PadSplit

Coverage in Orlando Sentinel about PadSplit, which has been around since 2017, but I failed to notice.

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/real-estate/os-bz-padsplit-orlando-affordable-housing-20220621-m7ydx2klqffu5ipoiu4w53lffm-story.html

They connect low-income renters with rooms, rather than apartment, and they work to convince real estate investors to rent rooms, rather than flipping. They also only operate in places where they have a plausible argument they are compliant with local zoning, and they also work with communities to adjust zoning so that they can operate there.

Admirable! Another version of the return of the boarding house.

https://www.padsplit.com/

Their website indicates that they may check your credit score but do not have a minimum credit score to participate. They say they will report your rent payments, and that 95% of the people staying in PadSplit report and improvement in their credit scores as a result (this is a way _out_ of the hole of low credit score, where no one will let you do anything, so you cannot show that you are making payments on time).

Happy Solstice!

I’m looking forward to years of observing this time of year in ways that tie together Juneteenth, Pride and Solstice into a celebration of intersectional joy, support and love.

First egregious Wrongness in _1491_

“Without a positional notation system, arithmetic is tedious and hard, as schoolchildren learn when teachers force them to multiply or subtract with Roman numerals.”

Oh dear.

OK, first off, addition and subtraction are dead easy with roman numerals. Normalize to additive only. For addition, concatenate and sort. For subtraction, mark off matching ones, and then deal with the remainder in the obvious way.

Multiplication and division are more complicated, but there is a well-defined procedure for multiplication.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1530406/how-to-multiply-roman-numerals

Here’s a bit about division:

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/41435/how-did-the-romans-do-division

But really, the relevant answer is not how you _write_ the calculations. Writing wasn’t a cheap thing to do then; they used abacus.