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Ryan Galloway
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Ryan Galloway
@rsgalloway
#VFX Software Engineer. ex ILM, Disney, MSG Sphere. Superhost.
Katılım Mayıs 2010
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@deedydas so they're going to shut down those leet code interviews, right?
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@TomSteyer I agree, we should overturn prop 13… but how would you do that as governor?
It needs to be voted on.
We tried with prop 15 in 2020 and it failed
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Billionaires like Donald Trump own commercial property in California and pay tax based on its 1970s value.
Closing that corporate tax loophole will raise $20 billion a year for schools and health care, at zero cost to you.
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If Hollywood is losing jobs, the animal crisis has exploded, homelessness is all over....why would anybody vote for somebody that is ALREADY in leadership? That literally makes no sense.
Nithya Raman@nithyavraman
Hollywood jobs belong in LA. Here’s how to help bring them back:
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California is under threat. Everyday, the Trump Administration is coming after our healthcare, our families, and our values. There’s no time to learn on the job. We need a governor who’s ready to fight back on Day One. That’s why I’m proud to endorse @XavierBecerra for Governor.
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The place that I think AI will be the most disruptive:
local government.
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@DisneyParks @Disneyland bring back the jedi training academy in tomorrowland
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The Force will be with you, always.💫 Join your favorite Rebels or pledge allegiance to the Empire starting April 29, 2026 at Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge at @Disneyland.
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@devahaz CA does not have a tax revenue problem, why are you shilling for the government?
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In 2020 a measure to eliminate prop 13 protections for large commercial properties failed in a close vote getting 48%. I think that measure would pass today and should be extended to eliminate prop 13 for all properties other than owner-occupied primary residences.
Matt Janiga@regulatorynerd
California needs a ballot measure where out-of-state property owners lose their Prop 13 benefits. Property taxes should be full freight if you live out of state.
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I’m very offered a very similar explanation on here many times!
The fact is that enough people defect under communism that in order to make it work you have to become increasingly authoritarian, which of course pushes more people away.
Communism is the ultimate, “if everyone would just.” But since everyone isn’t going to “just,” you either have to tolerate some of the people in society developing an alternative, illegal market economy, or you have to force people to do what you want, even though some of them really, really don’t like it.
Stephen R. C. Hicks@SRCHicks
One-paragraph Reddit nailer.
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It would be much cheaper to simply increase self-deportations by debanking illegals, going after businesses and landlords, and heavily taxing remittences
Laura Ingraham@IngrahamAngle
“$18K PER DEPORTATION” @SecMullinDHS: “It costs about $18,225 per person to deport.” “Multiply that by MILLIONS—it’s staggering.” “Why so high? Asylum claims, attorneys, clogged courts.” “That’s the system we’re dealing with.”
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In 2021 our portfolio company Fridge No More raised $19M and opened 49 stores in NYC, employed 300 people and was able to deliver goods to your door in under 15 minutes, paying above minimum wage to couriers (they were actually so happy with their jobs they offered to work for free when the company couldn’t get funding). Unlike Mamdani’s store they had to pay rent and taxes.
This is $387K per store including all the R&D, CapEX, and a central processing facility.
Somehow when a socialist politician is trying to do that it’s 100x more and takes 3 years. Remember my words it will not end at $30M. Very soon they’ll ask for more.
New York Post@nypost
Mayor Zohran Mamdani that the first city-owned grocery store – which carries a whopping $30 million expected price tag – won’t open until 2029. trib.al/zJEMm8D
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@rossiadam explosion of entrepreneurs at the same time an inversion in value
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Many conversations over the past few months on AI lead me to this conclusion:
AI is leading to a Cambrian explosion of entrepreneurs.
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@unclebobmartin only if you assume the randomness in QM is fundamental rather than emergent
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@rsgalloway Only statistically. At the most fundamental level, (e.g. the "position" of an electron) the universe is based entirely on probabilities.
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I've seen a lot of posts complaining that AI is non-deterministic. This is true, but my experience is that AIs can be constrained to be very nearly deterministic.
Some might say "very nearly" is not good enough. My response is that I believe I can crank up the constraints to reduce the uncertainty to below any given threshold.
I'd also like to point out that the functioning of your body is based on the statistical non-deterministic behavior of random molecular motion. The second law of thermodynamics is statistical in nature and only approximately deterministic above a certain threshold. Indeed, our muscles and nerves would not function correctly if the second law was entirely deterministic.
So, your heart beats, and your neurons fire, because of non-determinism. Non-determinism, properly constrained, is something we can all live with.
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Too many people are saying the quiet part out loud with property taxes. It's not about the schools or the roads or the police. It's about lowering valuations for homes to make them affordable to new buyers; or about making it too expensive for the elderly to remain in their homes. Or it's about punishing people who stayed in a home for too long.
Property taxes should be small and, by design, used for local services. They should not be a revenue source for statewide projects and they most definitely should not be a hammer for social engineering.
sonch@soncharm
Like wanye I'm not 'against' property tax per se, no more than other taxes, it's just that everyone arguing with him via 'Georgist' principles or enamored of 'land-value tax' or whatever, clearly has a background premise that Everything Is De Facto Owned By The State. And look, it's ok for that to be your starting premise, I guess, but then just admit you're a totalizing commie. Lay your cards on the table so we see clearly where we, respectively, stand; don't waste peoples' time pretending you're interested in marginal 'efficiencies' or whatever. You think the state by default owns everything, just say that.
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@moseskagan @pitdesi > That said, it's not a big deal in and of itself.
slippery slope fallacy. we should have a flat tax to avoid this.
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@pitdesi The counter is that taxes aren't weapons for punishing a disfavored class, but rather tools for raising revenue needed by govt... and this tax will not raise very much $$.
That said, it's not a big deal in and of itself.
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@nixkristall @unclebobmartin everything is deterministic on some level, even the universe if you can track every particle
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@rsgalloway @unclebobmartin many compiles are not *strictly* deterministic either, but you would call them deterministic. so that’s my definition.
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AIs are just another step up the semantic expression ladder. We initially expressed our semantics in binary, then assembler, then Fortran, then C, then Java, then Python, etc. AI is just the next step up that same old ladder.
And when you take that step, nothing else changes. You are still expressing behavioral semantics. You still need to express structural semantics. All the old principles still apply. You still have to be concerned about design and architecture.
And even though the syntax allows informal statement, you cannot abandon formalism. When you express behavior you need a formal way to enforce the behavior you want. I use Gherkin for this. It seems to work pretty well.
Consider that Gherkin is written in triplets of Given/When/Then. Each of those GWT triplets is a transition of a state machine. A full suite of Gherkin triplets is a formal description of the finite state machine that represents the behavior of the application.
Other formalisms that matter are things like module dependency graphs, testing constraints, complexity constraints, and many others.
This step up the semantic expression ladder provides you with an enormous amount of options. But you'd better choose those options wisely!
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