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My topic statement was thus:

> Economic theories that only looks to maximize economic productivity while ignoring philosophical or ethical concerns are idiotic.

I did not claim that economic theories cannot address philosophical or ethical concerns, I claimed that economic theories which do not take these in to account are idiotic.

I am not an economist, but I took quite a few economics classes in college. I am confident that I know enough to say that eliminating the capital gains tax is not a policy that would be pursued by someone looking to address concerns of regarding equality or the environment.

The economic theory that supports the elimination of capital gains tax is one that focuses on maximizing productiveness above all else. It's the type of policy you come up with if you got your hands on a macro 101 textbook and you forgot other people exist.
Leaking roof and broken bathroom light at their dorm? The investigator should really go check the workers living condition at home to know it’s already an improvement. Don’t hold the same western labor standards to the Chinese manufacturers, give them time and guidance to do better, and most importantly do not take the workers jobs away.
Very interesting. I would suggest you tag this as video.
As far as I can tell, the Nazis were still using https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_f%C3%BCr_das_..., which punishes adultery with up to 6 months in prison, but only if someone (presumably the cheated spouse) files a suit.
I found the opposite, and a quote from the standard: " A declaration of a parameter as ‘‘array of type’’ shall be adjusted to ‘‘qualified pointer to type’’, where the type qualifiers (if any) are those specified within the [ and ] of the array type derivation."
This is all laptops do, included mine, so we can shift the laptop to the right. IMHO a better design would ditch the number pad and sell a USB/Bluetooth one to who wants it.
My memories about that are blurry but I remember there was some general problem with file access that persisted until XP adopted NT core for consumer versions. Maybe something about concurrency, not sure, sorry.
Would you also remove rent control in San Francisco then? (Rent control was added after Prop 13 on the argument that landlords should pass through their fixed price benefits).

I would replace today’s rent control (based on building date) with a means-tested rent subsidy, and similarly replace Prop 13 with a means-tested property tax subsidy. This is what a lot of places do (e.g., several counties in New York state) and you don’t end up with the distortions or arbitrary cutoffs.
That's such an exception that it doesn't make sense to regulate specifically.

In California Prop 13 is thought of in the general public as specifically saving retirees (or "grannies" in the vernacular) from having to give up tiger home. This is not at all what Prop 13 is about, of course, but aligning the populace's sentiment with the law would be better than the populace thinking it helps just retirees, billionaire or not, instead of what it actually does, which is concentrate capital in the hands of those who already have capital, without regard to how they effectively use that capital.
https://github.com/paytm/grace
The graceful handle on the service side can use this package
What else has he said that he didn't eventually do?

Bio-weapon defense mode?

Flamethrowers?
I think that there is a lot of collective insanity going on that also affects the actions of individuals. The actions of individuals are driven by emotions and by beliefs that are held in place by emotions. Decisions are pre- and post-rationalized. Most behavior, whether individual or collective is non-optimal and usually does not maximize utility in any sense.
That is a double taxation argument against the corporate income tax.

I described the double taxation argument against the capital gains tax.

Unsurprisingly, different taxes are relevant. But I feel safe in saying that "the double taxation argument that justifies the capital gains rate [being different from the labor income rate]" is the double taxation argument against taxing capital gains, not the double taxation argument against taxing corporate income.

From your link:

> Double taxation is a taxation principle referring to income taxes paid twice on the same source of earned income.

The model I described matches this definition perfectly. Where do you think I was incorrect?
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What is your blog about, if I may ask? I'm curious since it sometimes attracts racist comments? Maybe the blog is about society and politics and people, I'm wondering?

What about a commenting system where comments won't appear until after approval, for new posters? And once someone has posted say 7 comments that were all okay and you approved, then that person's comments get approved automatically? (because then you a bit trust that person)

I think it's sometimes a bit sad when I cannot mention something interesting & related to the blog post, that could be meaningful for the author & other readers to know about. Or maybe ask something, or ...

Why does creating threads at say Reddit not feel right?

What benefits do you see with using Reddit instead of blog comments?
From sendbird:

"Customers can choose to further encrypt the messages prior to sending and after receiving for end- to-end encryption as needed (but this will cause moderation tools and search features to malfunction)."

Reddit may prefer to not provide end-to-end encryption due to reasons, say, keyword marketing.
It still somewhat baffles me that these systems are trying to identify certain classes of object to avoid colliding with, rather than simply avoiding hitting anything solid over a certain size. Do I care whether the thing in front of me is a hatchback or a group of pedestrians? No! I just want the car not to hit it!
As an Indian who used to travel in trains quite a lot, this is news to me. Was it only for particular routes? And sources I can read?
Hello HN,
I am usually working on some side projects and I saw that I always ended up making a common "component" which will send emails/sms etc to people on specific date & time using a template which has data from some API (eg send report to all customers every Monday morning).
Usual gateways were not helping much in customisations (eg I cant fill the template from my API endpoint).

Hence I came up with https://send.rest, where templates support "a JS templating language" which can be filled up with data from any API. Scheduling comes along with the package along with an option to pick any sender (SMS or email).

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Agree. Upvotes are probably being gamed.
FBIAnon had Trump at +20% with a 5% MOE in July. He was on the nail.
Lol you can bet that if I manage to pull this off you'll hear about it.

The problem with blogging about this is that it diverges from current status quite a bit and as a result I've been called a crackpot. But I'll show them all lol.
Around 2 years ago, I was reached by a Rakuten recruiter. I think, I should've given more consideration to the proposal than a straight refusal.
Misleading title. Doesn't cite any example of blockchain making anything happen.

The article mentions blockchain tech only towards the end, and the specific blockchain to which they refer hasn't even started operating yet.
I read this as saying that sendbird doesn't provide these features but you can use copy-paste to wedge them in if you're so moved.

https://help.sendbird.com/hc/en-us/articles/235854108-Are-yo...
Tesla saw the world in a fundamentally different way to his contemporaries. In a time of bankers and businessmen, he was a brilliant engineer and inventor. His "impractical" ideas were often labelled as such because Tesla wasn't interested in making a business except as a means to an end. That end being "free power".

I don't see Elon as a parallel to Tesla, if anything, I see him as Edison reborn.

The irony is palpable of course seeing as that creates a worldview where even in reincarnation, Edison is milking Tesla for all he's worth.
The linked document is new money, as in people who weren't millionaires previously. Since we're discussing startups, where would you consider the best place to be to create a business?

>Moving up requires people from lower wealth backgrounds moving up and the evidence clearly demonstrates that the US is one of the western countries where this happens the least.
1,000,000+ people annually immigrate. Clearly it's a terrible place for your family.
> I am confident that I know enough to say that eliminating the capital gains tax is not a policy that would be pursued by someone looking to address concerns of regarding equality or the environment.

Your confidence is misplaced. On equality one might convincingly argue that by lowering cap gains rate we could increase the overall growth rate of the economy. By doing so we could increase other taxes on the rich without leaving them in a worse state than they would have been in the lower growth economy. We can then use this additional tax revenue to fund social services or otherwise redistribute income to reduce inequality.

On environmentalism, one might argue that we should cut cap gains taxes and, in order to make up the lost revenue, institute a carbon tax or other tax on environmentally damaging activities. This could have a profound positive impact on our environmental footprint.

Now, I'm not necessarily saying these are good ideas. But they are also not, prima facie, idiotic (to use your word). They are complex questions uncertain impacts. Reasonable people can disagree.

Your assertion about "macro 101 textbook and you forgot other people exist" is also quite strange when you consider the fact that I'm not talking about college freshman's stoner thoughts on optimal taxation of capital. I'm referring to the ideas of professional PhD economists who are well respected in their fields.
This something people keep bringing up but many people have pointed out that Digg didn't just redesign their site. They changed the way the site worked.
Counterintuitively, (at least as implemented in most of the bay area) rent control increases the cost of rentals on the market by reducing supply (since it allows people that pay way below market to stay in housing that would otherwise be available for someone else).

So, getting rid of rent control is kind of independent of the prop 13 thing.

Both would depress the costs of the available units at the expense of long-time residents.
God help the one's with a Y chromosome come time to pay the insurance

In the UK gender discrimination of this kind is illegal. Are you in the US? I am surprised your very vocal activists have not tackled this.

think of the freedom gained by one who learns to operate a vehicle. You unlock a form of mobility unmatched

A car is a powerfully democratising technology. Any regular person can have at his or her disposal a machine that can take them and their friends/family and stuff anywhere they want to go at any time and act as a base while they are there. It’s people who socialise entirely online, get their entertainment via streaming etc who have the unhealthy lifestyle, not the ones who drive to the coast at weekends...
You won't get the gains from using only a few photons vs 10^18 electrons.
How do you watch for Twitter and HN discussions about the posts? Do you use some automatic tool?

I'm creating embedded comments software, and I've been thinking about trying to make that software find and auto-link to [discussions about the blog post] at HN / Reddit / Twitter etc.

Maybe those discussions could be represented as a special type of blog comment — so other people could upvote [the discussion that happens at HN about the blog post], and also so you could easily delete the link to that discussion...

... Or you could add a followup comment, about that discussion, by replying to the auto-generated comment that links to HN, like: "Interesting discussion that talks about ...." — so you can type a quick summary of what people said at HN, for visitors at your blog, who are short of time.
I'm also amazed that this article is doing so well. I didn't think it was anywhere near one of my best. If upvotes are being gamed, and I'm not gaming them (which I'm not), then I wonder who is doing it, and for what reason.

I'm also wondering if people are seeing, or appreciating, something about this article that I'm not.
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It appears to me that I simply misread, thank you for your assistance. I've edited it now.
The author’s fundamental argument is in this sentence:

> Taxation should not be so different among the same people.

but he never chooses to define “same” (in the article it’s his neighbor, but I don’t believe he strictly meant local/adjacent).

The usual definition in progressive tax circles is that “same” means similar percentile of either wealth or income. That is, there is no preference for seniority, location, etc. but only overall wealth or income.

Prop 13 clearly was motivated/sold on the basis of income, particularly retirees. As others have asked: if you suddenly have a multimillion dollar home, why not get a reverse mortgage? The historical answer is that those were rare and unusual in 1978. Today, that’s a perfectly fine answer. I (personally) see no reason to argue that a grandmother “deserves” to have effectively free property tax and be able to gift her property to her children. Nobody would argue that for her checking account, so why is it so for her home?

I’m all in favor of means-tested taxes, including property tax. The easiest first step is on the commercial side (Prop C and Prop D both attempted to grab a bit here), and you can exclude truly small business owners in the same manner (gross receipts). But tossing the whole thing out would be a huge step forward for California. There’s no need to do this debt thing, just reset and phase-in (or even grandfather-in, but as other folks have noted, this will make the sale of property even more rare).
I saw an instructional thing about that. They did it with a bit of silicone tubing the same diameter as the original, and a steel nut with matching inside diameter. Swap out the tube and screw the nut over the end.

I'm not sure you could actually make it work upside-down without crimping, but at any normal usage angle it works great.
You can't simply call such a complicated thing a "mistake". You're suggesting encouraging people not save too much for retirement. Why discriminate against people who are careful to prepare for their future and give free money to those who prefer instant gratification? Billionaires may own many houses and be more heavily penalized. They're also very few so it's no great loss to miss out on their small property taxes.
California has enormous tax revenues and Prop 13 is not a problem. If the state gov't cared, they could distribute income tax revenue to local gov'ts based on population, etc. if they cared about inequality.
the 90dB of noise masking isn't all sound energy. they're also ear plugs (on the less effective end of things) so 15-20dB of that 90 is from jamming them into the ear canal.
and ... one can waste time and money for a few hours every day in it driving to and from work, so that one can then complain about having a shitty life.
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Sure, but this is equally true for any form of labor. So you are really arguing for equal rates for everyone.

The interesting point is why do hedge fund manager labor income get taxed at a different rate then all other labor which you have not addressed.
Oh I wouldn’t worry about it. Pretty much 100% of all successful inventors have, at one stage or another, been considered crackpots. Not 100% of crackpots are successful inventors though. Just blog with a pseudonym, so your real life credibility isn’t compromised.
yes but what do we do about it? mesh networks? private data security? (GDPR doesn't apply to police/state security...)
Half of Russian workforce have higher education, and uninterrupted employment history from high school to crematorium chamber. Most had advanced degrees is what West calls STEM. With most highschoolers having better math skills than first year math major students in the West.

According to economic theorists, Russia must be steamrolling every other high-tech economy out there, but you see the reality is different.

Fixation on "skilled professionals" is a biggest blunder of the West. Western higher education borders being worthless in its majority, yet all and every takes such pride in it as to deny immigration based on this "class attribute" which is higher education.

A guy who can till fields, and have few grams of grey matter to know how to dose fertilizers is freaking valuable for any economy.
Designing abstractions with properties in mind
> I still pass people and invade their personal space if they're blocking the sidewalk.

Which, ironically, makes you the passive-aggressive one.
I'm not disagreeing with any of your ideas. I'm just saying that it is very very common for people to say, for example, "capital gains taxes should be less than wage taxes because of double taxation: the income is already taxed at the corporate level and then it gets taxed again at the individual level."

It is very uncommon for people to say that double taxation has occurred when a nominal (but not real) gain due to inflation is taxed.

I'm not saying any of the concepts you have described are in any way wrong. I'm just saying that the way you use the phrase "double taxation" is unusual and is extremely unlikely to be the same as other people you might talk to.
What's the conflict? The point of a non-profit is to pursue its mission, regardless of how or by whom it is funded.
Not at all. You appear to be trying to fit my words to your conclusion.

I’m saying demonstratably bad positions will be called out as such.

Doesn’t matter if they are or are from progressive people. So please stuff that strawman somewhere else.
I think the difference is that traditional art, to which I mean paintings, are impossible to recreate exactly. Especially, painters like Pollack and Bacon who edited their work using chance/luck as a tool. You can’t do that with watches. Paintings serve as a unique visual representation or a token that is extremetely effective as a financial instrument. Paintings will always be on the lead when it comes to a financial product.

Watches, even custom ones, serve a different purpose. They rarely show up on Christie’s or Sotheby’s. Instead, they serve as a communication device. I am, possibly incorrectly, conspiring that this is the reason for the death of ultra high end pocket watches. They’re just not as visible.
> A possible std::optional footgun is that an optional object can implicitly be converted to bool,

That isn't true, as std::optional are explicitly converted to bool to signal whether the object stores a value.

http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/optional/operator_b...
Or do the same journey by other means? In a car you have a seat, your choice of temperature and ambient sound, your stuff secured, etc. Infinitely more pleasant that being crammed in like a sardine on the train.
I think that people in general, at all times, tend to follow the crowd. They tend to buy what everyone else is buying and sell what everyone else is selling. They tend to do what everyone else is doing, even though, usually, it doesn't serve them.
Or just... repeal it. At least partially (for properties you don't homestead on).
Prop 13 is basically a pyramid scheme, and your position on the pyramid depends on when you bought.

Repealing it would decrease taxes for young households and/or better fund schools and infrastructure, but it would tax the people that voted for prop 13 off their land.

One way to think about it is that there is a finite amount of housing, and the demand is set by salaries. Prop 13 doesn’t change either side of this equation.

If you buy today, Prop 13 will lower your property taxes years from now, but it will also drastically increase your mortgage payments.

So, it is ultimately a transfer of wealth from government programs to the banking industry.
SpaceX isn’t getting subsidized, and it’s costs were a fraction of other commercial providers even before reuse. It’s because Elon understands more about the economics of space launches than anyone, and he focused them on manufacturing efficiencies.

Liquid engines are far more flexible that solid, and due to the Falcon 9 design using nine engine, SpaceX has built over 500 Merlin engines. That gave them an assembly line approach instead of a hand building approach, which led to both massive cost reductions, and continuous improvement processes.

That nine engine design was also key to mastering retro-propulsion, because it allows for the deep throttling required.

And if you don’t understand the quantum leap reusability is, you don’t have any understanding of launch economics. Solid rockets will never be economic because they aren’t reusable. Every launch, SLS is going destroy $500M of hand built custom rocket parts (ignoring another couple billion in development and operating costs).

If the BFR cost $500M each, and can fly 100 tines with only minor refurbishment, that’s only $5M per launch. With refurb, operating and fuel costs, total launch cost would be near $10M, for a cargo capacity 59% bigger than the SLS.

Reusability brings flight costs close to fuel costs, which are trivial. The Saturn V cargo cost was about $10;000 per pound, the Shuttle $40,000 per pound, commercial rockets were around $5,000-$10,000 per pound. The Falcon 9 is under $1,500 per pound, the Falcon Heavy under $1,000 per pound, and if the BFR concept works it will cost between $20-$50 per pound.
It’s extren explicit...? Each option is laid out clearly. Each option Maps to a key on the object that is passed to the function called at the end of a commander chain.

It would be hard to be more explicit
Iirc there was a binder with rules/info including trash/recycling rules. I think it was street pickup one of the mornings, but it’s been a year. I assume you meant “kairenban” - I don’t recall there being one but it may have been in that binder. I can assure you we were quiet and did our very best to follow the rules, but as I said above, I understand your discomfort. I’m personally not a huge fan of AirBnB, but I wasn’t in charge of booking lodgings for those nights. Even so, it was a nice experience.
You also need an agreement from the recipient to keep it private.
That is a great general attitude I agree.
There's probably some class of genuine users who would get banned unfairly. Just look at the complaints of blocking mega links. Imagine if they went full Paypal and started randomly banning accounts just because someone's mother died and they sent a lot of messages all at once.
The biggest factor is limiting beliefs. People try to optimize their circumstances within the constraints of limiting beliefs that they're not even aware that they hold. Everyone is selecting the best choice on the menu, and most people present themselves with a shitty menu.
From a strictly "expected value" calculation you are probably right that in many cases startups are getting a pretty good deal when they get employees to trade salary for stock options. It's hard to say if this qualifies as "taking advantage of these clueless employees" though.

Certainly it is in some cases, but in others the employees could have a high enough risk tolerance that it is a good deal for them.

In addition employees also often make career decisions on factors that are not purely financial. This is also a perfectly reasonable thing for people to do.