skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s nothing selective about my data. I gave the top line numbers—Biden’s proposal to eliminate the preferential capital gains rate on people with more than $1 million a year in income would raise only $50 billion annually. Cook’s bonus is just an illustration of why that number is so low—even very wealthy people make most of their money through ordinary income. Capital gains amounts to just 5% of all income.

Most economists agree that capital gains should be taxed lower than ordinary income, which is why most developed countries including social democracies have preferential capital gains rates.

And again, why do you care about the taxation of the super wealthy so much? Even if we taxed capital gains at the level of Denmark (9 points more than California) would raise less than $70 billion a year. Even Warren’s completely bonkers wealth tax (which would have had a top rate four times higher than Sweden did before it got rid of the wealth tax) would have raised only 10% of what Warren was proposing in new spending. Why spend so much time talking about a potential source of revenue that would do so little to actually increase the government’s ability to provide social services—even if we taxed the wealthy far in excess of European countries?

It’s as massive effort in deception. People don’t want to put their money where their mouths are. They want Medicare for All—but only if someone else pays for it. If proponents of these social were forthright in asserting that wealth taxes or whatever would only pay for 10%, and European-style taxes on the middle class would be required to pick up the rest of the tab, support for these proposals would evaporate: https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/millennials-soc...

> When tax rates are not explicit, millennials say they’d prefer larger government offering more services (54 percent) to smaller government offering fewer services (43 percent). However when larger government offering more services is described as requiring high taxes, support flips and 57 percent of millennials opt for smaller government with fewer services and low taxes, while 41 percent prefer large government.

For what it’s worth, I’m pro paying higher taxes. I’d be happy to pay what people in Germany pay at my tax bracket. But only if middle class taxes also go up. Otherwise, there is no point—we won’t be able to tackle the big ticket items like universal healthcare without the trillions in revenue we could raise through a 10% VAT, a 10% payroll tax, etc.
Thanks. So do I- I need to publish something first :)
I personally know some ex-pornstars. They don't end up homeless, but they do live lives that are less than glamorous when they're past their prime.

And this is becoming more and more severe because the competition is becoming exponentially fierce thanks to online porn websites.

But you seem to be asking whether attractive females can do well in their life, and yeah of course attractive females do have competitive advantage in life, but that has nothing to do porn. That's reality.
Tech companies should pay for what they use.

They are efficient at not consuming too many resources while producing a lot of value? Probably shouldn't pay much then.

But this applies not only to big tech companies but to individuals too - they shouldn't pay much if they don't consume or extract from others.

Taxes are only a last-resort mechanism to raise money in absence of proper funding model.

If you can price government provided services appropriately then you don't need taxes.

Eg. to build infrastructure (roads, networks) you can predict that it'll benefit owners of nearby properties. They will benefit by landfall increase to the value of their property because the land on which it stands becomes more valuable.

So you collect the money for the infrastructure project by land "tax" before you begin with construction.

("tax" because it's not a tax but payment for exclusive land ownership rights)
Someone probably saw what WeWork was doing and decided to try the business model out with farming
How does this compare to libsodium or Bouncy Castle?
University education is becoming irrelevant anyways, when they expel critical thinkers they will only become less relevant.
(author here) I noticed the thing about flatten an hour ago and fixed it (somehow thought +/, is "reduce 2 times", then understood it is flatten + reduce, and my lib already had flatten, so it was easy to fix). As for "inner product", I just haven't found suitable Ruby metaphor and fell back to zip+reduce, which seems to be equivalent.
The goal is to make the tax system not to reduce incentives to increase skills, labor, or technology.

"George preferred taxing unimproved land value"
Rust programs can be statically linked to musl libc, producing binaries that will run on any linux distribution. You can run ldd on the binaries and confirm they have zero dependencies on shared libraries.
I don't get it. Why do they call it "gang"?

I first thought it was some Detroit mafia families competing to clean up playgrounds.
As far as I can tell The Guardian isn't a member of IMPRESS either - at least, they're not on their list of members, and in fact none of the other major newspapers are either. Their complaints page also doesn't mention membership of any independent regulatory body - it suggests complaints are handled entirely in house with no avenue of external appeal or complaint, which is my understanding as well.
It's strange, but I like it now much more then 18 years ago. Though this sharp blue is still not my style.
Some time ago wealth and production of wealth was heavily tied to land, agriculture and various natural resources were key to the wealth of a nation.

This is not the case any more - only a tiny fraction of our economy is tied to the land, primary production (agriculture/forestry/fishing and mining including oil) is just a few percent of the total economy; real estate/rents/leasing is perhaps 15% but most of that is related to the value of buildings, not the value of land. For extremely wealthy people, almost nothing of their wealth or income is in the form of land, because land is not worth that much. The current billionaires aren't major landowners, we're not Victorian age with most of the upper class being rentiers living off the rents of their land estates; the upper class is living off the dividends of their capital which is not tied to land and would be tax-free in a land-tax-only regime.

Extremely large taxes on land (or are we talking about an orders of magnitude reduction in the toal tax burden, and not just about the type of taxation? If we want to drastically cut the total volume of taxes, then that becomes the main topic, not the means of collecting taxes) while not the taxing the other 90% of the economy at all is not really a reasonable solution for modern times. It may have been reasonable in 1870s, but right now all it would just remove pretty much all taxes from all the very wealthy people and corporations, while putting all the tax burden on owners of farms and homes, and the 1.5% of USA economy that handles mining.
Anything you can come up with is a local optimum if you zoom out enough. If it gets the job done, no need to worry about that. If it doesn't, refactoring it will be a good learning experience.
Really, the thing is that the whole "single tax idea" is a bit misguided. A consumption tax (sales tax) is great, but there are some sensible reasons to tax capital income/investment to some extent, too. Mostly, because it correlates somewhat with basic 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.

But the broad principle that capital investment should bear a lower tax burden is quite correct. And one you've accepted that general principle, it makes a lot of sense to tax rent-generating assets like land and spectrum rights (since those are not really "capital" in the first place), which is pretty much the Georgist idea.
It's existed for a fair while as Infiniband doing Linux by-pass; the comment didn't say TCP/IP. (The general technique pre-dates Linux, of course.)
> there's way more economic activity happening that isn't associated with land than there is that is.

First, that is an actively contested claim. Pointing to tech companies as "way more economic activity" is laughable because (even though they occupy a huge proportion of public discourse) tech companies are a very small percentage of economic activity globally.

Second, intellectual property holdings would be considered "land" in the Georgian sense.
This is exactly how non-private copyright & patents should work. That is copyright/patent "for hire" would be COST, with the rate of taxation increasing by a small amount each year until tax rate was 100%. This would given Disney the ability to keep the mouse for 120 years, but also free up less lucrative works for public enjoyment.
Oh, I think we can do better. C and bitwise operations are so 1980! Modern Hello Worlds should use modern languages, functional programming, and data science! Like so:

import numpy as np

x = np.array([0.03908342, 0.95362155, 0.95450865, 0.22260951, 0.35975305,
0.22841515, 0.3964834, 0.01782918, 0.05798498, 0.62697582,
0.69175475, 0.343705])
y = np.array([0.28685259, 0.40239044, 0.43027888, 0.43027888, 0.44223108,
0.12749004, 0.47410359, 0.44223108, 0.45418327, 0.43027888,
0.39840637, 0.1314741])
b = [lambda x, x0=x0: np.sqrt(.1+(x-x0)**2) for x0 in x]+[lambda x: 1., lambda x: x]
a = np.array([[bb(xx) for bb in b] for xx in x]+[[1.]*12+[0., 0.], list(x)+[0., 0.]])
c = np.linalg.solve(a, list(y)+[0., 0.])
print(''.join(chr(int(c.dot(np.array([bb(xx) for bb in b]))*251.+.1)) for xx in x))
Thanks, this is the take I was looking for.

I've definitely seen table-focused projects that really struggle because they need to be thinking in stream-focused terms. That's especially true in the age of mobile hardware. E.g., you want to take your web-focused app and have it run on mobile devices with imperfect connectivity so people in the field can use it, table-only thinking is a pain. It's much easier to reconcile event streams than tables.

Sure you can't expect a stream-oriented tool to do everything an SQL database does. But the reverse is true as well. If we threw out every tool because people unthinkingly used it for the wrong job, we wouldn't have many tools left.
Maybe, and it'd be nice if people cited all their knowledge with sources, otherwise it's possible to simply ask - or do a quick Google search to research yourself; of course if someone's explanation and understanding sounds good, though out, then they are more likely have access to good sources to save you a bit of time not having to research..
> the amount of people I hear that say XP was the best windows makes me wonder

It's just a function of generational popularity IMHO. Windows XP broke into the mainstream in a way that 98/2000 had not, for a number of reasons. It was literally garish, but between people looking for a "wow" factor after years of grey borders, and the increased amount of total desktop users, more people loved it right there and then than anything that preceded it or followed it. I wouldn't extrapolate any big theory of design from this phenomenon.

As a long-time Windows user at the time, I can say that "the dream" back then was OSX.
There are a few ways, the easiest and only way the vanilla Miencraft server implementation offers is to set everyone to adventure mode. Adeventure mode doesn't allow players to destroy blocks, but they can play blocks if you manage to get any.

More advanced server implementations like Spigot have a plugin api. There are plenty of popular plugins like WorldGuard that allow you to manage what players can to within a certain region. You can define a region in the world an allow or prevent players from destroying and placing blocks. You can also control other things like mob spawning, PvP, etc.

These server implementations have quite capable APIs and building plugins using them is actually a lot of fun. Its what originally brought me intro programming.
Yes, trades are willing; and when you turn down a bona-fide offer to buy your house for $X, that is very strong evidence that you value your house at more than $X.
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https://indoharian.com/
"less knowledgeable about current events"

aka, had no idea what stupid tweets caused people to lose their mind in the last 12 hours.
The disappointing truth about antibody testing
I'm glad content like this occasionally bubbles up to the front page on hacker news.
Ok, you have a java app I want on my system, what are the steps I need to do? (I'm on Ubuntu 18.04)
All the performance benchmarks I've seen over the years have shown Python to be significantly faster than Ruby. Keep in mind it doesn't matter a whole lot as the scientific stuff calls out to C or Fortran anyway.
And for that, Visa ask for about 1.5% of the transaction, not 20/30%
"Finished software" is a myth.
The whole point of this tax type is encouraging efficiency. Tech companies are usually efficient, and taxing them less increases their efficiency even more. At the same time their harmful effects should be regulated (GDPR is an example of such regulation).

Countries and states that let tech companies thrive are winning the race for capital.
Does a JPEG you copy get pasted as a PNG though?
Actual title: "The Unique Merger That Made You (and Ewe, and Yew)"
Sounds like you're describing Pigovian taxes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
"Land" for George is just things you can rent-seek on and are fixed in supply, that includes stuff like intellectual property, etc.

> real estate/rents/leasing is perhaps 15% but most of that is related to the value of buildings, not the value of land.

Not at all clear that most of that is related to the value of the building and also you conveniently neglect to mention that that is the largest share of GDP out of any industry in the world.

Further, land includes a lot more stuff that is not counted in the economic measures you are using. [0]

[0]: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/03068290...
| 10 other abandoned playgrounds in the city.
| "No one owns this particular park, it just fell through the cracks," said Tom Nardone

Reading the article left me wondering about the actual status of this park, and how many others are in the same state.
It's funny that none of these people has produced a failing test.
Why tax capital instead if income?

The reason to do so is because it reduces inequality and leads to a fairer society.
People are losing their clucking minds over backyard chickens
Every teardown provides a clear picture of the land value for that neighborhood: the transaction price plus the cost of clearing off the old building. The similar sized lot next door is worth just as much. And the value of whatever improvement is on it is the difference between what the building-plus-land is currently worth, and the value of the land -- pretty much the depreciated value of the existing improvements.

Map these values, and you have a pretty good tool for good land assessments. And for lots a wider or narrower, or deeper or shallower, there have been very usable tables for over 100 years. NYC was doing this in the first decade of the 20th century.

A tax on land values asks us to pay to exclude others from our site. In the middle of nowhere, that price can be $0. On valuable sites, it can be quite high.

Today, a lot of city land is leased, and the tenant pays the landlord for the use of the land. The higgling of the market sets the price. There is a lot of revenue potential there, and collecting it for public purposes doesn't take from anyone something he created.

And that can't be said for sales taxes, or wage taxes, or taxes on buildings.
Property taxes are bad because they punish labor and effort.

Land tax (important to distinguish) doesn't inhibit labor and effort. On the contrary cities implementing land taxes see increase in output because land gets better allocated to who need it. Simply because people sitting on vacant and absent land in the middle od cities drop it and sell it somebody else.

Land is not subjective but perfectly objective. It is a necessary input to all production - whether it is agricultural (obvious) or manufacturing (your factory has to be placed somewhere) or services (you need access to concentrated area for qualified workers in big cities).

You can't even survive without standing on land.

100% of people need land to survive so how can it be subjective? It might be subjective to birds.
> while others (such as log2(3)) are more puzzling.

> I'm a bit puzzled why the 8087 doesn't need the constant log2(1 + 2^-1)

log2(3/2) = log2(3) - log2(2) = log2(3) - 1

Problem... solved?
> "getting stuck or even better"

This ain't stop with one. To me, it's just I already lost interest in the current one because my sense felt (or I realized) this is not as worth as what I thought when started. It's okay to move on rather than being stubborn. Since 2017, as a solo developer, I launched 5 projects. Now, most of the time, I'm working on only 2 projects (90-10 split) along side my full time, not a developer.

Also, I was never stuck at an idea phase, I do extensive Google search to validate the idea and readily jump on buying a domain as a commitment to turn idea into the product, with a landing page deployed with in 2 days.
My company, an online pharamcy, actually works with more than one supplier whose website has some elements looking like this. You can tell they definitly didn't do it for a nice retro feeling though.. sigh
If I understood you correctly then for Flask you have something like this: https://flask-security-too.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
Replace "the rich" with "Lords" and your post is an adequate defense of feudal society. In other words, you're thinking "inside" the system, i.e. justifying the system with itself.
> tech companies are a very small percentage of economic activity globally.

This flat-out isn't true. Tech companies alone are a significant part of economic activity globally (e.g. they make up the majority of the top 10 largest companies in the world by market cap). Once you include all white collar work, which generally tends to be similarly divorced from land value, you're talking about the majority of the world economic activity at this point.

> Second, intellectual property holdings would be considered "land" in the Georgian sense.

Oh really? How the hell do you value that if not based on the actual income derived from said intellectual property? I.e. this is just the taxation regime that already exists.
He Sold His First Business for $1.5B
Real Talk:

no one is trying to kill you for profit. They just don't care about you because you're can't make money for them. It's still bad, but different.

You meet a lot of skeptics because no matter how honest or correct you are, without access to a large test population and a way to precisely measure your dozens of tiny ideas that add up to a healthier overall life, it's impossible for an outside observer to distinguish you from quacks like Gwyneth Paltrow.

Also, being upfront about your suffering makes people uncomfortable and avoidant. Not your fault, but that's life.

You have a lot of disappointment with HN, largely because you see all these rich people who like talking to you but won't invest in you.

My advice: take a lesson from them. Put on a fake happy face, rewrite your narrative so that your pain is in your past, copy the obnoxious marketing techniques that smell foul but work.

You're in a "line" where everyone thinks you are bullshitting. If you can't beat it, join it. Run your effort the same way the dishonest snake oil salesmen do, and use your own conscience to tell you you are doing good. Make a little money selling whatever to health fad chasers, and put that money to good use as you see fit. Answer to no one but your conscience, but behaving in the way "polite society" demands, not because they are right, but because that's how you'll get paid attention and money.
Easy: Once the stock is valued at x nobody is going to sell it for x/2.

Well sure. But you said no one would be willing to buy it at typical public valuation levels. And here are my counterexamples showing how that assertion was wrong.

And yes, there are lots of investments that take a long time to pay off. You ever invest in real estate? You aren't paying off that mortgage in 5 years in the vast majority of cases.
The single quote is understandably a narrow view of the larger article. My view is that the 100% tax on income from the land removes profit motive and price discovery in a way which is similar to outright nationalization. However, I agree with your assessment of the quote as a stand alone item.

https://mises.org/library/single-tax-economic-and-moral-impl...
Too late to edit sorry. English is not my native language and I clearly see my translation mistake now. Thank for pointing out ;)
But those with such decency wouldn't turn to Tillable to capture an extra buck, so it remains unclear where you think Tillable fits.
> market cap

Market cap doesn't measure economic activity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_r...

Look at this. Among the tech companies that are high, most of those are consumer electronics or something else not purely related to tech.
CentralBoard – Dashboard as a Service
Place? Absolutely. Developers will to provide quality apps and customers will to pay for them? Not so much...
Browsers have one huge problem and that is they override important hotkey space (like cmd+w, cmd+f for searching etc). So native apps will always provide a better experience.
Whale fall = bitcoin jargon for large market swings
Otherwise it wouldn't be a monopoly and the farmer wouldn't have to accept the offer. The farmer, or rather, the human, can source resources from other markets and sell goods or services that don't depend on farmland.

Once that happens, and nobody accepts the high price, the landlord has to lower the price until somebody accepts his offer.
The whole point of taxes is to fund government spending. That is a large amount of money you need to bring in every year. Taxing based on income seems to make the most sense for that, not "taxing based on efficiency". If tech companies have billions of dollars but aren't paying taxes just because their business doesn't happen to use land, how does that make sense? Why is land efficiency the only thing that matters? The government needs to fund its spending, and they're not going to ignore large profitable tech companies for taxation merely because said industries happen to not be land-intensive.
It does feel better to use a native app. Marketing as a "premium" product could work.
Dyson finally unveils its cancelled electric car
I stopped using Pushbullet as I considered the price somewhat high for my use case and switched to Join several years ago, but then I also switched back to Firefox. Unfortunately, Join doesn't support Firefox for many things like the Universal Clipboard sync.

I miss that app so much, but I'm staying away from Chrome as much as possible.
All income should be taxed the same.

We should move to a a progressive tax system with zero deductions, eliminate capital gains, and inheritance taxes. Make the top tax rate of over $5M be 54%.

We already know the effective tax rate for each bracket. Once we factor in the additional tax revenue from the top bracket we can adjust the other rates.

I would consider a true capital gain exception. For the investment in new and private busines investment that generates revenue. This horseshit of buying stock and holding it for a period of time is NOT capital investment. The company does not benefit from the purchase of stock once they go public. It’s a scam to allow the rich to avoid taxes.
Google Docs actually hijacks CMD+F.