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by glennsl 12y ago
It might be conceivable to fund a basic income via money creation, but that would require more than simply printing money, a complete revamp of the banking system and monetary policy. It's an interesting idea, but somewhat above my hea
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by glennsl 12y ago
How would redistribution cause inflation? In order to redistribute, you would need to collect the money to distribute through taxes, removing just as much money from the system as it injects, thus maintaining average purchasing power. If th
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by glennsl 12y ago
It doesn't erase it, no, but certainly negates it. At least in terms of quantity and diversity. As for quality, I don't think I'd personally miss any content that would cease to exist without the monetary incentive. Though ot
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by glennsl 12y ago
Sure people would want more than just the basic necessities, but it would still offset the cost by a significant amount. Having your living costs covered and being able to take a break from a job that pays well to work on something you are
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by glennsl 12y ago
Game of Thrones isn't actually made of dollar bills, it's ultimately made of labour. And a basic income would make that labour available without requiring that the project cover living costs. Which means most of the cost would jus
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by glennsl 12y ago
Why would it not be adequate? What more is needed? The prospect of becoming a billionaire? And, assuming you are an advocate for copyright since you haven't proposed anything else, have you ever considered what we're missing out o
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by glennsl 12y ago
Copyright is not a benefit to society. Copyright doesn't encourage content production, it actively discourages it. It doesn't allow anyone to do anything they couldn't have done without copyright, but forbids you to do a whol
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by glennsl 12y ago
To find the right answers, one needs to pose the right questions. In this case, the problem is not that it is difficult to get paid for digital content, but that it is difficult to make a living by producing digital content. The question yo
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by glennsl 13y ago
Since it's not very stable yet, production use is actively discouraged. I do know Tilde is using Rust for Skylight ( http://skylight.io ), but I don't know how far from production they are.
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by glennsl 13y ago
You might get some of the good stuff, but you won't get its killer feature, robustness, without sacrificing backwards compatibility. And that's not going to happen. Eventually we have to move on to more robust programming language
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by glennsl 13y ago
Statically typed mainstream languages would not allow you to do that, but languages with algebraic type systems, like Haskell, Scala and Rust, do. This is also how they get around not having null pointers. You just define a type that can be
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by glennsl 14y ago
> - unstable API Seeing as Ember just hit 1.0 RC, the API should now be pretty stable. It's been pretty bad the last few months though. Also, with a stable API, the docs will hopefully see significant improvement.
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by glennsl 14y ago
They also used to focus on the desktop market. Now they focus on the tablet market, to the point of sacrificing the desktop user experience to gain entrance to that market. That might prove to be a big mistake.
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by glennsl 14y ago
I agree that it will greatly benefit their tablet ecosystem. No doubt. But at the cost of a lesser desktop user experience. They're throwing away the market domination they already have (to some extent at least), which of course is the back
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by glennsl 14y ago
Metro on the desktop isn't about creating a better user experience for desktop users. It's about getting developers to make metro apps that provide a good user experience on tablets. Microsoft's biggest problem when entering the tablet mark
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by glennsl 14y ago
Norwegian. Many european countries use the same placement for semicolon. All the Scandinavian and Baltic countries, Germany and Netherlands to name a few. Russia uses shift+4. Can't imagine how annoying that is.
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by glennsl 14y ago
Hello American. I'm from one of those other pesky countries that make up most of the human population of earth, and which usually have other keyboard layouts. I have to type shift+, to get the semicolon.
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by glennsl 14y ago
TypeScript will not abort compilation, but it will give you a warning. In the playground, that would be the red squiggly line indicating an error.
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by glennsl 15y ago
Gecko has a really nice css feature called -moz-element ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en/CSS/-moz-element ) that can be used to apply a _live_ view of a dom subtree as the background of another element. People have done some awesome stuff
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Richard Branson, Kofi Annan, World Leaders Say End the Failed Drug War(npr.org)
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by glennsl 16y ago
There's an indicator available for this already, although it lacks the fancy graphs. http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/indicator-sysmonitor-simp... (seems to be down atm) https://launchpad.net/indicator-sysmonitor/+download