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by dagw 1y ago
A lot of it will come from being able to remove services like food stamps, unemployment benefits, various pension and social security payments etc. The rest will probably have to come from raising taxes. You can structure the UBI and tax r
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by dagw 1y ago
Housing supply and demand isn't static. With UBI the need to live close to employment opportunities decreases, opening up more supply in areas that are currently less attractive and decreasing demand in other areas. Furthermore we stil
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by dagw 1y ago
If you have millions of dollars in the bank, you can invest frugally and get more than UBI off of interest/dividends today. If you're not happy with just that and still working, you won't be happy with just UBI either.
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by dagw 1y ago
It’s interesting some folks can use them to build functioning systems and others can’t get a PR out of them. It is 100% a function of what you are trying to build, what language and libraries you are building it in, and how sensitive that
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by dagw 1y ago
A lot of engineering is the same. You cannot diff and merge CAD files, so you lock them.
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by dagw 1y ago
It used to. Jquery and Underscore basically filled that role for years.
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by dagw 1y ago
On the flip side, I find that often python for example can go too far in the other directions with huge kitchen sink libraries that depend on other huge kitchen sink libraries. To the point where installing the most popular library for calc
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by dagw 1y ago
I think this whole thing is as stupid as the next person, but let's be real about it. This is a small handful of students at a small handful of universities in one country being overly weird. There is no way this is in any way indicati
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by dagw 1y ago
In the Netherlands athletes are not rich but they do get support from the state who is rich Same in the UK, but according to the article, the support is nowhere near enough to cover all the actual costs of his training, hence the OnlyFans
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by dagw 1y ago
Yea. My daughter is 15, and while I don't think she smokes, when we've talked about the dangers of vaping and smoking, she has said that she would never vape, just because it's so lame, but that she finds smoking so much cool
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by dagw 1y ago
I find Claude by far the best chat for most day to day stuff. For harder programming tasks Gemini Pro is slightly better though.
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by dagw 1y ago
how's Sonnet vs Opus in terms of daily coding? For doing 'boring' day to day things in python I find them more or less the same. For doing non-trivial things in Rust, Opus is much better. Sonnet is much more prone to produc
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by dagw 1y ago
So, why continue living? Because there are lots of fun things you can only do when you are alive.
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by dagw 1y ago
Knitting has the advantage that you can do it anywhere and at any time without 'bothering' anybody else. Sitting on the bus, watching TV, having a conversation. Most people I know who knit use it almost as a 'fidget toy'
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by dagw 1y ago
But if you can sell those customers a better product at the same price, then perhaps everybody will be happier. As it is now no one is happy. CS staff are annoyed that the students don't want to learn CS, and the students are annoyed s
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by dagw 1y ago
I strongly believe any given country will be much stronger if it has less yachts and more college-educated people. And even you strongly disagree with that statement, it is important to have framework within which your opinion of that sta
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by dagw 1y ago
If you want to get technical and read the small print, in this study "the underemployment rate is defined as the share of graduates working in jobs that typically do not require a college degree" Since most people working at Jane
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by dagw 1y ago
Of course you can teach most concepts in most languages, but when it comes to understanding concepts like stack vs heap, pointers to a value vs the value itself, move vs copy semantics, pass by reference vs pass by value, explicit vs implic
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by dagw 1y ago
Why teach it when it seems like less than 10% of postings are looking for it? And we're back to the discussion of what is the point of a University CS education. I would argue that learning something like C++ is important for the sam
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by dagw 1y ago
I think CS departments are at least partially responsible for this development. They know that most of the students applying care nothing about Computer Science, have no interest in Computer Science and will never learn Computer Science, ye
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by dagw 1y ago
“Learn to code” ceases to be good advice if too many people do. Completely disagree. No matter what job you end up with, you will almost certainly be able to do it a bit better if you know how to code. Knowing how to code is basically al
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by dagw 1y ago
When you have those sorts of problems the best way is to approach them using inequalities. 3.1415<pi<3.1416 and 1.4142<sqrt(2)<1.4143, => 4.5557<pi + sqrt(2)<4.5559 => 4.553 < 4.5557 < pi + sqrt(2) =&gt
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by dagw 1y ago
If it's a maths problem you just leave it as symbols. If it's a science or engineering problem you expand it to a decimal approximation with the precision needed for the specific problem you are dealing with.
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by dagw 1y ago
The intersection between people who are both confused by this and are comfortable working with Cauchy sequences, Maclaurin series and equivalence classes, is probably pretty small.
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by dagw 1y ago
Are we talking about the verb or an ideal? We are talking about class, and if we should be making distinctions between groups of people who work for a living based on their wealth, income, and economic stability. I believe there is a fund
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by dagw 1y ago
Either work, but homeless is more absolute. For some downsizing means moving into their car and for others it means moving into a 3000 sq ft house, with a smaller pool, in the third nicest neighbourhood in town. But yea, losing your house
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by dagw 1y ago
So someone on the edge of poverty, balancing two or three minimum wage jobs just to make ends meet, should be considered part of the same class as the CEO of Microsoft or Google? Hell most people on the Forbes list 'work' in at le
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by dagw 1y ago
Yea, should have been clearer. Income from work (or unemployment benefits) in this case. Someone who works to essentially supplement their income, but could live off their capital, is in a very different position than someone for whom work
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by dagw 1y ago
Now it comes down to how you define 'for a living'. You still need to differentiate between people who work to survive, people who work to finance their aspirational lifestyle, and people who have all the money they could possibly
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by dagw 1y ago
Management will cut down your team’s headcount and outsource even more to India ,Vietnam and Philippines Management did all that at companies I've worked for for years before 'AI'. The big change is that the teams in India

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