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2020-12-29 Links

Wonderful Privacy Collection on a Neocities Site

It is very worrying how many providers pretend to be privacy based but turn out to be anything but - even actively trying to compromise it. No matter, there still exist a few good guys such as Riseup and Disroot. If you can’t or don’t want to get into those (perhaps disagreeing with their principles) - the second best option is paying for an Elude / Posteo / CounterMail account. Dismail / Paranoid / Cock are also decent, non-politicized and free services. You should not fully trust any provider, (or any internet service at all). Take this quote from RiseUp to heart: Nothing online is 100% secure. If you have something very sensitive to say, do it offline. Encrypt with GPG whenever possible! That way, you can kind of bypass their censorship / data storage policies even if you’re worried about those being used against you.

Cool Singe Family Renovation Case Study

The day before the close we got a phone call. There was another snag, because this is real estate and there’s always another snag. The lease stream buyer didn’t want one of the two tower leases. Now these guys look at tower leases, towers and easements all day every day. I’m hard pressed to think they didn’t know that they didn’t want the second tower all along. If I was cynical I’d say they preferred to wait until the day before the close until we needed whatever funds they were offering us to close. But I’m not cynical so I won’t say that.

The Priveleged Lawlessness of FBI Informants

That’s how Agbareia funded his lifestyle in Florida, and he alleges that King and the FBI were well aware that he was running scams for the decade he worked as an informant. The bureau turned a blind eye to the crimes because Agbareia was valuable to them, he said. While the FBI declined to comment about Agbareia, citing a policy of not discussing informants, the circumstances of Agbareia’s Florida life and his work for the FBI suggest that government agents should have known something was fishy about how he paid his bills. The FBI paid him less than $20,000 per year on average. FBI agents knew he couldn’t work legitimately, because they were the ones keeping him out of the custody of immigration authorities. And yet all the while, Agbareia was living in a luxury home with expensive cars in the driveway.

JT on the Flight from SV

Moreover, while California’s average effective property tax rate is lower than that in Texas, its housing prices more than offset the difference. The average property tax rate with parcel taxes and fees reaches about 1% in California, and about 1.9% in Texas. But with house prices in California averaging approximately $450,000, the average property tax is in the range of $4,500 per year, compared to less than $2,800 in Texas, where house prices average roughly $146,000.

Vitalik Reminisces

The disagreements within Bitcoin would soon turn into an all-out civil war. Theymos, the operator of the /r/bitcoin subreddit and several other key public Bitcoin discussion spaces, resorted to extreme censorship to impose his (small-block-leaning) views on the community. In response, the big-blockers moved to a new subreddit, /r/btc. Some valiantly attempted to defuse tensions with diplomatic conferences including a famous one in Hong Kong, and a seeming consensus was reached, though one year later the small block side would end up reneging on its part of the deal. By 2017, the big block faction was firmly on its way to defeat, and in August of that year they would secede (or “fork off”) to implement their own vision on their own separate continuation of the Bitcoin blockchain, which they called “Bitcoin Cash” (symbol BCH).

Rent’s in SF Falling Fast

With the average asking rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco having dropped 23 percent over the past year to under $2,700 a month and the average asking rent for a studio having dropped even more, the weighted average asking rent for an apartment in the city, which currently measures around 2.3 bedrooms when counting a studio as having one, has dropped to $3,100 a month. While $3,100 a month in rent certainly isn’t “cheap,” it’s now $1,000 a month or 24 percent cheaper than in January of this year and nearly 31 percent below a 2015-era peak of closer to $4,500 a month.

Rstudio Table Contest

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Going Vertical…Farming

The future of farms is vertical and indoors because that way, the food can grow anywhere in the world, year-round; and the future of farms employ robots and AI to continually improve the quality of growth for fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Plenty does all these things and uses 95% less water and 99% less land because of it.