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by snidane 6y ago
This has been shown to be false already. Landlords cannot pass tax burden of LVT to tenants. "The producer is unable to pass the tax onto the consumer and the tax incidence falls on the producer. In this example, the tax is collected f
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by snidane 6y ago
It removes profit incentive of reselling land to somebody who wants to use it. It doesn't remove profit incentive of the activity you'd want to perform on that land. Land under 100% LVT only becomes an input to production. And mak
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by snidane 6y ago
Thanks for the articles providing feedback to georgist ideas - I've read some of these but some are new to me. The authors seem not to understand the topic unfortunately and have to use long prose as they are trying to wrap their head
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by snidane 6y ago
The author was recently featured in a brilliant Future of Coding pocast, providing some highly inspiring ideas. #44 - Making Your Own Tools: Devine Lu Linvega https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/044 #45 - Orca: Devine
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by snidane 6y ago
You don't need to raise as much when you don't need to subsidize rent-controlled housing, unemployment and other expenses related to high cost od living in places of abundant work opportunity. That said, you roll out the new polic
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by snidane 6y ago
You solve this easily by assessing value and buying the land rights for a period of time - say 7 years. So basically you lock down the price in an auction once every 7 years giving you enough predictability and time to justify your investme
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by snidane 6y ago
George was for removing taxes altogether which is possible if you fund government services properly in a pay for what you use scheme. It is not good politics to start your political campaign by proclaiming that you will remove all taxes alt
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by snidane 6y ago
Land is still necessary for production. Maybe it will help to think of "land" as "location" since it is not the actual soil but the location which Georgists keep talking about. If you are a modern services company you ne
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by snidane 6y ago
Property taxes are bad because they punish labor and effort. Land tax (important to distinguish) doesn't inhibit labor and effort. On the contrary cities implementing land taxes see increase in output because land gets better allocated
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by snidane 6y ago
Tech companies should pay for what they use. They are efficient at not consuming too many resources while producing a lot of value? Probably shouldn't pay much then. But this applies not only to big tech companies but to individuals to
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by snidane 6y ago
This part about Georgist economics is quite startling. You have an economical theory following in the footsteps of classical economists at the beginning of industrial revolution like Adam Smith and David Ricardo. It becomes incredibly popul
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by snidane 6y ago
You might be correct - it may be only my ignorant experience interacting with Apache Big Data technologies of present day and wondering what the hell they are doing under the hood to take them so long to process simple stuff in bulk. Perha
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by snidane 6y ago
Nice job. I have always wondered why performant big data systems are written using resource hungry JVM.
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by snidane 6y ago
When you want to support random writes and random reads you don't need any "query" language. You need a dumb and performant key value store which is optimized for these and is easy to distribute to multiple machines. Querying
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by snidane 6y ago
OOP in the sense of encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism is an academic exercise for students to think about organization of data and functions into hierarchies. Objects in this case were mistaken for modules. This is only usable by stu
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by snidane 6y ago
Real interest rate depends on inflation which is an invented phenomenon of the 20th century. Inflation wasn't relevant in the preceding century and might not be relevant in 21st century either. At least not in the current form it is me
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by snidane 6y ago
You don't need to use multiple inheritance, coroutines or anything advanced in Python and still be productive. Many non computer science data analysts do exactly that and are very successful with it. Go and other languages listed in th
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by snidane 6y ago
"Worse is better" is a myth - it all depends of your definition of better. The reason why Unix and Python win is simplicity. For many people simple == better. Software is so easy to create and mold that many get trapped in excess
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by snidane 6y ago
I'm sure your product is great for many customers in their domains. The asof and other time based joins are a necessity for just slightly more complicated data processing than just a trivial aggregation at the tail of the stream which
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by snidane 6y ago
I've seen it. Most of these 'time series databases' are for processing of structured logs and metrics to be plugged into you favorite system for monitoring site latency. Asof join is still an open issue in their issue tracker
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by snidane 6y ago
SQL is better than 99% of the nosql alternatives out there. But one thing it falls apart are these time series data processing tasks. It's because of its model of unordered sets (or multisets to be more precise, but still undordered).
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by snidane 7y ago
I tried but can't connect to any of my databases. Why not just support odbc/jdbc configurations? Guys, this should be a solved problem.
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by snidane 7y ago
> This is how we lose natural land to sprawl. A large chunk is bought by a developer, clear cut, split into many small chunks, and sold to private individuals. This is Land front-running - somebody has information you want or will want s
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by snidane 7y ago
> We still live in an environment where the rule "might makes right" still applies Which is correct. You have to draw the line somewhere when one civilization replaces another. What is not ok when this rule applies within a civ
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by snidane 7y ago
This looks awesome! The modifier key seems to be Alt, which is also default on desktop i3 windows manager. I wonder if it's going to interfere - eg. pressing Alt+Enter will simultaneously open new window both in multiplexer and on my d
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by snidane 7y ago
Here's a minimalistic way to resolve this. First let's observe that Option and Result types can be roughly generalized by lists. Option is just a list of length 1. Next, make a language where each function returns a 'list of
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by snidane 7y ago
When scraping just behave as to not piss off the site owner - whatever that means. Eg. not cause excessive load or making sure you don't leak out sensitive data. Next put yourself in their shoes and realize they don't usually moni
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by snidane 7y ago
Georgists build upon on David Ricardo's Law of rent which provides a model of land supply and its effect on employment and wealth distribution. https://youtu.be/yyv1xYDWAxk https://youtu.be/FOmImcdbjfw
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by snidane 7y ago
What is this? Economics for ants? These acquarium models of economy are so inadequate to describe real world it hurts. If the only thing we as economic agents supposedly do is borrowing and transacting, the central banks keep lowering inter
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by snidane 7y ago
Definition of work and productivity is arbitrary. You can think of these people taking the monthly UBI, shopping for groceries and eating it as meaningful work in quest for continuation of human race. I wouldn't see that as completely

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