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by patmcc 9y ago
Lots of things here. First, you seem overly concerned about semantics. "Universal basic income that is not universal is not Universal" is a tautology. There's no reason you assume you couldn't have UBI plus other governm
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>TL;DR what stops a landlord and local shopkeeper increasing prices until the UBI is drained? Rent control for the first, competition (or a high enough UBI that they can travel far enough) for the second.
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>>a criminal history was not an bar to employment. These were not empty words. >>>required us to care about the pasts of the candidates Kind of sounds like they were empty words.
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>>the company can freely ignore those demands >>>If Germany sent me a personal letter demanding I cease and desist, I'd ignore it. You (presumably) don't do any business in Germany, or really care about their go
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>The only things that are checked are the digits of the amount, and the account number. Ha! Not even that. In the cheque clearing process, about the only thing that ever gets checked (even by automated processes) is the MICR line (ac
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by patmcc 9y ago
Sure, but if we have the technology to make it archeology-friendly it'd be very nice to future archaeologists. Any current archaeologist would give an arm and a leg for a few good reddit/HN threads from ancient Rome.
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by patmcc 9y ago
Yeah, I want to hear from companies in super limited ways. As an example; Hasbro makes one product I'm interested in (dropmix cards). If I could sign up to a list that sent me an email if (and only if) that product was on sale for 20%
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by patmcc 9y ago
In any organization there is some number of people, who, if sufficiently motivated, could work together to pull off a 'data heist' and not be immediately uncovered. At a good company that number is high, at a bad company that numb
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by patmcc 9y ago
It's reasonable when firing an employee without cause . If a person is performing badly, document that and then fire them.
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>Forcing employers to keep employees they don't like Many jurisdictions allow firing without cause - they just make the employers pay (significant) severance, often related to the length of service of the employee. I think it&#x
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by patmcc 9y ago
"or item of intellectual property made or conceived by me" By this agreement if you wrote a hit pop song 11 months after your employment they'd own it. That's utterly ridiculous.
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by patmcc 9y ago
There's something quite funny about him being capable enough to discover a vulnerability like this but not being (legally speaking) capable enough to enter into a contract. :)
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by patmcc 9y ago
Two things on that: first, moving money between banks but in a single currency wouldn't generate a taxable event - there's no possibility of profit or loss like there is with a currency exchange (i.e. you're not buying euros
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>For the same reason that, say, transferring your wealth from an Irish bank account to a German bank account doesn’t trigger a capital-gains event in the US? If there's a currency change, it absolutely does trigger a capital-gai
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by patmcc 9y ago
I'd strongly suggest NOT putting it in your will - more people than you may think end up taking a look at the will. Off the top of my head, based on acting as (co)executor for my father: -All executors -Lawyer -Bank teller (x2) who too
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>My question is how does an update that is almost universally hated by the user base get through to production? I think a lot of us are jealous of your work history right now - the answer to that question is almost always "the p
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by patmcc 9y ago
Oh, I'm not under any illusions that this kind of thing never happens in Canada, but I think if you look at the response to that incident (compared to cases in the US) there are hopeful signs. The Braidwood Inquiry concluded the use of
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>Hard to believe actions like that were taking place in the U.S. Is it? I'm a Canadian and everything I hear about the US police terrifies me - SWATing leading to innocent people being killed, unarmed black men being shot, no-kn
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by patmcc 9y ago
Sugar beets account for about 20% of sugar production, so it's not unlikely you've had non-cane sugar. Still no real reason to label it as cane sugar though.
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by patmcc 9y ago
How often is that idea close to reality, and how often is it a fake call, a no-knock warrant, or some other bs? And are they actually taking great personal risk? Police killed a bit under 1000 people in the US in 2016 and had around 150 off
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>If instead you mean police should respond swiftly but not bring out the SWAT teams without more verification, then that could pose a (different kind of) safety issue for responders and potential hostages. I think you're getting
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by patmcc 9y ago
Assume for a second this is real alien tech. No atoms, programmable matter, literal magic, whatever. Why would this be in a warehouse of a $22 million (i.e. super small potatoes) government project? It would be the biggest budget and highes
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>>They put their money into crypto and it's much, much harder to take it from them, provided they own the private key. That's not exactly trivial - how do you store a private key in such a way that it's safe, access
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>>2. Everyone who thought the price won't continue to exponentially increase was wrong So far. Want to bet on the price of bitcoin in 1/5/10/25/100 years?
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by patmcc 9y ago
I don't think subsidizing rural living a bad thing, but I do think rural people thinking "I don't get anything from the government, why should I pay taxes" is a bad thing.
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>>If Comcast is going to try to charge me more to be able to access Netflix, I'm gone. If you have competitors to choose from, sure. If you don't? Or if all the competitors do the same thing?
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>>I disagree. "You can't use the collected data anymore" is a million times harder to enforce than "pay us ten billion dollars." Not especially hard; you send in auditors to delete the collected data from
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by patmcc 9y ago
Absolutely true. That person is the former Equifax CEO.
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by patmcc 9y ago
That's my personal favourite for apps, but it's impossible to tell from a glance whether the "in-app purchases" label means you just buy it once (like Super Mario Run) or it'll be a constant push to spend more and m
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by patmcc 9y ago
>>>No bank has full trust of any other entity. It's not black and white. Banks basically have full trust in each other and central banks, actually (for these kind of transactions, not investments or whatever). If you're a

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