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by dools 3y ago
Only to other users of the same messaging app. This is a mobile phone number that works with any other mobile phone number for voice calls, txt and picture messages. There are about 10 apps that do this in North America (the most start uppy
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by dools 3y ago
> There seem to be a million different issues with a proposal like this, not the least of which is that the allocation of the labor amounts to a corporate or municipal handout. What do you mean by "corporate or municipal handout&quo
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by dools 3y ago
Well ... isn't it? If people don't have jobs, give them a job. If people don't have houses, give them a house. Social housing isn't exactly a novel concept.
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by dools 3y ago
There's no reason that we shouldn't fix involuntary unemployment because the same policy doesn't also automatically fix other problems. A federal Job Guarantee does have the potential to ease housing pressures by increasing m
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by dools 3y ago
Yep, and the most effective way to do it is a job guarantee: http://www.jobguarantee.org/
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by dools 3y ago
Whenever someone starts using Apple as an example of how we can all do better at marketing our startups I cringe. And yet I obviously have so much to learn. When tasked with creating a fake conversation for my own telecommunications app Ben
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by dools 3y ago
Japan may not be the best example. Their history of politeness extends from the extreme violence of the samurai era.
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by dools 3y ago
Fun fact: Monopoly was originally called The Landlord’s Game and was created by a Georgist Feminist to illustrate the problem of rent: https://www.stmarys.sa.edu.au/women-in-stem-elizabeth-magie....
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by dools 3y ago
This seems to leave out my favourite essay by Orwell which is a review of 2 books: The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek / The Mirror of the Past by K. Zilliacus Observer, 9 April 1944 The only full reproduction of it I can find online (ap
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by dools 3y ago
This adds money in before it adds the state, or taxation. Money is created through taxation by the state to provision resources away from the private sector to the public purpose.
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by dools 3y ago
If you open an article on a train you could always scroll to the bottom of the page before you start reading it in order to load all the resources.
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by dools 3y ago
I bought a 12 mini and a 13 mini for this reason
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by dools 3y ago
> In other words, after having wasted an ungodly amount of money trying to make pizza in the most complicated way possible, Zume decided that the best course of action was to just try selling boxes instead Started off as a Futurama episo
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by dools 3y ago
> The concept's appeared in fiction numerous times (the talking paintings in Harry Potter that mimic the person painted, the clones in The Prestige) How is your most notable example not when Gilfoyle does exactly this so he doesn’t
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by dools 3y ago
Have you read it or have you only read libertarian rebuttals of it? I found that book because when Trump was ascendant I all of a sudden had this bizarre realisation that libertarians were supporting fascists. That book made a lot of outwar
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by dools 3y ago
Sorry I mean AFCA
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I know a great real world example of this. A friend of mine is an expert in economics, specifically Georgism and Modern Monetary Theory (although he has orthodox economics training as well). He's worked in policy in a range of institut
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by dools 3y ago
Not necessarily. I might receive an unsolicited offer to have my windows washed by a guy at the lights. I welcome it because my windscreen is dirty, and I give him $5.
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by dools 3y ago
I think the X team might have been following this advice with a little too much gusto during the rebranding.
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by dools 3y ago
I actually think that a lot of the problem is the fact that "cable theft" is a class of crime all on its own! "Sometimes, operators turn on a signal by accident or forget to deactivate it after a tenant stops a cable subscrip
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by dools 3y ago
Here in Australia, you would just need to call the TIO to get it sorted out. Likewise if financial institutions are stuffing you about, call ACMA. If it's an energy company, call Energy and Water. A perfect example of how the private s
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by dools 3y ago
Imagine the rock buildup!
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by dools 3y ago
Social interaction plays a major role in language development. If you take away the reinforcement of everyone being really excited when the baby goes "da-da" instead of "gur-gur" you would lose the learning. It's al
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If you’re in a sinking boat it is the amount of water inside the boat that you worry about, rather than the amount of water in which the boat is floating.
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by dools 3y ago
> This rather heavily begs the question what do we mean by "freedom"? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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> The Stallman movement failed Citation needed
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by dools 3y ago
My kids (11 and 13) both have iPads and laptops but neither has a SIM. My eldest daughter has an Apple Watch SE which had cellular connection and a Nokia 4G phone. She can have a real phone when she is 15. We have apple family set up with s
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by dools 3y ago
They even had this in the Simpsons in the 90s, so not even 50s era! Mr Plow gives his phone number as Klondike 5 3226 and the jingle says "KL5 3226"
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I see heaps of useful blogs and personal websites linked from the HN homepage every day.
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by dools 3y ago
In my experience going from 3.5 and 4 is going from generally useless novetly to indispensible team member. Yes it gets things wrong, so do I! My experience of working with GPT4 (except for a couple of weeks back when they made some change

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