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ParticipantAmazon Key is a solution in search of a problem. A one-way package drop box is an elegant solution and doesn’t give a random stranger access to your entire home.
This being said, Amazon Key might have a place — in a backyard shed or garage with a walled-off room with its own door. Make the room only for packages, so the delivery guy doesn’t have free reign of the house.
ParticipantThey’re not leapfrogging us — they’re screwing their own people into accepting a prison society. With the authoritarian instincts in the US and our nasty habit of mass incarceration, no thanks to more surveillance.
This is also happening mostly in large Chinese cities. Rural areas/smaller cities are slower to adopt. Maybe we should thank G-d (haha) for the rural, armed Bible-thumping “mark of the beast” crowd in the US, who’d literally start a holy war if the government tried to force a cashless society.
ParticipantStart outside of DC, in Arlington. There’s that five-sided building that’s sucking hundreds of billions a year and giving us corpses and invalids at the cost of stolen public funds.
ParticipantCountries with population bulges still enter recession… It wasn’t exactly smooth sailing through the boomers entering their 30s and 40s either.
Also, none of this justifies the kind of rise in the markets that we’ve seen in the last year.
The rally is also becoming increasingly narrow-based. DOW is climbing and setting records, other indices much less or not at all.
ParticipantMerits of the deal aside, I always chuckle at the phrase “draining the swamp.” A swamp is, in fact, a thriving, robust ecosystem. Draining one reduces it to a much less resilient monoculture.
Sort of what Trump is trying to do in DC, but I don’t think he realizes that the phrase is more apt than he intended.
ParticipantAtlanta or NoVA can take Amazon — hope they enjoy higher rents, more businesses focused towards pretentious hipsters as opposed to normal humans, and more traffic. Just glad that NYC isn’t offering incentives (corporate welfare) to the wreckers.
If Amazon picks the NYC area, let them stay on Staten Island or move to NJ.
ParticipantOld layers of paint have probably done all the off-gassing they were supposed to do already.
ParticipantSo you can pay it off in a year and essentially only have to work half as hard if that much? DO IT!
Happiness is not being beholden to anyone or anyone’s opinions of you, and being able to kick back and slack at will.
ParticipantIt actually makes sense that the multiplier is lower at the lower end.
Expenses like food, hellth in$urance, car, commuting are basically fixed regardless of income, so you have less disposable money to spend on mortgage payments.
If you go out to eat 1-2x per week, it’s not going to change your expenses much whether you’re spending $20 or $100. Same with a car costing a few hundred extra per month.
October 13, 2017 at 3:36 PM in reply to: do you need a licensed contractor to change a gas cooktop #808163ParticipantI’m fine with zoning, etc, but some other requirements are excessive.
Ideally, I’d support requiring inspections (but not necessarily licensed installers) for things like modifying gas plumbing beyond the flex hose to the stove.
If the person doing the work is bonded and can pass inspection, union-driven licensing requirements tend to be excessive.
October 13, 2017 at 2:12 PM in reply to: do you need a licensed contractor to change a gas cooktop #808161ParticipantSome building codes are written with the blood of others.
Others are made to make money for cities and union workers.
October 12, 2017 at 8:05 PM in reply to: do you need a licensed contractor to change a gas cooktop #808154ParticipantDefine “qualified.”
Someone may have done this kind of work abroad for years, had the ability to do it safely, but doesn’t have the formal schooling and/or apprenticeship required to become licensed in CA. We’re talking bureaucracy here, not rationality.
October 12, 2017 at 5:21 PM in reply to: do you need a licensed contractor to change a gas cooktop #808152ParticipantIf it don’t smell, don’t ask, don’t tell.
And you did it yourself, you didn’t hire anyone to do it. How many people change their own stoves in less posh areas?
It’s amazing that you even thought to ask us for permission here…
Participantcarlsbadworker — it’s good to own your own home, but it’s better to own a cheaper home AND a rental. So you can have another ATM on the hoof (aka tenant) paying expenses on your own home.
Best way to be is worry-free, and if you create your own controlled environment (someone else paying your housing expense), it can be beautiful.
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