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by _rpd 11y ago
Yes, exactly. Instead of "Economic Perturbations Caused By Basic Income," the experiment will study "Economic Perturbations Caused By Mass Local Windfalls." In my mind, the psychological, sociological and economic resp
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by _rpd 11y ago
I wonder if data from lottery winners with "lifetime" stipends in the right range could be useful? Or perhaps a basic income experiment lottery could be sanctioned to gather the data. It might even be self-funding.
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by _rpd 11y ago
I think it's hard for these experiments to yield answers to important questions about basic income because of the fact that participants know it is an experiment. With a 2 year length, people aren't going to adjust their long term
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by _rpd 11y ago
If the TPP is ratified, would it be worth updating the GPL to say "You agree that this is a commercially negotiated contract"?
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by _rpd 11y ago
> 1. No Party shall require the transfer of, or access to, source code of software owned by a person of another Party, as a condition for the import, distribution, sale or use of such software, or of products containing such software, in
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by _rpd 11y ago
Here's a recent summary ... > Concerning the variability of beta-decay measurements > (Submitted on 20 Oct 2015) > Many experiments have been carried out to study the beta-decay rates of a variety of nuclides, and many - but n
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by _rpd 11y ago
> I can't believe nobody has responded to this with [citation needed] yet! ;) It's a fair question. Here's what I could find from 2005 ... "The One for All model has delivered solid results in a remarkably short time
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by _rpd 11y ago
> fuel cells are generally between 40–60% energy efficient Which is reduced to 25% grid-to-motor efficiency when electrolysis and compression (required for practical energy densities) are taken into account. As illustrated in the linked
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by _rpd 11y ago
It is very hard for hydrogen to overcome it's 25% grid to motor efficiency [1]. It means that it will always be significantly more expensive per kWh delivered to a motor. However, the market may value quick refueling very highly. [1]
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by _rpd 11y ago
One theory is that Japan's methane hydrate resources [1] give them the opportunity to become at least energy independent, if not a net energy exporter. For a traditionally resource-poor nation, this is an attractive prospect, but it r
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by _rpd 11y ago
> I'm frustrated by articles like these that lump all of "college" into one bucket I have a relative who thought of college in exactly this way. She gamed the admissions process to get into a "good" college, the
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by _rpd 11y ago
> Does anyone have any examples on what the total cost would be per person. One problem is that are two versions: the conservative version[1] in which all social security programs are abolished and the current social security budget is s
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by _rpd 11y ago
I tried to replicate the results of the BBC article to see what the fuss was about, but the search results did in fact list 'rival' price comparison shopping sites. It took me a while to realize that this was because I had adbloc
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by _rpd 11y ago
Interestingly, that isn't necessarily the case with aneutronic fusion ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Methods_for_...
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by _rpd 11y ago
Hasn't this been going on for years? E.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7028744
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by _rpd 11y ago
We had to homeschool for a year because of this (substitute teacher just going through the motions). My son has been a year ahead in math ever since. We've had to supplement to keep him challenged.
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by _rpd 11y ago
> the worst abuses will probably occur when a government edits the genomes of certain minorities to prevent them from reproducing Do you have a specific scenario in mind here? I can't imagine any government getting away with this a
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Greece’s Third MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) Annotated by Yanis Varoufakis(yanisvaroufakis.eu)
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by _rpd 11y ago
I'll suggest the change is the globalization of the US economy. The US effectively added a billion low income workers to its economy, and that group has seen large relative gains in income over the past few decades. Some of those gai
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by _rpd 11y ago
But isn't the reason that the classical approximations work so well that quantum effects are drowned out by the thermal noise floor at room temperature? And reliable processes like DNA replication have to depend on 'classical&#x2
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by _rpd 11y ago
> British children no longer aspire to be train drivers or nurses – more than a fifth say they “just want to be rich” British socialism is the least comprehensible of all socialisms.
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by _rpd 11y ago
I agree. The default UI is tailored to tablet-style formatting, but with a bit of configuration it is a very compact and efficient RSS reader.
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by _rpd 11y ago
Internally, Amazon is completely serious about drone delivery.
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by _rpd 11y ago
> Distraction is what you allow. Yes, the narrative that we are will-less slaves to our electronic devices is just as disrespectful as the conspiracy theorist shouting "Wake up Sheeple!"
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by _rpd 11y ago
I think the plan is to sacrifice Greece to keep Portugal, Spain and Italy in line. If Spain or Italy starts demanding debt forgiveness, the Euro really will collapse.
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by _rpd 11y ago
Currency devaluation is usually preferred to inflation - that's why exiting the Euro is under consideration, so that there is a local currency to devalue. High inflation erodes savings and discourages investment - it can be socially d
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by _rpd 11y ago
What's more, the founding treaties of the EU make it illegal for one member state to assume the debts of another member state. And the "no bailout" clause was added exactly in response to Northern European concerns that they
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by _rpd 11y ago
Germany is the largest financial contributor to the bailout fund. It's power is the power to say "no more." http://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-has-a-lot-to-lose-in-a-g...
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by _rpd 11y ago
The transfer of $50bn in state assets to an "an independent fund that will monetize the assets through privatisations and other means" is a fairly significant feature of the deal that doesn't seem to be receiving a lot of att
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New Polywell Paper in Phys. Rev. X(journals.aps.org)
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