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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 prev…

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 wil…

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…

Appraisers absolutely do pull numbers out of hats, because appraisers who regularly fail to write down a large enough number will stop getting calls.

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 rig…

Geez, complain much? It's a miracle it works at all.

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 …

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.

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 incl…

At that rate you could enroll every household in America in 3.5 hours.

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

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…

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 connection…

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…

I thought there were there to connect coal fields in the Powder River Basin to power plants in the midwest.

Hrmm name collision with Google's previously published XRay function tracing system http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45287.html

No. This is the tone I intend to take with all dimwitted or disingenuous climate change deniers on this site.

You think spending time together makes married people happier?

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 t…

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-bound…

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 a…

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 co…

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 t…

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 Europea…

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…