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22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #4

It really is wild what you can do in your garage these days. Since the early 2010’s there has been a true revolution in this space that has only accelerated over the last few years. I have an injection molding machine that I built in my garage for less than $1500 USD that has a 3 cubic inch injection volume, able to make a large variety of plastic components at small production scale using a mold I printed from my $5…

It's the software and IC knowledge that defines modern hardware. It's expensive IP and there's few open source references. You have to gain a lot of specific experience and by chance have an idea people will pay for. Even then, it's likely already patented.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by tjrgergw »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #200
kdwikzncba wrote: post #189

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Right, I'm calling bullshit. Suburbs in America don't have anything 10 minutes walk away. You're just confused what a suburb is. I'm honestly concerned that people like you are allowed to vote.

The comment got a lot of upvotes, so clearly many people are living in suburbs like mine. If it's unbelievable for you, you've failed yourself. Sorry to hear that. I'm concerned that people like you are allowed to perpetuate price gouging on real estate because of your incompetence. Cheers.

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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dang »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #38
xvedejas wrote: post #35

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That you need to drive to downtown suggests you might not have much garage space after all?

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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dang »

kdwikzncba wrote: post #189
trimethylpurine wrote: post #185

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I won't. But I'm basically describing the entire USA except the coasts, and a few major cities in between. For perspective, houses in SF sell for 10x the value per square foot compared with my neighborhood. And I'm not remotely in the cheapest place in the country. America is big. Look around. There is a LOT of space in the middle.

Right, I'm calling bullshit. Suburbs in America don't have anything 10 minutes walk away. You're just confused what a suburb is. I'm honestly concerned that people like you are allowed to vote.

Crossing into personal attack will get you banned here. Please don't post like this to HN, no matter how wrong someone is or you feel they are.

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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dang »

trimethylpurine wrote: post #200
kdwikzncba wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, I'm calling bullshit. Suburbs in America don't have anything 10 minutes walk away. You're just confused what a suburb is. I'm honestly concerned that people like you are allowed to vote.

The comment got a lot of upvotes, so clearly many people are living in suburbs like mine. If it's unbelievable for you, you've failed yourself. Sorry to hear that. I'm concerned that people like you are allowed to perpetuate price gouging on real estate because of your incompetence. Cheers.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

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Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by dottjt »

ekianjo wrote: post #186
dottjt wrote: post #64

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Interestingly, as a young Australian, I've thought about this a lot and I genuinely struggle to find a better country to live in. We have our share of problems, but compared to the problems of other countries, I can't help but feel they're significantly less. A large part of it being how isolated we are from the rest of the world and all the benefits that provides. Not to mention the low population density of the cou…

> We have our share of problems, but compared to the problems of other countries, I can't help but feel they're significantly less Covid camps and police take down for people jogging without masks did not convince you to move? I guess nothing will

Instead of pointing out the problems, which provides nothing constructive to the discussion, can you please provide alternate countries which you believe might be better.

In addition, can you please also outline the problems of these countries, so we can properly evaluate and understand their problems objectively.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by trimethylpurine »

dang wrote: post #207
trimethylpurine wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The comment got a lot of upvotes, so clearly many people are living in suburbs like mine. If it's unbelievable for you, you've failed yourself. Sorry to hear that. I'm concerned that people like you are allowed to perpetuate price gouging on real estate because of your incompetence. Cheers.

Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Edit: you broke the site guidelines elsewhere in thread as well - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003753 . Please don't do that.

Thanks for the calm recourse. Noted. Appreciated.

Re: 22-year-old builds chips in his parents' garage (2022)

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Post by kjkjadksj »

reactordev wrote: post #136
kjkjadksj wrote: post #133

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But do you work in the trades in places where the median home is $800k? Trade wages are probably better in socal.

They do. Median home value here is $950k. All of my trades friends are house poor and asking family for assistance.

House poor and asking for family assistance is something thats common even where homes are $200k. More than half of american home buyers use family assistance. The fact they are in the market at all at nearly $1m median prices on trade wages is incredible, family assistance or being house poor while you pay down to get rid of pmi or not.
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