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by spyckie2 6y ago
quote from the article: > Another positive sign for UBI is that most Americans seem keen to return to their workplaces. One fear has been that UBI would lead to a couch-potato culture, with people choosing to stay at home even when they’
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judt pointing out - there's a lot of other threads you can talk about your own inspiration and topic of choice. My specific post was about the difficulty of understanding 2nd and 3rd order effects of a UBI at scale because no one studi
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> The impact on businesses will be that, since laborers will have more job mobility, businesses will have less negotiating leverage over employees. This is a good thing. Again, 2nd order effects. Businesses will rely on employees less to
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You're making the assumption that deciding by democratic process is an efficient way of allocating resources. The oversight is thinking that democratic decision making is low cost, efficient, and high rate of effectiveness. Even if the
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by spyckie2 6y ago
most of your answers don't even address the questions. 1) impact on businesses? 2) not about administration, about the cost of UBI itself. cost of social security is ballooning, not administration of it 3) it's important to judge
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3 progressive reforms of the modern century that need to be passed in tandem: 1) progressive real estate tax 2) moving tax revenue from income tax to VAT 3) UBI
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In China, they did this. They could do it for a while because they had a lot of infrastructure to build, but eventually they had people pretending to do work because there wasn't enough to do. En masse for the US, it is a bad solution
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I think the 2nd/3rd+ order effects of UBI needs to be understood better. Most arguments for or against UBI look no further than first order effects, and get most of the 1st order effects wrong because they don't take into account
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Just an anecdote - almost every aspiring graphic / web designer I know has designed a stripe inspired website. Stripe's landing page is the peak of flat 2.0 web design, and to my knowledge, hasn't been overtaken yet by any ot
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What you're looking for is probably not conviction. Conviction comes from seeing the state of things not being right and seeing a vision of what the state of things being right looks like. If you don't have conviction, you probabl
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On a more serious note: The best way for engineers to get into modeling is to understand it from the data up rather than from the model down. Engineers don't really need to model out the future and they tend to be bad at that. Instead,
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Thanks for writing this up! I'm the author of model #22 on the list, which is built from my vast experience collecting SaaS models and writing articles on it. I'm honored to be included in the list even though my model is only ava
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by spyckie2 6y ago
Look. I know it sounds good to say, hey, there may be a catastrophic event every 100 years, let's factor that into our costs as a collective industry so that we don't all die when it happens. But realistically, you're going t
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The exercise is about finding a language that you can use to describe your shared values. For that use case MBTI is perfectly fine.
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just to add in - you're not slow, you're probably average. When you start working, all the things you can learn in a weekend quickly evaporate within 1-2 years of your working career. The only things left to learn are those that t
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by spyckie2 7y ago
The official stance from my psychiatrist was, if you have times where nothing seems that interesting to do or there is no motivation to do normal day to day activities, and that happens regularly (once a week) then you're clinically di
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by spyckie2 7y ago
The ideal cycle you want is focus, rest, focus. It's an energy trap if you get tired from focusing but your rest activity doesn't refresh you back into focus mode. In my experience, it's not that you replace energy traps with
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by spyckie2 7y ago
This is what I love about it - it's actually hard to do things elegantly. It has a skill curve where playing at a high level is something you learn over a long period of time. It gives it immense replayability to delight in the opportu
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by spyckie2 7y ago
I understand the need to treat life as a dichotomy between work and play, but I feel you might have lost some of the magic of your childhood. For me it's the opposite, I hated complex games as a child but really enjoy them today. For m
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by spyckie2 7y ago
You have to think of nvc as a systemic solution and not a personal one in order to understand what it is trying to do. Take a population of 100 people. 10 of them are emotional. 40 of them are emotional amplifiers. 10 are combative. And 40
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by spyckie2 7y ago
There's nothing better than for a user, especially one who relies on visuals, to visually see a "tree" of the possible actions they can do. And not tree in a literal or CS sense, but rather, buckets of activities with sub act
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by spyckie2 7y ago
At a certain level of complexity of web application, it becomes impossible to not have javascript without compromising on your user experience. I'd argue the opposite - I'm extremely cautious of anyone claiming they don't nee
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by spyckie2 7y ago
I don't get the impression that WP will replace php templating. That just doesn't make any sense to do. First the code is already written (no need to rewrite), probably well tested, php is extremely fast already, and I'd imag
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by spyckie2 7y ago
no offense but it sounds like you're doing a kangaroo court evaluation of their evaluation by making assumptions to what they did and didn't consider and not looking deeper into the context of the RFC.
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When the hard constraint is not losing profit, many things are difficult to do.
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Wuhan was infected at the worst possible time (CNY) where the entire population underwent a systematic distribution of the virus (visiting relatives) and also likely bodily fluid exchange (via sharing food - Chinese people don't use co
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by spyckie2 7y ago
Thanks. Makes things clear what's going on. Does this have a HN discussion thread?
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What's the objective argument against raising wages? It seems like they're willing to pay extra money but not via a wage increase?
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by spyckie2 7y ago
Sorry, meant to convey an anecdotal tone, not a factual one. I won't modify the original but when I wrote it I was thinking about the stock market's quick reaction.
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Here's the appropriate level of threat response to the virus, as seen by other countries: 0-30 cases/day (covid is being imported in via travel) - put temperature detection check points at airports for all passengers on internatio

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