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by fineman 11y ago
Obviously short-term rentals serve a need many have or AirBnB wouldn't have such uptake. Adding regulation to fix that issue without changing regulation to increase supply, etc. seems like it misses the point. People are already ignori
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by fineman 11y ago
Quite telling of what, though? You're still just hinting. What are you trying to say?
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by fineman 11y ago
Yeah, and yet the prosecutors in this story are saying they don't even have an obligation to let you know when their case has been shown to be fraudulent. My point of eyewitness testimony is that it would truly convince the DA but woul
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by fineman 11y ago
Does the phone company monitor your calls to make sure you aren't scamming the pizza-guy? And can you imagine the delay as you had to go back and forth with Craigslist on what constitutes proof you own a ten-year-old bike, or whatever.
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by fineman 11y ago
Why? You're fishing. Just come out and say whatever you're going to say.
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by fineman 11y ago
> "We need to regulate this, ..." Do you know that adage that goes: "... then they say, I know, I'll use a regexp. And then they have two problems." It's regulation that got SF into this problem.
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by fineman 11y ago
There's a huge difference between me breaking the law and me not auditing you to know that you are. Does Craigslist investigate every item sold to make sure it's not stolen?
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by fineman 11y ago
That's an easy scenario. The prosecutor sees you (elsewhere) while the crime is being committed. Later, they charge you anyways because the evidence seems strong enough to convince others.
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by fineman 11y ago
The prosecutors job is to pursue a case they know is unjust against a defendant they know is innocent? Because this helps society?
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by fineman 11y ago
Funny, and I thought contracts required a meeting of the minds. How does that happen when one party knows the other has misinterpreted the contract?
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by fineman 11y ago
That's not even an important requirement though. If you settle a lawsuit and then sue anyways the judge can look at the original issue and the aftermath and choose to throw it out as you have been compensated at that point.
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by fineman 11y ago
Mandatory arbitration is great for you - that why I'm insisting it's in the contact! Honestly!
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by fineman 11y ago
While Iraq was being a fine country they were gassing hundreds of thousands of people. And theocracies and kingdoms are slave states by definition, so most of what was around them is the same or worse.
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by fineman 11y ago
The core of bikeshedding is continued nitpicking at the trivial by those who can't understand or don't know enough to grasp the its actual significance. And it's not just leaders. Certainly change would be bad if the programm
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by fineman 11y ago
How about all the important calls they let languish because of the bide-shedders interfering? How is that safe? Can the naysayers be sued by the family of some kid who died because dispatchers weren't allowed to evaluate a new tool bec
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by fineman 11y ago
And yet if some operator had an idea to keep some notes (license plates from APBs or something) on stickies and pass them around the room - a new procedure - nobody would act like the world would end. "FULL REVIEW". How FULL e
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by fineman 11y ago
Sure, in many places, for some time, a benevolent dictator in tune with the needs and desires of their people might best approximate a democratically chosen ideal. And in other times not. The point though, is that nobody can choose to not
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by fineman 11y ago
Sure, you just can't sugar-coat it. You're deciding to kill someone for that goal.
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by fineman 11y ago
Well there aren't any actual communist governments, so there haven't been any totalitarian ones. :P I agree, somewhat, about using vernacular, but that misses the point. The USSR was no-more a communism because they said so than t
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by fineman 11y ago
If someone truly doesn't want democracy then they are participating in it. Only some theoretical person without desires could be said to not want a system that lets them express them. Now, it's debatable if a "representativ
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by fineman 11y ago
Right, because if nobody killed the inmate they'd still be alive. Your "need" to kill them because they crossed some line is your need, and you're the killer. (For better or worse...)
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by fineman 11y ago
If I was holding your fist, pushing it into your face, can't it be said that you were beating yourself up? Why won't you stop hitting yourself?
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by fineman 11y ago
> Some tried giving Arab countries democracy and it turned out they never really wanted it Does the presence of terrorists in developed countries prove "we" don't want democracy either? Because I didn't see the people
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by fineman 11y ago
Um, graft. Like all other cases of protectionism. There was once a problem and someone suggested regulation to fix it and now that the problem is gone the regulation remains. There are two fundamental issues here. 1) Why is commercial drivi
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by fineman 11y ago
How many hours does that take? Why does it take so long and yet being a waiter requires no (government) training at all?
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by fineman 11y ago
That never works. You'd need those who benefit from the protectionism to stop lobbying. The issue is that it never was democratic, it was graft that made these regulations and it's graft that keeps them going. The way to get rid o
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by fineman 11y ago
Believe it or not, but I did a fairly detailed study of public schools. I spent nearly two waking years over more than a decade auditing and participating in 50+ classes at levels from K to pre-university, across ten or more schools. I know
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by fineman 11y ago
Victim blaming. They've got a job to do and if they can't, they should get a different job.
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by fineman 11y ago
That's wrong. I started in that era and the saying was "till Lotus won't run" even back when it was fresh. Microsoft also put misleading error messages in Win3.1 to sabotage DRI's DR DOS product. There are email s
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by fineman 11y ago
The thing is, with an enemy actively shooting at you it's pretty clear they're guilty. But when you go in later we need proof that it's the right person you've caught. Not just for their sake, but for ours. Rule of law p

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