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orange_county

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    Comment #40082541

    You are going to have to cite "Many people love the suburbs" part. Most people live in the suburbs because that is the only cheap option available and that's because of zoning does…

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    Comment #40082497

    The ban on renting single family housing is just pure classism used as a way to ban people who can't afford a downpayment on a SFH to live in the same neighborhood. This is a suppl…

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    Comment #39304949

    How are they getting the prices for these? Is this run by Trader Joe’s? I hope someone isn’t manually updating these. Also won’t prices differ by location? So many questions.

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    Comment #39298433

    No he's not. He's termed out.

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    Comment #39247626

    Cars in general are just getting bigger and more expensive to repair while our insurance liabilities are not being scaled for that. On the flip side, I wish the fed gov't would reg…

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    Comment #38178912

    The fact that we need tech companies to build housing on behalf of the city is a huge policy failure. The city should have just rezoned many parts of the city a long time ago for m…

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    Comment #37812278

    But he did run San Francisco as a mayor.

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    Comment #36731700

    Weather isn’t the problem. Urban planning is problem and the United States does a terrible job of making transportation good for anyone but cars.

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    Comment #32021274

    You can get them to stop talking to you by purposely bombing the coding challenge that they give out. That should do the trick.

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    Comment #25888523

    It’s unfair to compare Lyft and Uber as the latter company is invested in more than just ride sharing.

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    Comment #25411943

    Bicycling infrastructure goes together well with higher housing density. When you have higher housing density where people live near their jobs, they wouldn’t be a need for high sp…

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    Comment #22395368

    So much for free tax filing. If you can't beat them, Intuit buys them out.

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    Comment #16821571

    Depending on regulations of this, I doubt they can resell. Especially if each background check is done days apart from each other. You may run into a scenario where a felony case w…

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    Comment #16821474

    I used to work in the background screening company before switching careers. The background screening process is very tedious, each state and sometimes counties keep records in the…

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    Comment #15583452

    What about the web browser, how do you get around that? I still use it for various things albeit maybe only 10% of the time.

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    Comment #15321934

    Seems like the credit and banking industry is so dependent on the credit bureaus. Is there a way we can have credit cards, loans and mortgages without the need of centralizing pii …

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    Comment #15225070

    "Most software failures and data breaches aren’t inevitable; they are a result of neglect and underinvestment in product reliability and security." How do we know that Equifax fell…

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    Comment #15207685

    Apache brings up a good point about having layers of security. I wonder how Equifax was storing the data. Was it just plain text files?

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    Comment #15205928

    I think the banks and loan industry are as guilty for giving information like this out to ththe credit bureaus. Next time you apply for a loan or open a credit card, ask them who t…

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    Comment #15107147

    28 State: CA NW: ~15k Kind of worried since I had to switch careers and now I have a late start to my technology career

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    Comment #15087791

    Yea I have been spending a little too much. It's the moving cost and weddings I have been attending that are killing my budget. Yea rent for studios are between 2k-3k a month. And …

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    Comment #15087728

    Make 110k, take home around 4800 month after taxes and maxed out 401k. Rent $1600 in SF (lucky here). But I still have over $2k month after all expenses. As a single person, I cons…

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    Comment #15087615

    Housing is still expensive in socal with lower salaries. Anything in California is a bad deal in my opinion.

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    Comment #14725898

    You really need to go see a tax lawyer and report back to us since I don't think anyone has a clear answer to this. As a non-lawyer, I don't understand how this will zero out your …