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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
Sure but the rent will follow the increased purchase price. They also don’t go down, or at least they’re extremely sticky.
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
> You should be able to select freely who you want to have live in your house. If you're a building owner, there are reasons that you might want to be able to have freedom of choice in choosing who you have live in your building. Th
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
> The problem is that there will always be more voting renters than voting landlords. So in a purely democratic system, policies which favor renters at the expense of landlords will always be supported. I don’t know about that… the votin
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
> The only effective way to protect tenants is to set public policies that encourage new housing development Which the local landowning population promptly block with NIMBY tactics. Have you wondered if that has any impact? Not everythin
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
Doesn’t help that the landlords want to squeeze the renter for what they are worth. It’s weird to me that shitty landlords are normalized but shitty tenants get a (rightfully) bad rap. These laws become the way they are because landlords br
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
Apart from maybe being a little more flexible on evictions, none of the other reasons seem problematic. For instance not renting to the first qualifying tenant is a common root for discrimination. Why wouldn’t you rent to the first qualifyi
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
I don’t see a whole lot (if any) of optimism in the article. Of course the oligarchs would put out a grand vision of AI. Too many similarities to Rapture (Bioshock).
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
I thought all the JS was stripper?
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
> Just vote! You just have to vote for a democrat! It's time to say no to these charlatans. Biased much? Why not say no to Republicans, they put us in this mess time and time again.
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
Ironic because Trump said (and did) far worse things in 2016 and didn’t affect him one bit
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
The fact that he could kidnap Maduro probably gave him false confidence that waltzing into Iran might work out. Alas, for us.
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
> I've spent almost a year looking at the new apartment complexes in a 1 mil city at different price tiers and levels of completion. Almost no charging spots in any of them, or maybe 1-2 spots per 200 apartment building AND they are
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
This claim is so absurd that I need some sources.
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
I’m sure this is banged on somewhere but I love their product branding, particularly how they have this “minor” “major” thing going on. Sonnet-Opus, and now Fable-Myth.
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
Seems more like an aristocracy where the productive capacity is owned by the billionaire class
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
You’re missing the forest for the trees. Yeah the item cost doesn’t double, but it goes up significantly because now your addressable market has 2x money.
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
It’s awfully convenient for old heads who enjoyed the insane run up of the last decade and a half that are in plush situation to then say “oh it might suck for you now, too bad!” Good for you to make all the hay when the sun shone? Fuck the
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by pixelatedindex 4mo ago
I’m curious though… these days I’ve to apply for n number of jobs to get 1. Let’s say I get someone to do this provisional work. What about my existing job? I can’t just ignore it, and I can’t just causally say at my current company that I’
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
Sometimes when things change in an insidious manner, it’s hard to point out _when_ the decline started.
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
As a brown person in the US, I certainly would have felt a difference between then and now…
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
Thank you for sharing! > I still got complaints from my financial advisor that she could get us a better return than that, but I didn't care. I wanted more certainty than that. Seems to me that she is the one hurting more because yo
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
Yeah, but rent doesn’t seem to go down that much though. Opportunity cost of moving is real, security deposits are sizable. I wanted to rent for as long as possible but there’s no rent cap and the apartments keep jacking up the rent. At lea
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
> But don't do it for financial reasons. I think I disagree on this front, but that’s probably because I ended up buying a home due to a mix of FOMO, bad landlords and rent not being too far from mortgage. Plus from a psychological
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
> A more important point is why is it that Americans objectively are richer yet feel poorer? I thought about this a lot. Some of it is expectation wrapped up in the American Dream. You work hard, and get those rewards. But that isn’t tru
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
Why wouldn’t they? It’s a supply and demand thing, supply is lower so pay is higher to meet demand. Other ways to solve is to settle for less if the job isn’t that crucial, or look for someone who lives in a lower cost of living area who ca
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
That doesn’t directly prove that there aren’t enough Americans who can do the job. Sometimes yeah, the non American is better like in photolithography. Generally though, the foreign candidate is not so much better that hiring an American wo
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
> Have you ever hired someone before? Did you decide to take the best person you found or did you pick an American? Many times. Sometimes we don’t offer sponsorships so we hired who didn’t need one. Other times not. During the interview
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
> At a certain point, there aren't enough Americans for these jobs Is that really true? I’m sure in some fields where you need rare experts I believe it. For the average engineer who is just another cog in the wheel of big corp, I h
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
Yeah that’s fair, I feel let down all the time with how my taxes are (ab)used. Not a surprise, It’s been like this as long as I can remember.
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by pixelatedindex 5mo ago
> and paid over $100,000 in taxes last year alone Genuinely curious, what does taxes have to do with it? Everyone pays taxes, legal or illegal in some form. I don’t think paying your dues should make you more likely to get through the pi

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