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those companies gathered tons of information without even asking people first. and why would this service require the sensitive information to be stored at all, let alone in plain text?

then what do you propose?

a lot of services use facebook to verify that someone is a human. there should be a service that exists only to manage peoples identities online. sign up, provide some id, an address and last four of your social. later, maybe a letter is sent to the address and returned with a verification code. then, every other service on the internet could use that service to prevent bots, spam and other things.

im going to dig into every source of information i can on the subject of houses and their materials. my plan for the house has already evolved dramatically and will probably continue to, terminating in a design that stands a very high probability of satisfying my requirements. i very much hope that it works because unlike some people here, my prospects are not bright -- they are unsure at best. this is probably the only way that i will be able to retire in a house of my own without waiting until im 70.

do you care to become penpals?

i find it interesting that the possibility of facebook being hacked is almost never discussed -- ive never really seen it held up in these comments. everyone discusses endlessly what might happen if a financial institution, an email service, or something else is hacked. equifax is the latest example. the result of these hacks is the disclosure of tons of personal and sensitive data. so why is it never brought up that facebook, like any other company, might be hacked? since they spy on all their users, they must in some way or another store in an unsafe manner all of the chat logs, pictures, private messages, not to mention the damning meta-data extracted from it. i havent used facebook for almost a decade so perhaps im incorrect in assuming that people say private things in private messages?

there ought to be an alternative

who says that the house has to be so weak that it blows over in wind? who says i have to make it out of tinder? have you ever asked yourself why it is that california home owners build houses out of wood literally upon the ashes of a previous wood home that burned down? the answer is that there is no reason. there are other options.

i mean, ill just rake the leaves. itll take an hour. maybe ill design a robot to do it. i would rather do all of that than work to earn money to pay someone to rake the leaves. thats just my personal preference.

if the house is made of icf construction, it wont rot, suffer from termites, warp or burn. if you have a metal roof with steel trusses, your roof will last a very, very long time. all of this also makes the house impervious to fires both inside and outside as well as high winds. they make houses in southern florida that arent made out of stick and that dont simply fall over in a strong wind -- i look at those a lot for guidance. the construction cost is only slightly higher excluding the steel trusses. my house wont be very big so i can afford the steel trusses. even without steel trusses, you can make it practically fire proof. coating the outside of an icf house with cement based stucco will make that house classified as a non combustible structure in the eyes of the code, and you can insure it as such.

you mention hvac. i will not have hvac. you mention repainting, i dont have to paint if i dont want to. you mention flooring, my floor is concrete. you mention sheetrock, the sheetrock will be fine.

all of this is well within code and well within what i would call normal. but i hope that people will find it strange or un-buyable because that would reduce the market value of my improvements to the land and therefore lower my property tax. i am aiming to get the lowest operating cost possible, and having a home that has low liquidity actually greatly helps that. not every home has to be a flipping scheme.

besides tax, what are ongoing costs composed of? i think that you will find that a house can be made in such a way that besides tax, there isnt much cost. and you dont have to have insurance to own a house, people think that because lenders force you to buy insurance. and, once again, if the house is designed properly, there isnt any need to buy insurance for it. and bringing up depreciation and op cost makes absolutely no sense.

i have been looking into buying land and building a house on it -- ive been reading and researching intensely for a while now and i am simply astonished at how affordable it is to have your own land and a house, all while being well within commuting distance of the city. the thing about owning land is that instead of paying for your landlords luxury car and his wifes boob implants, you only have to pay property tax. if you make other simple efforts to reduce your expenses, you can bring your total operating costs down to insanely low levels without sacrificing any quality of life. i feel like this is some kind of conspiracy -- i have no idea why people seem to be oblivious to the wonders of cost reduction. it takes monumental effort to increase your income but its pretty much trivial to reduce your expenses which accomplishes the exact same outcome. rent is currently 80% of my expenses and there is nothing i can do to change that, except buy land. even if i lived in a super crummy part of town (i dont want to do that) it would still cost a fortune compared to property tax for land and a modest house (modest but still a thousand times better than most apartments).

hey, i'm looking to buy a small plot of land and build a house on it in the next few years. my goal is to be able to have land and a house of my own without taking a loan, or a very big one at least. ive been looking at land in northern california and there seems to be a lot of promising deals. lake county california seems to be a pretty good spot.

if anyone has experience with buying land to settle on, in northern california or otherwise, i would be eternally grateful for advice and tips. in fact, i would greatly appreciate any advice or tips regarding anything that has to do with buying land, building a house, or owning property and a house.

the idea that kim is trying to make his cyber program an alternative to his nuclear program, as suggested at the very end of the article, is completely wrong. the nuclear program is kims number one priority and it will remain so until it is completed. north korea is racing against the clock to develop a nuke, just like iran, because it is the only way that the country can survive. without a nuke, north korea will eventually give in to western influence and ultimately western powers will provoke a destabilization event and put their own person into power. the one and only thing that will prevent that is a nuclear weapon.

i remember when it was found that me had a "kill switch," wasnt it found that this kill switch still leaves a rather lot of power in the hands of the IME?

this is just a story of very poor planning and forethought. this guy not only paid way too much for a building, but was also suckered into upgrading it. this guy probably bought brand new furniture, and he probably bought really nice quality furniture to boot. it doesnt sound like he ran the numbers to figure out how much hed have to sell in order to pay taxes and payroll. i dont want to sound mean but this guy was doomed from day one.

im confused about baryons. they say that it is a particle (presumably like an electron or photon or other particle) but then they go on to say that its a gas, not a particle. very confusing.

hey david, you can omit the 'static lifetime in the root directory string declarations if you want!

https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/1623

i love automation. there is something to be said for automated food. not only can money and time be saved, but there are other benefits as well. for example, storing the raw ingredients in your home can allow you to stockpile food for much longer than you could if you only bought the finished product. i have several food grade buckets filled with whole wheat flour and i enjoy freshly baked bread almost every day. with a few gamma lids (screw-top lid accessory for standard 5 gallon food grade buckets), and about 10% of my (normal sized) freezer space, i am able to eat fresh bread every day for five months without ever going to the store. with a bread machine, making the bread only requires a few seconds of my time. and the savings are unreal. perhaps im a little odd, but i would very much like to have some kind of system in my home where i could buy non-perishable food stuffs and store them in mass quantity, and simply press a button to turn them into a meal ready to eat.