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knodi123
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Because your mission is to make home buying easier, faster, and far more enjoyable? Sounds like you just said you don't care about that, and your real mission is to maximize your profits.
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> Buyers historically have never negotiated the fee paid to their agent Negotiated, no. Paid, yes. If the government adds a 6% tax on shoes, I promise that doesn't mean a 6% drop in Nike stock. It just causes the price to go up.
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> is inevitable anyway. The part that's NOT inevitable is it going bad during Apple's warranty window. It was such a self-serving policy to begin with. After all, the primary symptom of the kind of decay they're supposed
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2y ago
> when presented with new evidence? They weren't, for the record.
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There's plenty of evidence. He confessed to his girlfriend, and a cellmate. He pawned the victim's possessions. He was seen disposing of bloody clothes. He already had 15 felony convictions in addition to offenses related to M
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2y ago
an unlawful killing? well that's an uphill battle, but I'll be intrigued to see how far you can get with your claim.
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2y ago
you only had to take one physics class, and it was quantum electrodynamics??? That sounds to me as if someone said "The only math class I've taken was differential equations."
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2y ago
what a bizarre statement. You're right. My location is also not alphabetical.
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2y ago
Good god, I nearly did a spit take. That's the most irresponsible and horrifying tech idea I've ever heard. That's great, but we can do better- what about Project Orion but for local food delivery? https://en.wi
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It's a capital city. In the end, there were options. Their directory had 200 providers, so even with that dismal accuracy, I bet could even find another provider if I didn't like my current one. I'm just providing supporti
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2y ago
It's not a phone book. The search results were based on distance from my exact address.
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I've dealt with ghost networks too, with BCBS of CA. They provide you a directory with a thousand options, and I was already planning to go with the first provider that would have me. Had to call 15 before I got one that wasn't
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2y ago
It's okay, you can safely confess to felonies and crimes against humanity on HN. Our usernames are meaningless and our traffic is SSL encrypted!
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2y ago
> We can’t even keep the eight year olds off Because there's not really a service for that. However, there are turnkey plugins for keeping <18 year olds off your site. > Raising the age likely just means more hassle It either
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2y ago
Yeah, sure, what could possibly go wrong? :-P But seriously, it's harder to accidentally make a USB cable that fries your equipment. The more common failure mode is it fails to work, or wears out too fast. Chargers on the other han
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> Wasnt it created by the AirForce or something? No, don't be silly, that's ridiculous! It was the Navy.
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> If anyone tries to convince you Tor is not safe, ask yourself: cui bono? It could be for insidious reasons, or because the speaker legitimately believes it. "If anyone tries to convince you you shouldn't use Rot13 as an encr
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2y ago
For the same reason we have SSL on this site, despite the fact that it has no sex, no storefront, nor any access to my banking or private information. If everything is SSL secured, then we don't have to explain why any specific thing i
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+100w chargers are one of the products I prefer to spend a little more on, so I get something from a company that knows it can be sued if they make a product that burns down your house or fries your phone. Flashlights? Sure, bring on aliex
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2y ago
see related: "By the 2000s, increases in worker efficiency will mean that most people only need to work two or three days a week!"
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I don't see how changing the age limit would have any effect on how effective enforcement would be.
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war waged without collateral damage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
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It's fine to believe this. But you should be aware it's a partisan political opinion, and it's inflammatory to present it as an objective fact. Is this site really the place for partisan political opinions?
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2y ago
The phrase bothers me because it's often used to set up a cousin to the no true scotsman fallacy. If you can't find an exception, then it proves the nay-sayer right. If you CAN find an exception.... it still proves the naysayer
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That was the exception that proves the rule.
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I definitely chain things like "make; say all done", then crank the volume and go make a snack. But that's probably not what you were referring to.
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Like the recent story about a woman who ran for congress in Virginia, and lost 48.7% to 50.7% after it came out that she'd made tons of (consensual, legal) porn videos with her husband and sold them online.
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A better justification is, "prove that it's actually harmful using sources other than your gut", and "suggest a method for controlling it that doesn't almost immediately devolve into puritan witch-hunting, racism, a
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Firstly: The Plato quote is fake - It was crafted by a student, Kenneth John Freeman, for his Cambridge dissertation published in 1907. Secondly: Hesiod was right, his culture no longer exists. ;-) Thirdly: Yep, that quote is fake too. h
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Sounds like it, and I'm sure it is sometimes... but it's also legitimate behavior from people struggling with guilt or self-actualization. At least as far as internal fraud detection, a lot of sites like these have had to re-thi
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