randysavage

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by randysavage 7y ago
Forcing everyone to make quarterly estimated payments would lead to riots in the streets.
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by randysavage 8y ago
This thread opened my eyes a bit... I assumed most people understood desert !== a sterile sand landscape. Here's a photo I snapped from my backyard just now. This is the Sonoran Desert in Phoenix, but much of the southwest is like this
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by randysavage 8y ago
Being tracked and profiled is the cost of using google to do a simple search. No free lunch and all that.
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by randysavage 8y ago
> face health risks that relatively few people are willing to take on My perception of this (not a firefighter, just have a few friends that are), is that you need to know someone, usually close family, to even have a shot at getting in.
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by randysavage 8y ago
Don't let the healthcare issue scare you. I've been on high-deductible Marketplace plans for the past few years, having gone through a pregnancy and delivery with complications, among a few other health concerns. As long as you ha
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by randysavage 8y ago
This is pretty unusual for anyone doing it seriously. I've "flipped" (not exactly -- mostly major additions and teardowns that we hold for 6-12 months) the past 5 years and haven't met anyone who exclusively uses their o
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by randysavage 8y ago
> I've also seen things like lamp cord used in fixed wiring behind walls or in attics. We found exactly that, lamp cords and extension cords, when we started our remodel a month ago. The former owner did some renovation ten years ag
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by randysavage 8y ago
In the short term, sure. In the longer term, when increased taxes and decreased services impact the average person, these promises will be renegotiated.
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by randysavage 8y ago
> if we had politicians who did their jobs and demonstrated competent leadership we could sort out this mess. This feels like the crux of the problem, but we've got the politicians we voted for. I'm starting to wonder if its ev
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by randysavage 8y ago
Many also retire young. My firefighter buddy will retire well before his 50th birthday and collect >$100k/yr in a relatively low COL state. He's in good shape, physically and mentally. He could easily live to 90, no problem. Go
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by randysavage 8y ago
Is there no level of personal responsibility involved? If the whole of my retirement was tied up in the promises of one entity... I have to imagine I'd be deeply concerned when my pension is underfunded. And underfunding is not new, th
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by randysavage 8y ago
Good luck keeping the highest end of you tax base around to cover the shortfalls.
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by randysavage 8y ago
FTA: > The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation’s largest municipal utility, says its proposal would increase the productivity of the dam, which operates at just 20 percent of its potential, to avoid releasing too much w
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by randysavage 8y ago
Any idea of the cost per sqft (or square meter) to build your block house? I build wood-frame homes in the US for ~ $95/sqft. These are nice homes with decent finishes, proper insulation, etc but we benefit from low labor costs in my a
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by randysavage 8y ago
Anecdotal, but I worked for a specialty EMR and consolidation was the big trend at the time (~2010). Lots of one-offs and small chains getting acquired and folded into larger networks. Many of these smaller providers were either not or bare
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by randysavage 8y ago
My wife needed an MRI last year. The hospital quoted us $4000 as self-pay, but would knock it down to $2000 if we paid cash up front. This was late December, so we picked up insurance through the marketplace and she had the MRI done in Janu
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by randysavage 8y ago
> Just above them on the list in age is Sean Parker, now 38, who took up programming early and interned at Zynga while he was still in high school. Well done Bloomberg.
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by randysavage 8y ago
If you don't like how a service handles your data, don't use it. No need to legislate your wishes across the board for the rest of us.
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by randysavage 8y ago
They did make electric cars sexy. What would be the state of the EV market today sans Tesla?