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by readhn 7y ago
"A home is not necessarily an asset or wealth." a home IS an asset and wealth. it is only a liability on volcano's path on big island/Hawaii.
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by readhn 7y ago
UNREALISTICALLY HIGH REAL ESTATE PRICES. Single biggest purchase and wealth building instrument is buying REAL ESTATE / HOUSE. Most millennials are not leaving on the streets homeless. They are paying high rent prices = money wasted =
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by readhn 7y ago
"USSR attacked Poland on 17-th of September 1939 (co-starting the 2WW, together with Germany)." German army was to complete the occupation of the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) by October 10 (1938), and an international comm
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by readhn 7y ago
apples and oranges. totally different conditions.
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by readhn 7y ago
B.S.! Flying an aircraft requires a lot more skills from a human than typing code on a PC in your pajamas and talking about space. if you are a pilot who is flying for 10-20-30 years. You can tell. Now, this is not 1 pilot - 1 event we are
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by readhn 7y ago
The term "landlord" has to go away. We are not in mid-evil times anymore: 1. It should be made financially speaking prohibitively expensive to be a residential landlord. I.e. buy a house and charge others rent to live in it. Tax i
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by readhn 7y ago
mental health problem or not - it is ABSOLUTELY INSANE that a decorated olympic champion, best in her class at the time, that represented this country and won multiple medals has to now live on the streets. This is what is wrong with Americ
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by readhn 8y ago
It seems like this is a common theme in every city these days - people are forced out of their neighborhoods by high RE prices and as a result high cost of living. Perhaps one way to address this could be to modify outdated landlord laws -
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by readhn 8y ago
thanks for the links!
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by readhn 8y ago
exactly. McD is a good proxy for overall cost of living.
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by readhn 8y ago
yes brand new cars - combination of federal and state rebates on electric cars. if this was available to everyone - we'd have a much larger share of electric cars in USA TODAY. pretty much buy one get one free in this case - two great
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by readhn 8y ago
i think its just most people cant communicate effectively and respectfully.
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by readhn 8y ago
thats BS. It is common courtesy to ask if its ok to ask a question.
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by readhn 8y ago
i am very surprised to see that their insurance rates are NOT around $5000/year. Very reasonable $2000ish/ year.
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by readhn 8y ago
A colleague of mine bought 2x 2018 Chevy Volts recently - after all rebates came out to $18000 cash each for a brand new Volt. Thats a no brainer to me - at 2000$ gas / year - the car pays for itself in 10 years. Unfortunately for most
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by readhn 8y ago
Whats is the all in final cost for a Tesla 3 that you guys are paying in Switzerland? Im guessing its at least a double of a promised $35K USA price?
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by readhn 8y ago
How much does a Tesla 3 cost in Switzerland? $70-75K?
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by readhn 8y ago
i was flying through zurich recently. McDonalds big mac, fries and soda were $20 (!!!). Is everyone there pretty much a millionaire?
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by readhn 8y ago
they already use this approach. batteries have its own thermal management system.
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by readhn 8y ago
cold climates are better for batteries than hot.
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by readhn 8y ago
it would be fun to take a trans-siberian rail ... except it takes like what ...7 days? eats up vacation time pretty quickly.
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by readhn 8y ago
The deadlines absolutely have to have some amount of padding in them. Often the problem with missed deadlines is the inexperienced "managers" that set them. They have no idea how long things take and as a result introduce wrong ti
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by readhn 8y ago
Its hard to find these days a decent company that is run properly and that really cares for its employees. i just finished a cycle of interviews and hiring managers viewed long stay at a company as a definite positive. They in fact disliked
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by readhn 8y ago
nope. they are short term solution to high rent prices in certain cities. pure economics. sharing a space with a bunch of other people gets old fast and is actually annoying. (it doesnt work just like open floor place office spaces dont wor
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by readhn 8y ago
im not talking about situations where you love your job and your job "does not love you back". Im talking about situations where its mutual. in those very rare situations you stay and dont move around because: - you do get your sa
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by readhn 8y ago
Not sure i buy this. Life is not about accumulating the most amount of wealth. Its about building meaningful relationships that last a life time. Why would someone "job hob" if they really like the team/company? Yes you may m
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by readhn 8y ago
Depends on the locality and when you got in - in the real estate cycle. The goal is to have a property pad off by tenants in 20-30 years so you have a nice nest egg to add to your 401K. Best investment are certain multi-unit properties - th
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by readhn 8y ago
Its definitely a strong possibility that his talent would have gone unrealized! Imagine it didn't. Literally the outcome of WWII could have been very different. Of course "what if's" dont count. Still fascinating to me h
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by readhn 8y ago
Sikorsky's story is really fascinating to me. 4 years after immigrating from Russia he founded an aviation company in USA. And in 15 years he was already building airplanes and then first ever helicopter! ( https://upload.wik
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by readhn 8y ago
CFO quitting might be something to do with "dirty" russian money ... Widening Russia Money Laundering Scandal Hits European Banks https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-05/dirty-mon... ...&

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