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by bufordsharkley 6d ago
I definitely find trio (formerly curio) to be so thoughtfully designed at every turn; it's dispiriting that it never seemed to gain much of a user share over asyncio (whose main advantage appears to simply be inertia and stdlib privile
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by bufordsharkley 15d ago
Advance ticketing (at least, based upon my querying online, I was under the belief that Phillies don't have any sort of will-call in effect with the main MLB ticketing, so I took a tablet to be safe--I was visiting from out of town) Si
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by bufordsharkley 15d ago
I've still never had a smartphone (technically my flip phone, a Kyocera Dura, is an android device, but it can't install apps so I'll consider it suitably "dumb") Occasionally I need to tote along a tablet because s
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by bufordsharkley 3mo ago
I've never been a smartphone user, and have moved from a Flip Camcorder, to various point-and-shoots in video mode (never liked very much), and just in the last 3 years, have discovered that Sony handicams are now pocket-sized, I never
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by bufordsharkley 7mo ago
The search functionality has been mostly broken (in several, overlapping ways) for several years now
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by bufordsharkley 8mo ago
I can't speak from personal experience with the Fiio jm21, but I was a big user of a previous generation of Fiio, and while I imagine some technical leaps forward have been achieved with this generation (the Fiio M1 never, for instance
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by bufordsharkley 9mo ago
It also speaks to what we lose when we lose magazine listings of events (New Yorker effectively gutted this section within the past decade), movie showtime listings via newspaper, etc We have a very strong archive going back a century until
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by bufordsharkley 2y ago
I remember a 1990s lottery event in which a "buy all combinations" was attempted, but their physical machines they acquired were partially deficient, and they simply couldn't physically acquire enough tickets in time (as the
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by bufordsharkley 5y ago
No, this is a different subject than the article yesterday. That one focused on "what is the overall magnitude of ground rents", this one focuses on "won't the incidence of LVT be passed onto tenants?"
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by bufordsharkley 7y ago
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_Do_Men_Stupefy_Themselves...
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by bufordsharkley 7y ago
And in 2018, two prominent pro-housing councilpeople got voted out of office (Lenny Siegel and Pat Showalter), returning things to a majority of NIMBY homeowners
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by bufordsharkley 7y ago
The existence of Prop 13, coupled with pyramid-scheme-style approaches to financing municipal pensions, have led to disasters of financing. One can imagine a better world in which pension programs are effectively time-independent w.r.t fina
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by bufordsharkley 8y ago
The reason that land is a good investment is precisely because of future land rents that a land buyer expects to receive. If these land rents are instead paid towards a tax, how wouldn't this make land less of a good investment?
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by bufordsharkley 8y ago
It's interesting that you jump to "aggressive regulation" or "rent control" instead of the solution that has close to full consensus from the economic profession: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by bufordsharkley 8y ago
Even if prices are stable, what makes it the case that the system works so well for those who own land and creates such problems for those who are landless? We take it for granted that renting is just a form of having your money stolen by l
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by bufordsharkley 8y ago
And to finance things sensibly based upon real revenue flows, not speculative debt drawing on wishful thoughts about future growth.
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by bufordsharkley 8y ago
KFJC achieves more consistency with its music shows, whereas KZSU is more of a grab-bag. Music shows that fill certain niches, experimental talk programs, and other things like sports broadcasts. It's certain not to give someone a cons
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by bufordsharkley 8y ago
KFJC is a tremendous place. If I may plug KZSU, on Stanford campus, as another college/community radio outlet in Silicon Valley. ...I worry all the time that, owing to the lack of affordable housing for the creative class, and the gene
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by bufordsharkley 8y ago
Let's say that your town is considering whether to preserve a zoning policy of all single family homes with a large minimum lot size, or is looking to allow density. What would prevent you from supporting the lower-density option? On
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
Not to self-promote too heavily, but I did an episode of my georgism-centric radio show about this very article[0]. Videogames really offer a fun space to explore economic instruments-- treating the real world as a laboratory is a bit mor
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
When something is good for the landed and bad for the landless... it's generally bad. Now, we could reform our policies so that the landless get a fair shot, but realistically, what are the chances of this happening?
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
This is fair. Anyway, sanctions of this sort are absolutely immoral unless a government is willing to take on all affected refugees, which is very very rarely the case. Human rights abuses are difficult to solve without open borders, but un
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
Some things are not cut-and-dry. Some are. Something like abolitionism has been justified by history as mere common sense, and an absolutely necessary component of a humane society. I'm curious how China currently views Sun Yat-sen&#
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
I don't claim to be an expert on any of this, but it's pretty clear that China is unwilling to deny trade with North Korea, effectively propping up the Kim regime. Kim is engaging in increasingly dangerous provocations (admittedly
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
One can offer stability within a democratic framework. To say that the wholesale slaughter of protesters was necessary to deliver market reform is simply absurd.
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
It's the kind of thing that isn't obvious at present, at least given most discussions of money, equities, and wealth. But with a different economic paradigm, some of things concepts become more obvious. Henry George was commenting
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
1) It can fund revenue for public goods with little to no deadweight loss 2) It targets "unearned wealth" instead of earned income 3) It grows with the growth of a municipal area, allowing for public finance that scales with the d
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
Construct some building in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the Sahara desert or something, and see if it increases or decreases in value. The structure itself will depreciate somewhat, and that's all. ...It's the location
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by bufordsharkley 9y ago
For non-personally-owned self-driving cars to catch on, you'd probably have to see an expansion of convenient storage lockers near parking lots.
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John Locke: Diminishing Marginal Utility as Limit to Claiming Nature as Property(blog.supplysideliberal.com)
2 points by bufordsharkley 9y ago|0 comments

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