I've been house hunting for like 2 years in these places, but my search filters for only single family homes with yards. I think a 900 sq ft townhome for 400k+ is ridiculous, but I guess I'm just too choosy... or maybe a little bitter from being priced out of my home town.
I think the MS money WILL be a help, regardless of the tax games they are for sure playing, but only as long as the new homes are sold as primary residences to single families, and not wealthy investors attempting to cash in on the housing crunch.
The cities that are getting the moneys focus are all deep tech forest and VERY upscale. Microsofts main campus is in Redmond, and has satellites in each city named. Those cities also all share a border with at least another named. Microsoft is forced to pay their army of contractors more because its just to expensive to live anywhere near those places.
In response to the housing shortage, Microsoft will direct $225 million toward middle-income housing in six cities: Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah, Renton and Sammamish.
Have a look at the housing prices in those areas. Nothing starting less than 1M.
Seattle has been the nations fastest growing housing market for quite a while now. Instead of looking at old data, take a look at the current prices. A rotten shack far from the freeway on.25 acre starts at like 750k.
400k buys you a fixer-upper home an hour outside of Seattle, in a bad neighborhood.
It's not JUST homelessness. That's a problem, and it's one of the worst in the country, but poor life choices do not drive the price of a 400 sq ft studio up past 1k/month.
Building more housing most definitely WILL help the root issue, providing the rich don't just buy them all up and rent them back to us at todays cost.
If the affluent want to enjoy living like royalty, then they need to ensure the servantry can afford the servants quarters.
I've been trying to buy a home in the Seattle suburbs for 2 years. Every time I find something I want and get to making an offer, I am outbid by 100k, sight unseen, with no strings attached. These are not families bidding me out, its wealthy investors.
Just stop sharing your damn creds. If you can't do that, then stop sharing THE damn creds.
"Jail the execs!" "Hold them accountable!" "Fine them!" "We need new laws!"
None of that shit is going to happen. If you keep making accounts for every little thing, pretty soon I'm gonna need to create a throwaway account to pump fkg gas. Just stop.
Checkout as guest. No thanks. I do NOT agree.
Do you really NEED an account for everydumbthing.com?
Creds have value, otherwise, you would not be asked to give them away every other keystroke. Treat them as such.
I've never understood why gambling is so much of a controlled substance here in the US. I can buy scratch tickets at the gas station, pull tabs at the bar, and nobody ever gets raided for playing poker.... but for some reason every few years there seems to be some big gambling scare. I've always kind of assumed it was just marketing to get people to go to Vegas?
Passive entertainment is dying. Single player video games, interactive live shows, and e-sports are the future. This behavior is just a symptom.
In the time it takes me to find something to consume between netflix, prime, and my massive torrent collection, the kid has left the couch, played a match of fork-knife, made a new friend, and fired up a live stream and interacted directly with the presenter. All of which are free to him, funded by ads, and taking ever larger bites out of passive entertainments market share.
Big media has consolidated so much that they are now easily predictable. Writings on the wall. They can cling to sports for a while, but eventually that's going to go the way of the streaming service too, and then it's well and truly over.
The sad part being that we will likely bail them out as they fall, as so much of our shared culture is in their pockets as licenced content. As they gobble each other up, more and more of our collective records and culture will be under a single roof. Losing that last roof would be a tragedy of the commons on par with the burning of the library of Alexandria.
Wait... OK. You just quoted, and then re-enforced each point I made. You missed my own statements future tense and implied ultimatum, told me I'm wrong because of it, AND you told me to read something I've already read.
Actually, You do *NOT* pay the same as everybody else. I pay for premium service, which allows 4 simultaneous screens at once. The standard sub, which I'll assume your paying for, allows two screens at once. Even if you only use one at a time, your paying for the two.
Your buying enough ice-cream to feed you and a friend and just throwing away the other portion.
I'm buying my whole family ice-cream cones.
Everything would work out if you just had a friend.
When I signed up, It was for streaming to X amount of screens. There was no mention of "In a single geographical location". My family and I are all over the damn place- all the damn time, and we all have NF going with our own profiles during our downtime. It's actually easier and more convenient than just torrenting my media.
Listen Netflix. This is your best feature. It's why I signed up. If you add hoops, captchas, and other DRMish garbage, I'm cancelling my service. I don't care if you call it an AI feature. I don't care that you wan't more money. This is the service you sold me. It will simply be easier to spend the same money on VPN service, and teach the fam how to torrent instead.
Don't give me the tired copyright infringement is stealing bullshit either. We don't feel bad about not paying for the media, because your industry don't feel bad about collecting on it for 90 years after the authors death. We're happy to take it back, because the entertainment industry as a whole feels no shame stealing decades of media from the public every time you buy another copyright extension. There is no moral high ground.
You found the sweet spot, Netflix. Don't push it. Your competing with torrents. Every-single-thing selection, no ads, privacy respecting, locally stored, play on any device, in any location, as often as you like torrents.
I own no patents of my own, but I have been instrumental in the R&D process that led to more than one in the course of my job-duties. I'm also very critical of our (as in US) IP laws in general, and am still pretty unhappy about the state of affairs regarding the ever increasing barrier of entry regarding bringing novel inventions to market, creation and decimation of intellectual property, and the existence of patent and copyright trolls. Maybe I'm just a tech guy with an axe to grind, but from where I sit, our entire IP system is completely captured, and quite clearly runs counter to its original mission.
I can't see how granting any single entity such a vast array of monopoly powers over technology is useful in the promotion of industrial and technological progress in the United States. It seems to me that a great majority of granted patents are buried in the interest of protecting big business, or held onto in the hope of suing some other inventor, or are added to some not-inventors portfolio for rent seeking or business class destruction of the completion. (which I understand is kinda of the point, but not on the scale we have today)
In the case of IBM, I would expect some new products to really blow my socks off, or some novel new tech to change the way we do business computing to surface a little more frequently than it does, considering the large amounts of novel discoveries and inventions they have been discovering every single day for years.
The USPO is run like a business. Operating 100% on the proceeds of filing fees. They collect this fee regardless of the applications outcome. They will never just reject an application. Knowing how much work a single patent application generates, and seeing a single entity walk away with this many successful applications really begs the question.... how many are rejected? How many times have these applications been thrown out on grounds of complete absurdity? How many absurd applications slip by, and how often?
I see the utility, and hope to one day own a few patents of my own, but come on... Rounded corners?
I propose a percentage based patent tax based on revenue or profit, or a "use it or lose it" kind of system. The former would discourage abusing the system with huge amounts of worthless applications in the hopes that even a single one gets through, and the later pretty much completely destroys patents trolls, and actually promotes advancement.
A cassette tape will never install a rootkit on your tapedeck. They will never be able to take your cassette tapes away from you due to some rights-holder asshattery. A cassette tape doesn't care what region your playing it in. Cool old cars have tape decks. Creedence is supposed to have those hiss and pop sounds. Tapes come with cool album art, lryics, and hidden messages. Tapes work offline. Tapes don't report your listening habits, location, duration, sexual preference and political affiliation so some corporation. Grampa knows how tapes work. Whole albums can be had for less than what you paid for coffee this morning. Cassette tape cases are great places to hide your joints and ludes from your square parents. A stack of classic rock tapes looks cooler than and hard drive. Cassette tapes can go up in value.
(Full disclosure: All my music is 128k mp3s ripped from my personal cd collection, or downloaded back before Metallica showed the media how. It's a shame, but it turns out the audiophile skill tree is locked out once your character completes the "War in Afghanistan" limited edition expansion pack.)
Big truck drivers must not have much to do. I wonder how long they waited for somebody to actually wanna use those chargers? Must have been a sale on Copenhagen and Budwieser.
In TFA, Tesla driver reports “took them 10 minutes or so and one of them did that ‘I’m going to hit you’ maneuver after circling the parking lot.”
I've been growing my own produce in 5 gallon buckets in my front and back yards for 2 years running. This summer I'm finally going to do a real bed and irrigation system. Harvest doubled the second time around, after learning a few things the first year. I live deep inner-city, right smack in the middle of a valley in western WA. I Don't use ferts or chems at all, and a package of enough raddish seeds to last years is like a buck. I get that it's GMO seeds, but I'm OK with that. Carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, I'm even doing some garlic but it's got to overwinter? I wish I had some fruit trees.
I started when the family was going extreme budget on everything to solve a few problems, that's past now, but I'll be doing this every year of my life from now on. I feel like I'm learning a very valuable skill, passing it onto my child, and I can refuse to buy into the "Organic" marketing at the grocery store. I'll make my own, thanks.
It's DAMN easy in the summers here too, even the mild summers of western WA. I just water it, and watch for bugs. Feels great carving my own pumpkins.
I've been told I'm not allowed to grow my own food in my front yard (yeah? sue me fukko) My rain buckets are "stealing" from the local farmers (wanna fight about it?) and my buckets are poisoning my food (says food grade on the can) all by the same helpless snobs I see all over town telling everybody else how to do things. Today, everybody wants to point fingers at people that are actually doing something, and tell them they are doing it wrong, but nobody wants to take a little responsibility themselves and show us what right looks like. You want to be able to tell the farmers their doing it wrong? You need to be able to feed your family without them, otherwise, your just another taker complaining that it's not good enough.
This is the age of big oil protesters in plastic Kyaks, coal powered electric cars, logging protesters passing out paper fliers by the 100s, and recycling zealots sucking down water bottled in non-reusable plastic. 9/10 times, the whole noble message is overpowered by us humans being assholes. Change starts with you, Mr. Journalist man, show us what right looks like.
The most satisfying thing of the year? Eating a salad.
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Not if the brotherhood of Nod has anything to say on the matter.
Hmm I guess your right, You win this time Gadget.
I've been house hunting for like 2 years in these places, but my search filters for only single family homes with yards. I think a 900 sq ft townhome for 400k+ is ridiculous, but I guess I'm just too choosy... or maybe a little bitter from being priced out of my home town.
I think the MS money WILL be a help, regardless of the tax games they are for sure playing, but only as long as the new homes are sold as primary residences to single families, and not wealthy investors attempting to cash in on the housing crunch.
The cities that are getting the moneys focus are all deep tech forest and VERY upscale. Microsofts main campus is in Redmond, and has satellites in each city named. Those cities also all share a border with at least another named. Microsoft is forced to pay their army of contractors more because its just to expensive to live anywhere near those places.
Coincidence?
Who owns your thoughts?
We are talking Seattle, Washington, right?
No, we are not.
From TFA-
In response to the housing shortage, Microsoft will direct $225 million toward middle-income housing in six cities: Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Issaquah, Renton and Sammamish.
Have a look at the housing prices in those areas. Nothing starting less than 1M.
Seattle has been the nations fastest growing housing market for quite a while now. Instead of looking at old data, take a look at the current prices. A rotten shack far from the freeway on .25 acre starts at like 750k.
400k buys you a fixer-upper home an hour outside of Seattle, in a bad neighborhood.
It's not JUST homelessness. That's a problem, and it's one of the worst in the country, but poor life choices do not drive the price of a 400 sq ft studio up past 1k/month.
Building more housing most definitely WILL help the root issue, providing the rich don't just buy them all up and rent them back to us at todays cost.
If the affluent want to enjoy living like royalty, then they need to ensure the servantry can afford the servants quarters.
I've been trying to buy a home in the Seattle suburbs for 2 years. Every time I find something I want and get to making an offer, I am outbid by 100k, sight unseen, with no strings attached. These are not families bidding me out, its wealthy investors.
Heroin made the housing prices insane for 250 miles around Seattle? Try again.
Just stop sharing your damn creds. If you can't do that, then stop sharing THE damn creds.
"Jail the execs!"
"Hold them accountable!"
"Fine them!"
"We need new laws!"
None of that shit is going to happen. If you keep making accounts for every little thing, pretty soon I'm gonna need to create a throwaway account to pump fkg gas. Just stop.
Checkout as guest. No thanks. I do NOT agree.
Do you really NEED an account for everydumbthing.com?
Creds have value, otherwise, you would not be asked to give them away every other keystroke. Treat them as such.
Sometimes, the only way to win is not to play.
I've never understood why gambling is so much of a controlled substance here in the US. I can buy scratch tickets at the gas station, pull tabs at the bar, and nobody ever gets raided for playing poker.... but for some reason every few years there seems to be some big gambling scare. I've always kind of assumed it was just marketing to get people to go to Vegas?
Somebody enlighten me.
The last line reads..... "It will be painful, time consuming, disruptive, expensive, and absolutely necessary."
Passive entertainment is dying. Single player video games, interactive live shows, and e-sports are the future. This behavior is just a symptom.
In the time it takes me to find something to consume between netflix, prime, and my massive torrent collection, the kid has left the couch, played a match of fork-knife, made a new friend, and fired up a live stream and interacted directly with the presenter. All of which are free to him, funded by ads, and taking ever larger bites out of passive entertainments market share.
Big media has consolidated so much that they are now easily predictable. Writings on the wall. They can cling to sports for a while, but eventually that's going to go the way of the streaming service too, and then it's well and truly over.
The sad part being that we will likely bail them out as they fall, as so much of our shared culture is in their pockets as licenced content. As they gobble each other up, more and more of our collective records and culture will be under a single roof. Losing that last roof would be a tragedy of the commons on par with the burning of the library of Alexandria.
This exactly
Wait... OK. You just quoted, and then re-enforced each point I made. You missed my own statements future tense and implied ultimatum, told me I'm wrong because of it, AND you told me to read something I've already read.
Are you a public school teacher?
Actually, You do *NOT* pay the same as everybody else. I pay for premium service, which allows 4 simultaneous screens at once. The standard sub, which I'll assume your paying for, allows two screens at once. Even if you only use one at a time, your paying for the two.
Your buying enough ice-cream to feed you and a friend and just throwing away the other portion.
I'm buying my whole family ice-cream cones.
Everything would work out if you just had a friend.
When I signed up, It was for streaming to X amount of screens. There was no mention of "In a single geographical location". My family and I are all over the damn place- all the damn time, and we all have NF going with our own profiles during our downtime. It's actually easier and more convenient than just torrenting my media.
Listen Netflix. This is your best feature. It's why I signed up. If you add hoops, captchas, and other DRMish garbage, I'm cancelling my service. I don't care if you call it an AI feature. I don't care that you wan't more money. This is the service you sold me. It will simply be easier to spend the same money on VPN service, and teach the fam how to torrent instead.
Don't give me the tired copyright infringement is stealing bullshit either. We don't feel bad about not paying for the media, because your industry don't feel bad about collecting on it for 90 years after the authors death. We're happy to take it back, because the entertainment industry as a whole feels no shame stealing decades of media from the public every time you buy another copyright extension. There is no moral high ground.
You found the sweet spot, Netflix. Don't push it. Your competing with torrents. Every-single-thing selection, no ads, privacy respecting, locally stored, play on any device, in any location, as often as you like torrents.
Not authorized. That's rich. How 'bout my 3 friends, Benjamin, Benny, and Ben? They authorized?
Why should they be limited?
This is an excellent question.
I own no patents of my own, but I have been instrumental in the R&D process that led to more than one in the course of my job-duties. I'm also very critical of our (as in US) IP laws in general, and am still pretty unhappy about the state of affairs regarding the ever increasing barrier of entry regarding bringing novel inventions to market, creation and decimation of intellectual property, and the existence of patent and copyright trolls. Maybe I'm just a tech guy with an axe to grind, but from where I sit, our entire IP system is completely captured, and quite clearly runs counter to its original mission.
I can't see how granting any single entity such a vast array of monopoly powers over technology is useful in the promotion of industrial and technological progress in the United States. It seems to me that a great majority of granted patents are buried in the interest of protecting big business, or held onto in the hope of suing some other inventor, or are added to some not-inventors portfolio for rent seeking or business class destruction of the completion. (which I understand is kinda of the point, but not on the scale we have today)
In the case of IBM, I would expect some new products to really blow my socks off, or some novel new tech to change the way we do business computing to surface a little more frequently than it does, considering the large amounts of novel discoveries and inventions they have been discovering every single day for years.
The USPO is run like a business. Operating 100% on the proceeds of filing fees. They collect this fee regardless of the applications outcome. They will never just reject an application. Knowing how much work a single patent application generates, and seeing a single entity walk away with this many successful applications really begs the question.... how many are rejected? How many times have these applications been thrown out on grounds of complete absurdity? How many absurd applications slip by, and how often?
Fun fact, granted patents have to be public, or the system wouldn't work. Have a look.
I see the utility, and hope to one day own a few patents of my own, but come on... Rounded corners?
I propose a percentage based patent tax based on revenue or profit, or a "use it or lose it" kind of system. The former would discourage abusing the system with huge amounts of worthless applications in the hopes that even a single one gets through, and the later pretty much completely destroys patents trolls, and actually promotes advancement.
A single entity can receive 25 patents a day... for a year.
It seems like there should be at least a 24 hour cooldown before your next submittal.
Or a patent tax?
I don't know, but 9100/year seems excessive.
A cassette tape will never install a rootkit on your tapedeck.
They will never be able to take your cassette tapes away from you due to some rights-holder asshattery.
A cassette tape doesn't care what region your playing it in.
Cool old cars have tape decks.
Creedence is supposed to have those hiss and pop sounds.
Tapes come with cool album art, lryics, and hidden messages.
Tapes work offline.
Tapes don't report your listening habits, location, duration, sexual preference and political affiliation so some corporation.
Grampa knows how tapes work.
Whole albums can be had for less than what you paid for coffee this morning.
Cassette tape cases are great places to hide your joints and ludes from your square parents.
A stack of classic rock tapes looks cooler than and hard drive.
Cassette tapes can go up in value.
(Full disclosure: All my music is 128k mp3s ripped from my personal cd collection, or downloaded back before Metallica showed the media how. It's a shame, but it turns out the audiophile skill tree is locked out once your character completes the "War in Afghanistan" limited edition expansion pack.)
Big truck drivers must not have much to do. I wonder how long they waited for somebody to actually wanna use those chargers? Must have been a sale on Copenhagen and Budwieser.
In TFA, Tesla driver reports “took them 10 minutes or so and one of them did that ‘I’m going to hit you’ maneuver after circling the parking lot.”
WTF is a ‘I’m going to hit you’ maneuver?
somethings not right when they still want your money... just not THAT money.
I've been growing my own produce in 5 gallon buckets in my front and back yards for 2 years running. This summer I'm finally going to do a real bed and irrigation system. Harvest doubled the second time around, after learning a few things the first year. I live deep inner-city, right smack in the middle of a valley in western WA. I Don't use ferts or chems at all, and a package of enough raddish seeds to last years is like a buck. I get that it's GMO seeds, but I'm OK with that. Carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, I'm even doing some garlic but it's got to overwinter? I wish I had some fruit trees.
I started when the family was going extreme budget on everything to solve a few problems, that's past now, but I'll be doing this every year of my life from now on.
I feel like I'm learning a very valuable skill, passing it onto my child, and I can refuse to buy into the "Organic" marketing at the grocery store. I'll make my own, thanks.
It's DAMN easy in the summers here too, even the mild summers of western WA. I just water it, and watch for bugs. Feels great carving my own pumpkins.
I've been told I'm not allowed to grow my own food in my front yard (yeah? sue me fukko) My rain buckets are "stealing" from the local farmers (wanna fight about it?) and my buckets are poisoning my food (says food grade on the can) all by the same helpless snobs I see all over town telling everybody else how to do things. Today, everybody wants to point fingers at people that are actually doing something, and tell them they are doing it wrong, but nobody wants to take a little responsibility themselves and show us what right looks like. You want to be able to tell the farmers their doing it wrong? You need to be able to feed your family without them, otherwise, your just another taker complaining that it's not good enough.
This is the age of big oil protesters in plastic Kyaks, coal powered electric cars, logging protesters passing out paper fliers by the 100s, and recycling zealots sucking down water bottled in non-reusable plastic. 9/10 times, the whole noble message is overpowered by us humans being assholes. Change starts with you, Mr. Journalist man, show us what right looks like.
The most satisfying thing of the year? Eating a salad.
These stats never align with reality. There are just to many variables to peg numbers on any given trade.
The robots are gonna take their jerbs!
Try to keep up.
You've never been to my neck of the woods.