- little visual web app cataloguing a small vineyard by vine vigour
  - 5 min web app that helps show my daughter netball zones per position
  - web app to track manual irrigation runs of 30ish taps across our property
  - a calculator to cost-compare types of retaining walls by length
  - a virtual card deck for testing a game idea
  - scripts to help clean up an unruly Gmail inbox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454461

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"Ok how about this: No more billionaires. None. After you reach $999 million, every red cent goes to schools and health care. You get a trophy that says, “I won capitalism” and we name a dog park after you."

If there isn't the political will to ramp up taxes on extreme wealth, I'd be interested to know how much effort there is in pitching legacy projects (more exciting than dog parks) to those with the means to execute them. Like crowd-funding, but for major developments and with further tax incentives if necessary.

It wasn't pitched to him, but in Australia, a wealthy individual put Hobart (more) on the map with a now famous contemporary art gallery complex which is an excellent drawcard for the state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art

That is an extraordinary development for sub-$100m. Supposedly Australia has 150+ billionaires. Build us some crazy things.

And when you speak of governments doing this to stay in power: which governments? All political parties in general? Just typical old-school politicians? Because there's a fairly atypical leader in the US, and there's an atypical rising force in Australia, and so on, and I think their popularity is stronger in older age brackets than aforementioned 15 year old.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318450

Points: 10

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Easier to park on the street and theft risk has been negligible.

I would love to go back to myself 10 years ago when I was griping about the hassle of netting 5 small fruit trees, or cost of landscaping, and insist that I appreciate the scale and cost of that moment. Now we are dealing with a kilometre of vineyard netting, pruning hundreds of trees and vines, etc. Replacing all our nets back then would've been $200. Now it would be $5000+. I wouldn't give it up though.

When I was young, that block had maybe 1-2 cars parked on the street, visibility was good and you could kick a football and ride bikes out there safely. When I visit now, there are so many cars that it's sometimes hard to find a park. I would guess the bulk of it is residents who don't want to shuffle cars in the driveway or have their garage full of other stuff rather than the cars.

I would not want my kids playing out there unsupervised.

After the film, I asked if he'd turned down the popcorn for professional reasons. He said, "No, I just didn't feel like popcorn."