azey47

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by azey47 6y ago
>I would much rather see a universal basic services program that guarantees universal free at the point of use access to services such as housing, healthcare and education provided directly by a government body or non for profit enterpri
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by azey47 6y ago
>To accomplish this, we assembled the entire set of published studies in this literature and identified the core estimates that support the conclusions from each study, in most cases relying on responses from the researchers who wrote th
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by azey47 6y ago
I agree UBI is better than a minimum wage, but it seems a Negative Income Tax as advocated for by Milton Friedman would be still better. It would have the desired effect of supporting the poor with guaranteed income (something minimum wage
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by azey47 9y ago
Sure, historically that is true, but that historical usage doesn't capture that, philosophically and ideologically - absolute monarchy and communism just aren't that different - both rely on subjugation of the individual's ri
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by azey47 9y ago
That's an interesting perspective. I know the left/right spectrum has many definitions, and there is little consensus on them, but I think this captures the essential philosophical and ideological distinctions: http://w
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by azey47 9y ago
Ah, good to know the names for these. I'm very skeptical of the acoustics of the Vineyard style, having experienced the "incredible" acoustics of Walt Disney Hall personally on stage, and from the audience. However, I'll
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by azey47 9y ago
> When was this? It's only been open a few months. Sorry, I wasn't very clear with my pronouns. I was referring to the Walt Disney Hall that I was describing in the paragraph before. There are no miracles with acoustics. Try al
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by azey47 9y ago
Beside being absolutely hideous on the outside, there is no way that hall has good acoustics. Having seats to the side and behind the stage means you will have bad merging and resolution of parts. Orchestral seating is specifically designed
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by azey47 10y ago
I was in HR15. I got a $70k raise. Went from working as a Junior accountant making $40k to Software Engineer making $110k (not even counting my $15k signing bonus). The ROI from the program is beyond ridiculous. Best experience of my life.
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Show HN: HNFP – A Tool That Tells You How Long a Post has Been on the Front Page(npmjs.org)
9 points by azey47 12y ago|0 comments
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by azey47 12y ago
That's true. I've considered the possibility of creating an API based on a headless browser that will allow a user to login and actually make changes to a private diary, but the problem with that approach is that it would blatantl
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Show HN: NPM MFP – A 3rd Party API for MyFitnessPal, Finally(npmjs.org)
9 points by azey47 12y ago|3 comments