I've always wondered what the market rate for parking would be if you allowed for things other than parking like restaurant tables, a shed, a tiny skyscraper...

Exactly. It's not much of a market if 99% of potential uses of the land are prohibited.

> just be paid on the individual side by capital gains

When you are rich enough you can just borrow using your wealth as collateral and never incur in capital gains.

You will have had to pay taxes on the money you use to pay off the loan.

not if it is just another loan

agreed but imo this is orthogonal to corporate taxation and needs a mark2market solution, at minimum when an asset is used as collateral.

Because they are given a sweetheart deal to attract them to that specific area. And that deal happens behind closed doors.

Can you link the .PDF with this evidence?

You are not taking into account the fact that data centers tend to be pretty concentrated geographically.

If I live in an area that is trying to attract data centers by giving them sweetheart deals, my electricity bill is going to go up by more than my share in inference usage since those data centers will be used by people all over the globe.

Many, people, probably most, are not using any inference in their lives - certainly not willingly or knowingly.

Worldwide, maybe. But in the "western world"? Couple weeks ago my mother asked me to compare the main LLM providers. And then for tips how to best use it. She is over 80.

And there was a letter in the local paper this week about someone complaining they councils park in town because they didn’t have a debit card and they certainly don’t have any “app phones”, a far more common approach amongst older people

Of course, for example me, the person you are replying to. I am an LLM vegan.

How is this different than any other form of industry?

If I live in an area that is trying to attract [steel mills] by giving them sweetheart deals, my electricity bill is going to go up by more than my share in [steel] usage since [that steel] will be used by people all over the globe.

I think if you found the average person on the street and asked them if their electric bill would go up when a steel mill opens nearby they'd only say yes because why else are you asking them.

Most other industries create (more) local jobs which would offset the localized cost.

This sounds like a generic NIMBY argument to me? eg. "why should we build a datacenter in my backyard, when it'll raise MY electricity prices?" Of course, if everyone has this attitude, no datecenters, power plants, homeless shelters will ever be built

I am very YIMBY, but it's totally reasonable that you don't want industrial work done in your backyard. This is exactly what zoning and city planning were designed for.

It seems odd to me to try to redefine Y/NIMBY depending on the individual project. I wouldn’t want a sewage plant or a datacenter in my neighborhood, absolutely no one would. Why would one be NIMBY and one not?

Then talk to your local politician

The point is not whether or not it makes sense. The point is that it is fairly natural for a capitalist system to have r>g and that causes concentration of wealth. If you look historically the increasing concentration of wealth only really gets reversed by wars or revolutions. So what Piketty is arguing for is a more gentle way of redistributing wealth, because typically when one gets to 1914 levels of inequality, well… we know what happens.

> because typically when one gets to 1914 levels of inequality, well… we know what happens.

When it comes to resource sequestration this is a fundamental law of nature. There's no safety in a world where random people on the street see your death as a biological imperative.

Company selling AI Reviews says its AI Review of AI Reviews concluded AI reviews are great! In other news water is wet (as assessed by more water).

FTFY

My AI Review says your comment is 100% perfect (this comment was written by ChatGPT 5)

> A calzone should have ricotta cheese not mozzarella.

It typically has both. And ricotta is legally not a cheese in Italy (because it's not made from milk).

I thought Ricotta is what's left over after you make another cheese from milk, most commonly cows milk.

Wikipedia says ricotta is made from milk in Italy from the production of mozzarella

Yeah, pretty much this. But the law in Italy defines cheese as something made directly from milk, whereas ricotta is made mostly from whey (you can add some milk, but it's secondary).

Similarly things like mascarpone and yogurt which are not fermented using rennet can't be called cheese.

Regarding the type of whey used to make ricotta it can come from any cheese. In central Italy sheep ricotta is more prized than cow, but you can easily find buffalo and goat ricotta as well.

Whey leftover from Parmesan production is also commonly used to make ricotta

Beautiful! But those are not the petals of bougainvillea. The actual flowers are white and much too small to be folded.

I can assure you that they are definitely bougainvillea flowers that I folded. In fact there appears to be quite a few varieties and they do possess different colours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bougainvillea

You are right in that they are difficult to fold, but not because of the size of petals (I fold models no bigger than from a 1cm x 1cm square cut from the petal), but because of the curvature of the petals that makes it difficult to press and work with.

Yes. Nothing about this needs to be modeled for adversarial agents.

You are being too harsh, not everybody is under 40 with perfect vision. My mother tends to struggle with her android phone with all the font sizes to the max and high contrast mode.

With font sizes to the max text often does not fit in its allocated space, and is off screen or chopped off altogether. It's a mess of oversized broken UI widgets, and indeed a struggle to use.