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corneliusphi2 | 4 years ago | on: Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)

Back when I worked at Google I got to walk past a decrepit shack next to the office everyday thanks to property taxes

corneliusphi2 | 4 years ago | on: Liberalizing Land Use Regulations: The Case of Houston (2020)

It's taxing fair market value of the land. So, if you erased a skyscraper in downtown, how much would that barren plot of land be worth? Tax all of the value there. It's one of the only known taxes that doesn't negatively distort the economy

corneliusphi2 | 5 years ago | on: A Data Pipeline Is a Materialized View

I'd say that the difference was the systems behavior in the presence of IO, and it's pretty important in my experience. Micro-batching systems hold up processing while waiting for IO but proper streaming implementations continue using cpu for elements at other points in the stream, very roughly.

corneliusphi2 | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who Is Firing?

I think they didn't mean tests but reviews, as in subconscious racism and sexism on the part of the reviewer

corneliusphi2 | 6 years ago | on: Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it

Having successfully replaced a legacy system one time we got it to work by turning the legacy system's business logic into a library that the new system could use. This key is just replace the underlying architecture without reimplementing years of work.

corneliusphi2 | 6 years ago | on: The ‘consciousness causes quantum collapse’ hypothesis (2017)

In looking at the photo you observe the system and collapse it. There is no difference between your eye and the camera. Both connect the quantum system to your conciousness.