I take extra caution around pickup trucks and young men in muscle cars. The former are more likely to not see you, or be on their phones. The muscle cars are likely to rapidly and erratically change directions into me at a high rate of speed.
Austin's property tax rate was just raised to approximately 2.2% of the home value annually.
Even though Austin's property values are lower than California, the percentage is much higher (California is approximately 0.7%). This is a large annual burden, especially since property values are re-appraised annually, so as property values keep going up, your taxes go up as well.
There is no state or local income tax though, so high income earners save on that.
Average as far as SV goes is closer to 1.1-1.6% btw. If there’s no prop 13 equivalent in TX though, that could really help keep home prices in check along with high property tax (and maybe incentivize changing the land use along with getting people out of large homes they’re not using anymore).
> so as property values keep going up, your taxes go up as well.
Taxes go up because government spending per taxpayer goes up. I have some properties where the values go up and property tax rates to go down, resulting in declining property tax paid. But it’s rare, and doesn’t last for too long.
I agree. Something like Rust Language Foundation has both the clarity and gravity that it deserves. We will always have crates and components for fun names.
The "Ferrous Foundation" is appealingly alliterative. But it also makes it easier to expand the focus beyond Rust — which is probably a negative, because it makes it harder to concentrate on core competency.
Every foundation is engaged in a perpetual struggle over whether to expand its mission. But in the vast majority of cases, mission creep weakens the organization's ability to achieve its primary goals.
(Crafting a concise mission statement will help inoculate against mission creep, and should be done regardless.)
>I just hate having to debug mangled transpiled code and dealing with sourcemaps. I want to be able to run and debug my own code, not some alternative mangled version of it.
Look into ts-node. It lets me run and debug the TypeScript itself before transpiling it.
My workaround is to use //@ts-ignore above the import, but this is clunky. I just tried Deno and found that TypeScript doesn't support .ts extensions yet.
I also didn't like constantly interacting with channel points, so I made a Firefox extension to do it for me. If you're interested, I could add a setting to hide channel points page updates while still claiming the periodic bonuses.
