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1711.
by nnq 14y ago
dead thread and offtopic but to clarify: a tax is centralized, but the fact that some can pay it and some cannot it not dictated by a central authority, that's the reasoning. The state would not decide who has enough money to pay the tax, a
1712.
by nnq 14y ago
Ok, the thread is dead and we're off-topic but to clarify: I just don't find important things like good physical health (you can revolutionize theoretical physics before dying of a heart attack at 45... and yes you could be very unhappy kno
1713.
by nnq 14y ago
Intelligence, self-control, being able to motivate yourself, "productive imagination" etc. ...actually the self control ability has been proven to be better correlated with financial and social success than IQ! Even successful artists do pr
1714.
by nnq 14y ago
It's not supposed to do that! It's supposed to have people with "higher levels of" positive traits like intelligence, self-control, imagination to have more children then those with lower levels (and also to improve the chances that childre
1715.
by nnq 14y ago
1. I don't trust "centralized" solutions to anything and an "eugenics institute" dictating what the best traits are seems scary even to me! 2. Yes, amplifying possibly unfair advantages is a nasty side-effect of this, but in a "mostly clean
1716.
by nnq 14y ago
I said "and you could add something like forced sterilization for people not affording to pay the "extra baby tax" after they've made one", but you could easily add jail time in a society where loosing money is not a good enough deterrent (
1717.
by nnq 14y ago
...tel that to you grand-children someday and watch them have a good laugh at it
1718.
by nnq 14y ago
Make the "penalty" a "tax" and money becomes the criteria. Add tax exemptions for valuable but not so well paid professionals like researchers, university professors etc. (it's not like the poor that would desperately want kids will suddenl
1719.
by nnq 14y ago
You wouldn't have to force an abortion on anyone. Just force a "basic baby tax" to discourage the dirt poor to have children they can't even afford to feed or properly educate and a HUGE "extra baby tax" for any family having more than 2 ch
1720.
by nnq 14y ago
Isn't "path of least effort" == optimal_path ??
1721.
by nnq 15y ago
dream: could a UI/UX genius and open-source hacker ever make an Inkscape+GIMP hybrid that will have the straight forward, intuitive and productive UI of Adobe Fireworks? (without the weird ireproductible "bugs" and "WTF?!" moments that Fw s
1722.
by nnq 15y ago
Form a "designer productivity", nothing beats a Bitmap+Vector hybrid app like Fireworks... Even Photoshop seems like a productivity nightmare and a user hostile monster by comparison... I'd say GIMP and Photoshop are on par on this "boxes a
1723.
by nnq 15y ago
1. Make a mechanism to allow up/down-voting of comments and allow the display of high karma comments in a static list that someone can scan right away... finding useful information in a chatroom is overwhelming and requires 100% engagement.
1724.
by nnq 15y ago
Thanks, I took a better look at that and realized there are 2 implementations of QuickCheck for Python... I'm not really a Haskell developer so I didn't knew much about QuickCheck. Though I still think none of our current programming langua
1725.
by nnq 15y ago
Why not fix the problem with 2 languages? Let me explain. You would have: 1. a language for your actual code - the real code of your application (imagine an application programmed in Python or C++) 2. a language to concisely describe what t
1726.
by nnq 15y ago
...but every major desktop platform has easily accessible configuration settings for you to change this behavior, eg. for Windows 7 I can just: right click task bar > properties > taskbar buttons: never combine ...to switch