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721.
by afiori 3y ago
I find it hard to download memories and mementos
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by afiori 3y ago
I wonder if medium range/resolution sonar or sound cameras [0] could be useful for low resolution tracking. It would probably still be a bad idea [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_camera
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by afiori 3y ago
I am honestly curious to see if someone will create a configuration language that is just s-expressions as nested json arrays
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by afiori 3y ago
I believe so, but with different UX. In almost every case I expect git lfs to be better, but I can see reasons to use more custom flows.
725.
by afiori 3y ago
not really, it is like building a custom storage layer for your VCS. you are still relying only on git as a source of truth for which artefacts belong to which version.
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by afiori 3y ago
I am not saying that it is a better UX, but hashed/versioned blobs on S3 would mostly work depending on tooling integration.
727.
by afiori 3y ago
yes, but a thicker laptop has a lot of advantages, a thicker monitor only a few.
728.
by afiori 3y ago
I do not undestand how this relates to my comment... I only said that if you wanted to precisely localize mormor to english you could.
729.
by afiori 3y ago
The best config format is clearly GRON https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
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by afiori 3y ago
In everyday speech you generally do not try to be this specific, but if you wanted to (e.g. recounting family history to a doctor or talking about the relationship between your parents and granparents) you could use them to be more specific
731.
by afiori 3y ago
In the context of cameras thickness is of the screen, not of the laptop as a whole
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by afiori 3y ago
Paternal grandmother, paternal grandfather, maternal grandmother, and maternal grandfather
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by afiori 3y ago
The EU and the US are a bit bigger than Singapore. And yes, EU's bureaucracy is vastly simpler than that of "the combined rest of the world"
734.
by afiori 3y ago
> In the context of LVT, 'unimproved value' pretty much means the value of a lot minus any buildings on it no cutoff necessary, the distinction is between thins on the lot of land and things not on the lot of land today.
735.
by afiori 3y ago
By "lot by lot" I mean that for each lot of land you determine how much that land is worth considering everything around it. I believe that we are sort of saying the same thing.
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by afiori 3y ago
It produces a very different dynamic overall as in almost every cases nearby lots have different owners. This means that it is very expensive to own a piece of land in manhattan and do nothing with it while you just wait for the price to ra
737.
by afiori 3y ago
"innocent until proven guilty" and "freedom of speech" are principles codified in law. The position that only the government is bound by "freedom of speech" is, at the very least, weird in an international cont
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by afiori 3y ago
There are things "on" the lot and things "around" the lot. An empty lot the right size to build a condo in front of a subway station is significantly more valuable than an otherwise identical lot 5km away from the closes
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by afiori 3y ago
Quoting wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax > A land value tax (LVT) is a levy on the value of land without regard to buildings, personal property and other improvements upon it. So if you were to
740.
by afiori 3y ago
Under this lens "unimproved value" might be a red herring, the concept is "the market value of the lot after a complete demolition of everithing on it" or equivalently "the market price of the exclusive priviledge o
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by afiori 3y ago
> A lot of Boston is built on old swampland. Would Georgists say that the 2023 tax value of all of Back Bay is $0? This is exactly what I was addressing in: > In practice likely the taxation would apply on a lot by lot basis, so you w
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by afiori 3y ago
I believe that from a georgism perspective you are not allowed to arbitrarily merge lots you own. So the 10 thousand square kilometers you own will probably be counted as a thousands of different independent lots.
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by afiori 3y ago
You are talking about different things. The land of a 15M people city has huge value but low unimproved value. Georgist believe that if you buy a piece of land and build value on it you should not be punished. Georgist taxation is meant to
744.
by afiori 3y ago
A method come from the sale of vacant lots (the land value is the sale price) or of buildings that are immediately demolished (the land value is the sale price minus demolition cost). Apparently even in dense cities a majority of land sales
745.
by afiori 3y ago
It was indeed literally created as a model of a terrible dynamic. The intended result was to come out of the game thinking "this was terrible, we should never get close to anything like this again"
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by afiori 3y ago
Abuse is a very broad category, for example neglect and emotional abuse are still abuse.
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by afiori 3y ago
For an application working with reasonably sized files sqlite files it would be reasonable to 1. on opening a file clone it to a temporary folder 2. edit the temporary file there on disk 3. on save mv/cp the temporary file over the des
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by afiori 3y ago
Scary things exist, knowing them does not make them more real but allows me to react
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by afiori 3y ago
I have a different opinion on behavioural tracking: in most cases and contexts human behaviour is very low entropy; each person is unique and so on but we are also quite predictable and malleable and in many situation we collapse into far f
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by afiori 3y ago
Except that it turns out that the most valuable eyes are of children with access to their parents' credit cards. I would have a slightly better opinion of targetted ads if you could see how each ad you see was targeted.

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