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by surfmike 10y ago
Well one could argue that Brexit will still preserve free trade (indeed the government wants to preserve that). And UKIP seems to be imploding, so it's plausible that Brexit could have neutralized them.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Sounds coherent to me. The argument is that controlling immigration now (which requires leaving EU) will stave off a future, even greater anti-immigration backlash which could add protectionism thrown in for good measure. So Brexit would pr
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by surfmike 10y ago
The US-EU Safe Harbor Agreement requires that US companies follow the EU's requirements for preserving the privacy and security of users, but allows them to store data in the US.
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by surfmike 10y ago
By this argument, if the basic income == the total income of a country, there is still no aggregate cost. Maybe, but I'd argue that such a system would come with huge costs due to the massive increase in taxation.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Assuming a 40% tax (no idea what it would actually be in practice), everyone earning less than $50 a month would be a net cost. As a thought experiment, imagine that you increased the UBI payments so that they took up all the gross income o
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by surfmike 10y ago
Great-grandparent comment implied the only cost you need to consider is for unemployed people i.e. that it's free for those who are employed . That's wrong.
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by surfmike 10y ago
I initially interpreted the parent to say that employed people don't receive UBI. If they do, it is in fact a UBI but then does not get around the cost issue (I comment about that on a sub thread).
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by surfmike 10y ago
Ok, but that's still increasing marginal rates even if you ignore the unemployed. Consider the case where you have 100 people, one that earns $1/week, one that earns $2/week, etc. and the last person earns $100/week. A $
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by surfmike 10y ago
That is also no longer a Universal Basic Income.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Doesn't this analogy stop holding with self-driving cars?
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by surfmike 10y ago
If Google and Tesla get self driving cars too, don't network effects suddenly disappear? The ebay analogy stops holding since the "sellers" (drivers) are a pool of self driving cars.
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by surfmike 10y ago
problems before: dirty taxis, disrespectful drivers, limited availability in some neighborhoods, often opaque and expensive pricing problems now: we don't have enough flexibility to give 4 stars for a good but not perfect ride
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by surfmike 10y ago
Why wouldn't you want to give a bad rating for bad driving? I almost always give 5 stars, but with the notable exception being distracted or aggressive drivers.
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by surfmike 10y ago
I think this article vastly underestimates how hard many of the successful startups worked to get there. And arguably there are more startups nowadays with long term ambitious goals (nuclear fusion, energy storage, immunotherapy, drones&#x2
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by surfmike 10y ago
Redrawing state boundaries has a whole host of other issues, but it definitely would be interesting to make regional governing bodies that are in charge of all federal infrastructure dollars. Even though the Bay Area is all contained in Cal
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by surfmike 10y ago
What's wrong with wanting predictability and stability? Right now oil companies have little incentive to invest in alternate energy given the costs, and a carbon tax would change the cost structure for the future and give them a direct
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by surfmike 10y ago
It definitely could, as far as I understand it's the underpinning for all of Chrome's graphics for instance, including Canvas.
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by surfmike 10y ago
From his op-ed: "I believe climate change is real and that human emissions of greenhouse gases risk justifying action, including a carbon tax."
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by surfmike 10y ago
"In pedestrian areas of Barcelona, trucks are allowed with permits and at certain hours for loading/off-loading. This works just fine." http://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/05/20/will-barcelonas-supe
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by surfmike 10y ago
"In pedestrian areas of Barcelona, trucks are allowed with permits and at certain hours for loading/off-loading. This works just fine." http://usa.streetsblog.org/2016/05/20/will-barcelonas-supe
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by surfmike 10y ago
Interesting, so basically everyone running web servers with default settings is breaking the law.
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by surfmike 10y ago
What does not collecting too much data mean in practice? It seems a lot of analytics would be in the grey area, esp. when trying doing reverse geo lookups. A more simple example: can I use Apache which gathers people's IP addresses, br
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by surfmike 10y ago
Internally they have been peaceful. The major exception being the civil war which can hardly be blamed on immigration.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Once you're a small country sharing the grid with a big neighbor , I'd imagine it would be very difficult to go independent after.
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by surfmike 10y ago
As a small country I really wouldn't want to be reliant on a grid shared with either China or Russia.
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by surfmike 10y ago
Clang static analyzer is another great tool that didn't exist back then.
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by surfmike 10y ago
I would consider the US a proven success on acculturating immigrants. Over 200 years of importing people from broken corrupt and broken regimes, creating a prosperous and relatively uncorrupt society.
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by surfmike 10y ago
The Reddit and Twitter trolls are terrifying. But are you saying all (or even most) of the >40% of Americans that will vote for Trump are as bad as them? We'll see what the final percentage is but 538 is polling Trump at around 42%
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by surfmike 10y ago
Calling anybody who supports Trump a racist old white is an example of what I mean. Better to argue against his beliefs and actions rather than just write off his supporters as a lost cause.
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by surfmike 10y ago
First, the argument isn't over whether Graham and Altman can drop ties to Thiel, it's whether they should. Second, if you think that firing an employee for their political beliefs is a straw man, you should be standing up for Palm

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