James_K

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by James_K 2y ago
It can't fall through, because the debt is on the land and not a person. The land doesn't run out of money. There will always be a buyer for the building who will then have to pay down the loan. If there isn't a buyer for the
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by James_K 2y ago
The code doesn't have to be nested, it can be factored into methods. Additionally, these aren't technically continuations in the sense of the "continuation passing style" popular in web programming, so don't confer
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by James_K 2y ago
You would lose the performance optimisations of a copy, but you can still express tests in this tree fashion with global state. You just need to recurs the tree from the top down and run the entire path up to each node. A simple example:
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by James_K 2y ago
That would be illegal.
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by James_K 2y ago
> What do you do when Elon Musk decides he doesn't like you and outbids you on every parcel you try to get a lease on? What does he do when he runs out of money for the down payments? Rich people can already price people out of indu
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by James_K 2y ago
Buildings are constructed with borrowed money. Attach said debt to the land, rather than the person building, and payments on it are a part of the lease. If you build a sky-scraper, you only pay for it while you occupy the land. Then if som
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by James_K 2y ago
This is an important part of the system. People won't construct buildings unless they feasibly believe that they can also provide the highest return on investment for said buildings and therefore pay the highest rent on the land. If yo
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by James_K 2y ago
Putting tax down always seems to be more popular than putting it up. I think this is a prime tax for putting down as everybody pays it, so there's a case to be made, and rich people will pay a lot so they have the money to make that ca
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by James_K 2y ago
The most obvious solution to this is to do away with land ownership entirely. If the land is state owned and the value of a lease on it is auctioned to the highest paying renter, the market price of the land is precisely the same as the tax
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by James_K 2y ago
I don't think so, though I often find someone has thought of the same thing I have and given it a name. The root of the issue is a matter of language. Events don't have probabilities. You don't predict a 50% chance of rain, y
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by James_K 2y ago
Suppose it rains on 50% of days. One forecaster gives a 50% chance of rain every day. Another gives a 90% chance of rain/not rain and is "wrong" 10% of of time. Both stations are giving you accurate information from a probabi
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by James_K 2y ago
The whole question of using probability here is philosophically fraught. If you are saying "this has a probability of 50%" then you're saying "this will happen half of the time if you repeat the test". I don't
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by James_K 2y ago
I my view, code complexity is best expressed in the size of it's syntax tree, with maybe an additional term for the number of unique nodes. The real mistake here is the assumption that local reductions in complexity make a meaningful d
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by James_K 2y ago
I actually don't see any value in it. Code readability is similar to language readability in that it is mostly a concern for people who don't know a language and can be addressed by spending time with it. The real issue of program
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by James_K 2y ago
Turning the terminal into a worse web browser is such a silly decision. I really wish we had better environments for this stuff. Something like MatLab. I suppose achieving such a thing on the ubiquity of the UNIX text streams model would be
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by James_K 2y ago
> where the lesson to learn is that life is expendable, enemies must be stopped at all costs, genocide is valid as long as you're the main character, etc You make an almost credible post but then totally undermine it with this state
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by James_K 2y ago
I must say, you do a lot of talking for someone who doesn't intend to converse.
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by James_K 2y ago
> Snarky response with no substance designed to prompt further interaction. You are still displaying the problem behaviour despite having it clearly explained to you.
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by James_K 2y ago
I think I understand your issue now. I stated my opinion (made an argument) and then you stated your opposing opinion (made a counter argument) and this chain continued in a format called a debate. Basically, you want to be able to argue wi
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by James_K 2y ago
> You seem most interested in figuratively listening to yourself talk Projection. > Books are about information primarily. Then they are about stimulation I have repeatedly said that my point is that books provide stimulation but no m
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by James_K 2y ago
I am annoyed by silly questions and I wish to communicate this to you. Your decision to respond with more silly questions is an interesting one.
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by James_K 2y ago
> An incurious person can fail to think about anything at any time. And you fail to think about games. Interesting what you say about yourself.
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by James_K 2y ago
Just because you choose not to think about games doesn't mean they don't provoke thought. There are many people who read books such as "50 Shades of Grey" and don't think very much about them at all. Indeed you can
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by James_K 2y ago
> just a brief list of what I'd like to mention to shutdown the argument that I don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe try a puzzle game (sokoban games provide a similar experience to the one you describe), or a multipla
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by James_K 2y ago
Then maybe try reading what I'm saying. It should be pretty obvious that I think the mental stimulation that is supposedly attributed to books is massively overrated which is evidenced by the fact that more mentally stimulating things
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by James_K 2y ago
My answer to all of those questions: it doesn't matter. A person is considered to be smart when they are apt at solving the problems they tend to encounter. My point is that reading books alone doesn't confer this ability to any n
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by James_K 2y ago
> Over-stimulation in the short term can be numbing in the long term by building up tolerance You are confusing mental stimulation with visual stimulation. We were talking about mental stimulation, not merely entertaining colours and lig
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by James_K 2y ago
> No game has ever gave me the opportunity to re-read the same "page" You shouldn't claim to know anything about games if you have never willingly replayed a level of one after completing it. Or even replayed a level full
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> Books are much better to foster deeper introspection, there's a reason why it's the chosen medium for explaining ideas in detail. Language is chosen as the medium of communication because there is no real other option, not be
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by James_K 2y ago
Learning the equations of motion is manifestly more useful in life than learning about imaginary elf politics. All knowledge is not equal.

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