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by tbihl 9y ago
Maybe if they're fast and buy up enough, they can get bailed out in the next housing downturn. Even better if they can gain recognition as a bank of some sort before that time.
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At the risk of running afoul of HN zeitgeist, I'll steal the advice, "treat yourself like someone you're trying to help." Bargain with yourself and figure out the biggest step you're willing to take in the right dir
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It's not paradoxical at the extremes, but rather in how it goes against the beliefs that many people put into practice. 'I need to go in to the office this weekend because I have a lot to get done.'--'I had to pull an al
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Are you expecting them to boot from a flash drive and snoop through files? That just doesn't seem a realistic expectation, nor even one I would want them to be doing.
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There's a book that seems similar to what you've described, called Atomic Accidents. It's a compelling narration of many notable mishaps in nuclear power, weapons,and research. Needless to say, it won't scratch the softw
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Or be able to go deep underwater when things get really nasty.
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I admit that I don't have much expertise on the matter, having only ever operated a GSM cell site simulator (never LTE), but the max range I remember (in ideal conditions) is something like 35 miles.
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Having ridden a lot of Amtrak almost makes it less likely that you'd have experienced the single track problem, since quality rail experiences in the US are pretty concentrated such that someone who has good train experiences probably
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Econtalk with Chuck Marohn of Strong Towns: an eye-opening discussion on why American towns and suburbs have their car-dominated form. Conversations with Tyler -- Ben Sasse I recommend listening to lots of econtalk, strong towns (I prefer t
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To add another use case: I know a lot of military people who throw all their stuff in storage when they deploy. Faced with no costs except a storage unit and low-mileage car insurance, a lot of them come back after the better part of a year
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And, independent of local zoning, our financial system drives hard for the type of stuff that zoning also reinforces. When easy capital supports single family houses and large projects, everything in between is crowded out.
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I completely disagree. Refueling is incredibly expensive and time consuming, and the frequency of doing so directly results from how carefully fuel is conserved throughout core life.
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In all likelihood it's a pretty poor substitute for a gun. Consider that this weapon is suspected to cost around one dollar per shot (not including capital costs, I'm sure.) Figure that the navy generates energy pretty expensively
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Yeah, that'd be quite a shock. The thing that strikes me first is how much less appealing it'd be to bring lunch to work if I couldn't cut anything for it at lunch time. And then there's the inconvenience of not having m
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Examples that prove insightful to you are a personal matter. Unless you believe it important that spending be apportioned by lane-mile or road inventory (which I'd argue is rife with moral hazard), it is likely that your state effects
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Thank you, this is more in keeping with what I meant (though I might have done a clearer job saying it.) The place I have in mind is admittedly denser than what you describe, and is in many ways the worst of both worlds, but I think the les
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by tbihl 9y ago
Well, we can all be proud that state governments are both handing out disproportionately large sums of money to rural areas and doing so in ways that crushes any notion of cost optimal. This is done, of course, through infrastructure buildi
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I'm just going to point out regarding schools: if you let the state come build it for you, you're probably going to get a big, deadly dumpster fire of a school. It'll be a regional consolidated school so they can put a huge e
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by tbihl 9y ago
It certainly does, though not categorically. Nonetheless, I'm sure the people who manage to regain a measure of control in their lives by using Bitcoin welcome the opportunity. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/
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People in the Northeast would also be well-served in these discussions by knowing that Amtrak falls into that same description in other areas of the country, especially the Southeast: where everyone smokes and drinks from brown bags, the sh
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Buses are great for getting people to the train, but probably only provided that the bus is a no- or low-cost addition to the train pass or fare. And middle class people will absolutely take buses that come reliably and frequently, especial
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I was working in the frame of parent's comment to show that delays and congestion are another solution to the problem. It's certainly not the one I'd choose, but I was trying hard to give an unaffected discussion of the trade
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So don't you think some of those people would rearrange their lives if they had to face $12k of added annual commuting costs? You'd probably see some increasing density in nearby areas that are still full of 2-3 story buildings. Y
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To further support your point, not only is it possible to use that added value to pay for infrastructure, but that's historically how it was done back when infrastructure projects had to be profitable (because they were private.) Today
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I can't tell if we disagree, but I would attack this from a different angle. Libertarians clearly want less power concentrated at a central level, but it's not clear why that should carry down to every single entity that can be ca
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Actually, the funniest thing is that they have to strike a balance of people who understand how the system works enough to pay in and recruit others to do the same, but not enough to stay out. I found a craigslist ad that shows that difficu
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I think you're missing parent's bigger point. Nothing is big for almost any teenagers, because at the end of the day they don't have to pay rent or buy groceries or that type of thing. Plus, a good percentage of them are abou
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The immediate problems of infrastructure are two-fold: funding and the matching of supply and demand. Ignore the environmental ramifications for the moment and kick that can to your kids like everyone else does. Supply and demand solves its
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In Japan they just call them 'thermal plants' or 'thermal generators' or something like that. Still, in Japan you have people who follow around US aircraft carriers and submarines to sample their wake for any signs of ra
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Unchecked? What about the FDA check on new entrants to the market?

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