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by braveo 10y ago
The poster was arguing against something that was never said, I was clarifying. Despite what anyone may think about whether or not the hotel industry is "powerful", the article was describing the hotel industry. That doesn't
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While I agree with you in spirit, there are two points to consider 1) it may have been unsolicited (you mentioned this), and 2) humans tend to be very "fuzzy". Maybe he should have towed the line, and now he's learned his le
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by braveo 10y ago
right, someone has done it somewhere. I knew that when I made the comment, it doesn't change the general applicability of the point.
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> Or do you also think that if you buy some property straddling a river, you can dump waste into it and say "my property, nobody can tell me what to do with it" while making everyone downriver pay for the cleanup of what you di
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And yet I suspect the government could pick up a phone, hop in a vehicle, etc and communicate with the right people. Which means it falls under what he said.
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Selling off my collection of stamps from my home or allowing my child to sell lemonade is also commerce, yet I am allowed to do it. This is where the original poster went off the rails. Just because there's an exchange of money does n
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by braveo 10y ago
And yet, despite all of that, they were still referring to the hotel industry when they used the term "the powerful".
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> Every NYC lease I've ever signed had a clause forbidding long-term guest stays. That's a red herring, you can add the sibling as an occupant, the point remains. > I've personally never encountered that situation Well
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subletting is legal, by your definition it would be a business and should be illegal. Your definition is wrong.
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> Most Manhattan buildings are large and have many units. If you rent out your apartment a few times a year, how is this fair to your neighbors, who pay the same rent and never agreed to have a bunch of transient guests in the building?
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In this case "the powerful" means the hotel industry, and I don't think anyone would deny they have a vested interest in fighting airbnb.
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Can you rent it out to a nice family of 5 who are clean, drug fee, relatively intelligent, quiet, and get along with the neighbors? Did you say yes to that particular leading question? Then why say no to renting it out to that same father f
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and the question is how?
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But you can let your druggie sibling live there for free. There's a reason why zoning laws exist, there's no good reason to disallow someone from doing what's effectively subleasing. It's been legal since forever.
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> short-term rentals in an area that the community has decided to use for permanent housing It shouldn't be legal to tell someone who owns a home that they cannot rent it out. We're not talking about someone running a business
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> Most of the time I put my legs up on something. it's healthy to have your hips be at or below the level of your knees. If your knees are below your hips, long term you're going to have issues with your hamstrings and glutes,
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by braveo 10y ago
> Great example! Without context and potentially experience, you might not understand that the helicopter you see upside down in that tree experienced critical mechanical failures, and the pilot saved the lives of himself and the crew by
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by braveo 10y ago
> Me too. In fact, it concerns me how angry stupid decisions make me these days. Are you me? I'm the epitome of the old grumpy programmer. I have this love/hate relationship with technology. One the one hand I still love it,
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by braveo 10y ago
I use RES, but I hate most parts of it. Have you ever compared the page load times of reddit with and without RES? It's horrific. And adjusting the settings? they have search functionality for the settings because there's so ma
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by braveo 10y ago
I've been a happy user of i3 for years now. I preferred KDE until 4 came out. From my perspective it was horrible and I went looking for an alternative. I found a home in i3 and would never go back, even if KDE went back to the old d
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by braveo 10y ago
I haven't updated my iphone because I read the notes and one of the things it does is give me a "new and improved" maps application. The last time apple did that to me I stopped being able to turn randomize on and off in the
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by braveo 10y ago
Thank you for this. Part of the reason I've mostly checked out of political discussion is because it's so partisan. I flat out don't believe half the things people claim Trump said. In most cases either the quote is cherry