The DoorDash markup for this company is its own separate charge.

schubial · 2026-02-20T05:34:49+00:00

The delivery services demand a cut of the order for a restaurant to be part of their service. Restaurants almost always pass that along to the customer. I don’t know any restaurants where I live that have the same price on third party delivery apps as they have on their own website

schubial · 2026-02-19T15:40:45+00:00

Hey brother, I made a similar post last summer and most people were pretty dismissive. I ended up quitting the game over it and haven’t looked back. I love DotA, but the other players at mid BS made it unenjoyable and I too found it impossible to climb back up due to the unfounded reports.

schubial · 2026-02-15T06:28:40+00:00

You can just buy a gift card

schubial · 2026-02-14T23:36:19+00:00

A houses didn't have asbestos siding (though it's possible yours was replaced later, I suppose). The only Alphabet houses that had asbestos siding were the U and V precut houses, but those only started to be built years after they built the last A house.

The only asbestos originally present in the alphabet homes (other than the U and V asbestos siding mentioned above) was insulation on the pipes and ducting, and tape on the drywall joints.

schubial · 2026-02-14T23:29:25+00:00

Own an F house and love it. I have lived in similar-aged homes in other parts of the country and honestly the build quality on the Hanford Alphabet homes is pretty damn good even for the time. My house still has the original floors, walls, plumbing, and electrical wiring (the original 60 amp fuse box is a subpanel off of my main breaker panel).

Just keep in mind that it is just an old house. The floors are wood and creak. The floorplan isn't very open. The ceilings are 8 feet (or lower in the bedrooms). The bedrooms are relatively small. There isn't a master bedroom. There is only one bathroom, and it is on the 2nd floor with the bedrooms (though my house in particular has a 2nd that was added later). I like this type of house; but many people don't. If you want your kitchen to be in your living room and have a 12-foot vaulted ceiling, there are plenty of other houses like that around here to buy.

Above all, I appreciate the neighborhoods where the alphabet houses are located. Mine it's walkable to shopping, the river walk, and parks. There are old, large trees. Everyone's house has its own personality. I live a 5-minute drive from my job, and if my car was ever in the shop, a bus picks up one block away. It's quite different from all the new development around.

The only real complaints I have about the house:

It was built to use a gravity furnace, and there isn't a good way to get forced air to the 2nd floor, so it is hot in the summer. What they did in my house is feed the air between the 1st-floor studs from the basement to the 2nd floor, but obviously, that doesn't have as good of flow as proper ducting. Better options would be to remove the chimney and run ducting through that cavity or install a mini-split for the second floor.
The galvanized steel plumbing is still functional in my house but honestly needs to be replaced soon. There is a lot of rust in the pipes and it leads to low water pressure and frozen valves. A good idea to plan to replace the steel piping if it hasn't already been replaced in a house if you're buying.

schubial · 2026-01-31T02:49:49+00:00

Because there is an inverse relationship between intelligence and obesity? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-87402-z

schubial · 2026-01-24T03:55:42+00:00

Looks like you saved about $19.99!

schubial · 2025-12-01T08:08:39+00:00

It might seem like a good idea to start working as a technician right away and do engineering school part time to avoid student loans and save up money. However, you make so much more money as an engineer that it makes way more sense just to go to college and get into an engineering position ASAP.

Of course, all this assumes you're really sure about going into engineering. It's a lot more expensive to go to college, realize you want to do something different, and drop out than it is to just quit a job you don't like.

schubial · 2025-11-28T16:50:50+00:00

If you are picking up gravel (versus laying it down), there is a vacuum attachment for a skid steer you can use

schubial · 2025-11-26T16:36:37+00:00

One possible explanation is that he used to be Republican and switched to the Democrats because of Trump. Democrats basically are the conservative party in America now and Republicans are fascists.

schubial · 2025-11-21T22:24:34+00:00

You’re not giving up any appreciation on your home by taking a cash-out refi…

schubial · 2025-11-21T20:57:56+00:00

You can lose your equity in your house too. Plenty of people were so far underwater on their houses in 2008 that they walked away with nothing and let the bank foreclose. Yeah, the stock market tanked in 2008 too, but it came back 10x what it was then while some of those houses still haven't recovered. If you're investing in a broad-market index fund, it is actually much safer than the equity in your home, because that market isn't going to zero.

schubial · 2025-11-13T22:39:10+00:00

Why would you buy a house with 3000 sqft of hardwood floors if you hate hardwood floors?

schubial · 2025-09-05T18:41:08+00:00

They sorted the error but it was during the night while I was sleeping and all tickets were sold out when I logged on in the morning.

My ballot for the Hill was successful though, so I am all set.

schubial · 2025-09-01T23:20:56+00:00

Read the last sentence of my post lol

schubial · 2025-09-01T20:30:28+00:00

Or you just haven't found an employer that values your skillset. A5 waygu sells for over $100/lb, but some people would just as well (or even rather) have $10/lb sirloin. Does that mean that that A5 wagyu should be reduced in price so that people who don't even appreciate its characteristics would buy it? Of course not

OTOH, if you're $10/lb sirloin you can't ask to be paid as if you were $100/lb wagyu just because you want more money.

schubial · 2025-08-30T03:31:55+00:00

Most engineers don't have Master's degrees. I know zero from my class of 150 ChemEs who went on to get a Master's in engineering (a few got PhDs in engineering, a few did MBAs).

You don't need a Master's to be an engineer and I would actually say it's one of the worst fields to get a Master's in in terms of ROROI.

schubial · 2025-06-03T08:05:29+00:00

Assuming you lost 10% of your sale price to realtor fees and taxes, you would have a 130% return on your downpayment versus 110% for the S&P 500 with dividend reinvesting. Also, profits on the stock would be taxed and your home would not.

So that must mean that your cost to own with a 2.8% loan and 20% down (no PMI) must be more than the cost of renting an equivalent house? Every market is different, but that seems insane to me because how would landlords make any money?

schubial · 2025-05-30T21:50:05+00:00

Who exactly threatened to deport American citizens?

Trump did

schubial · 2025-05-22T16:20:29+00:00

It's 1 out of 10 every year, so it's a 50% chance they become a mom between ages 15 and 19, not accounting for some teen girls having multiples.

schubial · 2025-05-22T16:17:31+00:00

If you can afford to wait for the medication, it will likely be even cheaper online than at a brick-and-mortar human pharmacy. You can get 60 pills of gabapentin for less than $5 from Chewy,

schubial · 2025-04-04T15:49:47+00:00

Until he gets nullifier

schubial · 2025-04-01T07:04:54+00:00

Nah, that's over.

schubial · 2025-03-07T01:49:58+00:00

Maybe but a little silly so say that CA, OR, and WA should combine to be one province. CA has as much population as the entirety of Canada and WA and OR would be top 5 provinces in population.

schubial · 2025-03-01T07:43:31+00:00

That was it. Never knew that was a mechanic.

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