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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • When I try to find somewhere to live, complete failure means homelessness.

    Only if there are zero other rentals on the market, which is never the case.

    When I try to find someone to rent my property, complete failure means I lose an investment property

    Only if you are not a small time landlord. Big landlords can afford to lose income. Someone with 2 -5 properties cannot. That’s up to 50% of their income for the year. And not only that, a complete job loss if they lose the property, risking homelessness. It’s still a job for small landlords.

    This is once again a battle against billionaires, not your local neighbors. Stop acting like specific jobs are evil. It’s the amount of money a human sucks up that is evil, not the job they do (well to an extent of course).



  • Failure to enter into such an agreement has far more urgent and dire consequences for the tenant than for the landlord. So when you say:

    It depends on the state. You will be able to retain housing for over six months without paying a dime before getting evicted in my state. This has implications for both tenant and landlord. Imagine trying to put off paying a mortgage for six months. Of course it’s a business for the landlord, but for small time landlords who only own a few properties it’s a much bigger deal than it is for the rental private equity companies sucking everything up.

    But the unjustified jump in rent and housing prices is primarily due to widespread institutional investment in residential property. Algorithmic pricing collusion is also playing a major role in rental hikes, far exceeding any effect arising from abusive tenants.

    Completely agree.



  • Regular wear and tear is not what I’m talking about. I live in a state where tenants actually hold more of the power. It’s why I was able to threaten a previous landlord with 3x damages for refusing to return a deposit (2 times actually, both resulting in returned deposits). Wear and tear is usually covered in your state laws. That’s not what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about actual abuse. Drilling massive holes in walls. Cutting down trees without permission. Refusing to mow or water the grass (I’ve been on both sides of this). Destroying almost everything of value in the rental (toilet, bath, mirrors, stove, microwave, baseboard heaters, lights, fans, floors).



  • Owning and living in it is completely different than owning and renting. I don’t rent anymore, and I also don’t own multiple homes, but just from seeing what happens to the house next door, renters are not maintaining your property value. Selling your rental after it has been rented for ten years is no guarantee. That’s part of why rent has gone insane, people literally treat anything that isn’t their own as something to be destroyed.










  • In what world is a production codebase 75k lines. A single project at my last company was 1.4 million lines of code. Every single one of our microservices had more lines of code than that. And just my team was responsible for 50+ microservices. And thirteen tokens per line is hilariously low.

    Holding a week of chat in your head is nothing when 90% of it is stuff that is incorrect or discussed and minds changed. This is exactly why my boss keeps saying conflicting things, the LLM doesn’t know what is true or not. It just regurgitates the random thing from context.