Presuming the ratings are honest - which I do not trust them to be. Customers have no interest in honest ratings, and can be penalized for them if they cast aspersions on the service. The rental agency itself has no incentive to be scrupulously honest because they don't want to piss off too many providers.
With AirBnB, you don't get to see the other guys' review until you have posted your own. So there's no fear of tit-for-tat retaliation, and most of the reviews should be pretty honest.
Media Center allows you to do things like view and record live TV (with a USB receiver); it includes stuff like guide data. I'm not going to be updating my HTPC because of this.
The numbers they used are slightly disingenuous - I think the better number would be to use US fatalities, which is closer to 75-80MM. You don't want to use the worldwide numbers, the US is generally safer than that.
once you turn cruise control on, where do you place your foot?
I usually keep my foot over the brake, especially in traffic which is heavy but flowing. I think that's going to help my reaction time; I can make small speed adjustments through the cruise controls buttons (coast, etc). I use my cruise control pretty much anytime I'm not on an urban street.
Maybe those in power really do know what they're doing.
In this case, I don't think they did. Cameron gambled that he could appease his Eurosceptic Tories with this referendum, not really believing that it would ever pass. It was a major miscalculation.
You're better off using random colored zip ties to secure your luggage, then at least you know when it has been opened. Easier on some bags than others of course, but you can always use a bag strap secured with a zip tie or something. And don't put anything you can't afford to lose in there.
I have friends with ~$5000 bikes. For them, it's not about impressing people, they actually can tell the difference between various components. In a 100 mile race, the little things add up. There are worse hobbies.
I'm also using a Fire stick and my plex server is temporarily using a wifi dongle rather than ethernet, but I don't see these issues. It does transcode, but that's to be expected.
Sure, everyone is born into different circumstances, and that affects your wealth. But it's also the fact that distorting an otherwise free market generally leads to inefficiencies. I don't think that anyone has more of a right to live somewhere than anyone else; you make your choices based on your personal circumstances. Do you think that the entire housing market should be subject to price controls? Anecdote - I had a friend who "inherited" her grandfather's rent controlled apartment in NYC; he had moved out but his name was still on the lease. I don't think that it's a social good that she pays less than what anyone else would for the same apartment, even though it was great for her.
Investors buy rental properties to generate a passive income (i.e. get money in exchange for nothing), by exploiting an advantaged capital position (i.e. just by having more money to begin with).
Have you ever been a landlord? I have, and I guarantee that it was not a passive income. I had to arrange the financing in the first place, arrange for initial repairs and ongoing maintenance, find and coordinate with renters etc. And in my case, my renters actually were earning more than I did, they just weren't ready to buy yet. For them they got a nice place with no long term worries or commitments, at a fair price. And most importantly, they had a place to live.
That ability to benefit financially from housing you don't need for, you know, actually housing yourself, attracts people with money to spare into buying up more investment housing, increasing the demand and thus market price for housing.
Aside from the fact that a lot of people don't want to actually own their home at a given time for a variety of reasons, I don't buy this argument. A landlord can only benefit financially to the extent that people are able and willing to pay their rents - if you have a house sitting empty for a couple of months you are going to be losing money that year. In crunch markets, what people really are unhappy about is that they want to live somewhere where lots of other people want to also, and that means that prices are going to go up unless the housing stock can expand. In SF & NYC, that's not really the case, so you have rising prices. This is going to happen regardless of investors, because that's just how the market works. Investors don't cause the demand, though they may see it and hope to profit from it. See all the "investors" who got burned in Las Vegas when the bubble burst.
In New York City, the city, state and federal government at various times have built or financed public housing projects, most of which have been very successful and have long waiting lists.
So, there are a lot of people who would like to live in New York, if it wasn't so expensive. But it is, because a lot of people want to live there. So if you subsidize a segment of housing, of course you're going to get a waiting list. The question is, is it better to let the market set the price, so that only people who really want to live there will pay the price, or is it better to have a semi random mix of people who might not otherwise live there? If I could get an apartment if NYC for free, I'd take it; is some sort of lottery like that really the best way to allocate housing?
Luxury housing is the only thing new construction is interested in, precisely because they can charge a lot because LUXURY.
This is only true in certain markets like NYC & SF, where the housing supply is so tightly constrained that prices are high and only the wealthy can afford to buy. I guarantee you that there are lots of areas where affordable housing is being built. The problem is that many people want to live in NYC and SF, and they are not willing/able to build more housing on the scale of that demand.
I went with a Sonos system a couple of years ago, and we use Pandora (paid) and more recently Spotify (also paid) even more than our library of CDs I so painstakingly ripped to FLAC and then to mp3s. I may ditch the paid Pandora at some point. If I'm buying mp3s I usually use Amazon, though often I can get a CD for less than the download so I'll just rip the CD myself. Despite (or maybe because of) having a universe of music available at the click of a button, my teenager just got me to dig out a turntable; my rants about what a PITA vinyl is had no effect. Kids today!
Most internal combustion engine cars are sunk in water when the exhaust becomes flooded, which is why serious off-roaders have big exhaust scoops leading to the roof.
I think the snorkels are intakes, not exhaust - you don't want to suck water into your intake manifold.
I'd like to see a feature that lets me go more than a day or two without having to restart FF because it can't resolve a DNS address, while Chrome and even IE have no such problem. Now get off my lawn with your experimental features!
Seems Tesla disagrees with the Daily Kanban's report:
"With respect to the car that is discussed in the blog post that led to yesterday's newsthe suspension ball joint experienced very abnormal rust. We haven't seen this on any other car, suggesting a very unusual use case. The car had over 70,000 miles on it and its owner lives down such a long dirt road that it required two tow trucks to retrieve the car. (One to get the car to the highway and one to get it from the highway to the service center.) When we got the car, it was caked in dirt."
Secondly, Tesla said that the NHTSA had not opened any investigation and hadn't even started a so-called "preliminary evaluation", which is the "lowest form of formal investigatory work it does". The car maker said on April 20 the regulator asked about its suspension as part of a "routine screening" and on April 30, Tesla complied.
"NHTSA has since told us that we have cooperated fully and that no further information is needed. Neither before nor after this information was provided has NHTSA identified any safety issue with Tesla's suspensions. This can be confirmed with NHTSA," Tesla said.
Newly arriving students will have been accustomed to being in the top 1-2% of their peer group. They will have been used to being recognised as outstanding by their teachers. They will have been used to sailing through tests that their classmates struggle with and being only moderately challenged by meetings that their classmates find night-impossible. Depending on their school and its culture, they may have been used to being given particular perks or privileges.
I think a lot of times the problem for disadvantaged students is that while they were in the top 5% of their class or whatever, when they get to university they discover that the top 5% of their class was performing like the 75th percentile compared with a lot of their new peers. The shock isn't so much that there are a lot of other high performing kids there (though that's going to happen too); the shock for the disadvantaged kids is that what they thought was high performing is actually closer to just barely average.
Those cars are getting better gas mileage not sitting in bumper to bumper traffic.
It's funny that this story is about Takoma Park, which is noted for its passive aggressive hippies. You would think that they'd want to save some gas, but they are the biggest bunch of NIMBYs around....
I've been paying them ~$4 a month for years to avoid the ads. Over the last few years, though, they don't really seem to have expanded their offerings much and I get pretty sick of the same heavy rotation. I remember reading that paying customers are a tiny percent of their users, and that they actually make more money from ads per non-subscriber, so I'm sure they won't miss me when I cancel.
I have both a Nest and an ecobee; can't remember which one, but one of the two had a setting where it would switch to resistant heat instead of the heat pump if the internet reported temp outside was below ~32 degrees. I noticed the aux heat was coming on too much and found and changed that setting. I could see how that could add a good amount to your bill for sure.
A neighbor bought one of those i3 electric BMWs recently; not sure if this is a usual thing, but she can drive it to the dealer a certain number of times a year and take a gas vehicle for a longer trip, no extra charge. She didn't get the range extender, so it's convenient for her every once in a while.
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Presuming the ratings are honest - which I do not trust them to be. Customers have no interest in honest ratings, and can be penalized for them if they cast aspersions on the service. The rental agency itself has no incentive to be scrupulously honest because they don't want to piss off too many providers.
With AirBnB, you don't get to see the other guys' review until you have posted your own. So there's no fear of tit-for-tat retaliation, and most of the reviews should be pretty honest.
Media Center allows you to do things like view and record live TV (with a USB receiver); it includes stuff like guide data. I'm not going to be updating my HTPC because of this.
The numbers they used are slightly disingenuous - I think the better number would be to use US fatalities, which is closer to 75-80MM. You don't want to use the worldwide numbers, the US is generally safer than that.
once you turn cruise control on, where do you place your foot?
I usually keep my foot over the brake, especially in traffic which is heavy but flowing. I think that's going to help my reaction time; I can make small speed adjustments through the cruise controls buttons (coast, etc). I use my cruise control pretty much anytime I'm not on an urban street.
We have people charging an entire months rent of their entire just for a room
Why exactly should someone not be allowed to rent out a room?
Maybe those in power really do know what they're doing.
In this case, I don't think they did. Cameron gambled that he could appease his Eurosceptic Tories with this referendum, not really believing that it would ever pass. It was a major miscalculation.
You're better off using random colored zip ties to secure your luggage, then at least you know when it has been opened. Easier on some bags than others of course, but you can always use a bag strap secured with a zip tie or something. And don't put anything you can't afford to lose in there.
I have friends with ~$5000 bikes. For them, it's not about impressing people, they actually can tell the difference between various components. In a 100 mile race, the little things add up. There are worse hobbies.
That is referring to the My Cloud Pro, which is not portable and starts at $400. Different animal.
I'm also using a Fire stick and my plex server is temporarily using a wifi dongle rather than ethernet, but I don't see these issues. It does transcode, but that's to be expected.
My question, which TFA doesn't address, is can it transcode? My guess is no, but if it did it would be totally worth it.
Looks like I'm gonna be limited to the iPhone SE when I finally upgrade off my 5.
Or any of the gazillion Android phones which will still have a headphone jack.
Sure, everyone is born into different circumstances, and that affects your wealth. But it's also the fact that distorting an otherwise free market generally leads to inefficiencies. I don't think that anyone has more of a right to live somewhere than anyone else; you make your choices based on your personal circumstances. Do you think that the entire housing market should be subject to price controls?
Anecdote - I had a friend who "inherited" her grandfather's rent controlled apartment in NYC; he had moved out but his name was still on the lease. I don't think that it's a social good that she pays less than what anyone else would for the same apartment, even though it was great for her.
Investors buy rental properties to generate a passive income (i.e. get money in exchange for nothing), by exploiting an advantaged capital position (i.e. just by having more money to begin with).
Have you ever been a landlord? I have, and I guarantee that it was not a passive income. I had to arrange the financing in the first place, arrange for initial repairs and ongoing maintenance, find and coordinate with renters etc. And in my case, my renters actually were earning more than I did, they just weren't ready to buy yet. For them they got a nice place with no long term worries or commitments, at a fair price. And most importantly, they had a place to live.
That ability to benefit financially from housing you don't need for, you know, actually housing yourself, attracts people with money to spare into buying up more investment housing, increasing the demand and thus market price for housing.
Aside from the fact that a lot of people don't want to actually own their home at a given time for a variety of reasons, I don't buy this argument. A landlord can only benefit financially to the extent that people are able and willing to pay their rents - if you have a house sitting empty for a couple of months you are going to be losing money that year. In crunch markets, what people really are unhappy about is that they want to live somewhere where lots of other people want to also, and that means that prices are going to go up unless the housing stock can expand. In SF & NYC, that's not really the case, so you have rising prices. This is going to happen regardless of investors, because that's just how the market works. Investors don't cause the demand, though they may see it and hope to profit from it. See all the "investors" who got burned in Las Vegas when the bubble burst.
In New York City, the city, state and federal government at various times have built or financed public housing projects, most of which have been very successful and have long waiting lists.
So, there are a lot of people who would like to live in New York, if it wasn't so expensive. But it is, because a lot of people want to live there. So if you subsidize a segment of housing, of course you're going to get a waiting list. The question is, is it better to let the market set the price, so that only people who really want to live there will pay the price, or is it better to have a semi random mix of people who might not otherwise live there? If I could get an apartment if NYC for free, I'd take it; is some sort of lottery like that really the best way to allocate housing?
Luxury housing is the only thing new construction is interested in, precisely because they can charge a lot because LUXURY.
This is only true in certain markets like NYC & SF, where the housing supply is so tightly constrained that prices are high and only the wealthy can afford to buy. I guarantee you that there are lots of areas where affordable housing is being built. The problem is that many people want to live in NYC and SF, and they are not willing/able to build more housing on the scale of that demand.
I went with a Sonos system a couple of years ago, and we use Pandora (paid) and more recently Spotify (also paid) even more than our library of CDs I so painstakingly ripped to FLAC and then to mp3s. I may ditch the paid Pandora at some point. If I'm buying mp3s I usually use Amazon, though often I can get a CD for less than the download so I'll just rip the CD myself.
Despite (or maybe because of) having a universe of music available at the click of a button, my teenager just got me to dig out a turntable; my rants about what a PITA vinyl is had no effect. Kids today!
I think this is incorrect:
Most internal combustion engine cars are sunk in water when the exhaust becomes flooded, which is why serious off-roaders have big exhaust scoops leading to the roof.
I think the snorkels are intakes, not exhaust - you don't want to suck water into your intake manifold.
I'd like to see a feature that lets me go more than a day or two without having to restart FF because it can't resolve a DNS address, while Chrome and even IE have no such problem.
Now get off my lawn with your experimental features!
I noticed this article this morning:
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/10...
Seems Tesla disagrees with the Daily Kanban's report:
"With respect to the car that is discussed in the blog post that led to yesterday's newsthe suspension ball joint experienced very abnormal rust. We haven't seen this on any other car, suggesting a very unusual use case. The car had over 70,000 miles on it and its owner lives down such a long dirt road that it required two tow trucks to retrieve the car. (One to get the car to the highway and one to get it from the highway to the service center.) When we got the car, it was caked in dirt."
Secondly, Tesla said that the NHTSA had not opened any investigation and hadn't even started a so-called "preliminary evaluation", which is the "lowest form of formal investigatory work it does". The car maker said on April 20 the regulator asked about its suspension as part of a "routine screening" and on April 30, Tesla complied.
"NHTSA has since told us that we have cooperated fully and that no further information is needed. Neither before nor after this information was provided has NHTSA identified any safety issue with Tesla's suspensions. This can be confirmed with NHTSA," Tesla said.
Newly arriving students will have been accustomed to being in the top 1-2% of their peer group. They will have been used to being recognised as outstanding by their teachers. They will have been used to sailing through tests that their classmates struggle with and being only moderately challenged by meetings that their classmates find night-impossible. Depending on their school and its culture, they may have been used to being given particular perks or privileges.
I think a lot of times the problem for disadvantaged students is that while they were in the top 5% of their class or whatever, when they get to university they discover that the top 5% of their class was performing like the 75th percentile compared with a lot of their new peers. The shock isn't so much that there are a lot of other high performing kids there (though that's going to happen too); the shock for the disadvantaged kids is that what they thought was high performing is actually closer to just barely average.
Those cars are getting better gas mileage not sitting in bumper to bumper traffic.
It's funny that this story is about Takoma Park, which is noted for its passive aggressive hippies. You would think that they'd want to save some gas, but they are the biggest bunch of NIMBYs around....
I've been paying them ~$4 a month for years to avoid the ads. Over the last few years, though, they don't really seem to have expanded their offerings much and I get pretty sick of the same heavy rotation.
I remember reading that paying customers are a tiny percent of their users, and that they actually make more money from ads per non-subscriber, so I'm sure they won't miss me when I cancel.
I have both a Nest and an ecobee; can't remember which one, but one of the two had a setting where it would switch to resistant heat instead of the heat pump if the internet reported temp outside was below ~32 degrees. I noticed the aux heat was coming on too much and found and changed that setting. I could see how that could add a good amount to your bill for sure.
A neighbor bought one of those i3 electric BMWs recently; not sure if this is a usual thing, but she can drive it to the dealer a certain number of times a year and take a gas vehicle for a longer trip, no extra charge. She didn't get the range extender, so it's convenient for her every once in a while.