umadon

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Who's Decoupling from Whom?(asiatimes.com)
2 points by umadon 6y ago|0 comments
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New Study Documents Depleted Uranium Impacts on Children in Iraq(ahtribune.com)
80 points by umadon 7y ago|38 comments
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Failed GM mosquito control experiment may have strengthened wild bugs(newatlas.com)
2 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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The Degrowth Delusion(opendemocracy.net)
1 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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by umadon 7y ago
No, not all. For example not a positive right to healthcare. UBI is transparently an attempt to redistribute tax income to private companies such that no opportunity for profit stays with or is limited by government. UBI would mean no more
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by umadon 7y ago
Sure, just weird that everyone is enamored of a "literary" truth at the expense of grown-up historical research.
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by umadon 7y ago
I think this is the message the investor class is trying to send to ordinary people: "If we can't find a place to invest at a reasonable rate of return, we will find a way to loot your bank accounts."
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by umadon 7y ago
Solzhenitsyn's Ex‐Wife Says ‘Gulag’ Is ‘Folklore’: https://www.nytimes.com/1974/02/06/archives/solzhenitsyns-ex...
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by umadon 7y ago
UBI can also be inflated away to nothing. It's a neoliberal scam.
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Manufacture of a smartphone creates as much CO2 as ten years of use (2018)(fastcompany.com)
3 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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by umadon 7y ago
That would certainly be much better, and I actually came to the Forbes piece from an article that pointed how little of these rare earth metals e-bikes use compared to electric cars: https://www.treehugger.com/bikes/ele
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by umadon 7y ago
Maybe it's a bit gauche to comment first on your own link, but these quotes from the report seem most salient: "In the long-term, widespread personal vehicle ownership does not appear to be compatible with significant decarbonizat
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Forget Electric Cars Says U.K. Parliamentary Report, Get Brits on Bikes Instead(forbes.com)
2 points by umadon 7y ago|3 comments
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The electric car as a talisman of false hope(jussipasanen.com)
138 points by umadon 7y ago|330 comments
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Cyclist and Pedestrian Deaths Skyrocket in 2018 as Motorists Stay Safe(usa.streetsblog.org)
3 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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Nuclear weapons: experts alarmed by new Pentagon 'war-fighting' doctrine(theguardian.com)
3 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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by umadon 7y ago
There are some really interesting comments in this thread, but I wonder what people think: Where does value come from?
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by umadon 7y ago
But where does that value come from? Did Bezos create it?
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by umadon 7y ago
UBI smells like a trojan horse for privatization of what remains of social security, disability, unemployment, etc. I would much rather have a robust national pension system than "Uber, but for retirement."
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by umadon 7y ago
Here's how you perpetrate a wealth transfer from average homeowners to the rich: 1. Deregulate mortgage lending to cause a housing bubble. 2. When it bursts, bail out the banks, and let people lose their homes, resulting in the homes b
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by umadon 7y ago
Right, and the enormous pressure constantly put on the average person by advertising and work to somehow be a super being: fitter, happier, more productive, etc, as the fella says.
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by umadon 7y ago
My favorite instance of this was an Amazon review that rated a book in part based on cost per page of text.
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by umadon 7y ago
I wouldn't pay to look at Western media either.
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by umadon 7y ago
I would settle for 2 four-hour days, I think.
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by umadon 7y ago
Uhh but weren't the maple trees there before that?
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by umadon 7y ago
"I appreciate your point of view, FWIW I believe that I'm doing net positive work for the world." Well, you're wrong. You believe this because you're getting paid a lot of money to.
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Critique(ebb-magazine.com)
2 points by umadon 7y ago|0 comments
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by umadon 7y ago
HN like other social online spaces is not neutral or free from influence. For example I would imagine upvotes are trivial to astroturf. A quick search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=purchase+upvotes+hackernews&ia=soc...
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by umadon 7y ago
No amount of individual behavioral changes are going to cut it. The entire economy needs to be transformed. Does anyone seriously believe the people who control the economy will just let this happen?
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by umadon 7y ago
Yes, here in the West we are too moral for mass state surveillance.

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