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by mc3 7y ago
In the UK typically people only fix for a short period, say 2 years, if at all. The premium for fixing for 25 years is quite high.
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by mc3 7y ago
Yes I am parodying the old avocado toast argument.
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by mc3 7y ago
Ah those poor boomers! Paying 15% interest on their £40,000 mortgage. These millennials don't know how easy they have it, paying 3% on their £200,000 mortgage.
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by mc3 7y ago
Yes, but "the dude can argue" can apply to the house example. "I planned to rent out the rooms". "I planned to get a better job". "The house is worth $1M to the right buyer", etc. If someone lends you
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by mc3 7y ago
If a bank agrees to lend you $1M against your $500k house, and you are completely honest with them about your earnings (say $50k/year), send legit paperwork etc. then you accept the loan (even though you know it's "too much&q
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by mc3 7y ago
Just call her Margo.
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by mc3 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21044509
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by mc3 7y ago
The quantities used are usually very small though. Gold plated not made of gold. I don't think the use as a commodity drives or explains the price.
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by mc3 7y ago
In addition, forgiving loans is probably not practical - where is all the money going to come from? More tax or less spending on some other service.
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by mc3 7y ago
They used to do this in the UK probably until the 90s but then they'd start charging "tuition fees" although to be fair I think they were standardised, so the same fees for any university, and fairly small, with support for p
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by mc3 7y ago
Wait... HN is Social Media. Well it's not as in your face as FB, but at the minimum it influences people, and anyone can create an account and respond, and lots of people are reading. A lot of work goes into preventing bots etc on HN,
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by mc3 7y ago
I agree with you to some extent, but picking it apart: 1. I think there is value in immutable data structures. Languages like Haskell and Elm make everything immutable by default. A big problem I find in C#, JavaScript (and I'm sure yo
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by mc3 7y ago
How highfalutin! It's x86 assembly for me!
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by mc3 7y ago
You must have good vision, because it's annoying for me to read.
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by mc3 7y ago
"People with something to hide" is everyone.
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by mc3 7y ago
I remember the dot in dot-com ads. I was thinking of starting a blog titled: "I put the dot in dotnet"
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by mc3 7y ago
while (sweaty) { say('Developers'); }
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by mc3 7y ago
That's not even the best example. .NET Core vs. .NET Standard was a wtf?
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by mc3 7y ago
Glad he cleared that one up.
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by mc3 7y ago
1 issue "in progress" might make sense, but 1 issue in total seems weird.
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by mc3 7y ago
That sounds like yet another field sobriety test which will correlate imperfectly with driving ability.
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by mc3 7y ago
It makes a good drinking game.
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by mc3 7y ago
At what point on the line does tracking people based on side effects of running JS become illegal unauthorized access to a computer. For example if there is an exploit to read your local files and upload them to the server, that would clear
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by mc3 7y ago
Hug of death by the looks of it. Maybe they need to quickly change their DNS entries to point to a better server :-) Edit: https://outline.com/CrL5gf
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by mc3 7y ago
That's the perennial HN question.
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by mc3 7y ago
Papers aren't graded on their real world effects!
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by mc3 7y ago
I think this is more focused than RSS. Doing the same with an RSS reader would be fiddly and sort of out of it's use case. If you want regular polling (every 15s say) maybe your RSS reader can do that but it isn't natural. There i
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by mc3 7y ago
Hope you have taken Earth's slowing rotation into account when picking the 'day'.
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by mc3 7y ago
A: Laughter
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by mc3 7y ago
> Climate change will create the first trillionaire. > Elon Musk There you go...

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