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The last time I made the front page under my real name,[0] I got a very encouraging comment about how it was nice that I had just started programming and was already thinking of hard problems.
Thankfully, it's simple enough to add an nginx rule to bounce anyone from news.ycombinator.com right back to where they came from.
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[0] For some reason HN comments are much more respectful when I use a pseudonym. I must have a silly name or something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>Sold for a song at $36,000, the two-bedroom, single-story home is about the only rough spot on a street of clean and tidy homes.
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>The Hankins now will be stuck with the cost of remediation, which one contractor said costs $5,000 to $8,000 or more
Seems to me that $41,000-43,000 is still a pretty good price for a two-bedroom home, about $10k down from the average in the area according to Trulia.
So the full story is that they explicitly bought a house as-is, found an $8000 problem with it, and decided to start a petition and move out.
I'd agree that there should be a better database of convicted meth distributors/manufacturers and the homes they used for their operations, but then why not push for that kind of regulation at the state level rather than within one company? Especially if the "most important" part of your petition is to make sure "that this doesn't happen to one more family".