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I have another example of this sort of thing that I came across recently. There is much talk here in New Zealand, as there is in the US, about the possibility
by Nition 10y ago
I have another example of this sort of thing that I came across recently.
There is much talk here in New Zealand, as there is in the US, about the possibility of a Universal Basic Income.
Looking it up, I found a relatively short investigation into the idea commissioned by the government back in 2010[1], that has more real statistics and conclusions than all the other talk I've ever seen put together.
What you call "high-value" writing still, of course, has the possibility of errors, bias, etc. But man is it still more informative to read than everything else.
Of course the punishment for reading this stuff is the pain of living in a world full of people commenting who "didn't read the article." :p
[1] Available here: http://igps.victoria.ac.nz/WelfareWorkingGroup/Downloads/Working%20papers/Treasury-A-Guaranteed-Minimum-Income-for-New-Zealand%20.PDF http://igps.victoria.ac.nz/WelfareWorkingGroup/Downloads/Wor...
- hackuser 10y agoThanks; agreed; exactly the sort of thing I'm talking about. > the punishment for reading this stuff is the pain of living in a world full of people commenting who "didn't read the article." :p Yup. And watch them take us blindly into calamity after calamity because they can't be bothered to click a link.
- Nition 10y agoThis sort of thing pops up everywhere, I'm glad you pointed it out in words here because it's made me think about it a bit more clearly myself. For instance you get programming threads where people will spend pages arguing about whether something is more efficient than something else, hours of their time, before someone finally spends five minutes running an actual benchmark.