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by masonic 6y ago
Plumbing.
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by masonic 6y ago
(paywalled)
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by masonic 6y ago
All of the samples were taken from faucets within old buildings -- not from the connections to the water mains. So, they can't know whether the source is bad or the buildings' plumbing is bad.
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by masonic 6y ago
"EDGI formed after the US elections in November 2016 to document, research, and respond to the new administration’s effects on federal environmental agencies, science, and policy."
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by masonic 6y ago
E) In the USA, if it's your residence, it's a taxable event for the capital gain, which can cost 6 figures in federal and state income taxes in a place like CA. Plus, in CA, until this year, you usually lost your Prop 13 basis fo
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by masonic 6y ago
Because... women are never drivers?
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by masonic 6y ago
I do wonder how far things have to go before we collectively agree that Amazon treats its workers inhumanely. All it takes is for consumers to stop doing business with such entities.
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by masonic 6y ago
"I thought we were an autonomous collective."
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by masonic 6y ago
Vaccines are plentiful. The vast majority of Americans are still not fully vaccinated due to shortages (not poor acceptance). The US even gave Canada a bunch of AstraZeneca doses recently. (Also Mexico) Because Biden is purch
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by masonic 6y ago
Where will all the charging station access come from is the problem, not the electron count.
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by masonic 6y ago
Indeed they did... as well as passenger jet in-flight breakups. There's a reason square windows aren't used anymore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
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by masonic 6y ago
Doesn't seem like the accusation stuck. Are you unclear on the definition of "convicted"?
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by masonic 6y ago
No, because gentrification involves conversion/upgrade of the properties . The properties themselves are largely unchanged; only the owner demographics have changed.
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by masonic 6y ago
Have there been any natural experiments where less-wealthy white folk were priced out by more-wealthy non-white? Cupertino and Saratoga CA are exactly such experiments.
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by masonic 6y ago
This is essentially a scam Not always. I just got a hand-written letter from a losing bidder on another home in our small complex that sold last month. You learn to differentiate the home seekers from the property flippers.
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by masonic 6y ago
This fact, and the OP title, are confusing the snapshot of minimum inventory with "homes for sale". Since there were over 5.4 million sales in 2019, there were way more listings during the year than agents.
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by masonic 6y ago
I have found that they want the sale as quick as possible. Generally, because this maximizes income per time/effort spent.
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by masonic 6y ago
1M. Goes up in value to 1.5M in a few years. Boom. 500K gain on 100k. Not that uncommon. Extremely uncommon, even if you buy during a lull and sell on a peak. (SV homeowner 34 years)
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by masonic 6y ago
a reduction in office use by say 20% Only if people stagger their off days equally across the week. If instead everybody takes Friday off, you still need the same office capacity Monday-Thursday.
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by masonic 6y ago
The USPS had the transportation infrastructure to do this... but it had no PPE inventory to distribute. The previous administration had done nothing to maintain or replace the ample PPE inventory that the preceding administration had left
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by masonic 6y ago
basic physics to be more precise Look at the actual physics of the size of the virus particle (even with the lipid envelope) vs the width of the weave in conventional masks. It's like stopping BBs with a volleyball net. The my
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by masonic 6y ago
Likewise, the Obama administration resettled the vast majority of its Mideast and African "refugees" in red states.
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by masonic 6y ago
The bigger safety issue is driving, (double) parking, and other driver actions. With the constant tracking and metrics gathering, drivers are incented to break traffic law and create safety hazards for others via actions like "double
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by masonic 6y ago
Please use original source's link: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ai-camera-delivery-tr...
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by masonic 6y ago
supposed laptop And you say Greenwald has lost credibility?
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by masonic 6y ago
Likewise, cancers such as mesothelioma caused by SV40, often introduced by contaminated Polio vaccines used in regions like USA and Italy in the 1950s-60s.
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by masonic 6y ago
My Dictation pane has been stuck on "Initializing..." for 30+ minutes.
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by masonic 6y ago
Ignore the headline spin; read the details. They cherry-picked the 125 most likely to succeed, and yet full-time employment only improved by 12 percentage points in a strong economy. There was no real accounting of the money spent. "Le
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by masonic 6y ago
the cost of providing a fully subsidized apartment was only $11,000. Sure, but that doesn't count spending on emergency room treatment and jail time in addition to the cost of the apartment. Housing didn't stop the other
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by masonic 6y ago
Police don't choose whether to drop charges. The vast majority of nonviolent crimes here now have no police involvement whatsoever. They just have you file an online report for you to forward to your insurance (if any). This includes c

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