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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> Remarkably, this debate has taken place based on partial and inappropriate indicators of U.S. inequality. . . . First, spending inequality – what we should really care about – is far smaller than wealth inequality. No one really care
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Now hear this – data sonification(economist.com)
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Two policies could fix this. A negative income tax (with UBI) and a state backed insurance policy that either pays out as free retraining, or as wage insurance.
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This would be a good place to start: http://digital.cityofchicago.org/index.php/developer-resourc...
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Why haven't you told them you have a side project/ are interested in starting your own company?
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Mind if I ask what city? Some cities and states have grant programs for exactly this kind of thing.
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An enterprise software company (Microsoft) made the most popular video game console. A search company made the worlds most popular navigation and email tools. A consumer e-commerce company is the the biggest supplier of enterprise cloud ser
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How is the funding environment for start-ups right now compared to 12 or 6 months ago? How will it be in 6 to 12 months? Why?
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Applying for government grants?
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You're missing alternative opportunities created by 1, 2, and 3. For example, wage insurance, a negative income tax, or state-funded retraining. You're also missing other big upside to UBI. For example, if people can be more sure
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> UBI removes the risk. It raises the floor on how bad things can get, but it absolutely doesn't eliminate the risk.
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Have they piloted this idea? Because 100,000 cars is big bet if they haven't established service-market fit.
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That seems like an insane strategy. Everyone how gets acquired there must be rooting for the company (or at least the executives and management) to fail.
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Errata Security: No, you backoff on backdoors or else(blog.erratasec.com)
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I would much rather read a third party summary than the dust jacket blurb.
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The vitriol and negativity in this thread makes me really not want to share my things here.
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True. And the textbook solution for a deflationary spiral is to increase inflation. VC's have to raise rounds that run for finite periods of time. At the end of the time the have to return the money with their big returns. That means
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In other news, "Suits Make a Comeback!"[0]. Investors can't just sit on money. They have to get returns, and that means that they have to put capital to work. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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It's not trivial to ascertain what a users "interests" are. And I think that's the debate here. Google optimization algorithms are an embodiment of a value system, and maybe I don't agree with it. McDonalds also giv
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So you think some one paying twitter to get those tweets to show up? And not through the "sponsored" system?
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I didn't make this, just found it. You might want to reach out to the creator through the website.
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Chattel slavery is the most sever and inhuman form of slavery, but it's not the only one.
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This basic idea was the seed of a slow take-off superintelligence in the book Avogadro Corp. http://avogadrocorp.com/
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FoxType: A.I. to help you write smarter(foxtype.com)
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Hooking users in 3 steps: an intro to Habit Testing(blog.invisionapp.com)
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Today that's called "The State Development Capitalism Model" as opposed to the market-led capitalism model in "The Washington Consensus" and I think it has a lot to recommend it. But the hand-off to a first world ec
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They've making an 80/20 decision. Make the service better for the 20% of users that produce 80% of your revenue and price everyone else out. They don't want to be the startup economies dumb email tube. They want to be a high
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Doesn't any email originating form an AWS server get big marks against it from most spam filters?
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That perspective was Hayek's primary contribution to economics. Markets are not just short-term allocation systems. In the medium and long term, their primary function is to collect, compute, and communicate granular information about
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Who offered to acquire google?

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