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by rory096 9y ago
>In the US at least all the rates are marginal. The only "disincentive to work" is completely psychological and made up. If you make more money, you get more money. There is no financial scenario where you make $1 more and lose
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It's Kenya , not Kansas.
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And here's what they're paying out: Long-term basic income: 40 villages with recipients receiving roughly $0.75 (nominal) per adult per day, delivered monthly for 12 years Short-term basic income: 80 villages with recip
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>So to me it sounds like a terrible implementation of a basic income scheme, since someone making X pays no taxes but x+n pays some fraction of n in taxes and presumably has little real incentive to work for n additional dollars when n i
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This doesn't make sense. An equivalent UBI system would have the same marginal tax rates as an NIT.
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This article is outdated. TripAdvisor has apologized and restored the posts[0] and will now display an icon for hotels identified as locations of sexual assault (among other issues)[1]. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/
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Should it be expected that things will improve once the transition happens, then?
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>One could argue that the X prize helped spawn today's commercial space companies. That'd be a stretch. The Ansari X Prize led to a bunch of companies pursuing a goal with little commercial value and few designs with orbital as
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For each request, or periodically?
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How do you source the data? Does it keep current with catalog changes?
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Have you considered that they may be people with different opinions than you? Reddit is one thing, but Hacker News does not allow downvotes until a user earns 500 karma. That's a high bar to cross for a bot. I also don't see whe
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What?
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Botnets with >500 karma per account on Hacker News? Seems unlikely.
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It should be noted that the parent is basing his conclusions on Modern Monetary Theory[0], a heretodox economic theory in which fiscal policy is unconstrained, deficits aren't relevant, and a country is always able to spend. [0] https
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How do you model a population's (or even am individual's) innate preferences and behavior when their income patterns and ability to spend change? You're essentially describing the economic calculation problem. [0] https:&#x2
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Much more likely, this post got several upvotes quickly because users recognized the story (and its relation to HN) from earlier today. The algorithm heavily rewards early upvotes.
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s/loose/lose on that alert box
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Google no longer works to get around WSJ's paywall. Have to find a Twitter or Facebook link.
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Look into the Impossible Trinity[0] and the history of exchange rate pegs. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_trinity
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You're correct - the Atlas (ICBM as well as the current Centaur second stage) design that requires constant pressurization is known as a balloon tank.[0] SpaceX doesn't use balloon tanks, but it does pressurize tanks with nitrogen
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First guess was dropping a dropsonde[0], but watching the video and cross-checking a P-3 cockpit[1], looks like he's controlling the throttle. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropsonde [1] https://i.p
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>thin enough it won't help you slow down - much. No. It's thin enough you can't land with parachutes alone. It's still enough that Mars Global Surveyor used it to make up a 1,250 m/s delta-v deficit. Is landing o
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by rory096 9y ago
Yep — Pathfinder and the Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit & Opportunity) both used airbags. NASA has since switched to the 'sky crane' method for Curiosity and the fortcoming Mars 2020 rover, lowering higher-mass payloads to th
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by rory096 9y ago
Just Read the Instructions* (sorry for the pedantry)
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That'd be the fairing, the 'nosecone' that covers the payload during launch. It wasn't shown in the webcast because it has a low probability of success (they've made several attempts so far with varying degrees of a
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>The 50% figure is from memory, and upon further reflection is probably not quite right, so take it with a grain of salt. You're actually underestimating. Mars has an atmosphere, so spacecraft can use aerobraking to significantly
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by rory096 9y ago
>A bonus: The airplane can regenerate energy during braking, just as electric cars do. When the pilot slows down or descends, the propeller becomes a windmill, running the motor as a generator to recharge the batteries. In the sort of ai
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>Egypt could scuttle a ship or two if they wanted - at both ends, trapping the fleet inside. See the Yellow Fleet, trapped in the Suez Canal for 8 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Fleet
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Those countries already have outsized consumption because carbon externalities are not priced in. Failing to border adjust a domestic US carbon tax would incentivize them to import less, not necessarily consume less.
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Consumption is already subsidized in those countries by not internalizing the carbon externality. The border adjustment puts US exports on a level playing field with other products in that country, saving the distortionary effects of imbala

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