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Right for the wrong reason. Are 30y loans bad? Yes. Is it still ok to buy a home with a 30y loan? Yes. However, as your career (hopefully) grows and you earn more, plus inflationar…

> "They have argued for placing onshore utility-scale projects on previously disturbed sites and expanding the use of rooftop solar." Thats rich. Nevada regulators just killed roof…

You’re lucky it was only a few months. I think it took until 1999 or 2000 for my cable isp to subnet their entire /16 so that you weren’t flooding the entire city with broadcast pa…

“ Now we are told it has all the stability plus super generous pensions and salary that would make the best workers in the private sector jealous.” Well, considering that most priv…

This is very true. I know some lawyers who, when they graduated law school and joined their firm, were told by the partners to get a better car as quickly as they can afford it, pr…

This also happened to me. The problem was that the fraud was coming from one of their "Trusted Entities" (Best Buy). So on day 1 I had $500 worth of fraudulent charges, and on day …

The simple answer is that MS had to add all those buttons in the ribbon to make the UI more touch friendly. You cant right click on a tablet with your finger.

Less interested in a smartphone that can project, and more interested in advances in glass and lenses that make smartphone cameras better.

Then take your kid out of school and home-school him. You're shitting in the commons if you don't care about the "current educational framework".

At my university in the EE program you had to complete all freshman and sophomore level classes before you were allowed to take any junior or senior level classes. You also had to …

As a software developer who works with teachers on a regular basis (and one of my parents is one), the issue of becoming "too advanced" is a legitimate problem. Its the same reason…

General sales in Japan. If you were diverting some of your income to relatives or friends who were affected to keep them fed and sheltered, you aren't probably as interested in the…

The price might be high, but I figure this (consolidation of market participants) is normal in a market that is peaking or on the decline.