@Carnival-Boy said in Is Real Estate Actually a Good Investment on Average?:

Oh, and "water cooler" time is good for generating trust and forming bonds within teams, which is essential.

My experience is that it does the opposite. It creates cliques and promotes the idea of promoting for socialization rather than for results. I think good, skilled workers who want promoted based on merit see it as sowing distrust... a mechanism for those that aren't as capable or as ethical to avoid work while "schmoozing" the bosses.

Yes, if you want bad employees to trust each other, it's good. If you want to have employees you can trust to protect your business, it's bad.

@scottalanmiller said in Buying a New Car:

@wrx7m said in Buying a New Car:

@scottalanmiller said in Buying a New Car:

Also, garage space. The hail in Texas makes car ownership less attractive.

That could definitely be an issue. At least there more alternatives to owning these days.

Yeah, for me it seems super easy to live without one.

Have you tired any of the non-traditional renting app/services yet?

I realize I wasn't clear before. The emotional response is most often from others, not the finance person.

@dustinb3403 I didn't get it, sorry 🙂 I am so oblivious...

@dafyre said in The Day The Internet Broke:

@travisdh1 said in The Day The Internet Broke:

Just one of many reasons I'm glad we use Mint/CentOS wherever possible. The security risks aren't any less, but they are different. Different in a way that's easier for me to prevent against bad actors.

At least you understand that running other OSes than Windows is not the panacea that a lot of people think it is.

For sure. Nothing like comparing ls to what is in a repository to find it's been replaced by a rootkit. Yep, I've seen this happen before.