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by shados 5y ago
Did you ever get married, or owned stocks in a company? Have you ever entered into a signed agreement with someone? Signed a contract on anything? What about signed a lease on an apartment? That's pretty common. The landlord owns it, b
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by shados 5y ago
HOAs generally don't work like a republic. The board has some level of minimal discretionary power (eg: in our HOA the trustees can decide if and when to increase dues within certain boundaries), but the actual rules are another story,
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by shados 5y ago
> We already have a system (the courts) for redressing material harms. Laws are a baseline. People can build on top of that. Just like there are laws that define what should happen when a couple divorce, many people will sign a prenup t
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by shados 5y ago
> We all want to be allowed to do whatever we want Ehh, not everyone's that selfish. I for one am perfectly happy with compromising so that my neighbors are happier with what I do, but only if they return the favor. At a small scal
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by shados 5y ago
HOAs hate is a fascinating topic to me. Not because I care/don't care about HOAs themselves, but because it really shows how loud a vocal minority can be. The usual narrative is the evil HOA trustees who enforce their selfish gree
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by shados 5y ago
Amazon is no longer trustworthy. You can't buy something and feel confident you'll get what you ordered. Sure, MOST of the time you will, but it only takes 1-2 fakes to really shake the trust. Just looking for an item and finding
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by shados 5y ago
I know it's not quite the same and is a lot more complicated, but... What was Microsoft (PocketPC) and Palm's lead in hand held computing back in the days, right before Apple shit over everything they did in one announcement? Wear
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by shados 5y ago
Normally I'd agree (eg: I think limited concert tickets should simply be auctioned off). This is a little trickier. You have a consumer grade product aimed at a mass market segment (gamers) being used as a glorified financial market de
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by shados 5y ago
> If it works, why would I have to act like it doesn't? This vaccine is -ridiculously- effective, which definitely changed things a bit (well, a lot). It looks like people who have it are pretty much immune, the chances of transmitt
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by shados 5y ago
Yup. A lot of the rules were made in this awkward middle ground between health organizations' recommendations, politics, and need to be enforceable (the later made worse because the ADA in the US makes it really hard to enforce anythin
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by shados 5y ago
If by a small fraction you mean 20, 30% or more (and higher if your home appreciated a lot since you bought it), then yeah, sure. My taxes are about 25-30% of my mortgage payment (after a massive residential exemption, too), and if you have
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by shados 5y ago
Building housing is starting to get really high. I don't know if its because the margin is so high that workers can be paid that much (I'd be skeptical), but the average price to build in the expensive cities is pretty high. Not a
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by shados 5y ago
yeah, our property taxes have been skyrocketing, because the city is raising it by the max legally allowed every year AND they have votes to raise it further (usually by misrepresenting the needs to get people emotionally involved. Also ren
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by shados 5y ago
It's not a slam dunk if you just look at the numbers. With appreciation, my home, taking into account maintenance, renovations, significant raises in HoA fees and insurance, etc, and correlating that with how much it appreciated in val
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by shados 5y ago
This is really important. 30% of someone making minimum wage isn't the same thing as 30% of someone making 500k/year. I'm fairly well off. If housing took 70% of my after-tax income, I'd still be able to live reasonably
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by shados 5y ago
The OSS/donation model is a reaction to how hard it is to sell libraries and dev tools. Between competing open source projects and piracy, it's a race to zero anyway. The moment Babel actually has to be sold for $1 is the moment i
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by shados 5y ago
Because one of the primary "competing" project (TypeScript) is developed on payroll of a FAAMG. With that said, nothing stopping those people in Berlin from stepping up to other high profile open source projects that are looking f
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by shados 5y ago
> but why does an OSS tool have to be supported by Silicon Valley salaries? Because these high profile OSS tools generally have trouble finding core maintainers/contributors. It's easy enough to find people who will contribute
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by shados 5y ago
Looking at tech salaries globally is always going to be weird. Technically, they're mostly similar across 1st world countries, except in the US because of the bubble on the west and east coast, where they're absolutely completely
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by shados 5y ago
While there's a lot of factors involved, the impact of lowering interest rate is usually underestimated. I didn't pay an absurd amount of money for my house because the market was super hot and I had to outbid everyone in a biddin
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by shados 5y ago
Echoing whats been said, even discounting the moral implications, needless deaths, and international bad blood that would come out of it, wars are extremely expensive. It would be far cheaper for everyone to just write a regular check to Br
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by shados 5y ago
I think the point was just that your personality is in large part a biological construct influenced by the soup of factors that is your physical body. If we could somehow transfer your "soul" (if there is such a thing) in someone
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by shados 5y ago
It would have, but after the employees had time to raise their concerns internally. Instead many of them felt kind of betrayed, as they learnt the new policy at the same time the rest of us did. Not really cool.
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by shados 5y ago
Oh for sure. Writing the blog post (at all) and putting that policy in without discussing it within the company was a REAAAAAAALLY bad/tone deaf move. When they announced it originally I assumed it had been implemented for weeks and th
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by shados 5y ago
That's the biggest thing imo. Twitter is filled right now with this idea that it was probably an ultra conservative person ruffling people's feather and they were tired of the arguments between transphobic and lgbtq people or some
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by shados 5y ago
Because the people who don't want to will then have to eat lunch alone at their desk talking to no one. They're a tiny company. But yes, there were likely other solutions to try before this one, including but not limited to: not b
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by shados 5y ago
That's easy to say until you see how it actually happens. Basecamp would likely still be in the news, just instead of being about banning politics talks, it would be because they're somehow preventing their employees from supporti
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by shados 5y ago
This is a tricky one. On one hand, there's the obvious issues: almost everything you can talk about is societal or political. Talking about your lawn growing is societal because it means you can have a lawn and that gets into the housi
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by shados 6y ago
Remote work (at least in industries where it's easy to do) as a norm is likely inevitable at this point and companies that push back against it will likely have to change their stances sooner or later. At least as long as tech workers
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by shados 6y ago
A lot of the big companies (Amazon, Google, etc) are pretty poor model for...almost everything. While they may have been great at some point, they're largely carried by a few segments of their businesses and can no longer really fail.

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