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This limitation seems artificial, but it's no different from any other software product that comes in multiple editions

Right. For example, if a totally hypothetical individual developed a collaborative knowledge-base system and offered it as a service, they might decide to arbitrarily segment the market based on page views.

Now, one might make the argument that there is actually a cost associated with page views whereas there is not a cost with having your software recognize all the memory on a third party's machine, but just between us businessmen we can agree that that is malarky. For one, the cost of a marginal pageview is too small to be measured but the price to the customer of that page view is about ten thousand dollars in the first year if it was their millionth-and-first page view in January. For another, the cost the 9 million page views separating tier #2 of the hypothetical service from tier #1 is far, far less than the pricing differential.
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I see this as being very difficult to implement well, but I think it's interesting enough to warrant further research. I really don't know if it'll end up working out, but I'm planning on prototyping it on top of .NET.
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Apparently it’s a webkit thing, done for performance reasons. On IRC, it was claimed that when they last tried it, kerning slowed text rendering down 25% (because it makes it impossible to cache some glyph metrics or something), but that was apparently quite a while ago, and they said it "might be a good idea to test again".
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A single tax, or a flat tax will never ever be allowed for a very simple reason: Power. The government uses taxes to encourage behavior it likes and discourage behavior it dislikes.

Tobacco tax and tax breaks for energy efficient cars being prime examples.

They will never willingly give up that kind of power to modify behavior.
Seriously. And why is it still 60 degrees.

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What if I reject the premise? I've yet to see a compelling argument as to why this type of self-selection is truly harmful. Why is it a problem if folks of similar culture choose to utilize the same tools? This idea that we should all live in close exposure to diverse opinion is nice, but goes against my basic instinct. I don't want to spend my time defending my cultural choices to folks who disagree. I don't need my life to look like an internet message board.
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> That being said, I can understand how at University you will have other great minds to throw ideas around with, and that can be truly invaluable.

I agree. I want to add, though, that even this can often be done without bothering with the official program and degree requirements.
More specifically:

We have no real network administrators. Within our engineering team we collectively have the skill to be an effective at systems administration, but the hardware side is really a complete mystery.

Co-location mostly solves that, but the cloud takes it a step further. By running in a virtualized environment we can handle what we're good at it and let others build complex data centers to scale our traffic.

When your bootstrapping a start-up, that's just huge.
Find a job somewhere where there are part-time programs?
If you're not married, why not? What better way to expend yourself, to spend your life?

Do you have another bachelor's degree? If so, you might be able to get credit towards the masters (though perhaps credits are moot if the degree is carefully structured) when taking the undergrad math classes.
Great article and advice. I'd love to see more like it!
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It's very different in my county in VA, assessments are done every year on commercial and residential property. So, the revenue drops quickly if the tax rate isn't increased. They actually did drop the tax rate as values were rising, but not enough to prevent a $315M gap this year, even with a 12% increase in the tax rate. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06...

The scenario is different in CA and other locales with only event driven reassessments, but prop 13 and similar measures only provide upside protection for the consumer, there isn't downside protection for the state.
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This leads to product design where the goal is to have as many features as possible and not give a shit about user experience. It's not objective because you've subjectively assumed that feature count is the most important factor.
No that doesn't work
This is a rather interesting example of a space-time tradeoff. In this case you are trading time for more space.
I am familiar with Georgist ideas but I didn't expect to see them in the Atlantic. The single land value tax is perhaps the least evil of all tax systems, but it has serious flaws (beyond simply being a tax in the first place).

1) It is difficult or impossible to properly assess the unimproved value of the land. This means political power would be used to influence the process, just as it is today.

2) There is no guarantee whatsoever that the single tax would remain so.

3) Although a land value tax would cause fewer distortions than virtually any other tax, these distortions would still reduce economic productivity.
"the bigger issue is whether it is a basic human right to receive treatment regardless of your economic situation."

Isn't housing a basic human right? How about clothing? Or food? Or heat? Why is health care singled out?

There are programs to help the poor with those things, and there are programs that do the same with healthcare. Not all states fund it to the same level. Just increase the funding, and be done. There is no need for a national program.
Somehow I never get to read real numbers from Dana Boyd. The only number is "... who has spent so and so many years of studying kids on social networks".

I think she hit on one thesis that makes for good "linkbaity" newspaper articles and now she is milking it. In other words, it is marketing, not research.
That's portability. Portable and clean code are 2 different things.
More code, more bugs. More bugs, more vulnerabilities.
As others have already mentioned, it's easier to game the system when there are many different taxes. The distortions are already weird.

> Someone who went off and lived in the sticks where land was practically worthless could reduce their tax bill to next to nothing.

Depending on the method used to assess the value of land, the market would adjust for this. There are still other great incentives for people to live in cities, of course.
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The system in the UK bans members from paying for additional care that is not covered by the system.

Suppose you are willing to sell your house to get an expensive procedure... in the UK that requires opting out of all of the free care (and getting a retroactive bill for it).

What this ends up meaning is that elites pull strings to get superior care while telling the masses how great the free healthcare system is.
More succintly, if each state (or municipality) had its own program there would be a chance to learn what works best.

Having a single national program is like doing an experiment with a single petri dish... unscientific and absurd.
Do you feel tax rates are optimal? Shouldn't they be approximately double what they currently are?
"debies opportunities" - seriously? I think everybody can sign up on MySpace or Facebook.

Though I suppose as a researcher you could have some fun by creating fake accounts with different profile pictures and start adding friends randomly.
Do you think tax laws are effectively enforced today? The main argument for simplifying the tax code (in any way) is that it will limit the effectiveness of games and loopholes.

Are you arguing that the complexity of the tax code makes it more impervious to cheating?
If you're interested in audio recording or mixing, gearslutz is the place. I haven't posted there in a while but there's a lot in common with HN.

This thread is recent but there's some great older stuff that I recall. Check out this thread from Bruce Swedien - http://www.gearslutz.com/board/bruce-swedien/83165-seven-peo...
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"If you go to the Castro for example, it's much more likely you'll meet someone gay"

No idea what "the Castro" is, but it sounds as if somebody who doesn't like gay people would be less likely to go there.
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I completely agree about the excesses of the self-esteem craze. My kids were in a gymnastics program once where, at the end, there was a mini "olympics" and everybody got a gold medal. Pathetic. (Admittedly, this was in San Francisco.)

That being said, I think it's too early to tell what this will turn out to have been: a harbinger of decadence or an overreaction against previous generations' inhumane treatment of children. There was an awful lot of violence and degradation to react against; still is, of course, but surely less so than there used to be. It's understandable if, in the course of correcting that, the pendulum swang too far the other way for a while (a generation, say). Signs are beginning to appear of American society waking up from this nonsense. I hope it does.

Oh and in the process, perhaps we can also lose the sickening "everything revolves around the children" parenting style that goes along with it.
While you are right in theory, I think it is just easier to learn in the context of a university. It pains me to admit it, but while I still like maths, I haven't finished reading many maths books since I finished my degree (though I read parts of books). I needed exams coming up to really grind through the books. I wish it weren't so (I still have books I hope to read eventually...)
There is enormous satisfaction in doing something you enjoy. I agree that if you have no commitments to others (like kids) there is nothing wrong with pursuing your ambitions by ditching your lifestyle.

However I should add that there are some really first-rate distance learning programmes (in particular by Canadian and Australian universities, where the population density is low and there is a high demand for such things, but also Open University in the UK and I am sure US equivalents I am not aware of). These are not "degrees by mail", they are genuine courses by quality universities, with classes and lecturers and credits and so on.

Unless you are specifically attracted by the idea of being on a campus (and bear in mind, at your age it's not going to be the same as for the youngsters), you might want to see if any of them meet your needs and try multi-tasking for a while. If your employer values you, they might even agree to cut back your hours to give you more study time.
Yeah- the newer thread keeps referring to Swedien's work - that's another great thread. Thanks for finding it!
A variety of different taxes "catches" everyone at some point. You can dodge some, but you can't dodge them all. Even the super rich hiding their money offshore pay sales tax on their Bentley, car registration, property taxes on their house, etc.
If possible, try to think about areas of maths that interest you most and find a university that does that kind of research.
What an awesome idea ;)
You're worried about someone dodging a land value tax?
This is a really long article, but it makes a really strong point. The more you ask 'Why', the more you get to the root cause of a problem and not only stop that problem from re-occuring, but prevent a lot of other negative outcomes as well.

It also demonstrates that whiteboard meetings need not be a waste of time, particularly if you have an analysis framework to focus your time and effort.
I submitted the original several days ago. No upvotes, maybe due to the time I submitted it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=682172
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I gave them $50 because I liked the way they asked. I certainly don't expect to see it again :-)
Exactly. This experiment shows pretty much the opposite of what it aims to prove. It shows that code bloat is completely irrelevant as long as locality is taken into account in performance critical parts of the code.

The "valuable" lession we can learn from this is this: Never access a million random memory locations in your innermost loop :-)
Do you really believe that the 37signals approach is not effectively the same thing?

Consider the basecamp $99 plan vs the basecamp $49 plan:

100 projects / 35 projects vs. 20 GB storage / 10 GB storage

Do you really believe those extra 10 GB and 65 projects cost 37signals $50 a month to deliver to you?

Similarly, do you really believe that the cost of supporting 48 GB of memory versus 32 GB cost Microsoft $1000 per customer to build?

Wolf in sheep's clothing, exact same concept with Web 2.0 patina. Rich customers pay more.

Anyway, my argument isn't really about the money, but the mental friction. I'm sick of dealing with marketing weasel feature matrices
He implied it when he said 'opensource was awesome' and suggested the Microsoft offering was not.
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The massive difference in random access speeds in comparison to sequential speeds is the thing that changed in the last 15 years. The gap between memory clock speed and CPU clock speed has been increasing for all this time, whereas prior to that they were often similar.

The impact is that random access has suffered and cache has become vital in coping with the majority of those seemingly random jumps. Algorithms like quicksort benefit from locality of reference and hence better utilise the cache than algorithms that theorectically do less work.

Its interesting to see it jump like this, but its not indicative of large programs so much as it is indicative of what happens when you randomly access memory and effectively nullify your cache and your memorys DDR properties. Thankfully most programs don't in practice do this, if they did the programs would run about as well as they did in the mid 90's on an original Pentium.
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And if you don't 'date' it, it's a flag to the person who reads your resume anyway, that you're old (which is why you would do that). It's tough.
I remember visiting my cousin in Pittsburgh, P.A., in high school (from Germany, where I went to school) and they were handing out candies for solving simple arithmetic problems in math class. I was like... what???

There are many examples on how American society acts very encouraging towards kids, as opposed to Europeans.
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I'd noticed that I misread the original code and replied to my top-level post.

But that's an interesting point about the standard - perhaps it's intended to allow a smaller sizeof(ptrdiff_t) than sizeof(void *), where no contiguous allocation would be allowed such that you the larger type.
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Then what would happen to all the smart people who would think "why in bloody hell am I running a (filthy) marathon when I could be doing something important???"

You only think that for the first few miles. Then your mind enters a zone where you can really think about that tricky problem you were working on...
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You're assuming it would be possible to establish an un-dodgeable tax?
I know exactly how you feel.

I am 29, married, no kids. I finished my undergrad in CS when I was 22. I worked as a systems software developer until last year when I quit my job and went for Masters in Statistics. I have 2 more courses left to take to get the degree.

I am no fan of academia, but I came back to school because I think it was the only way to completely immerse myself into what I wanted to learn. It obviously cost me over 1 year of pay I would have had otherwise plus the tuition fee. But it is totally damn worth it. Plus it gave me more time to work on my side project.
I'm arguing what I wrote, which is that if there were a single big tax rather than a lot of small ones, people's efforts to avoid it would tend to produce more dramatic distortions in how we live. I wasn't saying anything one way or the other about the effectiveness of such a tax as a way of collecting revenue, or how effective current taxes are at that.

Sigh. I wonder if forums train one to write verbosely. When I say exactly what I mean, and no more, I always seem to end up having to produce the macroexpansion of it in the grandchild. I wonder if one eventually starts to anticipate this.
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Agreed. The question is, what do they actually do at this Berkman Center? This analysis reminded me of a classmate who wanted to cast Shakespeare as an early marxist. Litterature students can make arguments for anything and the people behind this analysis should find something more meaningful to do with their life.
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I find this interesting, given the discussion here two days ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=681764

Especially, snprbob86's comment that the vomit ad was the only one of interest.
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I wonder how to conduct such why meetings without demoralizing people? I can imagine people being more worried about being mentioned in those meetings than they worry about customer satisfaction. Of course one could always hide the problem beneath 'you have to build the right corporate culture'.

Also, what size does a problem need to have to result in such a meeting? Every argument with your colleagues? Every customer related problem? Every technical problem?

"In fact, at IMVU, we did exactly that. We started with a simple wiki page with a few bullet points of things that new engineers had tripped over recently."

This happens in our corporation as well, although in a much more informal way. It goes more like this: There's an annoyance, let's solve it. As the article says, the investments are gradual and there's not much time required to fix the little problems. One at a time.
Not at all. I'm saying if your reason for favoring multiple taxes is to ensure no one dodges all of them, you're barking up the wrong tree. First, this is a dubious goal -- why should the primary objective be to "catch" everybody? Second, if we go by a measure like "percentage of expected tax revenues dodged," a single land value tax would be far preferable to today's messy tax system. (Consider the number of loopholes exploited today and the danger of avoiding a strict land value tax.)
Until they do implement this, there's always http://fivefilters.org/content-only/
One thing to keep in mind if you want to get a degree in math is you might want to get through the more introductory level courses at a community college. I've done this, and in my case anyway, there hasn't been a noticeable difference, and introductory mathematics being fairly old and standard, these things transfer (but make sure you verify this!)

You could save a bundle of money this way and then go to the 4 year school with only 2 years left.
I'm an engineer at IMVU, the company mentioned, since the inception of the 5Y strategy.

I've lost count of the number of cool technologies and tweaks we've built as a result of 5Ys. For example, occasionally one of our engineers will decide to build his own website, and use simpletest to unit test his PHP because that's what we have at work.

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