creadee

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by creadee 9y ago
> Technological superiority was the reason why the USSR lost the cold war I doubt that. More that the Russian population was fed up with the way their country was being run. And unlike then, internet access now is way more like crack tha
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by creadee 9y ago
It was bought by Russians because it had become the most popular social network for Russians. See... http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17177053
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by creadee 9y ago
It's certainly getting there for some... http://thelancet.com/cms/attachment/2089909101/2075521280/gr...
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by creadee 10y ago
I got curious as to how true it was that the Wright's first flight was hardly reported, so searched New Zealand's Papers Past. Maybe not front page news, but not ignored, either... https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz&#x2F
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by creadee 10y ago
"The reactive model we use is known as object-oriented reactive programming (using a 'push' model), which is both simple to understand and close to spreadsheet's model (i.e. Excel formulas)." That they've manag
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by creadee 10y ago
What I mean is it won't tell you how a BI will affect the economy as a whole. Not that studying a pension scheme will either, but it can probably provide you with insights that are just as useful as YC's study will.
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by creadee 10y ago
I think we can assume those whose income is just a state pension or just a BI won't be able to afford cruises... As with a pension, many of those receiving a BI will have other sources of income, so I think it is a good match. And if y
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by creadee 10y ago
> In Germany, I think, you can only get your state pension when you stop working? I think that's the same in the UK, too. In other countries you can work and still receive the state pension, but most seem to be means-tested... http
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by creadee 10y ago
A basic income is supposed to provide enough to live on. So if rents rise, so should the basic income to cover that rise. And the landlords would notice their taxes rising also. More interesting is what would happen to wages and salaries. I
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by creadee 10y ago
A lot of people around the world have been receiving old-age pensions for quite a while. Many are still healthy and able, with some of those working and some not. Why will this study provide better data about how people will behave when giv
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by creadee 10y ago
If you had a lot of bitcoins and needed a good excuse for how you got them, convincing people you're Satoshi would be one non-taxable way to do it.
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by creadee 11y ago
Maybe some would buy your art instead of paying Netflix to watch other people's art? I think it's safe to say we don't have a clue how things would pan out with a UBI, since none of the examples have been universal yet. A few
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by creadee 11y ago
Yes, you needed either the C128 or the ram-extension for the C64.
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by creadee 11y ago
I attempted to write programs for C64 GEOS, and I found it worse than assembler! It may have been due to the programmer's manual being for an earlier version of GEOS than I was using (v2), but writing programs that didn't crash se
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by creadee 11y ago
What computer today has a culture comparable to the Amiga Demoscene of the 80s and 90s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WtWYmz3iA (Part 1 of 3.) It wasn't just about games and productivity.
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by creadee 12y ago
> The future of programming should be one language for all layers of the stack, from the database to the model to the UI. http://www.red-lang.org/ (a Rebol-like language) promises to do that. And perhaps right down to th