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by dandare 9y ago
The average taxpayer with income between £20k and £30k pays on average £2630 tax, some 10.7%. If you hand him over £15k and them tax him on average additional £15k then his tax rate must be around 44%. This will be extremely demotivational.
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by dandare 9y ago
That is a good point.
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by dandare 9y ago
I don't understand your logic. I never said UBI discourages working.
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by dandare 9y ago
I did the calculation for UK 2015-2016: There are about 31 million taxpayers in the UK. The basic income tax rate of 20% for income up to £42k/year generates 33% of the income tax revenue. Let's agree that these are not the rich p
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by dandare 9y ago
I don't understand your comment, I never said it discourages working.
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by dandare 9y ago
I don't see a single reason to invest myself into Google messaging product once again. I was adamant gtalk/hangout user but you can only fuck me over so many times.
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by dandare 9y ago
Fixed.
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by dandare 9y ago
Thank you for proving my point. And now look at the numbers in my diagram, the administrative costs are negligible compared to the cost of giving money to those who don't need it.
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by dandare 9y ago
Becuase you first have to take the money from those who earned it.
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by dandare 9y ago
There are two problems with universal basic income: 1/ Many people think UBI is a great idea but everybody imagines something else. This makes discussing UBI very difficult. 2/ Regardless of what version of UBI you personally supp
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by dandare 9y ago
Please don't turn HN into Reddit.
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by dandare 9y ago
> His bedroom is upstairs. That's where police found him sleeping when 15 officers raided the family home last Wednesday morning. Calculate the cost of the 15 officers raid plus prosecution plus the damages to the teenager and repea
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Ask HN: What is the communication protocol used in nerves?
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by dandare 9y ago
Now take a minute to think about the actual employees. Most of them did nothing wrong. Many relocated of left their previous jobs, their carriers are disturbed, their CVs tainted.
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by dandare 9y ago
Because the worldbank.org GDP per capita data start at 1990 :D. At it was still about $15 per day. I don't know if the poverty threshold was different back then. [ https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP
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by dandare 9y ago
> One of my fundamental claims is that capital is no longer scarce. There is enough capital in the world to meet everyone's basic needs. When was there not enough capital in the world to meet everyone's basic needs? The 2015 es
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by dandare 9y ago
See my reply to mac01021.
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by dandare 9y ago
Of course not, there are several examples of democratically elected governments overthrown and replaced with brutal dictators, Tuskegee, MKUltra, COINTELPRO, Iran Contra, Dark Alliance. But most of these fuckups were illegal - or at least n
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by dandare 9y ago
One of the most negative longterm consequence of the G. W. Bush era is the erosion of high moral ground in human rights. The US, and consequently the western democracies, lost the ability to genuinely criticize the bad guys for doing bad th
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by dandare 9y ago
Sorry, I have been living under a rock recently: did somebody already discovered an use case for block chain other than money laundering?
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by dandare 9y ago
It forever puzzles me, how come modern keyboards don't have dedicate buttons for COPY and PASTE. Average user or pro, we use the silly combination of two keys much more often than maybe 5 other least used dedicated keys, ON TOP of the
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by dandare 9y ago
Cloth diapers must be washed and boiled throughly to be hygienic.
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by dandare 9y ago
This brings the "unrealistic body image" discussion to a whole new level. it could have a positive impact - in a way escalating the realization that media/fashion models are not "real" either.
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by dandare 9y ago
Serious question: what could be the cost of fusion generated electricity if the reactors go mainstream like fission reactors? Unlike uranium, hydrogen is for free and there is no cost associated with storing burned fuel. You can probably al
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by dandare 9y ago
> ...anyone can create a great looking website... The last time I tried to design and code a landing page myself it took me way more time than expected and the website ended up looking like shit. It is not easy as people think. (Or I am
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by dandare 9y ago
I would love to read a story about aliens finding the records and trying to decode them. Personally, I find the image encoding impossible to understand.
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by dandare 9y ago
Is this even necessary in the age of GDPR? I mean, with GDPR Facebook can not just thumbstone your profile, it has to delete every copy of every data that can uniquely identify you, which includes "your" likes and of course commen
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by dandare 9y ago
There is only one question that really matters in this story: will the managers do serious jail time or not.
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by dandare 9y ago
As an aspiring SaaS founder, I was surprised how hard email marketing (EM) is. My questions so far: 1/ ROI - how much of a difference can good EM make as opposed to bad EM or no EM? Should I not rather focus on improving my product? 2&
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by dandare 9y ago
Why nobody mentions the social connection functionality? To stay connected with my extended family, to be able to see their wedding pics and share my kids pics, there is no alternative to Facebook. I can not ask my elderly mom to start usin

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