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by prat 17y ago
There is cost of walking away, damage to credit. So if they stay, assuming things will get better and they do, they keep their credit too.
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by prat 17y ago
I understand and agree.. but banks set up there loan terms and conditions assuming that real estate (unlike cars) increase not decrease in value over time. Ofcourse, thats an assumption that buyers have too and that's their risk. So what do
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by prat 17y ago
thats okay - but this is like paying for music/porn to be taken away from you. A big part of the equity you got when you signed up and paid for has been taken away but you are still paying the full price!!
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by prat 17y ago
If there was someway to manipulate the way credit is damaged by looking at individuals so that only sub-prime borrowers are punished - that would be a possible solution. Let the responsible buyers walk away without penalty. But I understand
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by prat 17y ago
Its not the morality but the expectation of the housing prices bouncing back to normal like the rest of the economy that is keeping them from walking away. But the issue with realestate is that its not as agile a market as stocks or commodi
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Why Are Homeowners Idiots?(fool.com)
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I surrender, Comcast(crunchgear.com)
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How a Lack of Control Leads to Superstition(scientificamerican.com)
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Speculating about the Universe as a quantum fluid(arstechnica.com)
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The first X-Rays (audio slides)(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Horizontal and vertical: The evolution of evolution (newscientist.com)
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Bill Gates has let China down(guardian.co.uk)
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Aquatic ape hypothesis(en.wikipedia.org)
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by prat 17y ago
max joy + max disgust = getting relief from constipation.
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The grimace project(grimace-project.net)
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by prat 17y ago
this was an ingredient., you might need a logo astrologist/consultant to get the recipe.
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China: The spirit of enterprise fades(economist.com)
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by prat 17y ago
It was a good idea to change the 1st G's color from green to blue.
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China claims to have '1st pop singer in Sanskrit'(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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Physicists Shrink Heat Engines by Seven Orders of Magnitude (technologyreview.com)
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Kinetic sculpture responds to singing (video)(blog.makezine.com)
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Ask HN: Could Conan-NBC breakup be a marketing stunt?
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To Create Jobs, Build Public Transit, Not Highways(wired.com)
28 points by prat 17y ago|55 comments
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MIT creates picture-driven programming for the masses (networkworld.com)
27 points by prat 17y ago|10 comments
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China builds up Great Firewall as economy grows(guardian.co.uk)
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China hits back at US over Internet censorship(guardian.co.uk)
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Carbon nanotubes used to make batteries from fabrics(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Official government data sites around the world(guardian.co.uk)
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Sperm, more social and sporty than we ever thought(nature.com)
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Electric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by prat 17y ago|0 comments

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