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by vannevar 1y ago
>they are required to sell to anyone at claimed value + 10% I like the goal here, but I think a less intrusive way to achieve it would be to charge back taxes at the time of a future sale if the sales price is in excess of the valuation.
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by vannevar 1y ago
Grandma's problem has been historically solved with a homestead exemption. Of course the value could rise above the exemption, but that just means it should be set high enough to ensure that the proceeds of selling will give Grandma a
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by vannevar 1y ago
Indeed. When I see these discussions, I am always struck by two things: 1) that many people don't seem to realize that a tax on land value is not novel, but is one of the oldest ways to fund government, with tons of experience behind i
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by vannevar 1y ago
People can prefer simplicity all they want, but the actual world they live in is complex, and no amount of pretending will change that.
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by vannevar 1y ago
I agree, the dice analogy is an oversimplification. He actually touches on the problem earlier in the article, with the observation that "the paths generated by these mappings look a lot like strange attractors in dynamical systems&quo
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by vannevar 1y ago
It may be unintentional, but the emphasis on traditional values and spirituality vs relativism gives it a moralistic tone. I'd agree directionally with what you're saying, but this transformation did not emerge spontaneously, it w
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by vannevar 1y ago
The article suggests that the culprit is social permissiveness. But I think a more likely explanation is that unregulated capitalism has systematically destroyed our common community institutions and replaced them with impersonal for-profit
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by vannevar 1y ago
I'm not sure it's true that recent presidents have relied more on EOs---at least the numbers suggest that recent presidents have actually relied less on EOs than many of their predecessors ( https://www.statista.com&#x
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by vannevar 1y ago
Sure. And if their judgment is deemed incorrect, it will be overturned on appeal. If the matter is urgent, appeal will be expedited. That's how the system works. You can certainly argue that we need more courts to handle the current wo
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by vannevar 1y ago
Forum shopping is indeed a problem, but it's a separate problem calling for its own solution.
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by vannevar 1y ago
>The state of affairs prior to this ruling is that any of 700 district judges could unilaterally block the president from exercising his authority under the constitution pending a review, including matters of national security, based on
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by vannevar 1y ago
Fair. But the central idea of scrum is a self-managed team, and there's nothing that says every sprint has to have the same duration, it just makes calculating the velocity easier. There's also nothing that says you can't pau
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by vannevar 1y ago
Ironically, this is probably one of the best uses of AI, and I expect we'll see tech cooperatives arise and start experimenting with it sooner rather than later.
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by vannevar 1y ago
I think managers had those kind of ideas way before agile. And if anyone on the team doesn't think a given ticket can be completed within a sprint, they should speak up--the whole point is that the team concurs that X can be done in a
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by vannevar 1y ago
Then your problem is bad meetings, not agile. If there's truly no value in quick daily updates and occasional work planning/review meetings, it's only because either those things are being done some other way or the team is d
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by vannevar 1y ago
I think the points about AI doing software engineering are legitimate (if not particularly insightful), but the whole thing just reads like an excuse to bash agile from someone who doesn't understand it.
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by vannevar 1y ago
Then inefficiency isn't the problem, the problem is that your views aren't aligned with the country you're living in.
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by vannevar 1y ago
If your democratically elected government spends money in ways you find unwise, you can vote for someone else, so that also tends to self-correct (albeit on a longer time scale). The problem isn't the obvious things, in the government
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by vannevar 1y ago
I think the point is that while people have indeed groused about government waste since the dawn of government, when people actually study it, they find that the rate of fraud and waste is comparable to the private sector. See, e.g., https
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by vannevar 1y ago
>There is a reason I pointed out that it doesn’t stop harassment, because it disproves the contention that anonymity is the causal force for harassment. I agree, of course, that anonymity doesn't cause harassment. The vast majority
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by vannevar 1y ago
>I'll take the easy case of real world bullying first - people know their bullies here. It does not stop bullying. Attackers tend to target groups/individuals that cannot fight back. But in an online forum where the bully is kn
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by vannevar 1y ago
>And even then, it doesn't stop harassment and bullying. We already know this from facebook, where people's IDs are known. It depends on your privacy settings. If people you don't know can comment on your posts, then they&
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by vannevar 1y ago
>Verification does not stop harassment or bullying. >It will not stop misinformation either. I'm open to any evidence that either statement is true. The rational argument that verification will reduce harrassment, bullying, and
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by vannevar 1y ago
Yes, I think we'll see the rise of id-verified online communities. As long as all the other members of the community are also id-verified, the risk of abuse (bullying, doxing, etc) is minimized. This wouldn't stop someone from pos
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by vannevar 1y ago
A less generous---and probably more accurate, given Trump's business and legal history---interpretation is that the tariffs are not for any legitimate public policy reason at all, but are simply to give Trump personal leverage to extor
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by vannevar 1y ago
My understanding is the the bank holding the account that the money was drawn from is liable to the victim, then the bank that payed the forged endorsement is in turn liable to that bank (since that's who they have the direct relations
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by vannevar 1y ago
Something's off here. IANAL, but I think the law is pretty clear that the bank that pays the forged endorser is on the hook for the loss. Maybe the checks were made out to cash or left blank, which if true seems like it would be clear
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by vannevar 1y ago
>A 400 mile range Hummer that has 150-200 miles range while towing a trailer would be a game changer. It already exists, it's called the Chevy Silverado EV: https://insideevs.com/news/688681/chevrolet-silve
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by vannevar 1y ago
GM's own EV pickup also goes 400+ miles. But it has a massive battery and efficiency around 2 mi/kWh.
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by vannevar 1y ago
A used Chevy Bolt might make a good replacement. You can find them for less than $15K these days.

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