@xwanyex The claim that the increase in the neighbors' land value, by itself, increases your land value is probably worth interrogating. Yes, there is a localized supply-demand effect, but is land demand actually localized?
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The Georgist position:
* We're going to tax you on the value of the land, not improvements
* This is because the value of your land is not determined by your improvements, but instead by the productive activities of your neighbors
* But your improvements are the productive activity that raises the value of your neighbor's land
* And that raises the value of your land in proportion
* So actually your improvements *did* raise the value of your land!
Nemesis 2026@Nemtastic1
@kpauldueck @xwanyex But the nice house I built on my land raises the value of my neighbor's land. And the value of my neighbor's land going up makes my land value go up. So building improvements on my land does raise my tax bill. It's a bad system that can't work the way it claims to.
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@mchmr96 @WeaponAutism Not sure about the specifics of this case, but there are a few places in immigration law where filing essentially gets you an extension until the government gets around to processing it.
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@WeaponAutism Doesn’t sound totally legal if his paperwork is expired
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@theBuoyantMan @ntbrown01 If a switch gets a broadcast frame, it sends it out every port except the one it received the frame from. So, when you connect port 1 to port 4, the switch's transmission of the broadcast comes back in (via cable) and then the switch broadcasts again, which comes back in, etc.
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@ntbrown01 How does this work! it's fascinating why this happens
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Looks fascinating. Networking experts, take a shot at why this happened.
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@MatthewBerman Compute is a commodity. One B200 is largely the same as any other B200. To the degree there is differentiation, it is in enterprise sales, tooling, and ops, for which it isn't clear that Meta has much advantage.
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Zuck missed smart phones. VR didn’t take off. Compute is the final boss of platforms and he’s all in.
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@constans What leads you to believe that it was the masking that resulted in the extinction of the flu strains instead of the social distancing?
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Masking was generally good and a few people had a level of unhinged anger about masking that I will never relate to.
The funny thing is that widespread masking *caused a few strains of the flu to go extinct*
Derek Pederson 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇻🇪@DerekPederson3
It’s weird that I have one niche grievance with Fauci that almost no one agrees with or talks about: He should have stuck with his original recommendation that widespread masking was not worth it, and certainly should have pushed to end to masking when the vax became available.
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@Czechma7e @waozixyz "He" is used both for boys/men and when the gender is unknown.
Back in the 80s/90s, a bunch of feminists decided that this grammar rule was somehow anti-woman, and largely successfully campaigned to get people to stop (at least in the coastal part of the US).
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@waozixyz ‘he’ is gendered not gender neutral, isn’t it?
idk don’t quote me on that, I don’t keep up with all this shit
I tuned out when I read someone say “it’s homophobic to call men ‘gay’ for liking transwomen”
bro if words don’t mean what they mean, how am I “misusing” them?
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@Niveran @VioletFlame23 which drives up health care costs (employees with the specialized training to know how to navigate a dozen different insurance companies aren't free!), but people ultimately get the care they need.
The 1% though is a huge problem.
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@Niveran @VioletFlame23 work arguing over the phone with people who are under qualified and have never actually seen you, about your care.
99% of the time it "works out": there is a delay (shorter than most other countries) and offices have to hire employees to do nothing other than bill insurance,
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Thinking claims don't get denied under public healthcare systems is the medical equivalent of "under socialism I won't need to work, I could just write, draw, and garden all day"
Claims would get denied under any healthcare system, there's *literally* no way to accept them all
Amelia@amelia_tweetz
Has any country that adopted universal healthcare ever said, “You know what? This isn’t working. Let’s go back to paying insurance premiums and getting claims denied all the time.”
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@pips_elite @SouthernBoy911 Yes. The suspect was shooting at people. He was inarguably a threat of death or grave injury, and therefore lethal force to stop the threat is legal.
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His first three text messages were to his old unit, his group chat, and his dad, all 3 said the same thing- "stateside kill bitches"
Redd@ReddCinema
This officer casually dropped an active shooter from 183 yards in just a single shot 😳
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@steipete huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kim… had a quick read and I can’t find anything forbidding competitors undercutting Moonshot AI; at least in the open license.
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Serving large models is hard.
Lisan al Gaib@scaling01
im no longer excited about open releases like what is this bullshit where is my $5 Kimi-K3 endpoint
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@atlanticesque The "non-partisan get out the vote" organizations have largely died because liberals realized that people who need to be encouraged to vote will vote "wrong".
Republicans would likely be far more successful in harvesting ballots than Democrats, if they tried as hard.
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@atlanticesque Yes, and the opposition by the police unions was an even worse mistake.
I suspect that ease of voting might be another area where the parties are confused. Low propensity voter used to vote mostly for Democrats, but that has probably shifted to Republicans.
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Perhaps true, but doesn’t this also mean that conservative opposition to bodycams was (and is) an equally massive mistake?
I wonder what else the two sides might be confused about
captive dreamer@captive_dreamer
Democrats pushing for bodycams was the greatest own goal of the decade
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@Mihoda @davepl1968 @Mike__Baier That is why the system is on-demand and not scheduled. It would obviously be totally unworkable as s scheduled service.
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@davepl1968 @Mike__Baier The 'genius' here is n(n-1)/2 more track/right-of-way/capital. That's retardville after the three demo stations
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The real genius of the Loop is that it’s true point-to-point.
You can enter at any station and go directly to any other station. No transfers. No fixed routes. No stops. The number of stations between you and your destination is irrelevant.
That’s a fundamentally different model from trains or buses.
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@pylonvu @davepl1968 @Mike__Baier The Circle Line is not point to point. It stops at every stations on the route. It takes 72 minutes to go 27KM (17 miles) due to station dwell time.
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@davepl1968 @Mike__Baier The Circle Line on London's underground has been doing this for over a century, so I don't think this idea is as earth shattering as some people believe.
Plus if you ever get on clockwise when you want anticlockwise you soon find out the difference between irrelevant and fun...
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@davepl1968 @Mike__Baier Trains make up for it via large numbers of passengers per vehicle. However, point to point implies a small number of passengers per vehicle because, barring special events, only a small number of people will happen to travel the same origin and destination.
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@davepl1968 @Mike__Baier Trains can't do it at all. Steel on rail is extremely slick (think icy roads, but worse). You can only safely send 100 trains per hour on a track. Meanwhile, amateur drivers regularly do 1000 cars per hour on a highway.
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@ctjlewis I have been trapped on projects I didn't believe in before. You can push through for a few months. But after a few years, it leaves you an empty husk of a human. Achieving flow state is very hard if you don't care and if don't achieve flow, the days are long and draining.
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@ctjlewis Perhaps some sort of analyst of the industry? Hating the tech industry almost seems to be a prerequisite to be a tech journalist these days. And if that doesn't pay well enough, perhaps an investment analyst type role would work with his cynicism.
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