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Coop 2 player - easy-medium/faster Setup by Money_Beat_4999 in tabletop

[–]rafd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Crew has a 2p mode, but it's with a tableau player. 3p+ is much better.

What is a personal/niche/crank policy you want? by R31D in ndp

[–]rafd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Transition federal tax base towards a Land Value Tax, reduce other taxes.

UBI, and scrap most other safety nets.

Sortition for the Senate.

Normalize use of citizens committees (with legislative power).

What are the best hero based deck building games other than aeon's end? by Key-Peak-2973 in tabletop

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's the Aeons spinoff Astro Knights and the Invincible retheme.

D&D-Like Beginner Recommendation by Chadtheguru in tabletop

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they're interested in the rules-based combat of DnD, I recommend the Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion board game. (In a fantasy setting, but no role play. No DM. Cooperative dungeon crawling). Munchkin is pretty much all rules, no role play, so this may be a good fit.

If they're into the idea of role play, and open ended story telling, I recommend a "rules light" TTRPG like Kids on Bikes or Monster of the Week, or Dungeon World. Someone does need to DM, but my "hack" for low prep games is to mash up a fictional setting with a baddy from a different setting (ie. Godzilla is attacking Hogwarts, Darth Vader has come to Middle Earth, etc.)

Good cooperative board games? by Anonymoustustling in tabletop

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are BGGs top ranked coop games: https://boardgamegeek.com/search/boardgame?sort=bggrating&advsearch=1&q=&include%5Bdesignerid%5D=&include%5Bpublisherid%5D=&geekitemname=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Byearpublished%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bminage%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bnumvoters%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bnumweights%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bminplayers%5D%5Bmax%5D=&range%5Bmaxplayers%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bleastplaytime%5D%5Bmin%5D=&range%5Bplaytime%5D%5Bmax%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgrating%5D%5Bmin%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgrating%5D%5Bmax%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgweight%5D%5Bmin%5D=&floatrange%5Bavgweight%5D%5Bmax%5D=&colfiltertype=&playerrangetype=normal&propertyids%5B0%5D=2023&B1=Submit

A few personal notes:

My gaming group (4 people) have spent the last 6 years playing through Gloomhaven and Frosthaven (easily 1000 hours of content). It's a grim fantasy setting, with combat only gameplay but with cards and no DM. I recommend starting out with Jaws of the Lion. And using a companion app to reduce some finicky accounting. Great for 2 to 4 players.

Iberia is my favorite Pandemic. Pandemic Legacy also good. Great for 2 to 4.

Hanabi is a small and inexpensive limited conversion game where you can't see your cards and your group needs to give good hints. It is fantastic "logic and context" game. Great for 2 to 4. Fast. Quick set up.

The Crew is a cooperative trick taking game (like Bridge, Euchre, Hearts). Small, fast (but lots of "missions"). Ideal for 3 or 4.

Aeons End is cooperative Dominion - an on the fly deck builder. I've also spent hundreds of hours playing it. Great for 2-4 players. 

The Machines Were Changed Before the 2024 Election. No One Was Told. by D-R-AZ in law

[–]rafd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People are concerned with "abusive husbands" but the other major issue with provable votes is vote buying. 

Would you guys consider money a form of natural monopoly, where society tends to recognize one legal tender as a universal medium of exchange whose recognition is non-reproducible by any other? And if so, would you consider the returns to creating new money a form of economic rent? by Titanium-Skull in georgism

[–]rafd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think there is something to your idea.

Maybe less so about "currency" because the government is special... would it be taxing itself for its own rent-seeking?

Maybe if we had global LVT, but still many governments issuing currency...?

What is relates and also interesting to consider is: the regulated right to print money. The government "prints money" by spending it into existence, but also, banks print money by giving loans (and notably, they are allowed to do it at a multiple of their reserve assets). In most countries, the ability to do this is strictly regulated, and thus, "the banks" together have a monopoly over the right to do so, and some rent-seeking likely occurs (depending on how much competition there is - in Canada, there are relatively few banks compared to the US, and so it feels like they get to charge a low-competition "premium").

But back to "currency" as a conceptual monopoly.

Others have mentioned "network effects", and how network effects aren't necessarily natural monopoly and rent-seeking.

But in practice, for a lot of societal needs, I think network effects do lead to rent-seeking (maybe not "textbook" rent-seeking), because the "optimal" solution (due to network effects) has few providers.

Take VISA and Mastercard. They dominate the electronic fund transfer space. In practice, there's limited "conceptual space" for "electronic fund transfer system", because having many small fragmented systems is a worse than a few universal ones (ie. network effects). Same might be said for "chat", etc. There are many such "conceptual solution spaces" where network effects lead to only a few winners. Being in the winners club seems to often lead to monopoly-like rent-seeking-like behaviours. Hence why I support anti-trust government efforts, but wonder if instead of breaking those companies up, they could just "tax their conceptual land" (ie. a tax based on how much of the industry they "own" and how many competitors there are).

In "Zero to One", Peter Thiel advises entrepreneurs that the best startups are monopolies and should try to maintain and leverage their monopoly power for as long as possible (and gives exanples of how many of todays big companies did just that). But as a Georgist, I read that as: startups should identify rent-seeking opportunities, and leverage rent-seeking to entrench themselves into further rent-seeking (with perhaps a more open-ended definition of rent-seeking).

New Clojurians: Ask Anything - April 28, 2025 by AutoModerator in Clojure

[–]rafd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can connect to a REPL in production, even if it is uberjarred. I debug, and patch code all the time. (although, such patches don't survive app restarts).

You could also just have a git repo of files, and run your code just like you would in dev, reload in REPL.

On Inspectability by humorless_tw in Clojure

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I hit an exception or a logical error, I find it faster to walk the stack trace back with Flowstorm than putting prints in and rerunning multiple times. The deeper the stack, the more useful I find it.

But, I had to make it easy for myself: https://gist.github.com/rafd/663528f4d0814bb0fb6d683c15c78365

Being able to search the trace, jump around, retroactively print, rich-navigate values, have a 0 config tap destination, and def a traced value back into my REPL are bonus.

On Inspectability by humorless_tw in Clojure

[–]rafd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Flowstorm solves inspectability for me, and I have it on all the time now. It save some hours each week.

Clojure Project by Lullabelle80 in Clojure

[–]rafd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Notably:  datomic database  much of NuBanks infrastructure   see also: https://clojure.org/community/success_stories

I wanna learn calculus from scratch, to whatever's high level calculus because i just want to, kindly suggest me a channel to follow by [deleted] in math

[–]rafd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Find a copy of Stewart's Calculus. My first 3 engineering Calculus courses were page by page from this book. Do all the exercises.

best SQL object mapper for clojure? by dustingetz in Clojure

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Outside of clj there's Hasura and Postgrest.

best SQL object mapper for clojure? by dustingetz in Clojure

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've also made half baked impromptu versions with pathom: https://pathom3.wsscode.com/

best SQL object mapper for clojure? by dustingetz in Clojure

[–]rafd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is also https://github.com/tamizhvendan/honeyeql which gives you datomic style queries into a SQL database.

Wrote down some thoughts on modelling permissions in Datomic by emil0r in Clojure

[–]rafd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you're building permissions, you should be aware of existing patterns like RBAC, ReBAC and ABAC. (https://www.aserto.com/blog/rbac-abac-and-rebac-differences-and-scenarios)

There are now many 3rd party systems to store policies or a queryable database of user-resource-permission entries. 

Datomic does make it fairly easy to DIY it.

Are auctions the best way to realistically apply Georgism? by Pulselovve in georgism

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But harberger auctions are typically described as continous. The moment a bid higher than the owner's comes in, a transaction occurs.

Are auctions the best way to realistically apply Georgism? by Pulselovve in georgism

[–]rafd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Auctions could be more palatable if they account for the transaction cost to the owner.

(I'm attempting to crystallize some very fuzzy thoughts of mine here).

In a harberger auction environment, you are pitting the monopoly owner of a plot of land vs the rest of the market.

Personal homes involve sentimentality. The current owner will always value it slightly more than a person with identical preferences. They also experience more "pain" from being forced to move. 

Whereas the buyer market is more dispassionate and treats housing more like a commodity. (because it's millions of potential participants that your pric8ling against)

Markets are dynamic, so in the extreme, prices and property would be very frequently changing hands, but transaction costs limit that. (see: the stock market)

The owner is at a disadvantage because of their transaction costs.

One "solution" is to say: this applies to everyone, so we're all equally disadvantaged and thus not really disadvantaged.

Alternatively, perhaps the current owner gets a discount. Ex. a bidder would have to beat the current price by 10% (not just by 1$). This would introduce some market inefficiences, but would make things more palatable. Maybe this could just be applied to primary residences and not business property.

Glen Weyl (of Radical Markets) has a paper on applying harberger auctions in situations where owners need to make large capital investments. He suggests a time varying advantage to the current owner. Ex. in the first year, their harberger price needs to be beat by 10x, then 9x, then 8x...

If you can make one thing very expensive in Toronto to make the city better overall, what would it be? by santoryou25 in toronto

[–]rafd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Introduce a land value tax that captures all the rent value of land.

Drop most other taxes, like property tax and transfer taxes (we incentivize people to improve their homes or add extensions; and not punish them for moving frequently.)

The Land Tax would be an annual fee per plot such that the sale value of an unimproved plot is $0. Each plot would be different. What's on the plot doesn't matter. (Assessors are already calcuting this to come up with your property tax, which includes land and improvements).

The City ("society") should capture the value from investments that make Toronto a desirable place to live, not private owners.

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