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by snidane 7y ago
Think about what it means 'their land'. The people have agreed that they will protect his exclusive right to use that land. They gave him a set of rights associated with it. There are other people these days for which there was no
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by snidane 7y ago
> if only the market was able to expand housing supply. If only.. there was more land. Building houses is not the bottleneck. Land is. You'd have to create a 'second floor' of land to mitigate the problem.
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by snidane 7y ago
I think programming languages today focus too much on features and then they all look like another Algol variations with couple of features borrowed from elsewhere. I don't think people these days try to understand what are the buildin
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by snidane 7y ago
It's funny to see the incentives at play. The rent control mechanisms are a hidden redistribution channel from money collected by income taxes straight to pockets of landlords. Ie. gov gives rent subsidies of $100 to poor. Landlords re
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by snidane 7y ago
This is an instance of Jevon's paradox. The more housing you build to meet housing need of people then even more people will come in creating even larger demand for housing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_p
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by snidane 7y ago
I'd be curious. Is there a correlation between rising living costs (comprised mostly of housing costs) and lower birth rates? Japan is a social laboratory for the west and we see similar phenomena in the west these days.
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by snidane 7y ago
What is usually meant by rent-seeking is more akin to rent-extraction. Here rent doesn't mean the monthly payment (lease) but an 'economic rent'. That is an income which is guaranteed by some distorition of current market con
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by snidane 7y ago
This is a good point. And that is why land taxation is preferred to property taxation. Land ownership = people give you rights for exclusive use. So you pay them for the privilege Property tax = another form of income or labor tax. Somebody
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by snidane 7y ago
Income taxes: even if you own yourself and your labor, you actually don't.
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by snidane 8y ago
> If you tried to pass a 40 hour work week in 1790 you would have been laughed out of the statehouse because it would have caused mass starvation since people had to work longer hours than that just to grow enough food to feed everyone T
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by snidane 8y ago
That's why the Marxist critique of capital is wrong. Was use of capital to extract rent from others ethical or not? Maybe yes, maybe not, who knows. It is impossible to decide. Georgist perspective doesn't blame the rich capitalis
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by snidane 8y ago
I agree. But it can be made simpler than that. If the owner actually wants his land property to be inherited, why shouldn't he pay for the property protection over his life himself? If he convinced the society that he really is the own
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by snidane 8y ago
The flaw here is talking about the 'rich'. You can divide rich into absentee landlords collecting hight rents and stifling the economy down and the actual rich who became so through entrepreneurship or other positive impact activi
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by snidane 8y ago
It's not the 'rich'. It is the rentiers. Rich can be rich because of great societal or technological improvements as well as somebody stealing legally or illegally from others. Rentiers can be both very rich or not so much, b
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by snidane 8y ago
Land reforms and redistribution never work. It just disrupts the current social order, pisses off people from which the land has been taken, pisses off people who didn't get as much as their neighbor and eventually, roughly within 50 y
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by snidane 8y ago
It is more an issue of supply. The inflow of new doctors and new healthcare business is constrained by the incumbent system. Besides the cartel network that has established, the new potential disruptors are prevented to enter the market all
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by snidane 8y ago
Well people actually guard it indirectly. They could at any time randomly decide to go on a rampage and start taking over other people's property. Which actually happens when things boil over, eg. during revolutions. So they should be
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by snidane 8y ago
I don't see how natural resources alone would make a passive income. Energy has to be exerted to extract the resource. By human labor or by machine. Then the extraction operation needs protection. If they left an oil well unprotected i
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by snidane 8y ago
'Rent seeking' is a straw man. Of course everybody searches for opportunities yielding rent. Nobody wants to set up a business to see its profits competed away in 2 years. They'd prefer long term stable profits. The real prob
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by snidane 8y ago
I like the idea of owning features and releases. This lets the team to assign a responsible person for documenting and demoing the new feature or release. How do you respond to emergencies when your people don't own projects or code ba
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by snidane 8y ago
How about select * from outertable, (select *, outerid from table1,table2 where table1.table2id = table2.ID and table2.othertype = 1234) t12 where outertable.Id =\ t12.outerid
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by snidane 8y ago
The syntax for joins is unnecessarily complex. The difference in behaviour is determined by the operator used for comparison between the two tables. If there existed modifiers for the operators to be sensitive to nulls, no need for special
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by snidane 8y ago
Also known as the difference between doing things right (beautiful code) vs doing the right thing (working software). I like ideas from the systems thinkers like Russell Ackoff about this. > Ackoff expands by suggesting that doing things
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by snidane 8y ago
You want to separate app and OS dependencies because in the future you could have the need to update the system which would mean rebuilding the docker package. In the future it can happen you are no longer able to reproduce your app build.
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by snidane 8y ago
Well my team does that for one. We use Python packaging ecosystem, specify Python dependencies using standard tools like setup.py, requirements.txt and pip. All Python dependencies are baked into a fat Python package using PEX format[1]. Al
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by snidane 8y ago
Yeah, it feels too monolithic. Just to showcase it can run Hello World in one "docker run" command I guess? Another thing people use Docker for but shouldn't is application packaging. Using Docker you build one fossilized fat
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by snidane 8y ago
Arbitrary deadlines are unnecessary when there are better ways to manage progress. You can adopt the product delivery point of view and track progress on something like Kanban board. You track actual deliveries of actual items when they get
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by snidane 8y ago
Algorithmic justice is one of those problems where techies think that by applying algorithms and techniques du jour will somehow solve the problem. Unfortunately law is so complex nowadays that it is ridden with internal contradictions. For
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by snidane 8y ago
Same as the society solved allocating humans. Instead of them being bought and sold on slave markets, nowadays we have companies leasing humans in exchange for a salary. You can do the same with land - lease it instead of giving asay infini
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by snidane 8y ago
The flaw in your argument is in definition of land ownership. You own the rights to use some portion of land somewhere. The rights are provided by other people, ie. a community represented by state. 'Buying' land, ie. transfer of

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