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by turar 11y ago
Gender inequity in tech has one downside if you are a male -- lack of bathrooms. If there is one male and one female bathroom on the floor, and male-to-female gender ratio is 5:1, then you're gonna have a bad time. :)
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by turar 11y ago
Yep. Mid-to-late 1990s. Delphi vs Java. :)
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by turar 11y ago
Correct, that's why I said that it was an assumption. I picked that ETF because I think the underlying assets would do well over the next 30 years, and also because it's relatively cheap to other ETFs because of the under-performa
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by turar 11y ago
In fact renters would pay more property taxes to cover the lack of landlord's homestead tax exemption.
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by turar 11y ago
Remember, the loan is locked in. Everything around you may be a high rate environment, but your loan is still 3.5% when regular bank savings account would be paying, say 7%. So, if you bought shares of an Emerging Markets ETF [1] with the m
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by turar 11y ago
Yes. The onsite means the company is investing just as much time and effort into the process as the candidate.
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by turar 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand why you would pay rent to live somewhere else. I'm talking about living in the house that you bought and have a mortgage on. Say your mortgage loan amount is $300K at 3.5%, locked in for 30 years. Instead
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by turar 11y ago
I would argue in the current situation of 3.5% mortgage rate, the best scenario is to invest the cash in the stock market. If your returns are anything above 3.5% over the 30 year load amount, you're good.
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by turar 11y ago
Same is true for vast majority of countries.
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by turar 11y ago
That would actually put labor on the same footing with capital, since capital can already move freely across borders, while labor cannot.
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by turar 11y ago
If you own a home in the U.S., anybody already can get your address legally and easily from your county or district property appraiser's/assessor's website. Along with how much you paid for it, and when you bought it. So call
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by turar 11y ago
Outside of Ordos, I don't think there are much of any other ghost cities really, unless someone can prove me wrong. All ghost cities from 3-5 years ago that were prominently featured in media are now populated. It just takes that much
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by turar 11y ago
Here you go then: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ :)
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by turar 11y ago
At this point, if I ever have to look at living in apartments/condos again, I will limit my search only to concrete high rise buildings. Which usually means at least 8 floors or taller -- I don't think it's possible to build
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by turar 11y ago
What countries do you have in mind?
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by turar 11y ago
Thanks for posting this, just read the whole exchange. Wow, Chomsky is certainly in an entirely different league here. I don't think Harris even understood what Chomsky was trying to emphasize.
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by turar 11y ago
My point was that it's not fair that someone gets to pay a smaller tax rate just because his taxable base is larger. If anything, it should be the other way around. My original income tax vs. capital gains tax parallel was wrong though
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by turar 11y ago
Why should Joe Schmoe earning an honest $75K/year have less say than that though?
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by turar 11y ago
It's tough to go against the US government who's subsidizing homeowners at renters' expense though. 30-year fixed mortgages are unheard of elsewhere in the world, that's why they all have to be underwritten by Fannie&#x2
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by turar 11y ago
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303...
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by turar 11y ago
Marriage-based PR is probably the easiest and most straightforward PR path there is.
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by turar 11y ago
Wait, aren't a lot of modern American "brick" buildings made with plywood covered with brick siding?
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by turar 11y ago
FWIW, I've had consistently better experience with HomeAway/VRBO than with AirBnB
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State of Florida mental hospitals(tampabay.com)
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by turar 11y ago
You should read/listen to this: http://www.npr.org/2015/10/20/450175865/do-we-have-less-symp...
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by turar 11y ago
>> "It's official: Latinos now outnumber whites in California" These sentiments are ironic, given California's history. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Mexic...
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by turar 11y ago
What college did you get into?
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by turar 11y ago
Doesn't Australia have its own vast remote wilderness? Or is freezing cold preferable to scorching hot?
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by turar 11y ago
Maybe not a five year old, but certainly an 8-9 year old. I grew up in apartment blocks very similar to the image that was linked elsewhere in this thread: http://lh5.ggpht.com/-zHv1hczQcD4/UdgqTs1G3cI/AAAAAAAAqCI&
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by turar 11y ago
I think it's precisely the opposite. In a high-density, pedestrian-friendly apartment environment, parents can actually say "go play outside", with kids free to roam around the neighborhood or larger city by public transit, w

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