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by pandaman 3y ago
Social media posts (not just from yourself but other attendees), credit card purchases, license plate scanners, the conference itself publishing the list of attendees etc. If someone you have not told knows where you had been then the gover
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by pandaman 3y ago
More like someone processing your next visa application getting automatically collected data on your previous visits from all kinds of sources public and private and seeing that you lied about your visit the last time.
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by pandaman 3y ago
It's a viable strategy to increase TC, however I would not follow it for three reasons: 1. The algorithm is suboptimal as you will be applying to one job at a time and won't have any negotiation leverage. You might get what the re
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by pandaman 3y ago
When you arrive to another country's border you need to state the purpose of your visit to a border control officer. If you say "conference" - you may not be allowed in because your visa is for another purpose, if you say &qu
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by pandaman 3y ago
As somebody who lived in California, I also was startled how stupid some TV shows I enjoyed while living in LA became when I moved to another state. It's not some California magic though, but the lack of a different perspective. When I
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by pandaman 3y ago
Your link does not say they are in jail. Furthermore, the CDRC search [1] does not show any inmates with the names from the article in the California system, so what made you think they are in jail exactly? 1. https://inmatelocat
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by pandaman 3y ago
It very well may be very livable but I don't see how it can be "a comfortable lifestyle in a nice neighborhood". With the standard 30% of gross income limit you can rent at $2250/m, which limits you to tiny apartments in
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by pandaman 3y ago
NZD is 0.6 USD or so, 150K NZD is about 90K USD, according to HUD, such an income for a single person is between Very Low Income (65K) and Low Income (104K) in San Francisco. You can explore income limits here https://www.huduser
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by pandaman 3y ago
It's the same in the US: in a township you need to pull permits to build anything substantial. Usually there are default permitted things with footprint and height restriction so you can build a gazebo or a swing in your backyard but i
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by pandaman 3y ago
Yeah, _vertigo is mistaken IMHO, believing that the prices on housing raise through some kind of "programming" and not through the market as I observe in reality. If people believing something is a sound investment made something
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by pandaman 3y ago
That's quite possible but then I don't understand your critique. Investment driven demand appears to result from the already raising prices. I don't know who could possibly manipulate the market if it has been naturally decli
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by pandaman 3y ago
Not really: if Mona Lisa went on sale, I am sure all the prospective buyers learned about such an event despite having just one possible seller. The information propagation on the American RE market is also quite robust, most of properties
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by pandaman 3y ago
If I understood correctly, you are saying that the buyers on the RE market pay more than they could have to clear the deal? I'd like to see some sources for that.
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by pandaman 3y ago
The market efficiency is a theory that asserts that the seller sells at the highest price available and the buyer buys at the lowest, it doesn't not put any requirements on having lots of either [1] 1. https://www.investopedi
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by pandaman 3y ago
This depends on your definition of "properly", a market doesn't require either. E.g. a market for fine art usually has no sellers most of the time, it might not be properly functioning but it's a market and still follo
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by pandaman 3y ago
Someone who is not selling is not a seller, is he? And, predicting the next correction, someone who cannot afford to buy even at the lowest price, also, is not a buyer.
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by pandaman 3y ago
Actually, when housing value grows faster than inflation, rents stay low, and you could have observed that yourself in 2010-2020, when the capital gains in the property value subsidized renters. When the growth stops is the time for rents t
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by pandaman 3y ago
>You can't build them except in the places they already are. I.e. in all big cities? So are you really arguing that the rent in SF goes up because you cannot build a residential tower in Redding, CA? > Converting existing high de
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by pandaman 3y ago
>The existing problem is that multi-family dwellings are illegal in many high demand areas This is technically correct but the areas mentioned are the size of a block or a subdivision so it's hardly the limiting factor. You can buil
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by pandaman 3y ago
It does seem people use "taxes" and "budget" as if it's the same thing when discussing this topic.
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by pandaman 3y ago
Texas had passed such a ban (HB 1925) and Austin ignored that too.
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by pandaman 3y ago
Thanks, there does seem to be a recapture program even though the article doesn't make much sense (940 million is not more than half of 2.1 billion budget for once).
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by pandaman 3y ago
>A city like Austin send 51% of their school taxes to the state Citation is badly needed. I live in Austin and I don't pay any taxes to the state. My property taxes are going to the city, Travis county and multiple school districts.
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by pandaman 3y ago
Judging by you mentioning "no car days" you don't live in the US. American cars are very quiet at the city speed. Americans, on the other hand, are not quiet at all. Especially when they are moving by foot in a walkable neigh
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by pandaman 3y ago
Chevy Malibu MSRP $26,095 Chevy Trailblazer MSRP $23,395
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by pandaman 3y ago
I am sorry, the sentence with the "buy shopping" does not make sense to me. I completely understand this arrangement, I grew up in the USSR, where people had been carrying a net bag in their pocket (advised several times in this t
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by pandaman 3y ago
I can't speak for all people in the US but my family is not content with selection in a single store. We buy different kinds of items in different stores. And I mean big stores, with big parking lots and dozens of isles. It is also not
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by pandaman 3y ago
You likely thought so because it's the position UBI proponents on HN (and elsewhere) take. They claim that inflation is caused by the increased money supply only and UBI cannot possibly cause inflation, and repeat this in every UBI thr
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by pandaman 3y ago
Only liability insurance is mandatory in many (all?) states. And even if you believe that your car can only be damaged by insured drivers and you will always be able to make a claim against their insurance, the sufficient coverage on the pr
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by pandaman 3y ago
Nintendo had released their games on other platforms in the past. On other consoles and on PC. They do what they deem good for business.

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