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by st1ck 6y ago
Even something like $1000/year for every citizen will be significant enough to affect lives of some people. Assuming over 20% of Americans have near-zero amount of savings, this can be just enough money to avoid eviction, or pay off cr
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by st1ck 6y ago
Isn't the whole point about UBI that you don't lose it if employed?
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by st1ck 6y ago
Wouldn't the negative health factors of living in a big city far outweigh the access to healthcare for most of people?
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by st1ck 6y ago
I don't know you definition of mediocre, but in most of developing world you must be seriously good to earn $50k/year as an individual contributor.
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by st1ck 6y ago
Does your solution handle the situation when consumer crashes and queue has to be accumulated (while RAM allows) until consumer is up again (maybe 1 day later)? AFAIK ZMQ can't guarantee this.
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by st1ck 6y ago
If he is a call center operator, I don't get why he can't work from home. If his current employer can't allow this, maybe he can find a more technically competent company?
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by st1ck 6y ago
OTOH it's kinda good news for podcasters, because it frees up a spot in the itunes top.
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by st1ck 6y ago
I've stumbled on a bunch of good quality podcasts following freemium model, where they share a part of the content exclusively with their patrons. I'm guessing it earns them more money than ads.
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by st1ck 6y ago
I should've given more context. Based on my anecdata in post-Soviet world, ~50% of graduates choose a job completely unrelated to their degree (e.g. a chemist becomes web designer, a linguist becomes QA engineer, and economist becomes
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by st1ck 6y ago
I can only vouch for post-Soviet states, but it's supposedly also widespread in India and China (and who knows where else). I think we inherited it from Soviet era when hard work and imitation of hard work would be compensated the same
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by st1ck 6y ago
I'd assume most of Chinese speakers in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia etc. would not be triggered by "communist bandits".
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by st1ck 6y ago
In some countries it's pretty normal and expected for students to cheat in school, but after they find a job where they are treated with trust and respect and given real-world problems to solve, absolute majority will stop playing tric
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by st1ck 6y ago
I don't see anything common in structure between postfix `unless` and examples of garden-path sentences, which seem to be based on word ambiguity. Nothing is ambiguous in e.g. `print(x) unless x != 0`. Although admittedly without synta
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by st1ck 6y ago
You can't just blame Amazon on loss of business for brick-and-mortar bookstores. In my country we don't have Amazon, yet paper book sales are decreasing because why buy if you can just download for free. And if you want to pay, it
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by st1ck 6y ago
Typically, disabling JS (e.g. with NoScript) prevents most of the annoying dialogs like this. Also it helps with some paywalls. Of course, it adds a bunch of other annoyances with websites which won't work properly without JS (that is,
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by st1ck 6y ago
> if you lose $1M by quitting but you already have $10M+ in the bank Losing money is hard, but if you reframe it as being rewarded $1M (with pretty low marginal utility after $10M) by losing your freedom, then such a choice is only ratio
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by st1ck 6y ago
As a normal user who wants privacy, you'll be just fine with LineageOS on Xiaomi. Assuming you don't install spyware later. You don't even have to install Google apps (see f-droid and Aurora store).
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by st1ck 6y ago
> In Spain GP says. What you describe is very much an American phenomenon. At least I haven't heard anything similar happening in the rest of the world.
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by st1ck 7y ago
2 seconds is definitely not enough, unless you put pressure on "rectum destroyer" level. You don't need to wash it as clean as your hands, but give it 5 seconds at the least.
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by st1ck 7y ago
Where did you get the bit about suicide? I was rather frustrated that author didn't bother to explain the cause of death.
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by st1ck 7y ago
> About 5 million residents left Wuhan before the lockdown because of the deadly coronavirus epidemic and the Spring Festival holiday, mayor Zhou Xianwang revealed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/ar
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by st1ck 7y ago
If I happened to have a job in Amsterdam, Copenhagen or similarly cyclable city, I'd totally find a place with 1 hour bike commute from the office, to both save money on rent and get free cardio exercise.
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by st1ck 7y ago
You can also just unsubscribe from everyone.
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by st1ck 7y ago
I hate almost all ads, but if it's not intrusive, it's just not worth the effort to add a blocking rule for it. In 2019, I think the only "ad" I blocked was "Hot network questions" on SO, because it had very ne
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by st1ck 7y ago
If remote work became a norm, I'd expect housing market in large cities to sink dramatically. Why would one move e.g. to New York if their hometown provided same same job opportunities?
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by st1ck 7y ago
From guest point of view, Airbnb defection defense is pretty annoying, as it doesn't let you post URLs, addresses, or phone numbers prior to booking. Also pretty easy to circumvent.
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by st1ck 7y ago
Somewhat recent Android versions have work profile which at the very least gives you a sandbox for all apps you want to be isolated from the main profile. Unfortunately, all those work profile apps still share data between themselves. Maybe
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by st1ck 7y ago
Some people own cars. Car ownership rate is around 11% according to [1], which doesn't look that high. That said, Singapore public transportation (at least SMRT trains [2]) is freaking strict about food and drinks. I could not even h
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by st1ck 7y ago
But GP is correct. They only missed the part where the profits from increased parking fees should be used to either lower tuition, or spent on one of your schemes or public transport infrastructure.
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by st1ck 7y ago
> This is a remote opportunity open to US-based candidates only.

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