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by snidane 8y ago
Land means 'land use rights', not the actual soil. Rights are provided by other people. The community agrees that they won't squat on the owner's plot of land. The community is not paid for providing these rights nowaday
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It clearly shows how the tax system based on taking a cut from profits is totally leaky and should be abandoned. It only results in endless cat and mouse game of tax consultants (the big 4) finding loopholes in such tax systems against gove
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by snidane 8y ago
> This is quite the assumption! Correct, it was an exaggeration. Bottom-up programmers are supposed to have the tooling not to end up with convoluted code, but they somehow manage to do it anyway. > Bottom-up text-based programming le
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by snidane 8y ago
You have two camps of people in data processing. The first one is concerned about solving problems (domain experts). They don't really know much about programming, they know how to solve problems though. Once in a while someone clever
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by snidane 8y ago
Obligatory link to show scalability issues in visual programming. https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/
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by snidane 8y ago
This is exactly where typical pure lambda-calculus based programming falls short. Lambda calculus afaik doesn't have the concept of IO, so it has to be bolted on in the programming languages as an afterthought. I believe more powerful
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by snidane 8y ago
I always achieve 100% relevant code coverage. I just set up a test with one input which tests my main(), which then obviously calls all the relevant parts of the code. Or am I missing something in the definition of code coverage? I don&#x27
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by snidane 8y ago
Very good comment about SW testing in general. In my experience the only time when unit tests were useful was when they were integration tests at the same time. For example when writing a data structure or algoritms or programming language&
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by snidane 8y ago
Good article, but a bit too long for me to participate into discussion. Will read the rest of it later. This debate between neoclassicals and austrians reminds me of logicians and people from static typing systems endlessly arguing about wh
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by snidane 8y ago
Living in Astoria, NY and this happened a mile away from me. At first my TV blips, my spotify shuts down and outside you could see this very bright turquoise light all over the place. It was bright like it was a daytime just in the green bl
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by snidane 8y ago
Why isn't there any public blowback regarding unequal pricing for public goods and services? They are mostly funded from income taxes which are not proportional to the amount of service thr payer gets at all. Property taxes would actua
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by snidane 8y ago
Correct. But you don't want to eliminate municipal competition either. The problem here is of representation. Ie. the city residents could not agree with their tax money being spent on this. This is an example where a direct democracy
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by snidane 8y ago
The usual response to that is to read the agile manifesto, read a bit of history of it and watch some videos on youtube from the people involved in its beginnings. You should then discern the original agile movement values from the salesman
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by snidane 8y ago
You are experiencing the fake 'agile'. Where in the agile manifesto do you see anything about mandatory sprints? See, you are doing a forced process but some sleazy management is calling it agile because the word once got popular
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by snidane 8y ago
Good point, but it is wrong. That applies to sales taxes. Not to monopoly taxes. In well functioning market with many competitors, the price of good would be determined as costs + margin. Over time given enough competition the price should
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by snidane 8y ago
You're never gonna implement an income based tax system which would be fair to both corporations and employees. Corporations are currently taxed on profit, while employees on 'revenues'. So to make it fair you would: 1. tax c
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by snidane 8y ago
I don't like income taxes either, but to be fair, all employees are paying taxes out of their 'revenues'.
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by snidane 8y ago
I always tried to decipher Alan Kay's notion of object oriented programming. Erlang with its active objects seems to me to fit precisely his description. Active objects = the objects themselves decide when to run a method = receive a m
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by snidane 8y ago
Your disdain for Krnacova [ANO] is palpable. Typical for Praguer, similar to disdain for Trump in major liberal US cities. You make them look like they actively go around destroying bridges. One footwalk collapsed by accident and people rus
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by snidane 8y ago
Diapers off http://www.diapersoff.com About men growing up, dating, gender wars, comedy, business, etc.
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From my experience building similar pipelining and reverse polish function application tooling in python. Piping using the | operator can make tracebacks pretty ugly with some operators. If you want to keep the code still somewhat 'pyt
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by snidane 8y ago
I'll explain. You probably wouln't collect much in land taxes from these large tech companies. But why this eagerness to tax them so much in the first place? Because of unfairness relative to smaller companies and employees who ca
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Land rights are not free. Landowner has to convince other people that he can occupy his land. How? He pays a fee proportional to his land's market value so that others don't squat there. Now this fee is just named Land Value Tax f
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by snidane 8y ago
The landlord can try. But when you introduce land tax and all those vacant apartments and lots come to market suddenly, I'd wish him luck with succeeding to shift the tax burden onto renters. It's known that land tax together with
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by snidane 9y ago
There is clearly problem with the immediate nature of such market, that is being forced to move out quickly out of a property if one undervalues it. Then there is clearly the problem with current market set up, which basically allows people
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by snidane 9y ago
This is a reault of huge EU subsidies coming from Brussels/western Europe. Causing set of new problems in the region like making rich people and firms who can orient in the subsidy bureaucracy labyrinth. Which makes it quite similar to
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> Why should housing not be to governed by market forces? Housing can and should of course be managed by market forces. Land usage rights distribution is where the problem lies. For physical reasons there is no supply of new land. We&#x2
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by snidane 9y ago
Wonderful set of video lectures on Money and Banking by Perry Mehrling, where he emphasizes exactly this topic of economists abstracting away from money and liquidity, therefore leaving abstraction leaks in their theories. http:/&#x2F
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Are Big Brands the Next Market Bubble?(ft.com)
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The problem here is the character of current housing markets causing the progress and poverty paradox. Rent control then is just (quite unfortunate) measure to mitigate the poverty problem when rents rise rapidly. The paradox occurs because

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