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unmole
3y ago
> there is no space in the city to build more. Berlin has a population density that's less than 20% of Paris. Tell me more about how there's no space to build.
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unmole
3y ago
> as far as i can tell, the preference currently is to leave properties empty instead of renting them out at low prices In Narnia? Go look at the actual vacancy rate.
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unmole
3y ago
The comment you are replying to was sarcastic: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230126005862/en/Ger... > and if we want actual competition in rent prices, then the supply would have to vastly
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unmole
3y ago
https://fee.org/articles/berlin-s-disastrous-rent-control-la...
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unmole
3y ago
> Some regulation around the pricing would be nice, Economists of every school and political affiliation will tell you that rent controls are a terrible idea.
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unmole
3y ago
Like I said in another comment, AirBnB's account for less than 1% of the housing stock in Dublin. You'll have to find a different scapegoat.
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unmole
3y ago
> Pre-Covid there were more than 5,000 homes in Dublin available to tourists via Airbnb alone. Dublin has a population of over 1.5 million. On average, a dwelling in Dublin has 2.5 people. 5000 AirBnB's account for less than 1% of t
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unmole
3y ago
What you meant is there are 10x as many rooms available on AirBnB than are one-bed places to let. That's very different from: > There's 10x more rooms on AirBnB than there are long-term rents in Dublin; AirBnB places would have
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unmole
3y ago
> There's 10x more rooms on AirBnB than there are long-term rents in Dublin; [citation needed]
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unmole
3y ago
> enshrines private ownership of guns in its constitution. Czechia, Guatemala, Mexico, Phillipines, Ukraine, Yemen.
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unmole
3y ago
E-Trade and Fidelity report gains correctly. Which broker doesn't?
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unmole
3y ago
It was obvious to me that they were talking about Pakistan 20 years ago.
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unmole
3y ago
> expect to read this on wsb, not here. From past threads this is exactly this kind of nonsense I expected: People with a tenuous grasp on reality chiming in with moronic conspiracy theories. WSB atleast acknowledges that they are a bunc
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unmole
3y ago
> If programming is alchemy, then prompt engineering is more akin to demonic conjurations (communicating with demons): Honest question. Do you think this analogy is anyway helpful?
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unmole
3y ago
Calories in calories out always applies. But calories out is a moving target and is influenced by calories in.
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unmole
3y ago
> Elastic was useless without X-Pack after a few versions But somehow users still manage to derive value from OpenSearch. > Calling it Opensearch while touting Elasticsearch support is just as confusing Right. Because it's not li
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unmole
3y ago
> Has succeeded in what? As TFA puts it, building a "bonafide open source" project. How is it half dead? Just because it doesn't have the latest shiny features that Elastic has? Was Elastic useless before? OpenSearch is Ap
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unmole
3y ago
Would you say RoR is significantly different from Django?
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unmole
3y ago
Raised in a strict Maharashtrian Brahmin household That sentance adds background about the father's upbringing. It's no different from saying someone grew up in a secular Jewish household or that their parents were born again Ch
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unmole
3y ago
> In Europe shit that gets you into jail How many people went to jail for Wirecard?
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unmole
3y ago
To quote a certain Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on the matter of stray dogs: > It is a sin, it should be a sin, to feed stray dogs, and we should save numerous dogs if we had legislation making every stray dog liable to be shot. Even if th
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unmole
3y ago
I'm not going to bother with a source that reports West Bengal as a single place.
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unmole
3y ago
> The forecast says 44 degrees next week. Where? In the forecasts that I could find, the maximum doesn't even touch 40 in the next two weeks.
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unmole
3y ago
> The failure here isn't of the individuals Nope, the failure is of the individuals. Sure, regulators deserve some of the blame but nobody forced the individuals to put their money into such ridiculous schemes.
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unmole
3y ago
Misanthropic hippie claptrap.
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unmole
3y ago
> had fallen away with the Roman Empire a thousand years earlier. Yeah, no: https://petrarch.petersadlon.com/canzoniere.html?poem=128
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unmole
3y ago
I don't understand the point you are trying to make.
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unmole
3y ago
Spain as a nation state did not exist then.
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unmole
3y ago
He would have perfectly understood what Italian meant considering the equivalent term was in use for centuries.
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3y ago
Wikipedia has a nice note: > Though the modern state of Italy had yet to be established, the Latin equivalent of the term Italian had been in use for natives of the region since antiquity; most scholars believe Columbus was born in the R
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