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901.
by anamax 5y ago
> Do you think rental is the only way one can have a dwelling? That's rich coming from someone who thinks that owning should be the only way to have a dwelling. No, I don't think that renting is the only way to have a dwelling.
902.
by anamax 5y ago
Many people who rent do so because renting is better for them than buying.
903.
by anamax 5y ago
> In Minneapolis they want to dismantle the existing police force and replace it with another. Who are "they"? Minneapolis has been a one-party city for decades. There's nothing stopping that party from doing what it wants
904.
by anamax 5y ago
The only legal rentals under the proposed rule is as room mates.
905.
by anamax 5y ago
And they either rent them at a high price or they lose money. Like I wrote above, a friend of mine owns two houses. Under the proposed "no investment residences" rule, he can't, unless he leaves one of them vacant almost all
906.
by anamax 5y ago
As I pointed out, your "residences can't be investment properties" rule bans apartment houses. If you intended to talk only about very short-term rentals, you should have made that clear a couple of messages ago.
907.
by anamax 5y ago
I appreciate that you're honest about wanting to ban renting residences. That said, I see renting as a good option for many people. For example, I didn't have the money to buy after college so I rented. Even if I could have bought
908.
by anamax 5y ago
How did you arrive at $1M? It's relatively easy to get >3% on liquid investments, which is >$2,500/month (which may be long-term, which is taxed at lower-rate). $4k > $2.5k but liquidity and risk are worth something.
909.
by anamax 5y ago
Under that definition, almost all rental residences in the US are investment property, and thus would be banned under the proposal. Consider a friend of mine who owns two houses. If he lives in one, the other will be "investment prope
910.
by anamax 5y ago
No, that scheme doesn't do what you think it does (and that scheme is occasionally done in the US, especially for luxury residences). Suppose that the residences will be worth $1000 when built and it costs $500 to build them. The pay-i
911.
by anamax 5y ago
Instead of asking "How can I get some participants from Hacker News?", why not ask "Who is out there to serve that doesn't like HN, SlashDot, etc?" There are a lot more people in the second group.
912.
by anamax 5y ago
They may be capable of other work, but for some reason they're doing OnlyFans. Perhaps they know more about their options than you or I do. Regardless, banning OnlyFans won't create new opportunities for them. If banning OnlyFans
913.
by anamax 5y ago
It's curious that you imply that "everyone agrees" on the relevant definition but you didn't classify my examples according to that definition or say that investment or not depends on other things. Of course, my examples
914.
by anamax 5y ago
What definition of "investment properties" are you using? Does someone who rents two houses count as "investment properties"? How about someone who owns a complex with 50 units? How about a corporation that owns a comp
915.
by anamax 5y ago
Monterey CA (USA) bans all rentals of less than a month except for legal hotels.
916.
by anamax 5y ago
If "affordable housing" means "under market price", in practice AH means that it goes to the connected at that price. If they can, they resell at market later, if they can't, well, they just got subsidized housing.
917.
by anamax 5y ago
The folks coming through Ellis island were, on average, higher skilled than the average person already here. I'm all for brain-draining other countries but ... (IIUC, Australia and New Zealand are very selective along those lines.)
918.
by anamax 5y ago
The "immigration not naturalization" people fall into two camps: [1] People who want cheap low-skilled labor but don't want that "labor" to have any political power. [2] People who are lying about the "not natu
919.
by anamax 5y ago
The "over 55" restrictions on Roth withdrawals isn't a problem for me.
920.
by anamax 5y ago
How does this compare to funding a company by buying its stock inside a Roth IRA? (Not withdrawing, treating the company as an investment.) Yes, there are penalties to withdrawing from a Roth before 55, so the profits are locked up for a w
921.
by anamax 5y ago
A vessel without a working tracker is either non-existent or broken. Broken vessels should be taken to port and kept there until repairs AND said repairs are verified. Verification should consists of "the tracker was on continuously f
922.
by anamax 5y ago
> Does the origin of SARS-CoV-2 really matter at this point? Matter for what? The origin was extremely important as long as all the good people agreed that said origin had nothing to do with the Wuhan lab. It's curious that the orig
923.
by anamax 5y ago
Suppose that there was a crypto-currency exchange with no assets or presence in the EU. Moreover, their TOS says "no EU residents" AND they IP-block EU IP addresses. Some/many EU residents rent servers from AWS to do crypto-
924.
by anamax 5y ago
Huh? I've taken a compilers course, at Stanford no less. I've written a couple of compilers and some near-compilers. (A very fast simulator can be a lot like a compiler.) I don't think that null pointers are evil. In fact,
925.
by anamax 5y ago
The big difference is that Python doesn't allow very much static analysis. Consider the expression "a.b.c". Where are the function calls? In other words, which of the ".{name}" return a value from some namespace an
926.
by anamax 5y ago
The big problem for the Japanese at Midway was that they only had 4 carriers. With 6 carriers, all of the the Japanese wouldn't have had to decide between protecting their carriers vs attacking US carriers vs attacking Midway. They co
927.
by anamax 6y ago
As is typical in these discussions, folks are confusing representation with kind. "type" systems help with representation errors, but those tend to be easy to find without static typing. One problem with static typing is that I&#x
928.
by anamax 6y ago
This seems equivalent to assuming that time is a converging series in the sense that minor changes in the inputs will have only certain types of effects but the end result is fixed. For example, using newton's method to compute square-
929.
by anamax 6y ago
Facebook already has data centers in the EU so it could "easily" bring up facebook.eu for its eu users, subject to EU laws, and not ship data to the US. They'd also have to spend some money on lawyers to ensure that facebook.
930.
by anamax 6y ago
I've been using Emacs since it was a set of teco macros. (Yes, there was an Emacs before Emacs lisp.) Apart from some settings to keep a keyboard-grabbing co-worker happy several jobs ago, I haven't had a config file in decades.

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