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baash05 commented on The Reason Young People Can’t Afford a Home   fee.org/articles/heres-th... · Posted by u/paulpauper
phendrenad2 · 3 years ago
This is correct. The population is growing faster than new homes are being built, especially in hot economic regions that people are migrating to for the promise of a better job (CA, NYC, Seattle, Denver). It's always implied that this is a problem, but renting is fine. Home ownership is just a form of renting where you stop paying the mortgage at some point, and keep having to pay the property tax and HOA dues. Some people seem to think that passing a home down to their children is better than passing money down, but I don't see how that makes any sense.
baash05 · 3 years ago
100% agree.. Home ownership sort of sucks in some ways..

I like to go home and not worry about the plumbing, or grass, or if the rain was going to impact the solar panels.

Now when I owned my first place, I spent my weekends putting in new floors. I painted every room, and helped redo the plumbing. Months of lost weekends, and about 15k...

So when we sold I was rather happy. We got 30k over what we paid. Then the agent after 2 days work took his 17k slice off the price. And so now that 30k was down to 13. So weeks and months of work and net profit - 2k.

baash05 commented on The Reason Young People Can’t Afford a Home   fee.org/articles/heres-th... · Posted by u/paulpauper
midnitewarrior · 3 years ago
This is some real libertarian propaganda, blaming the environmentalists and building codes for limiting the housing supply.
baash05 · 3 years ago
Zoning..
baash05 commented on The Reason Young People Can’t Afford a Home   fee.org/articles/heres-th... · Posted by u/paulpauper
la64710 · 3 years ago
So what?? I could not afford to buy a home until I was 40. Young people need to save before they can downpay. BTW I live in the Bay Area.
baash05 · 3 years ago
47 here

My grandparents paid 20% interest.

My Parents were also in 50's.

baash05 commented on Fast had ~500 employees, 30 mil in volume, 600K in revenue   twitter.com/sarthakgh/sta... · Posted by u/vincentmarle
quantified · 3 years ago
Taking the lede at face value, a company with 600k in revenue and 500 employees can’t even make payroll, how would they justify any valuation?
baash05 · 3 years ago
Yeah.. this
baash05 commented on The GitHub discussions for Atom have been flooded with spam bots for days   github.com/atom/atom/disc... · Posted by u/MatthiasPortzel
MatthiasPortzel · 3 years ago
There's an open issue where the maintainer pledges to ban some of them. https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/23978. But Atom is currently in a maintenance mode and one (volunteer?) contributor can't manually moderate against an army of bots. It's disappointing to see that Microsoft hasn't moved on this, considering how historically spam-free Github has been.
baash05 · 3 years ago
VS code competes 100% with Atom. MS vs MS.
baash05 commented on Letting police access Google location data can help solve crimes   washingtonpost.com/outloo... · Posted by u/erdos4d
baash05 · 3 years ago
People who say things like this should be required to read 1984 before they're allowed to post again.

People who say "I have nothing to hide" should be required to post a video of themselves going to the bathroom, along with their bank statement, and facebook/email password.

baash05 commented on Why enterprises keep trying to resurrect self-service developer platforms   techrepublic.com/article/... · Posted by u/mooreds
baash05 · 3 years ago
I for one love Heroku.

As a dev, the last thing I want to do is solve a solved problem. Building a docker image to allow me to red-green deploy sounds about as exciting as writing an XML parser.

As someone who pays for dev time. I can spend > 100k for an ops expert, or pay a small fraction of that to have something like Heroku handle it for me. They do updates, I don't care. 200$ a month and I'm cooking with gas.

baash05 commented on Software patents should be abolished (2009)   cdixon.org/2009/09/24/sof... · Posted by u/charsi
baash05 · 3 years ago
What I remember of RIM, is they took some guys code. He innovated, and they took it. He told them, and just asked for a mention in the authors page. A quick thanks mate. I'd suspect it would help him land future jobs, and be fun to talk about.

They rejected it. He died and his estate sold the rights. Then BB got sued. They should have been sued, and deserved what they got. Don't steal from devs

baash05 commented on Ask HN: Why don’t some schools hide grades from parents to avoid upsetting them?    · Posted by u/amichail
toast0 · 3 years ago
There's a private school near me which doesn't do grades, which might be close enough.

If you're a parent and seeing your kids grades would distress you, you could choose not to look.

baash05 · 3 years ago
God help your kid when they are under performing at work.

Oh.. you failed to learn to read and write. Well no grades. Good luck on your Jib Hunt. Hope you have someone help you rite you're rezuma.

u/baash05

KarmaCake day154March 29, 2020View Original