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by mmarq 4y ago
These are all very minor changes. Yes, agencies can’t steal 100£ from you for each renewal, but they replaced it with commissions. The tenancy deposit scheme is again a fake solution. Landlords can still block your money for months and forc
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by mmarq 4y ago
The German system is exactly what I would be aiming for. We should refuse the notion that renting flats is a business, especially as it’s intended in the UK, where it’s the less taxed than work. In addition, we should tax properties and use
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by mmarq 4y ago
Nothing has changed since Thatcher, I was describing a scenario where the UK completes its westernisation process and abolishes S21.
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by mmarq 4y ago
First of all this state of affairs is unique to the UK, in continental Europe this section 21 business doesn’t exist and 99% of the population wouldn’t consider it a thing of a civilized country (because it isn’t). S12 invalidates half of y
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by mmarq 4y ago
Contracts will be perpetual or will last decades, with rent increases linked to inflation. Tenants will be able to end their tenancies with 1-2 months notice, landlords won’t be able terminate a tenancy unless they have to move into the pro
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by mmarq 4y ago
I’m not sympathetic at all with this idea. They shouldn’t have built shops and restaurants because there’s a council estate? On gentrification, if you own your flat then you have won the lottery, for its price is 8 times what it was 20 year
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Unfortunately this is the way of the world. This is a major redevelopment and has cost hundreds of millions of pounds. To do it they take on huge investment, the investors expect a return so obviously they’ve built fancy shops, restaur
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by mmarq 4y ago
Yes, that area was an obscene wasteland, right in front of that monstrosity on the other side of the river: Churchill gardens. Before the power station was renewed, the only place with something to do in the entirety of the Wandsworth borou
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by mmarq 4y ago
I don’t use AirBnB because their customer service is shit. Said that, it’s not my responsibility to ensure the flat I’m renting is owned by a real business that follows all the rules and not by a rando whose cheap hostel is causing havoc in
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It’s much quicker to ban activities that inevitably lead to undesirable behaviour (such as converting your flat into a cheap hostel and the entire building into a hotel lobby), rather than playing whack-a-mole with all sorts of antisocial b
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by mmarq 4y ago
> But it’s fine for your neighbors to make noise throughout the day and night and host (for free) lots of different guests in their spare bedroom? No, it’s not and that’s banned as well. > Like these discussions seem so odd because wh
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by mmarq 4y ago
It’s not NIMBYism to expect the apartment upstairs to not become a cheap hotel, where tenants change everyday and there’s noise from throughout the day and the night.
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by mmarq 4y ago
Of course people want to live at a reasonable distance from their workplace. You can’t work for a FinTech startup in the City and live in Nowhereampton where rent is 100£ a month and everybody is on the dole.
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by mmarq 4y ago
Force of habit. I get to the same complaint from my partner. I put it where I would put the unit of measurement: 10cm 1kg 5£
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by mmarq 4y ago
> How is going back to the office forcing you to buy £15 lunches? You don't have to even eat Tesco sandwiches. Believe it or not my parents made their own sandwiches at home, which probably has a cost of around £1 for a lunch. So yo
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by mmarq 4y ago
People line up for 15-20£ lunches because they have to, because they have been forced to go back to the office to make their daily sacrifice to Micronus, the petty god of middle management, and to Parasitus, the evil god of real estate. The
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by mmarq 4y ago
Having been in that situation, with a good salary (3 times the average of the UK) and spending close to 0 in leisure, I can tell you that it’s still impossible to buy a decent house in London even if you give up on all avoidable luxuries, b
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by mmarq 4y ago
> There is a lot to unpack here. I can’t go into details, maybe read a book on MMT. (I can only recommend German resources…) I would recommend people start with some normal economics before they get into the economic homologue of urine t
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Ie, if you send IP addresses today to AWS, you could be deemed to be doing something illegal overnight subject to 4% of global revenue or 20 million euro fines. If you are breaking the law, if a regulator finds out, you may be deemed t
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Lol. Thank you for agreeing. You're completely wrong about the fines part, it is discretionary. ie, if tomorrow, there is a negative press cycle, you will certainly be hit with any punishment of their choosing. Not any punishment
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by mmarq 4y ago
> I have officials in the EU on the record that IP addresses are deemed personal information and if your business uses AWS and unintentionally passed IP addresses over to any resource in the US, you are technically in violation. Of cours
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by mmarq 4y ago
GDPR compliance is actually trivial to implement if you manage your users’ data in ways that wouldn’t surprise them negatively. There's not much more. > unelected bureaucrats Does the American elect the IRS or the FTC bureaucrat?
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by mmarq 4y ago
If the state decides to take all your money, it can deploy such force that you will surrender it, regardless of where and how you decide to hide it.
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by mmarq 4y ago
I may sound like a dinosaur, but const id = reader.u32() ?? await A awaiting a magical A that comes from an import and that was never touched before looks very weird.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> I would say the question mark improves readability, compared to having to check/return error codes by hand after every function call. Which is one of my complaints about Go. result, err = doSomething(); if err != nil { .
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by mmarq 4y ago
The real issue in the UK is not austerity, but that since 2008 it has been ruled by governments that actively harmed its productivity growth, eventually leading to the current cost of living crisis. Today real wages are below 2007.
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by mmarq 4y ago
- 2% in core inflation is not a small difference. It’s the average British worker losing 700£ a year more than the European - of course they have different currencies, that’s exactly what we are talking about, and also different governments
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by mmarq 4y ago
Eurozone inflation: 8.1 UK inflation: 9.1 Eurozone core inflation: 3.8 UK core inflation: 5.9 Where would the price level increase caused by a labour shortage end up: core or non-core inflation? Besides the UK started having a significant i
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by mmarq 4y ago
It’s supposed to go down and reset expectations. Instead the central banker goes on TV asking people to not request pay rises, which is equivalent to saying “the situation is totally out of control, the CB can’t and won’t do anything”. Whic
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by mmarq 4y ago
I’m not 100% sure it works for everybody, but it probably helps that English have shorter words where the stress tends to be on the first syllable, doesn’t have genders, always requires an explicit subject and has simple verb conjugations.

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