Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:33PM
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Look at it the other way. If you have a short-term tenant that behaves, your neighbors probably won't notice, and even if they do, they won't care. It's normal that sometimes you want a friend / family member / (boy|girl)friend to stay over. It's entirely fair to make a blanket ban on subletting but not enforce it too eagerly. This way, you're taking the responsibility for people which you invited to stay.
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Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb
by baddox on Thursday May 14, 2015 @02:33AM
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That might work in practice, depending on the community culture. But I am not generally a fan of prosecutorial discretion because of how ridiculously easy it makes unfair enforcement.
Re:Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb
by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 14, 2015 @08:27AM
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> But I am not generally a fan of prosecutorial discretion because of how ridiculously easy it makes unfair enforcement.
I consider it to be a lubricant in the engine of law. You can't run law to the letter, because defining the law is an AI-complete problem. The law tends to have more corner cases the more detailed you make it, and by executing it unconditionally, with maximum efficiency, you're going to harm a lot of innocent people. On the other hand, too much grease, and the engine won't run at all.
That's why I often remark about the importance of trust on a societal level, and my dislike towards the current trend of replacing trust with trustless systems. Trust is what keeps society together, and what allows it to work without humans having godlike introspection and cognitive powers.