brightly-salty

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by brightly-salty 10mo ago
You might find mlatu-6[0] interesting- it’s convertible to SKI calculus but concatenative (like Forth) rather than applicative. It’s actually a subset of Mlatu, a language I created for similar reasons to explore “how low can you go.” [0]:
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by brightly-salty 3y ago
This is not true. I and many other people have aphantasia[0], our brains are simply unable to imagine visually the way other people are. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
It seems like you would identify with Georgism[0]. The fundamental premise is that land/natural resources should belong to everyone, so it is necessary to pay everyone for the land we exclude others from. [0]: https://en.wik
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
This is known as context-dependent memory [0]. Interestingly, it also occurs with your mood and other cognitive states: If you’re always happy in your class, you’ll perform better if you’re happy for your test, and vice vers if you’re sad.
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Show HN: A digital library of hard-to-find economics and theology books(cadenhaustein.com)
2 points by brightly-salty 4y ago|0 comments
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
I read through it and didn't see any refutation, just a description of the historical movement. At least to my understanding, mutualists like Benjamin Tucker have historically agreed with Georgist philosophy to a great extent, includin
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
How much would you pay for land that has 100% of its rental value taxed away every year?
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
Common solutions include appraisal (like property taxes are today) or a Vickrey auction, where we auction off the land, and the first place bidder gets it at the price of the second bid.
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
Land prices decrease proportionally with the level of LVT implemented: 0% of today gives a 100% sales price; 25% LVT gives a 75% sales price; etc; 100% LVT as I propose gives a 0% sales price. Of course the prices increase in a particular t
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
I will admit that I misunderstand TimPC’s point about people having to pay the land value tax in addition to the mortgage; I misunderstood mortgages in terms of who really owns the land. But the point still stands. If the land value tax is
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
I do understand that mortgages are on both the land and the buildings. We were talking about land only though. It is irrelevant to the question of who pays the land value tax that the mortgage also includes the buildings.
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
Yes, I agree with you on what will happen in big cities where the land value is already high. The idea is more that in the Montana's and the Kansas's - where they already give land away free to people who promise to build improvem
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
Perhaps I'm explaining it poorly, that's entirely possible. The frontier is where land value is zero, at the margin of production. It is possible to get value out of the land, but only with hard work. Currently this land may be he
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
I agree that land has to some extent been widely redistributed in the United States because of the frontier, which continued to exist and distribute land ownership up until the 1880s. However, since the frontier died, land ownership distrib
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
I think it would be at least partially solved by reorganizing government to be based upon subsidiarity :) but yes, this isn’t necessarily a question which political economy can or should solve
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
Well other taxes are not precluded by Georgism. See for instance Piguovian taxes and IP taxes. But additionally, I don’t think it can be assumed that the government will continue to need its current amount of revenue. Under subsidiary, the
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
Yeah, I think I misunderstood both the above point and who owns the property in a mortgage. Essentially I think that the land value of the property, which is used in calculation of the property, would go to zero no matter who is paying the
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
I wasn’t aware of the reforms before I just looked it up, but from what I see, it looks like he had distributist goals. He was almost definitely not aware of the concurrent academic movement in England, but many thinkers individually came u
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
I think you might misunderstand Georgism, or maybe I did a poor job explaining it. Georgism does not propose taxing improvements (buildings etc), only the actual land. So many peoples tax burden would be decreased, and if the bank owns the
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Letter from a Young Distributist: Georgism and Distributism(progressandpoverty.substack.com)
85 points by brightly-salty 4y ago|159 comments
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by brightly-salty 4y ago
It’s an odd construction but replacing “no few” with “not a few” (i.e. many) makes a lot more sense.
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by brightly-salty 5y ago
Answer from another layperson: The photons even while the lightbulb are on are constantly being emitted and absorbed by the materials around you as energy. When you turn off the light, the stream of photons stops but the remaining photons c
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by brightly-salty 5y ago
I’ve had a similar experience but heard back from the Founder that many of the invites from before January 8th didn’t go through, and that he manually approves a new batch every few weeks now
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by brightly-salty 5y ago
Really? I could see the other third parties like Green Party, American Solidarity Party, Libertarian Party, etc. having those issues on their platform. But Republicans and Democrats have shown time and time again that they value corporation
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by brightly-salty 5y ago
The Patriot Act is still alive and well, it's simply dropped out of the public imagination. It's still harming people through excessive surveillance and the lack of privacy, which is one of the reasons we would work to repeal it i
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by brightly-salty 5y ago
Yes, that's on our docket to add to the platform because many of us feel strongly on the topic. Thanks for bringing it up, you should join our platform comittee on the Discord![0] [0]: https://discord.gg/MrdnPxzrf2
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by brightly-salty 5y ago
I wouldn't call putting people before corporations and opening up government wedge issues; they're right in line with the Pirate Wheel[0] which leads to all pirate politics' positions on issues. I think these are excellent ex
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by brightly-salty 5y ago
To answer your question, the United States Pirate Party is pro-democracy, like all pirate parties. We believe a more representative democracy would be beneficial for all third parties in the US, and support various electoral reform policies
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Open Collective Plans ‘Exit to Community’(blog.opencollective.com)
53 points by brightly-salty 5y ago|12 comments
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by brightly-salty 5y ago
I'd suspect based on SPJ's previous comments that it would be a strict statically-typed pure functional language but it probably depends on what amount of control he has on fun/research vs utility to Epic.

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