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by spyckie2 6y ago
The point of the article isn't to belittle someone for having a good, deep knowledge of machines. The foundation of most code written is built by those people. The point of the article is to point out that languages, frameworks, or api
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by spyckie2 6y ago
No one commenting on this really nice, concise presentation of AI related news and accomplishments? I think this was an incredible read. Marries academic, political, and industrial sides of AI together in only around 200 slides.
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Yeah... most of this is highly theoretical and hand-wavy. Needs a real marketing department to handle this narrative, not the CEO.
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I very much second this. Have no idea why to use Openland when there are so many more alternatives with an optimized vision for their usage. Openland vs Slack Openland vs Discord Openland vs Facebook Groups etc. The classic of course is hub
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Just wondering why no one talks about shaving the fat - reducing the budget, lowering costs, being smarter with spend, etc? Is it like some unwritten rule that the price we pay right now is exactly how much we need to pay for the quality of
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Some software exists to "bridge the gap" for deficiencies in other areas of the software ecosystem. Javascript date api really sucked from 2002-at least 2016 (arguably still does? haven't really followed) and so these librar
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> I'd disagree with the statement, that most of the US citizens live a good life while 40% are in danger of being evicted right now. That's only the first example coming from the top of my head. You could easily make an argumen
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Hard to comment on societies I don't know well. Instead I'd like to offer this explanation of my point of view: There are two competing ideas of governance. One is the umbrella (ie. Godfather) and one is the public servant /
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> Ever heard of tax deductible donations? Tax deductible donations have the same intent but is a poor policy implementation for rich people who already pay so little in taxes. It doesn't accomplish the effect of redistribution of we
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> If it's not enough to live on for free then it's not an UBI. This is either very poor wording or just plain wrong. UBI is a cash grant policy, nothing more. The intent is to increase overall standard of living of the poorest
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Not sure if you're a student or never had an income, but savings are not just for retirement. Savings, as opposed to a retirement plan, are for major life decisions like buying a car, getting married, supporting a family, upgrading you
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> If you take a look at the wealth of the average population, two thirds are either pensions or property wealth. This is longterm money which I cannot draw on until retired (and most certainly won't affect my children) and property
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In the preliminary survey, the average working days was 49 for both UBI and control group. In the final, the average was 78 for UBI and 72 for control group. What happened to make the numbers jump up so much for both? Data error?
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UBI isn't enough money to live on for free. It's about half that. 12k is enough money to live but your standard of living is worse enough to be visibly felt. If you look at https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street&#
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A much better article covering the same experiment here: https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN... ).
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lots of questions / comments: - how do I publish? how do I see the published version? - what does the eye at the top right do? - Is all you can do right now just create pages and subpages of rich media? Otherwise it's actually not
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This is a good thing, not a bad thing. I would say it corrects job markets, turns them from slavery due to lack of options, into fair competitive markets on both supply and demand sides. It will not affect day to day life very much unless y
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UBI is not a replacement for work - we do have to work under UBI. It just lessens the imminent need of working, affording a lot of people the ability to take more breaks from working to relax and recharge. I agree that a permanent state of
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This balloons administrative costs and leaves rooms for loopholes - never underestimate the cost of having to patch policy loopholes. It also creates mini games around the UBI system, making it central in people's minds. Ideally you wa
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Drugs and alcohol. They'd probably do it regardless of UBI, but without UBI they do it and are slightly more angry or frustrated at their own situation.
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It's a bit more nuanced. UBI just gives people more options. The narrative is that people who live paycheck to paycheck are forced into undesirable jobs because they are under time pressure to make money and can't be choosy. UBI w
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"Create more jobs" the whole reason why Andrew Yang is a proponent of ubi is because he tried doing this for 8 years and realized that the Economy just doesn't work like that.
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Healthcare is one of the most talked about topics in the US. UBI in comparison is still a fringe topic. You can talk about multiple issues at once, we have that capability.
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The market and production gaming UBI will inevitably happen. It's just people's money. Actually, in Alaska's UBI program, alcohol and drug abuse go up by 15% after all check day (but crime also goes down significantly as well
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UBI will become the new definition of poverty, and this is a great thing, poverty being you are on UBI is much better than any other definition of poverty in history. Per the article (and I agree with this) UBI is not meant to uproot capita
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This is a good point. I actually consider shoring up these loopholes as part of (or needing to be passed alongside) UBI.
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To be very honest, these times should not be taken as data points for normal behavior. Stress is extremely high, optimism is low, and its just very hard to find a job these days. I'd take the anecdote more seriously if there were many
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so basically, the grandma can't rely on the property to pass it down to their kids, or support their living? If they sell it won't that just mean they have to pay 800k in taxes on their 1m house and then have to find another house
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I think you'd be surprised and how meaningful work can be if it is actually meaningful. The definition of work has been taken over by the current economy as maintaining some rich corporation's systems of printing money. Work inste
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UBI, at least Andrew Yang's UBI, is not going to remove those jobs - they will still be around and still be in demand because UBI isn't an income, it's a basic income, or around 1/3 of what an income should be for most p

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