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by jpollock 11y ago
A canada goose can weigh from 7-14 lbs, ducks are much smaller (3.5lbs). We test planes against bird strike. However, birds don't have screws and batteries. Even with that, they bring down planes (AWE1549) There is a reason why airp
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by jpollock 11y ago
It sort of depends on how long you intend to live in a house. For mortgages that are on 5yr terms, look at longer term averages. For example, New Zealand (another market I'm familiar with) is currently running at 4%/yr for a 2yr
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by jpollock 11y ago
They aren't holding cash. What they are doing is accepting the risk of not being able to finance the property. They're risking the 1% earnest money, but feel it's low risk because they have a good relationship with a bank o
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by jpollock 11y ago
Australia negotiated kick-ass awesome work visas as part of their free trade agreement with the US. For example, spouses can work on the visa.
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by jpollock 11y ago
I've read that Californian municipalities say that transferring control of the company that owns a property results in the underlying property being valued at current market prices. They'll get their tax regardless.
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by jpollock 11y ago
How are property taxes calculated in... New Zealand. 1 The local government sets their budget. 2 Then a valuing company sets property values once every 3 years based on permits and local sales. 3 Then the mill rate (property tax percentage)
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by jpollock 11y ago
Not necessarily. I've been seeing several ex-rental units which have recently been passed down as part of an estate. Inheriting a house doesn't result in a valuation event, and the seller has nothing encouraging them to sell. So
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by jpollock 11y ago
They don't have to do mess around with face value. Individuals and companies with billions of dollars in cash can't really stick it in a mattress and ignore it. They have to find storage, pay rent, heating/cooling/humi
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by jpollock 11y ago
I saw this article listing the proposed new tax brackets. http://www.fool.com/retirement/general/2016/02/07/bernie-san... Personally, I can't afford a house in the valley, and the new brackets
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by jpollock 11y ago
L1 is the internal company transfer. It's actually a quite nice visa, spouses can work on that visa.
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by jpollock 11y ago
RASCI is a great model to reduce stress. If people are making stupid decisions that you don't agree with, if you're not Responsible or Accountable, it makes it much easier to let go after you've informed the people who are.
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by jpollock 11y ago
Because unless the house is occupied 24/7, there are substantial savings to be had. While I don't have a Nest, I put a similar timer on my water heater and saved a lot of money ($20/mo).
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by jpollock 11y ago
They would mechanize the role, removing the need to hure low wage staff, replacing them with higher wage maintenance staff at much lower numbers.
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by jpollock 11y ago
I believe that LG uses double resolution TV's so that they can do full res passive 3D where they alternate lines to each eye. That way they get full frame rate, reducing the flickering, and getting rid of battery powered glasses. So fo
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by jpollock 11y ago
Humans lie all the time. We lie to each other, we lie to the government. We cheat, break rules and break laws all the time. Societies rely on privacy to limit the intrusion of others into our lives. It becomes really easy to avoid enforc
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by jpollock 11y ago
That just means it is paid for from general property taxes, not that it is free. In other words it is a subsidy from apartment dwellers with no grass to single family home owners.
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by jpollock 11y ago
This wasn't a US firm, so US tax laws wouldn't have applied. I'd definitely consult a local accountant when setting up a company.
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by jpollock 11y ago
The best articles of incorporation I saw had preferred stock for the founders, but any acquisition or liquidity change would convert all preferred shares to common 1:1 and instantly vested all options. It did cause some interesting tax issu
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by jpollock 11y ago
I would argue that even open source projects have marketing, and external requirements go through that filter. A developer changing their version number from 0.999 to 1.0 is a marketing decision. There's no real technical reason for
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by jpollock 11y ago
The decision to make a software release public is (like the version number) a decision for the marketing and sales teams to make. The software developer's job is to attack the features in priority order (hopefully defined by sales reve
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by jpollock 11y ago
Version numbers are for marketing and legal. They are used as a way to bundle sets of features together and give them a name "You need to upgrade to X.Y.Z, $$ plz", and "If your version is older than X.Y.Z, you are no longer
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by jpollock 11y ago
I've been in the "only a single return" and "early return plz" camps at various points in my career. Right now? I'm early return. When I wrote C and C++ code with locks and malloc/free? One exit only. It
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by jpollock 11y ago
Some groups have a "Functions can only have a single entry and single exit point" rule, meaning you have to jump through a lot of hoops. Sometimes it is required. In Java, before try-with-resources, if you had any resource managem
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by jpollock 11y ago
Even more interestingly, governments own the unredeemed portion, not the retailer/phone company/etc. http://www.sec.gov/answers/escheat.htm
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by jpollock 11y ago
As I learned in New Zealand, the data rate to the ISP is largely irrelevant. I had a 100mbps+ connection in NZ, but rarely got over 2mbps to any international location. It would speedtest at full line rate. However, here in the US, I&#x27
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by jpollock 11y ago
If the house has previously had a landline it must be active for 911 service. You must be able to plug a phone in, pick it up and dial 911 - even without having dial-tone. 911 service from a landline is independent of having a paid account
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by jpollock 11y ago
I've been programming for 30 years now, I remember back before syntax highlighting. I had a bug that I couldn't track down - it took forever. I had an infinite loop that would only run 3 times and then exit. Here was the problem
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by jpollock 11y ago
They already have and use those, they're called a "unit load device" [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_load_device
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by jpollock 11y ago
You could always just use UUIDs [1], or generate your own isolation and uniqueness. Personally, instead of randomness, it's easier to just make your keys multi-part to give each process an independent portion of the address space. {ip&
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by jpollock 11y ago
There are a couple reasons you lose cell coverage in an earthquake. 1) Loss of electricity. 2) Congestion. This doesn't fix either of them. Everyone is still going to pick up their phone, and the lines (power and network) will still b

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