jaredklewis

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by jaredklewis 13d ago
It's not exactly the same, but pretty close. LVT: You own the land, you just have to pay these taxes on it every year or we will force you to sell it so we can collect our taxes. Leaseshold: We own the land, but you can buy a 99-year l
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by jaredklewis 13d ago
Does LVT create a moral hazard? I don't think so. Have we seen municipal governments with liquor taxes rush to run pro-alcohol ad campaigns and relax night life restrictions in order to maximize tax revenues? No. Have carbon taxes moti
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by jaredklewis 14d ago
No matter the type of tax (LVT, income, wealth, carbon, etc…) the money goes to the same place: the government. From there, hopefully the government uses it wisely in ways that redistribute wealth and stimulate growth, but that is orthogona
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by jaredklewis 15d ago
I think what you've outline here is entirely theoretical, unless you have some empirical evidence you have thus far not linked, and (IMHO) likely not correct. I also don't think there would be any particularly progressive or other
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by jaredklewis 15d ago
I disagree with your analysis, but putting that aside, you are ignoring the fact that LVT has been applied in the real world. Denmark, Estonia, Singapore, Taiwan... Obviously disentangling effects is hard, but there is no evidence that sugg
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by jaredklewis 15d ago
The whole economy. If your cost of living is higher (due to LVT), the minimum wage you will work for is higher. The amount of discretionary spending (someone else's income) or investment you can make is lower. Obviously these effects o
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by jaredklewis 15d ago
Why do you think a wealth tax would reduce stock buybacks? I don't see the relation.
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by jaredklewis 15d ago
Well, I (and most economists) disagree. I think you just have a misunderstanding of how taxes work. The person or company that "pays" the tax does not bear the full burden of the tax. That burden is usually widely distributed thro
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by jaredklewis 15d ago
A land value tax would fix rich people parking money in real estate. A wealth tax or capital gains tax would not.
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by jaredklewis 22d ago
IMHO, tipping is a totally irrational way to compensate employees, but at least the places I have lived in the US, it is not disputable: tipped jobs like bartenders, baristas, or restaurants server make significantly more money than untippe
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by jaredklewis 1mo ago
I mean if the DoD thought the projects were worthwhile to begin with, yes, I think it is eyebrow raising to cancel grants based on a keyword search for "solar energy," "hydrogen energy," "electrification," or &
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by jaredklewis 1mo ago
Not the parent, but here's one source: https://www.vizient.com/insights/reports/national-hospital-f... There are many others as well. FWIW, your experience doesn't seem contradictory to the operating mar
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by jaredklewis 1mo ago
Nice article. Your description of the completely apathetic chain of actors, starting with the journal editors, was depressing to read. You did not explicitly comment on it, but the situation also implies that even researchers don't rea
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by jaredklewis 1mo ago
> Lack of children is about to bite us very, very hard. Why is everyone so sure of this? My own instinct is just that we'll adapt to it and it will be fine. It's just seems like the equivalent of making one of those charts that
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by jaredklewis 2mo ago
Can I spend money to influence voters? Say that I hold the political that the US should provide more humanitarian aid to Gaza. If I raise a bunch of money for this cause, can I use that money to make movies about the poor conditions in Gaza
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by jaredklewis 2mo ago
oh haha. Yea, my brain somehow interpreted shell as framework. But yes, I agree, WP is very useful for those times when you need to run a quick `sudo rm -rf /` command but can't get to a terminal.
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by jaredklewis 2mo ago
Is it? I did a project with WP a very long time ago and was kind of baffled. Like it's nice to have an good rich text editor, I got that part. But the absolute monstrosities people developed to extend WP, when they could have just used
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by jaredklewis 2mo ago
But what if I want to live in a country with a growing economy and improving infrastructure? Forbidding all development does hurt corporations and the wealthy, but just in the sense that it hurts everyone, including them. If we do want to s
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by jaredklewis 2mo ago
We run power lines to everything else: houses, offices, commercial buildings, factories, and so on. Any particular reasons we should have a special exception where we don't run them to data centers? Where I live pretty much every piece
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by jaredklewis 3mo ago
I'm fine with paper tests as a tradeoff, but in the real world where I am paid to program, I am a strong advocate of advanced type checkers/compilers and other static code analysis tools because they can keep all the code "in
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by jaredklewis 3mo ago
If there is something that can be done without human approval, I don't want to call support to do it. I want to be able to do it myself on the company's website. I only ever want to call support if I want something that I think is
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by jaredklewis 3mo ago
I doubt there is a statistical correlation between stock market performance and "avoiding doing awful things," though obviously we would need some way to quantify "avoiding doing awful things" before we can evaluate this
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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
That's fair, but I think your original comment could be much more clearly written. "There was a spoils system in the late 1800s. It sure would be great if we could go back to that time." Technically these can be interpreted a
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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
Your comment suggests you think cronyism was in some part responsible for America's rise as a global power. Common sense would indicate that we became a power despite the cronyism, not because it, and you've provided nothing to su
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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
I would argue that PE often makes things better for the consumer in the sense that they often buy businesses that are going out of business. When the 65 year old sole proprietor of a local HVAC business sells it to a PE firm, the other opti
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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
This is insightful. It does sort of feel like the search for the Northwest passage.
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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
It’s only natural to want to defend one’s preferences with these things. Because unlike with some other preferences, such as what IDE, operating system, or terminal emulator you use, version control systems must be shared. If it is like you
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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
> What it achieves, is that the quality of people who assume office sinks even lower than it is today, since anyone with a modicum of competence, would never divest a business for a low paid, public job. Unless of course those with a mod
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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
Which part of the syntax for fizzbuzz can you not recall from memory? The for loop? Printing to std out? The modulus operator? There’s almost nothing to forget? I’m just struggling to understand.
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by jaredklewis 4mo ago
If you can’t even write a for loop, how can you verify the ai code you generated isn’t going to wipe the prod database?

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