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Show HN: I built a(nother) house optimized for LAN parties

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1117 points kentonv | 5 comments | 16 Nov 24 15:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.896s | source

I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]:

> If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos.

Hopefully I did that?

Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub:

https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty

Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336638

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laidoffamazon ◴[16 Nov 24 21:22 UTC] No.42159467[source]▶
This is neat, but as a $NET shareholder and someone with another ~$1m in net worth that can't afford to buy a house for at least another 6 years this makes me think we should significantly increase taxation.
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crooked-v ◴[16 Nov 24 21:37 UTC] No.42159573[source]▶
Housing price issues in the US are fundamentally the result of every major city making it expensive or impossible to actually build enough housing. Changing taxes (in either direction) really wouldn't move the needle at all. What's needed are local zoning changes and significant revamps of permitting and approval processes to remove endless discretionary roadblocks from anyone who doesn't like medium density housing.
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1. ClassyJacket ◴[17 Nov 24 03:38 UTC] No.42161801[source]▶
Yep. The fact that in most places in the US it's illegal to build apartments above shops is insane. That's the norm in the UK.
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2. mschuster91 ◴[17 Nov 24 10:40 UTC] No.42163318[source]▶
It's in Germany too, but recently it's become the norm for new-rich people to buy or rent these apartments and then sue the shop and especially bar owners for noise violations.

Not allowing that kind of mixed usage in the first place completely cuts away all that crap.

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3. OJFord ◴[17 Nov 24 11:34 UTC] No.42163564[source]▶
Not to say there's not restaurants/bars open just as late or noisy, but fwiw I would say typically a pub in the UK would be the whole (vertical) building - rooms upstairs for staff or B&B, if not more seating for pub restaurant.
4. jon-wood ◴[17 Nov 24 15:37 UTC] No.42164708[source]▶
My perspective on that one is broadly "screw 'em". If you buy property over a bar or restaurant that was there before you I don't think you should then be allowed to turn around and act surprised that there's a bar or restaurant downstairs.
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5. mschuster91 ◴[18 Nov 24 11:19 UTC] No.42171439{3}[source]▶
The problem is, it's not that easy. In the end the law matters - it was just that no one cared for decades, even though the noise from the bars was far above the limits. The old occupants just paid shit in rent, the new ones pay through their nose and expect something for that amount.