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On use, the font files are cached for a year. Until relatively recently, that cache would’ve been shared across all sites, so it almost worked the way you described.

Now, the cache is per-site.[1] The arguments for partitioning the cache apply to fonts just as much as to other resources.

There have been thoughts[2] and proposals[3] around ways to make shared libraries without running into those issues, but nothing has really materialised AFAIK.

The broad issue is that 'just lazy load on first use' creates privacy reasons, and the idea of picking a list of popular resources to cache on launch never really goes anywhere.

[1]: https://developers.google.cn/web/updates/2020/10/http-cache-...

[2]: https://hillbrad.github.io/sri-addressable-caching/sri-addre...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBY3ZcHifXw
If I buy a hamburger should the sales tax depend on my wealth?
The property tax should be based on the value of the property, period. If you want to tax mythical wealth do it via some other means.
And whether the person owns the property outright or borrowed money shouldn't have any bearing on the value of the tax.
I upgraded from 12.2 today. Flawless. Once 13.1 is out, I'll jump a full version.

FreeBSD, and the BSDs generally, are such gems. I use Linux for work every day (mostly Debian based), and that's all good. And almost 100% of that is working on Linux from a Windows device (WSL and/or SSH remote).

When I SSH into my FreeBSD ZFS server, or my OpenBSD router, it feels so clean and pure. A joy.
I agree that different factors cause some land to be more valuable than others.

I'd argue that the factors you've listed are relatively easy to factor into an appraisal.

Property taxes, in comparison, are really hard to compute. Each jurisdiction has different rules. There are different valuation methodologies. If you add a 2 car garage, what the useful life. What depreciation schedule should be used. How should inflation be accounted for.

I agree with your comment generally and am not sure what part of the original comment doesn't make sense to you.

EDIT: Reread my original comment and see your point now. I phrased the "easy" part too strongly. I mean "easy" in relative terms... compared to what's being done currently, but agree the wording wasn't great.
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Just a note, is is almost impossible to buy lead-free brass in the US. Most brass labeled "lead-free" is actually low lead.

Naval Brass is the closest I've seen, and it's not exactly at the corner store.
I don’t know how people could continue to trust Android when it can’t handle the basics.

And yes calling 911 is “the basics”
Lottery tickets don't store value. Crypto assets do. The analogy therefore fails.
That's a political philosophy, not a fact. Just as libertarianism is a political philosophy.
People who benefit from higher land prices are already taxing everyone else.

Housing is the one of a few things that people have to buy. Choosing to essentially tax everyone in society to buy that product is...unthinkably stupid (a subtle effect is also that because the turnover of properties is so low, this has massive inter-generational effects...this isn't clear now because only people born 20-30 years ago are getting taxed, everyone else is just sitting on their capital gain...as these people die and that gets realised, the effect on wealth inequality will be incredible).

Another comment here mentioned that you have to be very educated to think something so daft is stupid...it is actually quite simple and requires no education.

Imagine that everyone ate only bread. What we have done is create a system in which bread manufacturers produce no extra output but benefit from bread price increases of 5-10%/year...for multiple decades. The economy is now largely based around bread, people whose parents were fortunate enough to own a licence to produce bread are now multi-millionaires, everyone else is a peon. Bread is so expensive that the rest of society is actually struggling to feed the bread manufacturers. The fallacy is believing that we aren't already paying a massive price.

It isn't expropriation of land, it is reversing expropriation by returning land to the people who always owned it (i.e. no-one and everyone). It is completely fair (unless you are a bread manufacturer). For economies in the West, it will be massively enhancing to productivity because it only taxes value which generates no gain for society (tbh, I am not sure anyone can really know what the consequence would be...it would change the economics of commercial ownership of resi property completely because landlords couldn't pass on costs, the only risk is disincentivizing housing production...I don't think it does this, if anything it would incentivize production...where I am, housebuilders sit on land for years and wait for house prices to go up...I live near a development of fifty or so houses, the developer has taken four years to put up houses there because land is rising so fast here, an adjacent development of the same size went up in 12 months...as I said before, no-one can look at that and think this is productivity enhancing, it is just nonsense, this is a grievous tax on productivity).
I don’t find prediction markets too convincing, especially after my experience betting on the US election last year. One month after the election there were still markets with greater than 10% odds on Trump winning states that had already certified Biden.

It was great for me, I made some good money, but it definitely downgraded prediction markets in my mind from “uncannily accurate” to “good but not perfect”. They’re not going to predict Black Swans or other odd things in a way you can rely on.
It's the platform's responsibility to properly sandbox apps. It should not allow apps to intercept emergency calls under any circumstances.

Alternatively, you could have a completely open platform, and then the onus is on Microsoft Teams and the user--but neither Android nor iPhone are like that; both choose to sandbox apps by default. When I install an app on a Pixel that isn't rooted, I expect that Android will keep it from intercepting 911.
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As a kid (~10-11yo) growing up in Eastern Europe my friends and I would look for old car batteries left by dumpsters. We'd break them, take the lead grids out and clean them up, build a small fire, melt the lead, and then pour it into molds we'd make of wood, usually in the shape of ninja stars to play with. Fun times!
This is what they call selling out.
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Lex is the name of the AWS service that provides NLP based chatbot functionality

It is what drives A-lex-a under the hood.

https://aws.amazon.com/lex/

In addition it uses another AWS service called Polly that generates speech from text.
> how many Americans know what a Schwarzschild metric is?

Reminds me of Feynman's anecdote about the bird and knowing the name of something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px_4TxC2mXU
At least for Seattle, the assessor's office has a breakdown but it turns out to be fairly bogus unless there's been a remodel or new building -- resulting in a new assessment. Quite a few cities also seem to have pretty bogus values on the books.
Shocked at some of these parents' responses regarding their sweeping characterization of public schools vs private schools. I despise this public vs private school debate since its just too broad of a scale. Given the reliance of American public education on local property values you have plenty of astonishing public schools. Unfortunately, a handful of miles down the road in the next neighborhood you may also have decrepit underfunded schools.

When deciding where to live find a neighborhood that values education and takes pride in its school district. Unfortunately this may come at the cost of higher real estate values, but fundamentally the school your child attends will be one of the most defining aspects of their childhood. The local public schools here compensate their teachers significantly more than the private schools in the area. Furthermore, their average test scores are about a percentage less across all standardized tests while allowing of all backgrounds instead of having the ability to choose their student body like the private schools.

I attended a public school but had many close friends in some of the private schools around me. In terms of college outcomes my friends from school and friends from the private schools attended similar pretentious schools. However, I feel that had I attended a private school I would have spent all my formative years in the same bubble of snobby traditions and deciding where to summer. My high school had plenty of astonishingly wealthy students but our culture was much more actively unimpressed when peers bought an s-class for their 16th or took their race car to school.
eh, what? The tax on $500K worth of stock or gold is zero. Also, home ownership is disincentivized by property taxes but also incentivized by the mortgage interest deduction, one of the largest non-corporate tax subsidies in America. And rental property is taxed very differently from property you live on.

I think it's better to say that land is sort of a one-off that is treated differently from every other asset than to try to compare it to other kinds of wealth.
Those ripples and downstream effects are the actual goal here. The LVT isn't the goal, the end to rentierism and better use of a finite resource, towards the elimination of poverty, are the actual goal.
Again, I would put it very differently. Despite having a fraction of the audience and resources of a multi-trillion-dollar company, and despite a long list of competing languages, JetBrains had the foresight to invest and innovate in the language design space. I think it's a testament to Kotlin's ergonomics, unrivaled tooling-support and interoperability with Java's ecosystem that it became so widely popular among the Android community. Amidst Kotlin's growing popularity and mounting legal pressure from Oracle, Google realized they could no longer ignore it and finally adopted their Kotlin-first strategy in 2019. [1]

[1]: https://developer.android.com/kotlin/first
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

You mean like that rule, pedant? It's not name calling if it's an accurate representation of one's behavior.

ped·ant /ˈpednt/: noun
a person who is excessively concerned with minor details and rules or with displaying academic learning.
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> Clearly this company isn't good enough on its own." They want it to seem like an organic result - even if you end up seeing the sponsored tag.

I don't think it is an Amazon quality thing. Just that Amazon can sell its ads more if they funnel more people into buying from ads than organic results.
Part III, concerning assessments, will post in a few days. Interested in your thoughts when that one goes up.
Not a great look for someone who’s “18 years and a director” at Apple to openly acknowledge this policy as well as being extremely defensive/borderline threatening about it.
One good reason to tax land is that its one of the few resources that we can't expand production of. Until traveling to other planets is cheap, land is a very limited resource so it is a major benefit to prevent the rich from hoarding it. For much of early Roman history, it was illegal for anyone to own more than a certain amount of land.
Countervalue was a thing in nuclear planning too - tie down enemy AA/missile defense defending cities
2017 called

Now there are lots of rpc providers and it is much easier to spin up your own node

Check out erigon client it is an archive node with much lower resource requirements than geth archival nodes, about 1/10th the requirements and that gulf will likely expand

pruned geth is still much lower than that though, but at least erigon gets rid of some of the state-storage centralization arguments (and lets inquisitive people browse prior chain states and simulate environments)

anybody that wants their own privacy has much better ways to get it

But Tails + TorBrowser + Metamask extension is also good enough if you want to hide info from Infura, analytics packages etc
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Probably $93M or more.
Both world wars were preceded by several decades of tensions and also proxy wars between the power blocks. Since nukes are involved this time around, it's in all side's interest to not escalate to a hot war. But missing preparation for the worst case scenario was what went wrong for many participants in previous hot wars.
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Well either way they're paid with real estate taxes. So the question is should someone on two acres be paying four times as much as someone on a half acre. Or the same as a 16 unit apartment building?

Cost proportional to area doesn't even make sense for utilities or roads (average distance only goes up as the square root), never mind straightforward per-resident costs such as public school or trash disposal.
This book review on the same site does a pretty good job in my opinion: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
Ask HN: Best way to backorder a domain in 2021?
A domain I really want is in the "pending delete" state. It looks like there are some services that can help you get a domain as soon as it expires (GoDaddy Backorder, Snapnames, etc.). These are the same names mentioned in a similar thread on HN from 2010.

What is the current state-of-the-art for backordering? Is there a service that's particularly good for .xyz and other "alternative" TLDs?
You are paying less for it, in retail CPU prices that are contingent on the same model with ME features being sold to integrators and enterprise organizations who use it.
Before I became a parent a few years ago I was similarly pulled in so many directions (and as jim-jim-jim says, they interrelate). I willingly let go of numerous specific hobbies in favor of some general ones (I like target practice, so now I throw rocks, or, at most complicated, bouncy balls into a parabolic dish). I don’t miss what I’ve left behind, and I accept that I’ll leave it all behind eventually.

I know the feeling of mastery from bicycling as transportation since I was ten; if you haven’t put in the time to where something feels so natural and joyous, I recommend it, at least to help you decide if you want to bring up another skill to that level. And, it’s okay to keep exploring; you’ll be a master at starting things and could be of significant help to other explorers.

If I experience any fear of missing out, it’s with books. “Learning” is one general category of hobby I kept, mostly through books. … Perhaps the best advice I’d give is to accept that your life is finite and to practice equanimity (perhaps you already do, in which case I’m a stone you’re already stepping). Good luck on your quest!
Part III will address this.
Inaccuracy isn't a very big component of this; assessing the value of land and structures isn't perfect but there's no obvious reason to think we're way better at one or the other. The point of this is that taxing the land only would lead to land being used differently, which would benefit society.

Suppose there is a plot of land which (from some omniscient point of view) would offer maximal benefit to society if a four-plex were developed on it. The point of a LVT is that, under a LVT, a four-plex would be developed on it, not because anyone forces it but just because that's what's in the landowner's best interest; whereas under the current system (in which the structure is also taxed) the landowner might find it more profitable to build a duplex instead. The deadweight loss is the loss to society when the landowner builds something that's in their best interests but not society's.

That's hard to prove for any specific piece of land, since we don't know what the omniscient-view "right" use of the land is. But if you accept the idea that there is an optimal use, and you you trust the whole idea of free market price discovery, it's reasonable.
> Just take the value you want it to produce, divide by the assessed value of all of the land, and you have your tax rate.

That's how my city determines property tax rates! Cities in my province are not allowed to run a deficit. So every year, the city look as assessed value of all properties, how much budget it needs for the year, divides the two, and voila! Tax rate!

It's actually a bit more complicated because the residential and commercial tax rates are different and the city has revenue sources other than property taxes, but it is largely like that.
> 2. it's unfair to change the rules in the middle of the game

This is a fully general argument against change.

As for the elderly couple, you can defer taxes until after they die and attach it as a lien on the property.
Sure, both centralization and decentralization have pros and cons. But the momentum driving web3 and crypto isn't some societal push-back against the common enemy of the centralized internet, it's almost entirely a product of venture capital seeking ROI.
Why are new devices dependent on the Internet with so little forethought?
Yeah, and these features are easier to track than the interior of the house.

As an aside, I've often been surprised how little some of these features get valued. For instance, I've looked at neighborhoods where one side of the street backs to other houses and the other side backs to parkland. The nicer side is generally more expensive, but it's not a huge effect, and often homes on the bad side go for more money (because of the building itself).
There are some use cases like concert or event tickets where the scarcity is not artificial
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One of the images says: "Copyright 1982-2020 ESl Syndetic Limited."

They may still be putting out builds.
The evil corporation writes the law "requiring" it to behave evilly, and their pet legislature passes it.
Also more reasons to not use Microsoft Teams.

I think an explanation here of what data is being sent to Microsoft Teams and now MS Teams can prevent phone calls is important here.

If my organization uses MS Teams, do my phone calls on my personal device go to my company?
Ask HN: Is doing the minimum at work practical?
I am an individual contributor in software development. My workplace is full of incompetent people. (Including the management). People are clueless as to what they are doing/why they are doing. To add to that, it has become a very toxic place. Due to some personal commitment, I am not in a position to change the job for atleast an year or so. I must admit, the work life balance is great at my current place. There is zero pressure.

I have been thinking of doing the bare minimum at work. But I am unable to implement. Because I am passionate about the technology. And moreover there will be guilty feeling. ( On the other hand, most of my colleagues have been very successful in fooling the people. They drag a task which can be completed in a day for weeks. They have exploited the system)

Recently, I bought a personal laptop so that I will spend less time in office work. But I still spend a lot of time in office work. I tend to check the email, workplace chat messenger all the time. Can someone give some advice on how to go about this?.( PS. This is not to encourage cheating. In fact, I wouldn't have thought about this, had my workplace been good. I am forced to do so because, nobody values good work/integrity at my workplace)
I'm just pretty curious. I've seen you repeated share Facebook Delos related posts quite a number of times in the past two months. Delos I think is super super super super interesting, super think there's really good elementary & basic ways to rebuild data-systems that we should all wake up, pay attention to, rebuild, & do, right away. And it saddens me to see lack of interaction. But also, to be honest, your posting has been fairly persistent about a number of topics. I've been curious who you are & what motivates you.

My apologies. I was doing a lot of tab sweeping. Kangaroo is indeed from October. Somehow that tab had gotten moved & come to reside amongst a bunch of far older tabs!
Yes, definitely agree that California's random property tax laws (like Prop 13) are the opposite of free market, libertarian tax policies like a land tax
Of that list, if C# were a more powerful language, I don't think the following would need to.

bool
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LOL. So as a shareholder you get to see Iphone 14 model months before launch?
Note that Buf is building tooling around Protobuf/gRPC, not replacing them.

Maybe I'm just another clueless millennial developer who doesn't understand the history of the 80's or whatever, but I've never been able to understand this claim that RPC is broken. There's a lot of assertions that everyone knows RPC was broken because smart people in the 80's said so but... no one has ever been able to give me a concrete reason why.

RPC, at least as I've always known it, really just boils down to request/response protocols. You send a request, you get a response. While this is admittedly not the only possible networking pattern, it is the dominant one across almost all distributed systems I've worked with. HTTP itself is request/response -- it's basically the same thing.

All gRPC and Protobuf are doing that is different from HTTP is they're using a binary protocol based on explicitly-defined schemas. The protobuf compiler will take your schemas and generate convenient framework code for you, so you don't have to waste your time on boilerplate HTTP and parsing. And the binary encoding is faster and more compact than text-based encoding like JSON or XML. But this is all convenience and optimization, not fundamentally different on a conceptual level.

Neither HTTP nor RPC protocols have ever pretended to solve higher-level distributed systems concerns of fault tolerance, network partitions, reliable delivery, etc. Those are things you build on top. You need a basic mechanism to send messages before you can do any of that.

What, exactly, is the magical non-RPC approach of the 80's that we're all missing? Can you explain the alternative?

EDIT: Also, like, the entirety of Google is built out of services that RPC to each other, but the 80's called and said that's wrong? How am I supposed to take this seriously?
It's funny, just as you're beginning to think that the Quakeflarinator may not have been a viable investment, the universe provides.
Likely the parts are shipped in from China to Malaysia.
Also, that's a pretty solid point on the breaking the monopoly factor. That's definitely a point for Spotify.