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by Rule35 6y ago
Um yeah, I've got a gun and I'm not shooting you, but you - who have expressed displeasure with me - cannot get a gun because I believe you will shoot me. Harm to you: Not having a gun. Harm to me: death. Smart money is on maintai
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by Rule35 6y ago
So it was a legal coup? What gives one side legitimacy?
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by Rule35 6y ago
Sure, even at 90% you're still only doing the work of nine others, but at seven nines there'll only be a handful of productives in an entire country, each doing the work of millions and collecting only a single share. When collect
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by Rule35 6y ago
Why do they need to strive? They don't. They totally could be happy as you describe. But you know they won't be. They aren't wired to be happy with a little because they won't value it because they didn't work for i
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by Rule35 6y ago
Whatever the massez do, it'll be while force-fed soma. If we do have a huge privileged class who doesn't need to work we can't risk them getting uppity and continually demanding more so we'll keep them on a short leash.
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by Rule35 6y ago
If people are the common resource then customer service will be the career of the future. You may not drive the car, but you could be the voice of the fleet. There will always be a chance to make the lives of those around you better in
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by Rule35 6y ago
Take from the few to give to the vast hordes. No chance that'll go wrong. Quick question, why do I want to keep producing when I just get taxed to pay for those who refuse to work? So next year you've got one more mouth to feed an
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by Rule35 6y ago
The people you're talking to literally believe you can print value. > The money, [...] the treasury, which prints little game tickets you can use to make other people dance for you . They think there's a printer somewhere, and
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by Rule35 6y ago
Thankfully there are more than two people on earth and this edge case won't happen. Because many people are nearly at zero there are a number of also-poor merchants selling low-end goods, and Bob is able to trade a small amount of labo
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by Rule35 6y ago
Of course. But you can't just say you can't afford it. Fire doesn't care that you couldn't afford a smoke detector. If you can't afford a recovery plan then what you can't actually afford is the service that ne
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by Rule35 6y ago
Yeah, it lessens the risk of falling through those nets and is probably cheaper, per dollar dispensed, to administrate.
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by Rule35 6y ago
Which would reduce their drive to work because you took away the fruits of their labor. People need an incentive - something they don't have, which they will attain. UBI takes away one of those, your proposal would eliminate the other.
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by Rule35 6y ago
But Carl, the rich are where UBI comes from!
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by Rule35 6y ago
It's the truth. The truth cannot be absurd. As for running your own servers, that too can fail meaning you still need a migration strategy (even just to new hardware) and you need to be testing it constantly. And no, the benefit of a c
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by Rule35 6y ago
No, it's a huuuuuge problem when people become addicted to easy money and never work again . Why would they, it's their right to get paid not to. Welfare is better than UBI because welfare ends. Welfare encourages competence an
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by Rule35 6y ago
Robots taking manufacturing jobs allows a reallocation of people, it doesn't make them obsolete. But UBI would definitely support that line of thinking. "Dad is given a stipend by the government because there are no jobs for him,
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by Rule35 6y ago
Like most social-engineering plans the solution is more social-engineering - price controls, standardized rent, etc.
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by Rule35 6y ago
Great, so give Bob a scholarship, or a grant, or welfare, or just a gift. Something that gives him that hand-up but without turning into a permanent right. If UBI becomes a right, and you raise a generation who doesn't need to work, wh
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by Rule35 6y ago
Why would we want to give money to people who won't work? And how would it be a benefit to those whose money would be used? Welfare attempts to uplift people, but UBI is never ending and would come to be seen as a right, not a gift. We
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by Rule35 6y ago
> if ... then "the cloud" is costing me people money on top of the infrastructure money. Yeah. Do you think I disagree? It's not for everyone. > this is a dumb point of view, that only cloud providers (and their employe
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by Rule35 6y ago
If it didn't take a team to design what you use then it probably won't take a team to design a fallback. But the difficulty doesn't excuse not doing it, if you don't have a fallback for whatever you pick, pick something
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by Rule35 6y ago
So, pray tell, how would you assess and assign fault here? What's the actual bad action and who caused it? You see, there's strength in the truth. It doesn't matter if drunk drivers shouldn't hit you, that's why
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by Rule35 6y ago
> shit that supposedly work correctly at the time. I do love me a well-formed customer query. Yeah, it's supposed to work. I get paid more it if does. But in exceptional circumstances, it won't. And in more exceptional circum
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by Rule35 6y ago
Disclaimer: So do I. Occupational hazard on HN. A year is crazy short if your job is to architect an ideal solution, but insanely long if your job is to simply migrate your employer onto a roughly equivalent solution. If a cloud customer
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by Rule35 6y ago
I've got a Samsung TV. Don't code that function to be too specific or we won't be able to share legal resources. So far I've only got minor ads in the options screen and when switching inputs but if you guys roll over (o
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by Rule35 6y ago
> "'I'm strictly dickly … I love sex and I love men'. Former presidential candidate's daughter Meghan McCain opens up for Playboy interview." -- Quoted in the Daily Mail I welcome a service that tells me whi
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by Rule35 6y ago
Pft. If you can't envision how "phoning home" and turning the heat or AC, or whatever else you may have, on (or off) is handy then you aren't even trying. Handy enough to warrant the risk? Probably not, but that doesn&#x
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by Rule35 6y ago
Ugh, in every thread there's some guy complaining about people's opinions, just because they don't specifically mention the brands and events from the specifc article linked. "A Panasonic TV gave your voice-search data t
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by Rule35 6y ago
As you noticed, the account was created only a few days ago and I have no karma so I can't downvote you.
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by Rule35 6y ago
> > But one pushes the person out of the locus of control. > Mental illness does that. Also many other things, like going hungry. No, being hungry doesn't have to make you helpless, and doesn't for most people. Locus of c

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