honkhonkpants

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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
You seem to think these industry controls are effective. Maybe they prevent an appraisal from being, say, 10x higher than the recent sale prices on either side, but they don't prevent the equally bad event of a series of 10 sales on t
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I for one think the imminent demise of human civilization is of interest to the intellectually curious and thoughtful readers of HN. I also believe that hurting the feelings of willful climate change deniers and suchlike people is a really
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
What incentive does the lender have? The involved parties are the seller, the buyer, their agents, and the originator of the loan. All of these people are working to close the deal at the negotiated price. The originator of the loan will
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Appraisers absolutely do pull numbers out of hats, because appraisers who regularly fail to write down a large enough number will stop getting calls.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
The job of the appraiser is to write down a number as large as or larger than the amount to be financed. They know this and they know the number in advance. What they do is not rigorous.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Geez, complain much? It's a miracle it works at all.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Do you think it's possible that your prior policy was one of the garbage plans that got outlawed by ACA? Those are the ones that didn't survive the "you can keep it" claims. Those were plans with uselessly low annual or
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Bit of a rant. The site is the mouthpiece of people who are suing the city of Lafayette, for violating state law by not building enough housing.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
What did your premiums look like before? In my case I just didn't have insurance because there was no functioning market anywhere that would sell you a family health care plan including childbirth, at any price. Now I get health insu
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
At that rate you could enroll every household in America in 3.5 hours.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
This makes the app flat out not work for me. I just get blank panes top and bottom. https://s11.postimg.org/by249fhsz/IMG_1459.png
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Yeah REALLY obnoxious. I was just disabling this after another Uber ride. They do not provide the option to enable location services only when the app is running on screen. I think it might be nice if iOS presented this option regardless of
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
A really large amount goes through Canada. The port of Vancouver is bigger than Oakland, and the port of Manzanillo Mexico is only slightly smaller. Both ports have rail connections to the US interior. The Mexican ports have lower market
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
The port of Pittsburg is teensy and the port of Stockton is specialized. Container traffic at Oakland is pretty heavy and many cars are offloaded at Vallejo. There are also the oil terminals at Richmond and elsewhere.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I thought there were there to connect coal fields in the Powder River Basin to power plants in the midwest.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Hrmm name collision with Google's previously published XRay function tracing system http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45287.html
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
No. This is the tone I intend to take with all dimwitted or disingenuous climate change deniers on this site.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
You think spending time together makes married people happier?
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Nobody is impressed by your stupid stories of having been a weatherman in the air-army. Annual average volcano emissions are three orders of magnitude smaller (that's 1/1000, for the innumerate in the audience) than human CO2 emi
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I've been reading these but it's become apparent that the author lives in a universe parallel to mine. I remember reading that in most languages "A null dereference or out-of-bounds array access is treated the same way as a
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I disagree with the central thesis of this article that Google is a product company rather than a platform company. I think that's wrong because throughout its history Google has asked itself "what if we had this?" first, and
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I put his conversion kit in my X61t and it is whoa-Nelly bright and the colors are spectacular. I recall that it also costs a fifth what a genuine ThinkPad CCFL backlight module costs.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I still think you are presenting a false choice. It isn't necessary for the US to put goods on trucks in order for us to put people on trains. Nobody today drives their cars from the coal field in Gillette, Wyoming to the electric po
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
I'm not sure how you arrived at your conclusion. US transportation energy consumption for all purposes (goods and passengers) is much higher per GDP per capita than for any European country. For example Germany has a per-capita GDP a
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
America has only about 5x the freight rail traffic of Europe, while Europe has over 100x the passenger ridership that America has. I don't think the freight advantage (if it can be called that) justifies the disadvantage of our relati
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Perhaps but I'm not sure it's healthy to be nostalgic for the Macintosh line of 20 years ago. It was a train wreck, really.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
JLG seems deliberately stuck in the past. Just for starters they retired the Macintosh brand 18 years ago.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Good idea! The more people we get to buy into the cooperative the better it will be! If we get everybody to participate we can just call it "government".
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Are you using the past tense because you are going to tell us about another contemporary ISA that has more code per byte? X86 _is_ compact and this continues to be relevant to performance today.
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by honkhonkpants 10y ago
Wacky and yet, so typically American. I wish we had a lot less "innovation" in this country's infrastructure.

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