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by visualradio 5y ago
> The institution of private property, including private ownership of the basic means of production Property is never really wholly private or wholly public. Deeds, titles, freeholds, leaseholds, etc all generally come with some form of
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by visualradio 5y ago
> But let’s assume there is indeed enough time, and that we suddenly get serious about planning. What should we do? In the United States public planning is typically limited to figuring out how to prop up the private financial system for
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by visualradio 5y ago
First we had gold, and the Spanish looted the New World to acquire it and found themselves no richer. Then we had real estate mortgages and used deeds to estates instead of gold, and the speculators wrote up intangible asset prices as high
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by visualradio 5y ago
"Stable money" isn't an exact policy. But in U.S. most money is created through real estate mortgages, so stable money could mean credit guidance, and countries such as China have used window guidance to avoid excessive real
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by visualradio 5y ago
> Each normal five-to-ten year business cycle in modern US history has ended with higher debt as a percentage of GDP ... This is because at the end of a long-term debt cycle, debt levels get so large relative to the size of the economy t
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by visualradio 5y ago
The more relevant issue is whether or not it preserves backwards compatibility. It is possible for their compiler to continue to consume existing ANSI C and C99 header files and source code, without requiring the programmer to manually writ
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by visualradio 5y ago
The chicken-and-egg problem is where programmers don't know how the C API works well enough to provide function-specific type annotation or library-specific configuration settings, but want to try calling the API anyway because they ar
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by visualradio 5y ago
For programmers which need to consume C APIs ideally the tool is the standard compiler. Eeverything gets handled at compile time without the need for community-maintained cache of bindings. New language designers start with a C compiler whi
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by visualradio 5y ago
If a project requires an open API like OpenGL, SDL, Vulkan which is documented and defined using ANSI C or C99 language constructs, then some amount of C is required regardless of the merits of the language. With high level language with la
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by visualradio 5y ago
Before substantially modifying the language, make sure your parser can still load vanilla C header files with no new features. This way if you accidentally create a new language, programmers will still be able to load existing C header file
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by visualradio 5y ago
Skimming the book there are number of issues which stand out. With regards to 'selling the schools', in many places the charter school money just goes to tax exempt private landlords the charter school is leasing the building from
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by visualradio 5y ago
If there are 5 wells and an owner of 1 well poisons 4 of them, they are able to charge more for the remaining clean water, and possibly acquire money for a commodity which was previously available for free, by increasing scarcity. In a priv
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by visualradio 5y ago
If an oil pipeline breaks and destroys available sources of potable water, it may increase price * quantity for companies selling bottled water, but the price increase is due to increased rent paid for access to clean water, due to an incre
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by visualradio 5y ago
The problem with libertarianism is the subjective theory of value, the idea that everything is worth what the purchaser will pay. Under this framework any action which boosts the relative exchange price of an asset can be claimed to create
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by visualradio 5y ago
In the U.S. politicians were more concerned with the opposite, that low property taxes would be more likely to cause loss of population and emigration than high property taxes. At the time of the revolution the U.S. colonies were relying on
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by visualradio 5y ago
A move towards making sales taxes less transparent in the United States is unlikely, because many U.S. founders associated with the Democratic-Republican party such as James Madison were influenced by the French Physiocratic school economic
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by visualradio 5y ago
The federal government has the authority to appoint federal assessors to local property tax districts, to generate valuations for a national property taxation, and then share these updated valuations with state and local governments, which
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by visualradio 5y ago
Research in the U.S. has tended towards applications due to promotion of agricultural productivity research and agricultural extension services by various U.S. founders in the 1700s and due to the land-grant university system established in
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by visualradio 6y ago
> you could instead, as a wild supposition, make all representatives live within 20 miles of the plant to align incentives Isn't it possible this would increase the chance they had financial ties to the nuclear industry? My initial
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by visualradio 6y ago
> As an educated voter, I would not want to vote for my nuclear inspector The chief job of local environmental assessors would likely be gathering and aggregate local data sources to monitor and track a wide variety of emissions, includ
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by visualradio 6y ago
> How do you set up a genuinely independent regulator that has strong enough teeth, one that cannot be leaned on by industry heavyweights lobbying the government? Directly elected local environmental assessors, which are required to atte