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The problem you're glossing over is what value should be assigned to the land.

If some land developer wants to build a new arena next to your plot of land - boom you're value just skyrocketed.

If the same land developer backs out of the deal - boom your land is worth less (or is actually worthless).

Your taxes depend on exactly when the assessment was made... and even professionals cannot agree on valuation (as we're seeing in some high profile cases right now).

Even for the same plot of land two people can value it radically differently.

> extremely high vacancies like San Francisco

This is a relatively new phenomenon.
At the core of it, land ownership is really about who has the resources to defend it.

Since you are relying on the government and surrounding society to defend the land, it’s up to society to define how that ownership works.
Bloomberg but auto-mute commerials.
Given the history of the writer of the blog post's (apenwarr) involvement in Debian, I highly doubt they missed that particular bugaboo. Mayhap he's just burned out by it at this point, or he's just stating the facts: there's not really anything anyone who cares can do do change it, so don't spend precious attention worrying about it.
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Search & replace isn't dripping sarcasm, it's the Colbert Report and The Onion, which have rather proven the validity of the practice.

If the result sounds in any way remarkable, then that only illustrates that the original is remarkable in exactly the same way, which is of course the point of the exercise.

Maybe you aren't a fan, but they are certainly in non-trivially good company.
> No. It's a weedkiller. Putting it ON the fruits would be expensive and useless.

So, why Monsanto went all the trouble of developing GMO crops resistant to it, if it is intended just for the weeds?
The notion that religion must be taken on faith only, and that testing is antithetical to "the true belief" is fairly new. It was likely a reaction to rapidly shrinking gaps in our knowledge of the world, that mostly pushed religion out of the "material" world.
>LI has a distinctive lack of chill right now contrary to the company image

I don't get it. Did linkedin have an image of being a chill place to work?
Not just neo-reactionary, actively accelerationist who seems to believe that heat death just can't come quick enough.
It’s the governments job to do literally whatever the voters want it to do.

Turns out the majority of voters are not all that interested in defending the piles of unproductive wealth.
In the US, people have the right to property (unlike say, places like Canada https://www.albertalandinstitute.ca/resources/property-right...). This is a freedom enshrined in the US Constitution and through the fifth amendment. If the Detroit government pushes too hard and rapidly deprives certain parties of their land, they can expect a constitutional challenge.
There’s also psky.app, but it’s generally just annoying having to edit the link before sharing, especially on mobile. I wish Bluesky would just stop login-walling links, it’s all public anyway.

Edit: psky is retired now, but point still stands
Australians have embraced digital payments so quickly that the country now ranks among the top users of cashless payments globally.
The price of managed cloud services
Bill Ford Says UAW Strike Is Helping Tesla and Toyota
The NBA is an extreme outlier case where even the NBA wants there to be a union because any single player can have drastic negative repercussions.

Theres virtually no other business that yields so much revenue from only ~10 people (5 on court players and 5 bench players).

If Lebron decided to not show up to a bunch of games, this would have massive repercussions for the entire league & TV contracts.
Whilst there could be a million reasons.

I think a lot of people don't realise or perhaps consider that moving from school/University to the workplace can drastically change the amount of time you are moving throughout the day and your physical activity.

I used to work in a retail environment where I was on my feet all day in my early twenties, then I moved into an office environment. During both workplaces I exercised a lot but I absolutely noticed that I needed to be more conscious of what I am eating after having started working in an office.
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What's funny about this is that another way to increase production is to improve conditions for working class people - free college, free medical care, protections against speculation on housing to allow for affordable housing, better transit options and urban design... these political choices would dramatically improve our operational abilities as a country, but wealthy people like Andreessen tend to oppose measures like this in favor of laissez faire policies. This ultimately limits his ability to serve as the visionary he clearly would like to be.
It doesn't work that way in almost all jurisdictions.

Either current residents are protected from property tax increases, or property taxes can be deferred until sale or death and the estate pays them (common in many jurisdictions).
firing entire levels of middle management seems to be a fashion these days, but from experience in my org it has been counterproductive. my current manager now has >60 direct reports so can’t even find the time to handle each of our basic hr tasks, let alone provide any leadership.

in theory i can see the board salivating to pretend they are elon but in practice it’s a dysfunctional nightmare.

plus it’s bad for ic morale because there is now no path forward for advancing our careers to the managerial level.
Yes the owner. Who else? They own it.

Edit: Was the stress on "decides" or "best"?
That sounds sad!

Until you realize the reality writ large: The current tax scheme enables drives supply down and value endlessly up. So much so that most homeowners end up selling for more than the total lifetime cost of ownership. So the old man from 'Up' would be able to sell and recoup a lifetime of housing costs. Personal homeownership is just abstract landlording in that way.

We have a myth in the western world that we own our homes. You can argue it's a natural right, but that won't matter to the government if you don't pay your taxes. So ownership is a social construct, just like copyright; we've decided as a society that it's most beneficial to let people "own" land. But the current system has, by destroying housing supply, increased housing costs by double (in HCOL areas) over what they would be if supply met demand. So renters and first time homeowners are subsidizing homeowners in a huge way. As a result, people are putting off having kids, or not having them at all, and taking a job they hate just to exist. It's abstract, but it's still feudalism; land owners extracting value from land merely from holding the social contract to it.

So no, my empathy does not extend to sympathy for Mr. Carl Fredrickson. I'll save it for the people laboring to pay his fair share.
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And English is also rapidly approaching this situation.
I’m probably the only person alive who pretty much only falls asleep to things they find interesting.

I think I can at least partly explain it as a distraction from whatever anxiety inducing thoughts I might otherwise be running in my head.

If I’m engaged in something, I can’t really think about anything else. My mind stays on a relatively straight track, long enough that my body finally relaxes and I drift off.

But if I’m bored, my mind wanders to more “interesting” things that aren’t exactly soothing, and my mind’s director isn’t nearly as … linear or focused.
Terrifying as someone who has well water. I don't use chemicals to control the weed on the lawn, but who knows what my neighbors are doing. Guess I'm going to switch to bottled water. :-/
You are already paying taxes, Land Value Taxes just seek to be a more efficient (since they try to target rent seeking rather than profitable labor) and more just (since they target land that the owner didn't create) form of taxation.

So arguing that it's effectively the government stealing your property is only a valid argument if you are arguing that all taxation is theft. If that's what you believe then that's fine, but it would be better to be upfront about what argument you are making.
The city sets a budget first, then calculates the value of all land being managed, and sets a tax per land value dollar that matches their budget. The actual value of the land doesn’t matter at all, only the relative value between properties.
Fentanyl and Heroin have legitimate medical uses, but can also be misused to cause bodily harm, so I'm not sure I follow the argument.
You might be right, but that might be because they're just really bad managers.

A good engineering manager shouldn't be there to herd engineers. A good engineering manager is there to protect their engineers from the organization, ensure they have the resources required to do the work, and to make sure their organizational goals, development, and wellbeing are being advocated and cared for. Scrum masters shouldn't care about that. Managers should.
The keywords you want for that file transfer are "Magic Wormhole".

Yes, it works on Windows, Linux, and OS X.
The most successful scams actually do go into excruciating detail to appear methodical, that's how you get people to buy in.

While I do agree with many of the points you raised, for me those point to the uselessness of the CPI as a matric. If the dataset is so complex you can only boil it down so far before too much context is lost. The CPI is an attempt to create a single number of off the entire economy, a task that is impossible made only more clear by complaints over the obvious and egregious tradeoffs made.

Statistics can be useful, it can also be a pointless game of manipulating so much data that you can make it say whatever you want. I think you'd be hard pressed to find an average American that would feel like prices have only gone up by ~4-5% over the last few years.
> I wonder how much of HAMMER2 is tailored towards the DF-BSD kernel?

Given that the same developer is porting HAMMER2 to not only OpenBSD, but also NetBSD and FreeBSD - not much.

https://github.com/kusumi
Can me when San Francisco has "collapsed" so I can maybe buy a reasonably priced home. As it stands despite all the horror you see on the news no one really wants to leave.
> LVT encourages urban sprawl by punishing retail, industrial, and residential concerns that choose to agglomerate with higher taxes.

Can you explain more? I don't see it.

If a place already has high property taxes, and they are currently assessed on the land and the improvements then improved land in an area will receive a relative "tax reduction" compared to a full encompasing property tax. This means it is beneficial to improve land (the opposite of urban sprawl). The more the improvements the more the gains. Or thought another way improvements are "tax free" so it's easier to gain profit from improvements and is incentiviced.

If the location has low or no property taxes, then LVT will introduce a tax to the area and usually the plan is for this this tax is replace / offset other forms of tax (ex sales taxes). So enterprise would be taxed less and the land would be taxed instead. So again doing more commercial activity compared to a similarly sized lot doing less would be rewarded.

I'm not seeing any method that benefits sprawl for LVT compared to property taxes.
This is less great when the result is:

* Massive lines forming that congest multiple blocks (increasing danger to primarily car occupants, decreases throughput of public transit even with dedicated lanes)
* Drivers, becoming increasingly less patient, gun forward any opportunity they have to progress (increasing danger to pedestrians)
* Idling vehicles for longer periods create increased pollution (debatable, but theoretically would affect everyone)

But I'd say the biggest losers are when this impacts buses.
Session buddy for some reason ends up w/fairly high processor usage, especially if you keep the session page open. I created a local fork that stripped out tracking, slowing down updates, and automatically closing the session page and it it works much better for my needs.
Yes, that's exactly the idea. We have a problem in the US where many metro areas do not have enough housing, in part because building big things is penalized by the tax code. By changing the tax code to not penalize construction, we hope to get more construction.
Tencent owns 40% of Epic, and Epic lost most of its legal battle against Apple.
Under the US system, I could see this having issues if the State, Federal, or County/Municipality holds it. What if the current entity doesn't do what the other wants performed with it?
That’s the whole point of the product right is to ask for what’s in the “history”? Otherwise is just a screen recording app that I can activate with cmd shift 5.
It's likely that they do - and it's reported at her standup what their team is working on.
Why would you ever call setenv after spawning threads though?

Or are there other sneaky calls which will do that behind you back?
It would make housing far less accessible.

It would be like a flat tax (in dollars, not percent) on every homeowner.
Currently the top 5% of income earners pay 65% of taxes, and the bottom %50 pay %2.

Instead of this, every homeowner would pay basically the same. Bezos and Musk would pay more, but they don't own a million houses each, so it wouldn't be much more.
I use plenty of services that I do really want but as long as I don’t actually have to pay for it, I won’t pay. Do I watch Disney+ or HBO or Netflix a lot sometimes? Yes. Have I ever paid for any streaming service? God no, because I always got some friend I can bum off of. And as long as I can bum, I will continue to bum.

The only things I willingly and voluntarily pay for are news and music subscriptions and that’s because I value them the most and consider them important to society but I definitely don’t necessarily use them the most.

Anyway my only point is that it has nothing with open standards. People want free and will take advertising if it means it’s free.
I always thought getenv() was code smell, and this confirms it. I guess a better option would be to add a parameter to Getaddrinfo(), and deal with it further up the stack?
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then bytedance doesn't have managers
> we have to forget all the optimistic stories we tell ourselves about tech, and instead just look at the incentives

I like how people keep coming up with dialectical materialism independently. Just don't drop the M-word and no one will get triggered.
As a non-programmer, what's this especially useful for?
You’d want to give up your land-valuable, single-family residence for the opportunity to move into a unit in a multi-tenant building on the same land? If I were a developer, I’d gladly take that deal.

If there are more people like you, maybe I’ll become a developer.
Where did the value of your grandmother's "generational wealth" come from?

It came from renters and first time home owners putting money into the housing market.

Your grandma is doing the looting.
The key isn't fetched and never leaves the enclave. The enclave does the crypto functions.

Passkeys are meant to replace passwords for the average user. And they definitely succeed at that.
They are loading the tax burden on the land rather than on structures. So, you can build the Taj Mahal or leave the lot a burned out wreck-- either way you pay the same tax. Many comments on the thread overstate what this is.

I happen to think it's interesting, but for reasons unrelated to the article-- it's kinda goofy for the state to tax personal property that happens to be fixed to a location, like a fireplace, stained glass window or chandelier. Tax a house on a foundation; no tax for a house on wheels? This "LVT" scheme does away with those issues so folks can fix whatever they want to the location, so it makes more sense logically even if the connection to Detroit's problems is very unclear.
Have you tried to park downtown? If you want fewer lots it's gonna need structures.
Stuff like this is why I'm supportive of newer languages like Go and Zig that sidestep libc entirely (when not using cgo as in TFA of course). libc is a great achievement and has served us well but, boy, it sure is a product of its time.

`errno` is another relic that needs to die yesterday.
The Costco (or any other retailer co-branded card) vs. Apple thing is interesting

People run all kinds of purchases through Costco. Weekly grocery runs. Running their business, etc. People generally aren't shopping at Apple on a weekly or even monthly basis. The 3% cash back on Apple purchases just isn't as lucrative as rewards on spending a lot at Costco/Walmart/Target, and don't result in saving as much on credit card fees that the retailers get on their co-branded cards
Someone created the improvements on it, though. Which is most of what you're paying for when you buy or rent a place to live.

This isn't going to change much about landlords. If anything, it will increase the amount of housing rented through landlords, because the land value tax will make it uneconomical for more people to own their own homes. In a high value area, the only people who would be able to do so are the very rich.
Gosh it is so hard. I think I’m a few years from doing the same. Earning good money right now, can’t wait to cut it at back. But lifestyle inflation is real. Or at least my mortgage payment is as real as it ever was. And now family is growing one at a time and all of them depend on my income exclusively (not that I mind, but it does add gravity when I feel like quitting it all). It is quite a trap.
Kind of, yes. All politics is arbitrary line-drawing. There's a bit more to it in that the lines are contextually dependent on what exactly is being politicked about and usually not static.
nice work! :)
I've seen what teams with a lack of management do. They do a lot, but little of it drives the business forward.
See, now this is where I wanted the conversation to go! Reductio ad absurdum? Dial up the absurdity and it’s at least science fiction!

How far off is a consumer product that has been “locked down” but otherwise capable of printing devices of increasingly larger scales of destruction?

Are we not already on this trajectory?
Man I thought as soon as you went custom UI modules, you are screwed because it’d take 10x longer than to leverage what Apple have built. But it looks like a Herculean effort to get the entire app and back end out all on your own.
In truth a being like that would probably be beyond ego.

It’s just a human projection onto them to make it easy for us to talk about that we think in those terms.

so in a sense it’s us being egotistical by projecting our perspective onto God to talk about It, and by assuming that God has ego.

I think in a sense, God is beyond all our concepts of morality and everything, so They are unknowable unfathomable. The great mystery.

Man In Sky could be read as the ultimate human ego trip, and we keep repeating it with anthropocentric distortions about UFOs and so on.

This is just one perspective. The concept in reality it’s probably so big that it’s going to be impossible for us humans to agree, natural for there to be disagreements and, even when there’s apparent disagreements, still contained within the totality of whatever it is that God is.

In fact, I think it's even egotistical of us to believe that we can think our way through the concept of God, that we can even talk about it.

In a sense, I think there's validity to the approach of some traditions that say that God can't even be talked about, can't even be named. A stance that reflects the required humility.

Again, this is just another perspective of an infinite concept. I'm not saying I'm right about this. I'm just theorizing and speaking from my experience and ideas. Of course, there will be disagreements. And I think it's natural for there to be.

What's unnatural and stupid, I think, is to persecute each other over any disagreements that we have of a concept that is seemingly so large as it could contain all these things without contradiction.

So, please be kind to each other in your talks about God.
Very cool project. Can't wait to give it a try. I havent had much success with gpt-engineer, aider and others. I think this has the granularity for complex operations that is missing from other tools.
Wait, was THAT sarcasm? Because if you ask me saying that someone should be able to detect the true intent of the original comment MUST be sarcasm. But then I'm not so much detecting as deducing.
They wouldn't be homeless if they already owned property. Even before Proposition 13 the median house price-median income ratio was higher in California than elsewhere, around 4 while the rest of the country was at 3. So they could do what many people do in old age, they sell their house for a large sum and move somewhere cheaper.

It was true that before Proposition 13 many older homeowners who could not keep up with rising taxes were forced to sell. But taxes were rising because house prices were rising, so they were able to sell at a nice gain.
> For example, "free of charge" is "besplatno". However, the first syllable is actually "bez-", with /z/ devoiced to /s/ by the last consonant of the cluster.

Why is that bad? Other Slavic languages also use the same approach. Consonant clusters usually sound a bit indistinct, so you have to make a choice which pronunciation you want to standardize for writing.

I'm a native Slavic speaker, and I know a bit of Serbian, and "besplatno" _does_ sound more closer to "s" to me.

> However, it comes from a general pronunciation pattern for consonant clusters, something that could be defined outside of the actual spelling. Why obscure the internal structure of a word like that?

To stay closer to phonetic accuracy. It's a trade-off. If you are a native speaker, you learn the spoken language first, so spelling being close to the actual phonetic pronunciation helps to learn writing.
I am one of those people but this is a far cry from the days where you had to use a newspaper vending machine or walk into a video rental store. Free wasn’t really even an option.

Anyway my point is that the problem is not the lack of open standards. The problem is that we discovered how to do
“free” and a lot of people prefer this way whether they want to think about it or not.
I think that you may be missing the point of the argument that you are replying to. As I understand it, what they are getting at is that no one created the land, it was already here. Therefore, it's not valid to say that the person who originally claimed the land had a right to it in the same sense that, for example, a farmer has a right to what they grow because of the labor they put into growing it.

In effect, the argument is that since land was not created by anyone then no one has any more right to it than anyone else. So the land's value should be shared among all of society; which is precisely what a Land Value Tax seeks to do.
That wikipedia article is a dumpster fire.
These principles are the exact same principles as the anti-vax people.

Precautionary principle is also used by them a lot.

Glyphosate has been used for a long time with massive benefits to humanity.

I would guess it would compare pretty favorable in terms of percent exposed having issues to vaccines.
> like a runaway growth success thing.

is this because employee growth is easily verifiable? Put another way, don't companies ask for accounting statements etc to figure out if the target company is worth acquiring? (context - I have no idea how one company accquires another, so this is a noob q)
> You might have to convert the binary input to hex first

If you're okay with gawk, most implementations ship with gawkextlib, which has readfile(), and you also have FIELDWIDTHS.