mr_cyborg

I’m struggling to envision how this would impact homeowners differently than the current property tax paradigm. If I have a house and the value of the property goes up, my property taxes increase. If I were to sell a house at market rate, theoretically it would be reflective of what rate it was being taxed at.

How would this same situation play out with a land-value tax?

As far as I’m concerned, until electric cars are as convenient to charge as gas is to fill up with, it’s a no-go for me. There simply isn’t the infrastructure where I live and frequently travel in the Eastern US to meet my driving needs. This story seems extremely plausible to me.

I strongly believe that Fahrenheit is the best temperature scale

I really enjoyed this blog post. Great writing, easy to read and follow, and a compelling and relevant subject for many readers here. Thank you for sharing!

USA here - I had to look up what Revolut was. It sounds like another one of the many payment apps we have. Is this akin to Venmo/Cash App/Paypal here but in Europe?

> Net neutrality means all network packages are treated equally while they are delivered.

I was wondering what they meant by "...if net neutrality had passed", which seemed to indicate a particular legal implementation of the principle you described above.

Could you be more specific in what you mean by “net neutrality”? It’s a principle that could be put into practice a number of different ways.

S. Truett Cathy (who I assume is the old dude you mentioned) passed away in September of 2014.

One of the things that always surprised me at a previous company was seeing the H1B hiring notices posted for easily-trainable positions.

I have nothing against people coming to work in the United States, but I thought those visas were specifically for roles where the skills weren’t available.

In this case, by making the skills super specific, like that Home Depot sales portal in this article, they made them rare.

I tried out Windows Phone for two weeks a few years back and my significant other was upset that I went green.

I like this a lot. Will definitely try it out at some point.

One could make the argument that the senators still represent the state, because they represent everyone in the state, whereas a representative only represents their district.

With the senate, it's important to frame thoughts not as a percentage of the population, but as a percentage of the states that make up the United States.

I would say that if 15% of the population could control the house of representatives, then there would be something wrong.

In my opinion, thinking of each state as a small nation unto itself is the best way to see the value of the senate in its current form.

I find this thought pattern to be helpful because the state has all the government powers not given to the federal government, and not found to be contrary to the constitution. The tenth amendment guarantees this - "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Each state, as a small nation, has its own interests that need preserving outside those of the United States at large, and it makes sense that the senate acts as a check on the interests of large, populous states over smaller ones when it comes to these.

Having lived in several states, I've found that differences in values and culture inform general opinion of the federal government. In my opinion, this article sounds like it was written by someone who views the United States federal government as one that should have a large role in the every day lives of citizens, and my feedback to them is that they should consider whether or not they would like it if a growing state with different values than their own suddenly had disproportionate representation federally.

There's a lot of talk about data confidentiality, but I would argue that the data you could get from any one endpoint would be useful for reconnaissance within its own peer neighborhood, and not much else, but I welcome use cases where I'd be wrong.

Additionally, downloading a client without getting the public key for the server won't help you - you can't just connect to any server you find. The author then links to a KB article about generating a different key than the one he would need anyway.

Relying on any vendor's documentation for proof of anything is the first mistake this author made. Giving himself an out by not actually trying any of these things, or weighing drawbacks against the benefits, means this is little more than speculative clickbait.

I found their data source interesting - "Only breweries with 3+ beers that were reviewed 10+ times and 50+ total reviews were included." In my city there are probably 12+ breweries, but almost none of them meet the requirements on RateBeer set out by this article to qualify.