trylfthsk

The consequences of having zero property tax are (maybe unintuitively) extremely awful. Ignoring all of the arguments regarding commons and market liquidity, you essentially cede enormous amounts of power to large landholders who can cheaply (relative to the average citizen) monopsonize local real estate markets.

EDIT: Maybe in practice oligopsonize, but either way on a long timescale you can say goodbye to widespread freeholding.

If only Detroit had stuck with Augustus Woodward's hexagonal grid plan.

>This is why I can’t play any games which require grinding (looking at you Eve)

Eve actually broke my desire to play a lot of games for this exact reason.

> Ultimately, you get what you incentivize

I've already claimed this for my tombstone

Question - Why would they remain so committed to a dividend if:

1. They're losing money

2. Things are not going to improve near-term

3. Debt is currently (more) expensive

4. They're in a hugely capital intensive business and are on a current spending spree for competitiveness reasons.

Other than some hand-wavy 'optics' rationales it seems like a bad idea, but I guess this is why I don't sit on the board of an F500.

edit: should also note that tax drag is another malus against the dividend concept, altogether (rightly or wrongly) telling me the story that "we really don't have anything better to do with the money".

This name is so bad, I want to submit a formal complaint to make sure I don't need to see it plastered in every fifth Honda or Sony ad. Where does this go?

I'd love to hear some flavour on how this name got chosen and approved, but it's stuff like this that shows the Pepsi logo thing is probably disturbingly not a hoax [0].

[0] https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Love my Thinkpad T15G: - No major issues in Manjaro

- discrete graphics (3080 mobile). Using the proprietary driver, graphics switching seems to work pretty well.

- 128gb ECC ram (has xeon 11xxxm)

- durable; survived around 45 flights; runs 120 hours a week.

- trackpoint!

- fits into a normal backpack

- the hulking mass builds core strength while traveling

Cons: - Battery "life" is more like insurance against yoinking the charger.

- don't leave on lap under heavy load if you're a male hoping to maintain fertility

- not really easy to clean and keep clean; something about the rubberized finish gets noticeably dirty after a few hours of use following a thorough scrub, but I might also be a bit oilier than the average duck.

Aesthetically it's just the right amount of boring, but I know most like something a little sleeker.

Edit: formatting and additional con: Lenovo pricing is obscene without playing games using coupons, corporate portals, etc.

Thanks for reminding me of this little slice of hell.

I can't help but feel it wasn't so long ago it was widely considered a bad idea to open arbitrary PDFs of questionable provenance.

I think there almost needs to be a "Reacher Law", in that there should be minimal friction to participating in society aside from maybe cash and an ID. I definitely find a default assumption of having a smartphone that's creeping in everywhere (android / iOS compatible & has an active data plan) to be increasingly cloying.

Currently, all I can do is politely decline and insist that I neither have the Play nor Apple store; I still find it uncomfortable even giving away my phone number. I couldn't even get into my gym the other day, since they'd transitioned to app sign-in only (phasing out barcode tags); I'm forced to beg the attendant to look me up by phone number every time.

*EDIT: I hope ranting about smartphones in a cashless-ness thread isn't too off topic

I'm nearly certain that the remix culture of Touhou has led to Zun to being the most covered artist of all time.

But don't just take my word for it: https://touhoudb.com/

Ahoj

Neither do the Straits of Mackinac

Service availability decreases with population density, and relying on subsidized last mile delivery for the economic elite is not a sustainable model for an entire society. The road network alone is a funding quagmire, to say nothing of hiding the infrastructure burdens of servicing sprawl into the eldritch horror that is the municipal bond market.

As a big proponent of sortition, I fully endorse loto-lawyer.

Maybe then we can continue with the lower houses of US legislatures.

To quote P&P:

"The term land embraces, in short, all natural materials, forces, and opportunities..." (in the context of contrast with "capital")

So I don't think any upgrades are required; just perspective.

I do love the idea of technologies that make resources (and waste streams) more fungible. Though the level of dystopos then is where we draw the line on "resources" and "waste streams".

"It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people."

Still, technology that excites the imagination is always itself exciting.

I'm tempted to mentally file this under "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should", if only for the visual of a future where an insatiable appetite for meat-derived hydrocarbons is satisfied by minmaxing factory farming sans any constraint that the outputs need to be suitable for human consumption.

Hopefully algae is the most efficient way to this.

What percentage of foreign military personnel have had some training by a US organization? From what I know, a huge number for myriad reasons.

My guess is it's large enough that the odds a coup includes US-trained elements becomes a coin toss.

"Pilot" seems to me rather high status, so I would bet that the average Russian pilot comes from a wealthier / better connected demographic than the average citizen.

Could the potential fallout from high losses in this demographic lead to risk averse deployment of these assets?

Doing a Master's in Mathematics while working full+ time as an engineering contractor (27 yo)

1. Unlike a B.S., having money is a gamechanger in terms of QOL

2. It's forced me to actually start time managing. Charitably, I'd always been a shamelessly mediocre student, and this has started to change.

3. I wish I would've done this earlier (~5 years out of school), but work experience has definitely been a positive.

4. Instructor goal setting has been worth every penny; I shotgunned a bunch of half-baked ideas self-learning, but I admit I need a guide; there's too many weeds to get lost among, and it takes a lot of work to get some topics to sink in. Without understanding what/why/how things are worth learning, I would typically lose interest once the going got too tough to entertain passing interest.

5. I don't have my heart set on any particular use for the degree, but it does seem to be a door-opener even as a student.

The earliest usage of the idea of "log utility of wealth" I'm aware of is in Daniel Bernoulli's work on the St. Petersburg lottery [0], but it pops up all over mathematical finance stuff.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-stpetersburg/

"I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I'd settle for a couple thousand years.

Even five hundred would be pretty nice.

--CEO Nwabudike Morgan, Morganlink 3D-Vision Interview "

ora et labora

W.R Hamilton's discovery of the Quaternions is semi-famous itself, with the story being that after the critical flash of insight he carved the equation describing quaternion multiplication into a bridge in Ireland with a penknife.

A interesting read is this letter [0] written the following day, where he explains his ideas in his own words. It's a great (and accessible!) look into his thought process.

[0] https://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Hamilton/QLette...

My P15 supports ECC, has great graphics, ok cooling, and in a pinch is heavy enough to be used in self-defense.

Chuck Marohn did my favorite exploration of this issue in "The Growth Ponzi Scheme"[0]. I wish this was front and center in the Zeitgeist.

[0]https://www.strongtowns.org/the-growth-ponzi-scheme/

And here I was hoping someone was deep diving the prog rock rabbit-hole:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magma_(band)

Relativistic trade: Quaternions

Reminds me a bit of Greg Egan's Incandescence - in addition to some other great comparisons itt.

afik not a single ryzen laptop uses ECC from the factory and documentation on compatibility is pretty horrible; this is the only thing stopping me from making the leap.