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totalnewbie posted:Get on China's level: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2015/apr/30/china-build-57-storey-skyscraper-19-days-timelapse-video Not to diminish the impressiveness of that, notice that this is essentially a pre fab office building. Most of that was done off site and you are just looking at sections being craned into place and......bolted? I didn't see any welding happening at all.
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Motronic posted:Not to diminish the impressiveness of that, notice that this is essentially a pre fab office building. Most of that was done off site and you are just looking at sections being craned into place and......bolted? I didn't see any welding happening at all. And the inside is probably bare bone finishes, and minimal HVAC and electrical work. Still impressive, but there's a good amount of cost to do something that fast. Essentially all material for the whole building would need to be fabricated and sitting in warehouses to deliver to the job. Plus, you're paying three shifts to install it 24/7.
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Also Chinese made buildings don’t do so well in earthquakes.
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Blue Apron Falls Under $1 as Sell-Off Shows No Signs of Stopping This is what you get for bombarding me with podcast ads motherfuckers
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:I was on the Los Altos planning committee You’re really begging for some red text here.
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I don't know the significance of red text! Here's an example of how easily the uber rich can do whatever the hell they want. Take this piece of of the municipal code we worked to pass "For projects with ten (10) or more units, affordable housing units shall be provided as follows: 1. Rental units. Twenty (20) percent designated as affordable at the low-income level or fifteen (15) percent designated as affordable at the very-low income level." I wonder how well this has been doing, given Los Altos' recent boom in multiple-family housing. Computer, status report! Los Altos Planning Committee Website posted:As of June 2016, the City has 105 affordable multiple-family units, which includes 32 rental units God dammit
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Magissima posted:Blue Apron Falls Under $1 as Sell-Off Shows No Signs of Stopping But how will we eat? 
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Krispy Wafer posted:Also Chinese made buildings don’t do so well in earthquakes. Recent Chinese construction performs poorly when subjected to gravity.
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Cacafuego posted:One of the women that my wife volunteers with told us that had she known that we were flying up to Philly for Xmas, they would have let us drive back to Florida the (used, 2014) Porsche boxster they bought from a friend. Her husband is a “Porsche enthusiast”. She offered to let us buy the 2004 911 that they were selling and I said no.
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Cacafuego posted:One of the women that my wife volunteers with told us that had she known that we were flying up to Philly for Xmas, they would have let us drive back to Florida the (used, 2014) Porsche boxster they bought from a friend. Her husband is a “Porsche enthusiast”. She offered to let us buy the 2004 911 that they were selling and I said no. I'm trying to figure out what the outrage here is, sounds like somebody bought a $40,000 used car and is selling a different car? I guess that's kind of above average price for a car. Okay.
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:I'm trying to figure out what the outrage here is, sounds like somebody bought a $40,000 used car and is selling a different car? I guess that's kind of above average price for a car. Okay. ahem PORSCHE 
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Dik Hz posted:Who would want to dive a loving boxster 900+ miles on I-95 in holiday traffic? Once you are south of the Virginia state line you can probably drive like a hundred miles an hour the entire way without attracting any attention but yeah you can miss me with Philly, DC, and everything until Richmond
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Subjunctive posted:ahem I mean, yes technically according to the vehicle title information a Boxster and the worst, ugliest, most unreliable iteration of the 911 in its entire history are Porsches, but not reeaaaalllyyyy
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Here's today's sovereign citizen loving themselves over story.quote:Wayne Kenneth Glew, from Geraldton, owed his council $300,000 in rates, which he refused to pay because he believed local governments were unconstitutional. quote:Mr Glew said the city could not seize his land because he claimed it under Magna Carta. quote:Professor Twomey said Magna Carta was an important historic statute but had little relevance in today's society. quote:Professor Twomey said despite what people believed, the law would prevail. https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018...p6ONAnRgt2gjaqY
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How long does it take to accrue 300,000 moon dollars in rates, which I assume are the same as property taxes in the United States? My taxes are like $2,000 to $6,000 a year, even with interest and penalties it would be like 20 years to accrue that load of taxes. Also on a side note I find it odd that sovereign citizenship seems to be just as strong in countries following the legal tradition of England as it is in the United States, where there is much less of a sense of permanent immutable law protecting one's rights that they think only exists to be broken by out-of-control government, like we have with the US Constitution. BEHOLD: MY CAPE fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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We definitely have one sovereign citizen. She's called the Queen. Theswarms fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Dec 19, 2018 |
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Devian666 posted:Here's today's sovereign citizen loving themselves over story. quote:Mr Glew, a former police officer, has appealed a court order from the council to remove his possessions from the property. Edit: Looks like this year it's about 14% property tax with a minimum fee of $1010. Which seems absurdly high, but I think it also provides literally all of the revenue for the municipality - including what the USA would have for Federal, State, County, etc taxes that roll down through grants and similar? https://www.cgg.wa.gov.au/Profiles/cgg/Assets/ClientData/CGG_2018-2019_Budget.pdf 
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Once you are south of the Virginia state line you can probably drive like a hundred miles an hour the entire way without attracting any attention but yeah you can miss me with Philly, DC, and everything until Richmond
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Magissima posted:Blue Apron Falls Under $1 as Sell-Off Shows No Signs of Stopping I think the correct take is "thank you dumbass venture capitalists and investors for bankrolling my podcast habit for the past few years"
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H110Hawk posted:Edit: Looks like this year it's about 14% property tax with a minimum fee of $1010. Which seems absurdly high, but I think it also provides literally all of the revenue for the municipality - including what the USA would have for Federal, State, County, etc taxes that roll down through grants and similar? Yes it's everything rolled into one.
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RE the Sovereign citizen, or as he prefers, the Living Breathing Man: the council actually seized the property in October last year, and at the time he owed a little under AUD150k which was apparently for not paying rates or service charges to the council for three years. Add another 50k+ for the time since, and the rest is probably legal costs. He was ordered to vacate the property last November so they could easily find more fees, including a penalty of up to $500 a day according to one document he shared, and all the trespassing and removing the barriers the council added. Somebody asked and in case nobody explained while I was typing, rates are our name for property taxes charged by the local government authority/council.
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Mr. Fix It posted:I think the correct take is "thank you dumbass venture capitalists and investors for bankrolling my podcast habit for the past few years" Seriously. I've got it down where the podcasts that I listen to what ads in the start are set to jump in a few minutes to skip them and can swiftly skip through those played during the show. The real MVPs are the podcasts that play distinct sound effects before and after the ads or even better music designating the section is for ads.
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TraderStav posted:Seriously. I've got it down where the podcasts that I listen to what ads in the start are set to jump in a few minutes to skip them and can swiftly skip through those played during the show. The real MVPs are the podcasts that play distinct sound effects before and after the ads or even better music designating the section is for ads. The Dollop just does like ten minutes right up front and calls anyone who complains an idiot because otherwise they'd be chopped up in the middle
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Bird in a Blender posted:And the inside is probably bare bone finishes, and minimal HVAC and electrical work. Still impressive, but there's a good amount of cost to do something that fast. Essentially all material for the whole building would need to be fabricated and sitting in warehouses to deliver to the job. Plus, you're paying three shifts to install it 24/7. All material for all buildings is fabricated and delivered somewhere. The nice parts of prefab like that is you can level out the labor too, rather than needing 4 workers this week and 6 the next and back to 4 you can keep 5 busy the whole time. Production per worker rises, as well as benefits to safety and quality from doing work in a controlled environment. It’s tough to compare the costs since you can’t do rigorous experiments, but a lot of the benefits offset the storage, transportation and design costs.
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Dik Hz posted:Who would want to dive a loving boxster 900+ miles on I-95 in holiday traffic? Beaten, but a 2014 Boxster really isn't a significantly worse place to be than any other car on I-95 in holiday traffic. TraderStav posted:Seriously. I've got it down where the podcasts that I listen to what ads in the start are set to jump in a few minutes to skip them and can swiftly skip through those played during the show. The real MVPs are the podcasts that play distinct sound effects before and after the ads or even better music designating the section is for ads. I'm waiting for the day that podcast ads become unskipable.
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Residency Evil posted:I'm waiting for the day that podcast ads become unskipable. The Pod Save America ads are almost listenable because it's like 75% of them making jokes or mocking the copy they were given I love the concept of "presidential speechwriters reviewing ad copy from startups"
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Devor posted:The Pod Save America ads are almost listenable because it's like 75% of them making jokes or mocking the copy they were given OTOH it's been almost the exact same set of ads for like a year and their shows are already pretty long and I've got three episodes a week to get through so those ads are hitting the chopping block thanks for the Spotify 15-second forward feature
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Once you are south of the Virginia state line you can probably drive like a hundred miles an hour the entire way without attracting any attention but yeah you can miss me with Philly, DC, and everything until Richmond Georgia has lots of State Trooper presence on I-95, especially in construction zones. They love out of state funding to their pension plan. I-95 in SC has such poor road conditions and congestion that going 100 is super unsafe. Generating revenue to fix the roads is unthinkable.
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Devor posted:The Pod Save America ads are almost listenable because it's like 75% of them making jokes or mocking the copy they were given Nobody does active contempt for what they're advertising like Hollywood Handbook. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAuslmoEdVs This one's a build that happened in little bits over like twenty episodes, but the timestamped one is amazing on its own. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGXloYZctI&t=790s
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Devor posted:The Pod Save America ads are almost listenable pity the rest of the podcast isn't 
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CannonFodder posted:Georgia has lots of State Trooper presence on I-95, especially in construction zones. They love out of state funding to their pension plan. 95 in SC is like driving on a cheese grater.
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Tiffany has an Everyday Objects collection, including: -Sterling Silver Tin Can for $1,000 -Paperclip for $1,500 -$35,000 watering can This is like how Marie Antoinette would dress as a peasant for the fun of it. https://m.tiffany.com/jewelry/decorative-accents/everyday-objects-sterling-silver-and-copper-watering-can-62119985?trackpdp=rv I like how they have a “sustainability” section on their website
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Vox Nihili posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3877294&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 Spend less on candles.
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Is contractor. Has made no allowance for 2 week work shutdown over the holidays.
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Vox Nihili posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3877294&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 I thought ZDR quit.
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What's the rule of thumb, maintain an emergency savings account equal to two days' income? Three days?
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Two days, two and a half during daylight saving time.
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Subjunctive posted:Two days, two and a half during daylight saving time. I almost go bankrupt every leap year.
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Krispy Wafer posted:I almost go bankrupt every leap year. I once moved between time zones and had my lungs repossessed.
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