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by plank_time 5y ago
Some of my neighbors are seniors who are on social security. Their houses were bought for about $160k in the 1970s. Which is expensive back then. Now they are worth $2M but they have no intention to move. Where would they live? And how can
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by plank_time 5y ago
When houses get sold, capital gains need to be paid. This is nothing new.
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by plank_time 5y ago
How are old people with no income supposed to afford capital gains taxes? And if house prices go down do they get a refund?
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by plank_time 5y ago
The old person would have sold the house a long time ago because of the rise of their property tax. They wouldn’t be millionaires. They would have to sell their home for a small gain and then rent for the rest of their lives. And since they
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by plank_time 5y ago
You’re saying that old people should be driven out of their houses because younger, richer people deserve to live in their houses. I’m sure your feelings will change as you get older.
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by plank_time 5y ago
Unfortunately that’s not how the body works. Waste isn’t produced because of excess intake. That’s what causes far buildup. Anything you eat and drink will create waste.
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by plank_time 5y ago
It seems like you don’t understand exactly how different Simone Biles is from every single gymnast before her. She is an anomaly in the field of gymnastics. She can physically do things that no other gymnast, male or female, can do because
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by plank_time 5y ago
You can’t compare Simone Biles to Michael Jordan. If Michael Jordan could shoot 3 pointers with 90% accuracy from his own half court, then that would be a more accurate comparison. Simone Biles has a unique combination of size, strength, an
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by plank_time 5y ago
You are wrong. Companies like Facebook and Google allow you to vest shares almost immediately (I think they vest quarterly). Unless you think their shares are going to drop precipitously, it’s absolutely okay to count equity these days.
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by plank_time 5y ago
You sound like you need to learn more empathy and how to be less judgmental.
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Empathy doesn’t mean saying “everything you do is okay.” Thats called enabling their behavior. It sometimes means having to say the honest, hard things in hopes that people will change their behavior for the better. It’s fairly obvious that
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by plank_time 5y ago
Maybe I’m more considerate than average to people I’ve known throughout my life, but being rejected is not normal for me. The frequency to which the author was rejected by people seems to indicate there’s a problem with him, not society. Of
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by plank_time 5y ago
Agreed. There will always be people splitting hairs and vehemently thinking their views are “more correct” and “more morally correct”. That’s why I think this entire article is a waste of time. The idea of “universal morality” is fiction be
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by plank_time 5y ago
It depends on who defines morality, which invalidates the concept of a “universal” morality. If the definer of the morality decides that human lives are the most important and it would be immoral to hold animals and plants above humans, it
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by plank_time 5y ago
One DNA sample isn’t enough. You need dozens or more to repopulate a species. If you just had one or two, you would have to rely on inbreeding to repopulate which would create too many bad genetic problems from bad genes.
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by plank_time 5y ago
Synology has an iPhone app called DS Photo you can use to download pics directly to your NAS.
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by plank_time 5y ago
This is what Tesla is doing with their solar roof product. They raised prices by 50% even though people already had signed contracts. All their communication is incredibly insidious, telling people that they need to sign the new contract, w
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by plank_time 5y ago
I realized this back in 1997 when dejanews started up. From then on I never posted with my real name, and never will. I only have a very limited internet presence with my real name and never post any of my opinions on it.
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by plank_time 5y ago
Self hosting these days is almost impossible because most email providers like gmail and yahoo mail will automatically move your emails to spam. It’s all based on IP address and how reliable that IP address is. Self hosting guarantees that
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by plank_time 5y ago
Anecdotally, I don’t know anyone personally who has gotten COVID. That doesn’t mean that I discount science and don’t believe that it exists. Reinfection is extremely low otherwise it would have shown itself in the data. That’s really a sim
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by plank_time 5y ago
This statement is overly alarmist. 98% of people survive covid. >85% are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. The vast majority of people survive without any issues. The biggest problem with covid is how infectious it is, which is what re
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by plank_time 5y ago
Great video! How can you accumulate enough mass to make this possible without destabilizing the entire solar system? Even getting to the Oort Cloud to collect mass outside of our solar system is 3 light years away.
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I refuse to believe it will be bad for all countries. That doesn’t make sense whatsoever, that just being overly emotional and unscientific. There is always a winner and loser in everything. The key is to figure out which country benefits t
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by plank_time 5y ago
Which countries would benefit from global warming? Would Canada become the new California?
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U.S. CDC looking into heart inflammation in some young vaccine recipients(reuters.com)
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My friend owns a Shoppers Drug Mart in Toronto. They employ the same strategy there too. In areas with high foot traffic they have a lot of stores close by to make it hard for anyone else to start a business in the area. It ends up being mo
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Hotels, hospitals and restaurants with long waiting lines.
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Walgreens has closed over 17 stores due to increased shoplifting. It is 400% higher than the national average in SF. It’s higher in SF because the repercussions are much lower because SFPD doesn’t even bother looking. Look at the reaction t
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by plank_time 5y ago
At peak I can see it being low single digit millions per second. A single client will do more than 1 rps, there’s a lot going on per client.
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25 years of experience, and I never wanted to get above Staff Engineer. The work is just not something that I enjoy. I love coding, and I like working directly with my team. When I applied to new companies, I purposefully applied at the Sen

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