Frondo

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by Frondo 6y ago
Did your wife run off with a surfer? People are trying to express this idea that the "people will be lazy and content themselves with a meager UBI" is not an accurate one, and nearly every reply you've made has been a nonsequ
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by Frondo 6y ago
"Plenty of people will voluntarily give food to a hungry person." Not enough, with the amount of hunger that's present in the richest country in the world.
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Can you answer the question directly? This glib response does nothing except, I guess, reveal your dislike of surfers (?).
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I wish you'd explain why this is a bad thing, and that you'd elaborate on it. Do you think half of the people in a UBI world stop working entirely and subsist entirely on their pittance? A third of the people? How few people would
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by Frondo 6y ago
Same here, except it's an 11" MacBook air! And I'm old enough to remember Clinton's presidency well. I think some of us are lucky to have a flexibility gene activated. I have a 24" display I sometimes plug it into,
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by Frondo 6y ago
There's a very funny Mitchell and Webb sketch on this very subject: https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0
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by Frondo 6y ago
I'm sorry for the lack of clarity. I should have been explicit in saying, I agree that treating society as a thing you can vacuum wealth out of is a bad thing; the people who run a VC firm (and who view unions as an indicator for indus
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by Frondo 6y ago
Extracting profits at the cost of society may be a bad thing for you and me, but it might be a good thing for YC. I'm reminded of Paul Graham's words on unions: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/6634567484
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by Frondo 6y ago
I regard it casually because it's statistically negligible. I usually post this link in threads about vote-by-mail where people bring up fraud, but it applies here too: https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news&#
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by Frondo 6y ago
I would much rather have national coordination about some sort of ID, with strong privacy stipulations attached to it. I would like a national ID that cannot be used by local police, cannot be used by national investigative agencies, cannot
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by Frondo 6y ago
Could something like pair programming work to reduce the risk of hiring out the whole project?
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It's not just the ID having a cost, like someone else mentioned, it's things that, without context, sound innocuous yet have a disparate impact on certain communities. Like, I've read about in some southern states, where the
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I've used this analogy in another thread, and I'd like to post it again to understand better the differences between public health and traffic laws. "You can't save people from their own stupidity." Agreed, but how
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Yes, at the expense of individual liberty. Traffic laws are an obvious and rights-restraining example of this. I may or may not cause harm by running a red light in the middle of the night, or speeding on a freeway -- in fact, I know a guy
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by Frondo 6y ago
I know it's a common refrain when people defend being salaried that they get some wiggle room if they need to take off, or something, but me? I'd prefer the trade-off on something as precious as my time being very explicitly spell
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by Frondo 6y ago
I sometimes -- well, I used to, heh -- share an office with a labor rep (i.e. someone who works for a union). I sometimes over hear their calls, and one of the last conversations I overheard before the pandemic really stuck with me. In refe
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by Frondo 6y ago
So unfortunately the live project has no public-facing component; without going into too much detail it helps certain corporations and larger nonprofits with a kind of compliance. But, I can tell you that I based it very closely on the layo
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by Frondo 6y ago
Just chiming in to say this is an absolutely viable approach. I just built a project, over about six weeks, using mostly vanilla js and some jquery (the heaviest widget I have is tinymce, which is a necessity unfortunately), and started sel
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by Frondo 6y ago
Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that that was your error.
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Also, those actions are electoral fraud (the people running the election do the crime), not voter fraud (the people voting do the crime).
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by Frondo 6y ago
Oregon has had exclusively vote-by-mail for over two decades. One of the two major political parties there has opposed it vigorously for all that time, making these claims among others. In all that time, however, it has never offered any ev
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by Frondo 6y ago
I imagine the Discworld series is pretty popular here, but for those who aren't super familiar with it, the character of Sam Vimes is a cop (and very much an honorable one) whose policing is based on Peelian principles. They even had a
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by Frondo 6y ago
Offering debt as a way to finance regular life activities like school and housing is also a good way to paper over the other, equally serious problems we currently have in the US, an explosion in the cost of school and housing, compared to
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by Frondo 6y ago
Heh, I actually prefer the app store version wherever I can download it, because I like not having to think about updates; I let the software updater do it. Is this an uncommon attitude?
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by Frondo 6y ago
I get it, but I also get why lots of people don't. There is something of a subjectivity in "what feels good" for using a hardware interface device, which some people simply won't notice. Sort of like the difference betwe
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by Frondo 6y ago
I don't know how to define what is "misinformation" but I could surely call out a couple examples. Maybe we can figure out what makes them misinformation. 1) 5G causes COVID-19 2) COVID-19 doesn't exist, i.e. it's a
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by Frondo 6y ago
Yes, agreed 100%. Pay is one of the many things collective bargaining is good for addressing. Workplace safety is another. Greater autonomy is another; maybe these people want a 45 minute lunch break? Who knows? (Well, the workers know what
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Facts don't generally change people's minds. Google "do facts convince people" and you'll see lots of stuff about this. Here's one, from scientificamerican.com... > In a series of experiments by Dartmouth Co
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by Frondo 6y ago
You didn't used to be able to find communities of like-minded David Icke fans, either. My father was a big David Icke fan, and he talked to my brother and me about it all the time; I can't even imagine how all-consuming it would h
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by Frondo 6y ago
I don't believe racism "stems from ignorance," and I'm curious why you think so. What makes you say that? Is there some evidence of it, or are you arguing that from hypotheticals or first principles?

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