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trashcan01

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trashcan01··on Shadow credit score could decide whether you get an apartment
If landlords aren’t allowed to pick tenants, then:

1. Bad tenants will have no incentive not to harm the property and the neighborhood.

2. Landlords will be forced to pay for insurance to cover all the bad things that tenants are now free to do.

3. Rents will rise to cover the costs of the insurance. Conscientious tenants will be penalized.

4. Even otherwise conscientious tenants will start to cut corners since they are having to pay for the insurance anyway and it’s clearly unfair.

What a nasty situation for conscientious tenants landlords and neighbors you are advocating.

Only the least conscientious people win.

trashcan01··on Ask HN: Why isn't there a Google competitor emerging?
> If a user searches something and the top result doesn't answer their question, then Google hasn't done it's job and the user is less likely to use Google again and therefore less likely to click an ad in the future.

This is simply false. It would only be true if there was a better alternative to Google, which there isn’t.

trashcan01··on Countering threats from North Korea
A statement from Google.