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by bcheung 11y ago
You can have basic income without income or business tax. Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice proposed just such a system. https://www.ssa.gov/history/paine4.html
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by bcheung 11y ago
If something requires an IDE in order to run it, edit it, etc, that's kind of a code smell. The IDE might be masking complexity for you, but it is creating complexity on the server side or for developers who prefer to use something li
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by bcheung 11y ago
What is the true measure of productivity? If you include things like maintenance and other developers' time are they really being productive? There's individual productivity and team productivity. Also a quick one time job is d
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by bcheung 11y ago
Make them separate functions each with their own local state or use namespacing. The problem sounds like too much state in a single algorithm. Break it down into subalgorithms each with their own state.
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by bcheung 11y ago
I've thought about this quite a bit from a language design standpoint. I've come to realize the following: 1) Reduce the number of variables that need to be kept track of in order to make a function easier to understand. 2) Avoid
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by bcheung 11y ago
It depends a lot on where you work. I have worked at places where I have delivered what I thought were superior results compared to what they were asking but they were upset because it wasn't exactly what they asked for. Other places g
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by bcheung 11y ago
Anti-Authoritarian sounds a lot like critical thinking. That's a disease now? "Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is a legitimate one before taking that authority seriously. Evaluating the legitimacy of authorities
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I wonder if it makes sense to combine some kind of blockchain technology.
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I remember the government making the same arguments when PGP came around. All this has been ignored before and all this will be ignored again.
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Seems counterintuitive to tax something that you are subsidizing. Start by getting rid of the subsidies and that will naturally raise the price. Effectively it is the same thing but it is fairer and less administrative hassle for the gover
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Realtime with what hardware?
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by bcheung 11y ago
It would be nice if it had more of a Jade indentation like syntax. The angle brackets and closing tags are just syntactic noise. If we want to go with the code route then the DOM as code is actually really clean with Coffeescript. Elm is i
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Good to know. So it doesn't implement any of the ES6 concepts then I take it.
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WebAssembly is a binary representation of the Javascript AST. Optimizations usually happen AFTER it is parsed. That's all WebAssembly is -- the parsed result. Targeting WebAssembly from Javascript is the most natural fit that could
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by bcheung 11y ago
Yes, AWS is insanely expensive. I have a quad core i7, 64 GB RAM, 3 x 4TB hard drives, and a 1 Gbps pipe with OVH for around $100/mo. Unfortunately it is not in the US. The closest they have is near Montreal. They are expanding to t
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by bcheung 11y ago
I was living in LA for a while (5 years). I got a job as a photographer at a modeling agency. Pay was crap so I tried doing more programming work but most of the work wasn't very innovative and really boring compared to Silicon Valle
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Credit or loans would allow them to take advantage of that scenario... if they could get access to credit.
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The points in the article are all true but there's a case when the poor would pay less that isn't discussed. For something like toilet paper people who aren't poor probably don't even check the price. In that regard the
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by bcheung 11y ago
That's a generalization but there are a few concepts that fit. 1) autophagy causes the body to consume cancerous and senescent damaged cells 2) by lowering metabolism free radical production is decreased 3) inflammatory effects from in
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by bcheung 11y ago
I really wish there was more scientific research around extended fasting. There's so little research and much of it doesn't wait long enough for ketoadaptation. I've done extended water fasts as well. 18 days of just water
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by bcheung 11y ago
Lots of other factors that are different between urban and rural living. Better air quality, getting more sun, more sleep, less stress, more exercise.
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by bcheung 11y ago
I was exploring that option at one point but couldn't find any tech work out there and didn't find any companies with 100% remote options that I liked. The weather seems less than idea as well (hot summers, cold winters). How ar
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by bcheung 11y ago
Humans are not rational creatures. We all know what needs to be done to become rich and be healthy but there are still tons of poor and obese people. Knowledge is different from taking action.
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by bcheung 11y ago
Where are you getting this? This doesn't seem accurate. Can you cite some references to this? What do you mean by preparing to convert? What specifically is there more / less of that makes it easier to convert fat / food
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I thought this was already well known. To clarify, the effect of insufficient sleep is more generic than that. Lack of sleep will weaken your willpower and has a cascading effect on your life. * You will be more prone to overeat and eat ju
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by bcheung 11y ago
You want to make it illegal for someone to work when they want to work and can work..., and maybe even need to work for the income? That is a horrible idea. What possible reason is there for this? To equalize wages? A family had 2 income
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And also 4) the rent proceeds go back to the people. The people are the real owners. The government is just the administrative agent acting on their behalf.
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It is very similar to property tax but there are some differences. I believe you can bid for the land for much longer periods of time. Also, under the current system property tax includes the improvements on the land as well. Paine was pr
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Actually Alaska already has implemented this system (oil drilling rights and basic income for permanent residents). Land, natural resources, airwaves, mineral rights, drilling rights, etc are considered common property under the proposed sy
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by bcheung 11y ago
It doesn't sound like you read Paine's proposal. You're talking more about a collectivism along the lines of Socialism or Communism. That isn't what Paine is proposing. Under Paine's system people keep 100% of th

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