lastyearman

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by lastyearman 2y ago
Given that life quality is quite high in the Nordics and they are happiest countries on earth I'm not so sure it's a bad system.
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by lastyearman 2y ago
Why not take money from payroll and give directly to retirees like they do in the Nordics.
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by lastyearman 3y ago
Here's real world ranges of various EV's in just about any weather: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzv...
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by lastyearman 3y ago
He is a far-right, pro-russia, anti-vax troll. We shouldn't.
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by lastyearman 5y ago
I have the same theory. Only competive advantage Toyota has right now is thin margins through massive scale (and thus relatively cheap prices) and reliability. First point is not yet possible with EVs and reliability may not be as big of an
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by lastyearman 5y ago
But would you ever invest in an idea that could be easily copied?
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by lastyearman 9y ago
Just cache all images in apple's servers (even if the user doesn't open the mail) by default and tracking is useless.
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by lastyearman 9y ago
If productivity stays the same, then all we can ever do is to shift wealth around. That is all there is to it. So the important questions are: does UBI increase or decrease productivity and how is wealth divided after UBI.
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by lastyearman 9y ago
What happens when consumers learn that they might have ended in a high price segment? Can they trust any seller to give them a good price anymore? You have to start comparing every item with a dozen web sites to make sure you're not be
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by lastyearman 9y ago
Whatever his motivations may be, we couldn't possibly allow any one person to decide over our finite resources. So, how to stop that from happening? Should there be a some kind of cap? Or maybe take some progressive amount from everyon
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by lastyearman 9y ago
How could that be? Suppose Musk controlled all the resources in the world. What motivation would he have to allocate them fairly?
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by lastyearman 9y ago
Every time I have to glue together pieces of SQL at runtime I have to agree. It seems crazy to me that there is no "native" way to query relational DB's (yes, there are some SQL factories for certain languages)
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Debt is new currency. If everyone is buying their cars with credit, soon nobody can afford to buy with cash. Around here even if you have decent wage right now, but not a stable job, you can't get credit to buy a house, while someone w
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by lastyearman 10y ago
I was making software for Nokia phones when the first iPhone came out. As an outsider, it seemed to me that they realised iPhones were going to be the future, went full panic-mode and never recovered. N96 was already dead by the time it cam
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by lastyearman 10y ago
This is outside of Helsinki but student benefit is 460e per month and I know many who can live without taking on debt or working part time. Also If you manage to buy a (small) condo, the interest is basically below zero right now, so 560e c
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by lastyearman 10y ago
What if it turns out that having more equal society and less of these demeaning jobs is better for everyone, including the productive people?
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Well, there is limited amount of resources. So when someone buys a big house, someone else must have a smaller house.
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Except you can just barely live on student benefit. Either you take debt or work, so I don't think the two can be compared. For me I was bumping on the limits while on receiving student benefit, so it made no sense for me to work any m
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Not entirely related to the original point, but I believe in the case of scenario 0 vs 1 market benefits by having more rational actors. That is, if you're not dirt poor, you're able to make better decisions and that makes markets
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Few reasons come to mind: The way capitalism is designed is that not everyone can have a job. So you pay the poor not to starve and come loot your house. Also, I believe, there was a study suggesting that more equal society is better for ev
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by lastyearman 10y ago
But surely, on average, you end up paying one way or the other? That money has to come somewhere, right? Either you end up paying by buying the advertised products or paying the site directly. Why not just cut the middle men?
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by lastyearman 10y ago
There is no such thing as free money. If you're not creating more work (or more productive work) then it is simply taking from someone and giving to someone else. However, the point is that through automation we're creating more w
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Look at Scandinavia. Generous welfare, not exactly known for high crime.
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by lastyearman 10y ago
But one could say that he does not own the "means of production" but instead it is owned by community, which has democratic control (for example a fork might become more popular). I'd say that is a trait of socialism and perh
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by lastyearman 10y ago
In Scandinavia everyone is already guaranteed a certain amount of income by law. If you can't get it by working, then it is provided by welfare. I don't see UBI being any different. But you're right. I don't know how peo
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by lastyearman 10y ago
The rich have nothing to do with UBI. It's the middle class, or new machines/automation, that we can only take from. Lets do a little thought experiment. Lets forget money and make some assumptions. First, lets assume that after U
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Afaik income inequality has been rising despite the fact that markets have been deregulated. Of course the two may have no correlation, but if the current trajectory continues, then I suppose it's inevitable that something has to be do
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by lastyearman 10y ago
What if it were true that free market nor capitalism no longer benefit the poor, what do we do then? I think this can be argued since all markets are already regulated (thus not entirely free) nor is capitalism taken to its logical extreme
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Have you ever done the math of much taxes you actually pay (hint: products you buy include a ton of taxes)? Anyway, taxes don't matter. All taxes return to circulation (unless government is radically changing economic policy). What peo
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by lastyearman 10y ago
Everyone benefits from a strong middle class and not-too-poor class. Including you. Also I believe there is an argument to be made that more equal society is better for everyone involved.

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