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New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:32:19 +0000

i never hear YIMBYs talk about this: https://yonahfreemark.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Freemar...

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:10:17 +0000

i said "a SFH" not a neighborhood development with nice and fake numbers, and a scenario totally disconnected from reality. if costs that much to build in an area that shouldn't have a structure then that's on you.

thankfully we have regulations that disincentive those projects. there are plenty of other spots to build especially in the denser areas

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:09:45 +0000

idk you definitely need a lot of money to build a building, i didn't realize that was up for debate. also we are not talking about code regulations, we're talking about local regulations

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:08:52 +0000

yeah i don't think NYC people are gonna leave SF for NYC. those are two totally different cities with different experiences and different culture. you can live an urban lifestyle in all 50 states btw

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:25:35 +0000

yeah for sure and i didn't say that isn't a cost. i said it's a small part of the cost, almost negligible compared to the cost to actually build

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:24:59 +0000

it most certainly is not going to cost me $100k in engineering to design a SFH in arguably one of the most regulatory burdened states in the US: vermont

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:33:37 +0000

housing is expensive everywhere, not just in SF and NYC. def expensive in Austin. how do the zoning laws in SF make NYC more expensive?

New comment by greenie_beans in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

greenie_beans — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:29:09 +0000

i would love to hear a YIMBY consider the market forces/how capitalism works and not just reduce it to regulation. aka when it costs over $500k to build a single apartment unit and most of those costs are construction with very little of the regulation burden driving up that cost.

New comment by greenie_beans in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

greenie_beans — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:15:16 +0000

they charge my $60 bar tab for $20 and get tipped $20. then the bar closes and we hang out at the bar drinking for free. you should only comment on things that you know about. sorry you don't have the same experience

New comment by greenie_beans in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

greenie_beans — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:57:47 +0000

i love connecting with a bookseller at a local independent bookstore. or a bartender. or a server. etc. such a more interesting life if you connect with people at the businesses in your community

New comment by greenie_beans in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

greenie_beans — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:46:17 +0000

the internet backbone for booksellers: https://bookhead.net

New comment by greenie_beans in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

greenie_beans — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:42:46 +0000

good thing i've been writing for myself all along

Introduction to Bibliographic Data Science

greenie_beans — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:31:10 +0000

Article URL: https://pkiraly.github.io/introduction-to-bibliographic-data-science/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388731

Points: 1

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New comment by greenie_beans in "'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech"

greenie_beans — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:36:06 +0000

a major source of the north's wealth was because of its trading relationship with the antebellum south

New comment by greenie_beans in "Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success"

greenie_beans — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:33:10 +0000

reads one book about agriculture

New comment by greenie_beans in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

greenie_beans — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:43:13 +0000

yeah i'm sure you're doing this: https://mississippitoday.org/2026/05/20/mississippi-redistri...

New comment by greenie_beans in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

greenie_beans — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:41:01 +0000

my first ever coding project was making a chrome extension that made the typography better on the html formats: https://github.com/smcalilly/gutenberg-typography

New comment by greenie_beans in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

greenie_beans — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:21:28 +0000

i guess you haven't been seeing the news of all the southerners fighting the redistricting efforts after they gutted the VRA

New comment by greenie_beans in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

greenie_beans — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:42:10 +0000

can i have a five hundred?

New comment by greenie_beans in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

greenie_beans — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:17:19 +0000

as if the civil rights movement didn't have very significant events take place in mississippi https://bookshop.org/p/books/local-people-the-struggle-for-c...