BirdieNZ

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by BirdieNZ 5y ago
The real pro-tip here is that basically everything you read on HN for which you are not an expert has the appearance of expertise and authenticity. Once you see those same people speaking on a subject which you know a lot about, you realise
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It wasn't that long ago that FAANG got caught for rigging the labour market: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L... Obviously FAANG (and most companies) want to pay as little as possible f
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> Yes, some interview questions are awfully close to logic puzzles - having to know the two pointer trick for detecting cyclic graphs, what CS program covers that industry-specific technique? My comp sci degree covered this, and it isn&#
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The current discussions around Covid and vaccines made me realise I am continually guilty of this hubris. I've heard people say before "whenever I see a discussion on a subject I am an expert on, HN is full of ignorant commenters&
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On the one hand, I don't want to become a radical who thinks that "one easy trick to fix all the problems" exists and is Georgism. On the other hand, the land value tax and Progress and Poverty's general diagnosis and so
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> "Desirable" locations is a completely subjective term. Alright, use "valuable" then. Value is derived from people's desire to purchase the land, which means valuable land is equivalent to desirable land. > Y
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Land in desirable locations. You can't create more land in the middle of San Francisco, so the land-owners of the land in the middle of San Francisco have a natural monopoly on the land in the middle of San Francisco.
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As with all property prices, it is important to distinguish between land value and capital improvements. Land value has been increasing, because land in desirable locations is in limited supply and is not able to be added to (with minor e
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That does actually happen; see China, for example.
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That's not how it actually works in practice. Landlords are able to charge tenants as much rent as the tenant can afford, so tenant income increases are what causes rent increases. Supply and demand don't "work" the same
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Yes. See the above-linked Winston Churchill speech for an articulate summary of why, although there are plenty of other avenues to discover this.
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> They don't have a monopoly control of "land", the have control of the land they own. The land-owning class as a group have monopoly control of land. As far as I know, there isn't much un-owned land, so the land-owni
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Landowners have monopoly control of land. There are ways of defining monopolies that avoid this conclusion, but the effect of a monopoly is precisely the effect of landowners. See, for example, Churchill: http://www.andywightman.
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Urban upper-classes are landowners, the endemic rent-seeking they are engaging in is via monopoly control of land, which people need for living and working. They are able to extract high proportions of people's income for rent from tho
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> Show me someone who loves office life and being around people who are forced to be together, and I will show you someone with a perverse addiction to confict. When extroversion becomes immoderate, they become masochists who crave atten
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Check out https://copyconstruct.medium.com/testing-in-production-the-s... Basically, preprod and any not-prod environments cannot ultimately perfectly reproduce prod, and in a sufficiently complex system, the failure states
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> Why not delete your test methods too and just test in production? This, but unironically. Depending on your use case, any local tests, whether mocked or using a swarm of local containers attempting to represent production may be a far
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Tokyo didn't have near-zero immigration for most of the last 70 years. It's a great example.
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Do you have an example of the problem you're describing? It sounds completely foreign to Vue to be honest, I've never encountered any issues with Vue inside HTML templates. For only serving SFCs on request, you can use something l
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> Note also that houses used as main dwellings would be exempt or pay a heavily reduced rate. This isn't usually part of LVT proposals, and for good reason. LVT should apply to all land everywhere, or else it becomes much less effec
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> Was it because it's a stimulant and it helps anyone? ADHD meds for non-ADHD students don't really help those students perform better academically. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC348
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> You can't say "ADHD is this" and point at a definitive cause There's plenty of existing and on-going research that demonstrates differences in brain structure and development in people clinically diagnosed with ADHD
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> homeschooling alienates from society, and you become an Other, in your own eyes and the eyes of others As someone who was homeschooled, and would quite happily at least try to homeschool my own children in the future, I do agree with t
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> My interests are strong, and fleeting. Life seems to reward people who can hold focus on boring tasks, for long periods of time, even decades. I was probably a better hunter than I am a programmer. Sounds like ADHD.
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Let's say you have a current property worth $1,000,000. 75% of the value is unimproved land, 25% is the capital improvements (house etc.) It's being rented out at $40,000 a year ($3,333 a month). 75% of the rent is economic rent o
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Henry George and Progress and Poverty have a better solution. See a recent review on Scott Alexander's blog: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-progr...
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It's a cool hypothesis of yours, that it's just a discipline issue. Unfortunately your typical lifestyle of a slacker you described was not my life, and I still struggled intensely, daily, with procrastination and getting things d
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I don't know if this completely answers your question, but it won't be high rent if a land value tax is implemented correctly.
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> Pointing is a complete waste of time. I have no idea how long a ticket is going to take until I start working on it. Estimations are usually wrong anyway. If anything, tickets should be pointed once the work is complete to track a team

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