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I saw some Bulwak noodles in the local Asian food shop but didn't buy them because my wife doesn't tolerate spiciness anymore because of health reasons. None of these noodles had omitted "spicy" on the package so I left
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And that's the idea behind LVT: it tries to separate the use of land from its naked value. The corollary is that LVT shouldn't hinder the productive use of land.
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EDIT: ... build houses without WINDOWS.
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They do it less than if it were not taxes. One example are vacant lots which are held only for speculation.
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LVT is not property tax. By its intrinsic structure LVT discourages speculation. Georgian proponents would say that this should not happen that pensioners are being driven out because land values don't rise as much because there is no
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Because all taxes have the downside that they reduce the thing being taxed. One example was the window tax. People started to build houses without taxes. LVT is unique that it doesn't reduce the thing it taxes because land is constant.
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Microtransactions won't work for many people. Deciding to buy or not to buy is expensive. People are afraid of making a mistake and need a significant need to risk buying something. After a few times people have learnt how things work,
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This is just the next step in a game of cat and mouse. Ad delivering and ad blocking entities (aka Corporate and Consumers) are in a co-evolutionary state, similar to predators and prey. They will evolve to be more and more skilful. One sta
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It's about control. If they would allow virtualization then some people would use that to run software Apple can't control, especially not monetize.
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I have a hunch about the real purpose of all of this. I wouldn't be surprised if this has been discussed already, so please excuse if I am not up to date. UTM SE is a virtual machine. Virtual machine allow running things under the user
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I agree. But we can't expect help from the ad companies. So what can we do? One wrote in this thread that they use parental control against themselves and put the code for the parental control in an inconvenient place to get to. Everyo
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One big plus of RSS: sometimes posts are removed silently and the act of removing is telling a lot about the publisher just by reading the subject. I still see at least the subject. On HN which I primarily consume by RSS I sometimes read po
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> - Generally smile, relax, understand, let it go and enjoy life
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At worst, delete the app.
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Happy to read that something works out for you. Everybody is different and the key is to find your own solution even if it is not perfect. Every second not wasted is a win.
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It's not hypothetical. WhatsApp statuses are already here to pave the way for more advertisement. https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/7/23950795/meta-whatsapp-st...
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WhatsApp already has statuses and it will get more "distractions". If things like "Brick" will be successful, ad companies like Meta will work around them by distractifying essential apps. It's better to think about
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Kefir, a food similar to yoghurt, is fungus-based fermented food. The Kefir grain contains a symbiotic culture of yeasts and lactic and acetic acid bacteria.
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One becomes a CEO like a politician by talking to the right crowd and convincing them. Perhaps for some company in the future this will be replaced by AI salesmen talking to the right crowd and convincing them.
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It's profit. Revenue minus expenses. Companies that optimize profit better than other companies are more successful. Emergent behaviour like evolution. Companies that don't optimize will not grow as much or even decline or disappe
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It's about incentives. One example: What if companies rented sofas instead of selling them? Perhaps a weird idea, but humour me. The incentives would shift. Companies would be more interested to give you durable sofas. Because there wi
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A thought stroke me. Security struggles with timing leaks. That programming language would need something like a timing effect to control timing leaks. In such a programming language a memoized function is effectful on time.
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What is FD Finance? How do they produce these videos? I am missing the impressum. An impressum is mandatory for commercial enterprises in many countries. Since Youtube gives money to creators, I assume that FD Finance is a commercial enterp
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They said last year if resources allow it, they would perhaps port Orion to other platforms. https://orionfeedback.org/d/2321-orion-for-windows-android-l... > We are getting a lot of repeat questions about windows&#
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Some people feel safer asking the LLM dumb questions, at least I do because of social pressure, but answers could be bullshit. I am retired but I could imagine that I only would proceed if I either had good enough references backing the LLM
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Perhaps: - solve problems and conflicts - escalate if neccessary - communicate targets But not: - provide fuzzy warm feeling of belonging (at least in the companies where you are just a wheel) So, replacing management is an old idea, but pe
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Thanks, insightful, especially TIL that there's a fuzzy area between nonprofit and for-profit organizations, by the way I realized that this is true for Switzerland, too.
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So some entities call themselves "nonprofit" but are shady enterprises. By calling themselves "nonprofit" they get some relaxation like tax breaks. They enjoy public trust. After all they are in business for higher purpo
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Retired from programming early. Still programming when it's fun. Caring for my family. Enjoying life.
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It's the nature of things. One word: evolution! Let's imagine a society where power grabs are checked. Then we have an unstable equilibrium. Lucky and shrewd persons can become able to evade the checks. It's a bit like immuni

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