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721.
by dilemma 11y ago
Wood burning stoves used in homes in developing countries are the number one cause of disease and death. To suggest that countries downgrade from electricity to this is absurd, would cost lives, and billions in increased medical expenses.
722.
by dilemma 11y ago
This is a very important reminder. All philosophizing about UBI is superfluous because it is impossible to set the level of this "income". Nobody would be satisfied with $2K per person and year; $20K would be too much for any stat
723.
by dilemma 11y ago
What you mention are decisions, not policies. The latter is a decision to end a catastrophic policy, which itself contradicts your claim that such policies can work.
724.
by dilemma 11y ago
>With Internet based education, society has the potential to make education virtually free since the cost of distribution is essentially zero. It's only when people need access to special equipment or more hands on lab style educati
725.
by dilemma 11y ago
The problem with hiring is that hiring decisions are centralized, causing huge workloads for the decision maker. To reduce the load, arbitrary processes and voodoo tests are used, always with the same poor results. Instead, the team hiring
726.
by dilemma 11y ago
People do believe such things, yes, despite how absurd it is as you've shown.
727.
by dilemma 11y ago
> These preparations should take you half an hour or so, a small investment that can make a significant difference in the quality of the people you hire. Sounds more like it would take thousands of years if not eternity to prepare, as it
728.
by dilemma 11y ago
I'm in China for the same reasons, and to start a company. European, not Australian.
729.
by dilemma 11y ago
Which candidate do you mean will stop it?
730.
by dilemma 11y ago
SkyCity One.
731.
by dilemma 11y ago
Firstly, consumers have already seen negative rates on their deposits in Europe (Denmark?). Second, NIRP is designed to push money from low risk vehicles to high risk vehicles, including the stock market, and further inflate the current bub
732.
by dilemma 11y ago
Because your question depends on MSFT being able to see into the future. Second, if they did know that the Google business model would be successful they could just have copied it to out-google Google.
733.
by dilemma 11y ago
Individual venture capital from parents to their son. Probably a lot less than a brand name university, with a lot more benefit in terms of network, personal brand, and skills.
734.
by dilemma 11y ago
At any point in time, the level is fixed. You yourself propose fixing it at $100 for an unspecified duration.
735.
by dilemma 11y ago
Completely unfeasible. 1. $100 is roughly the same as $0 in the US; you cannot live on it at all. It does simply not pass as UBI. 2. The impossible decision to be made on the final level remains. You just put it off until tomorrow and obfus
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The Cultural Dynamics of Globalization (2006)(onbeing.org)
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737.
by dilemma 11y ago
No. The problem of deciding on the level of UBI remains, and remains impossible regardless of who is making the decision.
738.
by dilemma 11y ago
I'm partial to it as an idea and a sentiment, but what it would take to institute it is the impossible: deciding on the level of it. Should it be $5,000 per month so that the full costs of an apartment in NYC/SF so that a family c
739.
by dilemma 11y ago
And as a result, unemployment higher.
740.
by dilemma 11y ago
It's ok, self-driving cars will never become reality.
741.
by dilemma 11y ago
You're not the parent; stop commenting.
742.
by dilemma 11y ago
I live in China, and previously in Japan. My point is that the majority of the Japanese economy is not made up of exports to China, which in turn are not in majority made up of robots, as the parent believes.
743.
by dilemma 11y ago
That inflation means decreased real wages is elementary and doesn't need a source support the statement. It completely misses the point, however. What is needed to have a strong, growing economy with increasing prosperity for more than
744.
by dilemma 11y ago
The Japanese economy is dependent on exports of robots to China?
745.
by dilemma 11y ago
The human mind isn't software so you're missing the point.
746.
by dilemma 11y ago
A computer running a chess program isn't intelligent because it isn't sentient. It is just doing what it's been told to.
747.
by dilemma 11y ago
Move to electric vehicles and produce the electricity needed by burning fossil fuel in large scale regional plants with higher efficiency, where it is also economic to invest in filter systems to reduce pollution.
748.
by dilemma 11y ago
It's even older than mainframe vs microcomputers. It'd centralization vs distribution, and its the fundamental question to human life, which is necessarily social and therefore needs organization. Interestingly, the answer is alwa
749.
by dilemma 11y ago
The individual investors that joined the stock market in 2006 are all "pension funds" in their own right. That is what they are saving for, amongst other things. And of course there are pension funds in China.