ahdeanz

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by ahdeanz 5y ago
Coming in with the amplification of alt right conspiracy theorists hot take... How meta.
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by ahdeanz 5y ago
Absolutely, not to mention Eth just rolled out a major update last week. This rambling, bizarre article boils down to a few very basic, extremely played out arguments. Argument 1: Proof of stake concentrates wealth more than proof of work.
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
Not to mention the US government recently sent $1,200 to a huge swath of the country and Alaska has had a similarly sized UBI-like fund for years. If we want we can chop it up and give it to ourselves each month and call it a $100 UBI (some
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
They're literally using the blockchain to distribute the tokens.
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
The shifting goalposts of this argument have been interesting to watch over the last 3-4 years. Stablecoins: I remember plenty of commenters being quite certain that volatility made cryptocurrency unusable. And yet a short time later we hav
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
The UBI Center has a lot of good information about how tax revenue could be raised to pay for UBI: https://www.ubicenter.org/ It's interesting to see more and more rigorous analysis of UBI enter the discussion.
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
You realize you’re talking about likely more than a million life years lost already? Potentially much more damage when you consider dalys due to long term sequilae as well. How much more can we expect if things simply “get back to normal”.
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
This is a classic pre-distribution versus redistribution debate. I’d just note that they are not mutually exclusive strategies and can both be undertaken simultaneously. You can see Sweden has been able to do so but countries like US, Fran
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
Exactly. It was the epidemiological modeling equivalent of suggesting we all inject disinfectant. Only it was worse because it was politically motivated instead of solely stupid.
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
Sorry but you’re completely wrong. If an analysis is making a reasonable effort to use the best or even some sort of relevant methodology in the field maybe. There is an entire field built around the learnings and failures of previous work
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by ahdeanz 6y ago
This is a good way to get people to hide their infections and make stopping spread harder.
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by ahdeanz 7y ago
The term for what you’re talking about is typically referred to as an “income effect”. You could(and people do) make the same argument against the existing social safety net. You can already do no work and simply survive off this net. The t