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dubswithus commented on High property taxes are good brooock.com/a/property-ta... · Posted by u/brockwhittaker

babypuncher · 3 years ago

The difference is turning a profit was not my primary motivation, owning my primary residence was. If making money was my top priority then there are several other houses I looked at that I would have bought instead.

dubswithus · 3 years ago

Imagine someone offered you a house but the agreement was that you could only sell it for what you bought it for. I doubt you would buy it considering there are other options on the market where you could profit in the future. It's 100% speculation. It's part of the package.

dubswithus commented on Are forum platforms dead? rosie.land/posts/are-foru... · Posted by u/rosiesherry

dang · 3 years ago

If you keep using HN for ideological flamewar, like you've been doing in this thread, we will ban you. We've warned you about this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dubswithus · 3 years ago

When are you going to ban this user? Their username is sexual and offends me as a woman.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MegaButts

dubswithus commented on Former Coinbase Employee Charged in First Ever Crypto Insider Trading Scheme stacker.news/items/47796... · Posted by u/123six

dubswithus · 3 years ago

Link should be changed.

dubswithus commented on High property taxes are good brooock.com/a/property-ta... · Posted by u/brockwhittaker

babypuncher · 3 years ago

I bought my starter home to live in for 5 years while I continued building my career, not to flip.

dubswithus · 3 years ago

You bought it to live in for 5 years and then you flipped it for more money than you bought it? That's the definition of successful speculation.

dubswithus commented on High property taxes are good brooock.com/a/property-ta... · Posted by u/brockwhittaker

dubswithus · 3 years ago

All homeowners are real estate speculators.

Wouldn't you also consider anyone buying a "starter home" a speculator? Their goal is to continuously flip their house.

dubswithus commented on VCs are scared when they should be greedy blog.aaronkharris.com/vcs... · Posted by u/mlchild

MegaButts · 3 years ago

> In contrast with the scenario in 2000, most of today’s tech companies are real businesses.

How many of today's startups are just servicing each other with VC money? This isn't meant to be flippant - I'm genuinely curious (and while I bet it's a lot, I am skeptical it is overwhelming).

I mean if we really look at some of the business models for these companies, they're clearly unsustainable. Uber is a prime example of a company that seems destined to fail. If your unit economics don't work then you're fucked, and even if you raise literally tens of billions of dollars you will eventually run out of money. And yet companies like these are held up as prime examples of unicorn success stories. It's not just Uber - there are serious problems with many of the most acclaimed startups.

Obviously not all startups are terrible, but as someone who isn't a VC (but once considered becoming one), I think tech investors are unable to see their bias for just how awful most tech companies today are.

dubswithus · 3 years ago

Very good points MegaButts. Crypto is VC funded too. Hence the crazy market caps because most of the VC owned supply is locked up.

dubswithus commented on Soft deletion probably isn't worth it brandur.org/soft-deletion... · Posted by u/lfittl

nirvdrum · 3 years ago

My experience at a few start-ups has been that account deletion just isn't prioritized. It's not a focus when building an MVP. If the application ever gains traction, everyone is then terrified they'll accidentally delete customer data that they never delete anything. It's a shame. As a user, when I delete my account or data in my account, I want you to permanently delete it, not keep it around and just make inaccessible to me.

dubswithus · 3 years ago

The business owns your data. Why would they delete it if they don't have to?