Comment Re:Weird how... (Score 1) 78
Weird how this isn't considered an act of war.
And US malware threatens critical Chinese infrastructure. Just grow up.
Weird how this isn't considered an act of war.
And US malware threatens critical Chinese infrastructure. Just grow up.
That's not how economics work. In a supply constricted environment you'd expect the most costly assets that were feasibly priced for buyers/renters to afford to set the market rate.
If the supply constraints ease, the price will drop and eventually stabilize around a number that gives a rate of return for the investor that's competitive with similar investments of that "type." Otherwise that capital will flee to bonds or farm land or whatever. I don't know what that target is off the top of my head, but I'd guess 3 to 5%.
The economics will, long term, either encourage more housing stock or encourage people to leave. Option #2 seems to be winning currently, for a mix of good and stupid reasons.
Its been long term already and resulted in the mess we are in now. I don't think it works like that.
All goods/services are sold at the market rate. To do otherwise would distort the pricing mechanisms that normally would encourage more supply, and thereby arrive at the appropriate price for any good/service. Of course in the case of housing in these localities, the real distortion of supply was purposeful and intentional by the elected officials who legislated/ruled on local and state laws and regulations...
not *really* answering the question... Once the loan/mortgage has been paid off, the landlords costs drop significantly. Shouldn't the market rate for the rent on a fully paid off home be lower than one which was still being paid off?
So should we start sending asylum seekers to Detroit?
Do we really need millions of low skill workers that hardly speak the language
What does it say on the Statue of Liberty? Do you need those tired, poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free for anything at all?
You seriously over-estimate the percentage of housing units that are being bought and kept off the rental market. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to buy a housing unit and not collect any income from it? There's the cost of the unit, the interest on the loan used to purchase it, the property taxes & upkeep/security costs to 'protect' your investment, all so that your other investment properties can be rented out for a bit more money?
Only a person that's never owned rental properties can believe that countless homes and apartments are being bought to be kept off the market - the finances will eat you alive.
The economics of rental properties is such that 90-100% of rent collected goes towards paying off the loan and property taxes of the property, the payoff for the landlord is in the appreciation of the property over time and some tax savings thru depreciation. If an apartment that used to rent out for $1,000/month is taken off the market, the landlord/owner still has $800-1,000 in monthly expenses for that unit that have to be paid.
Did you ever hear of a landlord reducing the rent when the loan was paid off?
We are witnessing the end of the internet.
The beauty of the internet is that you can go on there and get the opinions of regular people.
Whats happened, is that people are exposed to so many opinions of so many regular people, that they've learned that its no longer necessary to produce an opinion, only to reproduce the opinions they see online.
AI just takes this to the next level, by removing other people from the generation of the opinions that you are supposed to regurgitate in order to 'be a good person', and simulate the proper opinions that 'good people' are supposed to have.
Why should an actual person be required to produce opinions? That's dangerous and can get people into a lot of trouble.
Its far safer to just reproduce the canned opinions that you find online, and which have been properly vetted and reviewed.
AI enables this so much better...
I'm not saying that this is good for human societies....
if that was true why have been conservatives been offended by anything liberals do for the past 16 years of my life
you were offended america had the audacity to elect a black man president and haven't stopped being offended a day since
the snowflake horseshoe is true. y'all are a bunch babies, you are mad about something new every day, i mean, fuck, this week you're actually mad about the NFL and white heterosexual relationships. wild times for you all
Who is this 'you' to whom you refer? Are you assuming I'm an American conservative? Or any sort of conservative? Or on the political right? You'd be wrong on all counts. I just see the USA as being politically insane and moraly bankrupt wherever *you* sit on the US political spectrum.
No, more like Fox News, Alex Jones, Ben Shapiro, the whole of "Prager U", and all "conservative" talk show hosts on radio. The whole sector is so monotone in its servile service of whatever dogshit they decide is "conservative" that it could very easily be mimicked by AI. At least Al Jazeera has reporters traveling the globe. The entire "conservative" media enterprise consists of people spewing nonsense. Hell, it may already be AI generated.
You pussies cannot even hurl good insults.
At least the right spew *something*, the left is so busy making sure that nothing they say could possibly offend anyone that they can barely say anything at all!
> but they also quietly replaced the Russian malware with their own [US gov't snoopware], for national security.
I assume you are joking, otherwise we at Slashdot expect clear evidence of such claims.
1. Its the USA. Did you learn nothing from Snowden?
2. They did it secretly.
3. Because of course they would.
Whether this is warranted or not, it will fuel gov't skeptics and conspiracists.
It may also generate invasion-of-privacy lawsuits. Is there a better way to go about it?
yeah but they also quietly replaced the Russian malware with their own, for national security.
>It's not just that TNG had a big miss with the contractions thing
I thought that was an artificial limitation to keep Data a little bit different? Same designer built Lore, who didn't have a problem with contractions.
I was thinking more Stargate SG1...
They had a whole load of aliens that found contractions difficult
Its use of contractions is just creepy, not even aliens can use contractions properly...
Shines brightly in the EU. UK is going in the opposite direction. American politicians' comprehension has scarcely gone beyond "the internet is a bunch of tubes".
LOL. All those companies are US-based, the EUcrates wouldn't be able to force anyone to put any backdoors in anything anyway. So, since they're not gonna reach those grapes anyway, they're sure gonna virtue signal about how we're not trying.
And the USA having forced back doors into everything complain about China doing the exact same!
Its even worse in Australia but as always, "you can get around it with eyes closed".
In the UK, forgetting your password when the cops want your data is a good way to spend the rest of your life in prison.
The only reason "Also" wonâ(TM)t work as a missing keyword is because the US is already well ahead of the rivals on this front.
The thing is, Western media is muzzled so they can't mention the US and allies offensive cyber operations, its as if they don't exist.
You literally never see an APT thats attributed as a US state sponsored group.
Sure... they don't exist... right.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
