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by opendais 12y ago
> Well that does not actually answer my question. What services? Water, electricity and basic services like that are paid for and not more expensive for temporary residents. Police maybe? Do temporary residents require more police involv
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by opendais 12y ago
No, the NSA just helps target drone strikes and such.... Everyone counts or no one does.
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by opendais 12y ago
If you are taking incriminating photos, you are doing something wrong.
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by opendais 12y ago
My point is the data is worthless to support your claim. Comparing time periods isn't "torturing the data".
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by opendais 12y ago
Effectively unbreakable encryption [for the statute of limitations length of time] has been around for decades. This just means it easier.
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by opendais 12y ago
Given the police officers and law enforcement agencies are just as bad as the NSA in many jurisdictions, I'm not sure I see the difference. Ever heard of civil forfeiture or someone's camera getting 'broken' after being
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by opendais 12y ago
Yep. OpSec is more important than encryption anyway and PGP ahs been around forever. People could just use TextSecure too.
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by opendais 12y ago
Over 6 years = 54.3-47.1=7.2 2002-2007 = 46-35.3=10.7 Hmm. Now you can blame the great recession but growth did slow. So lets take 2011 to 2013 [after the Great Recession]: 54.3-50.9 = 3.4 And 2003 to 2005: 42.7-37.8 = 4.9 Notice the differ
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by opendais 12y ago
> If this is true, this problem transcends Airbnb. If the building doesn't comply with those does, it doesn't matter what it is being used for. Incorrect. Its based on usage. Using it for short term tenancy has different requir
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by opendais 12y ago
Evading taxes that pay for city services? Raising the cost of housing stock [and thereby the welfare programs for housing in NYC]?
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by opendais 12y ago
I'm concerned you casually ignore: Visitors (international and domestic) to New York City in 2009: 45.8 million Visitors (international and domestic) to New York City in 2008: 47.1 million Guess when AirBnb became Airbnb.com and popula
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes, but you ignore the fact it increases the costs of NYC's public housing operations & secton 8. :/ I'm pretty sure if its "break even" [in terms of tax revenues] it isn't "break even" [in terms
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by opendais 12y ago
Read the OP. The "secret hotels" are not following residential fire codes, in numerous instances. Which is a danger to themselves and others. > What harmful externalities apply to this case? Shifting housing supply from long te
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by opendais 12y ago
> Sure, but if you tell them that their life will be shit anyway, how's that helping their planning? I mean "shit" as in something goes wrong that makes things unpleasant. If you have the financial cushion, in the US, it i
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by opendais 12y ago
> If there is demand for staying at "secret hotels" why should the regulator ban that? The problem is they are secret from the regulators too and aren't following the regulations. > Take down hotels and build apartment
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by opendais 12y ago
Which is really a sign that y'know, you can't afford what you were saving up for since you don't have enough saved for anything going wrong...
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes. People are unwisely optimistic. I wish people weren't so encouraged to engage in wishful thinking but that would require a certain level of cruelty to get that point across. No one wants to go to people and say "Hey, your lif
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by opendais 12y ago
Its not technically a scam, in the legal sense of the word. So, unless they cancel they won't get their money back.
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by opendais 12y ago
I tend to look when I run into an issue. So its not "I never look" it is more "I only look when I feel I have to." If you get enough people doing that...well, imo, you'd probably have most "issues" surface
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by opendais 12y ago
Ya, I wouldn't trust anything that promises security I can't compile myself. Its not perfect but at least there are more eyeballs.
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by opendais 12y ago
That is why you wouldn't carry such a weapon as a CCW and hope for the best. You'd pick one with a safety if your goal was safety. "Exceptionally rare" events that send you to the hospital should be minimized if you are
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by opendais 12y ago
> Out of 8 million licensees, plus anyone who wants to with a clean record in Vermont, Alaska, Whyoming, and Arizona, there's going to be people who screw up. Police do at a much higher rate, in my observation over the years (there
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by opendais 12y ago
No, it isn't. That is from months ago that someone reposted recently.
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by opendais 12y ago
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/06/concealed_w... http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/03/us-usa-guncontrol-... I'd say the lack of basic gun saf
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by opendais 12y ago
> I think Google is at a big disadvantage when it comes to shopping. Amazon already has a powerful ecosystem. You can become an Amazon seller. Amazon sells it's own brand of many items, which are all high-quality, low-price. Amazon
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by opendais 12y ago
They do: http://www.flashrouters.com/routers/vpn-types/privateinterne... The problem is they are all overpriced 'cause of manuals steps to flash an existing piece of hardware. Really, what I want to see is mo
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by opendais 12y ago
> Developers helping these people circumvent the technology that holds them down is good. That isn't what they were doing. They were creating a tool to manipulate public opinion among its users without their consent. > I guess it
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by opendais 12y ago
IF you were serious about this, setup a router to TOR correctly using quality hardware. Use a router distribution (e.g. PFSense) on real hardware. Otherwise, you'll be just as screwed because your service will be ridiculously slow. Thi
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by opendais 12y ago
They can deanonymize you at the NSA's scale. They can deanonymize you with browser exploits at the FBI's scale. If you are going to be actively targeted using Tor is not sufficient. Tor is an effective defense against passive, g
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by opendais 12y ago
That is what I'm afraid of. Popularizing Tor in this manner is actively harmful to the Tor network and doesn't provide any real benefits. Tor operates its network on a limited budget. The people this is marketed too should use a V

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