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>Land is a limited resource.

Precisely why the LVT is inherently flawed and regressive, and prone to abuse and exploitation by the rich and powerful, instead of being dictated by the aggregate market demand of regular citizens.

>Empirical data from the US and France, however, indicates that ownership of land value (in absolute terms) is negatively correlated to the social welfare weight. Middle income households would pay relatively more land value taxes than high income households, but less in absolute terms.

Unfortunately, the "relatively more" aspect (to one's income) is what matters.

LVT is predicated on this idea landowners will be forced to "make efficient" land for common good, as an empty lot is taxed the same as the skyscraper. In practice, this just makes desirable areas unaffordable for the middle class and completely forces out the lower class. e.g. it _makes explicit_ into the tax laws, what is already happening in practice with property tax.

property taxes in a desirable area say "sorry you're poor and your house isn't nice, but you pay less tax than your rich neighbor". LVT says "don't let the door hit you on your poor ass on your way out, but if you want to stay you can pay the same tax as Mr Moneybags next door".

Not to mention the irony that LVT actually decreases the value of the land.

>If buyers know that they’ll have to pay £10,000 in tax on a piece of land they valued at £100,000, they’ll only be willing to pay £90,000 for that land. The tax lowers the returns from land ownership which is reflected in the value of the land. The current owners of land are the ones who bear the full cost of future tax bills.

Again this disproportionately affects the middle class landowner and unceremoniously kicks the lower-class former-landowner who inherited the property out of the landowner class.

LVT is ultimately the billionaire's dream. It's a dressed up neo-Eminent Domain, pretending to be progressive while being punitive to those without means.

Worst of all* is the suggestion LVT it discourages land speculation - it actually does the exact opposite. It severely exacerbates speculation, akin to how people scalp concert tickets or limited edition Jordan shoes today.

*there's also countless issues with trusting the government to evaluate the land; the issue of value vs. area; subjectivness of varying types of land value from agricultural farmland vs. industrial land vs. service-oriented vs. transport/logistics vs. inherent value from resources, but "make the poor family living in a shack pay the same tax as the rich guy who build a skyscraper" is sufficiently flawed without going in depth into those issues.
Math has always been taught badly.
Kids ought to have been exposed to Calculus concepts by middle school. Anything short of that is a coin-toss anyway.
Why is the buyer's agent's incentive to rush the buyer into whatever house as fast as possible? The industry is completely misaligned.
Another big one is the inquisitorial system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system
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While it would be fun to see this work, NAR knows that the entire value prop for them to exist is the MLS systems. If realtors ever open access to that, their entire profession will collapse overnight.

I briefly had my license and the entire industry is like a giant pyramid scheme with fees on top of fees on top of fees.

I’m half tempted to reopen my license just to get involved with Redfin because I have no real estate relationships to lose.
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> I wonder if it lives up to the hype.

We do think so! (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder at Feldera)

To give some more background: We are trialing feldera with several industry/enterprise partners from different domains. Our core team also built differential datalog (https://github.com/vmware/differential-datalog) in the past. And while ddlog is used quite successfully in products today, we believe the many lessons we learned with ddlog will help us to build an even better continuous analytics platform. FYI our code is open-source at https://github.com/feldera/feldera if you'd like to try it out.

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Storage (and other kinds of infra startups) all face these problems. They are solved via a number of factors:

1. Huge amounts of upfront VC investment to allow time to actually build out an enterprise ready product.

2. Leadership heavyweights with experience in the industry, both on the business relationship side and equally importantly on the technical side.

These two factors allow people like Andy Bechtolsheim and John Colgrove to build these sorts of companies and sell directly into enterprise from the get go.

This makes sense because startups have no money to spend on these things anyway, enterprises are used to accepting some free/cheap hardware to "test things out". In fact when I used to run an IaaS company we would frequently get a free box or two when AMD or Intel launched a new CPU architecture, they would push marketing spend through Dell or HP to allow us to have one to play with.

These aren't the companies I was talking about though. I was talking about chasing shiny things that are half-baked. You can't sell a half-baked storage product to anyone so it's not really a concern.
> for doing effectively nothing

you're not doing labour. You're injecting capital into the system. The person who sold the house to you, presumably, is using the proceeds of their sale (and profit) to do something else productive.

I don't get why so many people consider taking asset risk as "doing nothing".
Zillow is a biased party, being a business that earns its income from home sales. They very well could publicize different figures than what they really think, although I think it is more likely that they simply do not have the ability to predict prices any better than most others.

Which is why they lost a ton of money in their home buying/selling division and shut it down.
I feel like its similar to car dealerships. Once you've decided to take on a realtor, there's now a social pressure to buy/sell. You feel like you can't spend too long looking, and taking up the realtor's time.

I feel like these institutions exist to pressure unsure people into making unsure decisions by trying to get them to gloss over details that might not matter.
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Hmm, seems like Airbnb has caused plenty of 'disruption' but I can't give them too many props for it. I agree that broadly the mass of realtors, title companies, etc. that pile on to extract their cut of the sale of a home seem unnecessary, or at most should be getting a fraction of what they now take.
>What's quite interesting about it though is that two years in to the era of the general-purpose IBM PC, it was a machine that still booted in to BASIC - a language still suitable for beginners, but which was looking a bit odd for a business machine.

Commodore was hardly alone, of course, in not realizing how the world had changed in August 1981. Even Jerry Pournelle in BYTE kept discussing "Zeke" and other CP/M machines until about 1984.

Those that realized the paradigm shift early—Compaq, Lotus, PC Magazine and PC World, and of course Microsoft—won big. Those that didn't—pretty much every single CP/M vendor, for example—either got run over or, worse, pivoted too late and got run over. Note how the first three pages in the January 1982 BYTE <https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-01/mode/2up?v...> (containing the magazine's first full review of the IBM PC) are an ad for Cromemco. ("Who?" you ask. Exactly.) Apple survived because Apple fanatics were a thing 40 years ago as much as they are today. Tandy barely survived by stumbling backwards into the single best-selling PC compatible of the decade. Commodore survived by continuing its move downmarket that the VIC-20 had begun.
The abstraction between the two is a very minimal difference. My point stands is that as far as how things are controlled is a minimal issue. Streaming to multiple devices, library access, and age gates are nice features but they’re all mostly unnecessary and born out of the anxiety that the laptop connected to an HDMI port isn’t good enough.
and taxes ... while prop 13 keeps property taxes reasonably down for legacy home owners there is nothing blocking capital gains
ECS is popular in games because each of your “things” can freely and dynamically change into anything. In a static type hierarchy this is not possible.

Each of your things that you want to identify and tell apart from other has an ID. Nothing else like a type is required.

Your ID can be registered in the melee fighter “system” (ECS lingo), inserted into the melee fighter table (relational db lingo). But it can also be registered in the table for ghosts, resulting in little girls reacting by crying, running away and shouting for a guard.

Once the ghost melee fighter finishes a quest to regain his body he’s removed from the ghost table. The advantage here is that this scales really well due the melee fighter and ghost systems not being tied to each other. In OOP you get combinatorial explosions of types resulting in a “god object” with many booleans to turn behavior off, or switching from type hierarchies to composition.
There is an air breathing rocket engine that's exactly what you want on a plane:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_%28rocket_engine%29

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/synergetic-air-br...

The answer is "its too expensive, unsafe and basically unnecessary." Even Concorde (with conventional jets) proved to be uneconomical when luxury commercial aviation was lucrative, and US rocket powered X-Planes like the X-15 never made it out of prototypes.

Giant turbofans are good enough.
Perhaps it’s just rapid inflation, goods and services have yet to catch up? Only time will tell. $100 today is most definitely not $100 from 8 years ago.
> Second, it's not that case that Unicode aims to encode all writing systems. For example, there are many hobbyist neographies (constructed writing systems) which will not be included in Unicode.

Doesn't the "private use space" technically satisfy this?
Both defend themselves with liquidity arguments; with hedge funds (some of them, famously they're a compensation scheme not an an asset class) it's about medium- or long-term liquidity (buying assets that are going to pay off but only months, years or decades down the line), with market-makers it's about short term.
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Remote attestation mostly solves this: https://blog.cloudflare.com/eliminating-captchas-on-iphones-...

The downside is that this will quicken the normalization of consumer devices that we don't really own/control. Using an Android device without passing SafetyNet checks is already a painful experience.
Because we got to a point where most people simply cannot afford a house (I have read that the average house on the market cannot be bought by 80% of the households).

People are indeed holding on their low rate mortgage and that is the only reason why the prices are currently so high (artificially low supply). This will eventually end. People need to move for job (return to the office anyone?), retirement or other reasons. Some people will lose their job and simply be unable to afford their mortgage. It is only a matter of time before it starts crumbling and the floodgates open.

The other side of the coin is that in a perfect market, the obvious arbitrage is to simply rent and invest your money in better performing assets. (we could discuss how in America most people buy blindly without any considerations for the underlying numbers).

Finally in every cycle, housing always took multiple months/years to adjust to the conditions. This is due to a slow moving and illiquid market. Owners think they can still get that "pandemic" 1m$ for a fixer upper while the rates went up a couple %. This price anchoring and discovery takes time. You can see this currently happening all over the US. Prices are slowly declining.
So is gravity and rainbows. You just gotta get what you can
> Isn't that just our understanding of gravity not being complete.

No. It's that, but it's not just that: if a QFT in 4-d spacetime has a coupling constant with a negative mass dimension, it has infinitely many free parameters, which means you can only use it below a given energy scale. We live in a 4-d spacetime, and the mass dimension of Newton's constant is -2, so either the true theory is not a QFT, or it's an infinitely complicated QFT we can never actually find.

> That seems to be a big leap, is not the existence of flaws in our understanding of gravity also certain?

Yes, both GR and the standard model are known to be incomplete.
Ah okay, the smug tone is because you want people to get frustrated and riot. Yeah, I kinda figured that already. Wrecker.
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25up/3down is the definition of broadband.
Well, what did it taste like?
That will crash inevitably into the 'lets make the trash can tough for bears. oops we also made the trashcan tough for 10% of humans'. (is there a name for this phenomenon?)

it's an optimization problem, with context dependent levels of true negative, false positive acceptance criteria
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Bad take.

Zillow is great at estimating home values and related figures.

They're NOT great at estimating those values in the future.
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To be fair they are still refactoring code that they inherited from emby which they quite criticized before iirc.
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This is true. Actually discovered my first oak gall this season and reading up on the specific wasp that can make an oak make an apple and then the specific wasp that puts parasites into the parasite and so forth. Anyways, fascinating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_apple
People tend to be really shortsighted when it comes to home prices.

People get excited with the thought of selling their home and "extracting profit". But how do you extract profit?

You still need another home, right?

Unless you plan on downsizing then you are going to buy similar or larger to what you just sold. If your house value went up 30%, then likely the rest of your area did too. So if you want to buy something new, then all your profits go back to something that is the same as you already have. In the end you just end up in a similar home, but now with a worse interest rate.

So where's that value extraction that everyone gets so excited about.

Thats why home sales aren't happening right now. People fantisize about their home value but when they go to sell they realize they will probably end up worse off than when they started.

For example. Let's say you bought a home for $300k and now it is worth $400k. Let's say they owe $250k on it. Nice 30% value, huh? Great, sell it. Now you have a cool $150k burning a hole in your pocket. But then you remember, oh i don't have anywhere to sleep tonight. So you go and buy a home that is similar to what you just sold. Well all those houses now cost $400k, thats why you were able to sell yours for that price in the first place. So now you use the $150k of money that you "extracted" as a downpayment on another $400k home and guess what, you're back to a $250k loan, which is exactly where you started. You didn't gain anything. Just now you are paying 6.5% interest on it instead of 3.5% interest. Which means your monthly mortgage actually increased by ~$650 a month for the same house. Great deal, huh?
Prop 13 is only in California, and previous poster was talking about sub $350k houses, which makes it very, very unlikely they are in California.
The Firefox user agent permits users to put a video PiP when they choose.
The solution is tried and true. Let the user mark notifications as spam and have a locally running spam filter.

I'm sure we'll get that soon. Enforcing notification categories is unfeasible for all apps.
Already answered below, but the bulk of the market for H100’s appears to be AI. HPC was historically the largest market for this class of accelerator, but it appears to have shifted to hyper scale cloud computing centers.

HPC’s are used to distribute the computation of differential equations using numerical methods and AI appears to be making inroads here as well. I would be interested in others’ opinion on whether it’s a settled question on whether or not AI will be able to produce equivalent solutions.
surely you cannot have a million Bangladeshi humans reading captcha via API due to the realities of eligible population / cost at scale, so it still does function for most use cases that want to leverage such "automation".
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3% of a $1M house is $60,000. That's bonkers almost any way you slice it: effort, expertise, or value-add. And that's just one side of the usual commission!

The process _could_ be streamlined and made less of a hassle, but since so many take a cut, there are perverse incentives.

I skew progressive/liberal on many policy issues, but on this one, I'm fiercely in favor of the libertarian argumentation. Realtors have an eff-ing insane monopoly / cartel. Sorry, it makes me crazy.

If you go back in time and/or to some markets, 3% of a $100,000 house = $6,000. That makes a bit more sense in terms of hourly compensation.
Ironically I have an important transfer that was just delayed several days with Wise that is usually instant (from a linked account), but yes generally it's very good
Care to provide an example where the icon is so offensive? It sounds to me like your trying to use tools in unintended ways to avoid best practice for what you're actually trying to achieve.
The list of supercomputers using H100’s continues past #9
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You're a web author who thinks web authors don't have enough control. Also: users don't need control. Does that about summarize your stance?
No One's Complaining
All the other browser permit you to override the user. They are not user's agents anymore, are they?
One of Jerry Pournelle's aphorisms was "The computer you want costs $5000".

That was correct for about the first decade of personal computing. The first real move downward from that price point occurred with the simultaneous emergence of cheap PC clones and the Amiga/ST (the Mac wouldn't move similarly downmarket for another half decade, and arguably not for a full decade).
Typically there's much less tax involved when investing in real estate. Here (Australia) there's both no tax on the imputed rent or price appreciation if it's your own home.
> for a lot of fitness tracking you also need a separate FitBit acCount, and have to use a separate FitBit app

not for long. you will soon be required to migrate to Google by 2025. new Fitbit comes with controls for YouTube Music and none else. so the integrations are coming, which I absolutely love.

don't let Nadella hear you say you're moving from the Microsoft monopoly though ;)
I used them to buy and the "team leader" was amazing. We were ultimately very happy with the experience so it seems results may vary.
Omnifocus does quite well with this. They offer a sync service, but it’s just webDAV syncing a few XML files so you can easily host your own if you want, or throw the files in iCloud.
Happened to me too- my joints are still messed up. Really wish doctors did a better job informing you before putting you on some random antibiotic that can cause so much damage in the body.
I thought Mac was a bad walled-garden, and M$ was being too pushy with the M$ account requirements, but the Chromebook won't even function without a Google account, and they are eager to retire them ASAP. I was burned once and would never do it again.
I hadn't seen this. Very cool thank you!

A long time ago I had an idea after leaving DEFCON about making a standard gizmo, something like a lapel pin that connects via whatever to whatever supercomputer someone is carying in their pocket and that thing presents an obvious color code. Lets say 4 quadrants with a circle in the middle. I think ideally it would be like epaper with maybe a backlight option. Non intrusive but could be vivid. This could let people know in polite society if they did not want to be recorded, were recording, how they were recording, etc. Obviously this doesn't stop anyone from doing whatever, but you can monitor signals from people and if someone is doing something they say they aren't that can be shared. You can also transmit information like PGP public keys via ultrasonic handshake or whatever.

I mean, day to day I could see never needing it but going into the office, taking the train, going to court, going to a concert, there are a lot of ways something like that could be very useful and if adopted at any sort of scale could error check and blacklist bad actors.
The article has a very misleading title. It doesn't discuss or provide evidence of any "campaign" to convince people.
Virtually any detergent will kill stinkbugs.

Your options are to put them in a container with a a weak dish- or hand-soap solution (a mug or yoghurt tub with a few drops of detergent + water will do the trick). They'll die in a minute or so. You'll get some smell though it's usually not too strong if you avoid crushing them. Dispose of the dead ones within a day.

You can also use a (diluted) detergent spray, and apply that directly to groups of the insects, particularly where they're gathered on exterior walls, plants, etc. That's effective diluted to 25%, and almost certainly further.

Any detergent seems to be effective, specific brands don't much matter. If you need a specific recommendation, a cheap Dawn detergent should work.

For a passive solution: soapy water + vinegar traps can be used. Tubs, buckets, reused plastic food containers, aluminium foil pans or trays, roasting pans, etc., all make excellent traps.

See: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=DNjzdH45XT4>

And a larger DIY insecticide-based trap: <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AZxkmmImRIc&listen=false>

Diatomaceous earth should also be effective.