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   States Pay the Price When You Buy Online(nytimes.com)

   3 points by pxeboot 9y ago|0 comments
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   by pxeboot 9y ago

   Seems like a good idea. Many online services (like PayPal/Facebook/Craigslist) prohibit firearm and accessory sales, so it's already much more difficult to do business in this area online.
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   by pxeboot 9y ago

   Does this surprise anyone? Insurance companies have massive overhead. I work near a large insurance HQ. It is a beautiful building with lots of nice cars in the parking lot.
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   by pxeboot 9y ago

   Probably seemed like a safer option if there was no legal precedent for returning cryptocurrency. Also, prices could have dropped just as easily as they went up.
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   by pxeboot 9y ago

   American Express can reference and transfer credit if you move abroad. https://www.americanexpress.com/global-card-transfers/
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   by pxeboot 9y ago

   If allowing carry-ons delays boarding by just 5 minutes on average, I imagine the cost to airlines is fairly high.
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   by pxeboot 9y ago

   Unfortunately that has been happening for years, long before checked bag fees were a thing. It is likely a way to make hidden city ticketing harder.
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   by pxeboot 9y ago

   I find high undisclosed taxes on rental cars and hidden resort fees at hotels much more unfriendly to consumers than airline fees.
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   by pxeboot 9y ago

   I hope this leads to the end of a separate CDMA variant. It was really convenient in the 6s era having one device that worked on all US carriers.
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    How Airbnb Is Pushing Locals Out of New Orleans’ Coolest Neighborhoods(huffingtonpost.com)

    4 points by pxeboot 9y ago|1 comments
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    There are very few apps I trust enough to install anymore. If a service I want to use has a somewhat decent mobile site, like Uber and Facebook, I will always use those instead.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    Sure, but that's going to cost a lot more, as it is now a "custom home". Economies of scale apply strongly to houses.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    We would love to build more affordable starter homes, but when high-end homes cost the same to build and are far more profitable, we lose the incentive to build smaller units This is a major reason why prices are so out of control. Land p
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    A Student Loan Nightmare: The Teacher in the Wrong Payment Plan(nytimes.com)

    91 points by pxeboot 9y ago|75 comments
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    Something is really wrong with the system when billionaires have their bail set at 1 million. If he wanted to flee and forfeit his bail money, his net worth would be impacted about the same as the average American getting a parking ticket.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    His daughter gets famous and gets into a career she wanted?
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    The fact that the employee was present during the filming of this makes me suspect it was done intentionally.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    In low tax states, cigarettes retail for less than $5/pack. Manufacturers are likely only getting $3-4/pack, but your point still stands.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    Is there any evidence that relaxing zoning restrictions drastically reduces housing prices in a somewhat short timespan? Wouldn't developers stop investing in new projects as soon as prices became stable or started dropping slightly, c
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    Despite what many Americans and foreigners think, there are many nice towns and cities in the Midwest with vibrant economies.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    I was (and still am) amazed at how cheap housing was when I started looking away from the West coast. While places with really depressed home prices likely don't have any jobs, there are still plenty of cities with growing economies an
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    Sure, me too, but what percentage of the population actually does this, let alone knows it is possible?
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    Making replacement parts and repair manuals available wouldn't meaningfully hurt device activation schemes. Sure, somebody could buy and replace the logic board in a stolen phone, but criminals are already able to do that with used or
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    I moved from Seattle to a midsized city in Texas. Gigabit is available, but expensive. While my house is by far the nicest I have lived in, most of my neighbors have far larger/more expensive homes. It would have been easy to spend twi
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    I did. It is easy to find nice places for less than 200k in Texas. Prices are going up, but still very affordable.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    I got sick of living in a HCOL area and moved somewhere super cheap. Put 20% down on a nice house and have a $500/month mortgage payment. My total annual housing expenses are less than the taxes on a similar house in Seattle or San Fr
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    This is already a problem. A company I worked for submitted a bid for an IT infrastructure project several years ago. We were rejected for not having completed a similar project for a government agency before. Our bid was 1/3rd of the
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    Lack of transparent pricing is a huge issue with US health care. I dispute almost every bill I get. Prices get reduced or insurance agrees to pay more in almost every case. They are banking on people just paying.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    Any way to opt-out of this? I tried both demos mentioned in the article. The first loaded some generic looking data. The second pulled my phone number, name and address correctly.
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    by pxeboot 9y ago

    The percentage of people moving even relatively short distances has actually gone down significantly in the past several decades. https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/...