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by lixtra 7y ago
> I note that your example of $300Bn as being a completely unreasonable, unachievable number for UBI is less than half the US military budget Check your numbers: US military budget 2019 [1] is $686Bn or $60 Bn per month vs $300 Bn per mo
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by lixtra 7y ago
So if you distribute 1000 USD/month to 300 Mio Americans, do you mind to explain where you want to take the money from? According to [1] the top 3% (>250k USD household income per year) earn in total per month 127,300,000,000
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by lixtra 7y ago
Except someone spend labor to amass that capital. If I considered saving no longer worthwhile, I wouldn’t consume more. I would work less and enjoy more free time. Of course this leads to over proportional less taxes for the state or ubi. I
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by lixtra 7y ago
> many others have to stay poor if we go down the route of a dematerialised economy is true This not what I meant. I mis-read OPs >> welcome the economic decline that would come with growth reduction as no growth. If the (slow) gro
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by lixtra 7y ago
If that is so, why don’t you form an ubi society, whose members pay an ubi for everyone that wants to join (and net pay). According to you it won’t be difficult to find people that are glad to join. To the downvoters of my initial comment:
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by lixtra 7y ago
Would you still be okay if you only had an average level of wealth (by world wide standards) and most likely much lower than you have now? If you want to keep your current level of wealth/consumption then in a no growth scenario many o
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by lixtra 7y ago
> without UBI, there is a small number of people who die every year due to not having (sufficient) income If workers spend a few days per year to pay for your ubi that takes away that time of their life. If they spend 1% of their life wo
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Greater cognitive ability is generally advantageous – never detrimental(mobile.twitter.com)
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by lixtra 7y ago
It's the same everywhere. We want to be paid but reach is even more important.[1] [1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-09-fi-micro...
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by lixtra 7y ago
>> The Federal Reserve says it’s going to raise interest rates. Same thing with the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. I wouldn’t consider the text very accurate in hindsight.
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by lixtra 7y ago
[1] https://python-security.readthedocs.io/vuln/http-server-dire...
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Nongqawuse and the Xhosa cattle-killing movement(en.wikipedia.org)
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They cannot afford unless Tesla shares crash.
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by lixtra 7y ago
Yes, the first mention should be a link to the Wikipedia page. 4x = eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4X
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by lixtra 7y ago
We converted our excel wiz to do R. She will never return to excel for advanced stuff. The simple stuff could be done with lobte office (except for excel sheets that come from outside).
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It phones home...
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by lixtra 7y ago
Related wwwoffle: http://www.gedanken.org.uk/software/wwwoffle/
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by lixtra 7y ago
> Realistically you can't entirely deconflict these names. So you always have a risk of shadowing names from the public Internet. It's totally save and legitimate for ycombinator to use secret.ycombinator.com on their intranet
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by lixtra 7y ago
Votes are counted aggregated publicly on some level, so you can punish/reward whole communities.
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Paul should talk to Seth about education. He seems to have had the insights before him[1]. [1] https://seths.blog/2018/09/education-needs-to-be-inconvenien...
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by lixtra 7y ago
Yes, evolution is happening: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moths-in-cities-d...
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by lixtra 7y ago
> In >15 years what I have seen is that OSS comes with a huge cost of attention - that you'd be better off focusing on your business need. That’s not even wrong because nowadays almost all software comes with some OSS contained.
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by lixtra 7y ago
We’ve been running it as part of alfresco. It’s not very stable and hangs every few weeks. Since we kill it every night we didn’t notice any problems.
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by lixtra 7y ago
I was in the authors camp for a long time till I understood: > All we need is an 8 character PIN and we’ve already exceeded our example “slow hashing algorithm” from earlier. That solution is worse. People don’t eat this. For password ma
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by lixtra 7y ago
Log, monitor and punish . If data has to be readily available but should only be used for intended purposes. I.e. in a hospital medical data has to be immeadiatly available to all medical staff to react quickly. However, if medial data lea
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Data avoidance . Data that is not collected does not have to be protected and is automatically confidential.
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Ask HN: Security Strategy Buildung Blocks
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by lixtra 7y ago
I found great joy in "Compiler Construction" by N. Wirth. [1] Okay, that was more than 20 years ago. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10764672
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by lixtra 7y ago
> As a manager, a big part of our job is to mitigate risk and single points of failure. No, your job as a manager is to understand the trade-offs of taking such risks and make a decision that fits your situation. I.e. your competitor may
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by lixtra 7y ago
I totally agree that mentors and mentees should be free in their choice with whom they partner. So if you had bad experience with your mentors it should be easy and penalty free for you to change. On the other hand, I would decline to mento

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