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You might find mlatu-6[0] interesting- it’s convertible to SKI calculus but concatenative (like Forth) rather than applicative. It’s actually a subset of Mlatu, a language I create…

This is not true. I and many other people have aphantasia[0], our brains are simply unable to imagine visually the way other people are. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantas…

It seems like you would identify with Georgism[0]. The fundamental premise is that land/natural resources should belong to everyone, so it is necessary to pay everyone for the land…

This is known as context-dependent memory [0]. Interestingly, it also occurs with your mood and other cognitive states: If you’re always happy in your class, you’ll perform better …

About a year ago, I started downloading Internet Archive OCR transcriptions of old public-domain books I was interested in that weren't readily available. I would go through and co…

I read through it and didn't see any refutation, just a description of the historical movement. At least to my understanding, mutualists like Benjamin Tucker have historically agre…

How much would you pay for land that has 100% of its rental value taxed away every year?

Common solutions include appraisal (like property taxes are today) or a Vickrey auction, where we auction off the land, and the first place bidder gets it at the price of the secon…

Land prices decrease proportionally with the level of LVT implemented: 0% of today gives a 100% sales price; 25% LVT gives a 75% sales price; etc; 100% LVT as I propose gives a 0% …

I will admit that I misunderstand TimPC’s point about people having to pay the land value tax in addition to the mortgage; I misunderstood mortgages in terms of who really owns the…

I do understand that mortgages are on both the land and the buildings. We were talking about land only though. It is irrelevant to the question of who pays the land value tax that …

Yes, I agree with you on what will happen in big cities where the land value is already high. The idea is more that in the Montana's and the Kansas's - where they already give land…

Perhaps I'm explaining it poorly, that's entirely possible. The frontier is where land value is zero, at the margin of production. It is possible to get value out of the land, but …

I agree that land has to some extent been widely redistributed in the United States because of the frontier, which continued to exist and distribute land ownership up until the 188…

I think it would be at least partially solved by reorganizing government to be based upon subsidiarity :) but yes, this isn’t necessarily a question which political economy can or …

Well other taxes are not precluded by Georgism. See for instance Piguovian taxes and IP taxes. But additionally, I don’t think it can be assumed that the government will continue t…

Yeah, I think I misunderstood both the above point and who owns the property in a mortgage. Essentially I think that the land value of the property, which is used in calculation of…

I wasn’t aware of the reforms before I just looked it up, but from what I see, it looks like he had distributist goals. He was almost definitely not aware of the concurrent academi…

I think you might misunderstand Georgism, or maybe I did a poor job explaining it. Georgism does not propose taxing improvements (buildings etc), only the actual land. So many peop…

It’s an odd construction but replacing “no few” with “not a few” (i.e. many) makes a lot more sense.

Answer from another layperson: The photons even while the lightbulb are on are constantly being emitted and absorbed by the materials around you as energy. When you turn off the li…

I’ve had a similar experience but heard back from the Founder that many of the invites from before January 8th didn’t go through, and that he manually approves a new batch every fe…

Really? I could see the other third parties like Green Party, American Solidarity Party, Libertarian Party, etc. having those issues on their platform. But Republicans and Democrat…

The Patriot Act is still alive and well, it's simply dropped out of the public imagination. It's still harming people through excessive surveillance and the lack of privacy, which …