bertmuir

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   by bertmuir 8d ago

   I'll take that wager! Before you look at any real statistics, how does $1000 sound?
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   by bertmuir 9d ago

   Marketing didn't do this, as pointed out earlier, it's the ML academics and researchers coining these unscientific terms and explanations. I'd expect it in social sciences - where functionalist explanation are often appropria
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   by bertmuir 10d ago

   Furthermore - there are more than enough novels that grip you immediately, to spend your whole life reading them and avoiding the rest. "The rest" tend to come in two categories. Books I lack some experience for to be gripped by -
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   by bertmuir 13d ago

   The term is an anthropomorphised pseudoexplanation for what it actually refers to. It's akin to calling genetic mutation "the forces of evolution", or price negotiation "the invisible hand of the market". We do that
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   by bertmuir 14d ago

   Whether carrying cost is higher or lower depends on the taxation LVT is substituting and the counterfactual utilisation of the land. In practice it is usually lower in rural and suburban and highly developed urban areas and (where substitu
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   by bertmuir 15d ago

   You may be confusing LVT with property transfer tax? LVT is a tax on ownership of land - driving down land value, not up. In practice it disincentivises investment in land (rent-seeking and speculative land hoarding) while incentivising lan