my apartment management after I left a bunch of 3s and 4s on their annual review, they seemed di
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by jbarberu 7y ago
I totally agree. 4.6 as a cutoff is insane. I regularly rate things 3 if it's good, 4 if great (on Google Maps). What Uber should have is: Rate your ride: 5 - great 4 - bad 3 - really bad 2 - awful 1 - shouldn't be allowed to driv
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by jbarberu 7y ago
I'm using GNUCash. I used to manually go through receipts and check against bank transaction history. That wasn't exactly sustainable so I wrote a python script to take the CSV that most banks will export and spit it back out in a
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by jbarberu 7y ago
If I'm able to see the price for multiple stations at the same time and I'm able to adjust my driving to get to any particular one, I'll go for the cheapest one. Typically I tend to optimize for easiest/safest to get to
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by jbarberu 7y ago
Driving in Florida, I'll gladly pay $4 to _skip_ a left turn... :)
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by jbarberu 7y ago
I picked up a Casio W800-H (similar to F-91W) about a year ago and I'm really loving it. It's holding up pretty well despite regular abuse at the gym and while working on my cars. While I'm hoping to get a couple of years out
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by jbarberu 7y ago
I rip my CDs, store them on my NAS and then burn them back on a CD for playing in my car. The original stays in a closet in case my NAS ever dies and the burnt copy in my car lives as long as it lives, given the hot Florida sun.
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by jbarberu 7y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ While not the official language, you can oftentimes assume people will understand English in Sweden. My observation in Florida is you find more people who don't speak English here than in Sweden.
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by jbarberu 7y ago
I don't fly very often, but being in the midst of booking flights I'm very thankful for websites having filters by airplane type. I'll be paying the additional 10-20% to not set foot on a Boeing this time.
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by jbarberu 7y ago
Yeah, dealing with countries under direct economic sanction might not be the best of ideas. While I strongly dislike Google/Alphabet for many reasons, this just seems like they're being responsible.
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by jbarberu 7y ago
"If the doctor asks to stick his finger up your rear to check your prostate you don't say er no thanks that's too private" If you don't want your doctor to stick his finger up your butt, then that's exactly wha
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by jbarberu 7y ago
I've been using it as my primary email since around May of 2017. I can only speak for the web and Android versions of protonmail, and those work pretty well (comparable to the gmail app and gmail in the browser). I'm using the pai
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Wow, this is truly eye-opening. Budgeting $7200/yr for entertainment, $8400/yr for a luxury car, $7800/yr for vacation and $25000/yr for food. Whomever made that budget certainly made the decision to live paycheck-to-pay
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by jbarberu 8y ago
For backpacking/climbing trips I use a Black Diamond Element 60L ( https://www.backcountry.com/black-diamond-element-60-backpac... ) For everyday use I have a SwissGear bag that I got at Target outside Siggraph a few yea
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Given that a lot of people have been having troubles with their keyboards and Apple seem uninterested in admitting their design is garbage, I think high profile people expressing their frustration can be productive. I'm sure DHH could
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by jbarberu 8y ago
I think a part of the problem is that some companies aren't very transparent with how they're using your phone number. In my case I do want my bank to have my phone number, in case they need to contact me. I would rather they don&
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by jbarberu 8y ago
The podcast Skeptics with a K did an interesting series on the Placebo Effect. It basically boils down to that it's a catch-all term for different types of bias. It's strange that something with such flimsy evidence lives on so st
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Let's say you have a president, or something, who cheats on his wife, publicizing that should be illegal?
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by jbarberu 8y ago
So if your friend catches your wife cheating on you, he should be the one getting in trouble for telling you? (Assuming this is a secret she'd prefer to keep from you)
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by jbarberu 8y ago
I'll concede that one trip to the ER was a bit hyperbole. That fact is though, that medical emergencies have a way to royally screw you over in a way that is unheard of in most European countries. Personally, with a background in a Eur
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by jbarberu 8y ago
One trip home from the ER and you'll be the one laughing.
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by jbarberu 8y ago
In that case you could make it more transparent and outright make it a bidding war over who gets in, rather than the whole charade of test scores and what-not.
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by jbarberu 8y ago
I hang at least weekly on bimmerfest to find help with whatever is troubling my 16 year old car. I think there is huge value in having these highly specific forums where all the people who know their stuff hang out. It implicitly also means
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by jbarberu 8y ago
Assuming we count recent versions of old-school software mine are: foobar2000 vim (I was still being breastfed when Bram started)

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