skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The general incentive to make money always exists, yes, but if LVT is implemented, there would, I assume, be an almost insurmountable force compelling landowners to do so. I compared LVT with the idea of “fiduciary duty” with intentional precision; CEOs are also, in general, incentivized to make money, but the idea behind decrying the alleged fiduciary duty is that a CEO is supposedly more or less forced to do whatever makes the most money, regardless if they feel it would be bad in the long run, inhumane, or even unethical.

The same principle seem to apply to LVT: A landowner would, it seems, be forced, by the taxes extracted from them, to generate a matching (or larger) income by the land, regardless if they might feel that the community would be better served by using the land for something which would, incidentally, make less money for them personally.

If the object of LVT is to prevent inter-generational wealth transfer, I would assume that there would be vastly more effective ways to accomplish this more directly. Or there could at least be some carve-out which limits the effect of a LVT to those instances.
We didn't invent these terms. We use them ironically/derogatively.
Yeah, this. I call C code from CL all the time. Also Objective C if I'm working with Clozure CL on a Mac.
Mayflower Mouth
I must say I don't really see the point, given that function() does the same thing, with only a few more characters.
For starters:
1) Forget the Greeks. Anyone tells you to start from the Greeks they are snobs. Showing off and/or having a laugh at your expense.
2) Think about _your_ own "bigger life questions", what are they, what interests you. Give it time. Read something like Russell's History of western philosophy or list through a Philosophical dictionary. See who feels closer, more relevant to _you_. Maybe try this thing https://www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/browse/
3) Don't concentrate too much on the names. Same authors have books or parts on different subjects. Some of them will be to your liking some not.
4) Don't get into large complex works right away. For example Locke's essays on human understanding or Kant's Critique of Pure Reason would be a major pain in the butt to read as first philosophy book and you'd have to reread them later not to mention that you'll have to reread them anyway and not just once... Treatises on Government and/or Kant's Pragmatic Anthropology would give better chances to get hooked on. So you don't just autopilot read through the big ones without properly understanding a thing.

edit: 5) Then the Greeks ;)
What she described was actually very vague, so I don't know what you are envisioning?

A thing to remember though is that the further away from a social class you are, the less you know about its culture. I suspect that the styling cues she's talking about would be instantly noticeable to other people from the same class, whereas lowly plebs like you and me would never notice, or care.
Glad you were able to finally watch it. It is certainly a film worth seeing. I perhaps will watch it again sometime in the near future. I always want to like it more than I do.
Since you'll own the platform, I did run a mailing list in the 00s that used to charge people $1 per email they sent out. It made the quality of the mailing list astronomical, but it died because it just couldn't scale with the payment systems in place then.

I have no idea what the integration of things like stripe are like today. I imagine it would be much better. Food for thought before you turn off comments.
Airline tire deposition is almost entirely witin the threshold / toucchdown zone portion of airport runways. The skid marks from sudden wheel spin-up and loading are highly evident:

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/burbank-california-usa-april...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=DFOynlRYT54

There's effectively no wear during flight
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a great introduction to Stoicism
Skyscrapercity.com for architecture, construction, urban issues etc. One of my favs, mainly because it's a old school forum so no upvoting/downvoting, no algorithms and no teenagers. Quality may be varied though - depends of which regional subforum you are browsing.

Reddit - geopolitics, philosophy, printSF. Avoid main subreddits and use multireddits feature to connect similar subreddits into one feed.

slowernews.com
You just solved your own problem. Don't buy a TV, buy a monitor. (Some people also buy projectors.)
Cool approach with the bookmarklet.

Recently daydreaming I silently wished that browsers had a standard format for syncing bookmarks.

Then you choose where you sync your bookmarks too. e.g. your own server.

Perhaps something like this exists in the extensions. But just dreaming :)
Affordance aims to provide an expert community for helping with startups. We are very early and thus do not have architects yet, but looking to add this domain.

https://affordance.app
https://twitter.com/affordancehq
Yes, I was actually referring to the page you cited... It's the "authoritative" source for the Google search on US book royalty rates. See further down:

"Under standard royalties, an author gets roughly 20 to 30% of the publisher’s revenue for a hardcover, 15% for a trade paperback, and 25% for an eBook. So, very roughly, every hardcover release that earns out brings the author something like 25% of all revenue earned by the publisher. This percentage would drop once the paperback comes out, if it sells in significant numbers."

10% of cover price is usually the same as 20-30% of the publisher's revenue. You only drop down to 1.5% territory if your books are being discounted, meaning, if they aren't selling at cover price and they've been put into the bargain bin.
Yes, i lurked for a while but signed up in 2007
FCC closes 7 year old consideration, Will not legalize phone calls on airplanes
> When your sector makes up like three of the five most valuable companies on the planet, we probably should be taxing it more.

The problem is that increasing the corporate income tax rate just doesn't provide enough revenue. Corporate income taxes are only 7% of the US government's annual tax revenue, for example. Even if we doubled the corporate income tax rate, that's still only another 7% of the total tax revenue, which is way too small to make up for the annual US budget deficit.

> Jeff Bezos does not need more money.

While I don't disagree with this, taxing the wealth of the rich also just doesn't provide enough revenue. Suppose we set a hard cap on personal wealth of $1 billion--everything over that, the government takes in tax at a rate of 100%. The net worth of the 400 richest people in the world is around $3 trillion, so we'd be taking $2.6 trillion of it. And that would fund...the US government for about 6 months. Or all 50 US states for...a little more than a year. And then the wealth is gone, and what do you do next?

In other words, all the complaining about low corporate tax rates and wealth inequality is complaining about something that, even if it were "fixed" (and fixed without depressing wealth creation, which is highly implausible), would not do much of anything about the real problem: that we expect governments to do far too much and give them far too much power. And that translates into chronic overspending and deficits, which end up being paid by the middle class, because that's the only source of revenue large enough to pay it.
Owncast: A self hosted Twitch alternative
Thanks! Guix sounds pretty cool, I just did a cursory read of Wikipedia after your post.
For a LVT, the value is whatever it was purchased for.
Also, the Islamic Golden Age is not only about mathematics, but also about other sciences.

The chemistry progressed a lot during that time. Several preserved Arabic works contain a much improved classification of the known chemical substances, better than anything that existed before them.

That chemical classification was improved only in the 18th century, by several generations of Swedish chemists, leading eventually to the modern chemistry based on the notion of chemical elements, which was created by Lavoisier and his French colleagues, shortly before the French Revolution.

Attempting to deny the essential Arabic/Islamic contributions to the evolution of the sciences shows just ignorance or bad intentions.
Does anybody here know of any open source projects that use datalog/prolog/etc and would be comprehensible to mere mortals?
I spent a good 5 or 6 years reading philosophy and psychology in my spare time. I don’t claim a formal understanding of the subject that would come close to what you would get from a college degree, but I do feel like I understand the zeitgeist a lot clearer than before.

I preface with that to say that my recommendation is to pick and chose which parts are of interest to you and then dive in further to the source material. If you take the approach that you must start at Aristotle, you run the risk of burning out before getting to areas that might be life changing to study.

I got my start by grabbing all of the “Introducing...” [1] series of graphic novels about subjects I commonly heard referenced but didn’t understand. From there, I dove into the underlying texts of everything I found interesting.

Again, I didn’t gain an academic understanding of the subject, but I came away with a wildly different worldview than when I started. Life’s too short to be an expert at everything, but that doesn’t have to stop you from exploring on your own.

[1] e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Postmodernism-Graphic-Gui...

These books have some pretty deep illustrations, not just cartoon drawings of the subjects. One favorite of mine was a scene showing Monet painting haystacks, frustrated that a worker had left a ladder on one he was studying — I think the implication was Monet wasn’t _really_ trying to capture impressions of the haystacks as they appeared throughout the days and seasons, just his preferred impression.
Seems to me that describing people based on their continent of origin, rather than their apparent 'race', is distinctly not racist. Though there is something to be said for the arbitrary nature in which Eurasia is split into 'two continents'.
Exactly! So when you get a mortgage, you're paying for land plus house in the mortgage. Insurers have to know the value of the land alone so they can know the difference and insure just the house.
This is a land value tax, not a tax on the improvements. If you have a lot worth $50,000 and a house worth $250,000, and place a value of $50,000 on it for tax purposes, do you propose people can buy your house for $50,000?
Speaking of the size and Win32: I remember fondly in Delphi years there was a full-fledged framework which replaced the included libraries: KOL and MCK [1] (latter one replaced VCL), written from scratch and relying mostly on Win32 and a bit of asm.

It produced ridiculously tiny and responsive programs, both CLI and GUI, while still integrating into Delphi (and later Lazarus) drag-n-drop IDE workflow.

Needless to say, the specifics of the project attracted the obsessive type. Currently, the main developer is working on his own language Al-IV [2][3]. One of the goals, it seems, is total platform mobility, the language supposedly compiles (transpiles?) to "C#, Delphi (32 bit old style, with VCL), Free Pascal/Lazarus and Java/Android". I honestly don't know what it is, a work of a genius or fringe art, but that's a lot of work and I think it deserves a bit of attention.

1. https://wiki.freepascal.org/KOL

2. http://f0460945.xsph.ru/AL4/index.html

3. https://sourceforge.net/projects/al-iv/
> money earned without laboring for it

Tell that to startup founders whose only income from all the work they put in on their startup is capital gains.
I really like this train of thought. I want to push on the idea of an AI-focused corporation “insulating” itself from backlash. I think what’s happening here is an example of the human agents inside of a corporation acting human, counter to the interest of the organization within which they find themselves. This particular spat might not necessarily be the tipping point, but it looks like history is starting to overtly dance with the impacts AI will have, as you stated.

The current imperatives of a profit-focused corporation are not aligned with human interests. This has been clear since the time of 1940’s fascist Germany. There are examples of corporations aligning themselves with that government, solely because of the stability that a strong government structure provided. In hindsight, it is clear that corporations provided Hitler et al with the economic powerhouses that moved him and other sympathetic leaders to construct frameworks which were not in accordance with modern ideas of human rights. Especially under the imperative of shareholder primacy in the US, that motivation is stronger than ever. In China, the imperative is strengthening government power.

A development I’m personally watching is how AI will fit into that tension between human-interests and corporate interests. Alphabet’s leaders seem to be attempting to steer that corporation closer in alignment with human interests, although the profit motive is an unshakeable goal. Should the US government take a more active role in the development and control of AI, or should we mainly allow the market to pursue AI within the framework of profit motive?

Offhandedly, I am wary of allowing unrestrained pursuit of AI development, and so departments like which Gebru was leading take a historically vital role. I also feel a tension between my awe of progress (as a layman) and the possibilities that AI might unlock for humanity. That leaves me with the question of, who should be in charge of artificial intelligence? From our perspective in 2020, I know Bostrom’s and Musk’s concerns about the future of AI seem far-fetched, but even if those negative outcomes have a non-zero possibility of coming true, then we should spend time considering them.
Modifying and running a binary by recompiling a reverse engineered disassembly
Well Microsoft’s Trello is just Planner / Tasks, so they are already playing on the field.
Author contemplating an eventual C++ rewrite, but this is a perfect use case for Rust. When you want performance and where memory mistakes can be a serious security problem.
China has switched on its HL-2M EAST tokamak Fusion reactor
I upvoted you because you stated facts, included helpful information and fodder for thought rather than expressing your emotional opinion. Thanks.
With math and physics ok, but with thought wouldn't you want to get as close to the horse's mouth as possible?

I believe philosophy classics are accessible, unlike math and physics, to the lay person.
Glad to see this on here. Plenty of good comments. And I'd say there is no downside to spending a particular portion of your daily mental exertions wrestling with The Big Questions

You won't find a better place to begin that the Alain de Botton School of Life series (though perhaps could use a more balanced Western to Eastern ratio). Start with Kant, see if it tempts your interest, and you should be able to consume the whole lot in a short sitting:

https://www.youtube.com/c/theschooloflifetv/playlists

For a deeper dive, there is a classic series of audio lectures that used to be sold via mail-order and arrive on cassette tapes! You can find many online (narrated in Charlton Heston's authoritative voice no less):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncS8x4RUjlso...

Then take to twitter to communicate directly with giants in the field: Slavoj Zizek, Daniel Dennett, Alva Noe, and many others are active

https://twitter.com/PhilosophyNow

And finally you'll be ready to dive into the Arxiv of Philosophy Papers: PhilPapers

https://philpapers.org/

Best of Luck, Rupi ;)
The barrier to entry for brigading & group think is lower on reddit than discrete forums, I think that's part of the problem & I've no idea what the solution is. Different moderation methods have been tried all over (+5 insightful etc) but they have barely succeeded in isolation & I doubt they'd fare any better vs Reddits firehose.
The left and right arrow are the same blue color as the background. Should probably add some function to make sure that if the defined color is the same or similar to that of the stuff it is on, then darken, lighten, invert or something.
I use ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

Tho the .deb binary is not up to date yet https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-bina...
Actually, no, they don't. Insurers make no valuation on the land, only on the improvements. There is no appraisal done when buying a homeowners or business insurance policy
I know people who sit in HK and have been doing HFT/Quant stuff for years and they say something completely different - that Java's popular among biggest trading/stock systems.

So saying that

> Nor is Java common among HFT shops at all.

Sounds weird, especially when it appears among job postings.
You wrote this:

1. a group of people were assured jobs

2. the job assurance was changed to a basic income, no need to work anymore

3. people still showed up to work

errr... seems OK to me? It proves that even if there is an UBI most people will still work. The UBI is just a safety net that assures you do not die of exposure if you get to spend some time without working (for whatever reason). Your example proves that the UBI does not really distort the job market (except for the most shitty jobs, which is alright if they disappear). Also, your example proves that the existence of an UBI does not turn people lazy.

All in all, your example is a great argument for the UBI!
Planned obsolescence is a feature. Not an accident.
No - 'Freedom of Speech' did not 'win out' in Northern Europe as you are making the comparison to today.

If you used your 'free press' to attack a local Prince, he would have you killed, so what are you even talking about?

'Banning all books' is something different than 'banning people trying to overthrow the government'.
Accessibility is specifically about making things accessible to those with disabilities. Unless you are making a joke about the intelligence IE users or those using old browsers, accessibility isn't about maximizing potential reach.
My post was mainly in regards to the recommendation of having someone just pick up a primary source and just start reading it. But I agree that, if you're taking a class and you have someone who can go through the text with you, then that's the best option instead of trying to go it alone. But that's different from just sending someone straight to the primary source alone.

And of course there are many interpretations of Nietzsche and there's reasonable disagreement on what he said. You're right that a secondary source or taking a class doesn't "save you from bad readings" of him, but it's still better than trying to go it alone.

There are many flat out wrong interpretations of him, and someone like a professor or a secondary source can definitely help avoid common misunderstandings and pitfalls when trying to read him.
CTC Inflation, What? Why? How?
This isn't poker. She made demands and stated she'd discuss it further after her PTO. Google accepted a resignation never made as a punishment (it has financial implications).
Hallelujah. Thank heaven for that.
Rose tinted glasses are a thing: http://web.archive.org/web/20070508231740/http://reddit.com/
> Is that what you truly believe I did above? That I am labeling you, and think you to be a white supremacist?

Looked like it to me, an uninvolved curious third party.

> the very real reality that these are uncomfortable conversations

Huh, that's what the poster that you replied to said. Weird that you got all up in their grill about it.

Let me just attempt to paraphrase the initiating series of comments, seeking only to illustrate how your comments looked to me, not attempting to do justice to the full meaning of each commenter.

nickff > advice on how the manager should do power dynamics

saagarjha > "strange power dynamic" [followed by lots of savvy commentary, irrelevant to my point here]

free_rms > CRT is all about power dynamics. That's the point. I find it exhausting, but me being exhausted is not the point, the point is that it's about power. [bit of a reductionist take on the parent comment, but probably correct?]

dvtrn > Are you exhausted because, as a beneficiary of oppression, you'd rather the oppression continue? Or is it because you're just too lazy to care about fairness?

free_rms > See, I dunno where you got that I'm an oppressor, where did this threat come from?

Yikes! And free_rms didn't even say that your implication that she/he is an oppressor was wrong, nor were they defensive about it. They just said that it's exhausting! I mean, it would be! Who would not be exhausted by that, whether or not it's a fair accusation!

I mean... now, at the bottom of this thread, you imply that you were seeking to know more, and not trying to imply that the exhaustion is evidence of being a bad person. Okay, I believe you, and nothing in your first comment belies that reading (though some of the intervening comments, hmn not so sure). But I don't think it's the natural read of what you said, at least it wasn't the natural read for me.

Me personally, btw, I dunno what CRT is, so in my privileged ignorance (enabled, of course, by my general white privilege) I'm immune to the exhaustion. I read this whole thread to see if I could learn something useful. Not so far, though I don't regret the time spent.

I dunno, is this helpful? Maybe I'm not being helpful.
Unsure of OP, but snow tyres are banned in Alabama, Texas, Florida, Maryland (exception five mountain counties), Louisiana, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi and Wisconsin, according to thi (undated, though possibly from Sept 2020 by IA WBM: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://itstillruns.com/states...) article:

https://itstillruns.com/states-not-allow-studded-tires-54686...
He's right that exploitation isn't what distinguishes billionaires from other capitalists. There are many unsuccessful/less successful capitalists who nonetheless still exploit people. But it's impossible to become a billionaire without exploiting people at a grand scale. And by exploitation, I mean something very simple: paying workers less than the value of their labour. Without exploitation there is no incentive for capitalists (within a capitalist system) to hire people. Since capitalists (billionaires and non-billionaires) still hire people, it's clear that exploitation is endemic to the capitalist system, and is required to become a billionaire.
My bad, I have edited my comment to make it friendlier.
I donate to Wikipedia because I use it and value as an important resource. There are some heavy costs to keep the wiki running.