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blentrop | 1 year ago | on: Rent control effects: An almost complete review of the literature

Three bigger issues I think is short time rentals; like Airbnb and the like, lowering the available housing for the rest of the population.

Regulation on the amount of holiday rentals would aliviate some of the pressure on the market.

Taxation on empty apartments, second house and higher as more properties a single entity can have.

Housing should be seeing as a social right and not as an investment. Law should reflect that

blentrop | 2 years ago | on: Oh My Zsh

One option I really like liquid prompt[0]. Simple design which just shows the info I need without getting on my way

[0] https://github.com/liquidprompt/liquidprompt

blentrop | 2 years ago | on: UK's Online Safety Bill finally passed by parliament

The last paragraph in the article says:

"Earlier this month, junior minister Stephen Parkinson appeared to concede ground, saying in parliament's upper chamber that Ofcom would only require them to scan content where "technically feasible"."

By this I understand that all communication needs to be scanned except End To End Encryption where is not "technically feasible"

blentrop | 4 years ago | on: Kodi: An Open Source Home Theater System

I have found that after trying a bunch of different setups during the years. Kodi, Plex, etc. I have settled on using: Sonarr[0], Radarr[1] and Lidarr[2]; combined with Jacket[3] and your favorite torrent downloader (I use Deluge). Add the TV Series you follow or movies you want to watch.

This setup downloads everything for me once a movie or episode becomes available to download, and then I only watch content that is already downloaded using VLC. This is pretty good specially if your Internet connection is a bit spotty at times.

I've been using this setup for years now, and I'm pretty happy with it.

[0] https://sonarr.tv/ [1] https://radarr.video/ [2] https://lidarr.audio/ [3] https://github.com/Jackett/Jackett

blentrop | 4 years ago | on: Play online chess with a real chess board

There's currently a project in Kickstarter doing just that

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wondersubstance/phantom...

blentrop | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?

Agreed, and sometimes it would have been better to just HOLD instead. But there's plenty of bots with different approaches and risk management. Some do better on side markets or even downturn markets. Some do better on a bull run. Just need to adjust you portfolio accordingly.

blentrop | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What passive income investments exist to supplement your salary?

I've been using Mudrex[0] to rent bots to put my crypto to work. They have been very good and open about everything. Creators are active in discord server answering questions.

[0] https://mudrex.com/

blentrop | 5 years ago | on: GameStop Is Happening Again

I always thought that is something that the Blockchain would be able to solve. Am I too crazy to thing that the stock exchange would work better on a Blockchain?

blentrop | 5 years ago | on: What Peak Hello World Looks Like

I think VerboseFuck wins

blentrop | 6 years ago | on: Tell HN: Skype on web does not support Firefox

Same thing with GoToMetting

blentrop | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you find new music to listen to online?

https://plug.dj/

blentrop | 7 years ago | on: Spice is throwing up problems not seen with other drugs

I use Firefox Focus

blentrop | 7 years ago | on: Earth at risk of becoming 'hothouse' if tipping point reached, report warns

"We should create trustworthy independent organisations that can name and shame..."

I thought that is what news and reporters are suppose to do

blentrop | 7 years ago | on: A brief history of the peace symbol

I always thought it was the footprint (clawprint) of a dove

blentrop | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which YouTube channels do you watch regularly?

Physics Girl -> https://www.youtube.com/user/physicswoman

Colin Furze (crazy inventions) -> https://www.youtube.com/user/colinfurze

blentrop | 9 years ago | on: Stack overflow command line client

I like for quick easy searches.

I always have a tab open with Google search with this added to the search box:

"site:stackoverflow.com"

blentrop | 10 years ago | on: Ubuntu for tablets

Canonical say the M10 is ‘the first in a series of converged devices’, suggesting that more hardware will be announced in the coming months.

blentrop | 10 years ago | on: Amsterdam's 'Night Mayor' Job Has Spread to Paris, Zurich, and Other Euro Cities

I would love to see something like this happening in Ireland. Closing times are so early that always causes caos at closing times. Sometimes you have the feeling to rush to get drunk before the night is over specially if you have gone out drinking to late, and don't get me started on the queues on trying to get a taxi ride back home, most of the time waiting on the rain. The government don't seem to understand that longer opening times would be much better for the economy but to ease some of this underline issues with noise, fights,...

Few years back they even brought a new law to close off licenses to serve alcohol by 10pm

blentrop | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Sick of your bank? Want to build a open source, non-profit, online bank?

Simple.com is only in the US