Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Is it a good idea to use an Android phone as an external SSD for backing up my home folder? 16 hours ago:
There’s usually a lot of private data in the home folder. I feel compromise or loss of my phone is a greater risk than loss of my home folder. I’d use an SD card before I’d use a phone.
- Comment on Help making sense of IPs and A records 4 days ago:
It depends on how you want to do it; how your reverse proxy server is setup. I use Pangolin running on a VPS as my proxy server. It uses a tunnel (“Newt”) between web servers running on my home network and the VPS, so I don’t need any open/forwarded ports on my home router.
- Comment on Help making sense of IPs and A records 4 days ago:
An A record maps to an IP address. A CNAME record maps to another URL. Since you are trying to map to an IP address rather than a URL, you will want an A record.
If all of your sites will be served from the same proxy server at 204.230.30.104, you can create a single, wildcard A record for *.newexample.com. This will point every subdomain to your proxy’s IP address. You don’t need to create an A record for each subdomain.
If you are planning on serving some subdomains from 204.230.30.104 and other subdomains from another proxy at 69.4.20.187, you would need A records for pointing the subdomains toward their respective proxies.
- Comment on Important Announcement 5 days ago:
Except for your first sentence, I would agree with you. Don’t hurt people directly though. Starting a war helps no one.
You seem to be assuming I meant some sort of unlawful harm. My phrasing was quite deliberate: I advocated no specific actions whatsoever. You brought “hurt people” and “starting a war” into this conversation; not I.
The choice of what actions to take is left to you; I am not involving myself in that decision. My advocacy is strictly limited to the choice of targets: Do not take direct action against ICE agents. They are merely a distraction from the problem class. Redirect any action you might choose to take against ICE to the people getting rich while the rest of us starve.
I will raise one point:
The point of protesting is to shame leaders into change.
Our leaders are shameless. There is no point in trying to shame the shameless. The purpose of protesting must be something else. Otherwise, protesting is pointless.
- Comment on That Orange Bastard 5 days ago:
If Vance initiates 25th amendment proceedings before January 20th, 2027, he sacrifices the possibility of a second term.
- Comment on Important Announcement 6 days ago:
Whatever you want to do to an ICE agent, do instead to the people living in the biggest house you can find.
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- Comment on Lost at sea 6 days ago:
Not a protractor. Dividers. But the fact that you don’t know that is consistent with your comment.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
Many options available. At the “ownership” level, you can establish deed restrictions and covenants requiring owner-occupancy. At the local level, you can establish zoning requirements. At the tax assessment level, you can enact punitively-high tax rates that are exempted for owner-occupants. If anyone tries renting these properties, they will face the full tax rate; these properties can only be feasibly owned by people who will occupy them.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
Let’s start from the beginning: a mortgage is a neutral agreement. Effectively, the lender conveys equity to the borrower over time. Equity is the right to permanent, unlimited use of the property.
A rental agreement conveys no equity. What the tenant gains is a short-term, limited use of the property. “Temporary” is considerably less valuable than “permanent”, so a fair value for “rent” is considerably less than a fair value for a mortgage.
Rent prices don’t reflect this. Even after including a maintenance expense, (that the owner would have to pay regardless of who is living in the property), fair rent for that temporary privilege is still far less than the mortgage for the permanent right.
And yet, the market has been manipulated to the point that rent prices are well above mortgages. In a fair market, people seeking housing would generally choose the better option. If a mortgage is cheaper than rent, they would choose a mortgage. The laws of supply and demand would react to this choice by increasing the price of a mortgage, and decreasing the price of rent.
Since this isn’t happening, we know that the market is being manipulated, and tenants are being exploited. “Fair rent” does not exist: tenants are paying far more than the cost of a mortgage, yet they are not receiving the value of a mortgage.
That is even less helpful than renting it out.
You would have a point if “fair rent” existed, but it does not. In the absence of “fair rent”, we are left with the perverse position that a vacant home does, indeed, cause less harm than a rented home.
A house gets inherited.
The full context of that scenario includes the manipulated market. The scenario you present is only reasonable in a fair market.
In his case, if he had said he was renting for an overseas assignment but was going to move back
Same thing: the scenario for renting is only reasonable in a fair market, but the underlying context of your scenario is the manipulated market where the value of a temporary privilege is modeled greater than the value of a permanent right.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
What about cases where the move is only temporary?
In their initial phase, land contracts are, effectively, a rental agreement, including for short-term. (With one difference: the payment is fixed for the life of the agreement; it doesn’t increase year over year) When “temporary” turns into “long term”, (as it so often does) a land contract already has you covered, by locking rent through the initial phase, then gaining you equity through the final phase.
In the private lender case, do you see that as different from someone who starts their own company and manages the property themselves while the renter pays them directly?
Vastly. One includes conveyance of equity; the other does not.
The landlord/property manager retains 100% equity throughout the life of the rental agreement. The private lender retains only the value of the loan. With a land contract, the seller/lender retains 100% of the equity for a couple years, before the agreement automatically converts to a private mortgage.
The earning equity piece isn’t necessarily incorrect, what the owner is losing is potentially the opportunity to move at all.
Completely false. Absolute worse case scenario, they abandon their equity and return title to the lender/seller. Terminating the loan/purchase agreement in this absolute worse case scenario is functionally identical to renting. At its best, renting gives you this outcome, and creates new, worst-case possibilities: where the landlord absconds with security deposits and charges additional fees.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
I like the option to rent a place that’s even better than what the baseline option would be. I like that I can move around as I need to. I like that I can get a bigger, better, or just different, place when I have the funds. I like that I never have to deal with broken appliances or roof repairs and get to pick the type of place I want to live in.
You are describing either a “land contract” or a “condominium”. With either, you gain equity in the property.
- Comment on Rent is theft 1 week ago:
Is this so bad and horrible?
Yes.
Instead I’m renting it to a family of Ukrainian refugees.
You are actively exploiting refugees.
You are no different than the BnB or the investors. You are on the supply side of the problem. Rent is, indeed, the problem.
You could offer to sell your property to those tenants. You could act as a private lender, allowing them to pay you instead of a commercial bank. You could offer them a “land contract”, which is a rent-to-own arrangement. If they choose to leave your property in the next three years, it was no different than a rental. If they choose to stay beyond three years, it automatically converts to a private mortgage, and they begin earning equity.
They basically pay off my mortgage so that I’m not actively losing money on the whole thing.
Leaving it vacant and just paying the mortgage yourself, you are gaining equity in exchange for your money. You are not losing anything. Renting, you are gaining that equity without paying for it.
The only way renting isn’t a problem is if the rent is far less than a mortgage payment on the same property.
- Comment on Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders 1 week ago:
How long does it take to train, and how much would I earn while training, if I elected to quit after training, but prior to any operational assignment?
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 2 weeks ago:
There is another major advantage…
There is a major problem with solar and wind. Daily and seasonal variation in solar flux and wind speed forces us to size our renewable generators based on their minimum expected output. We have to install enough solar panels that we can supply our needs with only low-angle sunlight on short, winter days. But we won’t do that, because that many solar panels are about four times what we need to supply our needs on long summer days. With that much oversupply on the grid, generators won’t be able to command sufficient revenue to justify that number of panels. But we need that number of panels to supply our winter demands.
We can match a large percentage of daily variation with sufficient grid-scale storage. We fill up reservoirs with our excess mid-day production, and run that water through hydropower plants overnight. But it is simply not possible to expand storage sufficiently to match seasonal variation.
If we build out sufficient solar generation capacity to meet winter demand, we don’t need seasonal storage. The problem we have becomes one of seasonal oversupply. The solution to that problem is an increase in demand. We need energy-intensive products that can be brought online in daylight hours from spring to autumn, then shut down for winter.
Producing net carbon-zero fuels could very well create part of the demand needed to justify massive expansion of our renewable power grid.
- Comment on New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline 2 weeks ago:
Liquid fuels have a couple advantages in certain scenarios. Aircraft, for example. The energy density of liquid fuels is considerably higher than batteries. Aircraft only take on as much fuel as they need to safely reach their destination. They takeoff with more weight than they can safely land, burning off fuel weight throughout their flight until they are light enough to land. Dumping fuel overboard to get down to landing weight in an emergency.
Switch these aircraft over to batteries, and their landing weight is the same as their takeoff weight. They carry the same “fuel” weight for a regional flight as they do for a maxinum-range flight.
- Comment on With what happened in Minnesota recently, do you think we need more community defense classes now more than ever? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine there is a gang of state sponsored murderers beating down your door,
If state-sponsored murderers are at my door, I’m dead. Short of my own state-sponsored violent actors, there is no viable defense. The sooner you understand that, the better.
Rolling out the (proverbial) guillotine is the only viable means of stopping their boss from issuing the orders.
- Comment on With what happened in Minnesota recently, do you think we need more community defense classes now more than ever? 2 weeks ago:
The only viable “defense” here is for us to shift our focus away from ICE and toward the oligarchs.
- Comment on With the ICE Raids happening at a very faster rate lately, we need more community defense classes now more than ever. Seriously! 3 weeks ago:
Whatever you’re planning on doing about ICE agents, redirect toward anyone with 9+ figures of net worth.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 4 weeks ago:
Well, we’re pissing off the right people.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 4 weeks ago:
It’s a little clunky, but KryptEY is an on screen keyboard that can encode/decode messages. The encoded messages can be transmitted over any service.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 5 weeks ago:
OP is asking how to prevent abusers from seeing OPs content.
“Blocking” the abuser prevents OP from seeing the abuser’s content. “Blocking” does not prevent the abuser from seeing and interacting with OP’s content.
“Blocking” does not achieve OP’s objective.
- Comment on Zootopia 5 weeks ago:
Well, it’s a story that glorifies cops, and it completely fails to mention ACAB.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 5 weeks ago:
You can discover who is doing it with Lemvotes
But no, you can’t block them. Here in the real world (as opposed to the dystopian centralized platforms that have largely supplanted public discourse), it is not possible to isolate a specific individual and deny them access to information provided freely to the rest of the general public.
Should their public engagement rise to the level of harassment, there are legal options you can take to compel their restraint. But downvoting everything you do does not rise to such a level.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
You can do that, or you can falsify your calculations, claiming more dependents than you actually have, reducing your withholding.
You can also go the contractor route, operating as a separate business rather than an employee. 1099 income has no withholding.
People use “exempt from withholding” on a W4 when the majority of their income is from contracting or self-employment and they file their own quarterly estimates.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 5 weeks ago:
You can actually do that. Read the W4 a little more closely.
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 2 months ago:
Interesting. A first-person shooter is the view from the perspective of the shooter. A third person shooter is the view from a neutral party - a camera watching the action.
A second-person shooter would be from the viewpoint of those being shot by the protagonist.
A telepathic assassin. You read the mind(s) of your target(s), and somehow use their eyes to kill them.
- Comment on GIVE UNTO CAESEAR 2 months ago:
Corn cares not
fromwhence the shit postsFTFY. “Whence” means “from what origin”.
- Comment on My Religion 2 months ago:
I would call that “fraud”. In declaring themselves “gynecologists”, they are effectively advertising that they are qualified and willing to perform routine gynecological procedures. Their refusal to do so constitutes a fraud on patients seeking such services.
“Neonatology”, “Histology”, “Reproductive physiology” and “Reproductive biology” are comparable specialty fields wherein the practitioner would not be expected to perform elective abortions.
Additionally, if they would prefer to call themselves “general practitioners”, I would be far more lenient in allowing them to define their own scope of practice.
- Comment on My Religion 2 months ago:
FairOkFTFY.