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by snidane 7y ago
> It is very last measure as in that point you are basically admitting that capitalism has failed. 1. it might be better to prevent a situation of people unable to pay rents and mortgages and have the entire banking system collapse on th
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by snidane 7y ago
Static typing wouldn't be helpful for performance and would and take away from the APL like terseness. Static typing can only help for speeding up classical von-neumann-bottlenecked programs, but to go beyond that the program has to ru
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by snidane 7y ago
This is a mistake perpetuated from old array languages. Evaluation from left to right is more natural to people using latin alphabet. It's totally arbitrary anyways. I suspect the only reason why there is right to left evaluation in AP
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by snidane 7y ago
Us humans like to think that we are the ultimate organisms and everything else is either the material that composes us (cells and tissue) or our products (corporations, cities). Organisms are scale free systems. It's only our human bia
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by snidane 7y ago
Make the right side of the function call a list or a dict. myListOfInts foldLeft (0, +) or if you make : to be right associative cons function myListOfInts foldLeft 0 : + or using dict myListOfInts foldLeft (zero: 0, op: +
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by snidane 7y ago
Controversial opinion but I believe that eventually these grammars and complex parsers will be found to have been a huge mistake for computer science. A mistake made for the sole reason of making programming languages resemble natural langu
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by snidane 7y ago
I sometimes use a container ship example. Management makes decisions about steering course and that is possible when you have small cargo. If you decided to pile up 1 kilometer tall stack of containers and didn't bother laying some of
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by snidane 7y ago
The idea of program as an interpreter of an input stream of instructions seems very intuitive to me. On the other hand pure functional programming with all those monads IO monad hacks doesn't even seem to map to what we are trying to u
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by snidane 7y ago
To the example of factory and 50 year cycle of auction and potential eviction. If noone else wished to take over the land on which the factory stood, well then the factory owner renews the lease for another 50 years. If there was somebody w
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by snidane 7y ago
I too would love to guarantee to every citizen that they will not be evicted. Unfortunately it cannot be a universal benefit since not everybody lives in their own. Implementing this non-eviction right would vastly benefit one part of the s
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by snidane 7y ago
Yes, many people are not comfortable about being evicted. In reality that is how majority of people and business operate because they rent from somebody else. Your apartment lease usually expires after a year and you can be 'evicted&#x
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by snidane 7y ago
There are grades of land. Land in the city is more scarce and more valuable. Rural land is less scarce and less valuble. Land on Mars is even less scarce and less accessible and less valuablee. Same with domain names. People are interested
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by snidane 7y ago
In Georgist terms 'land' means any non-renewable natural opportunity such as thr actual land, magnetic spectrum (wifi, 5g)… deposit of oil or iron ore or even ancient sites built by previous civilizations that nobody can claim inh
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by snidane 7y ago
'Land ownership' actually means 'rights for exclusive use of land'. Government owns the land but gives out rights to use to people. If oil deposit or gold mine is found on it, the right is often revoked after compensatin
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by snidane 7y ago
I agree, but about the part about nationalization of companies. Historically it tended to produce bad outcomes. People just don't put the same effort if they don't own it. What actually works is government stepping in by producing
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by snidane 7y ago
> How does UBI even work? Won't it just lead to rampant inflation where the basic income is spread thin, eaten up almost entirely by the rising cost of goods? In the long run UBI promotes innovation and competition. Therefore those
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by snidane 7y ago
So you are saying that we should feel like monarchs because we have TVs, Netflixes, Games, gadgets, toys etc. I would argue that many people nowadays feel more like slaves than monarchs since they can hardly even afford healthcare in many c
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by snidane 7y ago
> Seriously there is NO WAY in the world an UBI will cover the rent - even the rent alone - in any place where it makes sense starting a business. Wrong. UBI financed by monopoly taxes makes rents go rock bottom. High uncompeted markup p
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by snidane 7y ago
These statements about 'absolute living standards' are utter crap because they absolutely ignore the law of rent. Simply stated the more people in a given city make the higher the rents, fees and cost of living in general. The mor
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by snidane 7y ago
As long as there will be people born there will be demand for land for it being the necessary condition for life and industrial production. Billionaires now looking for ways to acquire more land? Or to create artificial land on sea? Or to d
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by snidane 7y ago
I always wondered why people assume that the more high level abstractions or high level programming languages you use the less performance you should expect. C is faster than Java, Java will be faster than Python etc. The 'interpretati
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by snidane 7y ago
Lean and Functional programming. Especially the first part where he explains history of lean during and after WW2. https://youtu.be/5s55LA2Renc
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by snidane 7y ago
Rent seeking is natural. That's why we get progress. Nobody would ever invest time and money to a business idea whose profits would get immediately competed away. Everybody would on the other hand invest into a business with guaranteed
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by snidane 7y ago
After years of unsatisfactory personal research of various schools od economics I had to come to conclusion they are all flawed because they completely omit the important parts which govern our economy. For example having all economical mo
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by snidane 7y ago
This is the big flaw in how inflation is measured. Assets (eg. for pension savings) and especially housing costs are for some reason not included in the Consumer Pricing Index despite them being a huge expense from person's monthly pay
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by snidane 7y ago
This is simply a virtual form of real estate business. As real estate brokers say, the price depends mostly on 3 things: location, location and location. If you are on Manhattan you pay more for that land than far away in Brooklyn. Similarl
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by snidane 7y ago
The goal to ensuring quality was to see your business as a repeatable process. That way you could apply statistical methods, measure and optimize. The flaw with six sigma was that it is applicable to only very repeatable manufacturing proce
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by snidane 7y ago
It's interesting to observe any UBI discussion and a total neglect of the most developed theory about UBI - the georgist economics - where UBI is refered to as a 'citizens dividend'. They state that the only and sufficient fi
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by snidane 7y ago
> Financial speculation is parasitic and socially harmful without actually providing anything of actual real value. Is it parasitic? Look at it like mushrooms, which is what hedge funds are to our society. They both eat dead and rotting
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by snidane 7y ago
Totally agree. The case for organising code should be named 'module' instead of a class. It's very nicely visible in Python where class and module are the same thing - a dict essentially.

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