willholloway

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by willholloway 10y ago
We should have a conversation of where short term rentals are appropriate. Maybe they are not appropriate in apartment buildings, but banning them in all of New York state is draconian.
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by willholloway 10y ago
Well heres the thing, the house I am in is non-conforming multi-family. Its only allowed to be mutli-family because its grandfathered in. Believe me, the town and neighbors would rather it be single-family, because multi-family brings in a
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by willholloway 10y ago
I bought a three family house. I live on the second floor and rent out the first and third floor units on the web. It is sharing my house. When I first bought the house I inherited a 12 month lease tenant from the previous owner. When I had
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by willholloway 10y ago
The law in this case is a hammer looking for a nail. If a short term rental is violating noise ordinances, fine it or shut it down, don't shut down every short term rental just because you fear it. The biggest thing I have learned from
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by willholloway 10y ago
Maybe this is good law in New York City because its so dense and everyone is stepping on one another, but its not good law for the entire, gigantic state of New York. My cousin does cleaning and management of vacation rentals in the Catski
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by willholloway 10y ago
I escaped NYC and moved to a neighboring state, along the coast, in a tourist town in a relatively economically depressed area. I grew up in this town, and it used to be vibrant and vital and full of young families. It has gotten older, as
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by willholloway 10y ago
Gilfoyle: Why would Dinesh lie about having friends? Why would Tara lie to me about fucking other guys when we have a totally open and hedonistic relationship that allows for behavior like that? Because people like to lie, Richard. It'
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I think the change will come through total surveillance, mutually assured destruction for nation states and genetic engineering for asymmetric threats. When technology advances such that individuals have the power to cause massive destructi
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In the hopefully not too distant future, when humanity grows out of its barbaric infancy and we cease to kill each other over petty disputes a long term global renewal project will commence. We will use all the means at our disposal to clea
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by willholloway 10y ago
Call it optimism, and a faith in modern American democracy and a reassurance from the amount of pushback Trump is getting from his exclusionary statements.
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by willholloway 10y ago
I wasn't aware of the GOP's platform this year, and now that I've looked into it I see what you mean. My take from watching the RNC was what seemed to me to be a new found inclusiveness of the GOP, with Peter Thiel's pro
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by willholloway 10y ago
I tend to agree on Trump, as someone who has been studying him and the campaign closely. In the final analysis, if he were to be elected, I think he would be a fairly typical Republican president, and one that seriously toned down the GOP&#
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by willholloway 10y ago
There's a good chance that in x number of years the accumulated toll of the now near subliminal low grade stress of the city will reach a tipping point. At the start the excitement and glamour masks the near subliminal, slow, consisten
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by willholloway 10y ago
I live in a small coastal village in Southeastern Connecticut and work remotely. What I did was purchase a three family house that provides a good bit of revenue on it's own. This makes me much less dependent on coding for money and sm
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There also currently exists a massive standard of living gap between different regions of the world. Further development and economic growth will also create a leveling effect. The future standard of living and costs in China and India look
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For a decent overview of this, watch Steal This Movie, or look into the life and work of Abbie Hoffman. The stated goal was to levitate the Pentagon, meaning to lift it in the air, and Hoffman claims that they actually did and many saw the
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by willholloway 10y ago
I didn't express myself clearly, running on very low sleep, I was trying to agree with you and elaborate on your point, except for the one statement about the low ROI of the programs.
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Chavez was immensely popular. A coup by the army was overturned by mass protests. His government was very successful by most economic metrics during his time in his office. It is his successor that has dropped the ball with his bungling of
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by willholloway 10y ago
The Galactica was a ship from the past, non-networked and seemingly out of date. It was about to be turned into a museum when the cylons took out the rest of the fleet through a very intimate social engineering attack that took out all netw
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by willholloway 10y ago
It is poverty itself that creates short term thinking that leads to those choices. This is why poverty is expensive for society, and investment by society to eliminate it would be paid back and much more.
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by willholloway 10y ago
I would call it a comeback story with a happy ending, as I got to semi-retire at 31 in a beautiful place. The thing is I know I was able to do this because of the wealth effect, and not because I am personally better or more deserving. That
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by willholloway 10y ago
Oregon is just one program, why is life expectancy for wealthy rising, and falling for the poor? Why is the gap around a full dozen years?
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> So you're saying that we overestimate poverty because the poor engage in extensive tax evasion/disability/welfare/unemployment fraud? And that if we properly tracked work activities by the poor, that poverty would b
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by willholloway 10y ago
Have you lived in Western style poverty? Have you mingled with those who patronize pawn shops and payday lenders? Please cite the various randomized control trials, and I would say it is far too early to draw conclusions on the effects of t
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by willholloway 10y ago
60% of the poor don't collect income reportable on a w2 form. That does not mean they do not engage in productive activities that produce cash. There is a huge informal cash and barter economy of legal goods, and another one for illega
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by willholloway 10y ago
Obama (almost) fixed this. The Affordable Care Act extended Medicaid coverage from the absolute indigent, to those making up to 133% of the poverty line in their state, something around $16,000 per year. The group that is in a bad spot are
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by willholloway 10y ago
Depends on why they aren't working. If they have no capital, and no pension they better be in a protected class, like students, seniors, disabled, single mothers with children or be very attractive. Otherwise there is almost no financi
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by willholloway 10y ago
We can fix this, we can take the carbon out of the atmosphere [1]. There is reason for optimism. We. Are. Not. Doomed. The optimum level of carbon is probably slightly above pre-industrial levels. We definitely need to get back below 350ppm
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Sounds fanciful, right? Only if you impose the constraint of this being an effort by ~4% of the human population, the population of the United States. The U.S once spent 75% of global research dollars, it's share has now dropped to bel
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by willholloway 10y ago
Exponential growth doesn't happen in one discrete operation, friend. Here's some more interesting info about the trials for s-ketamine as a tinnitus treatment. The vision for the company that is trying to bring intratympanic s-ket

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