nemo44x

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by nemo44x 3y ago
I love roundabouts. Driving in the UK is a revelation. You just sort of keep going and driving is a bit more fun. The drivers are also better than in the USA. Which is why I think there’s often resistance here. Every time a roundabout is pr
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Software engineers fail to unionize because most of them know it’s a bad deal. Tenure in and of itself has 0 to do with your value as a software engineer. But yes your point is right on in that the unions are useless. In large part because
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by nemo44x 3y ago
No it’s not. The reason being the public sector Union gets large enough to pick winners. The winner is the person who approves their contract and budget and is likewise incentivized to grow the Union more to secure more votes. It’s a massiv
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by nemo44x 3y ago
IT doesn’t traditionally gafe unions in the USA. Teachers are unionized here and are one of the most powerful political forces. They are also a likely reason why so many people here don’t like unions.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
> Nothing about those Treasuries has actually changed other than the fact that they earn less interest than a newly issued treasury and if BoA needed to sell them quickly, they would be worth less than what they were paid for. They bough
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Wouldn't there just be a lot of money made by someone offering free filing and then offering to give you your return immediately for a fee of like 10%? Is anyone doing this?
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Well, you could have done a variety of things that aren't reported. For instance, donating money/time/goods, winning from gambling/etc, inheriting money/property, winning things/money, face deprecation in asset
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by nemo44x 3y ago
If you want to blow your mind then read the AI Manifesto and then Ted Kaczynski‘s “Industrial Society and Its Future”.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Ahh yeah, I understand your frustration there. It’s sad how some communities choose to spend their taxes and I empathize with you. It’s sad when corrupt and incompetent government pisses away tax revenue instead of making the locality a bet
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by nemo44x 3y ago
I figured it was like regular property but after doing brief research, you’re right. It’s more difficult than just walking away as the local government can continue to tax you. But after some time I guess it could be found to be abandon and
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by nemo44x 3y ago
You sound like a great community member! Where I live we see tremendous value in the property taxes we pay. The kids get a quality education, the parks are well maintained, the streets are good and the walkways are clean. It’s not cheap but
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Yes, you can abandon land if you no longer want it. You can do this for most property.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
The IRS has nothing to do with property taxes. Property taxes mainly go to your town and some to your state. They mainly fund your local schools, streets, parks, maintenance, etc. Do you think all these things just magically exist?
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Why is the EU singling this type of content out in particular? Surely anything Hamas would release would be considered with skepticism as the EU has a very different tradition. Are they nervous the residents of the EU would quickly become a
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Why did Europe do this to themselves? I’ve seen the numbers and I’m sorry, but it isn’t sustainable. Especially when you factor in reproduction rates. Western Europe will be conquered by a caliphate within 100 years. A democratic colonialis
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by nemo44x 3y ago
I almost dropped my phone when I saw that but. I mean, you have to fire her on principal if anything at that point. It reminds me of when some tech or media company (I forget) fired a bunch of mainly younger employees because they were upse
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by nemo44x 3y ago
I can see that I guess. But I’ll say I think it has improved, at least for me, the last year. It felt very 1-sided and thought cleansed before. And now I see a far wider spectrum of opinion. You could argue this just tries to generate engag
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Indeed. For me just the sound and the speed is enough but that doesn’t translate to TV well. NASCAR is a funny sport in that it was built around a particular technology around a particular time. The level of innovation the mechanics came up
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Every article by this writer is negative about how whatever they are writing about is bad. And I’m not sure there’s any solutions offered except for platitudes about things “ought to be”. Twitter is fine. Use the “Following Tab” if you want
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by nemo44x 3y ago
> It’s actually pretty cool how they’re transforming it into something a bit more than driving around in a circle for hours. Although I think it’s great to see dirt races (I grew up watching late model dirt tracks) I disagree that the su
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Now do prisons, the murderrate, etc. Men live shorter lives than women do that must mean there’s systemic discrimination against men.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
> It would not force them to end their irredentist rhetoric; they could and would continue to talk about a Palestine “from the river to the sea”, and declare their intent to destroy Israel…someday. But someday is not today. Exactly, noth
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Who pays for those problems to be resolved? It’s literally what property taxes fund. Why would property owners pay to solve a problem they don’t have to make their town a worse place to live?
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by nemo44x 3y ago
No mortgages don’t have early payoff penalties. The bank doesn’t really care. They’ve probably sold your mortgage off to be packaged in a bond anyways. They’re mainly in the business of selling loans. There’s a big margin on that. They’re m
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by nemo44x 3y ago
There’s a place for that but one of the reasons many places are desirable is precisely because there isn’t so much density and that everyone owns their properties. It stops becoming nice when you change that too much. And there’s infrastruc
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Because they’re willing to stuff many people in a single residence. Like 3 or 4 to a bedroom. I worked at a place with many migrants and one group had like 10 guys staying in the apartment and they more or less hot bunked the beds as they w
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Clearly he’s running for President. And if you get behind Weiner’s policies it’s a guarantee you’ll lose since he’s a toxic person to most of the country.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Yeah that’s the whole problem really. It’s not arbitrary land they’re fighting over. It’s that land and it can be no other land. I don’t know how it resolves in any way we find tasteful by modern standards.
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Sounds like you did too much talking. :)
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by nemo44x 3y ago
Nothing to get. Just upper middle class people who have surrogated every difficult thing in their lives and now without struggle or meaning need something to fill that. So a utilitarian task - walking somewhere - suddenly becomes a think pi

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