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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Either we're damaging our cars or you're wasting money and oil. The latter. Most manufacturers recommend 10,000 miles now, some as high as 15,000 (Jaguar, known for being unreliable): https://www.edmunds.com/
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> To me, the last 15 years have been car manufacturers figuring out that with the right kind of engineering, you can get rid of turbo lag I own a Fiesta ST that comes with a 1.6L turbo-charged engine that produces about 200hp/210+f
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> but lenders are much more likely to give someone a $400,000 loan to buy a house than to buy stock. I don't think this is necessarily sustainable. Government backstop. But I hear you. I understand the intentions of subsidized mor
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Is that effectively enforced? As far as I understand, yes, based on the fact that nobody seems to rent out their basement unless their home was specifically built to accommodate the regulation. IANAL, but with the balance of power ti
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> due to artificially reduced supply, but that is not what rent control means. Rent control artificially reduces supply. Price changes come after.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> "To single out one strand, recall the stories of flippers who would buy a house, fix it up, and resell it within months at a huge profit." You can sometimes see this in financial advice on forums like these: "buy rental
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> There's not much rent control outside a few major cities like NYC and SF. Rent control, or other regulation, takes many forms. For example, my locale has regulations regarding the amount of window space is required in a basement
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> The bank lends it out up to the multiple allowed by the fractional reserve system Banks are not reserve constrained, and anyone can create as much credit as they wish.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> €110m seems to be a cost of doing business for Facebook. Another way of looking at it is that the courts deemed €110m the cost of the misleading information to society, in which case FB pays a fair fine.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Why is there not more construction to increase the amount of housing in your city? Many reasons, of course. But one is that, perhaps, builders see the demand being temporary and unsustainable. I'll assume the OP is talking abou
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> but the very high transaction fees are a big deterrent. You've succinctly described why so many parties have a vested interest in sustaining any housing bubble. Many palms getting greased along the way, and very few people who b
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Not sure what you mean by 'propagandaland' On HN that probably means "Trump supporter". The left still thinks patronizing the right as "stupid" and incapable is going to get them somewhere.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> While demanding data isn't necessarily a bad thing, you can take it overboard. You can do what you want, but don't expect people to believe your arguments if you aren't willing to support them. "It's obvious&
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Except both countries are well known for sponsoring such hackers. And the US doesn't? Where have you been? Stuxnet blowing up Iranian nuclear plants? The pages upon pages of NSA documents? The implication that the US is innoce
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Are people entitled to have the fruits of their work stolen from them? Who is stealing what?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> You can engineer wiring to be the right size for the 99% use case. You can't do that with savings. This is not remotely correct.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Put away the persecution fantasies, he's being downvoted because he's wrong Wrong about what, exactly? I simply stated that instances exist in which an American or Chinese hackers may do wrong without having any connection t
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Seems to be a lot more efficient to tax income rather than to have separate taxes on different kinds of consumption and investment. Consumption taxes are about as efficient as taxes get, especially when you can exempt specific product
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> That choosing investment over dividends must be a selfless act that makes one worse at their job (rather than simply a different option, possibly even more lucrative). This implies that they can't do both investing and paying div
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Overdoing any of each of your examples is a waste of resources, just like dying with a pile of cash.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
95% of the jobs created since 2009 are temp jobs, the actual way the us defines a job was changed under Bush and kept under Obama Do you have a source for this? 95% is hard to believe...
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Keep this in mind when you read "Chinese" or "Russian" hacker and immediately assume it's state sponsored...
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Why should you save more than you need? What good does it do?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
There are two sides to every transaction, and whether low interest rates are good or bad depends on which side of the transaction you are on. Nobody is entitled to high rates on their savings.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
Have you considered voting with your wallet and not using the Alexa service?
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by stupidhn 9y ago
If the severance falls outside of the mandatory amount by law, then this is reasonable. They are paying you not to work for a competitor for a time.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
I'd love to know where you live that an employer can fire you and expect you to honor a non compete. The second they stop paying you your obligations end. No judge in the land will prevent you from being unable to earn a living.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
If companies didn't offer Healthcare, there would be more social pressure for a public option. As it is, too many people saying, 'got mine, don't care about yours'.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> They purchase our movie studios and then force on them Chinese propaganda and nothing negative on China ever. They are free to do what they want with what they have bought and paid for. > if not the least Lol is right.
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by stupidhn 9y ago
> Why do you believe that, out of curiosity? Because the liquidity of an asset is a form of risk. > The reason I think it isn't straightforward I don't think it's straightforward either, but that only means individual

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