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> If your tech startup should succeeds or fails in spite of the particular corporate credit you choose.

I'd have to agree.

Instead of "company", think "domain name."

Instead of "health insurance", think "I'm in my 20's and don't need it."

Instead of "company credit card", think "don't spend anything."

Instead of "design/eng. help", think "no budget, DIY", "co-founder" or at most Craigslist gigs.

Or just keep working the day job until the above is obvious.
At the risk of being too reductive, it strikes me that it’s most appropriate to let the public determine the strategy: the broad strokes and goals they want (clean, safe, low/no carbon energy sources), but to defer to actual trained experts on the tactics: the generation mix and transmission tech.

This isn’t to say there should be no supervision or accountability; more that the elites are called so for a reason (a better word would be “experts”), and that there’s otherwise a risk of micromanagement and all that it entails.
You're describing exactly what I went through! Two rounds of antibiotics, pain meds. Finally gabapentin was the only thing that worked and now I'm slowly weening myself off of it. It's been hell. I had to sleep on the couch elevated. I could barely walk. Everything looked fine down there physically, two ultrasounds, MRI, nothing looked odd. I'm really hoping it never comes back because it was like either someone was squeezing it off and on or someone replaced the boys with pine cones. The pain was just so bad I wanted to get rid of them. Thank god for the lock down because I was working from home during this. I probably would have lost my job or something had I had to go to the office.
I am very, very familiar with this exact feeling. Hopefully at least those who are close to you understand this a little better and support in better ways.
Lumping in the obese with the blind to prove a point?
This is exactly what I'm talking about.

One beer every 3 months is proof my diet is a problem? For a condition you know nothing about? Really. Fine, then it's useless, and I've surrounded myself with idiots, all of my careful testing and attempts to understand my condition have failed.

This kinda of nonsense, where I debate the very meaning of "me" to some extent is tiring. Even if I'm wrong in all of this, I'm not harming you, you're someone online, but I try really hard to not be a burden on anyone I come in contact with. I actually try to be a net positive to the world, in my small way. It's already hard enough for me to wake up every day and face the world without just ending my pain. Don't make me debate my sanity while I'm at it.
I'm rather skeptical that the only effect of CoCs is to allow for the persecution of innocent people... Agree to disagree, I suppose.
I didn't, it was an extra-curicular university project.
Or abolish property taxes and fund cities with consumption taxes or some other tax
I just read another piece about this and it's incredible how wildly different the conclusions they come to are much less the overarching theme.

This one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947323
What if a corporation owns the property? If you do this, I would transfer the property to a corporation and then rent it back to myself for a $1 a year. The corporation would have only $1 of income per year.

This is so badly thought out.
The two most kid friendly adventure games I'd recommend are:

- Anna's quest would be great for kid. Based on fairy tales, where a little girl tries to save her grandfather. Expect Evil Witches

- All the adventure games from Humongous Entertainment: Pajama sam, Spy Fox and Freddi Fish. Those are children point and click games created by Secret of Monkey Island's creator Ron Gilbert.

- Broken Age

- Machinarium and Chuchel. In general all games from Amanita Design are just cute and fun to play

- The Book of Unwritten Tales (1 & 2 + the critter chronicles), I think this would be more appropriate for 10-12 years old but this is a great homage to fantasy books

I'd recommend you visit https://adventuregamers.com/, they have great reviews of point and click games
I suffer from a chronic autoimmune condition that causes left-side chest pain (sometimes quite severe). Despite extensive medical workup, we have not been able to get it to go away.

One thing you don't hear about very much: more than a full third of people with atypical chest pain develop anxiety or panic disorders. I did.

I thought people could get used to anything, but years later, I am not used to it. Bodies suck.
Because someone thought it was interesting enough to post it?
My left knee occasionally locks up and if the little dance I perfected over the years to unlock it doesn't work, I have to straighten my leg with one swift move - something that brings pain which I am only able to describe as "magical" or "surreal".

USG yielded no results so I've been sent to have an MRI done, but corona got in the way of that.

Exercise helps in my case fortunately. My friend wasn't so lucky and once he started experiencing chronic pain, it never went away, despite efforts in this direction, and eventually started affecting his career.

Pain changes you. Especially if it's sudden and unpredictable. Anxiety sets in eventually.
Then you can just sell your house and buy another one in a less expensive area and make insane profits. The people who support prop 13 are literally lottery winners who are complaining about paying taxes on their winnings.

If you don't want to move then you can get a reverse mortgage and still profit, you just won't get to pass the house to your children. Still, you'll make way more from the property value increases than anything you would have paid in taxes and can pass those gains on to your children.
Hi, thanks for that feedback - will look into it!
Yes, for the people that do go. But there will be people who will not vote. Out of distaste. This story does not make either of the two main candidates any more deserving of a vote.
Sorry to hear this. Mind if I offer a meta-woo remedy?

There are communities out there who value deep and non-judgmental listening. They recognize that it can be an act of aggression to offer unwanted advice. They have a healthy interest in others and know when to yield when it's really not their business to know.

If you could find such a community, you might feel better. You might feel understood.
No, I'm proposing taxing city residents on their income regardless of whether they own or rent. If the owner of the parcel doesn't live in the city then he wouldn't pay a dime of income tax to the city -- he would pay the parcel tax to the city where the parcel is located, and he would pay income tax wherever he lives.
>2) Nobody has the right to own an asset for pennies on the dollar indefinitely

That's a ridiculus assertion. When I buy something, having paid income tax and the government gets paid the taxes on the sale, why should I have to permenantly rent that item from the government?

If that logic applied to you car and computer and clothes, and prized heirlooms from your family, I think you'd object. Thats a fundamental assault on freedom and property rights.

Taking it to the extreme, it means ONLY the very wealthy could ever own things like land and that is just a fundamentally unamerican idea.
Yeah, he's great!

We needed just a couple insulin reservoirs for a Medtronic pump and he brought a bunch of them, and quite a few blood glucose strips (which can be ridiculously expensive), and gave us a little demonstration about a closed-loop "artificial pancreas" system based on open source software and relatively cheap hardware. I'd definitely never have heard about Tidepool or OpenAPS if it weren't for his visit.
What’s really unfair is someone whose home goes from $100k to $2M, for a total capital gain of $1.9M gets a 90% discount on their property taxes.

The people with the greatest ability to pay are the ones getting the biggest tax break.
Thanks. I have some minor nerve pain that sometimes flares up to moderate nerve pain, and another issue that makes taking NSAIDs contra-indicated (so I just grin-and-bear-it). I’ll look into this as a possible backup solution.
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I am partially deaf, have been so since the early 70’s, have had hearing aids for over 25 years, and have paid thousands of dollars out of pocket to “self accommodate”.

Do not tell me about my reality.

There is a very fine line between what you are saying and the attitude of a racist. You may not see it that way, but it’s true.

And I don’t know whatever rules apply here, but fuck off with this attitude.
Honestly, thanks for that.

The last community I joined ended poorly when I didn't, err, react well to the advice that I try going to church more.

I do need to work on my mental health side, and a community is a good way. I'll dig into that.
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Right, right. Just explaining. Not justifying.
On my block we have five nearly identical houses. My house, which I bought 12 years ago, my neighbors house, which they have been in for 22 years, my other neighbor, who has been there 45+ years, the neighbor two over who bought about five years ago, and the neighbor two over the other way who bought two weeks ago.

If my tax bill is X, the rates are as follows, for nearly identical houses, all valued nearly the same on Zillow/Redfin:

2.3X
0.4X
1.0X
0.1X
2.0X

The two lowest payers don't have kids in school, so an argument could be made for them to have slightly lower taxes, but they still use the police, fire department, parks, and they have access to the senior center, which I do not.

The rest of us have kids roughly the same age.

So basically the people who just moved in are subsidizing the rest of us significantly.

It's completely unfair.
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> It's gotten to the point that we have ballot amendments carving out exceptions for senior citizens, so they can take their old property tax rates with them when they buy new homes, but only if they move between certain counties that have a reciprocity agreement, blah blah blah. Clearly not the kind of policy a sane system would result in.

And there is another ballot prop on this years' ballot (prop 19) being pushed by the Realtors' Assc. to expand the '86 law to include all properties within the state, rather than just county, and to cover up to 3 moves instead of 1.
I don't really see how that relates, when I say "getting sick" I don't think most people from here would include starvation or dehydration in that bucket, but maybe that's a regional difference. I meant things you catch (virus, bacteria, parasites) because we're talking about immune response.
> Are you sure that's right? Thrust implies acceleration, not just velocity.

Yes. The simpler answer is that even if you shoot a laser straight up the light can't get out, and the corollary is that you can't get out yourself even with arbitrarily high thrust.

No matter how much thrust you have to fight against gravity, light will always beat you, because light cannot be slowed down by gravity. If light is trapped then you are trapped.

> You're traveling outward at a velocity of .95c.

Let's make it simpler, and calculate what it takes for the outside observer sees you moving away from the black hole at all, even 1mph.

The closer you get to the black hole, the higher your local speed has to be. If you're 10 meters outside the event horizon, you have to get up to 99.999etc. percent of light speed (locally measured) just to slowly inch away from it (as measured by the outside observer), or even just to stay still. Once you fall inside the event horizon, you would have to go faster then light locally for the outside observer to measure you as moving upward.
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Yes, as I mentioned, there are indeed two sides to the argument.
I don't really see how this piece contributes to the discussion. No amount of character-praising or good-sounding-words freedom/independence really have much bearing on the discussion.

As far as I can tell, everybody, if they're being honest with themselves, agrees there are some articles that are just unworthy of publishing. The only thing that is disagreed on, are the merits of this particular case. Nothing other than speaking to the merits of the case seems to accomplish anything.

So far as I can tell, the best avenue for collaborative, sourced discussions is wikipedia. I've linked their article below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden%E2%80%93Ukraine_conspira...
Time for the international buyers to buy housing en masse, rent it out, and not pay your income tax. The renters would be stuck paying the income tax and the international buyers would just pay the parcel tax. So renters would be stuck paying for rent and an additional income tax for renting. Hahahahaha.
No you still have to send the data over the pcie link, but DPDK should basically offload all the network work to the nic, so that you are just streaming data to it. The kernel won't need to deal with IRQs or timing or anything like that.

I might be making things up, but I believe you can also run code on DPDK nics? i.e. beyond straight networking offload. If that's the case you could try compressing the data before you DMA it to the nic. This would make no sense normally, but if your bottleneck is in fact the pcie x1 link and you want to saturate the network, it would be something worth trying.

I mean really the whole thing is at most a fun exercise as the nic costs more than the pi.
I think this is happening all over the US.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/walmar...
I have a very vivid memory of Papyrus' NASCAR game in the late 90s. I was in the sales and service industry, I was realy just a couple years into it, still 17, and had sold a beefy system for gaming to a guy who was a NASCAR fan. The day I was supposed to deliver it I dislocated my kneecap. I cslled him, let him know, and came home from the ER with him in my driveway waiting for me. When I got out of the car in the leg brace, he said "Oh thank god your'e hurt! I thought you were trying to rip me off!" I will always remember that game for reasons unrelated to gaming. :D
"Congrats, you have won the lottery, now you have to move somewhere way cheaper - probably because it doesn't have many of the features that drew you here in the first place!"

"All because a bunch of people with more money than you are now willing to pay a bunch of money for your neighbors' places."

I think laws and policy should exactly be focused on protecting those who have less from the impact of those who have more. Not because they're morally superior or anything, but just to try to keep things balanced because the people with the money already enjoy so many other advantages.

Moving is hugely disruptive to people's life, so the ability to plan expenses - both for property tax and in terms of rent control - has a lot of non-financial appeal as a policy. "Make people move when folks with more cash want to come in" is at best a somewhat heartless position, and at worse a major driver of homelessness.
That's fine, they will pay the parcel tax and their tenants will pay income tax.

It seems wrong to me to make someone pay tax where they do not live. It's not like the owners of rental homes are the people who use the city services -- the people who live in the homes do, and they should pay for them.
Kelsey Hightower is unstoppable. It's the combination of humor, self-deprecation, knowledge and unflagging optimism.

He's this generation's Martin Fowler or Uncle Bob.
Great series! Also mentioned as a source in the end of the video, but thanks for linking anyway!
Hahah this is ben awad, a frontend dev youtuber. He makes a lot of videos like these for jokes and sarcasm.
Pretty sure that when tax payments skyrocket the quality of services do not. As per parent comment, the bay area is a good example.
Not usual, IME they’re rare. I called SF 311 and requested such a sign at an intersection where people often seemed to be confused (10th and Moraga in the Sunset, IIRC). To SF’s credit, they reviewed the accident history at the location, and a traffic engineer called me back to explain that 1) they did not see a history of accidents there and 2) they don’t like to use too many of those signs, because they don’t want people to assume that the intersection is an ‘all way stop’ if the sign is not present.
Well, EDF have not been so successful with their most recent project in France, Flamanville 3.

Construction started in 2007, with estimated completion in 2012 at a cost of €3.3 billion.

As of 2020, the plant is still not complete and the cost has spiralled to €19.1 billion. It is now tentatively planned to go online at the end of 2022.
My neighborhood (In the Seattle area) has intersections with small, 4 way roundabouts that are combined with 2 way stops (there’s a main street no stop with 2 side streets with stop signs)

It’s madness!
> That's a ridiculus assertion. When I buy something, having paid income tax and the government gets paid the taxes on the sale, why should I have to permenantly rent that item from the government?

Upkeep != Rent. The government uses that money to pay for the roads and services, mainly police and fire (you know, the people who protect your property).
Did users pay a not unsignificant amount (let's say > 25) for restricted monthly API usage?

Because because if they were on a free plan, why did they get API access anyway - that does not sound sustainable.
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There are actually a number of people who draw the distinction between possessions and land exactly that way. I.e. the argument would be that land ownership should never be allowed.

It’s not an immediately farcical concept from first principles.
I mean, it's not "just" propaganda; but that is a possibility that certainty muddies the waters and would benefit people wanting the topic underdiscussed.

Though generally I just refer to these people as Reptilians.
Even better is to create a kryoflux image, as that is not only disk format agnostic, but pretty much the most faithful digital preservation method we have right now.
This somewhat related talk about functional composition (in lisp) is also quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyNqHsN3pEc
Please don't resort to strawman arguments. I didn't say that all CoCs are useless in curbing abuse. I said that Valorant's CoC is useless in curbing abuse. As far as I can tell, Valorant is doing absolutely nothing to enforce their CoC against toxic players.
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As migraine sufferer, I find relief in only two thoughts:

- my migraines last 4 hours and happen once every 3-6 months, and there are people who have 72hs long migraines, or migraine every few days

- I could've had cluster headache instead. People suffering from those call them "suicide headache" and are known to hit their head against different objects, because losing consciousness or felling other pain is preferable to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO5oDaG45kE
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Unfortunately even the intro on Wikipedia explains some problems with reverse mortgages.

Not to mention that it's kind of a lot to force, idk, 80-year-olds to take out reverse mortgages just so they can keep living in homes they've already paid for and own. Though I guess it's not surprising if people half their age don't care about their burden.
A more generic tax would be a wealth tax. Don't tax real estate at all; instead, tax net worth.

However, if all you have is a house in an area with rapid price growth, this change won't save you.
100% this. Sometimes it’s like driving at night in a rainstorm on a twisty road with occasional on-coming traffic.
Counter-point: the number of people with a sleep disorder who are determined to try every folk remedy they can get their hands on before seeing an actual doctor
The problem is, a lot of IFTTT hooks don't exist as public API endpoints.

For example, you can't do anything all with Wyze hardware directly
I started getting cluster headaches a couple of years ago. The level of pain that they inflict completely changed my pain scale.

I started doing something that I read in a fiction book series (The Dresden Files) - basically a little visualization that helps me compartmentalize the pain. It helps a ton, though the fact that the attacks are relatively short probably help in that regard as it takes a lot of concentration.

The reason I bring that all up is that people tend to discount what they can do about a problem, mentally. You’re not going to get rid of the pain, but you might be able to work out a way to deal with it better.
Many, ... most? states have some kind of homesteading tax relief.

For example, in Florida property tax increases are capped to the lesser of 3% or CPI. 25k of value is also exempted from property taxes and 50k is exempted from non-school property taxes. But only for a single primary residential property.

Where CA13 is different is that it applies to everything: commercial property, industrial property, rental property, second homes, third homes, etc.

I think there is a pretty good case to be made that there is a massive public interest in keeping people from being pushed out of their homes by taxes. Capping tax increases is also necessary to make it possible to financially plan for them (e.g. I can invest enough so that my investments will pay the taxes w/ increases for the rest of my life, and just add that to the 'cost' of the home-- given historical market returns this requires investment of 25x your annual property taxes, so long as they can't grow faster than inflation). One could also make the case for a public interest in not letting some businesses get pushed out (primarily small, single location businesses).

But prop 13 goes far beyond that-- applying to all property and with extremely expansive portability-- and as a result creates a massive windfall for existing property owners at the expense of new property owners.

I'd like to see at least a rule that for rented properties that assessments should be allowed to increase as much as rents have. There is little to no prevent-displacement justification for not tracking rents.
Apologies, do you have a CoC in mind that you think works?

And I’ve got an email from Riot that they banned someone I’d reported in Valorant, so they don’t do nothing. I don’t think either of us have enough evidence to know whether it’d be better or worse without the CoC.
If it's a real concern then managing coming off the pills should really be part of the treatment. Don't just leave people to wing it. Did they offer that to you?
Trained to do what? Cure chronic disease?

Edit: instead of answering, a bunch of doctors downvoted this question.
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Way to screw over renters with an additional tax. That sure sounds regressive to me. The owners are generally much richer than the renters.
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Taxes are pretty miserable. A person would be able to afford something. Then taxes happen. Now they can't.

There isn't a solution that is fair, the major activity in the debate over California housing seems to be people turning themselves in knots to find solutions where long time residents enjoy a high-demand city without paying for its upkeep. The goal is for long time residents to reap rewards without doing anything - there is no fair way to do that. It drives inequality too. Rich people tend to own lots of land for long periods of time.

> ...the rest of the city forces you to "enjoy" higher taxes you never demanded [...] or wanted...

I do not hesitate in pointing out this part of your post applies to most taxpayers. I personally disagree with most of what my tax money is spent on, and distrust the people who spend it. That is why it is taxed from me.

We should go with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism - it is fairest over the long term. Moving homes is not so terrible that it has to be prevented at all costs.