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  • If you cannot get a loan, then real estate is a much less powerful investment. Cash flow is key, if you have one properties that you put each down $20k, pay $1000/month on and rent for $1200 that is $2000/month in extra cash. If you instead buy the property for 200k you get $1200 in cash per month. Of course in reality you will never have all your property rented all the time, so it is more reasonable to say with 10 properties you get $1600/month - and sometimes get a $200 bonus while with 1 you sometimes have $1200 and sometimes $0 - which is much harder on the budget.

    Of course anyone thinking about this needs to see an accountant to run all the different numbers, but in general real estate generally only makes sense if you can take a loan and thus have less risk.

  • Corporate landlords are buying with loans. If you have the cash to buy one house outright you will instead put 10% down on 10 houses and have 10 houses to rent. See an accountant for details - including what the best amount to put down is (I picked 10% only because it makes the math easy)

  • This is about existing home sales. From what I can tell (on very limited information) new home sales are still at normal levels. People who don't have a house are buying a new one, as are people looking to upgrade.

  • Very often parking minimums are set to accommodate 120% of peak demand - that is even on the peak demand days there are many empty parking places.

  • In my country a disabled person can get a tag that they hang in whatever car they are in to mark that car as able to use a handicapped space - they are expected to switch that tag between cars when they get a ride with someone else.

    If the handicapped person owns a car they can also get a special license plate on their car thus ensuring they don't have to keep track of that tag.

  • It is a solution on its own. Many cities have far more parking than they need - even on "black friday" there are empty parking spaces. Those parking spaces could be redeveloped to something else (not all of them as that something else will also need parking)

    Of course the more you redevelop those empty parking spaces, the denser you get and the better chance is that public transit will work. The more people who arrive via transit the less parking spaces you need as well, which means more empty parking can de redeveloped.

  • The best cities to drive in have populations of around 5000 people. Just enough population that there are things to drive to (very limited things, but still things), but not enough that there is congestion even during what passes for rush hour.

  • It is less energy to go Mars to the moon than earth to the moon

  • Fastmail does a great job for me. Spam isn't a problem with legitimate email providers anymore.

  • I'm pretty sure all states have a variation of this. However you need to go to court to enforce it and that us expensive and difficult enough even if you win such as to scare people from trying .

  • Drugs were also reported which would be reason to search cupboards. Though a 911 report alone shouldn't be enough to get a warrant .

  • It makes logical sense to have gender roles. Just to survive means females between teens and mid forties need to be pregnant or nursing a baby. Both those will limit hunting, thus making gathering the better role. Of course died in childbirth is likely .

    Note that the above does not preclude women hunting. It limits them to less active roles at times, but different stages of child bearing will put different limits on ranging from full abilities to practically a cripple. Also hunting takes different forms, and some are more amenable to help than others.

    We also know men would gather at times.

  • If you use a linux audio distro linux is easier than windows. Everything works out of the box, not weird drivers to install with all their bloatware.

    Try to do it manually is hard, but there are some great pretuned distros that make it easy.

  • Because the people who developed X11 (that is Xorg) haven declared that. Maybe they should have named it X12, but they didn't for whatever reason. However the people doing the work have already given up on working on X11 they gave up on X11 beyond the bare minimum almost 10 years ago because some real issues with X11 as a protocol are not fixable.

    There were other attempts to a successor to X11, but they never got the support of people doing the work on X11 (in part because they didn't understand the problem with X11 and so kept many bad things while 'fixing' things that were not broken)

    Which is to say: you have two choices: get involved with continuing X11 development, or jump to Wayland. Throw a couple million $$$ per year at X11 (either pay developers, or convince a dozen developers to maintain X11) and I'll retract my statement, until then X11 is dead. If you cannot do that then Wayland is your only option.

  • Unknown callers are just important enough that you can't.

  • Passenger trains have better maintained tracks and so are not likely to derail. They are also less likely to hit things because they are grade separated - fenced, elevated tracks, in tunnels. These are more cost, but they are things society wants (not the same as rail executives) Trams which run on the street are much slower and do have drivers.

  • You have that option. Join the party, participate in the caucus/primary. There are several still trying to get the nomination - find one and support them. get knocking on doors - this brings out the votes. The media likes to act like Trump is a done deal, but that is false, no primary has happened yet.

  • A human on board won't stop a train either. They will hit the brakes, but trains don't stop fast enough to make a difference in those situations.

  • Many passenger trains around the world run fully automated.

    the big issue is without someone on board there is nobody to see someone on the tracks and hit the emergency brake. My counter to that is it doesn't matter as the train won't stop until long after whoever was on the track is hit and dead.