design-of-homes

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by design-of-homes 12y ago
The theoretical down-site of direct democracy is that if the population is stupid, you'll get instant stupid decisions forced onto politicians. A population can be educated and still pass controversial laws. Switzerland, through a re
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by design-of-homes 12y ago
I used to have a blog on Wordpress.com and then moved to a static blog site. But I'm actually thinking of moving back to Wordpress because it gives you built-in commenting, stats, rss feeds, email subscriptions, tagging and search. Yes
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by design-of-homes 12y ago
A UK perspective: over the past decade there has been an enormous growth in the buy-to-let market and the UK is now overun by the worst type of property owner: the buy-to-let (buy-to-rent) landlord or "property investor". They tre
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London's buy-to-let landlords carve out a huge presence on Airbnb(theguardian.com)
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by design-of-homes 12y ago
"This video is pretty disingenuous in my opinion... This was my thought too. This quote by architect Christopher Alexander from his book A Pattern Language" feels very relevant: "…face-to-face rental, with the owners occ
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by design-of-homes 12y ago
I moved my blog from Wordpress to a static site but I'm actually thinking of returning to Wordpress. Wordpress gives you comments, RSS feeds, search, categorisation and mailing list subscriptions out of the box. I'm missing those
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by design-of-homes 13y ago
The house is lovely, but...tiny homes in the US are mostly detached and surrounded by wide open spaces or have long views out of the windows. They also have plenty of natural light. These factors don't make the homes feel tiny. The rea