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A lot of people focus on the fairness of the Land Value Tax, but the consequences of using one are just as interesting if not more. This tax has been put into practice in some cities in Pennsylvania, and there's evidence that it has a whole bunch of positive effects on the city, due to the way that it incentivises improving your property and making the most of your land (since you're going to be taxed on it pretty much the same either way).

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/3/6/non-glamorous-g...

I think we should be replacing property taxes with land value taxes pretty much everywhere. Aside from the benefits mentioned in the Strong Towns article linked above, putting the right incentives in place to build more densely in high-demand (aka high land value) areas would be a boon to making cities and towns more walkable and more amenable to public transit, and therefore reducing sprawl and pollution. It wouldn't get us all of the way, but it would help.
Of course this won't work on iOS
Yup, tax sounds problematic. Another way would be to declare all land common property and rent any piece of it out to the highest bidder. The market solves the problem of pegging it to a value.
I upvoted you, to counteract the downvotes.

You are correct... obviously science and technology have improved the lot of the ordinary person, and made us all much, much richer.

The main issue is that automation tends to hurt workers while it helps consumers. And since most people are both — they have to work harder and harder just to stay in place. Until we put in place a UBI and universal health insurance, pass overtime laws to shorten the workweek etc. we will have technology creating demand shocks for human labor, as happened before the Great Depression on farms, and has gradually happened in manufacturing, and is about to happen to white collar jobs and menial jobs.

In the 50s, a single man could support an entire household on one paycheck. Women didn’t compete with men for those jobs, but rather did jobs that now are not valued by the market. Automation didn’t make employers not need their employees, so they would retain them for decades as they built experience.

Today, we have two year stint— wait that was 20 years ago, today we have temp jo— ait no, that was last decade, now it’s the gig economy with no protections. You see where I’m going with this? Automation and outsourcing is once again putting people in a race to the bottom.

Yes, electronics are cheaper than ever. But some things like rent / land just go up in price, they need a UBI. Paid for by land taxes maybe.

Edit: funny, I am getting downvoted also, for agreeing with you
Are all your "nots" in the right places?
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Then we're back to square 1: how do you determine the unimproved land value of improved land, so you can tax it?
[I'm a US resident so this may be culturally irrelevant for France.]

Working harder is not really the answer. I never found it useful to bust my hump to get a 5% raise when I could just go to another company for a 10-15% raise. I loved my work and the companies I worked for but business is business.

If they got you cheap initially, they will almost never reevaluate you and pay you a market rate. 5 years at the same company is forever in the developer biz.
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There are ways to address value being subjective: use an incentive compatible revelation mechanism. E.g. http://radicalmarkets.com/chapters/property-is-monopoly/ where the property-owner appraises his own property, pays a fraction of his given value as a tax, and anyone can buy his property at the appraised price.

Whether it would be /accepted/ is another matter. But it's not impossible in the squaring-the-circle sense.
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If I had cancer in the US a $65k bill really isn’t bad. Consider in the US taxes are typically <20%. So if you make $100k a year, you pay $20k in taxes. So you have $80k, minus insurance (let’s eat $500/month) you have $74k

In Germany (if I recall) it’s closer to 50% taxes so $50k a year.

Presumably you can expect cancer once or less, but effectively you only need ~4 years of income to make up for that $65k bill in the US. Not bad at all. Obviously that differs based on income, but you can a see how (for many people in the US) the system works great
Sort by profit, not be revenue, and you see the tech companies appearing again. Profit (or even just total corporate spending) is a better measure of economic activity than revenue.
x264 has an RGB mode that avoids this but I don't think the resulting files would be playable in any browser
No. Originally, the webm license required that you couldn’t sue google for patents related to webm. They switched to BSD in 2013.

Meanwhile, there have been numerous patent suits against google from other big companies around VP8, VP9, and webm. Google isn’t the bad guy in this story.
If the privacy laws of today manage to protect your library lending habits 90 years after your death, then these will truly be dark days for future historians.
> Most, even simple forms, don't use <form> elements and submit buttons anymore, they're all aJax.

> This change will cause unexpected behavior when maxlength-ed stuff no longer obeys on thousands of popular websites.

Does nobody or "thousands of popular websites" use <form>? Which one is it?
An option in the future to write data with a fast zfs level so everything is speedy and recompress blocks which have not changed in some time with a more efficient compression ratio would be really great. So you would have almost no performance penalty writing data and very high compression ratio for old data.
On the other hand, as a small farmer, I am small because it is very difficult to find land that isn't already tied up in established relationships, often to those large corporate farmers. If something like this can give me an in with a landowner that I currently don't have, it helps my small farming business.
The existence of substitutes doesn't make a monopoly no longer a monopoly.

Bell was still a telephone monopoly even if I could have used carrier pigeons instead.
> Hardly anything with any amount of complexity is shipped like that

The entire HashiCorp stack and Cockroachdb comes to mind. I’m sure there are things that are much more complex in the world, but they do some fairly heavy lifting.

> especially not cross-platform

I find it drastically simpler to download a single binary for each platform I need to deploy to(macOS,Linux,FreeBSD) than it is to get a consistent Java environment setup on those same platforms.
It is fine to be interested in many things and to not to know everything about those things deeply. It is a matter of time. It is highly likely that if you put in another 10 years in this industry you will know far more about most things in your list.

It is a sign of open-mindedness to be interested in many things. It is a sign of maturity to narrow that list down to pursue them a bit more deeply, then discard what turned out to be not so interesting and pick new ones. The idea is to remember nothing is a waste of time - worst-case, you learn something about yourself while you were pursuing what turned out to be uninteresting for you.

I think of knowledge in terms of concentric circles, rings on a tree if you will. You start from the core and every month or <pick your own timescale>, you keep strengthening that foundation on topics you chose. You might choose an end-to-end project: data in a nosql db, expose that with a rest service, write a react frontend to consume that data. You can do this superficially without knowing what is REST or deeply about React. But if these topics interested you after the first project, you can do the same project in a better way the second time and so on...

Again, many things are a matter of time and if you try to rush them and try to be an amazing engineer in a very short time, it might lead to exhaustion. Reading Hacker News might make you feel people are doing amazing things - but remember at some point in time, those amazing people chose something, one thing, and pursued it. And for every person that's doing an amazing thing, there are ten who are in the process of slowly making progress.
Lots of software would be better (from the user's POV) as a desktop app. However as a developer and as a software business owner/investor, it's (much) better to write web apps. So it depends on what you're asking here. Should you invest in desktop dev skills to further your career? No. Should you write your software idea as a desktop app if you want to make a business of it? Not if you can avoid it. If you're asking something else, well I guess the answer is 'maybe'.
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Personally, I think it's very desirable to have your own opinions. But that means being able to rationally defend those opinions against polite, mild criticism.

If you can't explain your opinions when asked politely, or the explanation amounts to "I was told", or your opinion changes when some authority changes their opinion, there's a problem. If you can't accept polite critiques, and answer them politely, there's another problem.
I sort of agree that replacing property taxes with land-value taxes would make sense, so long as you can actually do the value assessments fairly and impartially.

What doesn't remotely make sense to me is the suggestion that LVT should be the primary or even only tax, which you see others arguing for here in the comments.
Sanskrit was very much a widely used scholarly and courtly language until the middle of the last millennium.
5 years experience for an unpaid internship? Did you omit the /s?
What is the benefit of increasing the rate?

If you like 100 years of ownership, set the rate at 1% per year, calculated on the copyright/patent holder's self-assessed price. Every century, the polity collects 100% of the value. What the polity does with the money collected is up to the polity.
Maybe because you can use Join and most of its features directly through its website?

https://joaoapps.com/join/web/
That post was from when v1.2.0 came out, they are getting close to 1.4.0 (on RC2 right now). Nothing too big has been added, but there have been improvements across the library for all the languages they support. You can peak at the releases pages for differences. https://github.com/google/tink/releases
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Have you heard of the Nu game engine[1]? It is a FRP-based game engine for F#.

[1] https://github.com/bryanedds/Nu
How do you determine the value of intellectual property if not by looking at how much income is actually being derived from said IP? And at that point, don't you just have the same income-based corporate taxation that we already have, with extra steps?
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If they don't pay anything it's not really a problem. Their owners will and their employees will. Corporate income tax is the worst possible tax as it creates incentives for all the things at both don't want and which are very hard to police in a fair way (is this 1M they paid for licensing really a fair price or is it tax evasion?).
"Oh no, not again!" To this day, I still wonder why the bowl of petunias thought that
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Ask HN: Is it worth to build a TUI-based ERP software?
So, my company is about to begin a new project to deliver an ERP-like application.

There are currently no strict requirements regarding the technology stack to be used. Ease of deployment is desirable, but even that could be traded for, for instance, faster development times.

I'm a big fan of old-school text user interfaces, like the ones we used to have with Clipper.

I'm of course aware of its many limitations, but, to the best of my knowledge, its simplicity is unmatched by more recent technologies. So I'm seriously considering building a POC consisting of a web-based client operating as a specialized dumb terminal (performing some app-specific functions, like report printing, besides its basic terminal stuff), accessing the TUI-based main application in the server side.

We believe it's going to be possible to detect most of the limitations of such approach with that proof-of-concept, but I also considered asking the community looking for other ideas and limitations I may be ignoring at the moment.
I think they fixed this at some point, or at least, I have dealt with the same issue at various points and at the moment my videos work fine on iOS served through Cloudflare.
> written for the purpose of writing, not for the purpose of getting lots of viewership

I've never really bought this line of argument. People who "write just for writing" don't publish. They write it in One Note or Evernote or Tiddlywiki or plain old text files on their laptop. They don't sign up for Wordpress accounts (or even worse, spend hours configuring some static site generator) and publish it.

People publish things because they want them to be read. Having no indication that they are being read is, understandably, discouraging for people who are publishing things.
Land is still necessary for production.

Maybe it will help to think of "land" as "location" since it is not the actual soil but the location which Georgists keep talking about.

If you are a modern services company you need to have access to large pool of qualified people - which happens to be in big cities. So you need a great location for your office to attract people from this talent pool. Location (aka land) therefore is an important input to your business and you will pay a lot for it.

Second, wealthy people park their money (regardless of origin, good or bad) in real estate. That drives living costs for non wealthy people.

It turns out it is non-wealthy workers who pay taxes which fund infrastructure development which benefits wealthy owners of real estate by increasing value of their property.

Georgists promote reversal of the present day funding scheme from nonwealthy workers to wealthy land owners with money parked in real estate. With the alternative being simple "taxing" of locational value to fund government services with two main outcomes

1. reducing tax burden on workers and small business
2. reducing cost of living (rents) by properly allocating land (mostly city land, not agricultural)
Amazon’s product categorization is not particularly reliable.

For example, if you go to Electronics -> Headphones -> Earbuds and sort by price, this book comes up: https://www.amazon.com/Wentworth-Letter-Joseph-Smith-ebook/d...

Although visiting it by that link then shows it as a book, so I’m a bit lost.
All your data are belong to us? That strategy?
Zstd uses this new ANS coding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems
I like a desktop app for uploading / syncing large files or directories to the cloud.

I'm sure there's a good web implementation out there for the Dropbox-style sync thing, I just haven't seen it yet.
That would be true in a perfect world with 0 impediments to social mobility. A socioeconomic "frictionless vaccum" of sorts. In the real world, social mobility is far from perfect.
WOW. This is over the top toxic.
Exactly what I came to say.

As someone who has used Autocad since Ver 9 (1993) this is important.

Also - heavy 3D design. Blender/Alias/whatever these days.

Solidworks as well.
But they sponsor charity and community events...
> Profit (or even just total corporate spending) is a better measure of economic activity than revenue.

Profit is a terrible measure of economic activity because it is unrelated to the amount of goods changing hands. Indeed, in industries where lots and lots of goods change hands, profit is likely to be lower.

e: Also, real estate is extremely profitable, it's just not as consolidated as the major tech companies are.
Ask HN: Do you follow TDD at work?
I am learning about TDD and one of the TDD principles I come across again and again is `Test behaviors and not implementation details`. This seems very abstract to me. The behaviors are often very broad in practical use cases. How do I go about modelling the expected behaviors as tests? Most of the tutorial example revolve around toy problems- which is difficult to map to real world scenarios. Can anyone provide few examples from their experience on how to go about writing TDD with some real-world examples ?
Starting with something easy, like 2d animations in browser using libraries like pixi.js. From there you can expand on many topics, just focus on one at once, be it shaders, networking (for multiplayer games) or whatever might interest you.
But what is investing other the attempt (aware or unaware) of creating wealth? When people make money, it means someone bought something from them. This means they had to create something other want. That can be a service, a good, or a house for rent. Remember that those who rent houses are people who can't afford to buy them, so they need someone with capital to manage the house. I am renting myself and I much prefer it at the moment to owning a house.

You want billionaires to keep their money, because unless they put it under their mattress, they are growing the economy, which means lowering prices and raising quality.
> Is this any different than, "pretty soon there won't be any local movie rental places (or retail places), it'll just be content delivery corporations"?

BTW, there is still one Blockbuster open [1].

[1] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wwnq/the-worlds-last-bl...
> they invest it.

But, if such a system was in place, the money would be taxed during the purchase of the investment vehicle. A sale is a sale. Unless the money is literally stuck in a mattress, it is going to be taxed upon doing anything useful with it. If it is simply stuck in a mattress for all of eternity, one is really no further ahead. Money only has value when you can use it to facilitate a sale; and when there is a sale there would be a tax.
webgl and wasm?

Edit: I presumed that the context of the discussion was apps in a general sense. Obviously not every application is going to be on the web and there are a lot of niche software that will never make the switch. I was thinking more qucad or sketch 3d for woodworkers to plan their desks, not solidworks and all its plugins to handle complex fluid simulation in mission critical areas.
4chan is barely usable on iOS because none of the videos are supported by Safari
> Actually, these aren’t really issues for short gifs (<5 seconds). But long videos which have been converted into gifs are quite common.

Anybody doing the latter is the problem, not really the format’s fault it’s being used improperly. Any GIF with more than XX frames (for me that’s up to around 100 depending on content, but everyone is free to make their own decision) should be a video. GIF is meant to be for short animations, not for showing videos.
Did you read his job opening? There's absolutely no part of it that's not sarcasm
It is often considered a "narrow" tax base - just not enough for a "single" tax, all things considered. (That's largely because the burden of existing taxes is already being borne by land, at least to a significant extent. They just have additional disincentive effects, quite separate from that sort of final tax incidence.) But even then, it's clearly enough to fund local government expenses, so there's really no excuse for why we aren't using it.
If you take a look at the data, "investing in land" wasn't as luxurious as it is today, due to government actions inflating the market.
arXiv.org?
I learned Java because of CraftBukkit. For many teenagers, some even under the age of 10, Minecraft was their first experience in server administration.

From setting up game servers, optimizing settings so Java did not crash, installing plugins, setting up config files, maintaining backups, writing their own plugins, learning basic networking issues, dealing with abuse (griefers), etc... Minecraft has taught a generation a lot.
Most of the time yes, but it is not so simple. There is a common resource that can be described as "attention of people who are looking for a library for X" and every time you publish a library for X you use up a bit of this resource. Most of the time this effect is small and more than offset by the value of your code, but it is not zero and overusing this common resource is a dick move.

As an extreme example consider content farms like eHow. After all, they simply publish some low-quality how-to guides, no one is obliged to read them. Why then are they so universally reviled?

> If someone then goes ahead and uses my library, without understanding what needs it satisfies and what it does not, how is that on me?

Being upfront and clear about the needs it satisfies is good documentation practice and plain common courtesy. If you did it and they still misunderstood, then yes, it is on them.
Deno is something in javascript-land that just popped up (I'm not sure what exactly what it is, since I haven't keep up about JS ecosystem since friday and everything has changed), so yeah it's a joke that they require 5 years of experience in it.

Unless they're trying to catch a time-traveler.
Classifications are endless and arbitrary.

What I'd noted was that the 7YW has been called the first true world war (to my knowledge in Manfred Weissenbacher, in Sources of Power, (2009) https://www.worldcat.org/title/sources-of-power-how-energy-f...), and represents the first time a single conflict and set of belligerents spanned the globe. The argument isn't based on intensity of conflict or consequent significance but areal scope.

Previously, multi-continent conflicts either represented contiguous spillover of generally localised battles (e.g., a few millennia of scrapes between southern & south-eastern Europe and Asia Minor), or what were largely maritime conflicts more properly considered as focused on a body of water, most often the Mediterranean (literally, the middle of the world), positioned between Europa, Asia, and Africa. Notable during Roman times but extending well before and since.

The 7YW represented the first time global force projection, even if weak by subsequent or current standards, was even possible.

Its role in setting up Britain and the English-speaking world for global dominance may well be greater than you're allowing for as well.
I don't know, why do people try to propagate their genes?
I'm sure you've got a better handle on the situation the the force of billions of years of evolutionary history.
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Those are the simple things to worry about, it can even get more complicated in the real world. So complicated that writing our own parser was the only way to go.

So what are some of the more advanced challenges:

* Banking systems that treat CSV export just as some kind of line based dump file with no regard of consistent formatting. If the banking backend was updated, the format might change within a file from one line to the next

* Some misconfigured data dumping pipeline parses CSV the wrong way from another system and emits it in escaped form again in a different format. For instance putting a complete line escaped into a single field. Your parser has to detect that there is a CSV embedded within a CSV.

* Dumping Pipeline treats \r\n as all kinds of silly lines and re-embedding those lines with quotes around them to look like real data

* Inventing completely new specs of what CSV could mean

* Use mainframe character-sets from the last millennium
You do realise that the dictatorship criterion simply replicates the vote of one particular voter no matter what? [1]

In most realistic implementations this is likely either the first or the last voter. Surely we can agree that those wouldn't really be desirable?

[1]: See here for a somewhat easy to follow proof: https://www.math.ucla.edu/~tao/arrow.pdf