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Give To Those In Need(popehat.com)
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by zimbu668 13y ago
My back of the envelope calculations said yes for us, but had we been able to save $100 a month (on rent) for the 8 years, then it would have been no. Had we not done any improvements, or maybe just done the best(going from 0 to 1/2 ba
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by zimbu668 13y ago
No, we got $3000 over our purchase price. a) Yes the $40K was optional, but we probably would have had to sell for $20k less had we not done the work. Bringing our "ownership tax" to ~$275 a month. Pretty close to the lower end re
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by zimbu668 13y ago
It's not quite that simple. We owned a house in Baltimore for 8 years, when we sold we got $3000 more than we had paid for it. Additionally we had done ~$40,000 worth of work that a renter would not have. Add in $7500 in commission whe
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Silicon Chasm: The class divide on America’s cutting edge (weeklystandard.com)
2 points by zimbu668 13y ago|0 comments
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by zimbu668 13y ago
Make sure you know what you're doing. This happened in the apartment building we were living in last year: http://www.denverpost.com/kiszla/ci_20952038/apartment-fire-...
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by zimbu668 13y ago
You can bulk delete ff you have a resource that represents multiple users: DELETE /client/acme_inc/users
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by zimbu668 13y ago
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!!
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by zimbu668 13y ago
No they should stand head on so the bullet will take a shorter path through their body should they be hit.
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by zimbu668 13y ago
Thanks, I've been wanting a term for that idea. Needs to be shorter and catchier thought, otherwise it's just a <insert term for idea dismissed out of hand for being too egg-heady>
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by zimbu668 14y ago
Ground rent exists in the US as well. Baltimore has a lot of it, maybe Philly as well. A few years ago people were losing their houses over $30/yr bills from someone who found their great-great-grandpa had the ground rent title on whatever
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by zimbu668 14y ago
As far as I can tell that $10,000 limit was introduced in 1970( http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/aml_history.html ) and never adjusted for inflation. In today's dollars that would be about a $60,000 cash transaction( http://www.wolframalpha.
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by zimbu668 14y ago
I'm not saying that publish or perish is an optimal solution, just that there's nothing special about it. Plenty of people have "file your TPS reports with cover-sheets or perish", but there's not special jargon for it.
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by zimbu668 14y ago
I don't get the big deal about publish or perish. Isn't that a core part of the job? http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2495
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Socket Connections: From Subsecond to Multiweek(one.valeski.org)
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by zimbu668 15y ago
DDG is the first result if you google: duck search engine
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by zimbu668 15y ago
I activated an ATM card once and the automated system told me for a PIN "Many of our customers are choosing their mother's birthday, please enter the month and day your mother was born." So, out of a keyspace of 10,000, they were shoehornin
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The How and Why of Tech(davetroy.com)
1 points by zimbu668 16y ago|0 comments
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by zimbu668 16y ago
People have advocated man made islands that would reside outside the territory of any nation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading ) Sealand is an interesting example, some sort of British military base on a platform in the North Sea w
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by zimbu668 16y ago
At a previous company the software engineers also had to answer the tech support line for our product. This was not a popular activity so all calls had to be logged and if your numbers were too far below the average you got chewed out at th
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MD 'becoming the Delaware of benefit corporations'(baltimore.bizjournals.com)
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The Myth of the Visionary Founder(davetroy.com)
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Aliens have deactivated British and US nuclear missiles, say US military pilots(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by zimbu668 16y ago|1 comments
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“Access to Funding” Is More About Perception than Reality(davetroy.com)
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by zimbu668 16y ago
A more humorous take on it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zADyh0JQh8
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by zimbu668 16y ago
I've heard that as well. http://credit.about.com/od/usingcreditcards/a/deadbeatcredit...
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by zimbu668 16y ago
Build your own mattress, it's cheaper. http://www.ehow.com/how_4809580_own-foam-mattress.html And it's a fun geek project.
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by zimbu668 16y ago
Clearly Subway considers "footlong" and "3 foot" to be trademarks and in no way connected to the actual length of their sandwiches, because the box their "3 foot" sandwich comes in isn't even 3 feet long. http://consumerist.com/2007/07/sub
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by zimbu668 16y ago
Have you seen Project Euler? ( http://projecteuler.net/ ) Almost 300 problems like that.
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by zimbu668 17y ago
Jamie Zawinsky has a simple backup plan that you may want to consider as well( http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html ). I would recommend one change to his strategy though, brand does matter, as in get different brands or at least models. W

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