tirant

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by tirant 5d ago
Do you know which big city recently solved the rental price problem? Buenos Aires, by just removing most of the rental housing regulations. It can be solved, you just need to do it without ideology. Die Linke is not that type of party, quit
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by tirant 5d ago
Do you know why there was not homelessness in the DDR? Because it was forbidden by law. You were forced to be put in an institution or directly went to prison. Check Section 249 of the DDR Criminal Code. And by the way, the DDR suffered fro
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by tirant 5d ago
The only reason you enjoy cheap food is because of the free market. Housing in many countries is not part of a free market but part of a monopoly where the government decides how much, how many, the what and the when the houses can be built
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by tirant 5d ago
My cheapest and best experiences when renting have been always from big corporations due to economies of scale. Fighting against these companies will only drive prices higher. It is stupid.
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by tirant 5d ago
I just bought a house in Germany. It will remain unused for around 6 months due to renovation. It is naive to believe that any empty house is empty due to speculation. My grandmother died some years ago, my family wanted to sell the house a
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by tirant 5d ago
The main reason new housing is extremely expensive has to do with regulations themselves. It costs a lot of money to build a new apartment building because land where you are allowed to build is regulated by the State. Also the State requir
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by tirant 5d ago
Obviously after 36 years many people of Die Linke were not alive when the wall fell. But it’s still the same party as the SED, just a different name. The CDU and the CSU have nothing to do with the NSDAP. At some point in time in Germany 30
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by tirant 5d ago
The party is far left. There’s nothing to the left of them. They are the direct successor of the SED, the same ones that supported firing anyone willing to leave their socialist Berlin utopia by crossing the Berlin Wall. Nowadays votes by m
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by tirant 5d ago
Unfortunately solving the housing crisis will remove any incentive to vote for the Left or the Socialist Party. Remember the first incentive of any politician is to remain in power not to solve citizens problems. Sometimes there’s overlappi
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by tirant 5d ago
The logic is defined by demand. Currently Berlin is under high demand, and that’s why drives prices up. On top of that many rents, around 12% are paid by the job center, which also drives prices up. That’s around 250.000 housing units paid
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by tirant 5d ago
The reality is that the actual large-scale sell-off of public housing was carried out under the SPD–PDS (now The Left) red-red coalition led by Klaus Wowereit in 2004. for prices of around 30.000€ per unit.
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by tirant 6d ago
Right. First case was performed by the executive branch of the State. Second one by the justice branch.
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by tirant 2mo ago
I have very little hope in Krause. He is just a populist and an opportunistic politician without much substance behind. Personally I couldn’t care less which operating system the city chooses to use as long as it helps to save costs and inc
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by tirant 2mo ago
Blaming everything on global warming is extremely dangerous. It fails to address many other reasons why we are experiencing fires and creates an easy to blame enemy and a sensation that there's nothing we can do. We should really go w
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by tirant 2mo ago
I come from the Mediterranean region and locally we know many explanations for that. Many of those pine forests are relatively new. Pine trees burn frequently, around every 20-30 years. In the past they used to be mixed with many other orig
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by tirant 3mo ago
What do you think is the underlaying motivation?
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by tirant 3mo ago
If the cargo bike is electric, the threshold for healthy enough lowers significantly. My weekly shopping for a family of four is done on one like that, which I can park like 50cm away from the shop door and 50cm away from my home front door
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by tirant 3mo ago
Limiting your family size is a lazy, short term solution. Having a bigger family and teaching them the right values is a much stronger and long term approach.
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by tirant 3mo ago
Because it’s available to everyone, including kids and elderly, and does not need high upfront payments. I can just move to Madrid and move anywhere in the city for around 1-2€ per trip without upfront investment of 20.000€ for a car, plus
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by tirant 3mo ago
If including tax breaks, New Zealand and Australia are not subsidized in total terms. But the level of efficiency achieved thanks to the development of technology by private companies is what keeps them efficient around the world.
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by tirant 4mo ago
Capitalism does not decide anything. Capitalism allows individuals to take decisions in a free market. If you want to complain about selfishness then do it on selfish individuals, which by the way, are present in all types of economic syste
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by tirant 5mo ago
Just before becoming suicidal some hours later.
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by tirant 6mo ago
That’s exactly what small distributors are for.
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by tirant 6mo ago
I indeed remember too the family of K6 chips and their Super Socket 7 motherboards. They were cheap and affordable, and allowed cpu upgrades to classical Socket 7 motherboards. The peak of the Super Socket 7 performance CPUs was reached whe
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by tirant 6mo ago
That's not at all my observation. If you take brands like BMW, the EV counterpart is always at around the same price or cheaper. But if you're even comparing second hand, the balance is falling even more on the EV side. Second han
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by tirant 6mo ago
Because they don’t care about profits, they always end up overpaying and taking way longer time than necessary. And who pays for that? The whole society: Either the government raises taxes, gets more in debt, or they print more money drivin
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by tirant 6mo ago
That means there’s an invisible hand keeping prices up, or basically that the market is not free enough. That’s caused most of the time due to excessive regulation. Another reason is high demand in locations where offer is limited due to ph
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by tirant 6mo ago
Those cars exist but don’t do well in the market. And only when sold by very little money and cheap parts. People demand connectivity, big screens and lots of software.
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by tirant 6mo ago
I love meat and I love good hamburgers. I’ve tried those Lidl and Aldi alternatives and they were uneatable for me and my family. They have slowly disappeared from the shelves. Only a couple of products remain. I have never tried BeyondMeat
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by tirant 7mo ago
They just need to implement a better LLM that is able to deal with all that crap. At the end we will just have agents interacting with each other.

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