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Isn’t 76 a 4 to 6 lane highway towards Oceanside? Is it bikeable?

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The problem with living in Phoenix is that you have to deal with Phoenix people, climate, and dust 🙂 Also, you were going against the initial commute direction (towards the city) and only going with the commute after crossing the city.

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This is California and the Bay. Any environmental cleanup/testing costs on a burned property, or can you just rebuild without problems?

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Hotels are fine. People will still like to travel and be “away from their spouse for half a night.” 🙂

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^^^ exactly. Now imagine giving men from poorer backgrounds a way up WITHOUT them having to commit murder (or be complicit in murder) in the name of the State. War is fundamentally a waste of resources.

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They were either just limited to 40 hour weeks, or weren’t given overtime in violation of the law.

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No. It’s not true. It’s just that if you make more than ~$90k/yr, employers are allowed to steal your time without remuneration.

i.e. not compensate you for time if you work > 40 hours a week.

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No.

The factories aren’t under direct US ownership, they’re owned by local or Taiwanese contractors like Foxconn. Also, oil isn’t a moving target, the product doesn’t change from year to year as much as electronics which constantly need design changes and updates.

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PR and CA are not really comparable. For one thing, different age demographics — PR is heavily weighted towards retirees whereas CA is not.

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Advertise it as sharing a 2-bedroom condo and write a lease saying such for the HOA’s benefit if needed. Make the room assignment a separate agreement not shown to the HOA.

BTW – what if you get a background check and rent to an ex-con anyway? Say you believe that criminals deserve a second chance.

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An HOA can tolerate monthly roommates, not daily. If you can find someone willing to stay in an AirBNB or VRBO for at least a month, you’re good…

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Also, why insist on a “high class” neighborhood? “High class” areas usually have prissy-poo neighbors and HOAs. In a lower-middle-class area, you can do a lot more of what you want. No one is going to call the cops or HOA because you’re fixing your motorbike in your driveway.

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Up Friday, down Monday, up Tuesday. Looks like a fun ride, see plane-crash footage from “Alive”… Nasdaq was up ~50, whoops! just fell to +15 after bouncing off zero. Fun to watch! Hope the ad-tech firms and their investors are feeling some agida today.

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Assuming we don’t create a global recession to crash them and slow them down. There are theories that the 2008 crisis was manufactured (or at least allowed to happen) to slow China down.

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When the leading tech companies’ business models literally include theft, analysis, censorship, and possible resale of private user data, maybe the market is over BOUGHT. Facebook got caught with its pants down selling user data to political procurers. Google just got caught scanning files unrelated to Chrome on users’ hard drives for “viruses.” Also censoring nudity on Google Drive. Microsoft just cracked down — their new ToS bans profanity on Skype… Apple is moving towards locking down MacOS, iOS style with a new processor platform. Probably heavily nudging people to their “cloud” as well. List goes on… everyone (Adobe/MS) is pushing software rental. Rent-seeking off of software that often just worked for 5-10 years.

We’ve gone from time-share computing, to personal computing, full-circle around to time-share corporate-controlled computing. At least with traditional time-share computing, the entity running the central computer was a known one like a university, not a faceless megalith like Google.

What do you call what’s going on in the markets over the past few months? A good start. Let the house of cards collapse so we can rebuild it in a less horrible way.

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