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Regenerative farming deserves a mention here. Soil is indeed important and industrial scale farming has a negative impact on it because a lot of our modern farming practices are sacrificing soil for short term gains.

Regenerative farming restores soil as a side effect of farming more efficiently and ultimately can restore vast amounts of land with a relatively low amount of effort. There have been quite a few projects, some of which are quite large scale demonstrating this can be done. There's a bit of controversy around some of the claims but overall, there are some nice green bits of land that used to be basically desert. Whatever was done to make that so, we need more of it.
I think GP's point was that they did the fight club math ahead of time, knowing they'd have a certain number of deaths and lawsuits, and proceeded to market with that plan.

Spin/media/marketing/CR/NHTSA after it's all public is a bigger subject, yes.
Every proposal I have seen kicks in after $100m. That's a level of wealth where even paying a 5% tax is likely to result in an annual net increase in wealth, as when you have that amount of money to invest achieving 5%+ returns is not unusual. The net result is that wealth would still increase, just at a slower rate.

Additionally, even amongst the general population, let alone startup founders, the number of people with wealth in excess of $100m is tiny. Numbers are hard to come by but I've seen estimates of 5,000 people in the US. What this means is that people arguing against a wealth tax are happy to disadvantage 330m people to protect the wealth of a low number of thousands.
This gets really sticky in a few areas:
1. Il-liquid assets and their values + the expense of constant appraisals
2. See #1 When they don’t produce cash - sure your stock ‘s “worth” $30m but doesn’t pay a dividend and you can’t sell it... so you have to borrow agains your extremely risky asset to pay your tax bill?
3. Has the potential to create real downward pressure on asset prices (which may or may not be a good thing) given the huge negative annuity associated with some non-cash producing assets
The Wire has a great scene where they use a photocopier as a fake polygraph to crack a suspect.
You can, right up until you get kneecapped by a disgruntled customer.
Girard's idea of mimetic violence, which is the result of people being too similar and not sufficiently different to be considered an un-threatening other, provides both explanatory and predictive power for the culture war as well. When we talk about the uncanny valley in tech, it's a similar visceral reaction. The out-group is us, and yet not us, and is thus an existential threat that makes total war seem inevitable. I didn't read his suggestions for how to unravel that Gordian (Girardian?) Knot, and rather hope he had some prescriptions for avoiding or rolling back points of no return.
Plus dressing well for work gives a sense of confidence, even when you are not around other people. I wear nice shoes at my home desk even though I never walk outside.
Marginal tax rates are how this problem is avoided.
>Same is most likely true for individuals because it reduces their income.

A wealth tax does not reduce income, it reduces wealth! Income taxes and capital gains taxes reduce income.
Sorry, but this almost feels like a GPT-3 response to me.

I don't see what security, paid vs. free or best-effort has got to do with my argument, which is that the loopholes in legalese are so hard to spot for anyone but a lawyer, that effectively my data might still be used in any way and possibly against my wishes or expectations (but which becomes legal when I consent to the PP and ToC).
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> To begin with, antialiasing is applied to polygon edges based on their slopes, in order to make the edges look smoother. There is no antialiasing applied inside polygons or at intersections between two polygons

Oh my. You really can tell this GPU was done by a 2D PPU team.
The main problem isn't just that, it's that also, Rust cannot decide that a one-size-fits-all executor is the only one. Different properties are needed for different projects, and blessing any one executor cuts off all of the rest of them.

Tokio is fantastic for web services, but is inappropriate for my microcontroller.
>Seems like you're failing to address the 'knew they were going to kill people' part.

Damn near every engineering decision could lead to some sequence of events that kills someone and given infinite time will eventually do so. This is a core concept of pretty much every ethics in engineering class that many people here have taken in order to obtain their degree.

Don't slap doors befitting a missile silo on your car? If your cars rick up enough miles someone's gonna die in a T-bone eventually.

Build an overpass with small beams and a support on the median instead of big expensive beams and no support? Someone's gonna hit that support eventually.

The sorts of excesses that can prevent unlikely deaths are justifiable in individual and in the abstract but at a societal level we cannot afford to think this way. As we get richer we can afford to hedge against more and more remote failure modes but even then at some point the risk is low enough.

In the 1950s we couldn't justify seat-belts in all cars. In the 1980s we couldn't justify making cars as rigid as we do today. Between wealth and technological progress things are generally getting better all the time but to hold the past to the standards of the present is asinine.
I read it as deterring start up founders from investing in a region. If they plan for success, then they should plan to exceed the floor.
Perhaps notable: Switzerland has a wealth tax (of up to 0.3%), and there is zero evidence that this has any deterrent effect on wealthy people settling in Switzerland or startups being created in Switzerland.

Other features of the tax system more than offset the 0.3% wealth tax.

Personally, I am a bit disappointed by the lack of depth of the discourse: Wealth taxes and their effect have been studied quite a bit in economics literature, and there are various peer-reviewed papers that attempt to measure the effects, but the Silicon Valley crowd is strangely avoidant of examining evidence or explaining their opposition with real-world data. It's all 101ism and polemics.

See also https://twitter.com/halvarflake/status/1295283922117566464?s... - I tried to ask @rabois for the source of a claim, and got crickets in return.

I'd like to see a more nuanced and thorough discussion, to be honest. Perhaps that's a bit much to ask.
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What are the most successful French companies founded in that time?
Indeed, for that reason I will never use any google products for my businesses. The risk of being destroyed overnight and without any possible appeal is just too high.
why should someone be 'less than fully human' if they dont have 'feelings', particularly of the romantic kind.

we accept people of different sexual orientations. we should accept people of all emotional orientations too.
I put company laptop back to backpack, then hide backpack to it's place under desk.

Also, emails on my phone is big no after working hours.
Wealth hoarding matters immensely for things like land, which is why the most common wealth tax is a tax on real estate holdings.

It can also matter for other resources which are finite, but land is one of the most crucial one in our current times, and why we are seeing such ridiculously large gains in housing costs in the past few decades after a century of housing costs remaining fairly constant.
Why does asset growth matter if you're taking n% no matter what?

Edit: After reading the responses, I think people are confusing themselves with dollar amounts. If I have 100 units of X. The government takes 1 unit in the first year, 0.99 units the next, and so on. Over time my total number of units decreases. The notional value of those units can fluctuate but the absolute number of units owed to the government remains the same.

My original question, which I suppose has been answered, centered on this concept that the notional value claimed by the government is the only thing of value being lost. A unit of wealth is lost and wealth compounds over time.

Disclaimer, I'm not advocating for or against a wealth tax. Just trying to understand an argument and now apparently teaching it.
I’ve used this with the CLI wrapped version that’s linked to in the readme and it works well enough. There are shins bugs/gaps in the template where some OpenApi fields are not rendered though.

In the end I containerized the whole thing with defaults, logos, etc so we’d have standard docs with little effort.
For me the best "package manager" are single header libraries like https://github.com/nothings/stb
This reminds me of George Carlin:
"The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed, and if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: The Earth plus Plastic. The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth! The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place: it wanted plastic for itself, didn’t know how to make it, needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old philosophical question: “Why are we here?” PLASTIC!!! ASSHOLES!!!"
Just mail hn@ycombinator.com (see footer).
Yep, you can 'accidentally' beat it with decent probability.
I think that's harsh. Why shouldn't they try building a platform if they want? Who should they ask first?

Disclaimer: I have never used Kotlin. I use Scala.
Asset growth does not matter here since the wealth tax is setup as a percentage - the government will still take 45% over time
I also hate tipping, and as a result, I just do takeout. No tips expected, no tips given, no problem.
See also: David Bowie.
“Escape from Freedom” by Erich Fromm is a thoughtful historical take, written in the 1930s.
Most of the programs I use don't need sandboxing, so I don't need this. The programs that process arbitrary data people send me definitely need sandboxing, but luckily all of those are in the form of web apps such as webmail clients.
This seems to me to be a very weird and overly simplistic modelling.

Where I live has a wealth tax, and it's in exchange for a capital gains tax, dividend tax, withholding tax, that sort of thing.

The way it works here is that it's a tax based on fictitious returns from you having invested your money, i.e. based on your wealth, a certain return is assumed and you're taxed on that. The first €30k is ineligible for tax, then there are a few bands: €0-€72k, €72k-€99k, €99k+ (numbers rounded.) The effective tax for these bands ends up being 0.58%, 1.34%, and 1.68%. These are last year's numbers, I'm not sure if they're different this year.

The idea is that if you have more than €30k sitting in a savings account, you ought to be doing something with it to get a return on investment. The issue I have with it is that it's not very responsive to changing markets, like at the moment where savings interest rates are near enough to zero and the stock market is complicated, it doesn't account for that sort of thing well compared to a regular withholding tax.

There are also exemptions, I think the value of your primary residence isn't counted for example, though I haven't yet had to deal with it, so I'm not totally sure.
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I can feel Epic's pain, the 30% matters a lot when you are making big money. Giving up 30% of 10 million feels very different than giving up 30% of 10k. Giving the fact that the cost of reviewing apps, maintaining app stores are fixed, Apple should have a cap for each app.
Agreed. As you said, the solution to that is either a Georgist Land Value Tax or a Land Appreciation Tax, not a blanket wealth tax.
The first part is great advice but unfortunately not always easy for those in small apartments where that space is precious. One thing that has worked for me is to instead try to detach my work space from being purely work, and give myself time in that space to do "me" things, whether it's reading, video games, creative endeavors...

Also giving myself a specific window of "work time", with an alarm set to tell me its time to stop and switch off. This has helped more than anything else.
"Someone's wealth should not be eroded by tax"

Why not? They are paying for something. Should someone's wealth not be eroded by rent? The cost of food?

Absolutely someone's wealth should be eroded by tax. If they're so damn clever they'll make more. If they're not, the erosion will quickly diminish along with the wealth, making their future efforts much more significant.

Lazy shiftless wealth absolutely should be eroded. Erosion is the nice way: you can also try for the nasty way if you like.
> If you have a bucket of money that isn't doing anything, then what value does it actually bring to the economy? Penalizing static value seems almost reasonable.

We already do that via inflation. Leave your money uninvested and we tax it 2% or more per year, every year.
Have you looked at the maintainability nightmares that are the reactive model and applications based upon RxJava?

Those types of applications are leagues harder to maintain compared to a virtual thread model.
You could secure it in a number of ways, including the way you mention. Unfortunately, it seems like security is no ones top concern unless they are forced to handle it correctly.
Let's look at what a 1% US wealth tax would mean for Jeff Bezos.

He founded Amazon 26 years ago.

A 1% wealth tax means he keeps 99% of Amazon stock each year.

.99^26 = .77 = 77%

So he'd currently be worth $145B instead of $188B.

PG is saying Bezos would have left the US because of that?

Edit after twitter conversation with PG:

He doesn't believe Bezos would have not started Amazon in the US if there was a wealth tax. He thinks a US wealth tax might marginally reduce the number of founders that choose to come to the US to start a company.

I still disagree.

I think great founders will start companies in the place that maximizes the chance they create an Amazon-level success, not in the place with the lowest taxes.

At some point taxes may be too aggressive but a low single digit wealth tax isn't that.
Over 75k (equity so savings - debts). Example calculation here (993 eur tax from 125k savings)

https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/...

and 17k tax from 1.25M equity.
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This. I cannot recommend this strongly enough. I stopped doing this during the German soft lockdown and it backfired totally. While I was still dressing for work, the moment I stopped working in the evening and went for a walk I was able to unwind and let my work mode brain come to rest.

I started doing this again after some days in the office when working from home and it helped tremendously.
That's some very successful long lasting 'technology', imagine an app lasting 429 million years
How does one pay a wealth tax on an inherited house? Do they have to sell the house?
It's probably most notable in Mario Kart DS's bassline. I'll see about getting a comparison with what it should sound like later today.
Ok I see the "fly's eye" texture. But it's a leap to suggest this means, the eye was built the same as a modern insect. It could have been made of external light-sensitive cells instead of internal; it could have been a pressure sensor; it could even have been a touch sensor!

I'd want a lot more evidence over millions of years, showing continuous use of this structure in sea creatures that lead to the modern insect form. Otherwise, just another 'his-story'?
> Re Loom, the entire Java platform will be built around a "single colour" structure. Kotlin, like C#, is based on a split, two-colour, model. It is true that under the covers it could map both colours onto the same one, but that will mean that Kotlin adds a lot of unnecessary complexity, and possibly make it harder to target multiple platforms (i.e. a lot of Kotlin code that will work well on Java will not work well on Android or JS).

Function colours are a useful modelling tool regardless of whether the underlying platform requires it. That's sort of like saying "everything is eventually just bytes anyway, so types are unnecessary complexity".

Of course, there are languages trying flatten everything into a single type. But personally, I'd rather not be programming PHP when there are better options available.

> Re Valhalla, it will allow multi-component inline types -- that's a user-facing change -- but those won't work on Android, at least not without significant overhead.

Not sure how that's any different from a library's perspective than "this API isn't available on older JVMs, so don't use it if you want to target Android".
One use case I've seen for this is compliance. For SOC2 and other compliance standards, I think you aren't allowed to use production data for dev/staging environments. An automated way to generate a database with synthetic data would make life much better in such cases.
The problem is that as you get older you need to reduce risk in your investments in order to rely on them more. As you de-risk your rate of return goes down. The lowest risk accounts are fdic insured, and at that point you’re losing money every year. Sure if there’s a floor on it I’d support it. But with no floor I’d be watching my savings dwindle year over year.
Because if your asset is growing at 5% and the wealth tax is taking 1%, your asset is still growing overall
In the US the vast majority of government spending is on defence and welfare: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/56324 .
Exactly — I've always thought that what drives multi-millionaires and billionaires isn't really the monetary value of the extra money that they make. To the extent they care about money at all anymore, surely it's only as a relative measure of success?

I can't see many people that have already accrued personal wealth of $50M but choose to keep working suddenly being turned off because of a wealth tax.
What's the size + performance vs Drift? I assume really good?
You said child pornography should be illegal, and ignored how it can be planted.
Even more reason to spend a little bit more to make this right. It's not expensive to get a proper expert on the matter to figure things out. The last thing they want is bad publicity for things that could earn them recurring revenue.
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> Wealth tax proposals I've seen don't kick in until $50 million or $100 million. This means that there is a floor on how "poor" the government can make you via a wealth tax.

That’s just the starting point. Once people begin to figure out how to avoid it or have been tapped then the qualifier will be lowered to 40m. And then eventually 30m and do on until anyone above average is paying it. And then anyone above median.

The state will, as always, become reliant on it and find ways to expand it to wield more power and pay debts that were taken on to “collect/spend in advance” as they’ve done countless times.

This is why people that will likely never meet today’s threshold are against these schemes. These things always get a wider, and wider net until anyone just starting to get ahead is caught in it.
This looks interesting! I get the impression there would not be much friction to implement some of these mechanisms in Haskell.
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Yes, but other factors likely influence it more. Are you going to start it in Barcelona or SF, just because of the tax rate? Surely there is something to be said for startup experience, investor networks, founder communities, etc...
As I see it, those just penalize people with moderate amounts of money (ie: trying to build generational wealth) while the truly rich simply find loopholes.
For those of you reading this on mobile and still want to get an idea:

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I am currently staying at my GF's place while her parents are away on vacation, and I'm having a way better time at switching off from work.

Things that are helping a lot are: cooking and setting up the table for dinner together, having dinner together, doing the laundry and folding clean clothes together, feeding and petting the cat.

So, basically: doing house chores and social activities.

Edit: i guess that also not having ready access to my three 24" 1920x1200 displays also helps.
Oh my, more state money would mean probably a more equal society - more money for roads, schools, teachers, research labs, health care, infrastructure and much more.

All things by the way any entrepreneur is happy to "take" or accept as given.

Forgive me, but watching extremely privileged people's viewpoint, that they are so genius is so much missing the point (of luck, and of course a society that nourishes and carries these individuals).
But that just means it doesn't really bring that much for 99% of projects. The only time I was writing NIO code was during some Java certification ...
It actually makes sense for law enforcement even knowing the device does nothing because it can be used to give them probable cause to search somewhere they wouldn't otherwise legally be able to search. When the shit hits the fan the company that sold it takes the fall, which is part of what the police were paying for.

Perhaps a similar logic is at work for the military, but one would think they'd be more concerned with actual efficacy of such a device so it seems more likely it was just collusion between purchasers and sellers to siphon tax money.
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The "AI company" is literally just two guys in India. One is the app developer and the other has a background in business and project management.
A comparison of Umami and Matomo (formerly Piwik) would be helpful since they seem very similar. I looked at both websites and didn't see any mention of the other project.
Do they prevent people from becoming wealthy if there's a floor at 100 million?
> It’s highly unlikely the government would be taking from your stock directly.

It makes no difference whatsoever whether they take the stock directly or force you to sell the stock in order to pay the tax in cash. The end result is the same—your stock is reduced by the amount of the tax.
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Even in your 1BR apartment, can you make a spot is that is your "work" spot? A desk in a corner that you always work at, and don't use for anything but work?

Having a specific location for "work", that when I leave I am no longer "at work", is what has worked for me. I've been working from home since before the pandemic, and some people are like "oh that's great, you can go work at coffeeshops" -- but I didn't do that (pre-pandemic even). I have a specific place in my home that is "going to work", and when I'm there I'm working and when I'm not I'm not.

You could also begin and end the work day with certain habits/rituals. For instance, take a walk around the block (or longer) right before you sit down to work; when the work day is over, take another walk around the block (or longer). Develop this as a habit, and you will internalize it as boundaries/barriers between the work time and the not work time. (Doesn't have to be the same thing before/after. Maybe you start work right after breakfast, and end work with a walk around the block. But something that you actively do, that marks the transition).
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Possibly because your example penalizes frugal savers, or that your concern is focused on people making $100k+/yr.