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by mediaman 9y ago
A little late response to this, but many of the minimum lot size laws are rooted in historical racism and classism to prevent people of the wrong type from being able to move in to the neighborhood. In many areas there is a lot of foot drag
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by mediaman 9y ago
The covenants still typically allow the private equity investor to do a 'recap' (i.e., issues themselves a dividend) while still having the debt outstanding. This would come with restrictions, such as balance sheet ratios and inte
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by mediaman 9y ago
You could definitely fit that many units in a 13k square foot lot. Fitting a narrow format house on a 2k square foot lot (40x50') is plenty doable. Even more so if they have some adjoining party walls, as with townhomes. Though as you
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by mediaman 9y ago
I think people should generally have professional help in buying or selling a house. But the rates that brokers charge is out-of-step with the help they provide. For example, in a $600,000 house in an urban area, the two brokers earn $36,00
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by mediaman 9y ago
I'm trying to make sure I understand your comment: are you suggesting urban areas are better without the concept of private property, because if there is no private property then humans can "build themselves homes"?
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by mediaman 9y ago
Most of the parts are not made in China. That's where assembly is, but very little of the value added content of an iPhone is from China (<5%).
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by mediaman 10y ago
The article mentions this technology is still glitchy. But how will it ever become non-glitchy? Police will not be able to constitutionally require you to provide a passcode if the phone is locked and there is established case law to suppor
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by mediaman 10y ago
Complaining that others don't know as much as an expert (you) isn't going to help change anyone's perspective. Most people's perspective about most subjects is superficial. The same can be said for you: you know very lit
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by mediaman 10y ago
It was about $1k. I am not sure whether it's covered by insurance or not but I didn't try.
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by mediaman 10y ago
Really? I went to a clinic that specialized in it, and there was no problem at all. No patronizing, very comfortable, made sure I was aware of the difficulty of reversal, but made no effort to dissuade me. The operation itself was very prof
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by mediaman 10y ago
It sounds like there's a lot of confusion here between ROI and margins. ROI is not margin. And there are different types of margin. "Net margin" is the profit from revenue net of not only the cost of merchandise, but all the
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by mediaman 10y ago
This is not the way supply and demand work. If there is a short-term spike in demand, there is a temporary increase in price, which creates profits for suppliers. Increased profits draw more supply. In the medium to long run, price is drive
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by mediaman 10y ago
I agree. I talk with a number of business owners in a more traditionally conservative industry (agriculture). Many of them feel that America's problem is that we let people "get off the hook" for not "putting the work an
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by mediaman 10y ago
There's a bunch, but one example would be Morningstar, the mutual fund review company. Other than some small friends and family money at the beginning ($80k), Joe Mansueto never raised any money, until seventeen years after the foundin
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by mediaman 10y ago
I agree, the legal system doesn't do well when it comes to recovering cash from entities that can hide it. You can get a legal judgment against a company, but if it's fly-by-night, it winds up being a worthless piece of paper, and
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by mediaman 10y ago
Frictional costs of reclaiming those costs: lawsuits are expensive, and when a large number of people are impacted a small to moderate amount, it's very difficult for diffused harm (those breathing polluted air) to reclaim damages agai
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by mediaman 10y ago
To suggest these are similar (which, to be fair, you are not explicitly claiming) seems to be to not understand the nature of what the banks are doing. In investment banks, as a client you pay the research department for objective research
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by mediaman 10y ago
It is not stereoscopic, so it would be difficult for it to detect closeness of an object.
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by mediaman 11y ago
Good agents can be worth it. Redfin provides a refund of a portion of their commission as a seller's agent. I considered them when selling a house. However, after having meetings with an agent of theirs and another independent agent th
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by mediaman 11y ago
Based on commentary in various owner forums, it seems that Tesla is handling these issues generally very well, and makes repairs without some of the common quibbling of a lot of dealerships. So while it's annoying to bring in the car f
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by mediaman 11y ago
It's pretty easy to defeat this. No bacteria would likely be able to indiscriminately consume all different types of plastic, regardless of the substantial differences in molecular composition. It is very common in the plastics industr
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by mediaman 11y ago
In general net revenue means revenue net of discounts or credits, but not net of cost of production. The proceeds net of direct costs of producing the revenue is gross profit. Operating profit deducts selling, general and administrative cos
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by mediaman 11y ago
I don't think they're stigmatized, I think we need more of them. I recruit employees at some of these 'hard' technical schools for things like CNC machinists.
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by mediaman 11y ago
Very cool -- I work in an industrial environment and this would be wonderful to not have to fly in experts from across the country for a highly specialized problem. Just in the last week it would have saved me at least $5k. Though I cannot
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by mediaman 11y ago
Does the article you cite support your claim? It states that 16% of whites over the age of 25 have not married, which is quite different than "16% of white Americas aren't married by the time they hit 25."
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by mediaman 12y ago
But plastic isn't really a big deal when it comes to petroleum consumption. There was an amusing quote I read some time ago, in which the author hypothesized that in hundreds of years, people will be shocked that we as a civilization j
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by mediaman 12y ago
Some growing companies have positive cash flow but negative earnings as long as they are growing. For example, they may take credit card payments from customers, but pay suppliers on terms. In which case growth causes consistent annual free
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by mediaman 12y ago
Tesla is using the luxury market to finance the rollout to the mass market. It was the only way they could do it, because to achieve the economics needed for the mass market, you need a lot of money. It would have been essentially impossibl
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by mediaman 12y ago
I had a similar problem but with peeing, despite three litter boxes and regular cleaning. He'd go in the same room, five feet away. It go so bad that the carpet started developing some sort of fungal growth, which was gross. I read up
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by mediaman 12y ago
Women who could actually challenge you intellectually are keeping a wide berth around you. To them it's too clear what you want in life and they apparently have no interest. I'm not jealous. I'm a multimillionaire and have no

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