larsiusprime

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by larsiusprime 8mo ago
Thank you!
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by larsiusprime 8mo ago
Cool. I'm already in touch with a handful of civil servants in both Germany and the Netherlands, so I'll do as you say and look for more government led initiatives, and I'll follow up with my existing contacts. Which countrie
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by larsiusprime 8mo ago
I had a question since there's growing interest in open source adoption for digital sovereignty purposes in Europe; I produce open source software for civil servants as well (for mass appraisal/property tax valuation specifically)
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Can a Transformer "Learn" Economic Relationships? Revisiting the Lucas Critique(aleximas.substack.com)
1 points by larsiusprime 10mo ago|0 comments
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by larsiusprime 11mo ago
Interesting. So basically an individual out in the sticks can genuinely get by with Internet but not plumbing, but urban life would be impossible at scale without plumbing, and without urban civilization at scale we probably wouldn’t be abl
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
> Socialism might work in that world Technically, what you've just described is Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism The real question is, in a truly post-labor future, how do workers have enough le
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
If all labor is automated and nobody can earn anything selling their own anymore, all that’s left are the other two factors of production: capital and land. Land is scarce and cant be produced, so whoever already owns it will benefit after
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
Because a revenue neutral implementation lowers taxes on net on improved active sites that do something with land, and raises it on net for vacant abandoned sites that do nothing, shifting the incentive to do something with the land or sell
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
Scott Alexander is in fact an MD
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
What on earth does the discovery institute amd creationists have to do with Alzheimer’s research? Come on. Most of the people I’ve seen criticize the amyloid hypothesis are secular.
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
Cmon the puritans were one of many different founding cohorts. Quakers, borderers, cavaliers, etc. America was never of one mind on the subject of religion.
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
Higher property taxes and low income taxes is preferable actually, it keeps the housing market from getting massively distorted.
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
There’s a full write up. Audio is streamed as button presses.
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
Can someone provide some context for those of us who are utterly out of the loop?
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
I work in the mass appraisal space, and I use QGIS all the time. The professional alternative is ESRI's ArcGIS. A lot of shops I know (private and public) will use ArcGIS still, but I'm noticing an increasing number of people (par
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
> As a final thought to recursively illustrate this. The very best artist can utilize sound waves and directly manipulate energy to build one of the Pyramids at Giza by hand. However, the most efficient way for someone without that abili
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
That’s still arguably a classic Phrygian cap design. Whatever or not that was the intention/inspiration, it does resemble them - the hats you just showed are not perfectly conical, there’s a flip at the top.
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
All the subdivisions in Texas that have “ranch” in the name are that way for a reason
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
The single largest (legible) landowner by acreage is some timber magnate. Over in Australia a few ranching families own so much land it makes the American figures look like rookie numbers
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
Indeed. One of the chief causes of high land prices for farmland is unmet demand for housing in the urban core, so farm and ranch land gets bid up to development prices. A lot of advocates of building restrictions did it in the name of pres
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
My contention is if it’s going to just give me a Wikipedia summary, I can do that myself. I just have greater expectations of “PhD” level intelligence. If we’re going to claim to it is PhD level it should be able to do “deep” research AND t
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
Okay, so let me break it down for you: The Silagi paper makes a factual claim. The Silagi paper claims that there was only one significant tax in the German colony of Kiatschou, a single tax on land. The direct primary sources reveal that t
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Cook County Assessor's Office Open Source AVM (Automated Valuation Model)(github.com)
3 points by larsiusprime 1y ago|0 comments
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
You misunderstand. I’m indeed a Georgist, and I discovered that a popular Georgist narrative was exaggerated! The findings of the historically verifiable primary source documents contradicted a prevailing narrative based on the Silagi paper
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
It’s mostly that it was not citing verifiable - and available online - primary source documents, the way I would expect an actual researcher investigating this question would. This is relevant when it is billed as "Research Grade"
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
What are you talking about? There are verifiable primary sources that ChatGPT was not citing. There are direct primary historical sources that lay out the full budget of the historical German colony in extreme detail, that directly contradi
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Researchers Beware of ChatGPT's "Wikipedia Brain"(fortressofdoors.com)
2 points by larsiusprime 1y ago|0 comments
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
I find ChatGPT to be great at research too-but there are pathological failure modes where it is biased to shallow answers that are subtly wrong, even when definitive primary sources are readily available online: https://www.fortr
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Show HN: OpenAVMKit – open-source toolkit for real estate mass appraisal (AVMs)(openavmkit.com)
4 points by larsiusprime 1y ago|0 comments
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by larsiusprime 1y ago
If native speakers are starting to have character amnesia too, does that suggest in the long run you would expect the writing systems to simplify towards the phonetic syllabaries? Or is the fact that we have computers as a mediating tool go

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