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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Maybe using a resource based UBI rather than a money based UBI could help avoid this problem?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's seems to me the massive advertising machine in the US produces far more collateral damage (in the form of environmental degradation from people buying junk designed with planned obsolescense) than gambling.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Tobacco kills around 10x more people than heroin (at least in the US).
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Regulation itself is not always "socially useful" for most people
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Ask HN: To what degree is online discourse manipulated by astroturfing/botnets?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I just signed up for Mastodon, and it was super easy to do. I don't what it could be considered difficult, even for non technical users.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
This McLuhan quote seems quite relevant and prescient to this thread: >Since Sputnik and the satellites, the planet is enclosed in a manmade environment that ends "Nature" and turns the globe into a repertory theater to be prog
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Oh boy, what's bound to be another thread full of "delete your Facebook", the new and improved "I don't own a television" statement. Maybe you're being downvoted because this statement is just as clich
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
So it's a redundant fail safe then? Why remove a failsafe?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
What about it being decentralized makes it useless, and not an alternative?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It's a useless ad hominem.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The system was specifically designed so the masses can force change without violence. It was also specifically stated by the system architects that their safeguards would inevitably become null. With that being said, I do not advocate s
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>what's the problem with the state owning all the equity in that tracker, and redistributing the proceeds to the population? Hierarchical, centralized corruption of the state is the problem, as evidenced by failed communist implemen
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I agree. However, fatal errors within the money system (i.e. climate change, cyclical poverty) must be addressed, which is what this whole thread is about.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
According to this [1], it was never an official CERN project, but rather a side project of his. “Had the technology been proprietary, and in my total control, it would probably not have taken off. You can’t propose that something be a unive
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Money is not a panacea for valuation. If it were, then ending climate change would be much more profitable.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, worked hard, and yet he still gave his hard work to the public.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Agreed, the first point reads like the OP is evading the Stasi >Dont use your real name, gender, nationality, etc. Just create a random identity
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>The idea that an ISP could just arbitrarily block a given site without being paid a fee and without getting sued to oblivion is silly. From the summary items listed here[1], NN explicitly bans blocking of websites. If NN is repealed, wo
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I agree Google is a definite global threat, but how are you so sure that ISPs won't begin charging for access to internet content like they do for cable content?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>you realise at 2 year old, when you really want to play with that ball, or lift that rock, or pretty much anything grown up do Most two year olds can't form complex sentences, and so have yet to be indoctrinated into their culture&
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Maybe there's a balance to be struck between the two ideologies: that seemingly insignificant individual actions can have profound effects, while also accepting the fact that there are infinite environmental variables that we have negl
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Net neutrality favors giant, centralized entities that have more than enough issues of their own...Google and Netflix What about the next level up, the ISP? Doesn't repealing NN favor those giant centralized entities such as AT&a
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
That would be illegal, without having her sign a 100 page EULA.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>any ideological bias is only due to it's impact on shareholder value This would be the primary source of ideological demonetization. I'm not quite sure how this would be any less objectionable than developers at GOOG demonetiz
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Ask HN: How to access websites blocked by ISP if NN is repealed in the US?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How long do you estimate it will take you to pay back the loan?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Zen is more like a philosophy of psychological judo rather than a religion, at least for me
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
You may be interested in the writings of Marshall McLuhan. He was a philosopher and analyst of media who wrote about the effects of television (and all other forms of media) and gained popularity in the 60's and 70's. One point he

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