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  1. How about we just limit the number of properties/rooms someone can put up on ABnB and/or require the property be the primary residence of the property owner who must occupy it a minimum number of months per year to prevent commercial exploitation?

    How about instead you just stop fucking with the liberties of other people?

    Not only isnt what you offer a solution to the problem, its not even the actual problem.

  2. Isn't there a diminishing return on this? Some point where AirBnB inventory is saturated and the so-called investors are owning properties that mostly remain vacant, and eventually the market inventory for permanent housing faces a surge in available properties as speculators look to get out from under their under-performing rental properties?

    Yes its self-balancing. However if the supply of housing isnt allowed to grow to meet demand, then one should look at why the supply of housing isn't growing to meet demand, because any "balance" achieved under artificial restrictions wont necessarily resemble the balance that you expected.

    I believe in the San Fransisco area right now growth in both low density and high density housing is being greatly restricted by these zoning boards. Its ok tho, because people in California want a nanny.

  3. And why would they build more housing, lowering their profits, then?

    The one guy who reads the fucking articles... and you dont even understand the simple things of economics?

    Those that are allowed to build housing make money on each house that they build. There is no debate about this. Its the end of the discussion on the matter of the "they" economics you were hand waving your bullshit "lowering profits" crap at.

    Once you are willing to accept that reality, and it is in fact reality, then you easily come to the conclusion that something must be preventing people from building housing... and there is something doing that... zoning boards. The fucking politicians. It is "they" who hold the keys to "the market" and have fucked it up. In many cases these scumbag politicians are complicit in working together with some private business... for campaign donations.. for favors... but it is not the private business that holds the keys.

  4. Re:American problem is American on Scientists Invent Ultrasonic Dryer That Uses Sound To Dry Your Clothes (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it has anything to do with poverty. I live in a middle class neighborhood and people do hang their laundry out to dry and nobody thinks less of them for it. That sounds like some sort of external bias you have going on there.

    Its called projection.
    br. They talk a good game, while revealing what they are really like inside.

  5. It's not that it triggered it, it's that they went around something that was obviously meant to stop them from triggering it.

    No, thats not what happened.


    You are confusing Googles targeted fingerprint "solution" with an attempt by Google to prevent advertisers from doing this, and you are confused in this way because you suck the Google cock and wont take a moment to think that maybe, just fucking maybe, that Google was at fault, is at fault, and will continue to be at fault so long as bullshit "fixes" are considered a "solution."

  6. Re:Seeing is believing on New Solar-Powered Device Can Pull Water Straight From the Desert Air (sciencemag.org) · · Score: -1

    The roadblock is of course the amount of energy required to extract water from dry air rapidly.

    A portable solar powered device cannot provide a life-sustaining rate of water collection. You might be able to do it with batteries instead of solar panels, but that defeats the purpose (you could just bring water instead of a heavy battery brick.)

  7. Re:my crazy uncle was kinda-sorta right on Roku-Enabled TVs Will Soon 'Listen' To Programs You're Watching To Suggest Streaming Content (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me:

    How many people do you have to get to repeat it until it actually becomes true?

  8. What private firms have been driven out of business here? The ones that have been given $45M of taxpayer money?

    Its all the ones that didn't get taxpayer money.

    But you wont discuss this subject in any way that resembles an honest consideration of the situation.... because you have an agenda to push.

  9. Re:Every little thing on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You said nothing for years while Obama was bombing Syria.

    Now all of a sudden you think its, and I quote, "Unconstitutional and Unwise" to bomb Syria.

    The other guy has it right. Your attitude is exactly why the Democrats got murdered last election.

    You can sit there cherry picking all the things that you have an issue with on a daily basis, but that falls apart when you arent consistent. A politician can get away with some flip-flopping, but you guys are all over the place constantly.

  10. Re: Basic liberals propaganda on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The courts have always limited what expert witnesses could say. It's called "Admissibility."

    Thats why we need a commission then, right?

  11. Re:Basic liberals propaganda on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with requiring techniques used to court to be supported by evidence that they work?

    Hold on, let me ask the commission on requirements to see if they think that there is anything wrong with them supporting the commission on evidence.

    You will have to wait tho, as there are currently real commissions authorized by congress in session.

  12. Re: Basic liberals propaganda on US Dismantles Forensic Science Commission (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I know it feels like a powerful force inside you, but your hate for Trump doesnt give you the power to alter reality arbitrarily, such as the reality that is the fully accepted definition of words.

    I'm sure the Trump "regime" will give you plenty of room to change the definition of words to suit your arguments but today wasn't it, now since you are calling people assholes, why dont you just shut your clearly illiterate racist fucking mouth?

  13. Re: But FF advocate s said there weren't problems! on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes you have. You just arent knowledgeable enough to know it.

  14. Re:Host files on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Hey everybody... we now know how to fool this guy. He thinks simple site = malware and therefore must think fancy flashy = safe

  15. Go and Chess are different, but labeling the branching factor as the distinction is plain wrong.

    The main difference between the two games is that in chess the pieces move while in go the pieces do not. A go board "grows" as the game is played, while a chess board "evolves."

    In go after a few moves are played in an area it is often apparent exactly how the area is going to play out. The 'when' part of the piece play is very often unimportant, and when the order of play is important its an easy thing for a shallow search to identify these initiatives. In chess the order that the moves are played is nearly universally important, so by definition its a state space search problem with no easy shortcuts.

    AlphaGo is a montocarlo tree search that uses two neural networks. A "neural network" is just a fancy way of saying "an approximation based on a model" with the specifics of it only being relevant to training aka learning aka put the right values in the model. One of the approximations is called the policy network, which influences the probability that a stone is played at any given moment in the randomized search. The other approximation is called the value network, which approximates the probability of a win from a given position.

    The models .. erm.. neural networks AlphaGo is using are huge but based on localized features and they can only get away with this because go is so weakly temporal.

    Chess A.I. so far hasnt benefited much by using larger "models." The closest thing to "large model" in the chess A.I. world are called end game table bases and you could throw many gigabytes at it, and these models are both perfect (never wrong) and encoded near minimally, but the measured performance gains of using these large models is still quite small (~10 to 15 elo)

    Nobody is searching all of state space in either game, btw. Its been decades since chess engines worked the way it frequently is claimed that they work. The nodes that a modern chess engine searches approximates a beam search. All the most promising stuff 40+ ply deep, without much of the not so promising stuff that is even only 5 ply deep.

  16. you get a reputation for being bitchy

    Heaven forbid... its no wonder a person doesnt ask for reasonable compensation when the threat is getting "a reputation" for being "bitchy" when you do...

    Here in the real world, everyone has a fucking reputation. Deal with it. Grow the fuck up.

  17. Re: ATTN: Potential New Hires on Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination By US Labor Department (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Its now unfair to reward good performance, irrespective of the employees ability to recognize their own value or their willingness to risk requesting an agreeable compensation.

  18. Re:More US warmongering on US Strikes Syrian Base With Over 50 Tomahawk Missiles (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if the US had not destabilized the entire region by failing at nation-building it's unlikely that any of the current events in Syria/Iraq would have occurred.

    The claim that the U.S. caused the Arab spring, even when its used derogatorily like you are doing, is pure bullshit American hubris. Your claim that Saddam was the guy that held the entire middle east together is a fucking joke, right?

    What we did was influence the Arab spring. We certainly crippled the government of Libya. We certainly funded the rebels is Syria. Leaving Iraq when we did was a bigger mistake than it had been to invade in the first place. Our mistakes in Iraq began with Bush Sr and continued under Clinton. If right from the beginning in 1991 we had been bombing with prejudice all the places the U.N. inspections had been interfered with, one way or another Iraq would not have been the thorn it became a decade later. We didnt enforce the 1991 capitulation.

    All these rebel movements, the Arab spring, is a result of something older than any significant American interference in the region. The spring provides the manpower that enables our interference.

  19. Re:Seems about right. on 'Verified' Is Now a Derogatory Term on Twitter (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    Today I didnt think that I would get the chance to reply to a "progressive" lefty attributing convoluted nefarious motive to a person changing their profile picture on twitter.

    What the fuck.

  20. About the only way of getting offended is if you take things massively out of context.

    Surely not a lack of honesty. That would never offend anybody.

    Oh... were you telling us what is and is not offensive while also instantly proving that you dont find even obvious dishonesty offensive...

  21. Re:I am curious if people think this is good or ba on Indiana Considers Prohibiting Cities From Banning Airbnb (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    useful to keep areas that are in demand by tourists as residential areas

    If tourists want to be there, then its far from only a "residential area." The zoning of a plot does not justify itself.

    Stop meddling.

  22. Re:This calls for ballot stuffing on RedMonk Identifies 2017's Most Popular Languages: JavaScript, Java, And Python (redmonk.com) · · Score: 1

    ADA is used by anyone that likes to have a long list of provable things about the code, like that a function never fails.

  23. I would argue that it is the IDE that should be highlighting a languages standard library commands.

    I am not a BASIC hater by any stretch, but library calls should use a unified syntax.

    Not requiring ()'s for procedure calls (functions that return no value) is fine, and as far as I am concerned is actually quite beneficial, but it should also apply to the users own procedures because it is also beneficial there for all the same reasons.

    SCREEN 0
    LOCATE 25, 1

    PRINT SIGNATURE$

  24. Surely not the only solution. on Microsoft Locks Ryzen, Kaby Lake Users Out of Updates On Windows 7, 8.1 (kitguru.net) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm sure someone will release a CPUID hack to pretend to be a lower end cpu, much like Agner Fog used when proving that Intel's compiler and the code it produced would shit on both AMD and VIA on purpose.

  25. Re:Leftist regulation run amok. on 20,000 Worldclass University Lectures Made Illegal, So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them (lbry.io) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Does every law need to be written so that it's idiot proof?

    Every law should be written by someone other than a virtue signaling idiot who doesnt care about foreseeable problems because they are too busy being a virtue signaling idiot.