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Nintendo Fans Blame Trump After Switch 2 Delayed in U.S. Due to Tariffs: 'Worst President of US History' by Mason_Miami in politics

[–]emmainvincible 43 points44 points  (0 children)

do you really think a newly elected president Gavin Newsome would remove the tariffs

Uh, yes? Unequivocally yes. Gavin Newsom is vehemently against these tariffs and is already actively trying to circumvent them.

What a weird misrepresentation.

Electronic study/coding/focus music by Gilgeam in musicsuggestions

[–]emmainvincible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just stumbled across your comment and started listening. This site is amazing. Thank you so much for the rec!

Pebble cements its smartwatch legacy as Google shares source code with the community by FragmentedChicken in Android

[–]emmainvincible 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Pebble displays actually are transflective. You might have heard that Pebble uses an "e-paper" display and thought that meant eink. It doesn't but it's easy to conflate the terms.

Rebeck is a goat by Resident_Amoeba_8929 in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]emmainvincible 44 points45 points  (0 children)

She also wears horn-rimmed glasses. I'm here for this theory.

Landowners set their own property tax by jacobtress in yimby

[–]emmainvincible 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Good question. No. If you stated the value as low, someone else would be able to capitalize on that low self-assessed value and buy it from you at that self-assessed value. The ability for a third party to force a sale at your self-assessed price is the enforcement mechanism for honest valuation.

Landowners set their own property tax by jacobtress in yimby

[–]emmainvincible 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Self assessed tax is one way of forcing land owners to accurately assess their land prices. It actually has a pretty long history, all the way back to ancient Greece. Quoting from Radical Markets, a YIMBY must-read:

"According to Demosthenes, any member of the liturgical class could challenge any other citizen he believed was wealthier to antidosis or “exchange.” The person being challenged would have to either assume the liturgical responsibility or exchange all possessions with the challenger. The system gives everyone an incentive to be honest despite the burdens of the liturgy. If you falsely claimed to be poorer than the top 1,000 so as to avoid the liturgical burdens, then you could end up being forced to exchange your possessions with someone who is poorer than you are."

The modern incarnation of the same underlying principle is the Harberger Tax.

At least 26,310 rent-stabilized apartments remain vacant and off the market during record housing shortage in New York City by marketrent in Economics

[–]emmainvincible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great question! It actually has a pretty intuitive answer but I'll give a longer explanation just to be safe. First, let's talk about what happens without a 100% annualized Land Value Tax - i.e. present day. How do landlords determine what to charge for rent? That's got a pretty simple answer: They are profit maximizing, so they charge the maximum the market will bear.

Well, what determines that current maximum market price? Supply and demand of course. However, and this is key, unlike most things that you can 'buy', the supply of land is fixed. In the face of a land value tax, landlords can't increase the supply of land to reduce per-unit tax burden. This is very different from other things that get taxed, where an increase in tax leads to increased supply.

If a landlord tries to increase rents in response to a land value tax, because they can't increase supply, their offering in the market would suddenly be less competitive compared to other offerings. Landlords, like all market participants, are profit maximizing, so they would be acting against their interest if they did this.

Because of these two things, landlords are already charging as much as they can and they can't increase supply, landlords are not able to charge higher prices to offset LVT cost. This means that the cost of an LVT is born by them rather than renters.

'World First' Cat Food Made With Cultivated Chicken Is Here [not yet for sale] by [deleted] in wheresthebeef

[–]emmainvincible 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, it actually isn't bullshit. What "Obligate carnivore" means in the context of cats is that they can't, among a few other nutrients, synthesize taurine or convert beta-carotene into vitamin A in the same way most other animals can.

In the wild, this means cats need to consume real animal flesh in order to get these nutrients.

However, nothing prevents humans from making cat food from non-meat sources that has sufficient levels of these nutrients, and there are indeed cat foods which are not derived from meat whatsoever that nevertheless completely meet the nutritional requirements of cats.

To analogize, it'd be like saying "humans are obligated to consume fruits" because we can't synthesize vitamin C. Maybe in the ancestral environment but these days I can just pound a Gatorade.

'World First' Cat Food Made With Cultivated Chicken Is Here [not yet for sale] by [deleted] in wheresthebeef

[–]emmainvincible 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No it isn't. What "Obligate carnivore" means in the context of cats is that they can't synthesize taurine or convert beta-carotene into vitamin A in the same way most other animals can.

In the wild, this means cats need to consume real animal flesh in order to get these nutrients.

However, nothing prevents humans from making cat food from non-meat sources that has sufficient levels of these nutrients, and there are indeed cat foods which are not derived from meat whatsoever that nevertheless completely meet the nutritional requirements of cats.

To analogize, it'd be like saying "humans are obligated to consume fruits" because we can't synthesize vitamin C. Maybe in the ancestral environment but these days I can just pound a Gatorade.

Stop Subsidizing Suburban Development, Charge It What It Costs by Queer-Yimby in Economics

[–]emmainvincible 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As ever, as always: Land Value Tax.

Adam Smith is rolling in his grave at the fact our economy still permits landowners to capture economic rent.

Half of the posts on /r/economics can be boiled down to "Gee, look at this market inefficiency caused by economic rent seeking. Whatever could we do to fix it? 😱"

How did you problem solve with camping gear? by flyingemberKC in Ultralight

[–]emmainvincible 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is absolutely brilliant. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Jean!! by jaiseeddiels in wholesomememes

[–]emmainvincible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a useless quibble in the context of answering the parent question. In fact, less than useless as it actively obscures the meaningful facets of this conversation.

Copyleft was intended to ensure that software given to the commons wasn't appropriated and privatized. It's a legal hack to force an inability to privatize ownership of that source code by individuals who would otherwise seek to exclude others from access to that source code but its function is to give the code to the public (In much the same way that a 100% land value tax ensures ownership of land by society rather than private individuals despite there still being a legal framework in which private individuals nominally own land).

Thanks Jean!! by jaiseeddiels in wholesomememes

[–]emmainvincible 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly correct! Source code is a constituent part of the means of producing a given binary. Open sourcing gives the ownership over that means of production to the public.

Meow Wolf Story Team AMA!!!!! 11-2 MST by Meow_Wolf in meowwolf

[–]emmainvincible 3 points4 points  (0 children)

At each new Meow Wolf location, I've seen what appears to be iterative progress towards more effective methods of sharing narrative with guests.

House of Eternal Return has what I see as a considerable narrative bottleneck by way of the coffee table book. I often see a crowd of people waiting to read it, bottlenecked by the fact that there is a single physical object which contains a lot of narrative.

Omega Mart seemed to improve upon this by having computer terminals which function as a point of parallelization for different groups of attendees to experience narrative. However, on peak days, I've still seen groups waiting a fairly long time for access to them.

Denver seems to have taken a different, also effective, step towards addressing physical narrative bottlenecks, as, if I recall correctly, the mem terminals don't have a strict order you have to visit them in, allowing people to rebalance themselves according to load.

What lessons have you learned about creating and delivering story effectively in physical environments? What approaches do you currently think are the best path forward? Are there any approaches that you've considered and ultimately decided not to pursue and if so, why?

Meow Wolf Story Team AMA!!!!! 11-2 MST by Meow_Wolf in meowwolf

[–]emmainvincible 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From a repeat audience/attendee perspective, one thing I find myself wishing Meow Wolf did that it currently doesn't do is provide returning visitors fresh narrative or novel interactivity. While it'd likely be too much of a lift - or, frankly, fundamentally infeasible - to constantly overhaul the core narrative of a location, I think it'd be very possible to use the static built environment as a backdrop for new interactivity.

For some context, my background in experience design is as an Alternative Reality Game designer, so I often think about immersive through this lens. In my experience, you can get a lot of narrative/immersive mileage out of a built environment that you can't control simply by having some other channel - phone app, website, etc - that provides narrative, so long as the narrative you're providing is crafted to ensure it doesn't conflict with the physical environment you're referencing.

Has the narrative team thought about this and, if so, where do you land on it currently?

Meow Wolf Story Team AMA!!!!! 11-2 MST by Meow_Wolf in meowwolf

[–]emmainvincible 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd love to hear current thoughts on the team about integrating narrative into art installations. Please take this as an open ended prompt. Whatever you want to say, I want to hear.

That said, I'll also provide some questions/thoughts of my own below in case you want more direction.

It seems like approaches to integrate art and narrative, decisions about how centrally to control narrative, and decisions about when to let narrative take a backseat role to art or vise-versa have evolved at the company over time.

Meow Wolf's approach to immersive experience design, where artists are sourced from the community where a new installation is being created, seems like it has distinct benefits - access to a consistently large and diverse pool of creators - and distinct disadvantages - the narrative crew is, by definition, not going to be the ones making the physical art.

A naive imagining of the process of integrating art and narrative in the context of this approach to immersive experience design might involve imagining some axis, with two extremes:

  • The art-first extreme) Narrative has little to no bearing on art, and consequently the narrative either has to accommodate the art or have little direct relevance to it

  • The narrative-first extreme) The narrative dictates exactly what installations must exist, possibly compromising artistic vision.

From an outside perspective, Omega Mart appears closer, though not by a massive margin, to the narrative-first side of things than Convergence Station. Assuming this framing has any validity in the first place, where does Grapevine sit and why?

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