skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's tons of other alternatives.

For example, you could deduct the market rate taxes that would've been paid from the eventual sale price.

You could also give people a choice: they can either pay property taxes based on an artificially low valuation, and then sell at that low valuation, OR they can choose to accept the market rate property taxes and be able to sell at market rate.

Another thing that could be done is only apply Prop 13 to:

- Residential property, not commercial

- Only your primary residence, not second homes or homes you rent out

- People who bought the home, not their kids they left it to in a will

- People for whom the increase in property taxes represents an actual burden relative to their income
Ahem. Storytime!

This has recently been upgraded to about four times capacity.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbekreuzung_2
(sorry for tze german, didn't find any english wiki, this are the largest masts in Europe, they have to be, otherwise
the large freight ships won't make it into the harbour of Hamburg)

[2] https://eqos-energie.com/_press/eqos-energie-erneuert-leiter...
(Press release from the executing contractor.)

[3] https://www.tennet.eu/de/news/news/tennet-startet-umbeseilun...
[4]https://www.tennet.eu/de/news/news/tennet-vervierfacht-die-s...
(Press release from the begin and end of upgrade project.)

Assorted videos and press releases from a few years before, directly related to the preparation of surrounding infrastructure, their upgrading, and moving heavy transformers around:

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU2OUtETD7I
(8 Minutes, for rail nerds only, crossing a bridge in town during normal operations with modern diesel-hydraulic switcher loco, bridge making funky sounds because of weight.)

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7eWzeMxPTo
(2m:47s, corporate PR of production site of transformer.)

[7] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Drachenfels&t=ffab&iax=images&ia=i...
(Transported by ship from below the Drachenfels near Bonn at the Rhine into the North Sea, and then back on land.)

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88PLBOKZ8-0
(4m:32s, loading onto ship, boring, for transport nerds only, added for completeness.)

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vw6h64uzNY
(8m:56s, offloading of transformer from ship and moving to substation.)
[10] https://baumann-move.com/transformator-uw-heide-west/
(Same, press release of moving company.)

[11] https://www.powertransformernews.com/2019/04/30/abb-transfor...
(Another one, same general area.)

[12] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKjYD6CCgLo
(43m:45s, another one, from ship to another substation, for transport nerds only, FF)

[13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCpEw7wRgN4
(Removal of 'old' transformer from substation for shipping and reuse in another substation for the grid of Norderstedt & Hamburg, for transport nerds only, FF)

[14] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnvY77LYSKQ
(5m:6s, same one, by rail, trough the core of small town northern Germany with cobblestones and Russian 'Taiga Drum/Stalin´s last revenge', for rail nerds, because [15]!)

[15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M62_locomotive

[16] https://baumann-move.com/transport-von-zwei-416-t-schweren-t...
(Another press release from moving company.)

For being 'unfeasible' that was a lot of action, i think.
And this goes on and on, not only in the locations i focused on.
The taxes should simply increase for the folks who has brought it in the 70s adjusted for inflation and senior citizen discount. But it should not stay the same. Gawd why can’t we ever take the middle road and only have to take fucking extreme positions in every damn thing???
I think they cancelled it because it was a hair brained scheme from the get go. You need a lot of juice to not only land on mars, but then to propulse back off of it.
Most people don't itemize now, that's true, but the IRS has no way to know who will itemize and who won't.

We could require all transactions that could theoretically be deductions be sent to the IRS, sure. "Trivially" is not the right word to describe it though. Think about charitable donations to tiny operations that have no IT department trying to figure out SFTP drops to the IRS.

I have to correct my cost basis for RSUs almost every year from my eTrade paperwork. Could they do it correctly in the first place? Sure.

Could it all be magically calculated for me someday, sure, anything's possible. But seeing how financial companies work from the inside, I chalk it up to incompetence more than Intuit's malice.
Haha! Took a look at some of these and I love it. Thanks for sharing have been thinking of offering some format in which people can directly print the content themselves.
Sounds like retarded freemason bullshit
I honestly think it has less to do with money than the younger HN community realizes. Older people don't like change, especially significant changes like moving. Most of the people who have been here for decades stay because it's their home and they have no where else to go. Getting rid of Prop 13 and raising taxes to tech market rate is the equivalent of deporting someone from their home.
The word you are searching for is "armory." An arsenal is where military weapons go to get refurbished.

Just because some item is misused does not mean it lacks utility to others. I don't get the hate for guns given how guns have liberated the lower classes starting in the Middle Ages. Guns played a huge part in the successful formation of the United States. They play a critical role in keeping the peace to this day.

Citizens being armed keeps the balance of power at least a little more honest, although admittedly I think we are reaching a tipping point where Americans are either going to have to demonstrate some fortitude or accept a much more encumbered form of citizenship. We are becoming subjects to an oligarchy is how it seems to be playing out here right now. We have a lawless elite that wishes to subjugate us permanently. We'll see.
What Neumann did was unethical. He stole from We Work employees.
Sidebar question: Would anyone be interested if we adapted the TechEmpower benchmarks [1] to provide a composite score for the hardware environment? This could, in theory, give some insight into the capability of server hardware with respect to traditional web API-style requests.

[1] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
i actually agree to that but companies are not available in the public market. Uber does provide some value for people but it's mostly a gambling game pumped by a temporary wave in economies. i think it s time for some serious work in biotech.
I would say it's especially unfair to new California residents and great for their children.

I grew up in Silicon Valley and almost everyone I grew up with have parents that live very comfortably if for nothing else than their property value skyrocketing over the last 3 decades. Everyone that bought a house in the 1980s or 90s are now millionaires a couple times over.

As children of wealthy parents, the natural benefits are going to be passed down to us, if not in the short term through day-to-day subsidies but in the long term future through generational wealth.

The real issue with Silicon Valley was the tech boom after 2004, tech companies went from being worth a couple billion to several being worth multiple hundreds of billions. That amount of wealth in a 15 year time frame is really hard for the public infrastructure to keep up with.
I own a house in Silicon Valley and I would love for them to build more housing. Keep building until housing is affordable again. Many homeowners here feel the same way.
In fact I found that it seems ERV (recovers heat & humidity) is more common than HRV (recovers only heat) these days. Possibly for the simple reason that ERV suffers less from the exhaust icing up.
A more palatable argument is that it would create incentives to keep housing prices stable, rather than expecting a lifetime skyrocketing windfall at everyone else's expense.
The ideal way to tax the increase of property value is at a liquidity event (ie sale) when the owner has the cash, and limit the cash required of the owner just because there's a bubble. That's kind of how capital gains on stocks are cashed.
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CEO John Oringer's response is a joke:

"Do we make the majority of our content available to China’s 1.3 billion citizens or do we take away their ability to access it entirely? "

It's not like your typical Shutterstock images are liberating the Chinese people in any meaningful way. So yes, you might as well take away their ability to access Shutterstock and make a statement that a company that operates in a Democratic country will not tolerate censorship.
Paris is 55k people per square mile, San Francisco is 17k per square mile. So there is room for growth.

I think it's more likely that people will just continue fleeing the state though. It's tech work so there's nothing preventing people from working remotely.
It's very reasonable for a small company to avoid owning assets and focus on markets where the flexibility of not owning them is an advantage. They don't have money anyway, nor enough people to manage those assets.

It is completely crazy to expect large companies that are burning money to grow not to go after the largest markets just because it needs investment... Yet, that's what you described, and AFAIK you are completely correct.
A Californian law that is inefficient and restrictive? No surprise there.

California has been extremely fortunate with major economic forces driving their economy for decades, but paired with ineffective governance to this beautiful state, is incredibly disappointing. No pity for CA though, a lot of their voters over the years enabled this
When discussing speed of an object that is landing, m/s might in fact be even better for most of the world.
Besides the "X for Y" approach, I find it laughable that every time someone says they are doing just "X" that the usual Bay Area response is "How are you differentiating from your competitors?"

Go ask how UPS differentiates themselves from FedEx. Or how Shell differentiates themselves from Chevron. In reality, while product differentiation is good, unless there already exists a monopoly that has eaten every inch of the market, the market is probably big enough to fit multiple nearly identical products at the same time and still have them all profitable.
Apparently "makes your eyes water when you cut them" wasn't part of the answer.
Yes. NHS.uk, Bet365, TI Tokyo. Bet365 bought all the assets (and open sourced them).

Last release was several months ago.
It doesn't make the window borders feel like the 90s, or get rid of dwm.exe.
When you have to pay fees to be able to hold on to your property, it's not your property. You're paying the government mafia for the privilege to hold on to what they view as their property. It is extortion and ultimately robbery as in this case.
Ok. I set up a Dell XPS15 with dual-boot Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 plus some XPS15 "fixes".

I only booted into Windows a couple of times (to keep it up to date) but I never ran into any problems with dual booting.

Ubuntu has its problems, especially Gnome works but I hate it's dumbdown, also high density screens work but have issues.

I still far prefer Linux to Windows.
You want to use a commercial mail processor who will scan all incoming mail and electronically deliver it to you. As a landlord, you will also want to set calendar reminders to follow up with any government agency where recurring monies are due to confirm receipt. You want those confirmations in writing whenever possible (ie paper trail).

Disclaimer: Landlord, business owner, automate all the things, all that jazz.
Sensible take the middle road folks
I searched a startup name in a seperate tab, came back and had an inescapable subscribe screen.

If your going to attempt to hold the rest of the article hostage pending a subscription to your newsletter, at least let me get interested first. This is both hostile and ineffective- and unsurprisingly is the most amusing part of the website
Censorship is awful, sometimes even worse through large tech corporations, i.e. Google, Facebook, etc.
He would have died. Others possibly as well. He would not have kept his house.

There are cases to make for the second amendment. A single citizen taking the law into his own hands and shooting at cops is not one of them.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21462120.
This is the great irony of government intervention in the economy.

When they try to make housing more affordable, it becomes dramatically less affordable.

When they try to make college more accessible, it ends up raising the cost of tuition to astronomical levels.

When they try to correct a perceived injustice, it ends up creating real injustice by picking winners and losers.

When they raise the minimum wage, they put people out of work.

When they try to guarantee defined retirement benefits, they end up going bankrupt and robbing their workers of the pensions they were promised.

When they subsidize dying industries to "save jobs", they ending destroying more jobs than they save.

Yet despite these failures, people on both sides of the aisle seem to think that the solution to the problems created by government policy should be solved by additional layers of policy. It's a feedback loop of insanity.
Why should someone who bought $100k of Apple stock get $2m years later?
The idea is to have a flat product approach to keep things simple. No up-sell. No hidden costs. All companies (S/M/L) get all benefits and features. So the pricing strategy is supposed to reflect that.

I assume your points around "complicated" is related to the "priced per 25" instead of a "per seat model". The reason is because this is not a product with high frequency of use (like Slack), so we believe that based on the type of capabilities that we offer, but pricing "per 25" we can keep the cost lower therefor more attractive for businesses.

We have re-evaluate this in the future thought.
Combine SwiftUI with Alamofire
> The Federal Reserve is federal in the same way that Federal Express is: it's not

It's analogous to hiring a contractor. The government wants a program, it simply outsourced the operation to another entity.

Here's what I actually said:

> The unit of exchange (money/currency) should remain relatively constant. That's the point. Maybe it will go up some, maybe it will go down some, but having it manipulated for the profit of large banks is theft.

It should remain relatively constant. That's the entire point of a unit of exchange. There might be periods where the relative demand for the currency outstrips the supply, and if it becomes such a dramatic situation as your presented in your contrived example, then it would cease to be useful as a currency, and something else would/should become the currency.

> (b) not currently the job of the government

Congress has the power to coin and regulate value, per the US constitution. I'm not sure how we ended up talking about the US specifically here, I'm referring to governments generally.
Related. https://github.com/ankane/pghero
Polymer is crap. Web Components are great. There is definitely no performance issues. Ditch polymer and other such bloated libs. Try this 200-line lib instead: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder
Not much. Maybe a few grand every few years when the hardware needs upgrading. Not really enough to notice in the big picture.
> The alternative is that we basically force people out of houses they've bought by gouging them with taxes.

I agree with Prop 13 for primary residences until death. My beef is that it also covers second homes, commercial property and with follow on Props 58 and 193, children and grandchildren can inherit the tax base in perpetuity. It creates an almost feudal system with younger generations of renters at the bottom often with very little upward possibilities.
Agreed. I think it would be better for everyone involved (excepting HR Block and their ilk) if the only thing tax payers had to do was file an amendment if their deductions didn't match what the IRS sent out. For the vast majority of people, they wouldn't have to resubmit anything. For those who do have more complicated tax scenarios, it's still dramatically streamlined.
Let's imagine the US govt takes 10% of the shares of Amazon. These are non-voting shares. Amazon doesn't pay a dividend as far as I know, so what is the point? The government doesn't have control over the company, the government doesn't get any revenue. The government can't sell the shares because then it just has to come confiscate 10% more shares from Amazon.

How do I, as a regular citizen, benefit from this? Is there some mechanism I'm not seeing? Because it feels like it's just a meaningless paper transfer.
There's different "levels" of vehicle security barriers (see ISO standard IWA14). This one is only rated to 2,500 kg @ 48 kph (90 degree impact) or 7,200 kg @ 32 kph (90 degree impact). Making it a lightweight/temporary.

That's exactly how the manufacturer sells it too, listing it under "Temporary Security." Boasting that it is lightweight, small to store, quick to deploy, with only four men and no machines required. Great for events or as a short term solution.

If you look at how it is deployed in London, they have it in locations where you'd never be able to get up to high speed due to the layout of the streets/congestion. With hopefully(?) more long term barriers being in the works.

So I don't think it is a significant criticism to say it is a weak VSB. That's exactly the niche it is trying to fulfil, and exactly how it is advertised.
It's a good solution, but it's a bitch-and-a-half to set up.
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Not sure I agree—

1. A lot of these property values wouldn’t be 2M if current owners had to pay the taxes. Prop 13 directly incentivizes home owners to (a) never sell and (b) block new housing in their neighborhood that might increase supply.

2. Prop 13 directly incentivizes cities to court Google/FB/Apple to come in. With Prop 13 limiting access to property taxes, most cities look to sales and business tax income to fill in the difference.

3. It’s not all or nothing like ”we need Prop 13 or seniors get kicked out of their homes!” Prop 13 is unique in that it blindly exempts large businesses and wealthy folks who can afford to pay, not just folks who need help.

Other regions (e.g. Boston area) address this with targeted property tax breaks for vulnerable communities, and California would be better served with a well-tested, reliable solution like that.

But that’s hard to implement because California ballot props are wildly difficult to get rid of.
Nobody wants their hands to touch someone else's booger and cheeto dust coated peripherals, or vice-versa. There have been some times recently where I'd have paid money (but not much) to test drive computer hardware before buying it, but to some extent you can do that by purchasing from places with a liberal return policy.

Speaking of test drive, I'm in the market for a car and would love to be able to actually test drive some of the contenders without having pushy sales people all over me and in my voicemail for the next 2 months. Opportunity?
As a longtime Pebble user, these look great to me. If the reviews come in favorably, I'll pick one up when my Pebble Time Steel dies, or possibly sooner. Glad to see options like this, which offer weeks of battery on a charge. Nice looking hardware, too!
Degrade attributes of the object when the object is sold. If you want an unmolested version with 10-15% more power, earn it yourself instead of buying it.
Future discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21464189
The sad thing is the cost is recouped in energy savings very quickly, and there's never a better time to add inexpensive subslab insulation than right before you pour the slab.
Flat. Which apparently raised some very important questions: https://twitter.com/BioGridGame/status/1101496659102650369
Its easy to complain but the reality of what your demanding is that many more elderly citizens should be unable to afford their homes and be forced out of them. That's not a preventable side effect, that's the desired outcome. It seems obvious to me why many don't think that's ideal.

If opponents of prop 13 want it repealed they're going to have to buy out existing homeowners to get the votes. I won't pretend to know what that would take but you won't get the moral high ground with a straight repeal so you might as think of some sugar coating.
Interesting, but how heavy is it on the database server?
Why should California be allowed to have the same percentage based property tax to begin with? Assessed values that skyrocketed due to Silicon Valley and Corrupted Mortgages and Appraisals shouldn't mean California gets to give itself a humongous raise at the expense of it's constituents. More so due to the bail out and them artificially keeping interest rates down re-enabling these high values. The economy as a whole would be better off by managing housing values to not be out of line with median incomes of any given area.
well the proposition system is near as many will get to straight up democracy, which comes down to voting everything yourself and people like yourself with occasional as in infrequent guilt trip votes.

13 was part of the problem but it really all comes down to a system by which politicians and special interest groups can simply tie up development until they get their pound of flesh. it simply is too easy to burden new development with requirements and also too easy to nimby it behind well meaning suits that merely mask the bigotry underneath
>everyone has taken an Uber though

I think you'd be surprised at Uber's profile outside of some relative bubbles. Pew Research last year said the number of Americans who have never taken an Uber has gone down but it's still something like 36%.

I live 40 miles outside of a major city and near a couple of smaller cities and Uber barely works for me during daytime hours. I couldn't begin to use it for an early morning airport run.
http://archive.is/wn2Gu
Tax deferral seems fair. A lower tax overall does not.
HOAs can't seize anyone's house. They actually have very little power to collect. A lien doesn't mean much until the person goes to sell, and then it just has to be paid prior to a sale.
Don't Tesla earn some profit on each sale, while Uber loses money?

Both are losing money overall, but this detail makes a lot of difference.
As a 5th generation Californian this is the thing I see in my life. My parent's have a house that has become really expensive (to be fair it was always nice) and they pay a lot less property tax than I do on my more modest California home. That crazy low tax rate is ultimately transferable to one of us, even if we move. Me or my sister will inherit the ability to own $x amount of real estate and pay $y worth in property taxes.

Insanity.
Yeah but if your brother filled it out non-anonymously you'd lose your anonymous status.
I don't know about the rest of the people, but I definitely feel differently when it comes to being honest about being a private club.

Here is my analogy: I don't mind mods on r/thedonald kicking out anyone who isn't fully on board with the agenda, just like I agree with mods on r/latestagecapitalism or r/communism getting rid of those with dissenting opinions. But I do have issues with r/politics positioning themselves as a "neutral" sub to discuss politics, while essentially being an off-shoot of r/communism and r/DNC.
Ooo, that's definitely an interesting idea. Might be interesting to see if there's publicly available data for the largest companies that are active in that area.