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Instead of UBI, we need to pressure our governments to heavily regulate how much the free market can destroy the environment and ourselves. Then, that 80%, who is unemployed, will work on making sure the agriculture is healthy, harmless, diverse, etc. You can expand this thinking to anything else, but regulation is the key. By regulating you create jobs that weren't possible in a pure free market.

And of course don't forget the entire realm of possible jobs we can't even phantom about these days. Jobs such as a "ventriloquist" should not be ridiculed. Our societies should nurture the diversity of possible things that can be done via regulations and laws and minimum wage.

Then you still have those people that simply don't want to do anything. Which is fine, but if you give them a very large spectrum of possibilities to choose from, and not limit them to a few fields, they will probably find something they like and contribute to the whole system.

But again, the key here is that the government must regulate the free market to expand the possible amount of jobs - this is important because these jobs are not created by the free market, but rather are needed for reasons such as our health, culture, research, exploration... we need more of these.
it's very strange how risk-averse they seem, don't they (well, their customers) get tax breaks for taking risks? Is that even legal to invest in "Dick’s Sporting Goods" with detaxed money?
I am not a planning expert but my understanding is that pretty much the whole city is listed which means that the low rise houses can never be replaced. There are some areas that are not listed but then you have rules about panoramas, ie you need to be able to view certain monuments from many viewpoints, which creates an invisible web of max building height over London. As a result only a few spots can be built up.

As for the narrow streets, I am not questioning their charm, but they make transportation very slow, and therefore make it difficult to build out to compensate not builing up.
Oh, I fully agree with you on this one!
> If you agree that there will be no further densification of already developped urban area (whether because of planning restrictions or physical constraints), then adding taxes isn't an incentive to better using the land.

This is key. A land value tax would have to go hand-in-hand with measures to allow density to increase. That would mean changes in planning laws, and also building of infrastructure like transport, doctors' surgeries, schools, etc. The former can be done at the stroke of a pen, the latter can be funded from the increased tax receipts that come with higher density.
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With keys such as a U2F key, you can use it for multiple sites (each site will have a site-specific keypair). Most sites allow you to associate multiple U2F keys as well. Since U2F keys typically cost 7 to 15 Euro, it's really not much of a problem to buy one for use and to put one as a backup in a fire-proof safe.

That said, I think it's bad to rely on one factor. If the key gets stolen, security is compromised. The combination of a password and a security token is far more secure. People should just stop memorizing passwords for every site and e.g. use a password manager.
Yes, I have an idea what I'm talking about.

I followed the shut-down of Dacotah Marketing and Research and iBill from 'row #1' (as a mid-sized merchant with an inside line into the company about what was going on) and the main problem was that amongst the 1000's of good merchants there were a few bad ones. VISA warned them once, fined them the second time and shut them down the third.

In both cases I lost a ton of money and I am definitely not the only party that did so.

Since then I have my own merchant account and never a problem since.

What is the main difference between 2015 and 2004?
I 100% agree with this point. The obsession with 'oppression' and 'privilege' nowadays is ridiculous, especially when seemingly every random factor is used to claim them.

It's equally funny how many of the people claiming the former tend to be from well off backgrounds and like talking about how much they're suffering compared to someone with less than half their income.
"restrictive planning" is not a valid argument. If rules don't make sense then you can criticize them directly. Maybe people don't like 10 storey buildings because they're ugly, they're impersonal, etc.?
No, the most annoying thing is when they don't tell you the rules in advance, and you start typing a password that fits most standard rules.

Now either you get through but don't know if you could've used a better password. Or your password will be denied and you have to make adaptions or change completely.
You'd have to reduce the tax in areas like that. You can probably justify this by saying that land in an area where development is restricted isn't worth as much as land elsewhere.
Remote areas and coastline have a very low land value, which is affected by the local facilities and geology much more than other factors.

House price != land value, but the two are related:

Land value = House price - rebuild value.

So, if the price of your house is roughly what it would cost to rebuild it from scratch, your land value is nearly zero, and so is the tax.

In some places, the house price is actually lower than the rebuild cost; negative land value. (This applies to extremely remote and difficult to access locations).

In central London, for example, the house prices are far more than the cost of the buildings; because they are near the rest of London and its facilities the land value is very high.
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Never do that. Instagram like company have full potential to build their own. Unless you have some success and capture the audience than you can tell. Initially you should resist to do that as you have nothing just the idea.
In the States we have property taxes, and it doesn't lead to utopia. Instead, when times are tough it drives small business out-of-business and people out of their homes, and only further enriches the wealthy who snatch up the foreclosures on the cheap.
Some of your sites are storing your password in plain text, see http://plaintextoffenders.com/ for a few.

Once a single one of those is hacked your method is exposed and it goes from improbable to practical.
To me, it's tackling the wrong problem.

The issue with property is that they are being used as an investment opportunity, which undermines the purpose that most people want property for, which is as an affordable place to live.

What we want to discourage is people using property to invest, but without penalising those who want somewhere to live. Therefore, if we're going to have a land use tax it should be based on how someone uses it. If a property is your only home anywhere in the world, then it should be exempt, but anything outside your main home could be taxed. That should discourage those people who buy property but barely live there from driving up prices for the people who want to live there.
I agree but I don't think a tax would be needed where there is a strong housing supply crisis if planning restrictions are relaxed. Property developpers are already frenetically building residential skycrappers where they can in London.
I don't see the problem here. It's pretty simple to legislate that the primary property is exempt from land value tax.
Yep exactly that. It would be great if I could just use some whole words as the password for accounts which I need to use often or are really important and thus IMHO make password stores impractical (e.g. desktop login, Gmail, …)
The land value tax isn't the problem here. We can discourage development through zoning, environmental policy, etc. In the absence of explicit restrictions, the market value of coastal land will reflect its potential for development, so landowners are incentivized to sell to developers even without a land value tax. As you say, this is a trend that's already occurring. If we want to reverse that trend and preserve coastal land, then we should take steps to explicitly protect it, not just rely on current landowners to resist development when doing so goes against their own economic incentives.

In the case where society does take action to restrict development, then a land value tax does the right thing: the market value of the property falls since there's no potential for development, and the land value taxes owed are relatively small.
Not that it's any of my business at all but the very fact that you would even consider not renewing your subscription because they would write something you don't like doesn't really show much willingness to hear the other side but I will try to anyway :)

I think you are ignoring a couple of things.

First New York has skyscrapers everywhere still prices are sky-rocketing. So claiming that would solve Londons probems isn't really founded.

Second as the article mentions. The value that someone accrue by owning land is 99% of the times based on the surrounding 99% of society increasing that value. If anything it's much fairer to tax the value of land because compared to income tax you aren't actually doing anything for that value.

In New York right now. Chinese or buying apartments cash. Go to Miami and you will see plenty of amazingly expensive apartment complex be ghost towns because it's owners live in Brazil and just have it as a backup.

The people who actually develop new areas with a few exceptions are artist and young people who make an area hip enough that developers want to a house here and there and slowly but surely push out those who made the area worth investing in to begin with. Who benefits. Some of the people who lived in the neighbourhood for a long time but had nothing to do with the increase in value of a place.

Infrastructure choice isn't irreversible it just takes time. London wasn't bombed to anywhere close to the degree of a place like Berlin so of course it wasn't really going to change the width of the street.

More taxes on land is solving the fact that urbanization is pushing people to move into the bigger cities. Again reasons unrelated to the fact that someone own land.

There are plenty of ways to discuss taxation on land that would be both more effective and fair. There is nothing useful about people using property as an investment tool it just drive prices way up.

We should reward money that work and tax money that doesn't.
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If there were an open source protocol you could use software emulator and pay nothing (if you don't care about security).
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Why does no one ever talk about implementing a usury tax?
If the value of the apartment is high, then it wouldn't be sold for a discount price, would it?

The value might be affected by the tax, I suppose, but the person buying it would be affected by that too when they came to sell.

Land value tax is based on the premise that if you are land-rich, you should also be "more productive" to earn the right to keep the land.

Final point; apartment buildings generally have a lower land value than you might expect given the sale price (see my other comment), with a small square footage spread over many apartments in high-rise, the tax may well be less than you expect (i.e. much of the value may be in the rebuild cost.)
The cities where property taxes matter in the US land is still much more valuable than how much it's getting taxed.
Change your subject
Property tax != land value tax. Properties in foreclosure may well have very low land value.
As a rule of thumb, I would go after natural language phrases first, because it is impossible to tell if the phrase was machine-generated. It's nearly impossible to arrange dots randomly on a page with a pencil because there is always some structure or engrained rigidity in human guesswork. There is also the possibility that the dots were done by 'inception', and certain biases were programmed in via subliminal messaging. Don't trust humans to do a machine's tasks.
>Men perform significantly better

Actually, the reference you cited says "slightly better". It may or may not be significant but let's stay on track here.
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Lending money is a (in the UK highly regulated) business venture, subject to all sorts of taxes.

Buying land and sitting on it for decades is not.
Here's a collection of offenders:

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John Lewis, a department store and supermarket chain in the UK, is a bit like this:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/jan/16/john-lewis-m...

That said, they do have a Chairman who is basically a CEO; he answers to the employees rather than shareholders, but i'm not sure how much that changes things.

And of course there's the Co-op, which is a patchwork of regional and national organisations under a common brand which between them provide a range of services so wide they're virtually a shadow state:

http://www.co-operative.coop/

I have no idea how they are actually run.
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> There is something fundamentally wrong with taxing an absence of income

I disagree; in fact, I believe the opposite - that income is taxed way too much, simply because it's an easy target - "Look at those rich people drawing a huge salary!" In reality, people who have big salary are almost always not really rich - they are still employed by someone else, they can be fired at any time, and they don't own productive assets.

In an ideal world, ownership of assets would be taxed way more than it's now, or e.g. income tax (all income, including capital gains and dividends) would be proportional to your current assets, not just your income (i.e. if a millionaire earns $1, s/he would pay e.g. 80% tax, while a poor student would pay 0%).
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I'd never heard of this - it's fascinating, but also has a rather Buckminster Fuller-esque '60s tang to it:

http://www.fastcompany.com/27333/trillion-dollar-vision-dee-...

And in case anyone wants to discuss chaords:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10443224
No, the most annoying is when you paste your password manager's auto generated long password and it silently get cut after 16 characters but successfully let you create your account. But now the login form doesn't have the same max-length property and your password will fail.

Hopefully the reset password form is synced with the login form.
I like the happy medium of one ultra quantum unbreakable master passphrase which is used to unlock easier to guess passwords. SO somebody owned your Imgur account full of memes. So what? Always assume an account is breakable.

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If someone is competent, we can expect them to continue showing competence into the future. If it's just luck, we can expect their future performance to revert.
So why not aggressively tax profits from property sales then?

Tax-free primary residences causes at least two problems:

1. People want places to work and shop, too.

2. You end up having to regulate what counts as a primary residence so that Mr. O'Billionaire doesn't get an entire city block tax free. How does working from home affect your tax rate, etc.
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To steal a physical key you need to find a person and make him give you the key (and tell a PIN code if it is protected). It is hard to do on a large scale and you probably get beaten or go to jail soon.

And passwords can be stolen remotely using trojan software. You won't even know whether your password was compromized.

I agree the recovery can be a problem but there probably are ways to solve it.
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We have those keys, technically supported in every browser, and you can decide on the level of security that you want - and store keys on highly secure tamper-resistant hardware tokens or manage everything purely in software of your choice.

It's called TLS client certificates and no one supports those.

Browser vendors make UIs that are absolutely awful (it's like they do this on some damned purpose!), there is no synchronization for low-security software tokens (yup, it's not a big deal to sync some private keys in a same way we sync other credentials like passwords), standardizing organizations don't work on multiple signatures (say, gradually ditching X.509 in favor of OpenPGP - TLS doesn't really care how blobs are encoded). So, the sites don't consume them, although technically everything's there - a <keygen> element, JS APIs, TLS, anything.
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>The current regime already envisages the prescription of opium tincture to drug abusers registered at state addiction centres

It amazes me that that policy is not more widely adopted for opium / heroin. It stops addicts having to deal / steal to feed their habit and so the whole thing kind of dies out whereas otherwise it tends to grow exponentially. Seems a bit of a no brainer but it's only intermittently adopted. I see about 120 Americans a day are dying of heroin and going the prescription route would rapidly reduce that towards zero.
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I fully support the concept of a flat tax on salaries, dividends and capital gains, but again all of these are realised income, ie you received cash, you can pay some away in taxes. But if you own a painting and this painting increases in value, this is not an income until you sell it. There shouldn't be a tax on "non income".
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"the Nobel-prize winner Joseph Stiglitz [...] argued in a recent paper that land and housing, rather than the distribution of income and productive capital, are the key to a fairer economy."

Link: https://www.nber.org/papers/w21192
This video captures quite a bit of what I consider important in city planning, would be interested to hear your thoughts on it:

http://youtu.be/Hy4QjmKzF1c
Tall buildings are not all bad.

Dublin has had strong restrictions on building height since the 1960s. An argument for this was to maintain the character of the city, although the destruction of many Georgian buildings was allowed by planners, on spurious health and safety grounds.

The worst effects of the policy were felt during and after the boom of the early 2000s, when accommodation was built further and further out from the city, leading to sprawl, and a commuter belt that stretched 100 kilometres in all directions, which put immense pressure on transport infrastructure. With so much construction, this represents in hindsight a missed opportunity to create more liveable centres or hubs in the style of London or other large cities.

Allowing taller structures for residential purposes in central city areas, would have improved Dublin's liveability. Instead, there is now a critical housing crisis that no one seems to know how to solve.
Thanks for the resources, I will for sure be following these. My dream is that one day I can do something similar to `docker-compose scale db=5` and have a database that is highly available.
There is, it's called TLS, the same one that's used in HTTPS ;)

But, sadly, it's not usable. See my reply to grandparent comment.
That's because, license wise, they can't include GPL 3 licensed code, aka the GNU user space.

Also, this bug does not prove that the whole user space is completely broken. Many people use it daily without ever hitting these bugs. If you go looking for issues, you'll find them, just as you'll find them on Linux but in different places. Not to say this doesn't suck and we shouldn't fix them, but it's hardly proof of anything.
It had that title few minutes ago ...
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Sounds so insane I guess it must have really happened.

I had similar issue with paypal once. Their bank account number field expected to get N digits without spaces, so it was hard limited to N characters. Of course they didn't bother telling about that. When I pasted my number with some K space separators tossed between digits, the last K digits have been silently truncated. Boom, account locked.
1. Taxes on companies could be adjusted to compensate for the introduction of a land use tax.

2. A primary residence is where you live most of the year. To have any property qualify you would need to spend more than 6 months in a year within a country, and would also need to specify which of the properties you own in that country is your primary residence. Problem solved.
I see no justification for an exemption of capital gain tax on primary residence.

Well, maybe if you get a "rollover" relief - but otherwise, such a tax would significantly lower the velocity of the property market (which is already suffering, not least because of a similar tax - stamp duty).
Wait, I don't understand something. 950 Pro is meant to be the flagship, right?

So how come, that Samsung SM951 is much much cheaper, yet just as fast, or even faster in every metric? The only thing that is slower, is the read speed(2150MB/s vs 2200MB/s). Better write speed, more IOPS, and cheaper.....so how is the 950 Pro a flagship?

SM951:

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950 Pro:

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No doubt a lot of people suck at password management, but with proper management it's easier for a thief to steal a hardware key.
Or a phone. Which is why I hate that some new services require a phone number for authentication.
They have genetic memory for one. An elephant can "remember" a water source that its grandparents once visit well before it was born.
What's to stop a company or foundation from doing this? Jeff, you know to get stuff like this off the ground... why not create a new organisation and ask for seed money?
Yikes... That's even worse.

Well at least Microsoft stopped doing that and are now displaying a message that the password is too long instead of doing it silently.
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> You had to initialize your random vector very close to an actual cat image, and do gradient descent, before it "figured out" for itself about a cat

and

> a rather large deep neural network, which was trained unsupervised to encode general images (not just cats)

seem to be in contradiction, afaict, or was general vector initialized rather close general images?
That's nice in theory but unfortunately we have real-world counterexample: Greece. The people will happily vote for their government to spend more than they can afford, and they'll do it again and again.
You're not seriously holding up London as an example of a functioning housing market, are you?