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Apologies for the condescension. The position you've outlined makes no logical sense to me, so i discounted it. Let me ask in a spirit of enquiry: Why are they waiting for LVT?

They hike the rent ten percent and say it's because of LVT - if LVT didn't exist, they'd say it was because of the war on Iran, or interest rates, or mercury in retrograde.

At risk of looking like a shill: Kagi.

Partly, i find it reassuring to pay for the service with money. That was how we used to do things back in my day.

Localisation is moderate for shopping - i have to sift through US results. I'll occasionally use Google product search when i'm metaphorically groping for my wedding ring in the toilet.

It's not as good as Google used to be, but then, the web isn't a good as the web used to be.

I'd assumed that Dick just pulled it out of his Bag of Narrative Props. Tolkein he was not.

Sure, but cgnat doesn't defeat filesharing, because of your STUN and your DERP and what-have-you.

It's common, at least in the UK, for residential lines to block smtp inbound. That's an ACL, which is operationally ~free. NAT does not serve the purposes you've outlined.

Some cynicism is warranted about, e.g. chat control, but it's better explained by good-faith desire to fight egregious crime coupled with low care for the privacy invasion. Other people have different values to you and me.

It's hard to reconcile an EU government in anyone's pocket with gdpr and dma, which afaics serve citizens and no big interests. Like most governments, the EU is somewhat fractious and incoherent, so it's not a given that everything they do is citizen-friendly. But i, for one, accept that law enforcement should exist; accept that this is inevitably a trade-off against citizen rights; concede that preventing the next bataclan is nigh-on impossible; and understand why some might, to that end, desire greater power to comb through conversations. I don't agree, but i also don't need to assume conspiracy. At heart, the problem is not that all government is evil - although you're welcome to that view - it's that thick pillocks vote without any consideration of nuance.

I think i see the error in your thinking. You believe that rent is low-margin and cannot be sustained at a given level if costs rise.

That's never been true anywhere I've lived. Landlords generally charge the maximum the market will bear. In high-demand areas, letting is highly profitable. A London flat, say, will generally net five figures above the mortgage.

LVT is, definitionally, only high in those places.

Does this help you understand?

Meh - you can block ports inbound without state tables. I think you're ascribing purpose to what i imagine is a sclerotic and dysfunctional entity.

When i was 20, i was reflexively cynical, because it let me pose as intellectual without the burden of having to learn or think. As an adult, i find that pose very fucking obvious.

My interest was piqued by the concept of natting ip6, and why an isp might do so, and why cgnat might be disabled if you ask the isp to disable ip6.

I agree that's a concern. I don't know the answer.

Of course any government can jack up taxes, and some may use LVT as an excuse. That's already a problem. But the _ideal_ LVT replaces property tax. So I'm skeptical that LVT will be a large exacerbating factor.

The real problem is that gentrification drives up demand, and that's baked into the premise - and necessarily precedes any LVT uprating. I expect LVT's contribution to the problem to be marginal. More data needed.

They're natting ip6 now? Wait, what? They're paying the operating costs of stateful nat tables for ip-fucking-6?

Wrong. It's designed to _encourage_ density _appropriate for the location_

I directionally agree! I grew out of Big Systemic Fixes in my 20s. The great thing about LVT is that it can be implemented piecemeal at the small scale. I think we should do that; have some tolerance while we thrash out the bugs; then let matters progress as they will.

While i don't agree with Big Systemic Fixes, i certainly agree with - or rather, acknowledge the existence of - Big Systemic Problems. We should tackle those when we can, with appropriate caution. LVT's viability, IMO, is predicated on gradual rollout and low cost of reversal.

> One of the problems with many of these tax proposals is that it’s not accompanied by a reduction in taxes. So it’s basically just a tax increase

Done honestly, land tax replaces property tax. The problem of tax increases is orthogonal. Your paragraph doesn't address LVT, it addresses cities being broke.

> It's unclear to me what problem it seeks to solve

Unfairness of existing tax; rent-seeking; insufficient housing supply; unpriced externalities; take your pick.

> unearned wealth creation is common

...and, typically, taxed. I have a Capital Gains liability for mine, which comes due when i sell.

> Should all software engineers return the 50% of their salary that market forces caused to increase and give it to typists?

No; they were presumably taxed on it already; and it's currently dropping, also due to market forces. But that's beside the point. Their income, inflated or not, was earned. LVT is about pricing in an externality that currently goes unpriced, that is deemed to be owned because someone a long time ago planted a flag. We do not need to abolish the concept of land ownership, but we should question assumptions about it.

> I will probably believe it more when...

That's just insane.

> My concern is also aligned with Orwell

No, you merely quoted Orwell out of context. FFS. By all means borrow a pithy line, but don't claim an authority who doesn't agree with you.

Orwell was a passionately radical and progressive. He fought in the Spanish civil war. He wrote "Down And Out In Paris And London". I don't know if he ever wrote about LVT, but my bet is that he would have been strongly in favour of it.

Then you should be able to rebut it. I cannot conceive of your rebuttal, so please lay it out for me.

I speculate that that form of corruption is concentrated at the large scale. Town councillors where i live don't have campaign budgets. They barely have campaigns.

Get a bunch of town councils on side and you're better placed to tackle the vested interests at the next level up.

Government already has the prerogative to set taxes, so you should worry about that exactly to the extent that you currently worry about it. LVT is orthogonal.

Broadly, government is not called rent-seeking because it does things to justify its keep: law, defense, roads, bins, etc etc.

I would think that lag, combined with the general public legibility of LVT, combined with the inertia of property transactions, would damp oscillations.

Gentrification and decay are already cycles, and maybe those cycles would accelerate somewhat; but a prediction that they would drop to below decade level would be a bold assertion.

Not the same person, but in case it helps, monitor dbus for denied flatpak permissions and use flatseal to grant them? (Could try allowing everything in flatseal just to rule it out)

I don't use arch btw, but on fedora i have often found setroubleshoot useful for non-flatpak apps

I'm sorry you're missing out on Alyx - it's not the greatest game ever made, but it's up there.

Commuting would be much nicer on quality ball-bearing drawer runners.

Link with the answers: https://nathannaveen.dev/posts/dropping-ebpf-cpu-cost-by-90/

That battle was called "net neutrality", and the reason we who lost it fought it was to prevent web 2.0 becoming a set of giant moated properties.

Personally, I'd put twenty quid a month in a microtransaction wallet to cover hosting costs instead of ads, but that's not an option. I already pay for search.

I hate ad technology but it does, to a small extent, empower creators. Is there a better way? I don't think geocities is coming back.

> Government taxes almost never go down

Wasn't income tax 90% during America's golden age? What is it now?

Data is an unpriced natural resource. Your pabulum is already priced. We should, generally, tax extraction, because otherwise the externalities are imposed on the public for free. In the case of mining, that's e.g. resources taken from the future; in the case of data, that's privacy taken from the public.

Everything is a trade-off. Would you never ever under any circumstances accept even trivial breakage, even if it fixes a horrible wart that costs thousands of lost hours?

How do the economics pan out? Do you pay more for gluten at higher purity than the ~10% you get when you buy it in sacks of flour?

The retail case is interesting, although maybe not indicative of wholesale

I suppose this is a function of whether gluten is a usable by-product of making low-protein cake flour. In that case i would expect industrial bread to simply add by-product gluten to cheaper flour. But that might obviate the search for higher-gluten wheat that the article describes. Really, i need more data.

Naively: gluten comes from flour, so you're not moving the needle

I suppose you save shipping costs, and I'm aware that flour processed to remove the gluten is prized for cakes.

I agree with "roads are neutral", but to be really precise, no they aren't; they are built by a polity at the expense of some other not-built roads, in a way that supports some types of traffic more than others. Compare Los Angeles to Utrecht.

The industrial age brought tech with enough downside to spark a reaction. Then there was a run of less-contentious tech. Recently, we've had a run of tech that looks to me like all downside for society. The conditions (neoliberalism) are still in place. People are not empowered by hf trading, web 2.0, social media. They could be, but the tech was co-opted. IMO, neither are they empowered, in the round, by crypto or AI.

You've never heard of hermaphrodism? Biology is _complicated_

Your observation of the contradiction is correct, but reductionist to a fault. If Gore would have been better than Dubya, and if campaigning requires travel, etc.

I take it you don't decry hydro for the use of concrete?

Yep, that sounds over-engineered for questionable benefit. Ty for the exposition. Sounds like something i would junk, too. I'm angry on your behalf.

I'll take that as a recommendation, thank you! Fwiw, i have found spares for many brands by searching model numbers and wading through spate parts aggregators. The market exists. It's often uneconomic :-(