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Imustaskforhelp commented on Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine github.com/librebox-devs/... · Posted by u/libreboxdevs

lukan · 21 hours ago

No need to. But anything too succesful should be ready to be brought down any moment.

Imustaskforhelp · 17 hours ago

pokemon showdown is insanely and I mean insanely successful but it seems to have been almost blessed by the pokemon company.

I genuinely don't know how its legal, when I shared the link to pokemon showdown to one of my friends, his first thoughts was, wait how is this legal? This is such a good thing, I wonder why this is free. Only for me to tell it its open source and bro was flabbergasted to say the least.

Imustaskforhelp commented on Librebox: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine github.com/librebox-devs/... · Posted by u/libreboxdevs

Imustaskforhelp · 17 hours ago

OH PARDON ME BUT Y'KNOW WHY I AM GETTING SO EXCITED to talk in caps on HN?

Because I was on discord the other day and was talking about roblox and literally everyone hates it but people there were saying eh, we just play with friends we don't care, and I was like we definitely need to figure our shit since roblox doesn't give a (if I might swear since roblox disgusts me, but roblox doesn't give a fuck about child safety) I was thinking of having roblox be sorta as the what'd you say, minecraft but less blocky.

So to me, an open world which can be modded till now was maybe creating a whole game (which imo is wrong approach for things like roblox) and to me the thing which made sense back then (2 weeks ago) was Luanti (formerly minetest) with custom mod and hosting the server.

I am so excited,so doped for this one man. Heck, I will build products for this and host them for free or maybe create jupyter python notebook scripts which can run the games don't worry. I want open source to succeed so badly in this genre just because of the safety aspect.

Imustaskforhelp commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

tomrod · 2 days ago

Georgism explicitly rejects Marx's class-based analysis and Marx's narrative of zero-sum class conflict. What symptoms Marx attributes to class conflict, George attributes to rent-seeking, something which both Georgists and capitalists agree is a corruption of capitalism, rather than an inherent element. Whereas Marxists conflate economic rent and return on capital - an economically unjustifiable leap in logic.

Marxism explicitly rejects classical liberal principles such as the rule of law, limited government, free markets, and individual rights, Georgism not only functions within those principles, but requires them.

Marxism is incompatible with individual rights due to its hostile position on private property and its insistence that all means of production be collective property. The most fundamental means of production of them all is an individual's labor. Without which, no amount of land would produce a farm, a mine, a house, or a city. And then we wonder why Marxist regimes consistently run slave labor camps.

Henry George argues that society only has the right to lay claim to economic goods produced by society, rather than an individual. Marxism recognizes no such distinction.

Georgism is fully defensible using classical economics and has been repeatedly endorsed by both classical and modern economists. Marxism is at best heterodox economics and at worst, pseudoscience.

Georgism could be implemented tomorrow if sufficient political will existed. Marxism requires a violent overthrow of the state.

Henry George himself rejected Marxism, famously predicting that if it was ever tried, the inevitable result would be a dictatorship. Unlike Marx's predictions, that prediction of George's has a 100% validation rate. And he made that prediction while Marx was still alive.

Economists from Adam Smith and David Ricardo to Milton Friedman and Joseph Stiglitz have observed that a public levy on land value (Georgism/LVT) does not cause economic inefficiency, unlike other taxes.

Suffices to say, you are not sharing a grounded opinion on Georgism.

Imustaskforhelp · 2 days ago

Yes, this was such a wonderful read. I think I maybe mentioned in this post or some other how I was discussing georgism with my friends and I couldn't really articulate the difference b/w georgism and communism partially because I had gotten into in depth about georgism some time ago, and I will admit that I had forgotten quite a bit of details.

This was such a beautiful ,might I say article on georgism. I would genuinely prefer if you could write it as a standalone article that I might share with my friends or can refer to.

Its such a nice read. Thanks for giving me the pleasure to read it.

Edit: I went further into the post and it seemed that mothball isn't having this discussion in good faith and wants to have a last word and yes they feel so right, almost being stupid might I say. But your way of recognizing it and saying it up front really both surprised me and made me respect ya since you actually went through their sources when they sent some and are doing this discussion in good faith.

I am maybe georgist because I feel like it genuinely made the most sense to me and uh maybe it makes also sense because land price seems to have gone so high that I can't hold land so maybe that's a bias but still georgism is such a good take yet landlords have such a lobby that I wonder if we can break it.

We really need to get more georgist thoughts.

Might I say,though this isn't strictly georgism but taxing/patching billionaire loopholes since software businesses are built on open source and is almost like land in the sense that community owns it, plus I feel like that concentration of power into such people is wrongful but I also know that its a really really tough issue as to taxing billionaires, do we tax their stocks? do we do what exactly??

Yet georgism is a right step in that direction except it is more quantifiable and (almost universally?) agreed to be a good taxation strategy.

Imustaskforhelp commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera

aspenmayer · 2 days ago

It will be chaos for those working at Meta and those invested in them too much without an appropriate hedge. I doubt I will notice much, to be honest.

Even if Meta tanked, unless Messenger/Whatsapp stop working, it’s kind of beside the point how much their stock trades for. Everyone will just use whatever has or keeps the most public interest, whether that is Meta-owned or something else.

The worrying aspect is that for Meta to really tank in value, the shit has to have already hit the fan, and it probably would not be isolated to Meta.

My point in my prior comment was that Meta serves the purposes of the IC status quo just by doing what they’re already doing. Cloudflare too, in a way.

Imustaskforhelp · 2 days ago

I meant that if meta actually goes under, since they are clearly a decent part of S&P 500, it might create a spiraling effect similar to lehman brothers which can affect the world economy and thus you and me both.

They better get their shit sorted.

Imustaskforhelp commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

olalonde · 3 days ago

Sure, you can trace the full transaction history of any BTC through the blockchain... but that doesn't prove anything. At minimum, you need all the private keys involved (e.g. not possible if you used an exchange or deposited/withdrew from some online service or lost/deleted an old wallet). Even if you had the full list of private keys involved, going back to 2012, what proves that they were really yours and, like another commenter pointed out, that you didn't just acquire them yesterday?

Imustaskforhelp · 2 days ago

I genuinely don't understand why mixing plus swapping into monero doesn't make sense.

Simply swap into monero and then send it to anybody else.. Maybe lets say you have 100$ in btc, you convert it to 100$ in monero and just spend 10$ 10 times in a span of a week and I am sure that nobody can keep track of it.

Imustaskforhelp commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

XorNot · 3 days ago

Bitcoin literally has an immutable transaction record baked into it's model.

You would be able to point to the timestamp when you took possession of the wallet which would prove providence unambiguously.

Imustaskforhelp · 2 days ago

Monero? Zano? (if you could actually see that monero actually hasn't been hacked as people say and it was all just a marketing gimick though I'd still be cautious and maybe keep my money in monero short term??)

Imustaskforhelp commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

slv77 · 2 days ago

All of the other items you mentioned are things that society attempts to regulate against as well. And while there are an infinite number of ways to exchange value it stays between those involved. If the drug dealer is happy to trade heroin for house painting the damage is self limiting.

Once it’s converted to money it’s everyone’s problem. I can’t avoid my mortgage interest helping supporting the dealer who is supplying the addicts who are stealing my stuff. The harder I work, the worse it gets.

The controls may not be effective but I think they are necessary. I wouldn’t want to live in most countries where money laundering dominates financial activity.

Imustaskforhelp · 2 days ago

Money laundering is just illegal.

There are definitely legal ways too that screws you over in this financial world.

You say that you wouldn't want to live in a world where money laundering dominates financial activity? Well how about a world where cryptocoins/multi level marketing/ai stickers/private equity parasites/land owners (almost parasites?) /billionaires dominates the financial activity??

I guess you or many others live in such a system. I am not even talking about United states, I feel like to a lot of countries, the same thing is true.

Imustaskforhelp commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

alexey-salmin · 2 days ago

Nah, it's always the middle class that gets screwed. Poor can't be squeezed for more, rich have resources to fight back, the middle class ends up paying for everyone.

Imustaskforhelp · 2 days ago

Exactly! This is so so true that words can't explain it. The middle class gets extracted as much as they can. I think we middle class are treated as cash cows.

Imustaskforhelp commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

tomrod · 3 days ago

Once again, Georgism/land value tax is the superior tax policy. Simpler enforcement.

Imustaskforhelp · 2 days ago

Man I wanted to write about georgism (see my comment on the parent's post where I talk about land parasites)

I am such a big georgist. Seriously, I might genuinely cry seeing how georgism isn't being implemented. it is one of the most superior policy systems but the parasites own so much that we don't even discuss about it

I was talking to my friend about georgism when he asked me if I was a capitalist/communist.. Basically in the end he just said, that he doesn't know about economics... so he doesn't know and they wanted to change the topic I feel like this might be a major hurdle where people think that economics is some huge mumbo jumbo when I feel like georgism and (index funds?) are two things that almost everyone should know given how simple they are.

Imustaskforhelp commented on How well does the money laundering control system work? journals.uchicago.edu/doi... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

xenotux · 3 days ago

> What's the point of surveilling the movements of average citizens' money?

The most important is taxation. People pay their babysitters or gardeners under the table, or transact with friends and family without reporting income, and this is a huge amount of lost tax revenue.

Another reason are policy options. For one, there are certain decidedly "non-terrorist" goods and services that the government might not want you to purchase. Heck, in the era of ZIRP, many economists were seriously talking about negative interest rates. You can't do that if a person has the option of taking out cash and hiding it under the mattress.

Imustaskforhelp · 2 days ago

Yes lets tax these small transactions so that we can go back and give the tax cuts to the billionaire class.

I think that capitalism has strayed away from its original goal. We have basically parasites in the current ecosystem leeching off of either land rent or being billionaires imo.

But no it feels like we don't discuss it, we will all be ever so radicalized about something that happened on twitter etc. that we are forgetting the issue of classes.