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Google never lent out entire copyrighted books without the publisher’s permission. Books.google.com consisted of 1) old public domain books that can be fully downloaded, 2) limited preview books that the publisher opted into putting online
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> I support the contractor status (mainly due to general support of a flexible labor market) A ride share or delivery company could offer flexible hours with part-time workers too, so flexibility is not why the delivery companies created
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Correction: 2020 Proposition 22 was an initiative statute that modified the Business and Professions Code ( https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayexpand... ), not the California Constitution. And the clau
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This post makes a good point, in particular that one generation’s house price appreciation (really, land rent and price appreciation) is the next generation’s shelter price inflation. And the obvious solution is higher land taxes and more i
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BlackRock and other landlords just convert owner occupied units into rentals, making it relatively more affordable to rent. If they are the problem, then prices would be too high but rents would be too cheap. But if both prices and rents ar
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Although I am disappointed that OpenAI is not all gratis and open-source, I don’t think they ever promised to release everything open-source. In my recollection, their purpose is to prevent monopolization of advanced AI in the biggest tech
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Yes, the vacancy tax encourages economic activity, which is the opposite of the income tax which has a side-effect of reducing economic activity. Another reason that camgunz’s analogy is flawed. According to the plaintiffs, the problem with
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> A vacancy tax no more compels someone to rent their property than an income tax compels me to be unemployed This is a bad analogy because an income tax is supposed to be for raising revenue, and it is generally understood that it shoul
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Oakland also has a vacancy tax (2018 Measure W, https://www.oaklandca.gov/topics/vacantpropertytax ), but it is limited to $6k per year per property, whereas San Francsico’s 2022 Proposition M increases to $20k per unit
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Are the popular types of insulin still under patent, and if so, how is California’s initiative a solution? Are they hoping to license the necessary patents?
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I listened to the Vox The Weeds podcast interviewing the same author and was frustrated that his many explanations seemed disconnected. Since old insulin patents have expired, is it that you are allowed to buy generic insulin but there ar
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For an explanation of the shift in policy around 2006 that caused the Great Recession and the current housing shortage, I recommend Kevin Erdmann, “Housing Policy, Monetary Policy, and the Great Recession” https://papers.ssrn.com
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> The loss in tax revenue due to prop 13 is roughly $17bn per year. I’m not sure where you got your number. I presume that you took the HJTA cumulative tax break from that link ($528 billion) and divided it by 31 years (1978 to 2009)? If
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> Why is Prop 13 welfare? When I talk to my dad about Proposition 13, the one thing he remembers about the ads is that it was supposed to keep widows and single moms from losing their house. In other words, he thinks of it as an entitlem
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The article is not really satire. It is describing Proposition 13 seriously and accurately. It is Proposition 13 that makes a mockery of welfare programs, and he’s right that everyone in California should learn its regressive design and con
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This is a good practical article. One minor clarification: > cross-origin API requests will require these preflight requests, notably including: … Any request including credentials No, setting XMLHttpRequest’s withCredentials:true and fe
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> those wanting housing have effectively no say at all. One of the points that William Fischel makes in Zoning Rules! is that when a developer responds to the profit motive from the market, he is representing the interests of future
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One San Francisco-specific building code that might make it difficult to subdivide an office building into smaller rooms is SFBC 1204 https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/san_francisco/latest/s... that requi
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He was also very active on twitter https://twitter.com/thomas_lord , but I do not know if any of it is technology related (as opposed to arguing about communism vs capitalism in housing, which is where I know him from).
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I think the crux of the article is this: they used the protected monopoly on one market (e.g. CDMA modems) to gain an unfair advantage in the other markets (all the other chips in a cell phone). > Qualcomm's patent licensing fees we
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Yes. After observing San Francisco’s acrimonious supervisor redistricting last month (in which politicians and special interests lobbied the nonpartisan commission to move neighborhoods to one district or other to maintain or gain political
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How do these certificates compare against letsencrypt on the technical dimensions? e.g. certificate chain size, rate limits, whether every certificate is published to the certificate transparency logs, what OSs the root CAs are compatible w
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This peculiar behavior (where the Service health check is unaware of the Deployment’s known instances) mirrors Google Compute Engine (where the httpLoadBalancer’s healthCheck is independent of the instanceGroupManager’s known instances). If
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Yes, you’re right. The Mayor’s ordinance would encourage a proliferation of private cameras that could turn into police surveillance cameras any time there is an alleged crime, and requires only summary information after the event. This is
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The question is whether the police should be allowed to view live footage owned by private organizations of an ongoing crime (such as the mass looting of the Louis Vuitton store in Union Square on Nov 19, 2021). Under current law, it takes
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I also tried running a service in podman 3.4.2 on ubuntu recently, and I agree that it had a lot of rough edges e.g. ports that fail to publish when restarting a service, podman ps losing track of containers if you ran podman as User= in sy
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> the same anti-“woke” propaganda I don’t think the term “luxury beliefs” maps one-for-one to wokism or hatred for elites. The key is that the speaker is far removed from the consequences of his actions so is able to espouse edgy but inc
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I think most of these backwards policies come from simplistic “luxury beliefs” of the rich that are disconnected from reality ( https://nypost.com/2019/08/17/luxury-beliefs-are-the-latest-... ). A popular luxur
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> I don't know what that means. In Henry George’s terminology, he decomposed income into three components based on the three factors of production. Income from competitive labor is called wages, income from competitive capital is ca
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You’re right. When Henry George introduced the land value tax, he made it clear that in urban areas he wished to capture the value which is created by the community while the landowner sits and collects increasing rents, not value that ex

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