Monthly Archives: September 2020

Socialism or Capitalism

Posted on September 22, 2020 by neilbrown

Once you assume a nation with a democratic form of government, the broadest brush used for describing the style of economic management seems to be a choice between Socialism and Capitalism. This is a false choice. Socialism and Capitalism are … Continue reading →

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Designing plugins for edlib

Posted on September 19, 2020 by neilbrown

As edlib (my Emacs-replacement editor) matures I’m being more adventurous in the functionality I’m adding: spell checker, calculator, difference highlighter. This often involves importing functionality from an external source and making it available within edlib. This has raised the question … Continue reading →

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The goals for the economy

Posted on September 15, 2020 by neilbrown

If I’m to explore ideas concerning macro economics, I need to have a clear understanding of the goal – what is the economic system trying to achieve? Any such goal must be subjective – it can only be “my” goal. … Continue reading →

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Performance improvements for wiggle.

Posted on September 7, 2020 by neilbrown

My “wiggle” program which applies a patch to a different version of the file needs to compute the shortest edit path between two texts, which is the smallest set of additions and deletions that must be made to one file … Continue reading →

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Modal Dialogs in edlib

Posted on September 6, 2020 by neilbrown

One of the behaviours of emacs that I want to avoid as I build edlib (my answer to emacs) is modal dialogs. I recently saw mention of Oberon and this link in particular: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d48b/ecdaf5c3d962e2778f804e8c64d292de408b.pdf. It also mentions an aversion of … Continue reading →

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The Value of Money

Posted on September 5, 2020 by neilbrown

I have a new topics to write about – macro-economics. My interest is partly due to the enormous economic upheaval caused by COVID-19, but is more specifically due to reading Stephanie Kelton’s “The Deficit Myth” which outlines MMT – Modern … Continue reading →

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