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Forcing everyone to make quarterly estimated payments would lead to riots in the streets.

This thread opened my eyes a bit... I assumed most people understood desert !== a sterile sand landscape. Here's a photo I snapped from my backyard just now. This is the Sonoran De…

Being tracked and profiled is the cost of using google to do a simple search. No free lunch and all that.

> face health risks that relatively few people are willing to take on My perception of this (not a firefighter, just have a few friends that are), is that you need to know someone,…

Don't let the healthcare issue scare you. I've been on high-deductible Marketplace plans for the past few years, having gone through a pregnancy and delivery with complications, am…

This is pretty unusual for anyone doing it seriously. I've "flipped" (not exactly -- mostly major additions and teardowns that we hold for 6-12 months) the past 5 years and haven't…

> I've also seen things like lamp cord used in fixed wiring behind walls or in attics. We found exactly that, lamp cords and extension cords, when we started our remodel a month ag…

In the short term, sure. In the longer term, when increased taxes and decreased services impact the average person, these promises will be renegotiated.

> if we had politicians who did their jobs and demonstrated competent leadership we could sort out this mess. This feels like the crux of the problem, but we've got the politicians…

Many also retire young. My firefighter buddy will retire well before his 50th birthday and collect >$100k/yr in a relatively low COL state. He's in good shape, physically and menta…

Is there no level of personal responsibility involved? If the whole of my retirement was tied up in the promises of one entity... I have to imagine I'd be deeply concerned when my …

Good luck keeping the highest end of you tax base around to cover the shortfalls.

FTA: > The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the nation’s largest municipal utility, says its proposal would increase the productivity of the dam, which operates at just 2…

Any idea of the cost per sqft (or square meter) to build your block house? I build wood-frame homes in the US for ~ $95/sqft. These are nice homes with decent finishes, proper insu…

Anecdotal, but I worked for a specialty EMR and consolidation was the big trend at the time (~2010). Lots of one-offs and small chains getting acquired and folded into larger netwo…

My wife needed an MRI last year. The hospital quoted us $4000 as self-pay, but would knock it down to $2000 if we paid cash up front. This was late December, so we picked up insura…

> Just above them on the list in age is Sean Parker, now 38, who took up programming early and interned at Zynga while he was still in high school. Well done Bloomberg.

If you don't like how a service handles your data, don't use it. No need to legislate your wishes across the board for the rest of us.

They did make electric cars sexy. What would be the state of the EV market today sans Tesla?