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by zanny 8y ago
In economics needs aren't actual physical human needs. The homeless need shelter and the starving need sustenance, but they have none because they don't create economic demand for it because they have no money. People would only b
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by zanny 8y ago
In large part I feel like that phenomenon emerges from how significant a good degree can be on your future income. For many people its the best investment they make - $200k with interest and four years now for several million of extra incom
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by zanny 8y ago
It is true that the best place to fund UBI is not from a pure income tax. In the same way raising the minimum wage inflates the general cost of goods, but at a lesser rate than the poorest earners see their incomes rise, having a UBI with a
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not irreversible. Just like you can start UBI whenever you want you can technically stop it too. Yea, people would modify their behavior to account for it and thus just eliminating it outright would cause a lot of transitional pains, bu
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by zanny 8y ago
Wealth concentration is a threat to democracy. Even if you start from perfect representation, no corruption, and wholly equal influence in government between all citizens, those who have wealth will use it to influence results of said elect
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by zanny 8y ago
I believe that is how the country code TLDs do work, but most nations (who are given ownership of them) they just hire a corporation to sell domains and make rent seeking gross revenue off a few characters of a URL. But those are eclipsed b
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by zanny 8y ago
I'm not really well informed about the politics of DNS at the top, but I've always had the impression ICANN has been grossly negligent / corrupted over the last twenty years. At the end of the day there is profound capital in
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by zanny 8y ago
Its a shame Armenia controls .am because ste.am isn't in use right now.
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by zanny 8y ago
If you are expendable expect to be exploited. Its why so many programmers go out of their way to become needed - if you are the only one who properly understands critical code in your business, you have leverage. If they can replace you w
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by zanny 8y ago
Often times, the most exploited workers are the ones who love their job. Because of that, they don't ask for raises, seek workers rights, or diversify their lifestyle. They sleep in their car in the parking lot making the boss millio
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by zanny 8y ago
I still wouldn't even if I had the money because if you get 500k in donations for equipment and staff salary thats 500k you can take out of your revenue to line the pockets of executives.
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by zanny 8y ago
There is a substantial difference on bringing an amendment to the floor for vote and letting all those who disagree with democracy vote against it and have that vote enshrined in permanent record for all to see versus not proposing it at al
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not nearly an equal cudgel. Generally the democrats want federal institutions to be in operation while Republicans want to disrupt and defund them. This correlates to 9 of 10 shutdowns (one in Bill Clintons term I'd consider him ca
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by zanny 8y ago
How exactly is being legally forced to come in to a job, especially one that isn't even paying you, not either slavery or at least indentured servitude?
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by zanny 8y ago
Google would only be able to sell new versions of Android, mainly starting with 10. They can't revoke the Apache license on Android through version 9. On top of that, Android 7 already switched to OpenJDK. It no longer uses Harmony as
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by zanny 8y ago
To be fair, plenty of first world children can be perfectly competent secure savages with self-centered complexes and self-gratification perpetuated by their parents and family wealth. Kids really don't learn empathy innately. It has t
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by zanny 8y ago
Its why anything political, which ends up being just about everything, feels like a distraction. All these problems fundamentally trace back to a lack of representation and influence in government by the commoner, and that requires radical
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by zanny 8y ago
I grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s in an apartment complex where about a dozen of us kids in the area spent all day out and about. We built clubhouses in the woods, played Pokemon and Yugioh on the sidewalks, and as we got older star
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by zanny 8y ago
The fairness doctrine by the FCC had a lot of issues but simply removing it with no replacement sowed the seeds for blatant manipulation of people via media and "news". There are a scant few independent non-profits I'd consid
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by zanny 8y ago
I have a shelf of old parts including a Pentium 4 ATX board with working CPU and some DDR2 I found. I have a dozen or so hard drives that still pass all their SMART readings (even if most have old age and wear level warnings). I have a few
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by zanny 8y ago
The adage is perfectly reasonable when you recognize that influence in government comes not from popularity but from money. I always refer back to the Cambridge study that correlated money to legislation and that citizens will has no impact
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by zanny 8y ago
The most hilarious part of the narrative is that, when talking about the US federal government at least, a huge chunk of its inefficiency is right near the top of its spending. Social security isn't waste. Its money that goes from taxe
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by zanny 8y ago
A good question to ask is how many orders of magnitude of what the average person makes do you need to make to be "incentivized" to be productive. Would the current billionaire stop participating in the economy if they suddenly co
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by zanny 8y ago
France provides healthcare and education. It doesn't guarantee food, shelter, or power. Of course there are relief programs in place if you are without, but there is a substantial difference - as can be seen in any countries welfare pr
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by zanny 8y ago
Its an endemic problem in almost all industries that upward mobility means "management" despite it often being a completely divergent and esoteric skillset from the job you were hired on for, and often one that is less resource in
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by zanny 8y ago
Plenty of totalitarian states have laid off citizens. By the millions.
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by zanny 8y ago
How is it that billion dollar companies with legions of employees cannot recognize why people don't use their product? What is ebay? The online auction site. If you have something to sell, you should be going there. If you want som
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by zanny 8y ago
Pre 900 series Nvidia GPUs would, I think, since Nouveau wasn't forced to use signed nvidia firmware until the 900.
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by zanny 8y ago
A lot of people are talking along the lines of "oh AMD is nice but... Nvidia". No, in 2019 all AMD GPUs this decade support OpenGL through 4.5, support Vulkan, and still really don't have a great OpenCL situation (rocm is out
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by zanny 8y ago
In terms of material costs for the structure, no, high rises aren't the optimum of affordability. But when you factor in the infrastructure requirements on the scale of demand for "the city" you can easily find that building

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