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by maratd 9y ago
> Everyone shares the home, so I'd think I'd do it by household Sure, except that would discourage co-habitation/marriage. You get more checks by living apart. Balancing incentives is actually quite hard.
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> There's no avoiding it. I haven't seen the math. I imagine it depends highly on the amount you want to pay out, savings due to cutting away current programs, etc., but it's certainly a wonderful opportunity to redo our t
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by maratd 9y ago
Why are you using total population? I would only cut a check to adults. If you include kids, that's a hell of an incentive to have huge families. Adult population is 240 million. That's $2.8 trillion. Quite a bit less than your nu
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by maratd 9y ago
> Generally, UBI schemes advocate some sort of drop-off in payout as people earn money outside of the program That's the first time I've heard of this. Everything I've seen, everybody gets the same check. Problem with trac
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by maratd 9y ago
Under capitalism, those with capital derive profit through the use of their capital (can be money, factories, machines, etc). A substantial pressure on that profit is labor costs. As labor gets removed from the picture through automation, t
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by maratd 9y ago
> Firstly, they function well enough to predict that gravitational waves exist, the ones which we measured being produced by an extreme gravitational event. I don't think that aspect of the theories is in dispute? Newtonian physics
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by maratd 9y ago
When we're confronted with something we can't explain using our existing equations and theories, the conclusion is that there must be some mysterious thing there that fixes our current equations and makes them work again? A thing
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by maratd 9y ago
> Sure, you won't max gigabit like you will on some private stuff, but unless that's an absolute need, issues with public trackers are fairly rare. Well, that's kind of the point. If you can download something that's
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by maratd 9y ago
Once the government enacts a solution, there is reduced incentive for the market to come up with a better solution. For example, people want clean cars. Government mandates cleaner cars. Cars are now clean enough to make most people happy,
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by maratd 9y ago
> none of that is relevant if you're not using index sites in the first place One of the reasons that bittorrent has been successful and all the other protocols have failed is precisely because it allows for the use of private index
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by maratd 9y ago
Far better to have that conversation than to sit and argue fairness, equity, and justice. The alternatives are dumber.
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by maratd 9y ago
There was no income tax in the US prior to 1913. Did people go around murdering and stealing? Was everyone poor? Traditionally, all the things you mention are NOT paid for by income taxes even now.
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And I believe a boring company, hyperloop, other efforts in AI, etc. A more substantive question is how that money would be spent by the relevant parties. I would argue that Musk would spend it better than the federal government and as such
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by maratd 10y ago
Do me a favor, please delete my account. I'm done here. Thanks!
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by maratd 10y ago
No. We're actively bombing the shit out of them using drones and have been for a while. All except Iran, I think that one is there to send a message.
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by maratd 10y ago
> It's about Muslims (and only Muslims) from the 7 listed countries. Emphasis mine. Why those 7 countries specifically though? Anything special about them?
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by maratd 10y ago
> What this is really about for executives like Sam is Trump's meddling in the free movement of labor. Bingo. It would substantially increase the cost of labor in the short-term. Notice how there's no outrage over a dozen other
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by maratd 10y ago
> The executive order specifically exempts people of minority religions in those countries I'm sorry, but are you actually upset by a provision that makes an exception for those being actively persecuted because of their religion? R
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by maratd 10y ago
Hydro is always going to be superior to pretty much anything out there. The problem with hydro is that we already tapped every possible source for both generation and storage. It's done. You can put a Tesla station anywhere in whatever
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by maratd 10y ago
> I think question isn't whether or not mining bitcoins would be productive. Yeah, that is the question. Because if the math doesn't add up, nobody would do it, meaning Tesla doesn't need to worry about it.
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by maratd 10y ago
> As an example, if I setup a bunch of bit-coin miners in the trunk It costs about ten bucks to fully recharge a Tesla and about one hour of time. You might break even if you earn minimum wage? But then, how did you afford a Tesla to beg
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by maratd 10y ago
I am doing just that? Apparently others are as well since school enrollment keeps growing.
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by maratd 10y ago
This isn't remotely true. The NYC metro area is massive, with plenty of family friendly neighborhoods with good commute times to midtown. Plenty of places in northern NJ and elsewhere with good schools.
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by maratd 10y ago
I could have been more eloquent. By "thing" I wasn't referring to the concept, but to the hysteria related to it after the election.
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by maratd 10y ago
> AFAIK, there is no far-left fake news website with the same revenue or audience numbers as the far-right has right now. Why is this a competition you want to win? Seems like a race to the bottom. > I'm advocating that ordinary
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by maratd 10y ago
> And don't think I'm just being partisan. You are just being partisan. The notion that somehow fake news is a thing, that it misleads people, or that it affects elections is ridiculous. It's an excuse for losing an electi
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by maratd 10y ago
> but most importantly of the number of recharge cycles. That was the point I was alluding to. You're mistaken in thinking that this is the most important factor. It isn't. The most important factors are extreme states of charg
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by maratd 10y ago
> good luck getting > %50 of cell capacity 5 years down the road of a daily driver The data doesn't bear this out. Users have been seeing 5%-10% degradation over the first few years, after which point it levels out. After 10 year
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by maratd 10y ago
Yes, Ubiquiti is pricy. Yes, they have GPL issues ... but so does everyone in the industry. You can mod off-the-shelf hardware and get decent performance. I've done it. The issue with going that route is stability. I've modded Lin
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by maratd 10y ago
> You'd end up writing about the same amount of code that you'd have written with a standard REST-style interface. With every fad that has hit backend development, ORM/move-everything-to-frontend/merge frontend and ba

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