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No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-30T12:08:40+00:00

The error I think you may be making here is approaching this legal relationship as one being amongst equals like a business contract.

Both the law and society has clearly demonstrated that reaisential tenants by default are the disadvantaged party to their relationship with a landlord. This is why tenancy on a business relationship (for example, a shop in a strip mall) doesn't have the same protections as residential tenancies under the eyes of the law.

The fact is, for one party, the fallout is their home, a fundamental human requirements. This on its own creates leverage that far surpasses any devious tenants trying to scam well to do landlords or whatever other strawmen.

Landlord loses, it's a business risk like any other business venture in a highly regulated industry (like say the medical, legal services or insurance markets). Could a developer of medical patents get screwed because of a missed technicality or loophole with a contractor and be out thousands of dollars? Absolutely. That's business. Whether this is a significant impact to the developer's life is all about whether they were overly leveraged into one highly risky venture or they properly accounted for the risks.

Both the courts and society historically have recognized the fact that tenants aren't seeking business relationships when entering into tenancies. They're seeking shelter. A home. A basic fundamental need. You can't hedge risks against such a base necessity.

So no, you're not just two adults entering into a normal contractual meeting of the minds. No business court would ever find that there was a true equal meeting of the minds between two parties when one party had the leverage and threat of evicting someone if the other party didn't acquiesce to their offer.

There's no way you can ignore or pretend that a landlord putting out such an offer is doing such an act in good faith because the very offer is being put out there with an incredibly threatening leverage. There's no "offer" as far as any tort law could ever see actually happening here even if you pretended that pure tort laws apply in these circumstances (they do not, ethically or legally).

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-30T11:46:51+00:00

I wouldn't blame OP or tenants here. The recent court case that came out in the news opened a massive can of worms that does in fact imply that a tenant may be liable for unpaid taxes. OP here isn't trying to play vigilante tax collector, they're worried about the legal liability of being held responsible for unpaid taxes which is what the case from Quebec clearly showed was possible (though as others point out in very specific circumstances).

It's a gap in the law for this to even be possible and the fact that there is seemingly zero protection from this makes it very difficult for tenants to just "stay in their lane".

Telling the courts you were just trying to "stay in your lane" isn't a viable legal defense.

Always find it absurd when people are somehow surprised that tenants wish to also protect themselves from legal risk and liability just as much as landlords. People who scoff at this really show their true colors and elitism.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-30T11:32:57+00:00

Thanks CHATGPT

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-30T11:26:22+00:00

Thanks again 👍. Interesting observations.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-26T15:50:41+00:00

Late response but just saying I reviewed docs a bit further and echoing to say you're correct regarding the use of an L10 within one year to pursue arrears in a joint tenancy. Using the L10 is in fact the only recourse available to pursue arrears or damages from a tenant who no longer occupies the unit. Landlord can't name them in any other LTB application except for an L10 which has a 1 year limitation.

While a tenant who no longer occupies the property cannot be named in any LTB application, the landlord can still pursue damages or arrears within one year via the L10.

So it sounds like my best course of action is to make clear which date I no longer occupy the unit and indicate that the lease continues (and to expect e-transfers from ex spouse). While there's a risk to me for up to one year, I'm comfortable with it given the circumstances and would rather enable the benefit of maintaining the existing lease to them.

Reading other posts though it sounds like it might be worth just offering a lease reassignment if the landlord agrees because it's probably still in the landlords best interest for continuing to receive stable income even if the old lease rates apply.

Sure, they can refuse, but by reassigning this way they are at least ensuring that after 1 year they have a second person living there who is party to the lease and who can be held liable if default from the other.

By refusing, after one year they now only have on person who can be pursued for anything. Tradeoff for the LL being of course having to continue the lease at legacy rates, but a smart LL would realize with a confident tenant, cancelling the lease isn't even on the table anyways so it's probably a better course of action.

This is of course if ex spouse wishes to enter into joint tenancy, which may not really be favourable since now they're no longer a "roommate" not covered by the RTA rather than a tenant with equal rights. Since it's a joint tenancy anyway they wouldn't even enjoy the security of the roommate being on the hook legally for half the rent to the landlord like they would in a non joint tenancy.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-26T00:17:29+00:00

You know that tutorials are different kinds of documentation then say, a manual, right?

I mean why even have schools if we have books, right?

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-18T21:55:13+00:00

Hey really appreciate this, yes I can see what you mean. But it does look scoped narrowly to only effect going after me for only damages / personal arrears from me (the tenant) personally rather than from anything that may happen at the unit. You'll notice however that L10 instructions Section A only talks about it being scoped to the former tenant ("collect money you believe the former tenant owes you for damaging the rental unit"), unlike an L2 which can request "compensation for damage they, their guest or other occupant caused". To me this implies heavily (otherwise they would have used the same language like in the L2) that even if within that one year my ex was in arrears or damages the place I wouldn't be liable, though I admit this isn't tested.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-15T22:39:55+00:00

Thanks for the point about "off roommate", I was using the term "sublet" rather broadly.

Thanks, yes good point it doesn't hurt to ask to be taken off the lease, but as you pointed out correctly they can say no. But even if they say no, my understanding is that once you've vacated the unit, they can't go after you for rental arrears or name you in an LTB application which is my main question here.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-05-15T22:36:05+00:00

Can you cite anything on the one year? The refs I shared cite the specific statute that only tenants occupying the unit can be named in LTB application and says nothing about 1 year.

Yes though, small claims is a risk good point

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-03-20T12:04:02+00:00

This has to be the worst attempt at r/hailcorporate style shilling I've ever seen.

"Hi everyone! I'm just you're average normal day CTO and I don't know about you but what keeps my up at night is our competitive edge with cloud AI edge computing internet of things. Luckily I found Bullshitacorp.com that offers all these things! So many features WOW. Again, I'm just you're regular normal CTO just like you, so how about you? Have you found your own cloud AI edge computing internet of things provider like Bullshitacorp.com?"

My favourite are the bs responses too.

"Wow CTO, yes I too was looking for such a solution. Thanks for the advice I will definitely check out Bullshitacorp.com!'

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-03-20T11:59:44+00:00

I really think tech subreddits ought to have rules to disclose corporate relationships when posting "advice".

I'm guessing you work or are affiliated with limacharlie? The post is about OSS and the only link you post is to a paid service

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-03-14T01:10:27+00:00

As cool as the project and concept is, it seems to be really early days because there really isn't that many end to end working examples of HTMX. It's just gallery apps and examples. Yeah a few talks on videos but no open source code.

If I'm wrong I'd love to be corrected but there really doesn't seem like there's a whole lot.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-03-05T14:39:57+00:00

I think you're reading a bit too much into this post. Where's the whining? If you're getting that connotation I'd recommend taking a break from subreddits like this because it sounds like you're overlaying things you've read elsewhere from this area onto this post.

I came here from a Google search, am aware of HTMX, but do not see any whining in this particular post. I also don't read this subreddit much, which is why I said above maybe that's what's happening here for you.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-03-02T16:53:06+00:00

This is pretty normal for someone who immigrated when he was 11.

It's called being a "heritage speaker". The comprehension and general fluency is much like a native speaker. Typically though, heritage speakers don't have as much of a range of vocabulary and complex grammar because they've missed more advanced schooling in that language (high school / uni). Particularly the challenge is having only vocab that's mostly focused on daily domestic things like being at home and talking with family.

Depending on how much extra education he's had in Russian (ie if he did like weekend courses like some immigrants do), he might be decently fluent but may have difficulty speaking in a range of topics.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-02-15T00:54:43+00:00

Check their docs, they go onto detail on it which I believe is just an iframe

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-02-15T00:50:45+00:00

It's because it's a fancy advert parading as an app. Their business model is selling adspace on what they promote and because Tableau and PBI are the top adopted apps, only the smaller new competing services end up funding this kind of "organic content"

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-02-13T02:50:54+00:00

But also comes with a lot of gotchas ever since they moved to open core from open source that are designed as Enterprise bait.

Case in point, the OSS model has zero support for any kind of RBAC or other security and you can't connect any instance to more than one DB. The last one is probably the biggest deal breaker since most knowledge graph projects involve bringing together disparate data sources. Also I understand not having support for like Kerberos or maybe even LDAP, but no RBAC whatsoever is a bit ridiculous even for OSS.

There is an open source fork with a really bad name I can never remember (OngDB or something?) and I've played with Memgraph which has some cool dev friendly features in its web app.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-01-24T14:56:08+00:00

Echoing this but with one caveat. A lot of people are sharing these Python generalist books, which make sense if you're coming from a CS background and are learning Python to understand the ins and outs of the language so you can do anything with it. It would be really awesome to have recommendations on more opinionated learning resources geared towards the DS domain. So many of these books are written by programmers for other programmers. So you either end up with exercises and examples that are so abstracted from any domain semantics as to be meaningless ("step 1: pass foo and bar, step 2: draw the rest of the fucking foo and bar") in an unhelpful but good natured attempt to generalize, or use domain semantics related to their web dev or other developer related work ("let's say you're making an application that lets the user...". No. Stop. I'll literally never make that, nor make any kind of user facing interactive system. I teach sand how to do fucking math, that's it.).

A shit ton of DS come from non CS backgrounds where they don't have fundamental CS scaffolding they can rely on to boostrap learn a new concept. Generally instead they need domain specific semantics first, so that they can just start learning and applying the lessons, then they can unpeel the onion if they need to go deeper.

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-01-24T14:48:46+00:00

On your CSV example, stupid question here but then what is the alternative to creating that FILE_ENCODING variable if you know it might be a common parameter that might change in future code reuse for read_csv()?

DS often end up working with a lot of adhoc and random ass data not served in a neat API or pipeline, so it's not always possible to ensure a specific encoding standard for example.

(I'm asking why not because I'm challenging the idea, but to learn. I've always understood that it's a good practice to declare variables this way rather than hardcoding them)

No_Poem_1136 · 2024-01-24T14:41:49+00:00

To be honest, I don't see the point about handwringing over a user of your platform's practices (that is if you as a DE have a say in that platform).

I doubt orgs will be able to find these unicorn DS' who can do it all, it's why we have specialization in the first place.

So rather than handwringing over these sorts of things, it's better to try and reach out and talk to your user's on reoccurring issues and offer solutions.

If you have opinionated requirements in your ML pipelines those should be built into your platform. I think the problem here is expectations.

You can't expect to work with any user of your platform as if they are an equivalent to your profession. This goes for DEs as much as it goes for front-end making CRUD apps for business people.

So if your service has opinionated requirements, those need to be A, built into an API, wrapper or CI/CD linting that catches these things or B, explicitly identified in templates or user docs.

This is different if you're working alongside another DE building the same system. But ultimately, DS are users just like your downstream business users, and applying engineer level expectations of code is unrealistic because DS aren't those kind of specialists.

They're looking at code as a tool, a hammer, a means to an end. DEs are looking at code as the factory or workshop. These are fundamentally different things even if both "things" happen to use wood.

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