HideousKojima

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2041.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Quantitative Easing is the fed buying bonds, bonds that must be repaid. It's not free money, it's loans.
2042.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
>Where do you get $3,000 a month from? The combined wealth of the entire 1% is ~$25 trillion. Population of the US ~330 million. Equally distributed and paid out over 24 months comes out to ~3,156. If you only give it to adults (~255 m
2043.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
>Thats 10k per person per year. So if we tax the top 1% at 100% , we can give the bottom 50% enough to not even make rent in Toronto or Vancouver ? See item 3 on my list. Also only giving the benefit to the bottom 50% is not universal
2044.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Link me the UBI proposal you find most compelling and I'll explain why the math doesn't work. Preferably a proposal for the US since I'm most familiar with existing benefits and entitlements in the US
2045.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Show me a proposal for the US (since I'm most familiar with tax rates, existing benefits, etc. there) and I'll show you how the math doesn't add up. Edit: As far as the three wealthiest in the US owning that much, it still am
2046.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
>We're about to test whether they are. If we somehow manage to print all this money and nothing bad happens, then why not? Fortunately, other states already have tried this, and shown that it causes immense economic harm. Specifical
2047.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Every single UBI proposal I've seen has failed to work even with back of the envelope math, even when using generous assumptions and estimates. They end up either 1) Gutting existing entitlements by a huge amount (and current receipien
2048.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
>But still, to put it in terms you might better understand, why do you think that medical devices take years to design and develop and get to the market? Because of insane regulatory hurdles, and a refusal to adopt standards accepted by
2049.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Probably to avoid the dumb limitations on having forms within a table? Still an awful and ugly way to do it
2050.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Then stream classes and let kids who do have access to internet and technology do their courses online while still keeping the classes running in person, so you can limit the amount of people who need to congregate. No need to go Harrison B
2051.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
It's possible to migrate C to Rust function by function, not sure if anyone has figured out something similar for C++ yet though: https://github.com/carols10cents/rust-out-your-c-talk
2052.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Have you never spent a few hours (or even days) on a back and forth over email, only to solve things in two minutes by giving the person a call? Spoken communication is way more efficient for certain things
2053.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
The most important rules to follow when investing in stocks: The market can stay irrational for longer than you can stay solvent and Don't bet any more on the market than you're willing to lose
2054.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
The stock exchange is privately owned, the owners/management of the NYSE and other exchanges chose to implement circuit breakers like this. The exchanges still have to operate within the bounds of regulations, but nothing is stopping J
2055.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
As soon as low orbit satellite internet services like Starlink are operational then you'll be out of luck, there won't be any more dead zones.
2056.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Wouldn't it only be 70^2 (or 69^2 or 69*70 maybe?)? Each of the 70 devices has a VPN connection to 69 other devices. So only ~5,000 total
2057.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
>Go has faults. The "OMG Go has no generics so it's total trash" argument is just silly. Generics are coming. Until it has them it's a valid complaint. And the fact that they're finally coming 11 years after th
2058.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Much like how there seems to be 10 articles about Ada Lovelace for every 1 about Charles Babbage
2059.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
I.E. basically what happened with IBM Compatibles in the 80's
2060.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Nah, they'll just kill the project when it fails and move onto the next buzzword
2061.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Just checked and Chase is case-insensitive too. Meanwhile my local credit union is not.
2062.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
It doesn't have the same issues (at least from my experience in C#) but it runs quite a bit slower than normal floats and doubles: http://csharphelper.com/blog/2017/05/compare-the-performance...
2063.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Hey now, you can buy guns with them too
2064.
by HideousKojima 7y ago
Ross was dumb enough to get fake passports/ids shipped directly to his home address