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by manyoso 11y ago
What to do about it: a basic income.
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I am surprised they are revealing this one.
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by manyoso 11y ago
And the laptop version (windows, macosx, linux) seems to be based on Chromium and Node.js.
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by manyoso 11y ago
The case for IPFS to combat these walled gardens: https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKqMiNbStnEQHC-kiEBSd1jI...
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by manyoso 11y ago
Even more centralization and single point of failure. If this continues the web as envisioned will be entirely replaced by a centralized system of walled gardens with big companies controlling access. This is why we need IPFS sooner rather
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by manyoso 11y ago
This. Is. Brilliant.
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by manyoso 11y ago
I find the best method is to no longer put a cigarette in your mouth and breathe in. Much like flying is the art of throwing yourself at the earth and missing.
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Spacesuit Water Leak Cuts Short Spacewalk(news.discovery.com)
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by manyoso 11y ago
I can't cite any studies, but I do remember having heard of many studies indicating well motivated employees are more productive and happy employees are more productive. As for whether the fear of starving is 'good motivation&#x2
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No, we did not. Again, that welfare program is very different from the basic income described here in many ways. Those differences are crucial to understanding the benefits of a basic income in comparison to the broad welfare program you
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by manyoso 11y ago
Yes, I would. And frankly that is a feature not a bug! It would allow people to contribute to the economy in ways that are self-motivating and not for fear of starving. And well motivated people do better work and contribute more which h
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by manyoso 11y ago
"Paying someone to not have to participate in the economic system" No, again, basic income is about the government providing an income to meet basic needs without any strings attached. The government isn't paying you not t
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by manyoso 11y ago
No, this is wrong. The people already receiving government checks do so with a stipulation: if you start receiving money from anyone else besides the government, then the government will stop sending checks! This works to disincentivize peo
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by manyoso 11y ago
This is very interesting and another rephrasing of "what the debate is actually about!" At this point, as a complete outsider to Bitcoin I must say I am a bit confused. Here are the camps I am seeing: Hearn seems to be saying th
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by manyoso 11y ago
I have no history with Bitcoin, but if people want the value of Bitcoin to go up I think it'd behoove them to make Bitcoin useful to people as a solution to a problem. I'm not sure the idea of a decentralized reserve currency w
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by manyoso 11y ago
Fixed, thanks. Yay, counting!
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This is interesting to me because it presents the blockchain size dispute in a way that seems much more sympathetic to the "no, we shouldn't increase the blockchain size" crowd than Mike Hearn's essay. Is it really true
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French drug trial leaves six hospitalized, one brain-dead(nytimes.com)
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The point is that Eich made Javascript use syntax and idioms from Java from the very beginning and it wasn't just later evolution of the language to "fix" it that did this.
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by manyoso 11y ago
Thanks for the link! Yes, I think this generation of Javascript developers will eventually need to come to grips with this.
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by manyoso 11y ago
I have a lot of respect for Lisp/Scheme, but I wouldn't regard Emacs as the most maintainable of large scale apps. Besides, the ability level of the average Lisp/Scheme developer and the average Javascript developer is likel
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by manyoso 11y ago
Javascript and other dynamic language like it are very good prototyping languages and for developing a quick mock-up to explore the pros/cons of a potential solution to a problem. But the lack of type checking and proper encapsulation
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by manyoso 11y ago
FWIW, having tried Elm, I was very impressed with: 1) Type checking... yay! 2) Awesome compiler error messages that help fix #1 3) Purely functional language with immutable data structures helping performance 4) Reasonably easy and well tho
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by manyoso 11y ago
It was designed from the very beginning by Eich to look like Java and not because subsequent people tried to "fix" it. Where are you getting this stuff?
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Yes, it is and the first reason is related to #1. Prototypical inheritance doesn't make much sense outside of a dynamic language. The second reason is because Javascript is disguised to look like Java and hence people familiar with t
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by manyoso 11y ago
This is too clever by half. Some tools/languages are more amenable than others to creating and maintaining large apps. Very large applications have been written and maintained in C/C++ for decades. My contention is that Javascr
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by manyoso 11y ago
Doesn't solve any of the big problems with large scale javascript apps: 1) Lack of type checking leading to exploding runtime exceptions 2) Object inheritance/prototype is weird and counter intuitive to other OO languages 3) Lack
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Lawrence Krauss says LIGO has detected gravitational waves(twitter.com)
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by manyoso 11y ago
This is bologna. Scott Aaronson does a great job of explaining why here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
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by manyoso 11y ago
What group was this? University project?

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