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by jpao79 9y ago
Yup, but with the important distinction being that it is achieved without piles of student loan debt, home mortgage debt and monopoly utility bills (Comcast cable, PG&E), etc. Plus since you're busy farming, you're too busy t
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by jpao79 9y ago
Ok I agree. The main thought was that the pilot doesn't seem to be eliminating the means testing (i.e. conditional welfare). The pilot seems to be just piling UBI onto people's existing federal/state/local welfare chec
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by jpao79 9y ago
If I were Sam A. instead of (or in addition to) funding UBI, I would fund R&D projects which enable people to live as off grid and self-sufficiently as possible with all the comforts of urban/suburban living without all the costs.
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by jpao79 9y ago
"We’re still in our pilot. It turns out that giving money to people is much harder than you might imagine. We’ve had to work with state, local, federal governments so that people in our study don’t lose their housing eligibility, lose
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by jpao79 9y ago
It almost feels like it is strategically placed between the 101 exit and Google main campus so as to be visible to Googlers who are waiting at the off ramp...
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>> Another solution is to let you go to school for free and then pay a percent of all your future earnings back to your college, or at least into a pool that pays for the next generation's college. PBSNewsHour did a piece on this
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by jpao79 9y ago
This seems like a really encouraging initiative. Somewhat tangentially, I also feel like the following ideas would help spread the Silicon Valley fortunes across the US better: 1.) Mainstream the idea of prefab housing built in flyover stat
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by jpao79 9y ago
Kind of reminds of this one: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fracking-tillerson/ex... Tillerson, former Republican heavyweight Dick Armey and other residents of a ranch-filled suburb of Bartonville north of
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by jpao79 9y ago
Its much more likely about the degradation in the quality of life if you were not thinking about moving in the near future than improving your investment. Its likely not about the one bungalow getting converted to 3 townhouses its the 10 m
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by jpao79 9y ago
On the flip side, a large 20 story building consisting of apartments, office space and retail places way more demand on terms of city services (i.e. police, fire, transportation, education and other social services, etc.) than an empty lot
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by jpao79 9y ago
A key point is taxation rules need to put in place a priori of significant development/investments or implemented over an extended phase in timeframes of decades so developers/investors can plan/adapt appropriately. What you
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by jpao79 9y ago
A key component of implementing a land value tax would that it would need to be coupled with reduced zoning restrictions. If a property owner decides to build 20 story apartment next to my property which increases my property value and pro
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by jpao79 9y ago
Additionally, in Case A, LVT will act as an incentive to further NIMBY-ize the current property owning citizens. Not only will additional growth cause issues with traffic, overcrowded schools, parks, restaurants, it may make their properti
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by jpao79 9y ago
I agree. Could the basic income payout be at least tied to: * build your own sustainable house to code in a non-hyper inflated coastal city and keep it maintained/painted according to the local home owner's association CC&R&#
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by jpao79 9y ago
Agreed. Just highlighting to some degree it exists already and as not a novel untested concept. It just needs refinement. A phased, gradual raising of the 2% cap probably would make sense over a couple of decades. That way homeowners and
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by jpao79 9y ago
In California at least, the property tax bill is already split into two components: 1.) Tax on land value 2.) Tax on improvements (building, landscaping) so Georgism already exists somewhat. An land value tax increase would need to be phase
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by jpao79 9y ago
In California at least , the property tax bill is already split into two components: 1.) Tax on land value 2.) Tax on improvements (building, landscaping) http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2012/tax/property-tax-pr
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by jpao79 9y ago
I find this project by Endless/Matt Dalio to be a real life manifestation of this video: What do the Rich really Want? Imagine if oddly, wealthy capitalists didn't primarily want money; but something odder and more hopeful: respe
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by jpao79 9y ago
I think a better direction would be if YC Research could figure out a process to growth hack a new high density city from scratch instead of everyone crowding into physically constrained existing city. Make YC entry conditional on relocati
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by jpao79 9y ago
Kind of reminds me of this Vox video about vending machines in Japan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UJzVLXmBG4
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by jpao79 9y ago
I think they went about getting to market wrong. They should not have targeted end consumers with their equipment. They should have went after the convenience store market using the soda dispenser/automated latte/vending machine&
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by jpao79 9y ago
Yes, in some ways I see this as being more synergistic than self driving cars. With respect to video delivery, it'd be like Amazon and AT&T's Whispernet but applied to video instead of ebooks https://s3-us-west-2.am
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by jpao79 9y ago
And Silicon Valley! https://www.yelp.com/biz/kula-revolving-sushi-bar-cupertino Thanks will try this weekend.
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by jpao79 9y ago
True. Then maybe it becomes how you define the market. After a while people will crave something beyond burgers and sushi. The wants of mankind are infinite. The thought/hope is that if individual chef's are freed from having to
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by jpao79 9y ago
True - its definitely got a manual component to it. It's interesting to see the sushi rice machine in use in the first half of the video. What's interesting about restaurant automation is that it could go either way in terms of m
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by jpao79 9y ago
Here's a fun one: Japanese fully automated restaurant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yICVmyySHmE&feature=youtu.be As a side note, it's funny in that there are many parallels to this fully automated restaurant
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by jpao79 9y ago
Maybe they should buy Sprint and DIY it. Maybe deliver a cache of video content at night using multicast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Broadcast_Multicast...
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by jpao79 9y ago
One thing they could do to extend the life of the existing hardware would be to cost reduce the middle tier $699 2.6GHz 8GB RAM Mac Mini to the $499 price point. I have to think that at least some of the memory and drive components have dr
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by jpao79 9y ago
Actually I was thinking last time I was driving from LA back to SF that one way to move faster with autonomous trucking would be to dedicate a highway lane during very off peak hours (such as between hours of 12 am to 4am) to autonomous fre
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by jpao79 9y ago
Highly recommend watching: Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_uTsrxfYWQ Basically what the author (Daniel Miessler) is seeing is this suburban sprawl being selectively re-invented.

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