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by zentiggr 6y ago
I can't see your logic. If someone is making ends meet by working at your (illegally low) wage, then having that wage _plus_ UBI means that they are UBI rate / existing wage times better off. The wage's percentage of total in
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Having been homeless and having made some drastic choices to get to where I am now, what a tremendously offensive thing to say. There absolutely are people who can't currently, or may never be able to, steer their life in a useful dire
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by zentiggr 6y ago
You think suburban people stay home all the time? What sort of overgeneralization is that? Suburbs = guaranteed vehicle = travel not just mandatory for commuting, but at will, as desired.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
That hasn't been a huge problem as minimum wages have been raised. In theory, yeah, sure, that is the textbook phrasing. But the lowest tier jobs that are going to be affected is this scenario aren;t remotely close to the largest perce
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I think 'paltry' is an assumption... since nothing is implemented yet, how can you say the future, undecided amount will turn out to be paltry? I do agree with the regulating capitalism better part. I just wish I had a better ide
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Because like any other price gouging circumstances, attorneys general can get involved, city councils, county, state... if landlords in particular want to start charging more than the market can bear that can be stopped. I don't get wh
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by zentiggr 6y ago
On the anecdotal other hand, I've moved eighteen times in my life. Some of us not only don't mind, but given the opportunity, enjoy new places and new situations.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
People already get preyed on every second of every day. I don't think there would be the surge of losses you imagine.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Unfortunately, that's had a really poor track record this past century or so. I don't have a good answer either... I just agree that UBI seems like a net positive.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
There should be a distinction here between awareness of bad ideas, and engagement with those who just spew whatever indignant crap they get. Blacklisting the slime spewers frees up that time/attention for more useful information and en
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Or Factor style, [ SELF FOOT SHOOT ] 1000 REP
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Wait, Google feels any obligations at all? I thought they only made decisions based on what's most likely to maximize their growth?
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Maybe Google needs to take the final step in this evolution. Let's have Google show nothing but quick answers, nothing but their own info boxes etc. No search results, nothing external. That way, anyone looking for any other results HA
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Every time in the last couple of years that DDG hasn't had a decent result, and I've used '!g' to see what else might come up, I've been very disappointed... usually a grab bag of crap sites with barely any relevan
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Awww, you mean parts of the monolith would have to compete on merit with all the other companies that are having to compete on merit? What a terrible shame...
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Use an adblocker _and_ visits sites that are more likely to show you a full selection of flight info and the actual lowest fares?
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by zentiggr 6y ago
And who gives a crap about the livelihoods of the sources Google pulled that info from and now will never see your traffic. You think Google did all the original research and information creation to populate their answers? And since when do
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Put *.google.com in an adblocker and see how many sites break. There is no way to avoid them completely.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Possession with intent to sell cocaine on school grounds.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
One of my high school teachers framed a few math questions around calculating probabilities for unusual combinations of items. Took me a couple of questions to realize he was fishing for lottery / scratch ticket optimization methods.
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Society and people's jobs / skills can be shifted rather more easily than bodily systems, though. Just look at the difference in the average day's tasks from 1820 to today. Provide the right kinds of support, retraining, or
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Sounds like somebody's manager will be calling that customer back, voiding an invoice, and putting them in touch with the correct staff to help them with the configuration. And somebody is leaving the sales team for either a makework j
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Finally, after years and years and years of being told over and over and the bottom line never improving. I got doxxed with the Equifax breach. How many other companies in the world will take someone's word that they are me based on th
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I think I'm having a somewhat uncharacteristic relativist thought... I feel that the indiscriminate and nearly unregulated collection of any data any company feels like grabbing hold of _should_ be countered. I feel like the wrongness
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Either the data is something public (name, address, etc) in which case, whatever. Or it's data that was gathered (in line of business, for example) and its destruction is anywhere from more secure to an inconvenience. Or it's data
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Oh, they'll have to say something when they suddenly stop doing business until a backup can get pulled, and the new db instances actually secured before putting them up again. Even a bland 'we lost parts of our data and we will ha
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by zentiggr 6y ago
Fine, what about every poor person who gets their data stolen from an unsecured database, and gets their identity stolen? Yours is also a rich person statement. Unsecured databases are a huge loss for everyone. Anything that forces a shift
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by zentiggr 6y ago
I worked desktop support for a few years in a large US based corp. My worst day deploying a new machine was a laptop to a dev who came in and didn't understand what I meant when I asked him to unlock the machine so we could log him in
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by zentiggr 6y ago
But then how would the private prison companies maintain their revenue streams? I swear if we forbade private incarceration, we'd see a major change in both total prison population, and the sort of "crimes" people are shangha
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by zentiggr 6y ago
It feels to me like too many conservatives identify with the goal of simply having or making the most money, and damn any other consequences. How do we demonize greed / powerlust, and make cooperative goals more attractive?

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