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dgrin91 commented on Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash   tampabay28.com/news/state... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Ekaros · 4 days ago
Well any funds in HOA is part of the property. Could have reported it when selling and increase price correspondingly or at least some fraction.
dgrin91 · 4 days ago
Hoa funds practically never get redistributed back to owners. I've never heard of such a case. We are only talking about it here because a legislature is talking about changing something state wide (and realistically this won't happen anyways).

So there is no realistic scenario where hoa reserves factor into home price

dgrin91 commented on Florida lawmaker floats ban on HOAs amid growing backlash   tampabay28.com/news/state... · Posted by u/bilsbie
RandomBacon · 4 days ago
Who are you charging $175?
dgrin91 · 4 days ago
I think what GP is saying is that if I was a homeowner for 30 years, paid HOA fees all those years, then last year sold to someone else, who gets the HOA reimbursement then? I paid thousands over years and would presumably get nothing, while some other guy who just moved in all of a sudden gets a big check? That seems unfair.
dgrin91 commented on Show HN: I was curious about spherical helix, ended up making this visualization   visualrambling.space/movi... · Posted by u/damarberlari
dgrin91 · 6 days ago
Very cool & pretty, but I feel a little let down. There is a huge leap from the basics of 3d plotting & spheres to the crazy pattern you tease and then show at the end. I understand it as someone who kind of knows this stuff already, but I think its way too big of a leap for someone who doesn't have the background.
dgrin91 commented on Guid Smash   guidsmash.com... · Posted by u/nugzbunny
vlovich123 · 10 days ago
Depends on what “isn’t even that large means”. A modern 6ghz machine would probably need 12 years of 24/7 operation to count that high. To me that seems like a lot.
dgrin91 · 10 days ago
Yeah, but a nation state server farm can probably cut that down to minutes because their budget can buy a lot of processors. You only need a few hundred to really shrink it down to manageable numbers. And it turns out that nation starts aren't the only ones that have this budget
dgrin91 commented on Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets   scmp.com/news/asia/southe... · Posted by u/belter
echelon · 11 days ago
> It's able to operate from airstrips that are no more than roads

I can understand this argument.

> The USAF's force model involves basing at big, well-equipped, well-protected air bases.

But I don't understand this one. Isn't a drone attack a drone attack? The same drones that could take out F-16s could take out Gripens. You'd have to defend your expensive weapon systems in either case.

Don't we need a new strategy that isn't entirely reliant upon extremely powerful, but extremely expensive hardware? I'd imagine you still want your expensive pieces, but that you want a compliment of inexpensive combat items and fortified bunkers as a line of defense to protect them when not deployed.

dgrin91 · 11 days ago
Yes but it's a question of finding targets. Why was Ukraine able to decimate the Russian Air Force? Partly because they are all based out of big, well known bases. Even in wartime they have to be in a big base.

A jet like the Gripen can move basically instantly to basically anywhere and then it's hard to find, especially because it can just move again

dgrin91 commented on H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House   newsweek.com/h-1b-visas-c... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
xnx · 14 days ago
Why not auction H-1B visas? Isn't that typically the most efficient/optimal way to distribute a limited resource?
dgrin91 · 14 days ago
Because then the bigtechs will buy them all and everyone else gets nothing.
dgrin91 commented on Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others   drawafish.com... · Posted by u/hallak
dgrin91 · 25 days ago
Very fun. My only suggestion would be a small highlight when you submit your fish so you can easily see which fish is yours - at least for a few seconds.
dgrin91 commented on Microsoft bans LibreOffice developer's account without warning, rejects appeal   neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/bundie
worik · a month ago
> In this day and age, it is almost impossible for certain businesses not to build on someone's else kingdom.

No it is not

It is often difficult and expensive, relative to letting Facebook (or the like) do the hosting.

But VPSs are a thing, you can run almost any software on them.

Stretching the analogy: Build your castle on your own bedrock, and build "forts", or "outposts", on the enemy territory

Ignoring Facebook et. el. is stupid, but depending on them is fool hardy

dgrin91 · a month ago
Thats not what other people's kingdoms means. Basically all non-trivial apps are already built on VPSs. The other people's kingdoms refers to how people interact with your app. Take Zynga - they were not literally running on FB servers, I'm sure they had their own VPS, but their games just had 0 reach outside of FB. When FB decided to change things Zynga just got fucked, VPS or not.
dgrin91 commented on Where are vacation homes located in the US?   construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/rufus_foreman
PopAlongKid · a month ago
This explains very little. State income tax is based on your state of residence, not where you have a vacation home, in which by definition you do not live most of the year. Further, it makes no sense to refer to "the state with no income tax", as there are many of those.

Granted, there are some working-age people who buy a vacation home with the thought of moving into it permanently a decade or two into the future, but those plans entail a lot of uncertainty (health, closeness to family) and of course once they move, it is no longer a vacation home.

dgrin91 · a month ago
Or you spend 6 months + 1 day in your 0 tax state (possibly with some creative accounting) and the rest in high income tax state.
dgrin91 commented on Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data   pricepertoken.com/... · Posted by u/alexellman
dgrin91 · a month ago
Cool site. Would be interesting to add a time dimension to track prices over time

u/dgrin91

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