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The landlord feels that he's losing money by renting it out at a lower costs, so he holds out for more.

I used small numbers for the sake of example, scaled up to a city it'd represent 10% of the city's housing stock sitting empty.

The concept of intellectual property is antithetical to how humans have progressed socially and technologically for millenia.

It's a wasteful aberration that strangles innovation with red tape and hands control of our culture over to those with the financial mean to claim to own it.

The day we wrest back that control will be a good day.

You're assuming a single property and a rational Landlord.

Imagine the Landlord owns 10 properties and sets the rent to $2k/mo on all of them with 1 property remaining empty. Maybe that last property could be rented out at $1.7k/mo but from the landlords perspective that puts downward pressure on the rents of his other properties.

If one of the landlord's existing tenants moves into the cheaper property it's even worse. He loses $300/mo and now has to consider reducing the rent on an additional property. Should he find a new tenant at $1700/mo, he still feels like he's losing because he believes the rent should be higher.

From the landlord's perspective, it's better to squeeze if he has sufficient cash flow. Especially given the belief that lowering the rent will negatively impact the value of the property.

While you're correct that mortgage and tax are fixed costs that need to be met, you haven't considered that landlords have multiple options to offset those costs. When interest is low they'll use equity release and interest only mortgages.

> But empty units are empty units and too many of them means you need to lower prices or you are losing out on money because you don't make anything from empty homes.

If the mortgage is covered by extortionate rents on your other properties then historically the empty unit is appreciating in value.

Renters are in a position where they have no shelter if they don't acquiesce. Landlords have a multitude of options that make it easier for them to horde empty homes.

Jellyfin has handled the default Picard output format just fine for me.

I don't see the expectation of a standard naming format as unreasonable, given that it's open source and they're fairly short on developers

Just my own conjecture, but it's pleasant to write, the NuGet package ecosystem is very well populated, and it combines a great web framework with the ability to drop down into low level code when necessary.

In recent years cross platform support has gotten fairly good as well

How accurate they are directly correlates with how much pain I'd wish on whoever is responsible.

> Under that model, wouldn't drivers only want to work for the busiest restaurants?

It doesn't take many orders to keep an individual driver busy. Typically the restaurants would manage how many, and which, drivers worked each night. If the night was unexpectedly quiet then a driver might finish early.

> With delivery apps, a restaurant can have just a few orders per night and still be open for delivery.

Yeah, the main benefit of delivery apps is enabling restaurants who primarily serve sit-in diners to deliver also. The overall benefit to delivery focused restaurants is much more tenuous.

> I would bet that there's an order of magnitude more deliveries happening (and drivers working) these days vs pre-Uber.

Perhaps, but if a driver was already busy all night under the previous model, then they're potentially harmed by the current model.

I'm curious as to how food delivery worked in your country before Uber et al.

In the UK, outside of corporate chains, it was largely a cash in hand operation for both the restaurants and drivers.

Drivers would typically be paid a small sum for showing up on the night and then keep the delivery charge and any tips. The cost to the restaurant was pretty much negligible.

The middle-men, in addition to their own cut, have likely lead to a larger tax burden on many of the drivers and restaurants.

Permanently embarrassed if we're being realistic.

Not a good thing.

This happened to me. My employer sent me a card and it was marked counterfeit.

I raised a complaint and was basically told to go fuck myself.

Outside of fine dining/small plates, portion sizes are fairly large in the UK if you're planning on eating three courses.

This simply isn't true anymore. Even pre-covid, many restaurants were delivering food and it was becoming normal to box up leftovers.

I've had upmarket steakhouses offer to box up my remaining food despite them not offering delivery.

Great argument for why we don't need both.

They're only a new level of degeneracy if you pretend that sex workers aren't physically displaying themselves in windows or selling themselves on the street.

Don't know if they ever agreed to sell. IIRC they did partner with Oracle to host their infrastructure, as a way of showing that they were trying to allay US concerns.

This bill isn't intended to benefit the population at large.

Besides reasons put forth by others, most of their employees can also afford to be fired.

Most people who aren't working in Brussels have zero idea about how the EU functions at all.

Brexit voting towns that were shocked to find various programs shuttered once they got what they'd voted for are a great example of this.

It's a wonderful reminder of who is trying to spy on me.

Opioid epidemic

Kill the larger companies.

Anecdotally, I've replaced more halogens than any other kind of bulb. I'm assuming it was the fixture that was causing it. They were cheap but they guzzled power.

Then their business isn't viable.

The alternative is that we allow businesses to externalise those costs onto society.

> Prices can go close to zero if lots of solar and wind capacity is available

Negative prices aren't uncommon during quiet periods in the summer.

I'd rather not use something that's less convenient, less consistent, and generally worse.

You're right that it's not a problem inherent to 720p itself. I was using it as a proxy since the issues weren't present in Netflix's 4k encoding and it's more familiar than other measures.

She laid off 250 people in 2020 and proceeded to raise her own salary by $2,000,000 per year over the following two years. Whatever her prior record is that behaviour is despicable.

Leeching is precisely how I would describe someone who demands more and more money each year from a company that's declining due to their own mismanagement and at the same time takes money from those who earn less.

A personal gripe is FF's refusal to implement WebSerial or any form of screencast functionality.