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... and also doesn't run the money through the consortium in a way that triggers overhead payments to the host.
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Maybe we should set up a structure where companies in a working group (or the TAG, etc.) could share the support (by rotation?) of travel for an invited expert, in a way that doesn't trigger the conflict of interest / related member provisions (might need @W3CAB blessing).
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Seems odd to blame housing prices as solely "driven by the riches of the tech industry" when so much of the problem is the difficulty of building new housing (especially dense infill housing) in California.
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I don't think I want to know why the 'date' command's handling of summer time post-2038 *regressed* from Ubuntu 17.04 to Ubuntu 17.10...
Fundamentally, though, the biggest fault of Prop 13 is with its taxation of residential property. It encourages empty-nesters to stay in homes that are too big, and more generally prevents the younger generation from getting reasonable housing in much of California.
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Agricultural exceptions also seem unusual, but I'm not sure what current policy is for agriculture. However, it seems like many farms are businesses, and they ought to be subject to reassessment.
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Proposition also creates a large number of distorting (and corrupting?) exceptions for small businesses. $500K of property exempt from tax, all property exempt from tax for businesses with <50 employees, exception from reassessment for property owners who own <$2M of property.
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Commercial or industrial property that's zoned for residential use seems to get an exception. This would give an edge to properties nonconformant to (later) zoning. I also worry it creates an opportunity for corruption by pushing to change zoning to residential.
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This initiative seems to handle mixed use correctly, and it also seems to handle residential property in an industrial or commercial zone correctly.
But I worry it has far too many exceptions that could exempt commercial property.
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A ballot initiative has been filed to change California's Prop 13 for businesses (commercial and industrial property) while leaving it for residential and agricultural property.
I strongly oppose Prop 13, but this initiative has enough quirks that I'm hesitant to support it.
Coalition to take on CA's untouchable Prop 13 on its 40th anniversary; split-roll initiative would raise property taxes on biz by $11 b by reassessing commercial/industrial properties more often; schools to benefit bit.ly/2DiWPvS @EdSource
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Hmmm. @facebook seems to have decided this @MotherJones article from October by @pemalevy is spam. motherjones.com/politics/201…
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Y2.038K, which could be worse than Y2K, is now 20 years away: mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/20…
Isn't Y2K conformance still part of government purchasing standards? Maybe Y2.038K should be too?
(And given the US government isn't capable of doing much these days, maybe the EU can?)
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Those aren't IRC discussions; they're telephone or in-person meetings where the minutes are taken in IRC.
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In general I've had much better luck with meet.jit.si/ in Firefox than with appear.in/ .
Though there were some bugs with worsening-over-time audio/video lag on some platforms (Linux) that are fixed in Nightly but not sure whether fixed yet on Release.
or for a more specific URL for Santa Clara County: uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/…
But I don't think Santa Clara County particularly wants to be part of their New California. uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/…
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