gregman

Well no, but I'm curious what the FTC's studies of that were. There are plenty of reviews of OpenDoor (check Reddit) where reviewers stated they just needed to clean out their house. I'm guessing OpenDoor has a certain standard for agreeing to buy a home, and some homes they ask to do repairs would otherwise have been turned away.

Agreed. iBuying is a business and your paying for the convenience of them taking your home as-is. Even though their offering price is lower than what you'd receive from selling with a realtor, you still end up spending 10-15% of your home value when selling the traditional way.

source: https://www.redfin.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-sell-a-...

Agreed. One thing this article doesn't point out that was a bigger topic a couple of weeks prior is that Zillow had to halt purchases due to lack of workers to help flip the homes [1]. The iBuying revenue model depends on the ability to flip a home quickly so that market fluctuations do not have enough time to pose as a risk, which Zillow was willing to take.

1 - https://archive.md/tNaDt

I think you are describing DDG.

To prevent data from being used by the Uber app on Android I enabled data server mode, and from there denied the Uber app from having unrestricted data access (settings > apps > special access > unrestricted data access). This allows me to still use the Uber app and request a ride, and I'll receive texts once the car is near.

Last week during Thanksgiving travel I received a advertisement from the Uber app (as a notification) when I arrived at the SFO airport, even though I did not use the app at all that day. That's when I decided it was time to take away the unrestricted data access. I do agree that it would be nice to have better privacy options for each app, but I thought I'd share this workaround for the time being.

Take a look at the FOIA Machine: https://www.foiamachine.org/

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Nitrous.IO — https://www.nitrous.io

SF / Singapore (remote can be considered)

At Nitrous.IO we are changing the way the world codes. Our mission with Nitrous.IO is to improve the way you work and collaborate on software applications by making development environments easier to create, configure and share.

We just closed a $6.65M Series A financing round and are growing at a fast rate. If you’re interested in helping us change the way the world codes, check out our jobs page:

https://www.nitrous.io/jobs

Positions include:

* Platform Engineer

* Software Engineer

* Support Engineer

* Developer Evangelist

* Product Designer

* Product Marketing / Growth Hacker

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Here are some (but not all) of the languages/technologies you could be working with:

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* JavaScript

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Looking at the update at 2.32pm AEST makes me sad. Two people mourning over the loss of their relatives and everyone in the airport takes pictures of them. Here is the image (although I'm just spreading it around more): http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/20...