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by jjav 2y ago
Thanks for the link. Ok so as I suspected, even with very little income but if one has assetts, there is no discount.
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by jjav 2y ago
> Appraisers they knew could be a little generous with the numbers to make the clients happy This can only work if only very few appraisers in the area are overvaluing. But if that works, why wouldn't all of them get in on the game
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by jjav 2y ago
> The extreme fog and heavy rain are dramatic conditions that no existing driver can navigate within. Yes, humans can (I have) driven in extreme rain or fog where one can barely see one car length ahead. How? Simply by slowing down until
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by jjav 2y ago
I wonder what that means exactly, but haven't been able to find any details.
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by jjav 2y ago
> Every interaction I've ever had with CloudFlare has left me feeling like I needed a bath. And let's not forget they are MITM'm all internet traffic that passes through them, which is a lot of it.
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by jjav 2y ago
> This is a real concern for me because people credit the ACA with making a big dent in the healthcare problem here in the US, but it feels more like it just created a massive legal protection... Both are true! The ACA is a literal life-
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by jjav 2y ago
> You hire the best candidate overall How, exactly, would you do that? Say you open a new position and you get 100 resumes a day, every day, until you shut down the role and pick someone. How are you hiring the best candidate overall? Ho
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by jjav 2y ago
> An HR screen isn't a background check. It's "can you talk about your roles and provlems solved like you actually did it. A good HR screen should make sure they aren't blatantly lying Correct. While not perfect, if y
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by jjav 2y ago
> Nobody could have possibly seen it coming that Google would abuse its market position to their own benefit... What makes me sad is that if we go back a handful of years here in HN comments, there were tons of posts assuredly stating go
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by jjav 2y ago
> I have interviewed many people employed in tech as programmers for their entire career and they can't code. Think about this contradictory statement for a while. Can it actually be true? Or is there something else going on? If the
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by jjav 2y ago
> Yes, less secure because availability is part of security. This is too often forgotten. Availability is a fundamental part of security and must be part of every threat model. And your threat model needs to be matched with what it is be
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by jjav 2y ago
But a 1990s Kia had proper physical controls for everything.
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by jjav 2y ago
> I was looking forward to driving something smaller than the usual beasts here in the US, and something with a manual transmission. But when I got to the Munich airport rental counter, they had “upgraded” me to the biggest automatic Vol
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by jjav 2y ago
> Around here, past a certain age, your house is basically a tear-down, where it's a liability over just having an empty lot. Where is around here and what that certain age? That's wild to me. Of course you can ruin a house t
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by jjav 2y ago
Everything you say is so profoundly alien to my house experience that I'm not sure how to relate. If you are replacing major structures of the house every 10-20 years, something is wrong. That is not normal. The house I grew up in is t
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by jjav 2y ago
> cars and houses should both depreciate Perhaps, but at vastly different time scales. For most normal people a car degrades to beater status in just a couple decades. Houses last more than a lifetime in most cases, barring natural disas
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by jjav 2y ago
> The tax laws are so complicated for a reason. And the reason is those same rich influence the laws to their benefit. It would be pretty trivial to tax the wealth if a society wanted to do so. But laws are made by lobbyists, who are pai
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by jjav 2y ago
"Housing can be affordable or it can be a good investment. Not both." This is a cut&paste response predictably in every housing thread. Can we dig deeper and do some analysis?
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by jjav 2y ago
It is difficult to reconcile anyone being charged for hacking, when Musk and his minions are bypassing every security control ever established on government systems without any repercussion.
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by jjav 2y ago
Fortunately iOS is not 99% of the market.
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by jjav 2y ago
> The fact that the US government is okay with doing this with its own secrets surprises me to this day. This fact conveys information. Namely, how tightly bound these supposedly independent services like AW GovCloud are with the governm
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by jjav 2y ago
> You're repeating propaganda from the people who want rents to stay high. Ok. Can you please show which cities get cheaper and cheaper as the density gets higher and higher? Anywhere in the world? Ever? The densest city in the US i
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by jjav 2y ago
> I don't think most people worry about that at all. Why wouldn't it be available? If you're heading to the airport from home, your battery is charged. You're assuming the phone works and the internet connection works
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by jjav 2y ago
> governments and bureaucracies are inefficient in some way Also, what's important to understand is that inefficiency in a corporation is a bug, but inefficiency in government is a feature . Government needs to have checks and bala
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by jjav 2y ago
What is forcing the use of Spring? I've been a frequent Java programmer since its earliest days (started around 1996) and I've yet to ever use Spring. None of the bad parts of Java are actually a part of Java!
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by jjav 2y ago
> Java, as a language is fine I guess, but the culture around it sucks. Culture is what you want it to be. There are indeed some ridiculous subcultures within the world of developers who use Java. Like J2EE-anything or any of the baroque
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by jjav 2y ago
> Don't worry, the Typescript ecosystem is fast becoming Java. Typescript is somehow becoming a laguage that supports writing extremely performant high throughput and very scalable server code? That seems unlikely. So no worries, it
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by jjav 2y ago
> I would prefer wired connections for reliability and privacy. Regarding privacy, I've always wondered about this regarding ethernet over power lines. Surely the signal must leak to some extent to nearby houses on the same grid?
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by jjav 2y ago
> If banks or rich friends are not an option, where do you get the $220k? Second mortgage on your home? Paying taxes on phantom income is extremely risky. As you described, if there is a gap between the tax event and the liquidity timefr
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by jjav 2y ago
> But it's not satisfying to stay at that level of ignorance very long I agree, but have found that for a lot of people that is totally satisfying enough. Most people don't care to really understand how the code works.

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