So it's an "open standard" and you can use any chain that meets Coinbase's "acceptance criteria". So under this guise, their whole goal is to make themselves centralizing force.
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I've read the transcript of the video for the first two questions, "What's The State Of Elm?" and "What’s Evan Working On?". After 12 minutes of chatting, I could still not grasp the beginning of an answer to these questions.
For "What's The State Of Elm?", the developer only explains why there hasn't been a release for 5 years:
- He felt his work wasn't recognized enough by the company he worked for.
- He created a foundation to collect donations, but felt he would not feel at ease with that.
- He has one sentence about the covid: "Okay, and so we did have a pandemic, so maybe that's the fact."
- His work was a long-term investment that did not "meet the needs or the demands of everybody else".
- He talked with many companies that used Elm. But he always got the response "The answer was always like, well, it's going pretty good. We're actually struggling a lot with our backend.".
I think his memory is failing him on this last point. I'd be extremely surprised that companies that used Elm could never find any fault with the language or the compiler. I can remember two essays where companies were glad for Elm, but with serious technical problems, like the inability to host private packages.
Where's the transcript?
ruiseal commented on Known Attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptography github.com/elikaski/ECC_A... · Posted by u/azeemba
Unexpectedly a great primer on ECC.
ruiseal commented on Obtainium: Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source obtainium.imranr.dev/... · Posted by u/janandonly
You're removing the middleman (Play or F-Droid) so I don't see how.
So much will never be looted or destroyed because of this law. As an Irish person who has spent some time working as an archaeological grunt (basically, I dig then as soon as I spot something, pass it over to a real archaeologist) - this is a hugely important law. Because, for large developers, the immediate response on finding something is to hide/destroy it so that they don't lose money while an archaeological survey is carried out. And for landowners, I wager a majority are likely to keep it as a curio if it doesn't look valuable.
The fact is that owning a piece of farmland doesn't give you ownership of our country's heritage. Nor should it. You get to raise cows on the land. You don't get to mine it (without permission), you don't get to turn it into a housing development (without permission), and you don't get to turn it into an archaeological dig site (without permission).
In response to "our country's heritage": Ireland is not a person so the concept is entirely political.
And provided you don't cause any negative externalities, you should have the default right to do whatever you want on your land.
ruiseal commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
>Considering how many desokupa services exist I'd say it's a real problem.
None of what you said sounds like a problem. What is the problem? It sounds like a policy to ensure dwellings, which are obviously a scarce resource in those areas have actual people living in them. That is kind of their point. Of course it would be beneficial to have a better legal framework to ensure housing security and building maintenance.
The underlying problem is that it violates the owner's property rights. Whether they rent or or leave unoccupied their property, even if it's scarce, is their business. And not letting the owner manage their property as they see fit causes all sorts of wider problems.
I'm assuming from reading your other comments you're not going to be sympathetic to this argument so let me give you two anecdotal incidents.
The first is about a woman who is 70 years old. She lives off a state pension which is supplemented by a small rental income from a three bedroom apartment she owns. The apartment is quite old, and needs refurbishment, so she can only generally rent it to students or non-professionals who pay a modest rent. After maintenance costs, property tax, and building management fees she doesn't get much but enough so she doesn't have to rely on her children.
One day, one of the tenants stopped paying rent. Rather than asking him to leave immediately she gave him some extra time to get the rent. Rather than do this, he decided he would do an occupation. So first he terrorized the other tenants so they left and then proceeded to occupy the entire apartment, including turning one bedroom into a gym. Police were called quite a few times but they said they couldn't do anything until they received a court order. So for a year and a half, this guy lived there rent free with water and electricity being paid for as well (you can cut off internet as it's not deemed essential).
When the court order finally came through the police didn't even bother showing up and it was the locksmith who chased the guy out. He hasn't faced any consequences and could continue to do this again and again. As for the owner, she had to take out loans (some with 20% interest) cover the costs this guy incurred. She, who is Spanish, will never rent out to Spanish people again.
The second is about a taxi driver in his late 40s. After a long period of saving he managed to save enough for a deposit to get a mortgage on a costal apartment that his family would use in the summers and rent the rest of the time. While he could have just listed it on Airbnb, he decided to rent it out to a woman with children on a long-term basis (non-summer months).
So she moves in and when he comes a few days later to collect the first month's rent he's informed that she won't be paying rent and because of the children it's going to be impossible to kick her out. He tries to negotiate with her over a few months, including talking to the town hall to get some some rent stipend, all to no avail. Eventually, he had to use desokupa services to get her out but not before this woman had caused significant property damage.
He also went into debt and his marriage almost failed because of the stress and financial strain. Once he finishes repairing all the damage (which he has to do himself as he can't afford to pay someone else) he will rent it out again but only through Airbnb to foreigners.
So this policy has ensured that honest people, renters and landlords, get punished by dishonest people who won't see any consequences either.
ruiseal commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
> Until they get an eviction notice from a court, which can take more than a year, you have to keep paying utilities for them
After the eviction takes place, how badly does an eviction on record hurt the renter's ability to rent in the future? Just trying to understand the asymmetry of costs for the landlord and renter in this situation where the renter "decides" to stop paying rent
Many non-professional landlords don't ask for references nor do background checks, they just give you a contract. So I imagine it's pretty easy to continue to do the same trick over and over unless they somehow manage to get their face in a local paper.
The effect of this is more reluctance to rent out for fear this will happen. Or only rent to rich foreigners who won't pull this scam. Lest the landlord find themselves in debt.
Also, the okupa is very much deciding to do this knowing they can get away with it.
ruiseal commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
> Considering how many desokupa services exist I'd say it's a real problem.
How many does exists? I've only heard of one (literally called "Desokupa"), but you're saying there are many companies offering this, not just local chapters of the major one?
Tried searching but could only find that one, and I couldn't find any sources on the number of companies existing offering this service either.
As they operate in a gray zone, they are generally not advertised. But even cops will give you numbers or info on how to join WhatsApp groups where you can hire someone.
Despite all the publicity, I've never heard of anyone using the company you referenced. At least not in Andalucía.
ruiseal commented on Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem idealista.com/en/news/leg... · Posted by u/diggan
There is no such "okupas problem" in Spain. If someone enter your dwelling (don't really know if is the correct term in English. In Spanish the house where you actually live is called "morada"), you can call the police and they will evict whoever is in the house in less than 24 hours.
Other topic is holiday residences; those are not dwelling ("morada") so, in Spain, the right to have a dwelling is on the top of private property so yes, it's quite difficult to evict people who entered the house in this scenario. The ones who really have the problem are the people who buy houses for the summer.
If you own a second property and decide to rent it out and your tenant decides to stop paying rent you're fucked. Until they get an eviction notice from a court, which can take more than a year, you have to keep paying utilities for them. Nor can you change the locks. If the okupa has children you're even more fucked.
Considering how many desokupa services exist I'd say it's a real problem.
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