Money, usually.

The professors I know in Texas are usually there because they got a promotion and a significant pay bump to move there.

Aww man that was such a good show! I still miss it sometimes…

And some companies (like mine) just have their SDEs do the SRE job as well. Apparently it incentivizes us to write more stable code or something

Kudos to Spotify’s design language for us being able to determine what app it is from just a generic error screenshot

It doesn’t seem like a very “walled” garden if they were able to migrate all their data including issues and comments

I’m guessing women don’t get drafted for special operations in Ukraine

Pretty sure they can. Or at least, they can deny you entry into the country if you decline to unlock it for them.

And how do you de-drm them? Is there like some community calibre plug-in for it?

Making note for when I buy books in future

Where do you buy from?

You’ve never been to rural Japan if you think they primarily use public transport.

Hell, even in the outskirts of Tokyo most people have cars and drive.

That said tho, there’s no excuse for urban city centers to not be walkable.

So far it’s helped in motivation, but not in implementation.

Turns out combatting bots is a hard problem and hobbyist admins and nonprofits have a lot less resources than their for-profit counterparts.

Demand to who?

Like… I don’t know any organization that would listen to them that actually has the power to do something about it.

It’s dead. The main dev announced they’ve ceased development and shut down the main instance.

Nah CEOs will mandate RTO for workers while they themselves stay remote.

Is it just me or does he have a bit of a Mitch McConnell look?

Eeeeeeeyup!

1.9% for the county: http://www.tax-rates.org/texas/travis_county_property_tax

0.7% for the Public Improvement District: https://spdpid.comptroller.texas.gov/view/2024/103225659

I agree with your last sentiment too. Warren Buffett said the memories he made in his house are worth way more than the money he lost by not investing it. We’re thinking of buying for the same reason.

…ish. My wife and I just did this calculation and (at least in America) property taxes throw a wrench into it.

A decent rental home in Texas costs about $2650 per month. A similar house costs about $460k to buy, and run about $1000/mo in taxes. So you’ll only save about $1650 per month.

Even putting that 460k into a bank account at 4.5% interest will give you $1725/mo, let alone stocks, index funds, and all the other investments you could be doing that will out-perform real estate.

Of course, that doesn’t disprove your point about poverty since you need to have the money to buy/invest. But it’s just a reminder that houses are not the wealth builder that a lot of people imagine them to be.

Always research and determine the best option for your financial situation. Gate-keeping financial literacy is another tool the wealthy use to keep people in poverty.

I don’t know if that’s true anymore. There are games on there that require login into PSN after installing.

Ka…booom!

Replace insta with Lemmy and I’m livin’ the life