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Many people also don't know that Vienna was isolated and divided for nearly 50 years during the cold war. A significant amount of the available housing is due to Vienna having a bad economy for almost a century.
Let's encrypt is great but if you operate any kind of scale you can quickly hit their rate limit. AWS only recently started allowing you to pull the certificate out of ACM.
That might take a while. We need to bog down the HSR first.
Tampering with smoke detectors
Do you actually know what Vienna did? Because the overwhelming number of people who reference the city basically just repeat a few dubious talking point about restricting rent.
My local library has been running a tool lender library for quite a while. It's quite popular as it rents out both manual and electric tools. This is great when you need an extension ladder but don't want to own an extension ladder.
if they let you walk out maybe they really can't
Toyota's have such a backlog of orders that they're marking cars up above MSRP
conflict free stability is super impressive by that standard.
Not much happened between 1861 and 1865?
What happens is that economics shift from a renewable model to an extractive model.
Farms are renewable so farmers maintain them over centuries. Mines are extractive so they get pumped and dumped.
What landlords do in these situations is try to extract as much money as possible before the enterprise collapses, either literally or figuratively. New housing doesn't come online quickly so both quality and quantity fall.
We could like build more houses though
Yeah, but what's the burn rate?
If it's going down at 1 day per week then it's not so bad. If it's closer to 0.75 days per day, that's much more serious.
I administrate are contractually obligated to be so isolated
Yeah, I've seen those contracts. They just reference a SeCuRiTy doc that's 20+ years old, and has never been re-evaluated. Things are secure because they follow the doc, not because they have actually evaluated the reasonable attack space.
I've fighting customers for years on their ideas of proper TLS usage and it's always the same thing. They've got a security doc that never changes and has never evaluated any of the trade-offs. Almost to the point that the people who wrote them choose things that increase downtime and KTLO work without helping security.
keeping backward operational compatibility
It is not possible to be backwards compatibility with a larger address space
Because there are so many applicants that have good grades.
A more cynical view is that the governing boards want a way to pick and choose who they let in. So they create "holistic" application systems to get "360 degree view of the candidate".
As per The Information, Meta employees used a total of 60.2 trillion AI tokens (!!) in 30 days. If this was charged at Anthropic’s API prices, it would cost $900M.
How are the investors not completely losing their minds at this kind of spending?
Yet.
Many ISPs are pushing v4 users into CGNAT so they're easier and cheaper to manage.
This is a big reason why Netflix and YouTube are on v6. To avoid the cost of service over v4.
I'm not sure that counting "How it's going?" as a productivity stat is the win you think it is.
Fun story - at Oxford they like to name buildings after important people. Dr Hoare was nominated to have a house named after him. This presented the university with a dilemma of having a literal `Hoare house` (pronounced whore).
I can't remember what Oxford did to resolve this, but I think they settled on `C.A.R. Hoare Residence`.
We're actually not that far off.
Right now, liquid fuels have about 10x the energy density of batteries. Which absolutely kills it for anything outside of extreme short hop flights. But electric engines are about 3x more efficient than liquid fuel engines. So now we're only 3x-4x of a direct replacement.
That means we are not hugely far off. Boeing's next major plane won't run on batteries, but the one afterwards definitely will.
It's not that outrageous. Apparently, 90% of India is living on less than $10 per day (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-living-with-less-th...)
Even at a simple level, if it's between spending weeks going through purchasing or not asking too many questions and getting on with it. I can see a lot of people choosing option B.
I'm not sure this is the first time this has happened. There was a major earthquake in SE Asia which wrecked chip production for a year and prices went up quite a lot.
I was actually looking at using this to replace our mongo disks so we could easily cold store our data
I think you're over-estimating how much slack there is in the organization.
A rule of thumb is that benefits cost an employer 25-30% of salary. So you're already pushing to 50% of revenue going to direct salary costs. Then there are employees in non-revenue roles (HR, legal, accounting, IT, etc...) and employees doing non-revenue work.
Finally, you have rent, licensing, insurance, and all the other fixed costs.
You're trying to side-step the point by not understanding it.
A VHS tape is capital in the same way that a machine or house is capital. They are capitalized goods that produce something of value on the other side. You still haven't been able to demonstrate that renting one is morally questionable while the other is fine except by special pleading.
What? Of course they are. They just produce entertainment instead of housing-days.
I think we're at the bottom of the discussion here. You've got your opinions but each time you've been pressed you don't really have a justification that stands up.
That's too broad of a concept to be useful. If you applied it like that then quitting a job would be rent seeking for the same reason
But rent-seeking isn't renting. They're different terms that don't have anything to do with each anymore.
Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating public policy or economic conditions without creating new wealth. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking)
This definition doesn't overlap with renting.
Because:
Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating public policy or economic conditions without creating new wealth. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking)
Given that renting out property you own doesn't meet this definition it can categorically not be called rent seeking. I'm always shocked that people apply this definition exclusively to property rentals, and not VHS rentals, without seeing the hypocrisy.
Let's expand on this.
People assume that renting out property is rent-seeking literally only because they both have the word rent in them.
I would note that people don't use the word rent-seeker (or parasite) when it comes to banks renting out money. I assume this is partly because banks use the word `loan` and partly because referring to bankers as parasites would be a little too close to dog-whistle antisemitism.