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by bcheung 12y ago
You're hinting at traceability. This might give you some ideas. http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction Definitely watch his videos and read his other posts. I think it will be of interest to you. I'
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by bcheung 12y ago
Also, have you seen: http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/ http://www.intentsoft.com/ http://camlunity.ru/swap/Library/Computer%20Science/Fundamen...
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by bcheung 12y ago
This seems very vague. How would this be implemented? Programming is definitely a specialized skill set but it is easily learned given time. Anything worthwhile takes time and effort. Technology can make it better but there is no substit
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by bcheung 12y ago
Wow, so much more accessible than trying to do it with Photoshop. Is there code for this as a library anywhere?
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by bcheung 12y ago
This seems like a great feature but doesn't California have bigger issues to worry about? Why not let the market decide?
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by bcheung 13y ago
You can't have wealth without creating it through labor. You can see this when you isolate the abstractions society has and go to the core semantics. Take a population of people. Stick them on a remote island. Then institute this me
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by bcheung 13y ago
I lived in Russia for several years. Communism didn't work because people didn't have a strong incentive to work. They also lost sight of how to efficiently organize resources. I can't tell you how many times I walked into
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by bcheung 13y ago
I like that line. I'm stealing it.
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by bcheung 13y ago
It depends on how that wealth is stored. Most wealthy people invest in things that are resilient or that even perform better under inflation. It's really the middle class that gets hit and the poor the worst because minimum wage does
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by bcheung 13y ago
I didn't know it was called that. I was actually thinking along the same lines. Make that the only tax. Everything else could be optional fees for services or premiums for insurance products.
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by bcheung 13y ago
It's definitely correlated but not 1 to 1. Wealthy people will use leverage though. Effectively their r-value is > 1.0. With middle class it might be around 0.6. The middle class still loses some as their salaries do go up but n
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by bcheung 13y ago
If the original argument proposes wealth distribution it would cause inflation and deflation at the same time. Inflation of lower end goods and services because the poor will have more money, and deflation in the higher end goods and servi
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by bcheung 13y ago
Commodities, stocks, options, derivatives, and real estate are the most common. But I think they aren't limited to the wealthy per say. The wealthy just know much more about them and have higher percentages of their net worth in thes
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by bcheung 13y ago
"There are no governments. Only corporations." ;)
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by bcheung 13y ago
The Sea Steading Institute aims to lower the barrier of entry to creating your own sovereign nation. One of the core ideas is that if we have lots of small nations people can do these experiments and find out.
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by bcheung 13y ago
That's not a philanthropist. That's a fool!
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by bcheung 13y ago
According to Maslow's Hierarchy, at least as I interpret it, charity increases as an individual is able to meet their lower needs. How you go about getting more individuals to that level is a matter of debate that is difficult to give
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by bcheung 13y ago
> How would you go about doing this? Who gets money and who doesn't? Is a single mother raising 3 kids lazy? Is an artist who works night and day and gets pennies in return lazy? There's a lot of overhead in deciding this. A lo
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by bcheung 13y ago
Check out the Sea Steading Institute. They are pushing towards colonizing the ocean and allow groups to form their own nations. If we can form tons of new nations to test out new ideas of government we will quickly learn what works and wh
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by bcheung 13y ago
You raise an interesting and valid point. As technology increases the amount of time it takes to produce a certain effect goes down though. This means people need to work less. It's not that visible to most though because the definit
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by bcheung 13y ago
The problem with rewarding laziness is that you get more laziness. Rewards by definition are meant to encourage behavior. I disagree that it can't be stopped. Don't give them money. Stopped. I'm not arguing that it isn&#x
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by bcheung 13y ago
I agree that the current system rewards people for consuming welfare and provides disincentives for them to work, but I don't think making the rest of the working population their slaves through taxes is a moral solution. I think a bet
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by bcheung 13y ago
I'm opposed to rewarding those who sit around and do nothing period, including the current system. Yes, starting a business is hard. So? All I'm hearing is excuses. I'm not saying do things that put you in indentured servit
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by bcheung 13y ago
Unfortunately many people think that having to work for a living is somehow inhumane. I think the best solution is to let them form their own country and live amongst themselves so that those who value hard work and think it is a virtue ca
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by bcheung 13y ago
You actually raise a good point about testing it. If you have heard of the Sea Steading Institute they are proposing that we establish a bunch of "startup" style countries to examine which policies and solutions will work and whi
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by bcheung 13y ago
Free from wage slavery? Technology is so much further along than it was 1000 years ago people barely have to work to have the same living standard as they had then. People generally only work for 8 hours a day. They can't spend the r
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by bcheung 13y ago
You have heard of communism, right?
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by bcheung 13y ago
1) When people don't need to produce value to live in the world, they will cease to produce value. 2) Ultimately it is not income that is needed to survive but resources properly organized. The cost of survival is getting cheaper and
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by bcheung 13y ago
Ugh, I hate that effect. The frame rate dynamically changes based on when the algorithm can find frames to interpolate. It's so disorienting.
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by bcheung 13y ago
I just got the Seiki 39" as well. It works great for coding and browsing the web. Even watching movies. However the color fidelity is absolutely crap. Everything looks oversaturated and blown out. I have an apple cinema I switch t

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