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cobookman

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    Comment #30378955

    That's not the case in NON recourse states, such-as California. https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/what-is-a-rec...

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    Comment #30377104

    Wouldn't the obvious fix be elimination of 1031b exchange, capital gains on all house appreciation, and only allowing 1 active federally backed mortgage at a time (with some consid…

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    Comment #30356252

    Am I the only one who redacts info, prints it out, then scans it back in? Or redacts, then takes a screenshot before sending out? For some reason I just never trust the PDF tool (o…

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    Comment #30294732

    Google/Android already scans for BLE beacons. It could add a notification for a BLE beacon it sees following users.

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    Comment #30291238

    If the stock market and housing doesn't appreciate then inflation would harm us all. Couldn't the cost of living increase while investment vehicles stay flat caused by rising inter…

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    Comment #30264364

    Is it illegal to sell your artwork at an auction, and a criminal happens to be the one to buy it? I honestly don't know. is the onus on an artist or on an "auction house" to vet bu…

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    Comment #30263320

    If he instead started to draw NFTs, and sell it from his KYC account to his dirty wallet, could he still be convicted? What if only one out of every 100 NFTs his dirty wallet purch…

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    Comment #30260246

    Zoom charges a $/user/month. Companies pre-covid had video conferencing platforms. Zoom did a lot of shifting of existing spend from business on Webex & Hangouts/Meet to its platfo…

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    Comment #30212049

    The report also shows it to have superior thrust to a traditional rotor for the same RPM. https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F16436679...

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    Comment #30185712

    The emerging markets *currently* do not have as large of revenue potential for advertising as the western markets. Meta made in Q4-2020 53.56B in ad rev in the US and Canada. Meta …

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    Comment #30183297

    Would the castle doctrine apply to your digital residency?

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    Comment #30182723

    > that cloth masks have much more limited effectiveness than initially assumed I recall multiple studies early on stating cloth masks were not effective and should be avoided if yo…

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    Comment #30170117

    Technically, revenue decline would be a lagging indicator of poor search results and poor user experience. But agreed.

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    Comment #30169748

    Which makes options contracts cheaper, and it cheaper for retail to open shorts against them.

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    Comment #30169726

    Would it? If the laser is able to focus on the rocket for multiple seconds. Then it'd just need to pack a fraction of that energy over a sustained duration. Which sounds reasonable…

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    Comment #30150766

    I co-op'd at a major cable ISP. Was told that in certain areas they issued company owned firearms to their field employees due to past incidents. Outages caused by gunshots were ac…

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    Comment #30145290

    Government "Strength" could offer zero down no interest loans for converting SFH to triplexes and duplexes. Government "Strength" could fund large scale public commuter rail projec…

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    Comment #30144981

    AWS has a product called Security Hub. There's a rule which will alert for any RDS instances open to the internet: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/securityhub/latest/userguide/sec...

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    Comment #30144938

    You can "house hack" by continually moving into the house you buy. Each time you move you need just 5% down. https://www.biggerpockets.com/forums/311/topics/857256-fha-l...

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    Comment #30144922

    There's 0 down 30 year fixed mortgages. https://liberty.financial/lending/mortgages/community-hero-1...

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    Comment #30144899

    I get the impression history is repeating itself. Are we repeating the same events that lead up to ww2? It feels a tad too similar for comfort. It's saddening that our government h…

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    Comment #30143351

    Source? Tesla model 3 seems to be outselling all others by a large margin. https://www.statista.com/statistics/972845/electric-vehicles... And December sales Tesla is still #1 http…

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