skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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(aside from what else have been recommended)

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> difficulty in valuing the land

This seems by _far_ the biggest difficulty, and I find it strange that this rarely comes up in LVT discussions. Even for nominally 'liquid' land it's not clear who values it or how.
It is based on 1800's economics where primary production (using raw materials) was the primary source of value creation.

It doesn't make much sense for a modern service based economy. Your typical service sector worker, programmers, doctors, CEOs, would have essentially no taxes as long as they have a small geographic footprint.

Of course it sounds good to tech b
You could also do what they do in Texas which is to allow anyone over 65 to defer any increased property tax amount (with interest) until sale or the death of the owner.

The California approach is to let the owner get massive appreciation, which they receive at sale, but never pay tax on any of it.
Some do. It's often fairly non-sensical and technical - the result of hacking around to get results now regardless of long term logic.
Taking your logic to it’s conclusions—getting rid of all levels will reduce communication?
Comeback Detroit: The return of whites and wealth to a Black city
"Don't worry, the law guarantees that after taxes on the land and home you spent decades paying for are so high you can't afford them you can get one of the pieces after we take it away and chop it up" is one of the most dystopian things I've ever heard.
Advertising is a terrible business model with many negative externalities up to threatening democracy. The sooner we get rid of it the sooner we'll have a viable and ethical alternative.

Given the value of the average ad impression, a micropayment system that charged cents to each user is all you need. The problem at the moment is that while advertising is "good enough" there's little market pressure for publishers/creators to align on a common micropayments system.
And the winner of the mental gymnastics award goes to ...
Was anything in danger of shutting down before Q1 2022? All time tech market highs were ~3-6 months beforehand and presumably the acquisition negotiation took time.
Me too!

Good luck and hold on. I hope you find a solution soon.
Yes, by design. One major goal is to prevent a landowner from squatting on an empty lot while their neighbors build prosperity around it. The "squatter" then cashes in, having done nothing themselves. "Everyone works but the empty lot" is the commonly used phrase.

The goal of an LVT is to insulate a landowner's tax bill from being affected by their own improvements. Its anti-goal is to insulate a landowner from changes in land use around them.
He's perfectly self aware that he has rejected his own class. It's weird that people think that's impossible or something and insist that he must be one in the same.
A deferment should be allowed for anyone on one primary residence. Then it isn't a carve out just for boomers. Also, the deferment doesn't mean the taxes don't get paid- they just don't have to be paid until the person moves out or transfers the property (or dies, which triggers a transfer).
>> That is already how property tax works, except in California.

Not in Michigan (where Detroir is). The rate of increase on property taxes is capped, so if prices go up quickly your tax doesn't. It gets reset to market if you sell.

The most valuable thing you can have for retirement is a home free and clear. Incentives to disrupt that in favor of what others think is a "better use" are very un-American IMHO.
The stock brokers were forced to lower commissions, somehow the real estate brokers have held on.
Doesn't that happen already at the margins, albeit not quite as fast if someone's "land rich"?

On the flipside, I bet there are locales where the buildings have a lot of improvements with multi-story dwellings and the land tax could be worse.

The article goes into detail about why this tentatively works for Detroit where the majority of tax bills will decrease.
Direct link to the paper PDF:

http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1654113/FULLTEXT01...
Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
Does diverse "compilation" not address this problem in the hardware space?

There are multiple sources of 555 timer equivalent and replacement chips for example: multiple fabs implementing the same spec should get results which are equivalent.

Though I suppose you can't really verify an unintended excession of function, which is really how you hide malicious behavior (unless you did something like space missions do where you have multiple systems running in lock-step and having their results cross-checked).
"We sit together

The mountain and me

Until only the mountain remains"

-Li Po

Maybe the land isn't really yours to begin with?
I wrote this superrrr long post about partnerships, privacy, cookies, history, and web standards for anyone interested in checking it out. It's a pretty hefty read so keep that in mind.
This is true. The verb would be Alchemise.

There is no real hard rules on how to make these names, other than they have to be memorable, unique, and not actually describe the thing they're naming. Having a noun that can be verbed works well enough.
The government didn't create it either. The only reasonable recipient of the 2%/year tax is God.
We exist.

Complain to your company for poor recruiting.
>Has anyone else noticed that LinkedIn is turning into a shitty social media platform?

It's always been a shitty social media platform. It's entirely performative; just people yeeting artificial pseudo blog posts out into the ether, all virtue-signalling past each other.

LinkedIn is one of the worst websites I can think of.
the exceptions essentially nullify the point of the land value tax though.

the whole point of an LVT is to aknowledge that land is a valuable resource to the community at large, and using it ineffectively is a harm to the community and should be discouraged through taxation. every exception you make not only removes the incentive, but then creates an incentive to not change the usage of that land to something more beneficial, because the people who've received the exception don't want to give it up.
I like this. It's like "use it or lose it".
does Spotify pay artists more for listens on premium? I seriously doubt it.
By George, I think it is.
Since Detroit's population has been declining, from 1.5 million to under 700k, revenue will keep falling. What would they do if they lost more people? Increase taxes?
Is there such a thing as the perfect game?
California also has the deferment policy.
Lots of countries value land and improvements separately (e.g. New Zealand, Australia, Denmark) for council rates (property tax essentially). Here in New Zealand, there are several companies that provide valuation services to local councils (and private individuals if you want to value your property). You can dispute the valuation if you think you're being unfairly valued (usually because you want to pay less property tax).
If a person's primary residence isn't given an exception this will guarantee that people get kicked out of their homes once the land value increases too much.

Similarly, if the tax on a rental property becomes too great the rent will rise to meet it. And again, people will be priced out of their homes.
That's a lot more romantic until you remember it's just going to the government, not some mystical starscape.
Kicking out long term residents sounds kinda sick doesn't it? Think about it. You're just gonna have homeless old people.
It's the same in Australia. It seems like a pretty sensible way to encourage the best use of high value land.
True enough. It doesn't factor in land improvements directly into the calculations, but it could be affected indirectly by whatever the market seems something to be improving the neighborhood in general.
The people you're paying taxes to didn't create it either.
You realize that democratic government requires compromise, right? Scoff all you want, but this is the sort of measure which is required to get people to accept policies which directly cost them (but benefit everyone else).
I'll give you "site specific" but I'm less confident on "can't be stolen." If the computer can fetch them to use them something running on the computer can too. Of course even "site specific" is valuable in the "gmail account" or "apple ID" world. The last Kreb's article was something like $30 each for gmail creds.

Also my computer doesn't have a secure enclave because I'm keeping it disabled to prevent my machine from upgrading to Windows 11 :-). I wonder what it would try to do in that case.

That said, are people putting their cryptowallets in the secure enclave too these days? That would be new information for me.
You can already buy a CRISPr kit at home with everything you need to genetically modify a coronavirus to be dramatically more deadly with a long incubation time for maximum damage.

You can also easily build a drone with a GPS from commonly available parts, then strap a bomb to it made from match heads and PVC pipe and give it a destination to fly to.

There are an insane number of ways anyone moderately intelligent can cause a massive loss to human life if that is their goal.

We should be thankful most violent types are not smart enough to do anything worse than pull a trigger.

The only way to stop humans from hurting each other is strap us all in solitary confinement VR pods.
It doesn't seem that different from what normally is done for property tax. Property tax is already generally based on land and structure (Just look at property taxes on the million dollar tiny houses on prime real estate). LVT is just removing the structure portion.
You do understand that the countries "stuck in the life of 200 years ago" aren't stuck there just because they don't want to go on, right? Right? Colonization and resource extraction were a thing.
That's the dumbest thing I've read all year.
there's this neat website/app called bandcamp, you may have heard of it somewhere. it asks you to occasionally buy albums, rather than pay a fixed fee.
> My hot take: We could take the lizard-brain stuff out of both politics and advertising if we didn't have live debates, didn't show faces or allow voices. It's harmful to voters who are not literate, and nobody would actually support this, but I think keeping "system 1 thinking" away from the fate of the free world might be helpful.

Without a way to attach an identity to the involved parties, any field of debate will quickly become rife with sock puppets.
From my experience when I respond to them that I don’t know a certain language and code in C# and know some Java I get instantly ghosted. It’s not even worth my time to respond.
Buy on Bandcamp but also listen on Spotify, isn't it perfect for both?
How does this interact with the fact that housing is maybe the biggest economic issue that America is currently dealing with? That suggests to me that land is still pretty important.

This doesn't apply to what Detroit is doing, but you could probably also take the underlying logic of land taxes (rent seeking should not be protected from taxation) and apply it to other more modern forms of property.
It would be a more dramatic overnight loss of customers than Unity. It's entirely laughable, and given that laws restrict the licensing and royalties of music, it might not even be legal.

Labels can only write up contracts giving them rights because they pay for studio time (given them a financial buy-in to the creation of the music) and pay advances against royalties. Not so for indie distributors. I don't know if there are specific applicable laws, but it's absurd enough that everyone would immediately drop Bandcamp.

Music royalty rates, for physical records, radio and internet streaming, are also determined by a panel of judges: the United States Copyright Royalty Board.
I have thought about this for years. If your land value increases dramatically over a short period of time, _theoretically_ you should be able to use this as an opportunity to take advantage of that increase by constructing more housing or office/retail space.

In reality, individuals and businesses like to make long term plans. This expectation makes it incredibly unreasonable for a recently constructed home, office, or retail space which has an expected useful lifetime of decades. They shouldn't be expected to replace it all only after a few years.

This is why I think a reasonable compromise is to have a type of limited "rent control" for land value tax where it is only allowed to increase by no more than 1 percent more than the rate of inflation. This limit comes into affect when a building is constructed and lasts for the duration of the expected lifetime of the building, perhaps 55 to 65 years. That's at least 2 full depreciation cycles (if you're familiar with that). It resets to market value if the property is sold but the limit is not extended any further into the future.
Coincidentally, this drives everything that is so bad about the platform. All the normal people you know in real life wouldn’t be caught dead posting to LinkedIn, just using it as a resume and jobs platform. The only people willing to post anything are attention seekers and influencers.

It’s a similar complaint to how your Facebook and Instagram feeds barely contain the people you follow anymore, which encourages regular people to post less and attention seekers to post more.

The business model of ad-supported social media apparently doesn’t work under the paradigm of checking in on your friends for a reasonable amount of time (like 5 minutes a day) and calling it a day. Instead, it’s just optimized to be as much of an addiction as possible, and there’s no way your real respected work colleagues can provide that amount of content.
That device you used to post that comment, what, did you create it? Those clothes you are wearing, did you create them? The car you drive, did you create it?

I’m not saying anything pro/con the LVT. But measuring ownership by whether you created it or not is a pretty terrible measure. You wouldn’t own _anything_ worth any value in the modern world.
Right. If this is aimed squarely at blighted and/or unused lots I fully and completely support it. If this applies to retired people living in family homes it can fuck off.
Approximately 0.01%. It's a moral panic.
The “wanting to distance oneself” is an extremely pragmatic reaction: if you believe similar arguments need to be made, you have a legitimate interest in putting forth good versions of those arguments. He has a big platform and this will be portrayed as “the case” for techno-optimism, not to mention the attitude and tone.

I’m not really sure what the purpose of publishing something like this is. It doesn’t really seem intended to convince anyone of anything? Is the controversy the point? Galvanizing some “base?”

Most plausibly, it’s for attracting other ultra-wealthy/ultra-powerful (and yes, unelected!) LPs, which would make the tone rather ominous in my opinion.
Agreed, that was the sentiment I was aiming for, separating the competition aspect from the getting better at programming aspect. The policy with respect to competition seems fine. The follow-on in parens to the policy was the part I was referring to:

> (If you want to use AI to help you solve puzzles, I can't really stop you, but I feel like it's harder to get better at programming if you ask an AI to do the programming for you.)
This is the case for renters everywhere.
Land in Detroit is cheap already. This sounds like a way for investors to build big things and not increase their tax bill.
free money for VC via low interest rates was a terrible strategy for creating innovation that would last.
It reduces the impact of the land tax, it doesn't nullify it, because it would apply only to a minority of the land owning population -- likely a small minority.
I always thought this sounded like a good idea too (let the original owner stay, just in a new apartment-amongst-many) but (at least in the US) this doesn't seem reasonable.

Besides any legal hiccups (how common are such contracts? Is this well-understood law or are we trailblazing this?) there's the practical concern that if I sell my place and it takes a year or two to build the housing complex, well, I still need a place to live while it's under constructions.

I think the best that current American society could do is "...if the former owner could be guaranteed enough money from the sale to move someplace else nearby".

Still - if anyone has ideas about how to sell one's current residence so that more dense housing could be built, and then one could move into an apartment/condo in that new, denser, housing I'd be really curious to hear them.

(Depending on how life goes, it might be relevant to myself in the next 5-10 years)
I don't think a planet of mostly natural wilderness is an option in the long run.

I also don't think we'll pave the whole thing over.
The 20 apps are all pre-installed from factory. If you don't trust those, then you need to change your device. There is no trivial way of removing them short of rooting or flashing a new ROM.
From what I've heard about Oryon, there's lots of complaints from OEMs about poor performance and battery use due to strange restrictions Qualcomm put on the power delivery system. They're effectively requiring a set of mobile power solutions in parallel to meet higher power requirements. This increases the design cost, and is inefficient.
Bullets are easier to make than guns. So what's your next bright idea?
They don't directly factor in improvements, but the improvements are generally why land value increases/decreases.
Factory Physics - Hopp, Spearman

Great book on manufacturing operations management that I consider to be one of the best technical books on the subject.
In theory (and ideally), the people the taxes go to includes yourself.
Which potential recession are we talking about? The one that was supposed to happen 3 months ago? or 6 months ago? Or 9 months ago? A year ago? 2 years ago? There’s so many potential recessions i’ve lost count!
Is this legal?

In Google's Terms and Conditions, it's says that bypassing ads violates Youtube's terms and conditions. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14129599?hl=en#:~:....
The reason the universe was made, as I understand it, was to answer Man's last question: Can entropy ever be reversed? and God answered by demonstration.
I don’t really know Atherton (I’m from outside the U.S. and have only visited the main centers un Silicon Valley) and I have mixed feelings about Andreessen’s rhetoric in recent years, including the tech utopianism expressed in this post.

But this kind of attack is just a classic cheap shot. If the argument was accompanied with evidence that it was feasible and economically optimal to build the infrastructure (transportation, retail, local services) in Atherton that could support a dramatic increase in the number of residents in the area, then sure, you could have a reasoned debate about it. Without that it’s just a sneer, and it does nothing to refute Andreessen’s argument that there should be more development in areas where it is logistically and economically practical.
Holmes' machine got used by consumers, although she was found not guilty on the charges related to that.

And didn't FTX/Alameda ever lie to investors to convince them to invest? Like telling them they're separate? I'm surprised.
Detroit is becoming the next San Francisco
Not saying they won't try, but there are enough label-represented bands on Bandcamp that they would obliterate their back catalog (along with any network effects they're enjoying) overnight.
I think most people agree that the California system is a disaster.

Prop 15, a modest modification to Prop 13 that wouldn't have affected homeowners, just commercial property, failed. Removing Prop 13 protections for homeowners would be much less popular.

Maybe people in California do think the system is a disaster, but they like it and don't seem to want to change it.
He was talking about the encryption of the Signal eptocol, which explicitly doesn't include stuff like message format.

The core idea of the signal protocol is the ratcheting algorithm, which provides the actual qualitative security benefits, this the only real important thing.

Also he was explicitly stating it is based on it, I feel like you are arguing just, because you were so sure yet so wrong in your previous comment
It’s likely that you do not have complete visibility over her role.
Wait, didn't Holmes try that tactic too?
But who gets to decide the best use? It seems like everyone but the owner.
> Windows where Red Alert 2 just works

RA2 didn't "just work" on windows for me, but that's OK I'm holding out for OpenRA2 anyways.
For anyone who think "oh this is just California's Proposition 13 but with a time limit"... not exactly. The tax rate in California is 1% of assessed value where assessed value can't grow more than 2% or the rate of inflation (whichever is lower). In this alternative system the base tax rate would be significantly higher. Ideally, high enough to capture the majority of the land's rental value at first. It also sets inflation as a floor while prop 13 has it or 2% as a ceiling.
For anyone who's curious, the paper in question, entitled, "Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts" (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172)
Interesting. Parent comment is about 4:1 even.
In my career I saw from 5:1 to 20:1 IC to managers on a direct level.
However the higher one go the better the ratio, like VP to SVP ratio rarely reaches 10:1 even. Now I'm curious what are the industry 'standard' numbers.
The use was mostly getting decent hits from recruiters and the feed when I opened the page didn’t want to make me vomit.

I am frankly at a point where I realized internet became an extremely toxic place full of dark patterns. I miss days of nerds making sites to share informations and hobbies.
I've spent 5 minutes reading about this, but the key difference between this and regular property tax that most of us are used to (in the US anyway) is that it taxes the value of the land, irrespective of any buildings on it. So it encourages land owners to maximize the utility of land they own, vs. leaving it underdeveloped.

Right now, there's less incentive to improve or repair buildings on existing land if taxes are high, since those improvements would make taxes go even higher. By tying it to the land value irrespective of improvement, the thinking is that it should encourage development.

As a homeowner, this sort of thing does concern me, though. I live in a low density, single-family area. A taxing authority might decide that my area is worth more - e.g. politically if there was a push for higher density housing - and proceed to value the land higher and my taxes would go up. This might make it unappealing to own and live in the house, and I would have to leave. Of course, this is seen as the correct outcome by a lot of people.
Yes I wish Supabase would give users a choice when it comes to connection poolers
The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie for those who don't know
Which, from some points of view, is the point. The government wants money to be going toward investments (real, productive kinds), not sitting around as an inflation hedge.
The government owns all the land and gives you a more-or-less yearly subscription to keep your land at a reasonable cost. If you are a landlord then you're just a middle-man who can profit.
Why? They have a box of pre-made bullets. Anything can fire that, tap it with a pair of pliers.
My grandmother (greatest generation) built her house in the 50s and lives on a fixed income. Should she be forced to sell (assuming she couldn’t afford LVT) for an investment she took all the risk to develop?

We’re so addicted to spending that anything that leads to generational wealth is fair game for governments to loot?
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