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by closewith 8mo ago
I agree, but another commenter linked the cost-benefit analysis and it really is creative accounting to get to a positive net social return. The net fiscal cost after accounting for increase tax revenue and social protection savings was €72
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No, it’s not that we can only afford one. It’s that we’re choosing to ring fence funding for one while allowing the others to erode in real terms. Ireland already greatly subsidises health, just not to a level that keeps pace with the cost
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by closewith 8mo ago
Good question. The public consultation was 97% in favour, although half the respondents were receiving the pilot payment at the time. Following the announcement of Budget 2026 last October, I think this expenditure came into sharp focus, as
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by closewith 8mo ago
> It’s just easier to justify. It definitely isn't. In fact this is so polarising that I wonder if it's an attempt to poison the concept of basic income for decades to come.
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> In this comment society seems to mean "the government, and its tax revenue profit/loss statement" No, that's not correct. I specifically separated the pure economic impact from the society impact, but the only socie
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by closewith 8mo ago
Classic false dilemma. You're trying to frame my comment as “we can only ever fix one problem” when it is, in fact, “we have constrained resources and urgent systemic failures and so prioritisation is important”. For example, Budget 2
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by closewith 8mo ago
Can you imagine the net WELLBY increase if the DF were paid a living wage?
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by closewith 8mo ago
Thanks for linking the CBA. I hadn't seen that before > "The headline finding from this social CBA is that for every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return" Okay, so if you read the CBA,
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by closewith 8mo ago
> It also recouped more than the trial's net cost of 72 million euros ($86 million) through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other social welfare payments, according to a government-c
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by closewith 8mo ago
The allocation this year is €18m and it goes live in Q4. On a steady-state basis we are likely in the €60–70m range annually. That's not a rounding error. This is an eight-figure recurring commitment. It represents the total lifetime i
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by closewith 8mo ago
Definitely not a tax haven for the population. It has the highest income redistribution in Europe.
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> In an era where working a full time job is not enough to pay the cost of living, arts and culture no longer exist except as hobbies for rich kids. In Ireland _today_, we are in an era where working as a nurse, paramedic, firefighter, t
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by closewith 8mo ago
> Society has not disintegrated. Obviously not because of this income scheme and not complete disintegration, but Irish society is under extreme strain from housing pressures, rising living costs, and growing polarisation that is tearing
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by closewith 8mo ago
It's definitely a case of out-of-touch devs, but which cohort they are is still to be seen.
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by closewith 8mo ago
Yes, and they are caused by sudden decelerations which are the result of many factors, including driving too fast for the conditions, roadway, and traffic, and tailgating. > Slowing down on a busy highway does not reduce turbulence at al
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by closewith 8mo ago
When I did my B license test probably about 30 years ago, the Rules of the Road all referenced inside/outside lanes. When I did my CE license last year, it had been updated to only use lanes 1, 2, 3 etc. Obviously fast and slow are jus
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by closewith 8mo ago
That used to be the case in Ireland too, but confusion due to cultural contamination means pretty much everyone moved to numbering lanes (from the "outside"/"slow"/leftmost lane).
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by closewith 8mo ago
> The issue is that when you slow down, you’re (a) creating ‘turbulence’ in the traffic flow with increased speed differential between cars and increased lane changes, which increases accident risk for everybody, and (b) it’s not even so
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by closewith 8mo ago
Where do you plan to get the resources if we aren't extracting them from somewhere?
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by closewith 8mo ago
Yes, although it's expensive so eats up a lot of margin. It's one aof the common ways sanctioned oil is whitewashed.
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by closewith 8mo ago
What an ugly attitude for the landowner to have held. There should be a word for that.
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The book does address that, in that the federal service is universally available (and even the blind, deaf, or crippled would spend their time performing some job, even if it eas "counting the hairs on a caterpillar by feel".
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by closewith 8mo ago
In the movie. The book wholeheartedly endorsed service for citizenship.
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They're free to comment as they like, but as their comments are about disengaging from US-based tech and as there's no need to announce their departure, it just seems performative.
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Why are you using a US VC's forum, so?
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> This was posted on OccupyWallSt.com. The OccupyWallSt.org website is still exactly as it was in its full 2011 looking glory. Why keep posting on the dotcom when it obviously causes confusion rather than a personal domain name?
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by closewith 8mo ago
There are companies making a lot of money directly from software largely written by LLMs especially since Claude Code was released, but they aren't mentioning LLMs or AI in any marketing, client communications, or public releases. I&#x
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by closewith 8mo ago
Seems like you're just giving yourself a voice? Why not do that on a personally branded domain?
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by closewith 8mo ago
Our family Immich server has a few hundred thousand photos running in Docker and never gets close to 8GB memory. Maybe submit a bug report if you have the inclination.
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by closewith 8mo ago
I wonder is the GP is referring to the CLOUD Act, as it is true that US companies cannot be compliant with both the GDPR and the CLOUD Act, but it doesn't weaken the case for European tech sovereignty.

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