hackerfromthefu

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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
And those competent people would have to put up with career position squatters who can't be fired but are just obstructive, or political career squabblers as bad or worse than private sector.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Smart IT professionals specifically EXCLUDE working directly for Australian government organisations because of the dysfunctions and politics. Even being one of the consultants working 'for' them is bad but not as bad as being dir
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Regarding number 1, then expertise to support the thing is lost when the project is handed over.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Same thing happened to me just the other day. Including the forced clenched teeth laughing to avoid the alternative.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
If rates go up like that the housing market will freeze up and people wont sell if at all possible to avoid. Banks who own the assets if they force people to sell don't want to see the asset values go down below their collateral requir
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
But for someone just purchasing now, paying those mega high prices, a 10% drop is a lot of money they borrowed .
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Its refreshing to see some maths on this, I hope the people who complain about housing profits read your post, and are capable of doing maths.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
But so much of the new age groups is sold the dream HARD by social media ala Instagram. Aspirationalism is far worse than it was with previous generations.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Look more than 10 years into the future. 20 years from how as a renter your ongoing costs will be high. 20 years from now as a home owner with the mortgage lower and inflation on everything higher, your ongoing costs will be low. Owning a h
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Yes corporations/BlackRock must be limited to 3 or 10 or whatever. If they corner the market we will see a dystopia for sure.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
The ideas here are far too theoretical and absolutist to work in the real world.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Housing investment is a business. Buying the house is a risk, and you sink money and effort into it in the early phases, in the hope of getting profit out of it in the later phases. If you are going to make that business unprofitable then n
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Most types of profit are immoral. Providing housing is at least genuinely clearly useful. Manipulating people to buy stuff they don't need (advertising, marketing, hollywood) is immoral in so many ways. Weapons are very questionable, m
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
This is just handwaving voodo - we expect better on hackernews. Reality is landlords are in all different situations, some have spare money above costs of interest, rates, insurances, rental agent fees, etc etc and can use that to pay for m
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
This really is wrong. There's so many contracts the landlord has to keep up with, and pay, the council on various cases like rates, water, upkeep of lawns or council will and bill, keeping up with changing building codes and rules such
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
No, social media is NOT 'connecting us more accurately to the real state of things'. Most people are getting drip fed curated content to 'influence' them, which has a very different agenda to accuracy regarding real thin
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
If you want people to 100% believe it, add it to the employment contracts, with significant payments if the company reneges. However I think you will find that the executives won't go for it.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Thats not a patriarchy thing, it's a gender assumptions thing. Calling it patriarchy is just another in the long stream insults to maleness that has become common, in the worst sense of the word common.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Yeah where's the checkbox for stable, and for realistic expectations!
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
I think also a lot of woman feel more comfortable or safer with a man around that height.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Whether its a nightmare or not depends on what you practise. Dependency heavy environments such as e.g. node or python make it a nightmare. But large stable base library environments with selectively chosen dependencies are usually easy to
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
That works because there's money involved in the accounts. Where does the money come from to manually verify all the socmed accounts?
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
This is misleading because everything you compare it to does compound. When people talk about an interest rate, a growth rate, an inflation rate .. everything compounds. If you're saying 5% of some special non compounding thing thats m
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Hard agree, it's like a diet of pure sugar - it corrupts the body or in this case the minds expectations.
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Wrong, it's that those houses are in locations that are now the epicentre of a huge cultural and infrastructure amenity that did not even exist in the 1900s. The physical houses are not the value there, it's the location and ameni
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Yes its true, see details in this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31156040
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
In 1946 that house was in the styx with bugger all facilities and infrastructure about it. Fast forward 76 years of development and that house is now in the center of a large city full of facilities and opportunity. To compare the 1946 hous
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
Social media influencer is not a job, its a business, and the people doing well at it are making serious money, more than most software engineers. However it's more of a winner takes all market, akin to e.g. acting.
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The old rules don't apply because the old interest rates were so very much higher. The prices are based on the ability to repay based on the income - with lower interest rates the same income and service a much larger loan, hence the i
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by hackerfromthefu 4y ago
No you can't blithely choose which measure of success - it actually doesn't have a single measure. Your measure of market share is a reasonable one, as are the two I proposed being profit and creating and succeeding in entirely ne

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