thinkski

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The board is the developer. Sub-contractors have not been paid, lawsuits filed. Developer had contractor's license suspended for fraud -- promised pool, lawn care, mailboxes, didn't deliver.

Comment · 3 days ago

More details from a homeowner in this community: https://www.gofundme.com/f/homeowners-facing-devastating-hoa...

Developer is a guy named Aaron Guess, Story Homes LLC. Had his contractor license suspended for fraudulent statements (eg promised a pool, mailboxes, lawn care -- there's none) with a $15k fine. There are 80 homes in the HOA, a little over 20 are occupied, developer owns rest, is board president, and controls votes of the unoccupied homes presumably. Subcontractors have not been paid and have sued. Management company terminated contract with the HOA.

This has fraud and embezzlement written all over it -- developer is using the HOA as his personal piggybank.

Comment · 4 days ago

Something doesn't add up here.

https://www.terravistarealty.com/search/NC/Sherrills-Ford/45...

The homes in this neighborhood are fairly average single-family homes, ~$400k, roughly the median home price in the US now. There's no shared roof or walls that would be the HOAs responsibility. There's no community pool. Does not appear to be gated. Only expense as far as I can tell is the periodically repaving street, salting, perhaps some gardening -- $2500/mo, even $1250/mo is not supported by those expenses.

Who is the developer? What is their financial situation? Did they take on debt to finance development when rates were near 0% when this development was built ~2020, now that debt has come due but rates are > 5%, and they cannot pay, so they figure they can up the HOA to drop the property prices, evict the homeowners, then drop the HOA again and resell the houses for a profit to shore up their balance sheet?

Comment · 10 days ago

This would be great for a honeypot, where can observe attackers, use keystrokes for training data to identify attacks.

Comment · 1 year ago

Why not work to become a billionaire, then donate your wealth? Or begin donating your earnings today? I would guess most people on Hacker News are in the upper decile of wealth globally — there are still billions of people living poverty. Feels like a fairer way to help people than trying to do it with other people’s wealth — the latter feels like hypocrisy.

Comment · 1 year ago

Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway has over $300B in cash reserves, Buffett owns 15% of Berkshire and directs investments — he chose to park all that value in cash reserves, roughly $50B of that is his share.

Comment · 1 year ago

I’ve used [email protected] for the last 10 years or so. There have been probably a half dozen web forms where a regex expected 2-3 characters and I input an old gmail account that forwards to this address. Over the phone, the first@last part is easier to communicate since customer rep generally has the name info already. The .name throws them for a moment, but I’ve had one or two even tell me “oh, that’s cool, how did you do that?” which feels nice. It wasn’t my first choice, lastname.com was taken, but I like the precision of .name, arguably the most accurate TLD for a personal email address.

Comment · 2 years ago

You earn gross income with your labor, on which you pay tax. The net is used to pay Jiffy Lube, which pays employer taxes on the mechanic’s labor, and passes that cost onto you, the customer. If you do your own labor for yourself, pay neither.

Comment · 2 years ago

Another benefit — no one can tax your own labor for yourself. 100% of your effort goes towards your own gain.

Comment · 2 years ago

I think there’s a common misunderstanding that with IPv6 anyone can connect to anyone else. That’s not true.

My laptop has an IPv6 address, as does the router that routes its traffic. There’s no NAT, that’s true, but there’s still a firewall — only inbound packets from a destination host and port that have been sent to are allowed in. And in enterprise environments, from what I’ve seen, there’s a symmetric NAT on IPv6 anyway — packet comes from a different IPv6 address and randomized port than the one client sent it from, making peer connectivity impossible, as the source port varies by destination host and port.

Comment · 2 years ago

I suspect one is masking that a call center is in a low wage country, e.g. make customer in U.S. believe they’re talking to someone in U.S. while paying a fraction of the U.S. wage.

Comment · 2 years ago

We’re not Mormon. And it’s come from her — in fact, I’m somewhat uneasy about it as finances will get tight.

Comment · 2 years ago

It’s interesting, the grass is perhaps greener on the other side. My wife is planning on staying home with the kids when we have our second, and there’s a part of me that envy’s that freedom from worry on having to provide, being able to spend hours with our daughter while I may get a couple hours a night, our daughter is much closer to her mom already. In twenty years, the software I’ve written will likely have been long replaced — the bond invested in our children will be there forever.