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DanRydell

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  1. Yup. We had one of the contractors finally explain to us why our Old Republic warranty was so fucking worthless. Basically, any part they replaced, they had to send the old part to the warranty company. If the warranty company looked at it and deemed it didn't need to be replaced, the contractor didn't get reimbursed and just had to take a loss on the repair. So it's in the contractor's interest to just take their fee for coming out and tell you nothing is wrong. They also didn't seem to have contracts with any local contractors in Austin. They were always driving up from San Antonio or some shit.
  2. At common law, you had a duty to retreat before resorting to deadly self defense. If you could have safely retreated and avoided the necessity of lethal self defense, you were required to. That was modified in many jurisdictions by the castle doctrine, which eliminated the duty to retreat if in one’s home (extended also to one’s workplace or car in some places). Stand your ground laws just eliminate the duty to retreat altogether, no matter where you are.
  3. Making one street significantly more dangerous to drivers and pedestrians in order to moderately reduce congestion on a street that wasn’t overly congested seems a poor trade off.
  4. I don't remotely comprehend why they did this but yeah, it's going to be a fucking shitshow with people trying to turn left in and out of all the parking garages.
  5. One can think someone is a douchebag and yet not think they should be murdered.
  6. Eanes (Westlake) schools K-12, so no. There were a decent amount of Hispanic, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and SE Asian students but almost no black students. IIRC, my only black classmate prior to a second black kid moving in around 7th grade was Earl Campbell's son. There wasn't much economic diversity then but there was a hell of a lot more than there is now. It was still overwhelmingly professionals but it was back when people who worked for the state or the university or other sub-$100k jobs could afford to live in Westlake.
  7. They don’t automatically come back, they’ll have to win some sort of competition. You can’t risk an ally to that. The only good play here I can think of would be to put someone who you’re not aligned with but also not hostile with (Scotty? Fessy?), and tell them they’re a pawn. And tell them they’re such a pawn that even if something goes wrong and they get voted out, you’ll play your advantage and save them. Then you either get someone you’re not working with out or they stay but now trust you.
  8. Looks like I was mis-remembering based on this article. https://www.austinchronicle.com/food/2001-01-26/80300/ Burned in 1985. Re-built. Closed in 1989.
  9. It was already the new building by the time my dad was taking me there in the 80s. They had a fire and just never reopened.
  10. Montero - 15 games, 95.2 IP, 2.73 ERA, .608 OPSA, 4.8 K/BB Contreras - 12 games, 71.1 IP, 1.51 ERA, .579 OPSA, 3.35 K/BB Ross and Federowicz each caught him twice.
  11. Going to 40 countries by 40 sounds way more appealing than owning a home at 30 or being retired at 75.
  12. Jury is breaking for the night and coming back tomorrow. They got the case about 4 hours ago.
  13. I'd have him try the glasses on in open court, just to be sure. What could go wrong?
  14. So I guess Kyle Tucker wasn't an insane ask after all
  15. Unless it’s a high-limit insurance policy, they can probably get them to tender the policy without paying 1/3 to an attorney.
  16. Four years of undergrad plus a 2-year masters at UT would set you back $100k now. So based on your numbers, the cost of the degree has increased 400% while the starting compensation has only increased 56%. Your salary in your first year was more than your educational cost. If your employee starting at $42k with his $100k degree received a 5% raise every single year, he would finally have an annual salary exceeding his degree cost in year 19. Even with a 10% annual raise, it’d be year 11.
  17. There are different repayment options. There’s the standard 10-year payment schedule. That wasn’t gonna work because the monthly payment exceeded my post-tax income my first few years out. So I instead did an income-contingent plan. The gist of which is that you pay 15% of your income above the poverty line. It has to be renewed every 12 months and payments are re-calculated based on your most recent income tax filing. At this point, I’m making enough where I could stretch myself a bit to revert to the standard plan (at $2100/mo for the next 10 years) but I think that would ultimately cost me more than to just ride out the income-contingent plan for the next 16 years (payment is $600/mo at the moment).
  18. Well, after another 16 years of payments, the balance will be forgiven. Of course, then I’ll have to figure out a way to pay the taxes on that.
  19. Despite 9 years of monthly payments, my students loan balance is almost 50% larger today then it was when I graduated. So yeah, can’t say I’m putting away much for retirement.
  20. Not sure I agree. Obviously she’d rather use it on herself or Tyler but it’s a big risk to leave it in play to be automatic next week.
  21. All I know about SpaceX is I was in Waco for work a few months ago when they had a successful landing and all the dudebro SpaceX employees were at George's celebrating by sexually harassing (and in two instances sexually assaulting) the waitresses.
  22. He called one of the cave divers who was integral in the Thai rescue effort "pedo guy" on twitter this morning, so that's cool.
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