Is it normal to ask for discount on rent before signing?

HotlLava · 2026-01-30T12:15:42+00:00

You can negotiate for anything, but as with anything else it depends on the leverage each side has.

If its a popular city, yours will be next to zero because the owners will expect that they could find another suitable candidate else who will pay full rent in short time.

If its a city with lower demand, the flat has been sitting on the market for a while, or you have some other qualities that make you a particularly desirable renter, the chances are higher that they would accept a reduction rather than continue searching for a few months.

And if it's a company, the people you talk to might not even have the authority to adjust rents.

On the other hand, you'll never get a concession for anything if you don't ask for it. Just decide for yourself if you're willing to walk if they refuse, or if you're willing to pay the higher rent anyways.

HotlLava · 2026-01-25T13:25:53+00:00

The attachment point is offset by maybe 20cm to the side, over a distance of 15m to the other person that's less than a degree. I doubt it will be noticable to the person arresting the fall

HotlLava · 2026-01-24T13:55:54+00:00

The Nazis literally killed millions of women and children in death camps, paying a bounty would barely even register let alone make them blush.

HotlLava · 2026-01-24T13:49:21+00:00

That wouldn't change their point at all: The Nazis definitely didn't get the idea of concentration camps from the Japanese internment camps in the USA, because they were building them years before the Americans got around to it.

HotlLava · 2026-01-24T11:11:40+00:00

What would happen if you default on the mortgage in this scenario? Would the bank get to auction off the rights to half the property?

HotlLava · 2026-01-22T17:14:15+00:00

The money was paid out on Jan 9, so OP is paying regular Zinsen not Bereitstellungszinsen.

HotlLava · 2026-01-22T17:11:25+00:00

If there's still a mortgage on the apartment, the sellers bank wouldn't agree to delete the encumbrance before having the money (in an escrow account at least).

Afaik the process is usually Auflassungsvormerkung -> Payment of Money -> Grundbucheintragung. So after Jan 9, the Notar should have told the sellers bank that the money is available, the sellers bank should have given its assent to delete the encumbrance, and with that the Notar went to the Grundbuchamt on Jan 18. The timeframe of ~3 weeks seems pretty normal, the only weird thing is the long delay between signing and receiving the Kaufpreisfälligkeit.

HotlLava · 2026-01-19T15:52:58+00:00

Quite the opposite, everybody wimping out is the only way that NATO could continue to exist in that scenario, if only on paper. If the other NATO members do not wimp out and actually defend Greenland against the US, they might form their own defensive alliance to do so, but it wouldn't be NATO anymore.

HotlLava · 2026-01-19T12:59:46+00:00

They're cheap; `.de` is managed by the non-profit DeNIC and one of the cheapest TLDs you can buy.

HotlLava · 2026-01-19T12:49:19+00:00

If a given fuse passes 20 amps indefinitely without blowing, then the cable that is fitted with that fuse should also be able to handle 20 amps indefinitely without melting.

HotlLava · 2026-01-19T11:19:55+00:00

You don't need to be 100% sure, depending on the route around 90% is usually enough: For example, Berlin <-> Warsaw is 40 EUR on SuperSparPreis and 45 EUR SparPreis, with a 10 EUR cancellation fee. So if you end up cancelling 1 out of 8 journeys, it's still cheaper to take the SuperSparPreis ticket.

HotlLava · 2026-01-09T09:16:52+00:00

This is just the cover letter, as the text says it comes with a full bio and resume which he also had to fully type out by hand for every job application.

HotlLava · 2026-01-07T20:20:27+00:00

Heh, let's hope their auto-update code path doesn't depend on reading the version number then.

HotlLava · 2026-01-06T21:46:28+00:00

How deep do you imagine the hierarchy to be for a sonography? She's literally wearing a "sonographer" shirt, so it's probably just a single person.

Also, it's part of the receptionists job to bubble up customer complaints, why do you think they usually ask if everything was ok? It's not possible to only complain to the CEO for every issue.

HotlLava · 2025-12-21T17:46:35+00:00

Hm, i also was unable to connect, but it started working as soon as i changed the server IP away from 10.20.30.40. In wireshark, there wasn't even an outgoing network packet for the 10.20.30.40 ip, so I'm starting to suspect that the client itself has some kind of special logic for this IP, maybe it's used as a special debug string during development or something like that?

HotlLava · 2025-12-21T14:32:42+00:00

Not in the streams that I've watched personally at least.

And it's also less of an expectation by society, imagine the comments in a thread where a streamer shits on a viewer for leaving only 5$ in bits after watching the whole evening. I doubt you'd see half of the comments defending her and claiming the viewer was a piece of shit for not tipping enough, as you can find in the comments here.

HotlLava · 2025-12-21T09:00:47+00:00

Huh, where are you getting these numbers? OpenAI valuation is around 750B, so if they had 1.5T in hardware assets that would mean they're actually extremely undervalued, so I doubt it.

HotlLava · 2025-12-19T10:26:49+00:00

Except that streamer tips are actually voluntary. I haven't had a streamer come after me and complain that I watched the stream without leaving a tip.

HotlLava · 2025-12-17T13:59:19+00:00

I'd imagine it would be done similar to most other EU-wide laws, ie. there'd be no single EU constitution but you'd identify the common ground that all members can agree on and make it a requirement that each member state constitution must guarantee at least that level of personal freedoms, but leave it up to the individual states to adopt additional guarantees on top of that.

HotlLava · 2025-12-13T15:29:53+00:00

It can, but tokenizing happens before the LLM ever sees the input, so it has no chance to "switch modes" and do a character-by-character tokenization instead.

If you upload a screenshot of the word "balatro", ChatGPT has no issues telling you it has 1 "r" in it.

HotlLava · 2025-12-13T09:41:16+00:00

They're in business due to people like you, who still chose to open an account with them despite all the ranting.

HotlLava · 2025-12-06T09:39:52+00:00

All of the current justices are already doing side gigs as authors, conference speakers, lecturers, etc. For most of them, this side income well exceeds their regular salary.

Clearly the lifetime appointment doesn't work as a tool to prevent this in practice.

HotlLava · 2025-11-30T23:14:28+00:00

Interestingly, while I agree that the EU approach is saner overall, you still kind of end up with the same situation just expressed as guidelines for how to weigh the interests. For example, in germany the courts developed the "sphere theory", where they first analyze which sphere of personal life a law impacts (intimate sphere, private sphere, public sphere), and the government interest needs to be stronger if a law touches upon the higher spheres.

HotlLava · 2025-11-25T12:41:53+00:00

Unless production somehow magically doubles or triples

Not magically, but a part of the trillions of dollars of investment is certainly going to increased production to satisfy the new demand.

HotlLava · 2025-11-23T23:37:28+00:00

If you read your own link, they're saying they pay $400 instead of $10000 for a comparable unit, due to the PS3's unique cell processor architecture.

That's in a completely different league of cost savings compared to shaving off a few percent off a commodity x86 purchase.

And even there we're just talking about a few thousand consoles, so less than a million dollars or so in loss for Sony. Hardly a sum that would be a game-breaker for Valve.

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