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  • Help making sense of IPs and A records

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  • An A record maps to an IP address. A CNAME record maps to another URL. Since you are trying to map to an IP address rather than a URL, you will want an A record.

    If all of your sites will be served from the same proxy server at 204.230.30.104, you can create a single, wildcard A record for *.newexample.com. This will point every subdomain to your proxy's IP address. You don't need to create an A record for each subdomain.

    If you are planning on serving some subdomains from 204.230.30.104 and other subdomains from another proxy at 69.4.20.187, you would need multiple A records for pointing the subdomains toward their respective proxies.

    If you wanted to serve from proxy running on a dynamic IP address, and you're using a DDNS provider to point newexample.ddns.net back to your current IP address, you could use a CNAME record to point newexample.com to newexample.ddns.net.

  • Important Announcement

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  • Except for your first sentence, I would agree with you. Don’t hurt people directly though. Starting a war helps no one.

    You seem to be assuming I meant some sort of unlawful harm. My phrasing was quite deliberate: I advocated no specific actions whatsoever. You brought "hurt people" and "starting a war" into this conversation; not I.

    The choice of what actions to take is left to you; I am not involving myself in that decision. My advocacy is strictly limited to the choice of targets: Do not take direct action against ICE agents. They are merely a distraction from the problem class. Redirect any action you might choose to take against ICE to the people getting rich while the rest of us starve.

    I will raise one point:

    The point of protesting is to shame leaders into change.

    Our leaders are shameless. There is no point in trying to shame the shameless. The purpose of protesting must be something else. Otherwise, protesting is pointless.

  • That Orange Bastard

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  • If Vance initiates 25th amendment proceedings before January 20th, 2027, he sacrifices the possibility of a second term.

  • Important Announcement

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  • Whatever you want to do to an ICE agent, do instead to the people living in the biggest house you can find.

    ICE is in your neighborhood because the ruling class wants them in your neighborhood. The more you fight, the more they send to the fight. Don't protest ICE in your own neighborhood. Protest ICE in a ruling-class neighborhood.

  • Just, wtf

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  • Absolutely.

    Michelle should give a two-word eulogy and announce her candidacy.

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  • Lost at sea

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  • Not a protractor. Dividers. But the fact that you don't know that is consistent with your comment.

  • If I hear "% is a mathematical operator" one more time...

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  • Modulo is much easier to understand with clocks.

    Suppose It is currently midnight. What time will it be in 3 hours? 3 mod 24 = 3. It will be 03:00

    What time will it be in 27 hours? 27 mod 24 = 3. We go through a whole day (24 hours) to get back to midnight, then continue another 3 hours, for a total of 27. The time will be 03:00.

    What time will it be 48 hours from now? 48 mod 24 = 0. 48 hours from midnight will be midnight.

    What time will it be 6 hours from now? 6 mod 24 = 6.

    Conceptually, X mod Y means that instead of 24 hours per day, we are splitting the day into Y "hours", labeled 0 to Y-1. We start at 0, and pass through X "hours". X mod Y is the "hour" we finish up in at the end. 5 mod 2 means we have a 2-hour day, with hours 0 and 1. We pass through 5 of those hours. When we finish, are we at hour 0 or hour 1?

  • Trump Wrecked In Devastating Poll As Most Americans Say He’s ‘Worse Than Biden’ — With Whopping 18 Point Swing

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  • Anyone talking about action against ICE agents has lost the plot. ICE is the symptom, not the disease. You don't treat tuberculosis by targeting the coughing with Robitussin. You treat tuberculosis by targeting the bacteria with antibiotics. Address the cause of the problem, not the effect.

    The person you need to be registering your complaint with is your local oligarch. Any action you want to take toward ICE, redirect it to the richest person within driving distance.

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    Rent is theft

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  • Rent is the acquisition of a temporary privilege to the use of a property.

    A mortgage is the acquisition of a permanent right to the use of a property.

    Where a tenant's rent payment is greater than a landlord's mortgage payment, the temporary privilege is deemed more valuable than the permanent right.

    This condition is absurd. It can only exist in an artificially manipulated housing market.

    And yet, it is also the current norm.

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    Rent is theft

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  • Many options available. At the "ownership" level, you can establish deed restrictions and covenants requiring owner-occupancy. At the local level, you can establish zoning requirements. At the tax assessment level, you can enact punitively-high tax rates that are exempted for owner-occupants. If anyone tries renting these properties, they will face the full tax rate; these properties can only be feasibly owned by people who will occupy them.

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    Rent is theft

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  • Let's start from the beginning: a mortgage is a neutral agreement. Effectively, the lender conveys equity to the borrower over time. Equity is the right to permanent, unlimited use of the property.

    A rental agreement conveys no equity. What the tenant gains is a short-term, limited use of the property. "Temporary" is considerably less valuable than "permanent", so a fair value for "rent" is considerably less than a fair value for a mortgage.

    Rent prices don't reflect this. Even after including a maintenance expense, (that the owner would have to pay regardless of who is living in the property), fair rent for that temporary privilege is still far less than the mortgage for the permanent right.

    And yet, the market has been manipulated to the point that rent prices are well above mortgages. In a fair market, people seeking housing would generally choose the better option. If a mortgage is cheaper than rent, they would choose a mortgage. The laws of supply and demand would react to this choice by increasing the price of a mortgage, and decreasing the price of rent.

    Since this isn't happening, we know that the market is being manipulated, and tenants are being exploited. "Fair rent" does not exist: tenants are paying far more than the cost of a mortgage, yet they are not receiving the value of a mortgage.

    That is even less helpful than renting it out.

    You would have a point if "fair rent" existed, but it does not. In the absence of "fair rent", we are left with the perverse position that a vacant home does, indeed, cause less harm than a rented home.

    A house gets inherited.

    The full context of that scenario includes the manipulated market. The scenario you present is only reasonable in a fair market.

    In his case, if he had said he was renting for an overseas assignment but was going to move back

    Same thing: the scenario for renting is only reasonable in a fair market, but the underlying context of your scenario is the manipulated market where the value of a temporary privilege is modeled greater than the value of a permanent right.

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    Rent is theft

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  • What about cases where the move is only temporary?

    In their initial phase, land contracts are, effectively, a rental agreement, including for short-term. (With one difference: the payment is fixed for the life of the agreement; it doesn't increase year over year) When "temporary" turns into "long term", (as it so often does) a land contract already has you covered, by locking rent through the initial phase, then gaining you equity through the final phase.

    In the private lender case, do you see that as different from someone who starts their own company and manages the property themselves while the renter pays them directly?

    Vastly. One includes conveyance of equity; the other does not.

    The landlord/property manager retains 100% equity throughout the life of the rental agreement. The private lender retains only the value of the loan. With a land contract, the seller/lender retains 100% of the equity for a couple years, before the agreement automatically converts to a private mortgage.

    The earning equity piece isn't necessarily incorrect, what the owner is losing is potentially the opportunity to move at all.

    Completely false. Absolute worse case scenario, they abandon their equity and return title to the lender/seller. Terminating the loan/purchase agreement in this absolute worse case scenario is functionally identical to renting. At its best, renting gives you this outcome, and creates new, worst-case possibilities: where the landlord absconds with security deposits and charges additional fees.

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    Rent is theft

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  • I like the option to rent a place that's even better than what the baseline option would be. I like that I can move around as I need to. I like that I can get a bigger, better, or just different, place when I have the funds. I like that I never have to deal with broken appliances or roof repairs and get to pick the type of place I want to live in.

    You are describing either a "land contract" or a "condominium". With either, you gain equity in the property.

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    Rent is theft

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  • Is this so bad and horrible?

    Yes.

    Instead I'm renting it to a family of Ukrainian refugees.

    You are actively exploiting refugees.

    You are no different than the BnB or the investors. You are on the supply side of the problem. Rent is, indeed, the problem.

    You could offer to sell your property to those tenants. You could act as a private lender, allowing them to pay you instead of a commercial bank. You could offer them a "land contract", which is a rent-to-own arrangement. If they choose to leave your property in the next three years, it was no different than a rental. If they choose to stay beyond three years, it automatically converts to a private mortgage, and they begin earning equity.

    They basically pay off my mortgage so that I'm not actively losing money on the whole thing.

    Leaving it vacant and just paying the mortgage yourself, you are gaining equity in exchange for your money. You are not losing anything. Renting, you are gaining that equity without paying for it.

    The only way renting isn't a problem is if the rent is far less than a mortgage payment on the same property.

  • Do it for your country's debt!

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  • Sure. Once every billionaire has been taxed out of existence, and if we still don't have enough money, we can start talking about increasing the retirement age.

    If, on the other hand, taxing the billionaires out of existence is more than we need, we can lower the retirement age.

    We could start collecting social security at 40 if we taxed the ultra-rich properly.

  • Do it for your country's debt!

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  • Two of the three points he made are total horseshit, but let's not throw out that last one:

    If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later --not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy.

    Universal Health Care fucking now.

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    Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders

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  • How long does it take to train, and how much would I earn while training, if I elected to quit after training, but prior to any operational assignment?

  • "Without carrying out any actual hacking, simply by logging in with an arbitrary Google account"

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  • A formal, legal right to privacy is completely irrelevant to the issue at hand.

    Kids will gain the formal right to privacy at some point in their lives, and they will review their childhood experiences through the lens of a competent, adult mind. When they come across memories of being secretly spied upon, a healthy kid should feel that they were victimized.

    An unhealthy (former) kid will deem such invasions of privacy as normal, acceptable behavior and is very likely to go on to victimize others. Perhaps their own kids; perhaps other people. Perhaps they will simply support anti-privacy issues like this one when they come up.

    The general case is that non-consensual recording is a crime. Denying the kid the personal agency to prosecute the offender is just another way in which the kid is victimized.

  • Chicago Mayor just signed an executive order to hold ICE agents criminally liable for their unlawful behavior in preparation for Spring raids (Illinois - 1/31/26)

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  • Whatever you think to do against ICE, do against your local oligarch instead.

    Find the richest person within driving distance, and direct your anti-ICE activities at them.