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by sagarm 5y ago
California already has a means-tested property tax postponement program: https://sco.ca.gov/ardtax_prop_tax_postponement.html It should be expanded, state income tax ended, and prop 13 repealed.
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by sagarm 5y ago
They could just file for postponement or use a reverse mortgage/HELOC to pay their societal obligations. This idea that people should get to keep the entire windfall while shortchanging their communities is ridiculous.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Under the property tax, they'd be penalized for developing the land. Their fallowing of the land would be effectively subsidized. Under an LVT, the landowner contributes the same amount to their community regardless of their use of the
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by sagarm 5y ago
Or put more simply: land ownership is a form of consumption. Stock ownership is not.
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by sagarm 5y ago
You're right that if you capture 100% of land rent, the price of land effectively drops to zero. At that point you'd need some other way to estimate the land rent.
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by sagarm 5y ago
If you know SQL well, then doing exploratory analysis in SQL is perfectly reasonable. Especially if you are using a high-performance analytic database. Disclosure: I develop high-performance analytic database systems with SQL frontends.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Recursive CTEs exist; while I haven't investigated thoroughly, I would be surprised if they didn't make SQL turing complete. More usefully, most databases allow you to write user-defined functions in other languages, including imp
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by sagarm 5y ago
How many TBs of data are we really talking here, if it's just 6M rows? Surely this processing could easily be done on a single machine.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Lasers are better if you don't print that often. I got one ten years ago and I'm still on the starter toner!
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by sagarm 5y ago
Google is building a new OS called Fuchsia, with no new hardware to drive it was far as I know.
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by sagarm 5y ago
Why would a vim user configure nano to act like vim when they could just use vim?
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by sagarm 5y ago
Did you use taxis before Lyft/Uber? They clearly improve the customer experience.
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by sagarm 5y ago
I've also worked on large teams, and for us every published version of every change within our project is automatically tested. If your CI is too expensive to run on every commit it probably needs optimization -- something I've do
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by sagarm 5y ago
What about hg add (or git add)? Does that not "stage" an addition for the next commit?
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by sagarm 5y ago
There's a good chance the person you are replying uses git commit --amend all the time to modify commits in conjunction with git add -p. No, hg amend -i is much worse than git add -p. I do that when I have to use mercurial and there&#x
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by sagarm 5y ago
Seems equivalent to a git add -p # Review and stage git commit # Create commit git stash # Save uncommitted changes run_tests.sh # double-check git stash pop # or drop I'll do something like occasionally, but mostly I ju
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by sagarm 6y ago
If you're in a job dense area like the Bay Area, you can often find a new job that is the same or easier to commute to. There is risk to switching companies, but a signing bonus helps compensate for that risk.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Here's the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) data that shows the share of different energy sources over the course of each day: http://www.caiso.com/todaysoutlook/pages/supply.aspx Power is being
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by sagarm 6y ago
Homeowner mortgage rates are well below the long-run return on e.g. the S&P 500. A solar system is just another alternative investment option.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Utility scale solar is cheaper than rooftop solar.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Tons of widely used software -- Linux, for one -- is GPL.
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by sagarm 6y ago
> Taming and beautifying What you call development in step 1... > narcissist and selfish What you call development in step 2. They're both development and urbanization. > only there as a hindrance to you. This seems like a pro
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by sagarm 6y ago
That doesn't preview the result of the regex, just the text that would be replaced IIRC.
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by sagarm 6y ago
AMD has left Intel in the dust on efficiency as well. It's mostly due to process tech: Intel is stuck on an advanced 14nm node, AMD is on TSMC 7nm, and Apple has bought out TSMC 5nm.
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by sagarm 6y ago
They have AMD options, not just Intel.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Neovim gives you a preview of the result of your regex replacement, and with the ability to reference capture groups it's a pretty powerful.
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by sagarm 6y ago
How could a tool that checks for a specific phone number be k-anonymous?
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by sagarm 6y ago
Agreed, victorians look great from the outside. On the inside: they're generally drafty, loud, and have awful floorplans. While the loss of some of the original details like the wood flooring and fireplace (especially that flooring!) p
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by sagarm 6y ago
I really need the opposite: the option to use control for copy/paste on Mac.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Yes, alternative shells for Windows used to exist. Back in the ME days I used Litestep: http://litestep.net/ No idea if they still work.

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