Good. You probably don’t want a hatchet to be that sharp. You’re not going to be doing anything delicate with it. Sharp blades have the edge bend or break easily.

Uh, Android is the alternative to Apple’s iOS. Android is much more customizable.

I think in one sense it can be good. Sometimes it is counterproductive to downvote someone from 1 to 0. I think this would prevent that, as the first downvote is probably the most important one.

But I agree that making any data public will allow everyone to be categorized easily. “This person dislikes this content and likes other content.”

Remember, you are giving this info to everyone. Mark Zuckerberg will be able to see what you like and dislike in all public votes.

I think this is going to look like crap in 10 years. I support building your own, I just think it can be done way better.

Your brain isn’t what “collapses the wave function”, it’s the measuring device that you use. You can do a double slit experiment and watch it with your eyes the whole time. Light will still act as a wave until you interact with it experimentally.

You are reading too much Deepak Chopra. Your brain is just a computer made out of meat. It’s not magic.

Why would they eliminate the competition if it was way behind in technology? Do we eliminate uncontacted tribes because they might be “competition”?

If aliens exist they probably have rules against interfering with primitive species. We are more like a band of chimps than an uncontacted tribe.

conscious beings can’t be part of the wave function

That’s not how any of this works. Your brain is made out of regular matter, not special fancy matter.

Ehhh, I say just get more actual exercise. What does standing all day do for you?

Standing desks are for people who have never worked a physical job. Did you know that you can just stand up from a normal desk at any time? Now imagine a job where you can’t sit down.

Exercise your choice and stand up when you want to. Sit down when you want to. Don’t do one thing all day long.

This is probably mostly laziness. Organizing a march is hard and requires people organizing skills. Spray painting some books takes only one or two people.

If anything, this just emphasizes how small this group is and how bad they are at organization. It’s simple: get a lot of people who agree with you and march to the capitol. That’s all you need to do but it’s hard.

Clever Hans (German: der Kluge Hans; c. 1895 – c. 1916) was a horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks. After a formal investigation in 1907, psychologist Oskar Pfungst demonstrated that the horse was not actually performing these mental tasks, but was watching the reactions of his trainer. He discovered this artifact in the research methodology, wherein the horse was responding directly to involuntary cues in the body language of the human trainer, who was entirely unaware that he was providing such cues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans

Supply of homes is not dynamic like a factory, it can’t respond quickly to prices. Investors will grumble about whatever they want, but the alternative is a time consuming and expensive sale.

Even then those homes don’t disappear . If they are removed from the rental market they will just end up sold to the very group of people who were renting them, thus reducing demand. Rents would not move much, although there will probably be more real estate sales than usual as the rental market sheds the lazier real estate investors.

There are already many restrictions on rental agreements. Things that were “normal” before are clearly illegal now.

You are assuming that market rent is not already as high as demand allows. That’s not true. It is. That’s the definition of market rent.

Rent depends on the rental market, but most likely yes. That’s not different from now though. If you improve your rental property, you get more money from it.

You might not know this, but a mortgage being higher than the rent isn’t abnormal. In the past, when interest rates were 8% and rents were lower, you lost money on a rental property for the first few years. Property is not a license to print money. It’s an investment with costs and payoffs.

The property owner can pay off the mortgage early with the money. Or they can buy another place to rent out. Or diversify into other kinds of investments. No one is banned from anything.

They are paying you for the property. If you don’t want that, why do you rent it out? You can’t use it once they lease it from you. You’re a financial owner, not a resident anymore.

Why would one more person who’s interested in buying the property hurt? When you sell a home are you upset that people want to hand you money? No, because you are moving out and it’s now a financial decision.

That’s another benefit: you might improve the home to maximize the appraisal. That would help tenants.

Of course your property tax would be based on a higher appraisal too, so you probably wouldn’t go overboard.

True, but don’t underestimate the value of finding a good tenant. Most landlords would rather have a stable tenant than a few extra $100s. It costs a month or more in rent to find a new person.

Here’s what you’re forgetting: as a percent owner in the home you are entitled to a portion of the rent and a portion of the sale price. As you buy more, your rent goes down. You are saving money.