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I fail to see anything in your scenario that couldn't already occur with the current tax system

Currently: taxes are based on land+improvements

Proposed: taxes are based on land

Factories move because the value of their land is high under the current system as well.

The problem with the current system is that it disincentizes improvements. In my neighborhood of Boston, most of the 100-year old buildings used to be 5 stories. Now they are 3 stories. What happened? People literally dismantled the upper level floors of their buildings to reduce their taxes. In other parts of the country, it is fairly common to tear down a building to reduce the taxes on an unused property. That is what a land tax is designed to eliminate.
you could counter some of this by having society assess and assign certain land value based on factors you mention. E.g. green-belt land should have an extremely high rent if you want it to remain green-belt. If you want to avoid sprawl, assign a function that raises rents as a function of distance to the nearest urban centre.

The biggest problem I see with it is not so much that it can't be made into a workable way of allocating land - it might even be good at that. But that it only catches value changes to the land, and we're going through a period where e.g. in IT the value creation is less and less dependent on land and more and more fluid.
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I guess you could argue that Godzilla is basically a big chicken, or at least a cousin thereof.

[1] http://godzilla.wikia.com/wiki/Godzillasaurus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theropoda
> But, at some point there must be trust.

Do you trust the developers? Okay.

Do you trust the developers, their infrastructure, AND the supply chain? Maybe a bitter pill to swallow.

Recommended reading: https://defuse.ca/triangle-of-secure-code-delivery.htm
No, they give you IMAP capabilities; it's up to the client to build something more intelligent on top of that -- tagging and snoozing are totally compatible with IMAP as long as the client does something intelligent (it doesn't even have to be extremely non-standard; IMAP keywords and mailboxes can do the job perfectly here). Your mail client doesn't have to be a 1-1 mapping to IMAP commands, like pretty much all mail clients are.

This problem is the same as GPG. Why is GPG not more widespread ? It is widely accepted that the technical parts may be old but are still solid, the real problem is the UI. It is still immensely difficult to create your own keychain and share your keys with someone else. Only in the latest versions does gpg introduce TOFU. It has always been a UI problem, and will remain this way until someone wants to tackle it... or replaces gpg.
I think the funniest part is that the total number of meaningful lines in Redux source code is less than 250. Compare that to the supplied documentation with over 6,000 lines of Markdown.

If you have any FP background, this is really nothing innovative, more of a common sense kind of thing. With the main achievement being that it's trivial enough and has nice documentation with examples so that mass JS programmers can actually grok it...

I've nothing against Redux, it's a good idea but quite a bit overhyped is all.
I believe it is not possible to submit a competing transaction to spend, the identity of the seller (via seller's public key) is included in the script.

The CRS issue is that off-chain, a malicious Verifier (buyer) may learn about the witness, i.e., either enc key or solution.
Yes, I think that's exactly right. Perhaps a combination of regulations while a lot of other industries have also enjoyed the spotlight more in the past decade or two. Hence healthcare hasn't attracted as much software talent. A few days ago I got into a Twitter exchange with my insurance company explaining to them why they should secure their login form, not just their registration form. Hopefully the social media rep will actually pass along the recommendation to IT as promised but even with stringent HIPAA regulations it's clear the industry hasn't been able to hire as many competent people as you'd expect for such a vital industry.
Add WiFi hotspots to all electrical and phone poles instead.
Bernie Sanders doesn't have a law degree.
Apart from Dr "I probably take too much of my good stuff" Carson, I can't think of a GOP candidate who didn't have a law degree, or an undergraduate humanities/liberal arts/social sciences degree.
Any relevant degree seems appropriate for a politician. Political science, law, economics.

Seems much more natural with one of those degrees than a STEM degree.
I don't think I get where your post is going. When I hear some combination of "getting it right" and "first time" I don't presume that the development team only gets one crack at something. Instead, it just sounds like iterating internally on something until it's ready without cutting corners.
These transactions work fine with the lightning network, according to the author on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/47rk85/first_succe...

So this can scale as much as lightning can. See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Scalability_FAQ#Doesn.E2.80.99t_L... and https://blockstream.com/2015/09/01/lightning-network/
There is lack of freely available hardware on which said os to run - a lot of companies try to be your gatekeepers.

The golden days like in the 90-s everything is PC, you can run whatever you want on PC are still somewhere ahead of us with mobile and IoT.
I worked on a mechatronocs problem.

Unfortunately, I'll probably never have this day because any positions for this type of job require 8+ years of experience on top of a Masters, but more preferably a PhD.
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Thanks so much for sharing this, it's exactly what I've been looking for, coming from working with Meteor for a while.
Cryptolockers already provide a very simple proof to their 'customers': they offer to decrypt one file of the victim's choice, for free.
I agree to some degree (!) but I believe a lot of the software used by medical personnel in their daily routines could use an overhaul, plus numerous other modern tools could be given to them for daily use.
The apple Newton didn't run the Mac OS, but rather the Newton OS, which was almost completely unrelated. It was comparatively modern for its time, although quite quirky.
Believe me - it's not just you. Bitcoin has always been like this. You'll have one smart guy who says something fairly interesting but somehow they never go into enough detail for anyone else to be able to reproduce their results. Because of this - if you want to be able to do anything interesting working by yourself is still the best way to do it.

Coincidentally: I was actually working on using ZKPs before this was posted and I had a hell of time even getting the library installed (Snarkfront.) In the end I resorted to emailing one of the devs who managed to get it to work since I'm probably one of less than 50 people world-wide who have ever used Snarklib before - (a group that would probably include Greg Maxwell too.) So yes - the bleeding edge stuff unfortunately does require a lot of time to master but sometime in the future I hope to post some proper documentation and put a virtual machine online so normal devs can play with this stuff without having to waste hours.
The usual way that this unfolds is that first the money disappears (into thin air, exactly where it came from earlier), and then investments dry up.

Has the US experimented monetary deflation since the half of last year?
> Now that TC announced it, it's official people! Time to close shop, pack your bags and leave.

I had the same thought - TC is pretty much an eye-roll-and-move-on for me at this point.

However...

> Tell me this: if not into startups, where will the money go to find possible returns? Negative interest rates, oil price can't find the bottom and stocks aren't really going anywhere either. So where will this money go?

I think that the point here isn't that entrepreneurship is suddenly dead, but rather that

> [the big players] have co-opted the same technologies startups used to attack them” and so “until there is another fundamental technology disruption, the window of opportunity for startups is limited to more traditional markets with less competitive players.”

The various *AAS models may be coming to the end of their usefulness as a disruptive media, but there's plenty of "fundamental technology disruption" ahead: mesh networking, crypto-blockchains, embedded, VR, and on and on.
Librarians as a whole tend toward a very strong privacy stance. I'm told a large contingent of people at the major library conferences have high opinions of Snowden, for example. And the opposition to the PATRIOT Act is also very common among librarians, out of concern for the privacy of library records.

I've always thought that privacy advocates from the technology sector should work with libraries more than they do. The ALA is aligned on basically all the substantive issues and is frankly a lot better at lobbying and legal matters than most technology groups (which is not too surprising given the positive popular image that libraries have).
100M symmetric, or 100M down and maybe something like 1M up?
The US Air Force's plan to detonate a nuclear bomb on the moon (2000)
Value creation is less and less dependent on land, and more and more fluid, and yet no one can afford to live in San Francisco?
I know you know this, but RFC != what servers actually do. :)
Oh, land value tax is better in pretty much every way than property tax within a city (or pretty much anywhere that multi-story buildings are feasible). And property tax does cause urban sprawl etc. They're obviously very similar. But that's not the question.

The question is, should we have more property/land value tax and less sales/income tax or more sales/income tax and less property/land value tax?
There's more diversity in the German parliament (Bundestag), still 46% of members studied either law or economics, only 28 (4.5%) of members studied STEM subjects.

sources: http://daten.offenesparlament.de/datenhandbuch_1990-2010/03/... (total for 2010 is 620, https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/17._Deutscher_Bundestag)
If you trust the hardware, that is easier than it sounds. You just have to review the core and sandbox software - then you sandbox the rest.

The reason people mostly don't bother is because they can't also trust the hardware (in fact, our software is often more trustworthy than the hardware). Thus, the point is moot.
How do you know you are running the same software that everybody else is reviewing?
Herman Cain and Rand Paul are both non-lawyers. Cain actually has an undergrad degree in mathematics and a masters of computer science, surprisingly.
Except in the paleolithic these people would be your extended family, the friends you grew up with, etc. And because of the cultural homogeneity of such societies, you would get along better with them than people get along with their families today.

In the modern context, these would be people you selected.
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All of these claims are true in any market, but we ignore them during booms because fundraising is easier (and de-risks our startup involvement). The only novelty in this article is a return to honesty.
For whatever it's worth I'll believe you -- the moment I put on gear with your tech and find my eyes don't hurt.
The vast majority of GOP candidates (with few exceptions) either have law degrees or non STEM undergrad degrees. There, happy?
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Agree with you. There is definitely no shortage....of entitled, arrogant, lazy, whiny, whingey armchair generals like you.

Instead of sharing your infinite wisdom of who I should hire, how I should train them, and what have you...why not start your own company? Hire all this talent pool you claim exists, and show us how it can be done. Be the change you want. But that would involve moving your fat a$$ and might be too much exertion for your royal laziness

Unless you have started up a business, and done something worthwhile, you can go shove your advice up your you-know-what.
People -- the government specifically -- does, indeed, monitor some things you do with your "cash money", including treating merely travelling with a large quantity of it as something inherently suspicious.
Vanderbilt and Louie are the real deal, but what they do is much closer to hard CMT. They have students who are real superstars.

As an aside, Vanderbilt was at the same conference. He told me how the same trend chasing and flight to chemistry and materials science departments had taken place among DFT people with high-Tc in the eighties that was taking place with topological materials now, and that this was a symptom of "(long-time sociological) problems I can't fix"
>To me the litmus test is now this: do you need a particle accelerator (or equivalents) to conduct research in your field? If not, don't do a PhD.

As someone that did research outside of academia my litmus test was:

Do I need a mentor to train me to be a great researcher? After doing research on my own for a while I discovered that yes I needed such a mentor. I optimized my search around finding the best mentor possible.
George's intent was to replace most other taxes with it. That has as far as I know not been tried. Many have had some form of land value tax as part of a wider tax system, but that may counteract many of the claimed benefits of it.
"For everything published in 1950 the original copyright length was 28 years, but it was retroactively extended with the 1976 copyright act."

Not necessarily. Works published prior to 1964 have fallen into the public domain in the United States unless the owner explicitly filed a copyright renewal.

Anything published in 1964 or afterward did get automatic renewal and extension to the new 95 year period under the 1992 Copyright Act, so the magazines after 1964 are definitely questionable.

The Stanford library has a database that lets you look up the copyright status of post-1923 (before that is definitely public domain), pre-1964 works.

https://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals
US eugenics programs continued into the 1960s-1970s.

I'm not sure their small scale is sufficient reason to write them out of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics_in_the_United_States

It's interesting to examine A Brave New World in the context of a world where there were active programs (across the world) aimed at making better men. It seems horrifying to chemically stunt a fetus, but the book was written in a reality where compulsory sterilization was being carried out over at the asylum.
I understand, I tested it for you and my suspicions where right. The simulation simply stalls early on. Nothing interesting happens after that.
Being able to write something coherent quickly about a very technical subject is really, really hard. If someone needs to use "academese" to get there, power to them.
I'm not complaining.

But I don't know if the idea makes sense either. I can't give you feedback.
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Surely you aren't suggesting that a reasonable answer is to read the code yourself and compare it to a known version?

Obviously, the mainstream way is a hash-based file verification.

Which again, everybody needn't do - only a small number - in order to catch a bad actor in the act.

But I presume you are trying to make some bigger point. What is that?
It goes to show that the poster idea

>Agile ideologues -> just doesn't lead to working software

it's a flawed idea; if you want to take agile core values all of them are focused on actually trying to reduce errors and improve quality [0].

On the other hand it's a very broad generalization, and leaves the open question "what does actually lead to working software?"

[0] http://www.agilemanifesto.org/
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I find it comforting to know that the group I belong to will be blamed for something, regardless of what the group actually does. We are free.

http://rationalconspiracy.com/2014/01/28/san-franciscos-tech...
> So we end up doing manual certification work everytime we release or publish a new version of software, for performance, fault tolerance, etc.

What can humans do, sitting at a computer, that software can't be written to do?

Before other nitpickers derail this question, I'm talking about validating a software product, not hard AI.
"It's not a solution, it's an excuse for lazy testing."

How do you test absolutely everything? in all the environments? with every possible user?

On the other hand it can be also used as you mention and here I think about the software on calculators as the 12C... which probably could have a bug... that you can't fix.
I remember that time. Software quality was really bad back then. You were lucky when you hit a version that didn't crash - hence "never change a running system." It doesn't crash and does approximately what we want it to do, lets stop updating it. At least this is what I experienced in the 90s in mid-sized companies using Unix and Windows NT4.
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Additionally, lightning actually uses the HTLC (Hashed Timelock Contract) transaction style that is used by ZKCPs. I believe it is used to extend lightning channels to multiple hops.
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While I strongly agree with old tailoring principle of "measure twice, cut once", I'd like to point something out. If older software had less known bugs it doesn't necessarily mean it had less bugs. We see years-old security bugs (Heartbleed anyone?), or even decade-old bugs discovered constantly. Software is expanding into people's lives faster than ever. As a consequence of software being used more, both the bug-detection rate and the bug-exploit rate will inevitably increase.
> there is no incentive to speculate and hold productive land out of use hoping its value will go up

It is possible to speculate without holding productive land out of use: You buy it and then rent it out. Which land value tax would presumably have little effect on (except insofar as it increases sprawl and therefore reduces city center land values) because the tax would be passed on to the renter(s).

The reason people buy land in cities and then don't use it for anything is often because they own enough other property in the same city that withdrawing rental units from the market will increase the rents for the other units by enough that the strategy is net profitable. Which seems like it ought to be illegal, but anything nefarious that has the consequence of increasing property values tends to get overlooked "for some reason."
The MBP's sound hardware might not have a problem with it, but I was using the MBP's built in speakers ;)

They're generally pretty good on the newer models, I think, as laptop speakers go. My 3-word review might be "better than functional". So having heard them make a tolerable go of music and games I was interested to see how they'd manage 52Hz. The answer: badly.
So curated AB&B? That seems like you COULD do it, charge someone $50 to get curated by staff and then approved as a "4 star AB&B room". But what stops the place from dropping standards as soon as they get curated? Monthly surprise reviews? Seems like a really hard problem.

A retail store can check the quality of a pair of socks, approve it, then order a million of them. Maybe spot check a few, but assume most are the same quality. Can you ever really do that to AB&B rooms? Even hotels are spotty, the best info we can usually get on a given hotel is trip-advisor, which has all the problems of paid /shill reviews and annoying customers to leave feedback.
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I'm no php fan but to be fair to the guys at Phacility who drive the development of Phabricator... Their PHP is nothing like the garbage most of us think of when we think "PHP project" it's actually good code written to avoid the pitfalls and dangerous practices PHP makes alluringly easy to do instead of doing it "right"
Apple has to protect customer privacy. I oppose Apple to give any information to the FBI.
No the social gold rush is gone. Everybody who wishes to get online is online already with something and you have displace that.

And "gold rush" is a good term--"land grab" might be better. The fact that the "disruptive" companies are all now skirting or outright flouting the law shows that the easy land is taken.

If it's highly profitable, it's either illegal or difficult. Easy and profitable means that, even if you're first, the horde is inbound.

Those of us with real products that can't simply be done with 4 20-year-olds and a dog in Ukraine? We're chugging along, thanks.

Yeah, raising money is getting really annoying, but, if we can't, we'll bootstrap. Funny that, bootstrapping is an option when people pay you money.

And, do remember, the people who made all the money in the gold rush weren't the miners, it was the people who sold shovels and alcohol.
I'm a bit confused about land, labour and capital comparison. It seems that he's complaining about 'land' and 'labour' not getting enough as a result of digital economy, but those are potential inputs, not outputs, so the reference is misguided. Plus, the straw-man uber driver surely represents labor in that part, and they get paid for that.
When I asked the team live on Google Hangout chat why they didn't use RTG, for a mission where solar power is a risky bet, their answer was that there were too many political obstructions to getting any reasonable amount of fissile material on-board. I'm certain RTG would greatly increase the chances of mission success, given the reactors proven reliability and capacity, just like they serve our Voyagers.
That was a comically bad article. I wish people paid attention when their English teacher explained the structure of an essay:

- Provide the central point or argument.

- Provide some supporting points or arguments.

- Provide evidence and support for each, and tie it back to the main point.
It's funny because the means through which big business tech companies have "co-opted the same technologies startups used to attack them" is through buying said startups. So no, I don't think it's all over.

You can't type on a keyboard and make an automobile factory that can compete with the big car companies, but in software, you pretty much can. It's a pretty chaotic market for this reason even if there are big dogs.
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Misses the point completely: Tech companies are a huge part of Silicon Valley, have enormous wealth, and that wealth isn't used to develop the social and economic infrastructure they rely on. Tech companies are quite willing to throw money at their own problems while ignoring how those problems affect everyone else around them. I don't blame the "tech companies" per se, but their owners, their investors, and the subset of their employees who are upset that the streets around their office are crawling with "riff raff" they despise.

Nothing is more disgusting than a human being that profits off of society and insists they have no responsibility to anyone else. Let the sham that is the social contract collapse and reveal the exploitative nature of capitalism for what it is.