mdb333

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by mdb333 10y ago
so Calctopia isn't acting as a trusted 3rd party?
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by mdb333 10y ago
this makes me realize I need to get back up in the demo scene as well dust off my ol' TI-99 with speech and crush some Parsec!
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Votebook – A proposal for a blockchain-based electronic voting system [pdf](economist.com)
122 points by mdb333 10y ago|92 comments
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by mdb333 11y ago
Also possibly relevant for comparison, DC rate is 0.85... so there is already a 40% premium for enjoying the Cali weather :-] http://otr.cfo.dc.gov/page/real-property-tax-rates
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by mdb333 11y ago
not really... it's more like a de-escalating tax bracket; The longer you've owned the home the lower the taxes you pay. However, the reality is that in return you're receiving the exact same "services" as the person
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by mdb333 11y ago
well, Prop 13 was passed way before 2001-2007, its an artifact of the late 70s. Still that's true that people can become priced out by tax increases (this was/is a problem in DC). And you're right... as owners now we don&#x27
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by mdb333 11y ago
It's a bit more than 1% in SF, getting close to 1.2% http://sftreasurer.org/online-property-tax-payment-faq#taxam...
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by mdb333 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%281... Good thoughts. You failed to mention Prop 13 which was put into place a long time ago and simply doesn't make sense anymore. It's at least part
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by mdb333 12y ago
Yes exactly... the whole concept of their original captcha came from fixing OCR where the text was distorted. ie put armies of unsuspecting individuals across the globe to work to help their ability to digitize text content into something m