Mataresian

@Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Writing is on the wall for spinning rust': IBM joins Pure Storage in claiming disk drives will go the way of the dodo in enterprises⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea but isn’t that more because SanDisk is going to fully focus on that? Or what am I missing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea generally electronics is depreciated every 3 to 5 years. But I can imagine that after 3 years of children usage they are done for. That aside though, I think what you would be more looking for is a fair tax system.

  What I think that the problem with local property taxes is that if a city relies on it too much to pay for everything then this causes too many issues. For a poor city this could mean that if they don’t increase the taxes they can’t afford basic school care which people expect. So they moved to riched areas who can provide that. Or they move because of the higher taxes. This in turn lowers the property value and decreases the taxes further. Which in turn increases the problem.

  So I believe the educational budget should be provided by the central government so the same kind of quality in schools is given nationwide. This can of course be applied to other costs a city is making.

  In addition to this I think a property tax should be progressive and link to your overall assets. If you just own one house and you don’t have any more assets. Then why should you be taxed as much as somebody who owns a lot more (of course if the house is 2m and you’re living of social security it is a different story. L

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, but aside from that they will also need approval in Europe and some other countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the difficulties Microsoft had buying up Activision, I don’t think they will be allowed to buy up another game company of any remotely big size.