kelnos

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by kelnos 4mo ago
"I had a problem, and I thought, 'I know, I will call the cops!' Now we have two problems."
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by kelnos 4mo ago
You're conflating landlords with property owners as a whole. There are a lot more people who own and live in their home than there are landlords. Homeowners are less likely to favor pro-landlord legislation than landlords themselves,
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> If everyone got to pay the same level of rent then I'd maybe support it, but there's nothing "collective" about the people who got here quicker protecting themselves while pulling the ladder up behind them. I&#x27
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Many of those grandmas would love to move to a smaller house or apartment in their neighborhood, but paradoxically cannot afford to do so. Blame the system, not the individual who has to make rational decisions for themselves within it.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
And yet many landlords kick out good tenants, and take the risk that a new tenant that's willing to pay 30% more turns out to be a bad one. Not sure why you're surprised: this sort of thing has been widespread for years in cities
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by kelnos 4mo ago
So it's better that huge corporate landlords own all the rentable housing stock? You seem to be assuming that if we, say, just made renting illegal, everyone would a) want to own a home, and b) have the finances necessary to do so. Th
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by kelnos 4mo ago
That assumes that everyone who wants housing can afford to buy it rather than rent it. It also assumes that everyone who wants housing even wants to buy it.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Sure: it's morally valid to evict someone who violates any legally-enforceable provision in the lease agreement they signed.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> providing housing is a service that should be done at market rates That's an opinion, not a fact. I don't share that opinion. Societies are healthier when people are housed, and when that housing is well-maintained. &quo
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by kelnos 4mo ago
I look at it this way: housing is a basic human necessity. Structuring it as a standard business is a detriment to society. Sure, being a landlord is a business, but the whole "maximize profits" thing and "charge what the m
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by kelnos 4mo ago
It may be the landlord's house, but it's not their home. A home is something you live in.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> if person A and person B both pay on time and don’t trash the place then they are quite fungible. Based on those two sole criteria, no, they aren't. Person A might call weekly about trivial matters that they should be taking ca
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> That’s basically discrimination? Discrimination is fine, as long as the discrimination is not based on protected classes. If I were a landlord, I'd discriminate against people who act like assholes, for example, regardless of t
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by kelnos 4mo ago
If you think there aren't any racist landlords in Seattle (or any particular place), then I have a bridge I'd like to sell you... Having a large non-white population is not a protection against race-related discrimination.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Re #2: I feel like people of the kinds of races that often get discriminated against have pretty decent radar when it comes to figuring out why they were rejected.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Wow, way to not actually read what a person said, and then quote things and say they mean something that they don't. I get that you don't like the concept of people owning property and renting it to others, but maybe stop arguing
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> The question is what do we do if people stop paying even the subsidized rent? If they stop because they actually can't pay it, then we should pay it for them. Another homeless person on the street makes us all less safe and les
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> This is a blindness due to political leanings and not evidence based. Your comment reeks of that as well.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> to represent pointers at no cost I wouldn't call "cause of bugs and security issues" "no cost". > it's quite rare for a pointer in C to have the ability to be NULL As a C programmer for more than 25
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by kelnos 4mo ago
If you don't like a submission, flag it and move on. Meta discussion about suitability is boring and off-topic.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
To be fair, though, $300 is a pretty low bar. Certainly for any company, but even for a decent chunk of hobbyists who are really into building something. Even a few thousand dollars isn't much of a barrier for a company that wants to
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> these standards explicitly prohibited their use in implementing any open source implementation of the standards Is that legally enforceable? IANAL, but that feels dubious to me. Feels like there should be a way around that.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
> Relative to his wealth bracket he is being modest but not cheap. That's moving the goalposts. No one said anything about "relative to his wealth bracket". And I don't think I have ever heard anyone using a term l
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by kelnos 4mo ago
The issue is that you don't really see the git dirty/clean status, because you are rarely/never inside the actual git working tree on your machine. I manage my dotfiles with a simple script that symlinks, and when I go and e
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by kelnos 4mo ago
There are many places in the West with clean streets and low crime that don't use China's economic or political model.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Usually, yes, but it's an IPsec VPN that the great firewall will explicitly not mess with in any way, because they don't want to inconvenience foreigners who are there on business.
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by kelnos 4mo ago
It's surprising to me to learn that a place like Texas is like that. I live in California and have access to lots of public spaces, and rarely see police or fences. Private security is pretty common, but that don't bother me muc
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Not sure what you mean by "primary driver", but I was finding even Sonnet quite useful for coding tasks, even about 12-14 months ago (I was too cheap to pay more than $20/month back then, and Opus hit my limits too quickly)
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Regarding your edit, you might be ok with going on a multi-day hiking trip or family holiday while still doing some amount of work from your phone, but many of us think that's a bad idea. Truly disconnecting from our work is necessary
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by kelnos 4mo ago
Whataboutism is usually not a great defense.

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