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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 disco…

The search functionality has been mostly broken (in several, overlapping ways) for several years now

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 achieve…

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, …

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 physi…

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 …

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_Do_Men_Stupefy_Themselves...

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

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 …

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 wo…

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.wikipe…

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 …

And to finance things sensibly based upon real revenue flows, not speculative debt drawing on wishful thoughts about future growth.

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 spo…

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 …

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 pre…

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 instrume…

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, wha…

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 right…

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 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 …

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.

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 concept…

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, …

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 deprecia…