tmnvix

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by tmnvix 10y ago
But poorer people that receive payments will have a larger share of the overall wealth than they otherwise would have (even while everyone else receives exactly the same payment). BI is essentially about rebalancing wealth distribution.
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by tmnvix 10y ago
> "If everyone has $X dollars, then wouldn't $X become worthless?" No. You are ignoring the fact that this is in effect a redistribution of wealth.
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by tmnvix 11y ago
Despite the huge market demand for property, a lot of it is under utilised. There are some very big houses out there. Like up_and_up, I also spent some time living in a large shared house that was more of a community. Central city, a garden
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by tmnvix 11y ago
I predict that communes will make a comeback. The conditions are ripe. A generation of hipsters (I don't say that in a disparaging way) that have a fetish for authenticity, craft skills, and clean living; are also financially stretched
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by tmnvix 11y ago
The things that make a solid foundation for a fulfilling life are harder to obtain; education in a profession or trade, job security, accommodation, and - most important and noticeable amongst my cohort - the time and money necessary to rai
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by tmnvix 11y ago
Kind of like an arms race then. I sometimes wonder if this is the reason that American vehicles are so much bigger than elsewhere - once a few people have trucks and suv's, it puts pressure on others to buy bigger vehicles (maybe for s
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by tmnvix 11y ago
I know that it's an old stereotype, but in my experience it's true - Americans talk very loudly. I'd really like to know why.
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by tmnvix 11y ago
> With a 30 to 40 per cent local cost premium as a starting point and the history of the Collins class submarine to go by It's a popular myth that the Collins class subs were a failure. They were actually a great success (once the t
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by tmnvix 11y ago
> If modern Americans were content living at the same level of consumption as their 1930's counterparts... There are more expenses involved in just getting by now. Mortgages (and I suspect rents) are well above historical price to i
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by tmnvix 11y ago
Well yes, the internet is broken. That article is inaccessible to me. I am redirected from popsci.com to popsci.com.au which, it appears, doesn't have the article in question. I just get a message telling me "Oops! Something went
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by tmnvix 11y ago
I'm not sure that is true. I suspect it has a lot to do with the market. Anywhere that ebay dominates the online auction / trading business - maybe. Elsewhere, (such as NZ where ebay use is dwarfed by trademe) paypal account holde
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by tmnvix 11y ago
But in that case you aren't blaming the Pacific Islanders for the lack of warmth in Siberia. If you were, I would like to hear their opinion on the matter.
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by tmnvix 11y ago
Yes. It surprises me that people are so quick to so readily assume a biologically deterministic cause when these types of findings are presented. People seem too eager to discount environmental factors - even when it should be obvious to al
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by tmnvix 11y ago
I'm curious to know if he's the smellier one.
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by tmnvix 11y ago
Apologies, I did mean east asian. I'm not sure why, but in Australia, NZ, and the US (possibly Canada too) 'asian' is almost always taken to mean east asian. It always takes me a moment to realise that (e.g.) British people c
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by tmnvix 11y ago
I don't recall the source, but I remember learning that dry earwax is almost unheard of in people of African and European descent. It's most common in Asian people. Even more interesting is that there is apparently a very strong c
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by tmnvix 11y ago
I wouldn't have a problem with this if that wealth were tied up in, say, artworks and other 'intangibles'. I do have a problem with this because that wealth is largely, I assume, representative of claims of ownership of resou
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by tmnvix 11y ago
> a time-waste If this is how you view eating then Soylent is probably the best thing since sliced bread in your mind. For the rest of us... not so much.
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by tmnvix 11y ago
Confusing title. I was expecting an article about a race to deliver a burrito between a courier and a police car. What I found was a shocking story about the abuse of police authority. I know how this will sound, but I'm going to say i
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by tmnvix 11y ago
> Why ask for donations if you are expecting to donate the money away instead of using it to improve your products? Django is very widely used by Mozilla as far as I'm aware. By supporting djangoproject they are improving their (Moz
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by tmnvix 11y ago
I don't dispute that the author may be biased but that doesn't invalidate the statements made. From what I know of Cuba I'm inclined to believe both of those statements. And no, I'm not a fan of the Cuban government. I j