RockIslandLine

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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
Yes, it's not at all clear what remedy would be effective. Some limit on total percentage of searches, similar to the limit in the 1996 Telecommunications Act that no company can own stations reaching more than 35% of the national audi
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"All I’ve ever learnt over the last decade has been by operating in a capital constrained environment." That won't necessarily change in a big corporate environment. Management can be surprisingly resistant to approving fund
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
Gentoo needs vastly better documentation to be useful.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"And how do you get Alaskans on board for paying higher taxes to fund it?" The APF is funded by severance taxes on oil & mining. I suspect that most people are entirely fine with that tax model. The problem is that it only su
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"The UBI discussion really needs to start with 'where do we get $350B a month'?" Congressional appropriations create money. That's how fiat currency works. We're not on the Gold Standard, we don't need t
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
The Canadian Manitoba Mincome experiment is probably as close as has been done for that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"But our food supply is highly distributed." Not nearly as much as it needs to be. Indiana imports 90% of its calories. What does it take to get vegetables grown near Indianapolis?
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"whereas you can see instantly if the money you're trying to pay with or receiving in change is the wrong colour." Now try that when you're blind.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
Wizardry and Bard's Tale. I spent a few thousand hours on each.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
It's not just CS. The computational chemistry and materials science crystallography folks can have jobs that run for days or weeks too.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
Yeah, discoverability in modern computer UIs is terrible.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
The question is why won't they touch it. Unrealistic expectations of high returns kill deals too. I'd be more than happy to start funding deals with high probabilities of low-to-medium returns. And I know for a fact that those d
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
Pool of Radiance would wipe your hard drive on uninstall.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
I and most of my siblings try to get it every year. It's recommended for anyone with frequent contact with children.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"In other words, the expected value of the researcher is in excess of the researcher’s cost." So what magical property of being hired by a government destroys that expected value?
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
Yeah, discord is pretty bad, but it's better than Zoom.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
We always played with a house rule that trades are not allowed until all properties have been purchased.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"The government can’t invent jobs that bring in more revenue than they cost though." Why not? Is there some reason why a private medical researcher is somehow better than a government medical researcher?
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
Currency issuers are not revenue constrained. For a nation with a fiat currency, the ability to spend is distinct from the need to tax.
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by RockIslandLine 6y ago
"More stability for her family and a capped mortgage payment every month, yes, but no real chance to actually accumulate wealth." There's value in getting off the mortgage/rent treadmill entirely. It's a lot cheape
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
The quote most people would reference is probably this one: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise price
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Great, So when do we start? I would love to see ads that are only relevant to my life instead of penis pills.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
There is literally no excuse for this in 2020. Funding for rural telecom has been part of every budget for decades. Write a proposal and get it funded. https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/all-programs/telec.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"Social security could have it's date of insolvency extended. It's currently predicted to be insolvent by 2037." The US Federal government has both a literal and a figurative money printing press. Congressional appropri
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Why would you ever build that kind of application using web technologies?
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
Corporations are a power of attorney document. They are golems that sometimes act on behalf of people. They are not people.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"Now, doesn't that make it legal for a group of people to keep secrets about you?" A group of people sure, but corporations are not people.
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"So the government can safely borrow money, but at some point it will accumulate so much debt that people begin to doubt its ability to pay it back." Currency issuers can always pay any debt denominated in the currency that they i
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
We're not on the Gold Standard. We don't have to track Pretty Yellow Rocks. The rules are different for Currency Issuers (nations with a fiat currency) versus currency users (citizens, provinces, and nations on the Gold Standard)
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by RockIslandLine 7y ago
"But the things people with money try to buy, education, property, financial assets, are mostly of a fixed supply and the prices will just keep spiraling." Education is not in any way a fixed supply. We can train more teachers.

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