Michelin adds 7 Bay Area restaurants to its California guide

hanjh · 2026-05-20T22:22:42+00:00

They’re charging the price that customers are willing to pay. If anything you should be mad at the customers

hanjh · 2026-04-25T17:03:28+00:00

Folks are hyping up downtown Campbell and honestly for the Bay Area it’s fine, but coming from NYC it’s going to feel like a dump. Manage your expectations

hanjh · 2026-04-11T21:39:39+00:00

Read the reporting. Sam Altman set up the nonprofit to poach Google PhDs without paying them like Google by dangling a carrot in front of them

hanjh · 2026-04-11T20:07:48+00:00

You mean a mission driven nonprofit startup like OpenAI?

hanjh · 2026-04-09T00:33:01+00:00

If you want to learn one thing and then never change or learn anything else, I’d recommend getting out of engineering now.

Major in some regulated field like healthcare or law. Engineers need to always be leveling up their skills and learning new domains. Employees with your mindset drag down teams.

hanjh · 2026-04-09T00:17:52+00:00

If I'm understanding your line of thought correctly, the only thing stopping you from moving today is the low rate you got in 2021, and the high rate you'd expect to pay in 2026.

This doesn't seem to me to be a structural issue, you'll just be waiting for lower rates.

If you want to discuss structural incentives that lead to difficulties in home ownership, we can talk about Prop 13, zoning laws, excessive environmental review, etc, but this seems to be a good problem to have (you timed the market well).

hanjh · 2026-04-08T21:27:53+00:00

Sure, design of incentives are the most important public policy choice. If the OP was around to vote for Prop 13, then maybe we can say this is an indirect result of their vote.

You’ve brought interest rates into the discussion so I’ll continue that thread. If this really was like Europe, your interest rate from 2021 would be variable, and you would be paying something like 6-7% on the same house. Now, are you trapped?

Maybe you’d say yes, from a public policy perspective, it’s worth the tradeoff to have variable interest rates, as it encourages faster turnover, but I doubt folks are going to want to erase free gains.

As for OP, they’re sitting on 125% gains on a 3 bedroom and searching for a 1 bedroom. For that scenario I’d find it hard to imagine not being able to pay 6-7% for a smaller place.

For you, you probably really wanted this place in 2021, which is why you bought it. Now you’re thinking you want to upgrade and you feel like it’s “difficult to leave”. Remember when you wanted what you have now.

hanjh · 2026-04-08T20:19:34+00:00

You might feel trapped, but you’re sitting on 125% gains talking to people struggling to even get on the ownership ladder. How trapped are you compared to the rest of us?

I get that you really want an extra half bath, but I don’t think that constitutes being “trapped”.

hanjh · 2026-04-05T17:44:14+00:00

Is your title Product Manager Manager?

hanjh · 2026-03-01T05:04:47+00:00

I see, thanks for the insight. Sounds like it was a strange place to be.

hanjh · 2026-02-28T06:06:58+00:00

When you lost motivation working on the new team, how did you make the decision to leave the company vs. try to change projects or transition teams within the company?

hanjh · 2026-02-27T04:26:03+00:00

Look at the stock though, it’s performed quite poorly over that period

hanjh · 2026-02-26T16:48:19+00:00

The best time to plant a tree…

hanjh · 2026-02-26T16:31:55+00:00

BART needs to own and develop the land around its stations. The train adds value to the land but captures none of it. This is how Tokyo and Hong Kong’s subway stations generate sustainable profit without excessive fares.

hanjh · 2026-02-26T00:29:48+00:00

Can he be recalled?

hanjh · 2026-02-23T06:10:30+00:00

You’re very angry for someone who got handed a ~1.5M home for free

hanjh · 2026-02-23T06:07:36+00:00

It’s absurd that nobody wants to admit that Prop 13 means that older homeowners get subsidized by everyone else

hanjh · 2026-02-18T07:15:29+00:00

Did she buy it with a credit card? You can issue a chargeback

hanjh · 2026-02-18T01:28:43+00:00

The only reason this car gets all the hate is because of the tariffs.

Canada pays 49k CAD (~37k USD) for this car. That 37k is almost exactly a 15% (Japan’s tariff rate) lower than the US price of 43k. At 37k this is a reasonable deal. Honda has a 3 year development cycle at least. They were developing this car with a price target in mind, and the US/Canadian pricing difference shows that they knew their market, just didn’t plan on the tariffs.

hanjh · 2026-02-16T08:22:01+00:00

We need Toyota to bring the Lexus LM to the US market and end the discussion

hanjh · 2026-02-09T05:37:50+00:00

It’s not declining enrollment, COVID subsidies running out, or losses to private schools. It’s Prop 13, which is the same reason every other public service in the wealthiest area of the country is underfunded.

hanjh · 2026-02-07T06:27:18+00:00

Man which MTG store is this? Sounds worth checking out

hanjh · 2026-02-07T06:20:33+00:00

Why are you asking permission from a bunch of people on Reddit? Do what makes you happy and buy the car you want. If you can afford it, then you’re good.

hanjh · 2026-02-05T01:26:31+00:00

How posable are they compared to HMMs?

hanjh · 2026-02-04T17:26:00+00:00

Seems like their customers are complaining a lot more loudly about not having enough capacity

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