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by Riseed 10y ago
The fire department attracts helpers. That's certainly also true of the police department, but they also attract those who like to exert power over others. (At least in the USA.)
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by Riseed 10y ago
One of the comments says: > when I searched on the problem just now, I found complaints about the same problem going back to 2006.
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by Riseed 10y ago
Excellent answer. Feature propagation & saturation is also a reason to offer/develop a version that doesn't require an OBD port. Your customer base consists almost exclusively of those who are both willing to spend $499 on an
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by Riseed 10y ago
There's a link in the footer that leads to a submission form: https://mike706.typeform.com/to/o6eSiQ
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by Riseed 10y ago
Regardless of whether your argument is correct [0], I can't imagine your target audience is more likely to sign up (vs. bounce) when hit with a second pop-up before reading half an article. [0] e.g. pop-ups --> less tech savy user
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by Riseed 10y ago
This Freakonomics podcast episode discussed (the lack of) bathroom music: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/time-to-take-back-the-toilet...
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by Riseed 10y ago
The "Happy birthday" messages were nice the first time (circa "thefacebook"), but the more I thought about it the more depressing and creepy it became. I hid my birthday, then closed my wall, and then left facebook entir
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by Riseed 10y ago
I didn't (and wouldn't) make such a comment. However, based on my personal experience, if wealth or race were a predictor at all, my "informed voter" group would likely be comprised of disproportionately few wealthier
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by Riseed 10y ago
Looks like the #HairTokens announcement will be made soon. https://twitter.com/TheDAONews/status/732303373093900288
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by Riseed 10y ago
Something the other replies didn't mention is that some (many?) homeless people wouldn't be hired for minimum wage jobs because they'd be considered overqualified. [0] There's always the option to leave education and emp
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by Riseed 10y ago
Thanks! I enjoyed the comments the last time this was posted. For example: - YKK anime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658920 - riri makes good zippers, Corozo makes good buttons: https://news.ycombinator.
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by Riseed 11y ago
In theory, that implementation of negative income tax (NIT) would cover everyone and seems to have nearly [0] the same effect as a basic income (UBI). However, in practice, the effects will not be equivalent. With UBI, future checks are alr
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by Riseed 11y ago
1. Adjust withholding. (Addresses "retroactive" issue for all near-normal employees.) 2. Allow regular payments for long-term situations, somewhat like the current US SSI system. (Addresses "retroactive" issue for unemp
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by Riseed 11y ago
I did mention implementation of negative income tax via withholding in the final sentence of my comment. However, I haven't read/heard how adjusting withholding would work in a non-retroactive manner for independent contractors or
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by Riseed 11y ago
> At least here in the US, money problems are (mostly) a money-management problem. There is a money-management problem in the US, but it crosses class lines and is a different problem than addressing/ameliorating poverty. Financial
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by Riseed 11y ago
People with food stamps but no money still need to buy things that cost money (e.g. new glasses, bike tire repair). The solution is to sell their food stamps for cash, and the black market only pays ~$.80 on the dollar. It's more effic
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by Riseed 11y ago
In addition to what's been mentioned in other comments, one big difference between basic income and negative income tax is who receives them. Basic income is given to everyone, and negative income tax is only given to those below a thr
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by Riseed 11y ago
I had one as well. Safari on iOS 9.2.1
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by Riseed 11y ago
Thanks! I very much look forward to seeing this out in the wild.
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by Riseed 11y ago
If I have wiggle room, I make my max inclusive of the "x% more if it catches my fancy". It's unintuitive to search for "max $680k" to ensure results are within a $750k budget. As someone who uses real estate sites,
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by Riseed 11y ago
Many pieces of education, both the purely educational bits and the well-rounded bits, can come from experience and other sources. A degree often operates as a third-party certification that an individual has completed these tasks, and/
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by Riseed 11y ago
Certainly. With a tax-based universal basic income, the vast majority of individuals would be net beneficiaries. As of 2011, an individual paying >$12k/yr in USA federal taxes is in the top 25%. [0] With a basic income of $1k/y
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by Riseed 11y ago
Defining "productive" and "unproductive" activities is difficult. Sitting around playing video games is a classic example, but it's a way to become a better video game developer or a world-class player, both of whic
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by Riseed 11y ago
This is certainly true. However, for many cases there may be little difference. A year or two of basic income is sufficient to start a business, learn skills to enable a career switch (exceptions, of course), care for a newborn, deal with s
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by Riseed 11y ago
Isaac Newton was neither shamed nor stigmatized into developing calculus. Most of that work was done during "idle" time, while his university was closed for the Plague. I daresay society's great achievements are not derived f
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by Riseed 11y ago
Thanks! I hadn't seen that paper yet.
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by Riseed 11y ago
> By reversing that, you could make negative income tax payments year-round rather than at tax return time. Withholding adjustments would help those in low-paying jobs, part time workers, etc. But how does it address temporary or long-te
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by Riseed 11y ago
Ability to leave bad relationships is one of the proposed benefits of basic income and similar ideas. The linked article hypothesized "reduced pressure on the breadwinner to remain". Too many fights over money, financial ability t
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by Riseed 11y ago
Not "idle" exactly, but in the Canadian Mincome experiment, teenagers and new parents decreased work hours (to focus on studies and childcare, respectively). http://public.econ.duke.edu/~erw/197/forget-ce
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by Riseed 11y ago
One big difference between basic income and negative income tax is who receives them. Basic income is given to everyone, and negative income tax is only given to those below a threshold amount -- creating two classes of people: givers and r

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