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by redahs 9y ago
Yes, but requiring socially undesirable accounts to be compartmentalized and spun-off may allow democracies to start removing the currently blatant conflicts of interest surrounding procurement and lobbying. A longer term solution would mos
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by redahs 9y ago
Importing goods from non-democratic countries is not an all-or-nothing proposition. The externality created by giving non-democratic countries cash issued by democracies can be partially corrected by assessing a unilateral scaling tariff on
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by redahs 9y ago
> if we didn't want them spying on people, we shouldn't be giving them all that oil money Yes, but if we did something reasonable such as enact scaling import tariffs on exports from non-free countries in proportion to their le
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by redahs 9y ago
Western democracies should impose a domestic procurement ban on companies which sell to foreign governments without civilian control over their militaries. This would not require new export controls or restrictions on international trade, o
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by redahs 9y ago
> News can be false, misleading, disproven, untrustworthy, and many shades in between. In fact there are a lot more angles to information than a False/True boolean. Ideally this range could be quantified using publisher trust scores
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by redahs 9y ago
George A. Selgin, The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue [1988] http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/selgin-the-theory-of-free-...
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by redahs 9y ago
A land value tax would be far better than either an estate tax or a real-estate property tax. It is only assessed against the unimproved value of the ground one has enclosed and excluded others from occupying, and not against the value of i
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by redahs 9y ago
If people are overly-thrify, it simply means that there is an under-supply of profitable investment opportunities for them to allocate their savings and labor toward. It is possible to increase the supply of real investment opportunities (i
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by redahs 9y ago
A liquidity glut is caused by savings exceeding desired investment. A shortage in desired investment is caused by an undersupply of investment opportunities. An increase in the supply of real investment opportunities can be incentivized by
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by redahs 9y ago
> tech investor and app innovator who believes that if used right, technology can bring an end to income inequality and a hosts of other social and economic problems. If this implies using technology to deliver greater public services mo
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by redahs 9y ago
The base assessment rate is only determined by the unimproved land value. The value of real property improvements is subtracted\untaxed. If an abandoned lot is adjacent to a well maintained house, the tax rate is the same for both owners, d
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by redahs 9y ago
Taxing capital and labor creates deadweight loss and disincentivizes investment in the production of more goods and services. Capital goods are durable goods which go to wherever they are best treated, including overseas. If you want to tax
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by redahs 9y ago
> Why would you expect inflation? All sane UBI proposals don't create money, they just move money from rich people to poor people. If UBI is funded via taxes on labor and its products (income and consumption taxes) then one should e
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by redahs 9y ago
UBI is not guaranteed to make the majority of people better off. Its effects and consequences are highly dependent upon the source of revenue from which it is financed. You have to know the source of revenue for UBI and how other prices in
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by redahs 9y ago
Housing is expensive because public spending is currently paid for using taxes on labor and its products rather than taxes on land. Public spending on infrastructure and services raises land values, as parks, police, and fire departments ma
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by redahs 9y ago
Housing costs can be solved without massive social transfer payments simply by eliminating all income and consumption taxes and switching to a land value tax in order to pay for public services. If UBI transfer payments are paid out of a co
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by redahs 9y ago
A more comprehensive solution would be to eliminate all other taxes and fund all public services from taxes on land. This naturally incentives local ownership because owners of high demand locations do not receive a benefit from the high ta
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by redahs 9y ago
> you must be a citizen of the US to purchase real estate in the US Why would you want to do that? People want to invest in the United States and give us money, we are instead suppossed to spend money and create a blackmarket to prevent
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by redahs 10y ago
Could this problem be fixed by splitting the NSA into two competing agencies, one handling offensive signals intelligence, and one handling cryptography research and disclosures? Intuitively it seems when the same agency performs both roles
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by redahs 10y ago
What is the point of namecoin and a having a central domain registrar at all? It seems like a publisher-addressable network (where documents are identified using a publisher's public key) or a content-addressable network (where documen
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by redahs 10y ago
Open source developers can create a virtual currency which prints shares for developers who complete work on improving open source software, with the quantity of shares to be issued specified in publicly listed bug bounties and prizes. Appr
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by redahs 10y ago
> Ultimately its high time end-users organize some kind of funded entity to support open source projects and protect user interests. Create a virtual currency which mints fresh shares for open source developers who complete public prizes
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by redahs 10y ago
You are missing the point that the "p@ssw0rd" was for a Windows 8 account, not the gmail account. There was no evidence that the gmail account password was a variant of password. It would still be disingenuous even if he claimed i
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by redahs 10y ago
We don't know the email password was something like `p@SSw0Rd`, only that a staffer temporarily set a Windows 8 password to a variant of password. This does not mean that the gmail password was a variant of password. It was disingenuou
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by redahs 10y ago
> His password was an iteration of 'password' What the email indicated was that someone temporarily set a Windows 8 password to a variant of password. What the email did not indicate that his gmail account itself used a variant
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by redahs 10y ago
A windows 8 password is not a gmail password.
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by redahs 10y ago
We also know that Mr. Assange did lie about something in the past, his repeated claims that John Podesta's gmail password was 'password': http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2017/jan
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by redahs 10y ago
> because they've never published anything that wasn't verified to be true Mr Assange repeatedly claimed that Podesta's gmail password was 'password' in interviews, which was false: http://www.politifa
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by redahs 10y ago
I do use C, but my point is that it is feasible to incorporate both of those features in an embedded VM, by using Erlang style actors for concurrency, and by providing builtin vector types that use SIMD instructions where available. If futu
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by redahs 10y ago
Concurrency is always hard and fibers could be interesting, but looking at src/runtime/gravity_vm.c It appears to be single threaded with max 1 fiber running simultaneously per VM. I think there is still a niche for something like

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