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by chillacy 7y ago
It’s not perfect but I’ve spoken to enough Esperantists in Asia who have remarked that English is way way way harder and speakers are less forgiving.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Isn’t that sort of Esperanto? When it was made French was the dominant language in Europe so most Esperanto words come from French, then the grammar was simplified but still allows for French word orderings.
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by chillacy 7y ago
> cap gains, real estate taxes. Do those fall under flat tax? Depends on implementation I suppose. The example given is just a simple illustration that a regressive looking and progressive looking scheme could have the same payouts in th
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by chillacy 7y ago
I assumed tax policy had something to do with it, the US taxes profit not revenue so companies like Amazon are financially incentivized to always reinvest in itself and grow. Many European countries have a pretty hefty ~20% VAT.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Profit and good are not always aligned, that’s why the government exists in the first place. Many of these examples in education, immigration, etc are typically government problems, or nonprofit.
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by chillacy 7y ago
The article mentions police investigations as one use case. Mass surveillance technology is software and speech too, but we also might want to live in a world where it is restricted in application.
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by chillacy 7y ago
> Do we really think that people who do lower-level jobs can't be trained to do higher-level jobs? It's not going to be easy to retrain the 3 million truck drivers, many of whom have high school diplomas and are age 60+ men, fo
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by chillacy 7y ago
The way I see it: EITC < NIT (Negative Income Tax) < UBI EITC is what we got, it's means tested and has a work requirement. Take away the work requirement and we'd have a NIT like the one proposed by milton friedman in the 7
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by chillacy 7y ago
Consider the two theoretical choices that Greg Mankiew (economist) supplies: 1. Means Tested Transfer of $1k per month to those with 0 income, phased out progressively by 20 cents per dollar of income. Funded by a progressive income tax: 20
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by chillacy 7y ago
> many poor families will be unable to claim the UBI but will still pay the tax this making the whole system regressive at low incomes Disability is one thing (I think that it should stack with disability), but let's not look at the
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by chillacy 7y ago
VATs by themselves are regressive, VAT + UBI would be highly progressive (or VAT + social spending like healthcare or housing). One thing that's kind of good the US tax system is the tendency to produce large multinationals, since busi
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by chillacy 7y ago
Disability is an interesting one: many of the former auto workers filed for disability, and the number of applicants keeps going up every year. The number of people receiving disability has increased 5x since 1970: https://www.ss
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by chillacy 7y ago
RE: labor force participation, this one graph explains so much about the resurgence of "white identity politics" in recent years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300028 When opportunities are abundant
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by chillacy 7y ago
Even without high level reasoning, software can replace a lot of routine jobs, which I think speaks more to the fact that routine jobs are not fit for humans than the humanness of software. For example in the physical realm, working an asse
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by chillacy 7y ago
Betting against technology isn't a winning strategy in the long run. There's idea that I had first heard articulated in Sapiens: that the rules of society are shaped by the underlying technology (e.g. kings only make sense after a
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by chillacy 7y ago
Not sure if it's even that simple. The US keeps allies which are essentially uniparty totalitarian dictatorships of some sort or another, some deeply unpopular with the populace, but all of them geopolitical allies.
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by chillacy 7y ago
In Seattle building "apodments" has been an uphill battle against the city: https://www.sightline.org/2016/09/06/how-seattle-killed-micr...
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by chillacy 7y ago
Yea but in many cases the alternative isn't "good housing" it's living in your car or a shelter. That has other health risks.
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by chillacy 7y ago
To be fair though, websites don't affect each other while structures typically affect their neighbors (views, noise, etc). For the parts of the internet where users can affect each other, like the networking layer, RF protocols like LT
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by chillacy 7y ago
The biggest wealth transfer from low to high tax states tends to be low-GDP areas like the midwest spending tax money to educate people, and then having their best and brightest move away to generate tax income for New York and California.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Moreso, they should know their conversion rate and cost per click, and could adjust their spend at any moment. Sounds like they're just trying to pass the blame.
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by chillacy 7y ago
In case it wasn't clear my argument is that there is no single shade, there's just a bag of things. And these things are labeled good and bad by the observer.
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by chillacy 7y ago
Splitting people into good and evil, or just binary thinking in general, is all around us. "Good" people have done bad things, "bad" people often have good intentions. And Good and Bad can be vastly different in differen
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by chillacy 7y ago
Maybe fire up the dev console in your browser and run profiling? Or check out webpagetest, which has metrics like "time to first paint" https://www.webpagetest.org/result/191208_BD_0e906d662819138...
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by chillacy 7y ago
As soon as AI works we call it an algorithm. AI gets used as a hype word for something that doesn't work yet.
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by chillacy 7y ago
WW1 turned out to be far more deadly because the participants were stuck thinking of war in terms of old conflicts while technology advanced. I don’t see ground invasions working the same way against adversaries with nukes.
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by chillacy 7y ago
The later part isn't guaranteed, in fact unskilled labor lost to automation (jobs requiring high school education) has only been getting worse and worse over time. What happened to the days when you could get a middle class lifestyle w
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by chillacy 7y ago
> In adittion to this, have a little perspective. People who are relying on these kinds of programmes very rarely complain that they don't have choice, as they are glad to have anything at all. I don't think we should be compar
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by chillacy 7y ago
Even ignoring people offshoring wealth, it's still fairly expensive for the IRS to audit assets for the wealthy, especially things like art (how many expensive paintings do you have and what are they worth now?), private equity (how wi
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by chillacy 7y ago
This just adds to a growing body of research showing how effective cash transfer programs are, especially compared to traditional aid. It pains me to see people going to stores to buy canned foods or physical things for charities. Because a

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