tmnvix

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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   Some bad/rough maths: 50k / 330M * 70 = 0.01. 50k from 330M per year assuming a 70 year average lifespan would mean 1% of the population dies by suicide. Not insignificant.
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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   Are you saying that you won't offer a refund even if you cannot provide the promised service (e.g. the unit has been damaged by fire) or that you won't offer a refund in the case where your guest can't reach the unit because
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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   Average vehicle driven average distance per year (for US - 20,000km): 4 tonnes.
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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   Spot on. The amount of cognitive dissonance with regard to environmental concern continues to amaze me. Many people seem to have strong concerns about their environmental impact but few acknowledge just how damaging (relative to others) cer
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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   Interesting that nytimes.com is on both the 'block' and 'raise' lists.
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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   > If the reward from working is barely enough to cover the necessities, then there is technically no difference between working as a free citizen, and being forced to work as an indentured servant, other than a vague notion of freedom, w
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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   You can both be right if you assume a shift away from taxing wealth to taxing income (or unearned to earned income).
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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   Unfortunately trees are often seen as a danger to car drivers on roads over a certain speed limit so traffic engineers dislike them.
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   by tmnvix 3y ago

   For a developer already satisfied with a mature backend framework such as Django or Rails but hesitant to embrace the ever-changing JS ecosystem on the backend, it makes sense to view HTMX as an alternative to React/Vue/Svelte&#x2
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    I've heard it said that all the real discussion happens in hotel suites.
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    > In the first quarter of 2023, there were 144 million housing units in the US compared with 1.2 million available short-term rentals like Airbnbs, according to AirDNA analysis of Census data. That means they make up just 0.8 percent of
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    Thanks, I appreciate it.
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    OT: I see what looks to be a truncated version of the tweet with no apparent means of viewing the entire thing. > This year the government will give the UK’s banks £45 billion they have done nothing to earn. That’s because of QE and inte
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    Agreed. I think it is absurd that during an accommodation crisis we ignore the fact that a growing number of residences have essentially been removed from the housing stock and turned into short term rentals. As I've said before, for a
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    I would guess that few countries have the type of situation that exists in the US where a driver's licence is almost essential in order to go about daily life. Many people in the UK don't bother with a licence. It can be prohibiti
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    This doesn't apply to the land component of the rent.
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    Maybe the limited number of dependencies? I consider fewer dependencies to be one part of a minimalist approach.
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    There certainly were. Eldridge Cleaver (former Black Panther and Presidential candidate) invented the 'Cleavers'. https://www.messynessychic.com/2013/08/01/the-1970s-politica...
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    As I understand it, parking buildings are actually more expensive to construct due to the engineering requirements
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    On that note, we should also give communism credit for lifting billions out of poverty in China
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    The statement referred to in the article: https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk
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    Risk of extinction by AI should be global priority, say experts(theguardian.com)

    4 points by tmnvix 3y ago|1 comments
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    To play devils advocate: I don't think conscious intent is relevant to the argument
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    Thanks for sharing this link. It's rare to see people acknowledge the difference between the actual vacancy rate and the vacancy rate as measured by the proportion of properties in the rental market that are currently unoccupied. 9% as
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    Alternatively, the US could be coming around to the realisation that it's time to address its addiction to exploiting people. I've known a lot of people that use drugs recreationally. The proportion of those that abuse drugs is sm
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    I'm not going to argue that building more housing will not help the situation, but I think it would also be worth looking at some of the underlying reasons for the lack of available housing. I would bet my bottom dollar that the prop
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    Sometimes not even bothering to rent them out. It's the capital gains game!
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    > In 2022, the proportion of households which are occupied by owners stood at 65.9 percent. This is different from the proportion of adults in the US that own a home. Many non-homeowners live in an owner occupied residence.
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    It may be 1% of total housing stock but what is it relative to long term rental stock? It wouldn't take much to have a significant effect on the cost of long term rentals.
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    by tmnvix 3y ago

    Where I am AirBnB is generally around the same cost as a hotel. It used to be cheaper but not anymore.