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by chillacy 6y ago
Well, feel free to edit his wikipedia page to correct this terrible misunderstanding...
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by chillacy 6y ago
> TikTok has a reputation for being popular with teens. And it is: 27% of its users are between 13-17 years old. But internal data from March 2019 shows that its largest age demographic (42%) is the young adult crowd. https://
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by chillacy 6y ago
The answers to those questions vary by UBI proposal. Here's a proposal from a conservative economist who might understand market incentives and how the existing welfare programs completely distort them: https://www.wsj.com&#
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by chillacy 6y ago
> The people that need it the most cannot make rational decisions. I think it's pretty hard to argue against cash... if anything you do have to be a bit more economically knowledgable to disagree with the idea. But then at the extre
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by chillacy 6y ago
The NIT ends up acting similarly to UBI + increased taxes, but it has to be phased out perfectly linearly to remove these incentive gaps. UBI seems more simple to administer and being universal would likely make it more resilient to cuts (a
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by chillacy 6y ago
That's definitely not a UBI in the "universal" sense of the word. One of the big advantages for UBI over all the needs-based systems is that it's flat and for everyone, so you aren't punished for working harder. Thi
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by chillacy 6y ago
A similar relationship exists in the US between ease of getting loans for college and houses and the price of colleges and houses. I don't know if causation is fully established but they do tend to go up together.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Can't speak for the UK but Tokyo seemed to do pretty well with privatized subways: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-10-31/why-tokyo... Singapore has a pretty good quasi-public-but-transparent
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by chillacy 6y ago
That assumes no supply-side restrictions. With housing in big cities it's often supply-side restrictions that cause the rise, like zoning. For instance: affordable housing. If there were fewer zoning restrictions on micro-studios, hous
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by chillacy 6y ago
If one wants to get technical, there's already a pretty rich agreed upon vocabulary for cash aid, including CCT (Conditional Cash Transfer), UCT (Unconditional Cash Transfer), BI (Basic Income), UBI (Universal Basic Income).
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by chillacy 6y ago
I know there's an entire black mirror episode about this [1] but it would be interesting to have some skin in the game for people who submit "unjust reports", even if it's some sort of trust score. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by chillacy 6y ago
It sounds like the rule is formally "you can't run an account of someone else"? Coupled with the other rule that prisons set of "you can't maintain a social network account in prison", that means there's n
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by chillacy 6y ago
There might be something in the history of Empires like Rome, where over generations minority groups are assimilated into the dominant culture. Give it a few generations and nobody remembers relations 100 years ago. In the US people today t
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by chillacy 6y ago
That's what a lot of us have been saying in industry for awhile now but tech media has been pretty relentless in implications without clarification of the underlying difficulty (the pipeline we have to work with). It's good to hig
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Of course, you may say, it’s just sci-fi. Yes, but "The Dark Forest" gives us an insight into something we think too little about: how Xi’s China thinks. I hope the Chinese don't judge American attitudes to cooperation b
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by chillacy 6y ago
Humans seem to have evolved to live in small-ish societies where being given the "cold shoulder" or being ostracized was a great danger. I'm always mixed though whether abandoning that is good or bad. On the one hand in liber
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by chillacy 6y ago
Maybe they seemed especially bad next to Scott's essays which were all very well thought out in comparison. I do agree though that I've found them more disappointing than HN comments on a pg essay.
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by chillacy 6y ago
The music and movie industry were a mafia of media executives who squeezed artists and fought technological progress even as distribution methods were changing the fundamentals of the business. I don't feel particularly bad for their l
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by chillacy 6y ago
As a sibling comment pointed out there are different forms of accountability. Voting and protesting are forms we're familiar with in the US and Europe, but there are other ways too. In Singapore, you can more easily submit written feed
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by chillacy 6y ago
Those don't sound unique to CA, every big city has similar problems.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Calling this his choice is an odd word selection, if someone is under extortion or blackmail do they give in by choice? If option A is horrible and one has to chose option B, is it fine and dandy because it was made by choice?
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by chillacy 6y ago
That’s a lot of cash to burn for nothing, supposedly though the goals of their brand advertising are building goodwill? At least according to this article https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2016/09
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by chillacy 6y ago
> This would be equivalent to a town with no locks on the front doors, or where the sheriff has a copy of every door key (just in case he has to search the house). To be accurate though that's not exactly true. The sheriff doesn&#x2
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by chillacy 6y ago
The stakes in pro sports are just as arbitrary and "imaginary" as in games... I know a lot of people who care more about their standing in a guild than in real life. At the end of the day it's still playing out in the brain j
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's probably more because tik tok and douyin have different content policies, having to police tik tok content as strictly as domestic content would stifle tik tok's growth outside the GFW.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Google said last year that it adjusted its algorithms and the guidelines used by the people that rate its search results to elevate original reporting. Have we seen these adaptations yet? It's been half a year since Google announc
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's pretty typical for companies to start with English and expand from there. Siri had a similar arc, now it supports 20ish and continues to grow.
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I think the mental model is consistent, but the explanations and examples evolve. Obviously like all models, these approximate reality.
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I suppose there's a very obvious analogy to baseball and mutual dislike of the umpire.
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Ah that does seem stressful. I do appreciate that you moderate here though, HN is much better for it!

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