skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Existing tax policies focus on the current market value of the land. Compared to a land value tax, existing tax policies under assess poorly used land or vacant land and the owners pay much less in taxes. This encourages speculation and discourages productive use.

The assessor can't the change the share of land vs structure unfairly any more than they can increase the assessed value unfairly. A homeowner can protest the assessment and provide comparable sales and other estimates that show a more objective split of value.

Michigan property taxes are interesting in another way, they have had issues with "dark store" restrictive covenants for commercial and industrial real estate. Basically the owner of a large commercial building argues the land/building has very little value on the open market, it is a single use building with restrictive covenants that prevent an alternative use. These restrictive covenants prevent the land from being sold to their main competitors, and these restrictive covenants are self imposed.
Haha. Thanks. I would find any slowdown in their releases post-ghost to be satisfying, personally.
I think this clause makes it literally hard to parse the argument. That’s because of who he is, sure, but that’s not an ad hominem attack on it.

The peanut butter comment was snarky, I’ll admit that! The point is that it’d be a remarkable achievement if somehow he hasn’t lost touch with a huge portion of most people’s everyday reality.
Riiiigh. Lay off 700 who are building electric car at Ford and blame the competition.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/16/business/ford-f150-lightning-...
This is me as well. Streaming services don't serve my needs at all.

I find algorithmic suggestions pretty much useless, but they're easy to ignore so don't really enter into it.
That's why getenv_s et al were added.
It’s system length that’s the bigger cost. If people are disincentivized from developing land, then the result is sprawl, with far greater infrastructure costs due to the enormous system lengths. Same goes for road costs, police, fire, schools, etc.
And then they are taking it away from you with guns because no one can fund public safety.
I'm pretty sure that underfunded pensions are a bigger problem than anything else.

Especially for services (where the value is concentrated at the time of delivery).
Would this be covered? This is a warranty issue. Or arguably a “mechanical” issue.
Ah, too bad. Apple is so frustratingly close.
There is roundup-ready Cotton, Soybeans, Corn and Canola, that I am aware of. My family grows Roundup-ready cotton. The other 2 are used for animal feed; in no case is any farmer going to be spraying it when it is fruiting, because once the weeds have got to that point you've already lost all the benefit of it being 'roundup ready' - where the purpose is for weeds to be killed so they don't take the moisture which is now conserved for the crop.

There are no roundup-ready vegetables that I am aware of, or fruits.
Those are a little different, though. As far as I’m aware, for the languages you listed, the orthography still corresponds fairly closely to the spoken language, even if there are some phonological and grammatical differences. (To add to your list of examples, this is also the case for Welsh.) I was talking about a situation where the relationship between the written and spoken languages is quite substantially obscured by sound change.
Get a load of this clown.
Maybe property tax should be inversely related to improvements, considering that improved land generates tax revenue in other ways, e.g. wage tax, sales tax, etc.
The rest are different, but in the several US localities I've lived in, water and sewer are paid as separate metered services. (Only the water is metered, the sewer is billed proportionally to the water usage.)
I see it differently - When Twitter stopped being Mainstream Controlled&Censored Media, many in the mainstream narrative development arena left Twitter.

Some of the Pro-Palestinian voices (I am not of this viewpoint) I could not have imagined on Twitter before Elon because the Pro-Israeli view (I am not of this viewpoint) is the mainstream and close to the establishment view.

Though I take neither side, I think having more voices present and less government censorship and a multitude of voices, including non-US voices, is better for understanding.
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I suspect there's a fair amount of overlap between the two populations, which is why I thought the comparison would be interesting. Both tend to attract affluent households.
I would feel a little foolish. But I really don't see the government doing a "give us your guns (property) or else." Every time I get a call from the NRA to donate because they're coming for my guns. I ask them jokingly "If they will give them up if the government comes knocking?" Then I jokingly tell them that I'm not concerned and The government doesn't want that smoke.
really well written reply, much I agree with. Except one part about markets. I think even in the Age of Abundance, market forces will still be present. But I think they will be more like how trees grow to the light, or roots to the water. We will still need signals for efficiency and regrowth.
Hard to say the same about money. I can't see a world without value, and I can't comprehend a system with value but no means to exchange value (money).
I trust that no one but large companies and govts have the capability to de-lid and reverse engineer silicon that small.
> If I earn $100 and pay tax on it, whatever’s left over is mine forever, and I never have to pay tax on that income again.

You know that this is not true in most places?

If you put a hundred dollar bill under your pillow, it will be worth less and less as time goes by thanks to inflation. And if you use that hundred dollar bill to buy an asset that hopefully keeps its real value, you pay capital gains taxes on the nominal increase in value (even if there was no real increase in value).
How is it a fallacy? Do you know that it won't?
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I'm not too familiar with this scene but I'd like to get one, and not the crappy $14.99 version at the local big box retailer.
The post originally had a descriptive title, but was renamed. I defer to dang.

"Maine has a law that requires disclosure for products containing PFAS.
Much of the lands values comes from public infrastructure and services provided. A piece of land somewhere in the desert is gone be worth very little.

A house in a city has lots of resources deployed there and land value tax pays for those things.

This tax makes better for people who invest locally and hurts people who don't.
You know what would be really helpful in such a use case? Thermal imaging. Now I'll admit I know nothing about Thermal Imaging, but I imagine if it was possible to get a live high resolution thermal image of an area, you could identify hotspots quickly. Heck, even for SAR missions, being able to thermal image a large area and look for warm bodies may be very useful.

Of course I have no idea if this is feasible or not, but I assume someone here will correct me if I'm pipe-dreaming.
But getenv/setenv syscall could still be under lock, which I think most of the people would use. Walking over memory could be without lock and the program could see inconsistent values as is the current behaviour.
Check this url:
https://releases.rs/docs/1.75.0/
That's certaintly not the view of the current legal system.
Thank you for checking again. I may go check em out. Oh and you're not wrong. It is rare.
Looks like a lot of people got triggered by the message. I think the manifesto is descriptively correct (by assigning to technology and markets the wealth increase of the last centuries) and prescriptively sound (just keep doing what we know it works).
I love MotoGP but I also fall asleep sometimes during races hah
I'm a manager for two dev teams (~10 people) my breakdown per week is:

* 2.5h for 30 minute 1:1s for people that want them once a week

* 1.25h for 30 minutes 1:1s for people that want them every other week

* 2.5h for team standup (15 mins/day * 2 teams)

* 4h for project meetings (status or technical discussions) (4 projects at 1h a day, but might be two 30m)

* 2h ceremonies a week (could be refinement/planning/retro)

* 1h compliance meeting (internal or external as my department is heavily regulated)

* 1h manager sync with my peer managers + director

* 30m 1:1 with my boss (director)

* 30m 1:1 with product

* 30m 1:1 with project manager

* 2h "what's next" meetings with product + staff engineers + mgmt for our rough sizing and product pipeline (not every week, but if we're in the midst of a BIG project, swap this with syncs with other parts of the org working on the same thing)

That's 18h of meetings a week. Add on some recruiting/hiring meetings, ad hoc "let's get in a room and talk about it" risk discussions, random all hands, and some bursty higher level stuff (OKRs/goal setting/etc).

That's >20h a week, and I do feel like people need all of those to be productive. If I cut the 1:1s, attrition rises. If I cut the status meetings, stuff gets off track and fingers start being pointed. I'm pretty aggressive when it comes to cancelling 1:1 or status meetings. We'll do a lot of "we don't need this cross team sync meeting unless someone has something they want to talk about or ask questions on". Any time I spend on people or making sure we know what we're trying to accomplish has huge ROI, IMO.

FWIW: Was a former lead developer with decade plus experience hands on coding, so I believe I can bring at least some developer perspective. I have a CS degree, not a management one.
As a side note Herzog advocating for Zoom instead of Teams is l’heure last thing I expected to read
It's a library call, not a system call. You're right though, they could implement locking.
Why is Rite Aid responsible opioid lawsuits though? They're just carrying out the lawful orders from the government, lawmakers, and big-pharma.

Are drug stores now responsible for doing their own screening on products?

I wonder what will happen to dispensaries once companies like Rite Aid are allowed to crumble.
It doesn't make sense to control any common material or tool.

There is nothing special about a bullet or an entire assembled cartridge. There is nothing in a bullet or a gun that you can control that doesn't also apply to bicycles and pens and teapots.

There are some extra exotic fancy materials that can make merely bigger better bullets and bombs, but no one intending to do harm actually needs them. So you can control depleted uranium to make bullets that work a bit better than others, but plain lead, or steel or copper or iron or tin or nickle or even glass ones work well enough. You can control the main ingredient in a nuke, but no one actually needs that to completely destroy anything with other kinds of bombs that don't need any such special ingredient.

This applies to every part of both a gun and a cartridge. There are no special or controllable in gredients or processes, fundamentally. You can only take a little bit of the shine off. If for example the assembled recognizable cartridge were simply outlawed, so there were no convenient factories producing the polished finished good, then people would just have to make slightly less polished versions, but not materially less effective.

Any ingredient that you might think to target has countless alternatives if ever needed.

Let's say cartridges are illegal, so the home cartridge maker needs brass tubing, so you go "aha! that is a pretty niche product that most people don't need, we can just control that!

The problem is, brass tubing is not actually needed. nor is brass sheet. nor is brass. It's used today because it's a good fit for purpose, but you can use practically anything, especially if you have to design your own gun anyway, you can adjust the gun design to accomodate the needs of some other shell design.

The same goes for every other part. A perfectly functional gun and it's ammunition can be constructed out of whatever is available. It's not limited to the specific design you see on a shelf today.

I'm not a gun owner or lover, and am liberal on pretty much all topics, but these kinds of arguments about guns really are ignorant, which should be fine, it should be fine for most people to be ignorant of most things, but it's really a problem when it is used to forward policy.
Agree - I think pure land value/pure Georgism works best when there are no limits on development (zoning/water availability/topography) and there's room for infinite sprawl into adjacent flat land.

As mentioned I think Texas will be interesting to watch as its pretty close pure Georgianism - the state's revenue is mostly/all LVT property taxes - but they are starting to see exponential growth - so it will be interesting to see if they stick to it or resort to California style Prop 13.
>> 'Our present society has been subjected to a mass demoralization campaign for six decades – against technology and against life – under varying names like “existential risk”, “sustainability”, “ESG”, “Sustainable Development Goals”, “social responsibility”, “stakeholder capitalism”, “Precautionary Principle”, “trust and safety”, “tech ethics”, “risk management”, “de-growth”, “the limits of growth”.'

I wonder how many of these terms were focus grouped and promoted by him or people in his cohort.
The land value in absence of human activity is zero.

All value stems from improvements made by people, either on the land, or nearby.
Corporations, in America, where the travesty known as Citizens United exists.

(I'm not claiming that other countries don't have money in politics; but America is the one where it is most clearly enshrined with an actual name to the philosophy)
They can hardly pay their current creditors, much less the lawsuits.
That was my question, I think this is just a good old fashion all-american "corporate do-over".
Here's an article about it from 2021 just after it was passed..... (don't think it took effect til this year maybe)

https://www.science.org/content/article/maine-s-ban-forever-...
You're conflating "freedom of speech" with "freedom of the press". Speech, of course covers the conveyance of ideas in all forms. Why was it important to also call out "freedom of the press" separately then, if speech was already mentioned? Presses were large, expensive, exclusive tools for a long period of time. It would be trivial to control the types of essays, books, newspapers and papers that could be published and distributed by simply slapping a fine or attaching a civil penalty to the mere act of publishing controversial material. In fact the Alien and Sedition Acts that cost the Federalists their existence in American politics were largely seen to be unconstitutional, and made the mere printing of seditious material an exportable offense, although the act was repealed so quickly it was never tried at Supreme Court.

The word press quite literally meant printing press. People did not refer to journalists specifically as "the press" until around 1868: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/art...
Some additional information:

https://www.pressherald.com/2023/10/16/maines-pfas-law-draws...
I'm talking about what you get without having to sign in. Even with free albums, IIRC you can't fully preview the song without "buying" it, which means signing in first. The signed-in experience is mostly akin to the signed-in experience of the iTunes Store. It's what you get when not signed in that's unique.
Well, one of the synonyms listed on Wiktionary is "meek", and that is definitely not what I think of when I see pitbulls attacking people and causing lifelong injuries. And considering this frequently happens to children in homes with such dogs, it seems that the other definitions of "docile" don't really apply either.
Mostly personal integrity. I know most folks think I’m a chump, but it was the path I chose.

We did good work. It didn’t really have a high profile, but it was really engaging.

Basically, I couldn’t trust anyone else to do the job, and the Japanese had a lot of trust for me.

It is a bit sad, to hear the name-calling and insults, when I talk about it, but I’m not an idiot, and I’m not a chump.
I feel some people have never had a good manager, and so they don’t realize just how much bullshit they can insulate you from.
If you want to have a government at all, you must finance it somehow. Usage fees can go a long way, but you most likely also need some general taxation. Taxing land value is the least bad thing to tax, because the supply of land is fixed.

Yes, you can see this alternatively as the government renting out the land. And that's a fine view. Landlords pass on the land, but also put buildings on top. What you pay monthly for your apartment is partially for the land (which would go to the government, indirectly) and partially for the building and amenities and maintenance.
They probably could have given a more apt name
YouTube offers an alternative model: YouTube premium.
The economy is not a zero sum game. If a land tax leads to increased economic activity it can actually result in a lower tax rate and generate more than enough tax to pay for the services the government provides.
Spotify’s process is that the files need to be locally accessible from any computer playing the music, or they must be synced manually to the mobile app.

Lack of a real library is why I ditched Spotify for Rdio years and years ago, and why I switched to Apple Music when that became a thing. And I still run a Plex server, partially for the PlexAmp player.
Combine this with state of the art VR tech (something with good eye tracking and 4k per eye) and we're living in the future.
Ah yes, the halcyon days of 2004, when websites were all…minimalist?

Bandcamp has been one of the most functional and user-centered designs on the web for a long time now. They asked for far less commission on sales, and they provided options for downloading music in FLAC and even WAV formats, and were well ahead of the curve with “pay what you can” pricing. I have been a musician all of my life. I used Bandcamp exclusively to distribute my music online, and every musician I have ever known prefers it over every other option—by wide margins. Part of what we liked was how little it engaged in feature-creep and bloat.
Okay, this might be a bit tangential, but how is joining YC helping you apart from the funding? Assuming you have a working concept, you don't really need the funding for scaling up, and the network is barely adjacent at best. I'm just curious about the benefits that I don't see.
Foreign policy that was used to engineer a crisis that was designed to influence Culture policy. There were games within games.
I figured they would, sooner or later. Almost all companies with the name "Rite" in their name wreak of the 1970's, ugly painted brick buildings, and make me not want to shop at them. They need to update their branding to the 21st century.

Others:

Bi-Rite Creamery

Shop-Rite

etc.

Walgreen's needs to fix their font too. It looks like 1990's Microsoft fonts. I shop at CVS because I like their graphic design better.
Only some parts of Australia, isn't it?

They also have silly things like stamp duty, which is a sin tax on giving land to someone who has a better use for it.
One of the biggest ironies is how puritanical we Americans are regarding swearing and the naked body, but extreme violence such as showing people brutally murdered, that's fine.
>they forgot to add some instructions (like add with overflow check).

If you actually read the spec, you would have found that they didn't "forget" these.

They carefully studied them and judged the encoding space is better used elsewhere.
It's global state for a local condition.

Linus Torvalds on errno: https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/errno.html
No projection here:

"Love it-- but since I'm not using systemd, it's a no-go. Would love to see it support more diverse systems"

That poor lack of diversity.
I think in libc, there's a lot of stuff where an interface is kind of broken from a thread perspective, and it could be implemented better without changing the interface, but often people generally do not.

I can't think of any examples offhand, but I often think it about thread-local storage. Eg. lots of interfaces have an _r() equivalent where you provide the buffer, but many people still call the unsafe one which is broken when there are threads... In my mind, the best way to do this would be to use static thread-local storage in the non-_r() one, and have it call the _r() one ... Sure that has overhead and isn't a perfect solution, but it's better than "bad". But a lot of these old functions don't necessarily get love.
When I say rent seeking, I mean something like "gaining profit by owning capital rather than by performing labor". Under that definition, all value extracted from capital would be rent seeking[1]. Strictly speaking, I'm not necessarily opposed to extracting value by owning capital; in many cases someone bought that capital with the profits from their labor, and more broadly the world isn't black and white. However, I do see taxing profit from owning capital as more just than taxing profit from labor.

In that respect, I generally see property taxes as more just than income taxes. However, I am sure that there are exceptions and any tax code would need to be nuanced.

[1] Although owning capital may allow you to do some labor that you couldn't otherwise in which case the profit gained from that labor would not be rent.
1) it increases the likelihood of forced sales by owners (think a pensioner having to sell their long time home because property taxes have increased unaffordably due to the gentrification of their neighborhood
2) best use of land in this scheme is solely based on economic productiveness, it doesn’t take into consideration environmental and quality of life factors (to name a few) - think of all the local institutions that wouldn’t be around under this scheme, or the reduction of green space
adverse selection, a community is good, so it grows, and then it becomes attractive to the mainstream, and to bad actors who exploit it for their own agendas, and extract value while making it worse.
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