There are more efficient ways to achieve the same and get a bunch of other positive side effects in one go: Land Value Taxation. Henry George proposed it already in 1879 in his book "Progress and Poverty".
Only that doesn’t happen in real life. People on the brink of poverty don’t inherit property. And if they do, they can always sell it and put that money to better use.
You most certainly should be paying the equivalent of 10 households. You deny 9 others the ability to use the land.
If you have real use for the land, paying the lvt won’t be an issue. If you can’t use it efficiently, an lvt will incentivise you to sell what you don’t use.
1/ Don't attend meetings that have no or vague agenda
2/ Law of two feet: If you feel the meeting isn't for you, leave.
3/ No developer should endure recurring meetings (except for things like scrum ceremony or whatever methodology you practice requires), that's for management.
You're mainly talking about the progressive shutdown?
I think it makes perfect sense. It makes teams that didn't get the shutdown notice aware of it in an acute way and encourages them to take action without putting them on the spot.
EA really dropped the ball there, completely destroying a classic. No one ever asked for a multiplayer version. And most just want to build a big city, not the tiny shthles it only lets you build now.
Blendle became available in the US recently. You pay per article you read, prices varying per source and I believe article length. If after reading an article you found the quality lacking or it wasn't about what you believed it would be, you can get an instant refund with the click of a button.
There is very little good about the current education system:
1/ Dividing kids in age based groups is very poor. They only learn negative behaviour from each other. Skill based would be more interesting as the younger kids would learn from the older students and the older ones learn some responsibility towards the older students
2/ Scientific research has proven teacher based education to be sub-optimal. You take away the inquisitive nature of the kids. They will take what the adult says as true and fail to look for different ways to reach the same goal.
3/ School just isn't fun. Information is pumped into children which they forget once it has been tested. Let them discover things in a playful way and they will remember it much longer.
4/ Exams really only test how well one can game exams and tests, not how well one understood the matter. Test should be used as a personal measure to check if you understood everything and if you are ready to move on to more complex issues, not as a benchmark compared to others.
> From the user's point of view, Booking.com is a horrible cluttered web site with 1990'ish approaches to design, usability and online marketing.
Strange because they A/B test literally everything. The site looks the way it does because it sells better that way. You could actually say the same for Amazon then.
They also send out a mail twice a day with headlining stories. There's almost always at least on story that interests me.
Blendle really is the ideal tool for me. I don't have a problem paying for quality content, but don't make me take out an XX$ subscription just to read one article every now and then.