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Who do you think should pay more taxes: someone sitting on 10M worth of land and doing nothing or a factory worker with no assets making 20$/hour? Income tax is unfair. It taxes productive people instead of those who benefits the most from the stable system (land owners).
Ironically, you're assuming that he knows what Deno is and how recent it is.
I disagree. The internet is something special and independent from any one nation. Like the moon.
Plenty of research out there to show evidence that muscle wasting is a problem with the elderly and that weight lifting is the solution.

(Although definition of “weight lifting” might vary)
Well, there was this situation a few years ago
https://www.theverge.com/2013/4/17/4234136/excel-calculation...

While the tone of the covid model scrutiny leaves a lot to be desired it is understandable seeing as how the results are affecting the entire world. The situation is unprecedented.
Fascinating. They also say Ruby is mostly dead/obsolete now, (it is to say that is the parlance, not something I personally believe!)
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GP is talking about APNG not GIF. APNG has 24bit with alpha transparency.
It depends upon what you’re looking at in a deployment. Static binaries are the gold standard of “simple” in theory for ops folks but are not architecture neutral by definition. The JVM JAR spec is pretty well known as well and is not a surprise with plenty of documentation or blog posts to help out. Quirks do show up from crossing boundaries into native land like DNS and sockets behaviors, but a basic JAR does give some advantages over a random native binary in a tarball when it comes to dependency management which is tougher with a static binary. It’s not obvious which version of a library is compiled into a static binary at first glance compared to unzipping and checksumming the JARs in a package.

There’s definitely some laborious parts of the Java packaging setup (the whole resources, meta-inf / manifest setup reeks of YAGNI problems) but similar to Go’s lack of expressiveness being a feature, the Java ecosystem is fundamentally designed for organizations that separate developers from the systems where the software is run, and this is either helpful or hurtful entirely depending upon the organization’s needs.

I’ve never really had a problem deploying anything based upon the packaging - it’s a minor part compared to various obscure configuration files, ConfigMaps, or environment variable injections that bother me more, and that has nothing to do with a package or even language in itself.
A few angles:

1) Somebody wise once said: "Only look in another persons bowl to see if they have enough to eat." Not doing this will cause you to ruminate on all kinds of people's wins at life. In turn, this will cause you, over time, to actually be "depressed" which I don't think you mean to say.

2) She has strengths\talents x and y. You have strengths\talents a and b. She uses hers wisely to make $. Use yours wisely and build something that will stand the test of time way past her ability to use her strengths.

3) She's family. Help each other out. If she's making only $10k a month, why not help her somehow make more? Maybe what you build can help her do just that.
The valuation for insurance purposes is generally not the current, depreciated value of the building, but the cost to rebuild, at today's material and labor prices, and with modern materials and systems.

A 50 year old building, with old systems, may be fully depreciated, but if one had to rebuild, one would need far more than the current building is worth.

When one buys a home with a mortgage, the bank requires an appraisal. In some places, the forms don't even break out land value from building value, or they do it badly. An appraisal merely compares the subject house with others that have sold recently in the same area. Better location? $15,000 more (or, in California, $100,000 more) Inferior location? subtract $15k or $100k. 1 more bathroom? Add $5,000 (CA: might be $5k or $50k) new kitchen vs 20 y/o kitchen? Add $10k, $50k or $100k, or more, depending on what is typically spent in that neighborhood. For each "comparable" add up all the pluses and minuses, and add that to the transaction price for that property. Average those, and the subject house value is estimated. Land value is in there, but not explicit.

California has assessors, too, who, after a property has sold, update the assessment on it to equal the transaction price. Some goes to land, some to the building. (check out listings at realtor.com, and fully expand the property history info. Notice when the previous transaction was, and look at the increases. They are in reality mostly land value. Buildings don't appreciate. Land rises and falls in value --- mostly rises.)

But appraisers and assessors are very different.
The web versions of Office software still feels way less polished than the desktop version. It just doesn't feel quite right
George was for removing taxes altogether which is possible if you fund government services properly in a pay for what you use scheme.

It is not good politics to start your political campaign by proclaiming that you will remove all taxes altogether because it is so far out of anyone's reality that he would have been considered crazy.
I liked the article but I did not like that the author ended it with "im a chick". Gender is irrelevant to tech and we should avoid emphasizing things that distract from it and bring us personal attention.
> but I’m just too embarrassed at the low quality/ugliness of my code.

If you contribute something to the Open Source community that works and is useful, then you might find some people who really appreciate the effort you went to.

...regardless of code quality...
> Mostly, because it correlates somewhat with basic ability-to-pay;

What do you care about ability-to-pay?

> ...also, because people might try to disguise income/expenses as investment-related in order to shield them from taxation, and having a more uniform tax base helps prevent this.

You can't shield from that tax. All entities pay, for every sale, no refunds.
Yeah, they quote Parker Smith saying they’re making connections that wouldn’t otherwise happen, but that’s obviously a lie. The farmers don’t need a ‘market maker’ if they’re already renting land from landlords they know. And it’s not like they can move operations around randomly, like an apartment or hotel room.
OS extensions like command line tools, Alfred or Little Snitch will remain native by necessity.

As will applications like Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro. As I see it, the web platform is neither adequately performant, nor are its timing mechanisms accurate enough.

So no, native is sliding. I argue that >95% of users are happy with browsers and/or electron apps.

Either that, or those peeps move over to iPads. Which by design forces native or psuedo-native apps.
The primary purpose of taxation in a sovereign economy is to free goods and services up for deployment by the public sphere.

What does the government want with all that land?

Are you sure you have enough fungibility in your economy so that it will free up doctors, judges, refuse collectors or whatever and all the real goods that their salaries actually represent so that you can achieve the public purpose that is the reason you are taxing in the first place?

In any Modern Money informed Targeted Taxation regime what you really want to tax is whoever is using the things government wants to use instead.

And that, paradoxically, means the ideal tax is likely a Wage tax paid by businesses for the use of labour. That reduces the demand for labour in a controlled way, and those people are then hired (directly or indirectly) by government to do whatever the polity asked them to do when they were elected.

Do that and you can probably scrap any income tax completely - meaning whatever an individual earns they get to keep.

Bear in mind that if the labour resource is already free (aka unemployed) then there is no need to tax to free them up in the first place...
Thanks I didn't know about those developments!
Bonus fact; Ethan Hawke, star of "Before Sunset", turned up on his own in Paris aged 16 and spent most of a week sleeping in Shakespeare and Co.
So, sprayed with more bug poison?

I wonder if this disconnect becomes detrimental to the land.
Well, yeah of course and I wasn't suggesting otherwise. I was replying to how you mentioned attractiveness being a depreciating asset and pointing out how that asset can carry them well into their 40s -- by which point I'm sure they would have another reliable source of income. Will they be living glamorously in their 40s? No, but then again neither will most programmers or even humans for that matter. The point is that they get to spend their 20s in luxury and then spend the rest of their lives in relative comfort.
I once thought North Dakota was sparsely populated, but I had no true idea of that word until I drove through Wyoming. It is so easy to run way over the speed limit, more from inattention than any real decision, on a deserted road with such a far horizon and nothing anywhere near you. Its a different kind of driving when there are signs with "Next Gas Station 79 miles".
IMO: To some extent, yes.

Here are some desktop applications I enjoy and have gladly paid for:

Acorn (image editor) / 1Password / Evernote+Skitch / Pingplotter / djay
I was confused by this statement at first, too. I thought it meant 'specialists' as in 'scientists who study whale falls'. But I believe it actually means species that specialize in living in whale falls.
> Liking the idea of being a novelist is not enough; you have to like the actual work of novel-writing if you're going to be good at it ; you have to like making up elaborate lies. [0]

Something I wish I had realized 10 years ago is the importance of figuring out how to learn in such a way that I enjoy the learning process itself. If you don't like PG's novelist example, consider bodybuilders. They don't see going to the gym as some necessary evil that stands in way of looking good. They like going to gym. In fact, they love it, and they would probably continue to do so, even if it they ceased to care about looking good.

Once you set a non-trivial target ("I'm going to learn French", "I'm going to become a competent C programmer", "I'm going to work through the exercises in TAOCP") you need to establish a path that is intrinsically enjoyable. Your end goal is years out. If it's the only thing that's keeping you going, you're going to quit in favour of more immediately rewarding activities.

My first second-language-learning experience - French classes at a community college - was unsuccessful, for a rather simple reason: I didn't give a fuck. In the course, myself and a bunch of aspiring bureaucrats (I was living in Canada at the time, where French accreditation opens up advancement opportunities for government employees) met twice a week and did as little work as possible to get a passing grade. We did the usual second language learning things: memorizing the names of animals (as if we were all preparing for a career in agriculture), watching low budget educational films, and filling out verb conjugation worksheets. Our instructor was good - she could explain concepts clearly and managed to stimulate a fair deal of discussion. But she was bound to a curriculum that heavily emphasized grammar and a particular vocabulary, and neither could motivate me.

Last year I decided to learn Swedish. Instead of signing up for community college courses, I started taking private lessons over Skype. I found a tutor with whom I share similar interests. We discuss things we've read, our favourite tv shows, and philosophy. I also started reading American mystery novels in translation. It turns out this is a highly effective learning mechanism, because you have a lot of context. It works especially well if there is a series you like, for the same reason.

Once I started asking "what is most enjoyable way to make this happen," and stopped worrying about what learning methodologies are efficient, scientific, or conventional, I saw a lot more progress. I only reach for Google translate a couple times per page when I'm reading a mystery, and I have about half my 1on1s in Swedish.

[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
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Total income-related taxes+health insurance in California are IIRC similar or higher than Germany. Also in either case the taxes on $100k/year are way less than 50%.

EDIT from what I can tell from very quick googling total taxes on $100k in California would be ~29% (not including health insurance) where as in Germany they would be ~34% (on $100k = ~€92k, including health insurance).

So I guess whatever's better in that example depends on if you think German health insurance is worth 5% of your income. Your $500/m amount to 6% of income so similar to Germany either way.

Keep in mind this is for single & childless, and Germany has outrageously generous tax breaks for having children as well as being married when one spouse earns a lot less than the other.
> What doesn't remotely make sense to me is the suggestion that LVT should be the primary or even only tax

When you were new to arithmetic, did it remotely make sense to you that the number of integers and the number of even integers was the same?

If you find a surprising conclusion, consider reading the argument. Perhaps you will discover that you agree with the premises and the reasoning, and the conclusion will seem less surprising.
And what if you make the US median individual income of $31k?
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It's not the same. You cannot transport voice over a pigeon, at least not instantly.

If you don' allow substitutes then every brand has a monopoly on the products of their brand. Technically that's a monopoly. But nobody complains about McDonalds having a monopoly on McDonalds burgers.
I agree. From a recent comment of dang: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990237

> A Wikipedia link to something obscure, which most readers won't have heard of before, about which there isn't necessarily a good general-purpose article or blog post out there, can be a great HN submission.
> How do you determine the value of intellectual property if not by looking at how much income is actually being derived from said IP?

I agree that determining the value of IP is difficult. Georgists would probably advocate that there is no reason for IP to be in private hands in the first place, nor any need for a system of IP.

Alternatively, you could give temporary ownership of the IP to the creator (like we already do, except without the absurd lengths of time), then when that expires, put it up for auction to determine the pricing, then tax based on that.
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And yet the industrial revolution has allowed children of farmers to take other professions.
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The EU is in an incredibly weak position. And their negotiators are fools, which doesn't help.

The UK cannot lose.
OTOH, creating desktop apps is a skill in itself that one might want to master. At least in the Mac ecosystem this is a regarded skill and amongst the users there is a willingness to pay for apps. SaaS might still be more lucrative though.
All the best.

I am hopeful that the time is ripe for ILP or a merger of logic and probability.
>In my opinion property taxes are terrible because they aren’t in the owners control at all. There’s no way to know what your tax bill will be next year and no way to control for it.

So it's no different to rent in this respect. It IS effectively rent, it just spreads the unpredictability of renting across the whole society instead of concentrating the negative downside among one portion of society.

Unimproved land is pretty fungible. If you have two empty lots across the road or even in the same area they will usually end up costing about the same.
All of that is very contingent, even by your description. Facebook is itself very visible and in an industry that has a target painted on its back, and it's an election year in America. They could pull it off though, who knows.
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If they have it open for issues and then handle the responses they have invited poorly, then yes, that's rude. A douchebag doesn't magically stop being a douchebag because they've open-sourced some code.
The jury is still out on whether those measures will be effective, though. To date, they really haven't done much. Unemployment is at 15% and expected to hit 20% in the next month or so, to name just the most obvious data point.
This was a lot more fun before Github started collapsing directories of one item!
What keeps you from using Visual Studio Codespaces?
*Nobel prize in Literature. (Had to look up wondering why he would get a peace prize in that era)
I know it's going to be more effort, but is anything physically stopping you from running whatever crypto you like as a wasm module? I'm sure one could do NaCl-over-wasm?

I agree it's not the same convenience as having an API built in though.
An economy is driven by production, not consumption.
Your focus on profit is misguided. It's neither measuring economic activity nor is a good base for taxation.

If someone makes a painting in 5 minutes and another guy pays 10M USD for it very little happened. 10M changed hands and the other guy has a painting on his wall. Yet somehow income tax proponents thinks it's fair to now take 50% from that transaction just because money changed hands. It's just not a good way to organize your tax system.
The irony is a modern gif filetype would be even better. Something that retained the advantages of gifs, but allowed for better compression.
Thank you for taking the time to share that. I appreciate your feedback. :)
And you can't farm without farmland. Selling other goods and services is a very imperfect substitute for farming. Other burgers are a pretty good substitute for McDonald's burgers.
No. Tuition fees is just one of 5 money streams that the university relies on. Te others being Research grants, Service provisioning (contract research mostly), subsidies and Assets & Investments.
If it's "reliable", it wouldn't fail. Without government protectionism picking the favorites, the most "reliable" companies will prevail.
Until that gets screwed using social engineering and people optimising for being affiliated with people writing them good reviews.
This makes me wonder whether or not by overfishing (and many other economic activities) at the upper layers of the oceans we have caused significant ecological destruction at the lower layers. How far does the domino effect go?
Why is it a goal to allow the Disney corporation to keep the mouse to itself for 120 years?

This notion of copyright has basically destroyed the idea of folklore in the last few hundred years, relegating it from one of the main areas of human expression to a corner of the internet.

I think even 20 + 20 copyright is problematic. People should be free to use characters and stories while they are still relevant, and create their own variations that may even become more popular than the 'original creation' (in quotes because so much of creativity rests on the shoulder of others).
Having gone through interviews for 100+ employee companies, I was expected to know it all. Haven’t done SQL in years? Got nailed. 10+ years of JS experience but barely any in React? Got nailed. Haven’t reviewed that one algorithm used in the interview? Got nailed. That’s just a few examples.

Interviews aren’t totally reflective of the job but one‘s got to pass the interview before getting to the job.
There is of course a middle ground between 'writing for writing' and 'writing for payback'. For instance people might want to post how they did some stuff, with the hope that it helps at least one guy. That's how most blog were written.

Then internet slowly became a place where everything is a business opportunity, and blogs were relayed into the second zone. Google also somehow became much less useful when it comes to find good blogs, probably because of aggressive SEO.
> However as a developer and as a software business owner/investor, it's (much) better to write web apps.

Why do you say that?
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> I still wonder why the bowl of petunias thought that

It’s covered in the third book! (Life, the Universe, and Everything)
Bouncy Castle has an "old style" API where there's lots of switches to twiddle and some combinations produce insecure ciphers. Tink, like libsodium (the two are competitors, though in a friendly way), has a smaller API which exposes basically Mac and AEAD, and no way to accidentally set ECB mode or something like that.

The big difference between Tink and sodium is that the latter uses Bernstein's primitives (chaca, salsa, 25519) whereas Tink, from the slides, goes with AES-GCM.
Humans have in incredible talent for self-deception. Static speed limits are not a joke if you accept that our understanding of physics is real and have a basic understanding of how increasing speed increases energy at impact in a non-linear way.

You can be the best driver in the world (and you are almost certainly not), but someone blowing through a red light will still be unavoidable at times.
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I'm from the UK - Council Tax was always a real pain, its based on property price but paid by the occupiers (i.e. renters) NOT the owners. When you are house-sharing this becomes very problematic as its the largest and not insignificant shared bill - especially when housemates are moving in/out frequently. Collection is also a nightmare for the councils - sure they know the address and the amount owed - but who was living there in the period in question?

Its a shame the inquiry didn't recommend formula funding from central government receipts (couple of pennies on income tax?) - so much grief could have been saved.
In fact it is similar to the error of those who equate slavery and wage slavery. With the latter, you have a choice of employer, even without safety nets.
What do you use to toggle CSS? Does the same UI work for JS too?
> What does the government want with all that land?

You are correct that the government does not want land. What the government wants is a share of the economic value that control of the land makes possible.

Consider "vacant storefronts." The government does not want to operate stores. The government wants those storefronts put to good economic use, where what is good use is determined by bona fide auctions.
I have direct experience building the fix layers for integrating a variety of exchanges. I think FIX is a net negative. The standardization provides so little, there are so many murky edge cases in each implementation and the protocol encoding is so bad, I’d rather just program against the proprietary API. On the exchanges at least the binary APIs make so much more sense.
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