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kudu

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    > people like to complain that the federal government only funds a fixed number of residency slots, as if a trillion dollar industry is just absolutely helpless to do anything Agre…

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    Comment #31053099

    So, for your 200k downpayment, you now have 200k * 1.047^35 = 1MM as the total house value that you own even without house appreciation, so almost a 5% rate of return.

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    Comment #31049618

    I don't understand where the 1.6 million came from. If you're talking about interest on the loan, the premise was that the rent covers the mortgage payment (interest and capital) p…

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    Comment #24819779

    > Ad blocker extensions are a major security risk This is only true in the sense that an all-purpose browser is "a major security risk". That is to say, it's not true in any cohere…

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    Comment #20721083

    > The state of the art is a blood draw, followed by detection of THC at a toxicology laboratory using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. > police are willing to pay $20 per t…

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    Comment #20069295

    I've been using Hetzner Cloud and have been quite happy with it.

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    Comment #19961714

    There's also the main Bountysource page: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/microg for donating to specific issues. If you're not ready to use this yet because it doesn't work well…

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    Comment #19808332

    It looks like https://simplepostal.com is the best deal since it starts at $2.50 with tracking , for which most of the other sites seem to charge $5+.

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    Comment #19662691

    You do. [1][2] But you have a point more generally. [1] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/19/edward-snow... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/29/edward-s…

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    Comment #16095504

    Right, that sounds more like a dissociative than a psychedelic.

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    Comment #14488976

    In the 2014 fiscal year, Harvard received $608 million in research funding from the government.

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    Comment #14488940

    Not true that Harvard can withdraw the acceptance at any time for any reason. There is a specific set of circumstances in which it can be withdrawn (in this case, where the person'…

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    Comment #14488916

    That isn't completely accurate. An acceptance to Harvard is usually unconditional, and can only be withdrawn under very specific circumstances (in this case, they're invoking the c…

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    Comment #11986489

    Certain Live TV addons such as Plexus are based on peer-to-peer BitTorrent technology, which allows for greater scalability.