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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
yes, i've been wondering this as well. I mean, i understood in 2021 but it's been over a year now already.
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
not all the rules are in the HOA booklet. For example, ours doesn't say anything about banning vegetables in the front yard, not a single rule. And yet, if we even so much as grow fava beans, the HOA will say we can't do that du
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
I know this will get downvoted but, I say Throw the building codes out the window. Housing people is more important than regulations. If it made a difference to your ability to get shelter, which would you rather choose: have shelter or li
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
Absolutely. HOAs bring out the worst in people. If you're reading this and you don't own a house/condo yet, think twice before you buy into an HOA community. HOAs can quickly devolve to point where entire meetings are spen
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
TLDR. there's something I don't understand: car companies and everyone else can't seem to get enough Chips and yet Intel is laying off employees?
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
Or, it could jsut be that middle managers are extroverted and extremely desperate for social engagement, like in meetings because they have no life outside of work. Harsh, I know. but, several friends i have that are managers admitted to
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
I've wondered about this myself, many many times. It's either a complete failure to understand the basic supply/demand equation which underpins all resource scarcity OR somehow voters feel it's in their interest to not
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
i think this is one area where price caps actually make sense: college text books and college tuitions. Just make it illegal for public colleges to charge more than a certain amount. as for text books, we need to encourage professors to re
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
Absolutely. It seems strange to lock yourself into a metal box for 2 hours every day as you move back and forth between the same two destinations 220 times per year, not getting anywhere in the process. I also hope this has been a wake up
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
Even the very smallest Tesla Solar (21 KW/day) setup can generate x3 times more electricity than needed by a moderate commute. Most EVs use roughly 3 miles per KW. So, 7 KW would allow you to travel 20 miles per day 7 days a week or
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
it all comes down to the cost of switching and willingness of users to switch. the higher the cost of switching the higher you can make your product's price. Otherwise, with an extremely low cost of switching, the cost will ultimatel
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
Or at higher risk from having access to medicine and doctors. The overuse of medicine as the solution to everything is causing a lot of harm. A pill for every ill. In the US, it's not uncommon for people to be taking 7 different pil
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
why is this comment downvoted? I think it's a legitimate complaint about rainwater not being safe from PFAS.
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
i guess it matters how much oil and butter you're adding.
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
Productivity is limited by the scope of your products. If you have 100 Work years of work available to do but have 500 employees then each employee can only do 0.2 work years worth of work per year. People want to be productive but if the
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
We went to buy a new washing machine (even though the old wasn't even broken yet). Even the salesman had to admit that they don't make washing machines like they used to and told us that it would last an average of 8 years, as op
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
yeah. Personally, I don't want more microchips in everything. I just want a cheap fridge, a cheap washing machine, or cheap whatever, F** the chips. Even in a car, I want the aboslute minimum amount of chips and other nonsense.
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
VR is new. But, I don't see it growing into the next big thing. do people really wanna wear a headset all day?
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
I don't like GDP as a measure of how well our economy is doing. We need a whole new measurement. A quality of life index, which measures the real cost of living, not in dollars, but in number of hours required to earn the necessities
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
this is what happens to companies who don't expand the scope of what they're trying to do. they just keep adding more useless features to their platforms and yet facebook is still just facebook: a successful cashcow that's a
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
I think a much easier way would be if we just taxed phone calls at 1 cent each. I mean absolutely everything else is already taxed: you pay taxes just to stay alive. the least that could be done is add a 1 cent tax to each phone call, jus
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
the default i'm talking about is inflation: it's a soft default. and in the end most of that debt your talking about, will be paid for by those holding cash and bonds.
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
whether you fork from bitcoin or just create another alt coin, they just don't have enough critical mass to compete with the originals. > worse than whatever you think is happening to the US dollar. Bitcoin is risky: it's down
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
> They absolutely can if the alternative is SHTF. Look at the 100 year long term trend for all countries worldwide. There's a rather shocking chart out there that shows the massive increase in govt spending as % of GDP. whereas it
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
bitcoin supply is limited to 21 million. that's key. Meanwhile fiat currencies across the world are the governments escape vehicle for collecting the enormous taxes they're going to need to collect for their enormous debts, via i
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
Gold would be great but in the US, it's practically uninvestible unless you have a lot of money in a IRA (a tough feat given the yearly contribution limit). Gold is taxed as a collectible. your "gain" is taxed at 28%. But,
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
bitcoin is not fiat.
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
if wealthy chinese did use to evade currency controls, it sure is trackable with all those YKC rules, not to mention a completely open ledger. China could easily find anyone who did that. Fiat is much better for evading currency controls.
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
i know here on hacker news we tend to see everything from the technical perspective and that means bitcoin isn't very interesting. But, try and see things from a financial perspective. the value proposition of crypto has nothing to wi
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by throw8383833jj 4y ago
i haven't seen any polls on it specifically but I wouldn't be surprised if it was close to half the population. my point is, you'd be surpised at what the majority is in favor of. of course, they'll say otherwise, but l

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