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does that basically just mean "john doe"?
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i always thought it means something like "et cetera" but idk for sure
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Mar 16, 2023 03:53
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well, etc has a chinese equivalent: 等等 and i had to look it up to be sure but i have heard a kind of equivalent to john doe: 张三 and 李四, basically a common family name followed by the numbers 3 and 4. i think you can keep going up more than 4
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Mar 16, 2023 04:16
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it's kind of like john doe and kind of like 'tom dick and harry' but not exactly like either. fulano is the name you use for a person whose name you don't know, but it's more conversational than "john doe," which is a formal name given on forms and stuff. honestly the closest thing in english that i hear used is "homeboy" or sometimes "motherfucker", as in "this guy came up to me at the bus stop, actin all weird. then homeboy's like 'i love poodles man' and 'im like cool, cool ok man i gotta go'" in the above you wouldn't say "and john doe was all like..." but in spanish youd say "y fulano dijo..." and it wouldn't be stilted
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also fulano has brothers, manzano and zutano. in case you need more names
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Achmed Jones posted:also fulano has brothers, manzano and zutano. in case you need more names thanks
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Mar 16, 2023 07:29
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fart simpson posted:ok well thats not really what bailouts to protect the system as a whole means though yeah, i guess this may have been one of the stories i remembered. maybe i could have been a bit more precise in what i meant. not actually a systemic bailout, but one to restore trust in the system. anyway, im right there with you on the frustration about only initial stories and no followup coming out of china "china is doing x in africa" x was a proposal that doesn't end up actually happening, but because of the headline, half of europe still believes the prc now owns tanzania or the straddling bus, of course. but in that case its unique that we did get some closure and confirmation that it was a stupid idea
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Mar 16, 2023 07:55
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Achmed Jones posted:it's kind of like john doe and kind of like 'tom dick and harry' but not exactly like either. fulano is the name you use for a person whose name you don't know, but it's more conversational than "john doe," which is a formal name given on forms and stuff. honestly the closest thing in english that i hear used is "homeboy" or sometimes "motherfucker", as in "this guy came up to me at the bus stop, actin all weird. then homeboy's like 'i love poodles man' and 'im like cool, cool ok man i gotta go'" oh thanks for this. genuinely useful lol
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Mar 16, 2023 13:08
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Lead out in cuffs posted:IIRC the PRC has a cap on how much money citizens are allowed to take out of the country (like $20k or $14k or something), which in theory is way more money than any foreign real estate could be bought for. So it's a de facto rule against their peeps buying western real estate. considering how frequently international real estate is used to launder or stash illegally obtained or transferred money I always wondered how a policy of checking with the appropriate embassy when a foreign national wants to purchase property would shake out.
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Mar 16, 2023 15:48
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Shifty Pony posted:considering how frequently international real estate is used to launder or stash illegally obtained or transferred money I always wondered how a policy of checking with the appropriate embassy when a foreign national wants to purchase property would shake out. that would add exactly one step to the process, spending $500 to register abc investment company, llc as a shell corp
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nah they already usually use shell corps anyways, so no additional step real estate is popular among criminals cuz the way you buy it on the up and up looks basically the same as the way you buy it with dirty money and yet its still favored by the authorities, unlike bearer bonds or some poo poo
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qirex posted:that would add exactly one step to the process, spending $500 to register abc investment company, llc as a shell corp they actually cracked down on that somewhat and in certain markets started to require determining the real beneficial owner of whatever entity is doing the purchase and reporting it to the Feds. NYC luxury real estate dropped like 30% in response lol.
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Mar 16, 2023 15:58
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using real estate for money laundering props up value which raises property taxes so as long as they're not doing their crimes on the premises I think most municipalities will happily look the other way [see: most of west central london]
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Mar 16, 2023 16:00
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it also makes gdp go up which means we have a strong economy
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Mar 16, 2023 16:06
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michael pettis, a prof at beida, spends like 20 minutes of every day tweeting that this is the main way they juice prc gdp. and the main way they juiced japanese gdp before that fell apart
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bob dobbs is dead posted:michael pettis, a prof at beida, spends like 20 minutes of every day tweeting that this is the main way they juice prc gdp. and the main way they juiced japanese gdp before that fell apart they might actually be undercounting it https://twitter.com/liesofhermit/status/1629867282888372225
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anyway there might be similar problems but one thing different with the japan comparison is that america is in less of a position to detonate chinas economy in a similar way that we did to japan
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Mar 16, 2023 16:23
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and thats how shenzhen property gets to be as expensive as sf property. not adjusted for buying power, just in dollar terms
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Mar 16, 2023 16:24
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bob dobbs is dead posted:and thats how shenzhen property gets to be as expensive as sf property. not adjusted for buying power, just in dollar terms it’s not though. can you buy a 2 bedroom apartment in sf for $500k?
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condo, yes actually peeps fuckin hate condos in america tho e: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1315-Laguna-St-APT-4-San-Francisco-CA-94115/64972196_zpid/
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bob dobbs is dead posted:condo, yes actually didnt know there was anything at all around $600k tbh can u do $130k? https://shenzhen.anjuke.com/prop/vi...screen&index=64
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Mar 16, 2023 16:36
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$920/mo hoa fee on that thing woof.
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Mar 16, 2023 16:39
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fart simpson posted:didnt know there was anything at all around $600k tbh yeah, nothing in that section of the market, cuz sf zoning is done by little shits talkin land as opposed to housing tho
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lomarf 
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Chris Knight posted:lomarf isnt that just an app to keep track of your workouts? lol
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Mar 16, 2023 17:17
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man, I didnt even get $60/year value out of strava premium
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:isnt that just an app to keep track of your workouts? lol premium has some route planning stuff, and some additional training metrics but it was never that great
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Asymmetric POSTer posted:isnt that just an app to keep track of your workouts? lol
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mystes posted:Strava effectively has a monopoly on cyclists virtually competing with each other for imaginary internet points Man, if somebody could make an app like that which is able to reliably and verifiably track weightlifting workouts, you'd be a billionaire from gym bros around the planet trying to show off/out-compete one another.
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bob dobbs is dead posted:condo, yes actually that is not a condo, it's a co-op which means you have to go to the one bank [seriously there's only one] that does condo/tic jumbo mortgages and pay like 2x the interest rate pretty much every 2br under 900k in sf has something "wrong" with it like a kilobuck+ hoa, it's a tenancy in common/co-op, unevictable tenant, etc. ie this one which is built on the site of the navy base where they cleaned the ships off after bikini atoll and has one of the most severe cancer clusters in america
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yeah, housing is deffo a market for lemons
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qirex posted:pretty much every 2br under 900k in sf has something "wrong" with it like a kilobuck+ hoa, it's a tenancy in common/co-op, unevictable tenant, etc. ie this one which is built on the site of the navy base where they cleaned the ships off after bikini atoll and has one of the most severe cancer clusters in america
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qirex posted:that is not a condo, it's a co-op which means you have to go to the one bank [seriously there's only one] that does condo/tic jumbo mortgages and pay like 2x the interest rate i know a guy bought into a TIC with a group thinking theyd be able to convert them to condos and flip them, in SF, and it went about as well as youd expect.
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FMguru posted:...or is located in a highrise built on landfill without a foundation so it is sinking and tilting! ( https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/millennium-tower-san-francisco-leaning ) you can't get a 2br in that building for 900 https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/301-Mission-St-94105/unit-7G/home/40138739 qirex fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Mar 16, 2023 |
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post hole digger posted:i know a guy bought into a TIC with a group thinking theyd be able to convert them to condos and flip them, in SF, and it went about as well as youd expect. tics are a very flawed solution to an actual problem, there needs to be some kind of better way for actual humans to share ownership of housing
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LanceHunter posted:Man, if somebody could make an app like that which is able to reliably and verifiably track weightlifting workouts, you'd be a billionaire from gym bros around the planet trying to show off/out-compete one another. Simply tell people that it records your sick gains on a distributed append only ledger so that ot's impossible for people to game the system
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also reveals troop location and movements!
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there needs to be a way to become more short on housing than the default way of consuming housing shorts are the designated drivers of finance. housing markets routinely get ridiculously drunk and crash, killing money and also routinely peeps
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Chris Knight posted:also reveals troop location and movements! app that tracks movement and shares it tracks movement and shares it, news at 11
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FMguru posted:...or is located in a highrise built on landfill without a foundation so it is sinking and tilting! ( https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/millennium-tower-san-francisco-leaning ) this is gonna fall over and take salesforce tower with it and if we're lucky it will only kill hundreds of people but no one will do anything about it because rich people will lose money.
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