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by kiba 1y ago
I don't see why fire department has to prioritize properties based on insurance coverage. They should be covered by taxes. But it would be economically devastating to homeowners if they do not have fire coverage.
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by kiba 1y ago
Higher LVT will take care of this if you need more revenue. It is simply the most efficient way to raise tax revenue, one that encourage economic growth, If you need additional taxes, I recommend piguovian taxes on road congestion, pollutio
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by kiba 1y ago
You don't own just the building, but the land. That land cannot be destroyed or created. The increase in land value is probably where the increased tax coming from. Buildings should be depreciating in value. Given that land is in fixed
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by kiba 1y ago
Sure if it helps you sleep at night, but it also leads to a lot of unhealthy behaviors such as drinking, smoking, and not taking care of yourself.
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by kiba 1y ago
That's just terror management of death.[1] That's why we say things like "death gives life meaning". Utter bollocks. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory
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by kiba 1y ago
Immortality is a long time to waste on shit that don't matters.
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by kiba 1y ago
They had four different assessments and written permission from family plus a braindead patient. Red tape aplenty.
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by kiba 1y ago
That's surely an interesting take when their demographics are absolutely imploding, and their economy is rife with state sponsored excess funded by debt. If anti-aging tech arrives in the next two decades, demographic will stop implo
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by kiba 1y ago
I do not think the 21st century is necessarily already determined. China had suffered so much in the 20th century, including famine and revolution and yet they still rose. What Trump did so far is a farce but it's recoverable. History
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by kiba 1y ago
Prusa is good enough for me. I owned both Bambu and Prusa latest generation printers. Both products got their shares of downtime so from my perspective either are pretty interchangable.
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by kiba 1y ago
Patents just aren't necessary. When something is in the "air", sooner or later it will be invented because it will be obvious in the state of the art. There's no need to grant monopoly privileges. Rather, I favor market
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by kiba 1y ago
Tech can be transformative but humans are bottlenecks and there are bottlenecks everywhere. That is why we don't grow at 10% rate for GDP.
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by kiba 1y ago
Making money isn't the problem. Restricting it is.
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by kiba 1y ago
Is it? I bet if you keep breaking down skills into subskills, it will resolve to something mechanical in the end. One of the foundation of drawing is to simplify objects into shapes and then into lines and then how to move your arm when dra
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by kiba 1y ago
What I meant is the network effect enjoyed by Facebook and Amazon. That network effect is ripe for taxation and regulation.
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by kiba 1y ago
It's the land and other non-reproducible privileges, not all form of wealth. The imbalance is not between capital and labor, but land. Land can be in the form of copyright, patents, even domain names, the orbitals in the sky, the elect
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by kiba 1y ago
Skills is simply the amalgamation of smaller conceptual chunks. Memorizing a bunch of Python API is simply part of building your skill as a programmer.
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by kiba 1y ago
Very difficult to take advantage of if you don't have good control over your brain. I am learning bit and pieces on how to do this but it's a long and uncertain process. Conflict monitoring is willpower is a new concept to me but
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by kiba 1y ago
A condo just means the maintenance fee is explicit, rather than implicit.
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by kiba 1y ago
The problem is speculative investing, not making a profit per se. If your incentive is to prevent improvement of your community, then you're going to prevent making it worthwhile for anyone to come in and invest their effort. That coul
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by kiba 1y ago
It's NIMBYism alright. After all, if they're in your backyard, it's an eyesore, or in this case, an earsore.
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by kiba 1y ago
I just buy the built version.
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by kiba 1y ago
Georgism is a prescription on removing unwarranted monopolies and taxing unreproducible privileges. Tech companies are the same old story. They are monopolies like the rail companies of old. Ditto for whatever passes as AGI. They're ju
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by kiba 1y ago
Progress isn't inevitable. It's the hard work of million of people exerting effort everyday. Look at space. We had suffered stagnation for a while. Even newspace companies aren't necessarily better, just new entrants. We had
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by kiba 1y ago
Socialism and Georgism are a response and reaction to the industrial revolution more than a hundred of years ago. They're even more relevant today even if you disagree with their proposed solution. It's not some inevitable fate or
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by kiba 1y ago
Million of people die in the US. In a pool of 300 million people that might be a small minority but it could be much worse. I was diabetic and still am, and was obese. I was also young. There's no telling that a viral infection would h
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by kiba 1y ago
Average American household budgets are dominated by housing, transportation and taxes. Maybe some of that problem is about spending too much money, but it cannot be denied that housing are unaffordable and that transportation is inefficient
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by kiba 1y ago
Credit card rewards are just discounts, discounts that are charged to the merchant. It's not a free lunch by any means.
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by kiba 1y ago
It's simply pointing out that taxation of economic activity is detrimental to the state, not that taxes are evil. This should be avoided as much as possible unless truly necessary. The state can still tax in two ways, taxes on undesira
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by kiba 1y ago
Notice I note categories where it is fine to levy taxes without seeing a reduction in supply. If you tax the usage of the electranetic spectrum too much, you would get no usage but the electromagnetic spectrum would still be there.

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