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Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working. Also perhaps there should be a new field for startups (yes i'm aware of 'propt

Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working. Also perhaps there should be a new field for startups (yes i'm aware of 'proptech' but there has to be more than that), that will collect dirt on tenants to threaten them with legal consequences unless they pay.

jquery 4mo ago
> Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has an excellent scene where something like this happens to a kid down on his luck.
- lyu07282 4mo ago
  and in cyberpunk 2077 there are neon signs above each apartment door indicating rent payment status, gotta bring public shaming into it too. This is the future our loyal soldiers for capitalism fight for on this platform in every thread lol.
  - inigyou 4mo ago
    Gotta use collective punishment to create collective enforcement. Make it so when a sign is red, police storm that block like in half-life 2. Then people who let their signs turn yellow will be ostracized until they fix it.
inigyou 4mo ago
Good idea. Also a robot drone should come and sell your stuff on eBay.
eli_gottlieb 4mo ago
> Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working. 1) Because screw you, that's horrible and you shouldn't do it. 2) Because all these digital key systems are horrendously insecure and much more open to thieves and crackers than than a plain old door key anyway.
- anovikov 4mo ago
  (1) - what's horrible? renting out flats is a business. not paying the bills shouldn't be tolerated, ideally shouldn't be technically possible. (2) is negated very simply - have both old door key AND digital security key which auto closes if there are unpaid bills for say more than 5 business days.
ares623 4mo ago
Every day I doubt why I even bother reading this site. Then anovikov reminds me why. It's so I can keep on top of the creativity/depravity my fellow engineers are capable of.

jquery 4mo ago

> Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has an excellent scene where something like this happens to a kid down on his luck.

lyu07282 4mo ago
and in cyberpunk 2077 there are neon signs above each apartment door indicating rent payment status, gotta bring public shaming into it too. This is the future our loyal soldiers for capitalism fight for on this platform in every thread lol.
- inigyou 4mo ago
  Gotta use collective punishment to create collective enforcement. Make it so when a sign is red, police storm that block like in half-life 2. Then people who let their signs turn yellow will be ostracized until they fix it.

inigyou 4mo ago

Good idea. Also a robot drone should come and sell your stuff on eBay.

eli_gottlieb 4mo ago

> Why isn't it automated yet? You delay your rent and your door key stops working. 1) Because screw you, that's horrible and you shouldn't do it. 2) Because all these digital key systems are horrendously insecure and much more open to thieves and crackers than than a plain old door key anyway.

anovikov 4mo ago
(1) - what's horrible? renting out flats is a business. not paying the bills shouldn't be tolerated, ideally shouldn't be technically possible. (2) is negated very simply - have both old door key AND digital security key which auto closes if there are unpaid bills for say more than 5 business days.

ares623 4mo ago

Every day I doubt why I even bother reading this site. Then anovikov reminds me why. It's so I can keep on top of the creativity/depravity my fellow engineers are capable of.