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by jjav 9mo ago
School buildings don't randomly and secretly move around all the time. So while there isn't a line drawn on the ground, it's completely different.
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by jjav 9mo ago
> "Microsoft gave" While it is true that NSLs or other coercion tactics will force them to give out the keys, it is also true that this is only possible because Microsoft implemented a fatally flawed system where they have acce
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by jjav 9mo ago
> proceed to recreate the same thing different way Not a same or similar thing in any way. Everything that is being torn down is being replaced by grifter schemes where all that money is funneled to personal pockets.
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by jjav 9mo ago
> Where are all these much-vaunted "checks and balances" that I've been hearing about for so long? That's the problem, turns out there are none. Or to be more precise, they do exist but they rely solely on each arm of
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by jjav 9mo ago
Excellent article, thanks.
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by jjav 9mo ago
> The executive lacks the authority. The executive lacks the authority to do more than 99% of the things done in 2025. Just about all of it is blatantly illegal or unconstitutional. But, turns out, there is no enforcement mechanism again
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by jjav 9mo ago
Very simple: when the government is acting illegally (violating the constitution, laws, and court orders), anything you can do to expose them is whistleblowing. doxxing OTOH is when you try to get an innocent person to be attacked by law en
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by jjav 9mo ago
Not sure how to express this, but this concept that the color scheme of an app|website is supposed to be a "feature", bothers me to no end. Color schemes were always supposed to be infinitely configurable by the user, not somethin
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by jjav 10mo ago
I think this assumes politicians who care about subjectives like quality of life, and who are able to think in long-term sustainable city finances instead of just maximizing what they can grab in current fiscal year. We don't have any
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by jjav 10mo ago
> Your property taxes are capped at purchase price due to Prop 13. BTW this is a common myth but not true. Property taxes are set by purchase price in year zero when you buy it. Every year after that, they go up 2% compounding. That&#x27
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by jjav 10mo ago
There's quite a bit of optimism in those numbers. I bought a house in the Bay Area in the 90s and the mortgage was well over $3K (remember interest was over 7%) and an equal house back then was renting for $1300 (my rent at the time fo
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by jjav 10mo ago
> Under the tax scheme described, the reverse is true. Explain how.. In a dense urban area, with LVT, that lot that held a park will bring even larger tax revenue when the city sells it off to a developer. Having the tax be based on maxi
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by jjav 10mo ago
That feels like wishfull thinking. What I see around me in practice is government doing all they can to sell off public lots (like parks) to developers to tear down the park and build another luxury condo. More tax revenue, more money in th
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by jjav 10mo ago
> But it's not "correct" and doesn't make sense for the vast majority of people. It is absolutely the correct way to track the value of assets. Whether it makes sense for a particular person is subjective. Some people
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by jjav 10mo ago
> Point is, it’s a great way to make money and that is why people become landlords. If it is, why not do it and become rich too? It's not really a particularly good way to make money. I've run the numbers on hundreds of propert
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by jjav 10mo ago
I am responding to the comment I quoted, namely: "parking lots, and self storage facilities would be penalized because they wouldn't generate enough income to cover taxes on land". So if a LVT has the explicit goal of elimina
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by jjav 10mo ago
> Empty lot, parking lots, and self storage facilities would be penalized because they wouldn't generate enough income to cover taxes on land, leading to more efficient utilization of land Right, so the city would be nothing but lux
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by jjav 10mo ago
> 3 months of rent covers a year of property taxes where I live. Major repairs are about a couple months rent. There is still another half year of rent that’s pure profit. You missed insurance and mortgage.
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by jjav 10mo ago
> They don’t create supply in any way, the only ones who do that are builders. For a house to be available for me to rent, both things need to happen. Someone had to build it, obviously. But just as necessary, someone needs to offer it u
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by jjav 10mo ago
There is nothing "stupid" or "ridiculous" about correcly tracking net worth. Also nothing wrong if you don't feel like doing it. But some people want to track value of assets, nothing stupid about that.
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by jjav 10mo ago
> For example, how do you book depreciation of a motor vehicle? For a car it is particularly easy, look up its value in one of the standard sources like blue book. What you seem to be saying is that you don't really care to track yo
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by jjav 10mo ago
> mortgages which often come with an agreement that you won't pay it back within a number of years Not "often". Prepayment penalty mortgages can exist but I've never seen or talked to anyone who has seen one in practi
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by jjav 10mo ago
Wealth, at the top end of the scale, is not money, it is power. Between two people who make 100K vs 1M a year, there is a lot of difference in purchasing power, but there is basically little-to-none difference in power. They're still w
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by jjav 10mo ago
Particularly for a contractor who uses it all day with no opportunity to recharge, they would need enough batteries to last all day. Not cheap at all.
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by jjav 10mo ago
What kind of batteries are you running that can support the equivalent of 15A AC for hours? I have both a battery leafblower and a corded one. The corded is far more powerful and of course does not run out. The battery one is quick and conv
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by jjav 10mo ago
> The main problem with every one of the apps I tried is that they don't handle investments well. Could you expand what were you looking for with respect to investments that was lacking? I use GnuCash for many investment accounts (i
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by jjav 10mo ago
I also use GnuCash for a moderately complex set of accounts with many income sources in multiple currencies. Works pretty awesome.
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by jjav 10mo ago
You can fit millions of dollars worth of gold in a shoebox. Space is not an issue for any normal-person amount of wealth in gold.
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by jjav 10mo ago
> > There's a whole set of law driver's are supposed to follow for handling failed traffic lights. > And they don’t, it’s chaos. Do you live in areas where traffic lights go out regularly? Because for human driver it is a
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by jjav 10mo ago
> It doesn't "still work" if you're on Firefox. Not my experience at all. I run uMatrix on every computer I have and it is awesome. Still annoyed it was replaced by uBo which is quite good, but nowhere as nice as uMat

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