TimPC

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by TimPC 4y ago
Porn is speech according to the Supreme Court. The minute we ban child pornography we no longer support unlimited free speech. So pretending that’s the line we are still holding is a rhetorical device rather than a helpful contribution to t
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by TimPC 4y ago
There are multiple property right violations here and the body of law is not all that clear. 4-H violated the parent’s property rights to the goat by proceeding with the auction against their will. At this point it becomes unclear who the l
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by TimPC 4y ago
Paying CDs at multiple levels of government means that not everyone has an equal share of all land and resources. If I live in a poor part of the US I am entitled to far less in land and resources from my CDs. Many Georgists view this as ne
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by TimPC 4y ago
Georgists generally believe that everyone has an equal right to all land and all natural resources. This makes the correct scale for a CD global if possible and national if not possible. The CD is a poor tool for keeping up with the cost o
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by TimPC 4y ago
A $100k tax credit means there is such a large surplus of tax credits that not only does the government tax $0 after credits, but also large numbers of credits go completely unpurchased. This doesn't seem like a good system at all. Cor
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by TimPC 4y ago
Tax rates are generally changed by an independent political process (the municipal budget) which often has the power to increase/decrease the mill rate based on how much money is needed/desired. This doesn't change the fact
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by TimPC 4y ago
The math on this idea is laughable though. Giving out $1 Million in tax credits per person in the US is $330 trillion dollars. Given that the US Federal Government only collects about $4 trillion in taxes and probably still wants to collec
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by TimPC 4y ago
land value is mostly location value. Land value captures all improvements that aren't on the property itself.
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by TimPC 4y ago
If you switch to Georgism without fixing zoning it ends up worse not better. Zoning my land as suitable for a high-rise can destroy the entire value of my home because it becomes an unusable structure due to the higher rates of tax. At the
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by TimPC 4y ago
Improvements as defined in Georgism are the things you add to your own land that increase its value and don't include things added on other land. This is unfortunate when you take part in building community improvements but makes far
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by TimPC 4y ago
This is wrong under a 100% land value tax. The value of land is a perpetual income stream an if the government takes all of this value the price of land falls to $0 regardless of all the amenities that improve it. Each amenity that improves
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by TimPC 4y ago
If we wanted shame to remain prevalent we should have been better about how we used it. The fact that some of it's predominant uses were to shame perfectly acceptable behaviors like homosexuality and transgenderism is a huge knock on
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by TimPC 4y ago
Dedicated songwriters (who don't also perform) is a hard problem generally. It tends to be where most systems that want to eliminate copyright monopolies stumble badly.
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by TimPC 4y ago
This just conclusively proves rounded corners or slide to unlock is more novel than the most original cocktail in the world.
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by TimPC 4y ago
There isn’t anything “most” autistic people have. The disorder is defined by having at least three of twelve major symptoms so it’s possible for two people with autism to not even overlap in their symptoms. There is also a huge range of sev
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by TimPC 4y ago
Everyone always talks about what people in the suburbs want as if urban life is so terrible and suburban life is amazing. I’m not a huge fan of the suburbs as positives are few and far between. I choose to live in one because finding a grea
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by TimPC 4y ago
We also now call CAS on parents if their eight year old goes biking on their own. Two generations ago it was okay for a kid of that age to roam several miles on their bike. Now they need parental accompaniment at all times.
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by TimPC 4y ago
Prop 13 is very difficult to have an exit strategy for because people feel entitled to their feudal (and inheritable) tax rates. The idea that a $2 million home should be treated as a $100,000 one for taxes is laughably wrong, but the peopl
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by TimPC 4y ago
It wasn’t for $160, they pretended to send $160k by mistake and asked for a wire transfer of $159,840 to get the difference back.
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by TimPC 4y ago
Otherwise blank account from a dummy email with a stolen credit card gives you very little traceability.
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by TimPC 4y ago
Start-ups don’t have to pay Google or FB size comp to attract people who like to work in start-ups but my feeling is that if they want to compete for the senior end of the talent pool they are going to have a hard time. Most start-ups are o
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by TimPC 4y ago
I think this is only really true for subway routes. The stop and go nature of buses slows a commute down and you don’t have a traffic-free route to make up for it. Subways are so much faster between stops that you can make up for the delays
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by TimPC 4y ago
Even RSUs are converted from a dollar value to a number of shares in the month you join. If you’re getting them a year later with this level of stock decline a $220k/year salary and $220k/year of stock would be $264k of compensati
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by TimPC 4y ago
Well considering that a large chunk of the layoffs were in recruiting and that you basically have a hiring freeze I am sure plenty of rockstar recruiters were nonetheless laid off.
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by TimPC 4y ago
It’s not though. At least according to every description of steelmanning I read you’re supposed to replace an argument you encounter with the best possible argument. But the best possible argument might be different enough that arguments wh
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by TimPC 4y ago
If you actually address B when I either say B or was inclined to say B then sure. But I’ve seen way too much of “that argument is weak, the better argument is X which fails because Y” meanwhile Y fails to refute the original argument making
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by TimPC 4y ago
I’ve always found steelmanning to be stupid. If you want to discuss something with me you should actually discuss my argument not the argument you replace it with that you think is better and I think is worse.
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by TimPC 4y ago
Not clear. Plenty of people will forgo selling land to a developer who wants to build a five story building in order to wait for the premium that comes from the developer who wants to build a 50 story building.
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by TimPC 4y ago
It’s a general impression I got from his moral approach to centrism. He seems to think that there is equal blame to be apportioned in debates where one side is arguing for the fundamental rights of humans that are different from them and th
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by TimPC 4y ago
Hard disagree, the objections are still quite legitimate, especially the point about dodging accusations of racism and sexism. Haidt in particular seems to subscribe to the idea that if it was appropriate in 1950 it’s appropriate now. Centr

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