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mPony, in Legal minds, what do empty brackets mean inside a quote? Like this: Can I "ask[ ] you?"

Your analysis is correct. This is how you attribute a quote where you have removed a letter for readability in a different context.

aidan, (edited )
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And here I’ve been using an elipsis like a fool

greatwhitebuffalo41, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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Damn, what country are you in? I bought at the tail end of the 2008 crash. Things were still low but, coming back up. I think I’m at 4.5%

My friends parents bought in 2007 and keep making terrible financial decisions so they can’t refinance. If I understood right their interest rate is 15% or something INSANE.

briefingWizard936, (edited )

Romania. We are in the EU but not in the €urozone. We still use the local currency. For the same amount in € the rate is 6.40%. Total ripoff compared to the Northern/Western parts of the EU which is why I didn't sign shit. They can go fuck themselves.

greatwhitebuffalo41,
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Ohhh. Damn. Hope things get better

briefingWizard936,

I'd rather leave the EU for places with better opportunities for making it big fast.

0xtero, (edited ) in What is Kbin’s identity?

For consistency,

Threads should be renamed to "Articles"
Microblog should be renamed to "Posts".

As for Kbin identity - well.. I guess it's a "user interface to fediverse".

Fediverse, in turn, is a sprawling network that publishes and makes different types of ActivityPub objects available to users.

Kbin has tools to work and interact with some of those object types.

exscape,
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Aren't threads and articles separate concepts on Kbin though? I agree that it's confusing however, and perhaps should be simplified.

My understanding that an article is closer to a reddit text post, while the others (link, photo, video) are all what reddit considers "links".

So articles are threads, but so are links, photos and videos. To be clear, that's my understanding, not fact.

zebus,
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You’ve got a good point, someone should make a userscript to rename the buttons lol

Rhiannax3,
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That would confuse me even more to be honest. A submission that people discuss and reply to is not what I would think of as an article - to me, that would be more like a standalone publication.

I do feel like using different terminology could help in understanding how this all fits together though.

Mateng, (edited ) in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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Germany. We got our loan in 2018 for 1.78%. A friend of mine even negotiated 1.4%. However, we have a loan term length (is that the word?) of 10 years, so let's hope rates will be low again in 2028.

Edit: It's a fixed interest rate over 10 years. Zinsbindung in German.

ferallettuce,

@Mateng

@briefingWizard936

Loan term refers to the total life of the loan. A 10 year term would mean you could pay off the loan in 10 years through making minimum payments.

Are you referring to an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM)? That’s what’s they’re called in the USA. ARMs haven’t made a lot of sense in most cases as of late.

What does lending look like there? Do you all do 30 year mortgages too? Do you have an option for a fixed rate mortgage?

Mateng,
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No, what I meant was a fixed interest rate over 10 years (German: Zinsbindung). The loan is over ~30 years.

After 10 years, we can decide if we change the lender or stay with them. The lender can decide on a new interest rate.

Fiddler, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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Poland here. Was quoted 2-3 months ago anywhere from 9.5% to 11.10%. Fixed rate for 5 years and then it would be updated to whatever the new rate will be.

I refused, gave up the purchase of a house till the prices will calm down (if ever), going to buy a boat to live aboard.

Melpomene, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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Looks like the lowest I can go is around 6%, which makes renting a better proposition for me.

briefingWizard936, (edited )

In what location / currency ?

Melpomene,
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USA and dollars, the math doesn't work for buying right now... at least for me.

-spam-, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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In Australia but we are just over 7% on our variable rate. Think 2 years ago it was down at like 3.something%.

Our reserve bank keeps upping the cash rate to "combat inflation" but all that is doing is making those of us with home loans give the banks more of our earnings while we already couldn't afford to splash out.

readbeanicecream, in Legal minds, what do empty brackets mean inside a quote? Like this: Can I "ask[ ] you?"
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@RMiddleton Yep. Means the author removed a letter from the word. So in the image above the author removed a d or s from the word waive. It just helps the quote make sense in context of the passage.

Drusas,

It's worth noting that this is nothing to do with legal writing in particular. You'll find this in all academic writing as well, and in journalism.

RMiddleton,
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For some reason I have never noticed this before, or else I have just forgotten it in the 3 decades since I was in college.

Hyacathusarullistad, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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Here in Canada my wife and I got 2.19% at the end of 2021.

Unfortunately the 1100 square foot condo we bought cost us 550k.

Awwab,
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Ooof

Hyacathusarullistad,
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Frankly it was a steal compared to what some of the places we missed out on went for. One place we looked at was listed at 419, we offered 610, and it sold for 731. It was a ~1000 square foot bungalow with a half finished basement.

dreday, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?

The Feds are raising interest rates to combat inflation. Now is not the time to borrow.

PupBiru, in How do I remove sticker residue from glass containers?
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orange oil is one i haven’t seen mentioned yet!

i haven’t tried olive oil and other similar oils like others have suggested, but there’s a product in my country that’s specifically sticky stuff remover (like label residue) and it’s made of orange oil

ConfusedLlama,
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Wait... oranges have oil?! O.o

DasRubberDuck,

It's in the peels and has lots of the fruits flavour. All citrus have it, that's why you grind a bit of lemon peel into your food: It tastes way more lemony than the juice.

FinalFallacy, in What drives you as a person?
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Ya know, I have been asking myself that for two weeks now I have learned that over time I have completely lost sight of having passions, deep interests and stuff. I guess it's time to try to rediscover those things because it's hard to get out of bed in the morning.

Hairyblue, in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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12 years ago house mortgage were 4% with good credit.

tal, (edited ) in The cheapest mortgage rate I can get today is 9.13% which is insane. What's the lowest rate you can get?
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For the US, June 2023:

https://www.cnet.com/personal-finance/mortgages/todays-mortgage-rates-for-june-26-2023-rates-trend-higher/

For a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage, the average rate you'll pay is 7.06%

The average rate for a 15-year, fixed mortgage is 6.46%

Elixartist, in What drives you as a person?

Looking forward to the things I'll learn and conversations I'll have.

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