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Jesus Christ the replies to this are stupid. Have any of you three spent any time in Olympia or working on housing? No? Then shut the fuck up.

The problem is that in places like Seattle and the Bay Area, there are hard geographic limits to construction, even if you turn them into endless high-rises. Having watched the WA …

>It’s not clear to me that we should necessarily massively subsidize their choice to live in the sticks these days. Last year I had a chance to talk to Gregg Coburn, author of Home…

>These are commodity items now, not symbols of luxury. Maybe I should have used the word "premium" rather than luxury.

>If you just need to do your taxes or answer a Zoom call, why would you get a Macbook Neo? Because it's a Mac. Maybe not to you, but to many people Apple signals luxury. It signals…

What kind of project / prompts - what’s working for you? /I spent a good 20 years in the software world but have been away doing other things professionally for couple years. Recen…

I think back on the ten+ years I spent doing SRE consulting and the thing is, finding the problems and identifying solutions — the technical part of the work — was such a small par…

>You seem to be under the impression that the word "screening" means TSA can do whatever it wants. I assure you TSA thinks it can do whatever it wants. I say this as a white male a…

>RealID is unrelated to citizenship. Except that it appears one of the primary reasons this has become a thing is that the Feds are angry at states like Washington that don't verif…

I totally get and respect the perspective of the parent poster, I'm just keeping it real that the US is generally not a high-trust society. If it were, we wouldn't have disclosures…

Great to see Boeshield in this thread - so much of what's happening in this thread is the wrong product for a particular application. As you point out, Boeshield is a great product…

Ahem. There are neighborhoods in the US where you leave nothing in your car because otherwise your car will become a target. It's often "the rule" in these places that you also lea…

Not sure I understand the point as my switching cost off Vimeo is negligible apart from finding a competitor.

Educate me: How is the Canyon, Ranger, or Frontier not a modern equivalent to the S10? All small(ish) trucks available in a two door or extended cab configuration with basic option…

That doesn't solve my issue at all, though it might be fine for some. I use my iPhone for everything - maps, podcasts, music, and of course phone and messaging. When I get in my ca…

Maybe I'm an outlier here (but I don't think so...) in that CarPlay is an absolute non-negotiable. I don't care (and don't really want...) it to handle climate control, but music, …

Back when I was a software developer, I needed a Mac Book Pro or Mac Pro. But as a Realtor, an iPad makes for an excellent laptop. Extremely portable and does everything I need in …

Couple years ago I was in a thrift shop and came across one of these for a steak restaurant - and there was my family cattle brand! Was done to highlight that their meat came from …

We have really good family records dating back hundreds of years. What stands out to me is the number of my ancestors who regularly lived into their 80s or 90s 500 years ago. At th…

If I'm understanding this correctly then, ultra-conservative Texas has more local regulation on open carry than ultra-progressive Washington?

I acknowledge I'm using anecdata and deliberately telling a story to pull at your emotions, but my cousin died suddenly at 45 of a heart attack, having been skiing and surfing just…

>You do not need cable tv or home internet. I get your point and I generally agree with everything you've written, but I'm a bit at a loss on the home internet thing... our society…

>>I see it happen all too often, farmer dies, kids don’t want to do anything with the land Often they've moved away to The Big City and don't have any connection or the skills, and…

>This is because they are built to go through the machine after each rental What machine are you referring to here? It sounds like you are referring to some kind of waxing / edge s…

This is kind of an interesting problem, but it overlooks another variable, at least in the case of skis - it's not just how many days I'm going to use them this year, but also for …