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by xchaotic 6y ago
In the end there will always be critics of UBI just as there were critics of combustion engine and now EVs. It’s progress and not everyone gets along but UBI does circumvent some evolutionary barriers in modern society- the fact that even
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Even if that is all it achieves, inflation is much better than recession or stagnation. It forces people to think of new ways to run business to stay ahead.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
What I quite like about the UBI is that it would raise the bar for bullshit jobs- currently they’re low paid because they are not valuable to society but enough desperate people need the money to persevere with this. I think UBI would make
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Obligatory joke about putting IP lawyers in high orbit first.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
I think you are both right but it’s funny because most customers have this stuff up and running 365 days a year anyway
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Purely anecdotal but we are in the market for a new car when our current lease runs out. We were looking at Tesla and the quality is not there and dealerships means we can’t test etc. The valuation is crazy, VW can literally flip the switc
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by xchaotic 6y ago
That Dr Murray is a spin doctor too. The argument is that its good for the environment. And he says yes but the social problems. Well it doesn’t change the fact that it is one of the best ways to preserve natural environment, and somehow I
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by xchaotic 6y ago
I consider this a success story similar to an NBA star making it. So if 100k is very successful in terms of computer book revenues, then I’d say money should not be the main motivation to do it, as there’s better, more reliable ways to earn
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by xchaotic 6y ago
IMO a bad idea anyway - as a software dev, even a bad one, you can create more value for more people at the same time. As a plumber you're only fixing one thing for one person at a time so there's a hard limit on how valuable that
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by xchaotic 6y ago
As opposed to a virtual token?
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Favicon what a hill to die on
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Not thousands but a few and most of them are measured anyway, like slope with a gyro or battery drain. No need to over complicate it just measure the amount of regen the more you get the more the car weighs.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
As one person in Germany explained to me - there is no corruption at the low level - it is not worth it for the policeman to lose a nice salary and a pension for a few hundred euros bribe. So you will get a speeding ticket everytime and Ger
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Looking at the rest of the economy, public infrastructure projects like this are the only hope to keep the economy running. Yeah there will be some paper debt on municipal books but the net benefit of the money unlocked from this is much hi
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by xchaotic 6y ago
yeah, kayoone response was to the argument “AWS is more expensive but it scales”. In fact it’s not magic and you still have to manage it so worth looking at alternatives such as bare metal, especially at scale.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
You should look into Chinese brands such as Lepin. Their quality is so good that they get fakes of their own!
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by xchaotic 6y ago
FWIW, my kids play some Fortnite and Minecraft. They build some elaborate logic stuff with Redstone. I thought they’d be all over Boost and Mindstorms. Nope. Lego is just us old guys doing skeumorphism. My kids prefer pure software with n
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Interesting notes but I feel like the db itself has been commoditised and the battle is elsewhere now. So anyone building a database engine today, will find out that to make it sustainable they also need an ecosystem on top of it, tooling,
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Not sure if off topic but it wasn’t the RSI that put the nail in the coffin for my programming. It was spine injury and I had to have a surgery. There’s lots of jobs around programming that don’t require as much typing and even when you do
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Moral of the story - if you are a big multinational company you can literally get away with murder and even increase market even with the most botched marketing campaign selling sugar water
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by xchaotic 6y ago
I am still waiting until AI reaches the ultimate in noise cancelling- that meeting could have been an email. AI will automatically send meeting cancellation and most likely meeting notes.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
You eat sugar in some form everyday so it’d be pretty hard and pointless to try and ban it. And potentially more harmful too. Used wisely, just like drugs, sugar can be good for you- that’s why our bodies like it.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
I would also like to know if this can improve productivity. Watching me coding is the most boring thing I can think of so I doubt I would actually ever go back to those videos - I guess it’s more of a physiological trick
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Actually M&A companies underperform in the stock market so it mostly benefits the executives doing the merge.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Or 5G ;)
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Shots of what, vodka? There’s no good vaccine for Malaria that’s approved in the US
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It’s mentioned in TFA - up to 30% of biomass
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Actually, I think what would be more useful is the ability to vote directly on all things and delegate your vote on specific topics or in general when you want not every 4 years. We can have the technology to enable this and it would effec
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by xchaotic 6y ago
It’s crazy how it creeps-everyone wants to be in AI so suddenly you have project managers with AI in their job title. I bet crisis was just a good excuse to get rid of some of that cruft.
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by xchaotic 6y ago
Exactly, is it chemistry based (iron oxide) or pumping water?

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