velcrovan

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811.
by velcrovan 8y ago
It hasn't done so in countries where it has been implemented, so your fears seem groundless.
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by velcrovan 8y ago
What it proves is that if you look at a representative crowd of a 1,000 people who do have skin in the game, you will find 1 person who is working class. That one worker? If stock prices go up he will end up perhaps 1 more month's
813.
by velcrovan 8y ago
We were originally discussing who benefits from higher stock prices; the answer is overwhelmingly, by a huge, huge, margin, those benefits go to the top 10% of Americans by wealth. The fact that a tiny portion of workers also own some stock
814.
by velcrovan 8y ago
> Working class Americans have lots of skin in the game in the market through 401k's, retirement plans, pensions, traditional investments. No, they don't, this is a common misunderstanding. Including all 401ks, IRAs, directly-
815.
by velcrovan 8y ago
OK, I’ve been wondering if I could get this data. Now I want mine.
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by velcrovan 8y ago
Finland's experiment was not actually a UBI experiment. I mean, originally it was going to be a really big basic income trial... but by the time they finalized it, they’d chickened out and made it basically a tweak to their existing un
817.
by velcrovan 8y ago
Without confirmation from Pat, I am 99% sure this is bullshit. Nice try, though.
818.
by velcrovan 8y ago
It's not really the same force! And it's very easy to observe that they're not the same by looking at city, county and state boundaries in the US. The governments of those jurisdictions don't require "citizenship&qu
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by velcrovan 8y ago
I think what's sad about formats per se is that you rely on toolmakers to implement them, and to decide how to translate them into the target format; and for all toolmakers to support them in ways that are coherent with each other. You
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by velcrovan 8y ago
This tradeoff between the relative virtues of PDF and HTML is a good argument for looking at Pollen (pollenpub.com) a framework for designing your own markup language that is capable of targeting HTML and PDF (or any output you need: audio,
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by velcrovan 8y ago
If you're reading the Jaynes book, you should absolutely follow it up with "The Muse in the Machine" by David Gelernter. (Gelernter also happens to be one of the surviving unabomber victims)
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by velcrovan 9y ago
My place of employment still runs on BASIC. Inventory management, shipping, order processing, invoicing, accounting, purchase orders. It's kind of a nightmare. It works. But, it's a nightmare.
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by velcrovan 14y ago
VC here...How did you get this? Did it come in response to a support ticket? Did you ask them for a full refund? Is half of your original investment $100 or more like $1000?