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by carom 4y ago
I almost got kicked out of school over a computer related issue. I refused to admit to it and they threatened to call the police. It honestly would have been preferable as the police have due process. Kids reading this, don't give them
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by carom 4y ago
So in this case the investor is taking a few hundred thousand dollar loss so the building can then be sold for a loss and rented at a price that makes market rent make sense? I feel restrictive zoning is a much bigger issue than empty unsus
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by carom 4y ago
The lot is zoned for 14 units, has 4 currently. If we give the 2 other families that live here a few hundred thousand dollar entitlement it will never be developed. Your proposal is insane. They've paid 600 dollars (rent control) a mon
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by carom 4y ago
Let's say you can build a rental unit for 300k. Third parties can't do this now. So individuals can come together, form a collective (LLC), and fund the development of a building they will live in. Let's say they need 10% dow
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by carom 4y ago
So it would be more ethical to take the 4 unit building I live in and make it a single family home?
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by carom 4y ago
So you have a city like Los Angeles or NYC. You convert all housing to single family homes. Can more people of fewer people live there now?
487.
by carom 4y ago
>Landlords don't create added value. I'm skeptical that it is a necessary service Subdividing your land and making it available to others is valuable. The world without that is all single family homes.
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by carom 4y ago
>b) is selling a propery for more than 3% (inflation adjusted) of the intial purchase value This makes it more profitable to sit and collect rent than to sell. Property will never change hands. I hope the current owner knows how to build
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by carom 4y ago
How do you feel about rent control? That gives someone who was there earlier a market distorting deal just because they were there first.
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by carom 4y ago
For the visible homeless the percentage is high, but there are a lot of people living in their cars or on a friend's couch who just can't afford housing.
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by carom 4y ago
>The actual cost of construction/materials of the house itself makes a negligible part of real estate speculation. $250/sqft, want to loan me 3 million? It will last more than a few decades.
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by carom 4y ago
Remove zoning restrictions. I will build multi unit housing in my lifetime. I would do it sooner but it is expensive and permitting is hard. There are so many barriers that protect single family homes.
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by carom 4y ago
In other parts of this thread people are arguing that a land value tax wouldn't increase rental prices because landlords are price takers. How does land trading hands drive up rents if landlords are price takers?
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by carom 4y ago
>In the most desirable areas you can literally do nothing as a landlord and raise rents almost perpetually. You can also do literally nothing even if you want to because of zoning. Remove all the market distortions and watch rental price
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by carom 4y ago
I feel it is more unethical to have single family homes, restrictive zoning, and other things that prevent providing housing on limited land.
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by carom 4y ago
>No. Renters are paying for the value of the land and the improvements. If the rental price of the apartment is above that, they won't pay it and find another place. Then why are investors a problem?
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by carom 4y ago
If you are residing on your property rather than subdividing it and making it available up people who can't afford to buy you should pay way higher taxes, maybe 4x. Rental availability would explode and that would be the point.
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by carom 4y ago
If this is true how do investors drive up price?
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by carom 4y ago
Honestly it would make owning a single family home more expensive and a rental cheaper. Since the rental is closer to maximizing the land's utility. Georgists never mention this. You'd also eliminate things like rent control and
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by carom 4y ago
So it will be more economical for me to convert my apartment building to a single family home? OK. Sounds like the ideal neolib hellscape, single family home suburbia as far as the eye can see. It is already difficult to make money in real
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by carom 4y ago
I eat salt regularly, so probably not, and I can eat other (softer) cheeses, and I can eat potato chips but not flavored ones with MSG (this was actually how I discovered MSG might be a trigger). So I am very confident that it has to do wit
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by carom 4y ago
I get sinus headaches from all things glutamate. MSG in chips, parmesan, tomatos, etc. Doubt it has anything to do with the brain but I can attest that there are dietary reactions to it. Happy to submit to any study (because I would also li
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by carom 4y ago
If they aren't good at their job or it is status quo, they will brush it off. Sometimes it takes a new perspective to say what the fuck is wrong with this? As an example, I joined a company with ~8k employees recently. They over commun
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by carom 4y ago
Use them to measure how well people will perform in the tasks that you need them to do. For coding interviews, Square's is really good. [1] I am not sure if they have sample questions written anywhere in the linked blog posts, but very
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by carom 4y ago
>I see this argument all the time, but I can't find any other place that it comes from other than disappointment from those that didn't or can't pass those interviews. I have passed these interviews. Had offers from multip
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by carom 4y ago
They absolutely should be spending their time doing that. They are in the position to say "I have to do X, Y, and Z to push 2 lines of code??" and actually get it fixed. That week could save the company years of developer hours lo
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by carom 4y ago
Often times the interesting teams knew who they wanted to fill headcount with. They would say "stop by for an informal chat", then in that chat they would interview you on (e.g.) very niche terminology. After that they would tell
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by carom 4y ago
I think a lot of this comes from organizational bureaucracy. I love to program. I write code on personal projects every single night. It is so difficult to get tickets at work though. Want to build something new? Well, we will have to maint
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by carom 4y ago
I am writing a large Go web application right now and I disagree with this. I do not want to return an error. I want to write an error page or an error JSON message depending on the handler. By the time you are deep in a web application you
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by carom 4y ago
This is probably the most abjectly negative comment section I've seen on HN. Really reddit-tier comments coming from some well aged accounts.

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