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by ufocia 3y ago
> This is more about preventing AWS from eating their lunch by providing redis-as-a-service, without paying any sort of compensation to the redis developers. But the developers licensed the software at no charge. What kind of compensatio
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by ufocia 3y ago
Or lose your pizza making wages to wafer makers applying their wafer making skills to pizza making.
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by ufocia 3y ago
You may not have been making pizza where the $23/hr employees were spending their money. Plus, they can only eat so much pizza. Having more of them switching to pizza making would not necessarily raise their wages, i.e. a glut of pizza
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by ufocia 3y ago
Semiconductor manufacturing is very capital intensive so running the company as a nonprofit is a nonstarter. You've presented historical data to counter the of argument that wage/salary growth MAY lead to potential unprofitability
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by ufocia 3y ago
I've noticed a trend of pay-walled articles lately on HN. Nothing wrong with journalists being paid, but I'm beginning to think that they are self-promoting rather than bubbling up organically.
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by ufocia 3y ago
Probably better to stick to the GPUs. Integration is a low margin game.
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by ufocia 3y ago
I'm not sure that it favors the land owners. Most of us presumably value our life over our worldly possessions.
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Maybe REITs?
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by ufocia 3y ago
I also thought this was bad until I gave it some thought recently. I'm not saying that I'm out of that camp completely because I think that the approach in some cases leads to overspending and may increase the overall cost in real
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by ufocia 3y ago
I'm aware of areas where real estate taxes are high and large swaths of land are owned by private non-profit conservation organizations.
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by ufocia 3y ago
> The city or municipality can guarantee land it owns can have natural growth on it Only if the city/municipality has money to do so. A degenerate example is where the city/municipality own all of the land and thus has no real
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by ufocia 3y ago
But presumably at least some of the land owners are already paying more through paying for the presumably private amenities. Hence the fairness argument falls at least partially. Taxation is not about fairness, it's about raising reven
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by ufocia 3y ago
You are assuming that all real estate owners are paying taxes. Also, in blighted areas buying improved land may actually be discouraged by LVT because of demolition costs. Thus vacant land should be more valuable than improved land. Can you
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by ufocia 3y ago
I'm not sure why a tree would not be considered a functional ecosystem. Perhaps giving incentives to people growing even individual trees is the thing to do. Otherwise people without trees are just freeloading of someone else's pr
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by ufocia 3y ago
In some places farms already pay LVT like real estate taxes. Their real estate taxes are based on the value of potential farming operations on the land.
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by ufocia 3y ago
There is that, of course. But good courses also permit real estate companies to hold land for future development at a reduced cost, maybe even a profit, no?
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by ufocia 3y ago
Not just bankers. REITs also don't invest in groundbreaking endeavors, or do they?
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by ufocia 3y ago
Lifespan is a factor in depreciation, not the other way around, although many people believe it is, i.e. depreciated equipment may still have usefulness though some people (businesses) rush to replace equipment once it's depreciated. I
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by ufocia 3y ago
The days of merely protecting one's property are long over. At least in the US real estate taxes pay for many services unrelated to safety of the property. For example, closing a real estate tax funded senior center is unlikely to resu
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by ufocia 3y ago
It's less about land availability. There is plenty of land at least in some countries. It's more about desirability. As those in the real estate trade like to say it's all about "location, location, location."
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by ufocia 3y ago
Low value is not synonymous with low profit. Also, the arguments made against car washes are the same as those made against bank branches which also generate relatively little sales tax. Anyway, if there is a surplus of car washes they will
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by ufocia 3y ago
Also, there is a cost associated with searching. Consumers may intentionally forego the effort for perceived low marginal gains (especially in nominal rather than percentage terms, e.g. "I'm not going to waste my time to save a qu
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by ufocia 3y ago
Breaking Bad made car washes a cultural icon. Perhaps people want to launder money or be as cool as Heisenberg/Walter White.
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by ufocia 3y ago
How do we know whether it's an image with 16 fingers or it just looks like 16 fingers to us? I looked at the bear example above and I could see how either the AI thought that there was an animal face embedded in the fur or we just see
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by ufocia 3y ago
Royalty costs are often the other.
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Better or cheaper, e.g. AV1?
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by ufocia 3y ago
That's exactly my point. If you want committed bandwidth then pay for it. Now, if there is no option to pay for committed bandwidth, then you may have a legitimate gripe. I believe that the Internet providers are not fully transparent
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by ufocia 3y ago
You're right, they should be more transparent in their advertising, so should airlines telling you that you only have a x% chance of getting there on time because of seats being oversold. Though I'm guessing that if they didn&#x27
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by ufocia 3y ago
Your right, one day you buy a pint of milk for $1, the next day $3, and on a third day the store is out of milk. Would you be happy with not having Internet access at times because someone else bought out committed bandwidth or having your
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by ufocia 3y ago
Not sure why the taxpayers are footing the bill.

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