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by wcunning 7y ago
That would cause an even greater housing price crunch in the cities than we currently have. Much of the retirement advice out there is that once you're on a fixed income, you need to move out of a high cost area into a lower cost, typi
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by wcunning 7y ago
Harlem (140th give or take) was the only place I could find a decent grocery store that wasn't outrageously expensive. I was fortunate enough to live about 10 minutes from it, though I was not pleased that that's one of the few
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by wcunning 7y ago
Property taxes pay for local government, state income tax and sales tax pay for state government. If you live in the city of Flint (why would you if you don't have to at this point?) then it's maybe unethical to minimize your ta
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by wcunning 7y ago
Oooph, as someone in the automotive industry, I would avoid that thing like the plague. Have you checked the recall for going through the car wash causing that truck to light on fire[0]? One burned down at my neighborhood convenience store
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by wcunning 7y ago
I'm an Android user, but have been considering switching to Apple, and it turns out that you can make GMaps or Waze the default mapping app for CarPlay. I was just reading about it as part of this thread. https://9to5mac.com
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by wcunning 7y ago
I've been waffling on this, but my biggest concern about the center stack display is that it's far away from looking at the road. I've been using a suction cup RAM mount on the windshield for years with Waze up constantly on
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by wcunning 7y ago
My uncle shaves twice a day and gets a single day per $0.10 Feather blade. That said, only the Feather gets 2 shaves in before it gives up, so it's worth the slightly higher cost.
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by wcunning 7y ago
Sadly, unless you think about those nudges like a pen-tester, you're going to create unintended consequences with your adjustments and new rules and new exceptions every single time. I just listened to a podcast that posited that much
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by wcunning 7y ago
Gorgon Stare springs immediately to mind. I certainly can't afford a multi-day in the air drone carrying a 30 lbs mutli-million megapixel wide camera [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_Stare
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by wcunning 7y ago
File the permanent residence exception, learn the Mathieu Gast rules for normal maintenance and repairs, and always fight the tax assessor on the first year you own a property, up through Board of Review and Tax Tribunal if you have to.
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by wcunning 7y ago
Several years ago, before it became unaffordable, California residents were entitled to education at any state school, including UC Berkeley, for free. Community colleges were very definitely part of that. The better question is what is t
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by wcunning 7y ago
Such is the nature of people. My father worked in property tax assessing, so I've known about the specific rules in Michigan and how to minimize my personal tax bill for my entire life. If you build a system with a bunch of complex rul
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by wcunning 7y ago
The issue here is that perfect price discrimination doesn't actually seem fair to the vast majority of "normal" people. I was the youngest child of old parents, so we looked fabulously wealthy to the FAFSA. In reality, my par
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by wcunning 7y ago
This comment is surely too late, but I feel like it's worth preserving. I think the woodworking community is more prone to that than the metalworking community. I hate to say it, but I think it's a question of barrier to entry. It
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by wcunning 7y ago
I hesitate to defend a Facebook property, but here goes anyway... My Instagram feed is 100% welding, machining and a small smattering of woodworking. Literally any project I post gets universally positive feedback, with the occasional const
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by wcunning 7y ago
I think the bigger question in a lot of human centric things is the "why" -- why did that head of state say that thing? Why does this company avoid that regulation? Why do people complain when this tax credit goes away? It's
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by wcunning 7y ago
The basic gist of the article is found about 1/2 way in: "First, the phytoplankton in the oceans also photosynthesise [...] Therefore in terms of TOTAL global photosynthesis, photosynthesis in the Amazon contributes around 9%. [..
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by wcunning 7y ago
A "competition" where MS owned the market with IE at 90% right up until Google ate their lunch with Chrome and became the 90% player. Google probably could have done that without the monopoly action, and now we need that action ag
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by wcunning 7y ago
Except that the specific example everyone sites is Amazon, and Amazon isn't even in the double digits of all retail in the US [0]. WalMart on the other hand is 8.9% of all retail [1] -- nearly double what Amazon captures. Neither one i
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by wcunning 7y ago
I'm getting up the gumption to look for a different, hopefully better job in the nearer future (in automotive control software, looking to move to AV), and I had a bit of a revelation when talking to a friend of mine who does interview
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by wcunning 7y ago
"Now that Fox Corp. has sold off most of its entertainment properties, it has become a standalone company that will retain ownership of its broadcast network, owned-and-operated network affiliates, the Fox News Channel, Fox Business Ne
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by wcunning 7y ago
More importantly, farming started out as the occupation of 90% of the population in the US and has been continuously falling ever since. The total number of farms grew up until about 1950, but as a share of the population it was only in the
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by wcunning 7y ago
This is, so far as I can tell from following legal news, very very very common[0]. [0] Examples: https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1090313239995400192
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My favorite for this one is Whitworth's 3 plate method and the technique of scraping iron for precision and bearing. That and/or gauge blocks and lapping for standardized measurement would get you a long ways into guns if you we
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by wcunning 7y ago
It was rare enough that allowing a kid to do that made Lenore Skenazy [0] famous not that long ago... [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenore_Skenazy
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by wcunning 7y ago
Speaking in support of the gp's point: Dearborn's community of Middle Easterners (more than just Muslims, also heavily Chaldean) speaks an awful lot of Arabic and not so much English. Similarly, the Chinese community in Ann Arbor
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by wcunning 7y ago
I wish that I saw more of these comments on HN links to science articles that explain some research paper. From now on, every such comment that analyzes the underlying study's power and significance, I'm going to upvote, as a gene
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by wcunning 7y ago
The version of that that I recall was from Heinlein's Number of the Beast. The detail he added in his version was that you could reassess your property at any time, but you had to pay 5 years of back taxes at the new value immediately
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by wcunning 7y ago
Reasons that I can think of: 1) they don't want to take more of a loss than they have to go get you in the door, 2) the people who buy diet coke or diet Dr pepper are statistically more likely to shop sales than the people who buy non-
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by wcunning 7y ago
20 people for 14 days on one diet then 14 days on another. I don't see how this is a terribly illuminating study. This is not sufficient time or statistical sample to extrapolate to, well, really anything. What confounding factors were

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