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by w4 10y ago
> I find the focus on boys less than ideal...To me, he should be focusing on all kids not a particular gender. He has sons, not daughters, so he's focussing on what's best for his sons. I wouldn't be surprised if his app
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by w4 10y ago
> Land and homes are the only leveraged asset available to the average American. Bingo. This is always what's missing from this conversation. Yes, it's true that real estate is not a great investment when compared to other as
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by w4 10y ago
> Entry load of 6% (real estate commissions) 1% penalty every year (property tax) Exit load of 6% (commissions again) Whoa whoa whoa, you can't call the commission a cost on both the purchase and sale. Either call it a cost on the
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by w4 10y ago
That video is basically crazyeyes.mpeg. It's almost physically uncomfortable to watch - what was the director thinking here?
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by w4 10y ago
I'm aware, but a web framework going 3 years without a release renders the distinction between "no releases" and "no development" more or less meaningless from an end user's point of view.
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by w4 10y ago
When I decided to learn web dev (coming from a native background), the lack of updates to Flask was more of a concern than the 0.11 version number. Everything I read online said that Flask was rock solid, so getting stuck with an abandoned
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by w4 10y ago
The idea is that you get to choose your immediate neighbors (on any basis other than race, because race is always protected) if they share the same house with you. When you're running a business the tenants aren't your immediate
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by w4 10y ago
> That's legislation, not a principle. If I ask "why is mortgage interest deductible", the principle is "because it encourages homeownership" - not the 1986 Tax Reform Act. Intentionally obtuse it is! The reaso
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by w4 10y ago
> Could you explain the legal principle, if there is one, that allows discrimination under one circumstance but not the other? In case you're not being obtuse, the Fair Housing Act: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by w4 10y ago
> I suspect legally most airbnb landlords are in the clear. Watch it on this - despite the exceptions in the FHA, exceptions never apply to racial discrimination. IANAL, but the discrimination outlined in the article is unlawful, regar
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by w4 10y ago
> I agree and if the government was attempting to pass a law mandating this I would support you The government already passed the law mandating this, way back in 1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Housing_Act
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by w4 10y ago
> No people should not be forced to let anyone in their homes. This is unreasonable. The Fair Housing Act says otherwise (with respect to race and a few other categories), owner occupied rentals and small time single-family landlords e
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by w4 10y ago
But that seems to mostly be speed and throttle information stored in a black box in the car that logs in the event of an accident and isn't remotely accessible. That sort of thing is a far cry from "our server logs show you opened
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by w4 10y ago
Why is this being down voted? The highly detailed log of the driver's every action is crazy creepy. I get that the data is likely useful for debugging, and may very well be a function of the feature's beta status (can someone co
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by w4 11y ago
> You don't really need to toss an atomic clock on the plane. Just make the plane use GPS. These are warplanes - you don't want critical systems reliant on satellites that could be jammed, or downed, during wartime, which I s
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by w4 11y ago
Mailgun and Sendgrid are too expensive? How so? Mailgun offers 10k emails/month totally free, and it's $0.0005/email or less after that. Sendgrid will give you 40k emails for $10/month, or 100k emails for $20/month.
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by w4 11y ago
I just noticed this when I logged in to check on a Mandrill template this morning. Couldn't believe it is an immediate TOS change without any sort of grandfathering or timeline for existing customers - that's a terrible way to han
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by w4 11y ago
> It kind of surprises me that software, a creative and digital medium like the above, is not futile and that you can still make a good living at it. The thing that differentiates software is that it often enables other people to make
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by w4 11y ago
> I suppose most who do Swift at the moment also use it on front-end Given that it's primarily used for iOS and Mac OS X programming, yeah, of course. Both the GUI and app logic are typically coded in Swift.
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by w4 11y ago
Aside from what other posters have said (a better way to do this would be to note in the report the exclusion of certain data, and why it was excluded), the way they purged the listings is particularly damning: "No similar event took
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by w4 11y ago
> it seems unlikely that interest rates will rise for the foreseeable future Based on the past two weeks of the stock market? I'm not so sure. A choppy stock market may certainly slow down the Fed's plans for 2016, but Yellen
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by w4 11y ago
I don't understand why this is being downvoted - it's correct. It is the case that banks pick up the tab for transactions where the card is present, hence the move to EMV chips. However, merchants have liability for transactions w
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by w4 11y ago
> Your typical corporate IP lawyer might feel queasy about the collective copyright aspect, but so much of the open source world works this way now... they can suffer in their jocks. This is a bad attitude if you want buy-in from large
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by w4 11y ago
> I remember when Steve Jobs went on stage and said that FaceTime would be an open standard. Haven't seen that happen yet. FaceTime has been the subject of multiple patent lawsuits, which is what has prevented it from being opened
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by w4 11y ago
This is absolutely fantastic. I'd pay for something that hooks into my bank account and spits out a daily number for me, no problem (especially since it doesn't suffer from the mess of housekeeping and categorizing that something
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by w4 11y ago
> bands and styles with wide dynamic range like the Pixies, Nirvana and dubstep One of these things is not like the others. I can't tell if you're trolling here, or if you legitimately don't know much about audio enginee
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by w4 11y ago
> You mean 'uninterested,' not 'disinterested.' Uninterested may have been better, but disinterested works fine - see the usage notes (desktop only for some reason): http://dictionary.reference.com/b
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by w4 11y ago
Xcode 7 lets you compile and run apps on a device without a developer account. It would require giving out your source code, but at least it's available.
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by w4 11y ago
That's a shame. Gravity looks like a clever app, and the UX in the reviewer video was pretty slick. The spoon + quarter calibration is great! This sort of thing is why I'm increasingly disinterested in developing for iOS for fun (
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by w4 11y ago
> I know... we're not in a bubble now... but losing money and making it up on volume was the big joke back then, iirc. It's ok to say we're in a bubble. These companies that are selling goods at a loss predicated on the

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