Now the US is way ahead of the game here compared to Europe. There are no property taxes in most of Europe and families hang on to their homes for generations.
I know for a fact (through living here) that Denmark and probably the rest of Scandinavia has property tax and inheritance tax -- holding on to family property is almost as expensive as buying new property.
Which part of Europe are you referring to? I once had Greek colleague who complained about having to maintain three generations worth of houses, so that might be one place where things are as you describe?
Right, Europe is bound to be diverse on this point. I have exposure to Balkan countries and the UK (which, while they do have non-zero rates, still have them far lower what I'm used to in New England).
I think you can argue migration (forced) through history is tied to this. The US was a recent star in growth due to free land. But there is no more free land. And Mars does not fill that role. We need to disempower rentiers.
Wouldn't this just reduce land entitlement for those who aren't wealthy enough to afford the new taxes? I think something like taxes that apply for people who own more than 1 property would be better.
I mean, we can solve that problem by a 100% inheritance tax so they don't leave an obligation. No? Then maybe let's skip arguing in sound bites.
Personally, I think the answer here is a continued and ongoing land tax. Occupying land should come with an expectation you contribute to the common good, because you don't "own" land. It's a shared good, just like air and water, and you should pay for use.
Primary residences should indeed not be subject to an inheritance tax - if they are continued to be used as a primary residence. Providing an ongoing home for a family unit[1] is a societal good, we shouldn't punish it.
[1] Definition of family is a hairy problem for another, longer post.
I know reasoning skills are hard, but here, let me help you: OP posted a snarky comment. I proposed a policy. Feel free to bring arguments debating the policy.
I personally don’t see a difference either. Dalio isn’t a programmer - he’s an asset manager who just tries to think in a systematic way. One of the reasons I like this analogy is that it resonates with me as a programmer.
Are there any, I don’t know, archives of what it used to be like to install linux? My first linux experience was Ubuntu maybe a decade so ago and it installed fine.
What’s not immediately obvious from this is that it was not uncommon for an installation to require about 30 floppies. Floppies of course are not 100% reliable and in my experience there’s a pretty good chance that at least one of the floppies will be corrupt. For me, this meant a trip into the campus computer lab to download and write a fresh copy of the needed disk.
When you decided that you wanted X11, you would need to follow the readme with the understanding that getting it wrong could fry your monitor.
This also reminds me of a Softlanding Linux System (SLS) boot floppy disk set that was our gateway into Linux. It served the use case that people would use Live ISO images now. You booted a PC off floppy and used a single floppy for the root system image, and could use the typically available second floppy drive to save some user files. This let you preview Linux on a system without the leap to wipe and reformat the HDD.
Seeing multiple virtual consoles with login prompts on your first PC was a revelation if you had been amazed by the multi-user systems in school labs and assumed PCs were inherently single user.
Maybe Slackware could be used that way too, but I never tried. By the time we started downloading Slackware floppies, we planned to wipe a system and do an HDD based install to get all those extra packages that would never fit in a single floppy.
Looks to me the same as it is now. Figure out where to install, partition block devices, format filesystems, copy initial rootfs content somehow, configure basics like fstab, networking, setup users/passwords, install bootloader, reboot. Done.
Slackware just has very detailed documentation. :)
> Is anyone under the impression that they are a customer of a service they don’t pay for?
Maybe not on a technical forum like this, but I think the distinction between a "customer" and a "user" is sufficiently fuzzy among non-technical people.
Actually that's pretty much exactly the theory I've seen suggested a few times, Harold Klawans is a big believer for a start. He makes a good case in his books that human intelligence is very much the result of the fact that much of our brain growth occurs post-birth as our bodies increase in size, which makes us quite different from most other species. It's not just that our brains absorb knowledge as we grow into adults, but transform themselves radically in order to gain particular skills (particularly language processing).
The folks who believe that a significant part of our cognitive function is rooted in our physical selves certainly believe that. There's even an entire book "Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought" by George Lakoff & Mark Johnson that argues that not just cognition but almost all of western Philosophy is grounded in our physical manifestation.
It’s not doublethink to say the programs should have been exposed and that Snowden was a traitor for exposing them in a manner that otherwise hurt our country.
He could have done things properly, instead he dumped thousands of files unrelated to illegal surveillance to the media.
