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2 months agoOh yes, your pay-to-win government duopoly isn’t helping anything, but don’t call it impossible. The Affordable Care Act was a start, and I don’t doubt the right people could make universal healthcare access a real thing in the US.
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Oh, I agree it won’t be easy, particularly when taking profits from rich people.
I’ve heard it likened to a house full of asbestos. Knock it all down and there’s likely to be collateral damage, but meticulously taking it apart will take a considerable amount of time. I feel it would be easiest for governments to purchase the insurance companies, then slowly amalgamate so it’s all one network open to everyone.
Also it’s a bit entertaining when someone opposes it because “it’s socialism”. It’s already socialism, you just have middlemen skimming profit off the top while providing little value.
Hey guys, many other countries have figured out that healthcare doesn’t have to be a privatized, for-profit nightmare. Perhaps that’s an option worth exploring.
3·2 months agoThe asterism gives me big Splinter Cell vibes and I’m definitely OK with that.
1·2 months agoEven problem #2 can have a net positive return when the societal costs of homelessness are factored in.
Interesting. Yes, it’s definitely not black and white. I didn’t find the income inequality argument quite as confusing though. While it is good for existing tenants to be able to stay, I feel that increased inequality could lead to richer tenants putting pressure on poorer tenants, or their landlords, to leave, as they don’t “fit” in the neighbourhood, which is a negative effect in my opinion.
Of course, that then brings in all the intricacies of how to properly manage gentrification…
I was curious why as well but then saw the community name and I came from browsing all.
It’s definitely not black and white though. And perhaps some well-planned and well-written rent control legislation can avoid the negatives that are commonly found.
Ah, I see what you mean. Not a bad idea if it can be done with a good design team and good construction oversight. I would fear government housing projects being built as cheaply as possible though, when well designed and constructed buildings bring far greater return.
Right, that’s similar to what the study I linked found. From the abstract:
… Thus, while rent control prevents displacement of incumbent renters in the short run, the lost rental housing supply likely drove up market rents in the long run, ultimately undermining the goals of the law.
And the conclusion:
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We find that, on average, in the medium to long term the beneficiaries of rent control are between 10 and 20 percent more likely to remain at their 1994 address relative to the control group and, moreover, are more likely to remain in San Francisco. Further, we find the effects of rent control on tenants are stronger for racial minorities, suggesting rent control helped prevent minority displacement from San Francisco. All our estimated effects are significantly stronger among older households and among households that have already spent a number of years at their current address. On the other hand, individuals in areas with quickly rising house prices and with few years at their 1994 address are less likely to remain at their current address, consistent with the idea that landlords try to remove tenants when the reward is high, through either eviction or negotiated payments.
We find that landlords actively respond to the imposition of rent control by converting their properties to condos and TICs or by redeveloping the building in such as a way as to exempt it from the regulations. In sum, we find that impacted landlords reduced the supply of available rental housing by 15 percent. Further, we find that there was a 25 percent decline in the number of renters living in units protected by rent control, as many buildings were converted to new construction or condos that are exempt from rent control.
This reduction in rental supply likely increased rents in the long run, leading to a transfer between future San Francisco renters and renters living in San Francisco in 1994. In addition, the conversion of existing rental properties to higher-end, owner-occupied condominium housing ultimately led to a housing stock increasingly directed toward higher income individuals. In this way, rent control contributed to the gentrification of San Francisco, contrary to the stated policy goal. Rent control appears to have increased income inequality in the city by both limiting displacement of minorities and attracting higher income residents.
These results highlight that forcing landlords to provide insurance against rent increases can ultimately be counterproductive. If society desires to provide social insurance against rent increases, it may be less distortionary to offer this subsidy in the form of government subsidies or tax credits. This would remove landlords’ incentives to decrease the housing supply and could provide households with the insurance they desire. A point of future research would be to design an optimal social insurance program to insure renters against large rent increases.
Which government? The municipality, province/state, or federal? There’s already a significant lack of housing for the people who need it most, with the aforementioned three entities often fighting over who should pay for it. Along with that, there’s strong evidence that providing stable housing to homeless is quite effective in reducing public service costs elsewhere.
While I would love to see everyone have a stable home available to them, the lack of progress for even those needing it most, despite clear evidence of the return on investment of public funds, I am not hopeful that any government will be funding significant development projects that can have an impact on lack of housing supply anytime soon.
Hasn’t it been found that rent control has a negative impact on improving housing supply, which would, in turn, make rent more affordable?
Rent control disincentivizes new housing construction because developers wouldn’t see a return on their investment, or have a risk of such if it were implemented in their area. With housing shortages nearly everywhere, thus high demand, thus high prices, would it not be in everyone’s best interest to instead incentivise construction to increase supply to meet that demand?
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Unfortunately there isn’t really an all-in-one guide. TechnoTim has info on the Pi-hole config side and wildcard certificates, but I think he uses it with traefik.
NPM is pretty straightforward. If you find a site isn’t working, try turning on Web Socket support.
I’d say just search for guides on each part individually:
- Get all the services installed and up and running
- Get SSL certificates from Cloudflare for your domain.
- Set up NPM for the services you want to reverse proxy with your Cloudflare SSL certs (they wont work until the next step is done)
- Set up pi-hole to be your local DNS (there’s also adblock lists to add) and configure it to send all service(.lan).mydomain.com to the ip of NPM.
- Set up the Cloudflare tunnel.
I can try to help if you run into any issues.
I’m definitely not a network pro, but it sounds like you’re looking to do something similar to what I have.
I’ve got nginx proxy manager as my reverse proxy with pi-hole for local DNS. All traffic goes through the pi-hole and anything going to mydomain.com has DNS entries pointing to nginx. I’ve set nginx up so service.lan.mydomain.com is for anything local and just service.mydomain.com for anything external with wildcard SSL certs for both (*.domain doesn’t seem to cover *.lan.domain so add certs for both - probably because it’s a sub-subdomain).
The Cloudflare tunnel can then just get directed to service.mydomain.com instead of the IP of the service.
1·4 months agoI didn’t ponder it when setting the cameras up, but after writing these posts I was planning to do just that when I’m back at home.
Yep, Reolink cams can be fully local only and still work fine.
Yep, but the method is separate from HA. Could do it two ways, I use Pi-hole so that it’s still able to contact the NTP server (could also set the time server to something local through the desktop app, I believe) but block all other external traffic, or you can block external access through your router firewall. I noticed the time would occasionally be inaccurate if I had blocked all internet access.
Either way you can use a VPN or other tunnel service to access while you’re away from home. I use WG-tunnel on my phone to auto connect to VPN when I disconnect from my home network, it’s quite handy.
I have the Reolink doorbell, among a couple other Reolink cams. It integrates very nicely with HA. I have it set up for essentially what you’re looking for, audio/video feed, notifications with an image attached when the bell is rung (also motion detection notification from another cam, but could do the doorbell too), and the ability to have it play quick reply messages, including custom ones.
I believe you can have the two way audio in HA as well, but I haven’t explored it. The Reolink app has this functionality if I really need it, but haven’t come across an instance where I needed to use it.
You should be able to do all this with just the Reolink integration.
1·4 months agoI perhaps haven’t played since the ground handling update, but tailwheel aircraft never behaved like actual tailwheel aircraft. Their steering seemed coupled to the rudder, similar to nose wheel aircraft, instead of having any of the momentum effects of a tailwheel with just a loose steering influence.
I believe the airport was a mid-sized towered airport in Idaho. I forget exactly which though. I selected it as my home base for Neofly because of the scenery and was disappointed when it seemed rather incomplete.
I feel it would’ve been ahead of where it was if it took the aviation side of FSX and paired it with the scenery, weather, and online features of MSFS.
I had FS2020 working well with yoke and pedals and a streamdeck, but it just didn’t feel like a complete sim. Many airports just weren’t there or had incorrectly labeled taxiways, which threw off taxi instructions and obviously made real world charts useless. Tailwheel aircraft didn’t really work properly at all.
Sure, it was a beautiful sim, but was quite lacking on the technical side. I’m doubtful a whole new product is going to solve any of those issues.
I’m not sure if they’re available with UK plugs, but I’ve got a pack of Thirdreality Zigbee plugs that monitor energy use and have a button on them to toggle power.
I’ve got them connected to Home Assistant. Two do a bit of climate control in a coldroom, the others are for occupancy lighting.