larsiusprime

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by larsiusprime 9d ago
RE sovereign wealth funds, You might find it interesting that the Norwegian approach to natural resource management is also based on the classical principles of Ricardo and George: https://blog.landeconomics.org/p/book
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by larsiusprime 18d ago
It seems based on this that the appropriate sci fi metaphor is not the Terminator or the Paperclip Maximizer, but Mr. Meeseeks. A initially cheerful helper who gets more and more deranged and driven to extreme lengths when faced with an app
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The Fate of the Orange Petunia(oldworldoptimist.substack.com)
2 points by larsiusprime 21d ago|0 comments
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Modernizing Property Tax Assessments in Allegheny County with Open Source Tech(bsky.app)
2 points by larsiusprime 2mo ago|1 comments
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by larsiusprime 3mo ago
Did you really make this whole project in two weeks???
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by larsiusprime 3mo ago
Have you done the math? Under a revenue-neutral shift that taxes buildings less and land more, the median homeowner comes out ahead: https://landeconomics.org/reports/spokane-report I think what you're missing is
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by larsiusprime 5mo ago
Texas zoning is only “permissive” relative to other states. Relative to Japan it’s quite restrictive.
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Brilliant!
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Is the idea that the commits themselves are also time stamped with the date of the legislation/amendment too?
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
1. Stop restricting what can be built, especially in the super valuable city centers 2. Shift taxes off of building (which punishes development) and onto the passive holding of land (which discourages idle land speculation) In other words,
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
We're directly inspired by Urban3 and our hope in releasing these tools is to enable more people to be able to do this work directly themselves and share it with their elected officials!
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
If you're talking about the Manhattan effect specifically, I'm sure that zoning has a large effect on the extremeness of it. If you're talking about "land gets exponentially more valuable in the city center", then y
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Author here: most people know that the city is "more" valuable, but drastically underestimate how valuable. I've asked people how much more valuable they think Manhattan is than the Bronx and they will say things like "5
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
It's not just zoning, though that exacerbates it. City centers are where economic activity tends to be concentrated so even without zoning you would see these exponential land value effects as you approach the centers of economic activ
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Good points! Thanks.
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Both. They do understand that it’s worth “more” in the city but they vastly underestimate the magnitude, and they vastly underestimate what that means in terms of where the total bulk of land value is concentrated, and therefore what the di
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Author here: it’s a cheap rate limiter and something we are looking to remove soon.
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Author here. This is the problem we are seeking to solve, we are property tax reform activists: https://open.substack.com/pub/progressandpoverty/p/enacting-...
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Author here. Our blog generally concerns property tax reform for our regular readership which is admittedly less clear to a new reader coming in cold: the intuitions I’m referring to is the average homeowner kind of assumes any tax reform (
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
The main purpose of the 3D is to communicate the extreme differences in scale of value, which chloropleth alone doesn’t always get across as it flattens the magnitude disparity. Keeping true north to avoid confusion is a good point.
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
Diamond prices are famously crashing now due to artificial lab made diamonds (increased supply)
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
IceFrog was on the Dota2 team, and valve owns the trademark
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by larsiusprime 6mo ago
This is a good resource on the question -- Land Value Tax is not passed on to tenants, the landlord eats it. This is pretty unique among taxes, which is why LVT is a particularly good way to fund UBI, otherwise you would expect the UBI to r
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by larsiusprime 7mo ago
Also RE: procgen, one of the hit games right now, Mewgenics, is doing super well and uses it extensively. Obviously it's old school procgen that makes use of tons of authored content, but it's still procgen.
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by larsiusprime 7mo ago
Although they key thing here is that it's not just that effect, but emergent unintended consequences. In the article, it describes how non profit healthcare institutions have an incentive to buy for profit clinics, because (alongside t
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Property taxes going up? The 340B Program might be partly responsible(pricepoints.health)
44 points by larsiusprime 7mo ago|87 comments
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by larsiusprime 7mo ago
If I understand it, the premise of this article is that because the marginal cost of software production is now free, now nobody can compete against garbage quality code sold by the slickest "sales critter", so everyone should jus
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by larsiusprime 7mo ago
It's funny that people always bring this up, but I don't see what centrally planned mandatory setbacks, height limits, and parking mandates have to do with preventing industrial accidents.
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by larsiusprime 7mo ago
This is actually how the popular Texas dominoes game of "42" was invented. It's similar to Spades and other trick-taking games with bids and trumps, but it's played with dominoes, not cards, and therefore it's okay
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by larsiusprime 7mo ago
Honestly, the surest sign of the existence of vampires to me would be a class of investors with extremely anomalous discount rates, suggesting that they are operating on inhumanly long time horizons, combined with a particular interest in r

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