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lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Please tidy up your foul language. It makes your otherwise good writing hard to read.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
20% faster single threaded doesn't matter. Websites aren't magically targeting the exact cpu power of your phone. Websites are 2x-10x too slow (and bloated, using up RAM and swapping), not 10%. this is a software problem not a hardware problem.

Even a tiny site like HN has problems on a phone when the comment count gets large
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
A true collector would buy the book regardless. The duplicates are part of the character of the collection. If you like a book that much, gift the extra.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
> iterary readers tend to prefer Goodreads

You mean LibraryThing?
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
It's Pollyanna marketing.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
We should pay those people to improve communications infrastructure and build digital art/ifacts. Moderate Q&A forums, help route questions to the right experts.

Expand social insurance.

Not pay people to waste their time doing fake makework
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
That's what "public" means. It's an investment in economic development and externality reduction.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
You're not wrong, but it's amazing that on the one side you have one VP son's enjoying some sweet nepotism and on the other you have an entire family, but somehow Biden is worse because everyone just expects and excepts that the Trumps are corrupt so it doesn't matter. And of course the electorate can't find a third alternative.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
The Democrats may well fail to rescue the nation from Trump, but the responsibility lies first with the man himself, his party of late, and his supporters who have no problem with the vile behavior and ignorance he proudly displays every day.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
How great must someone's economic prospects be before to earn before it's no longer OK to be homophobic, racist, xenophobic and voting and voting for someone cynically exploit their ignorance?

How is their misery somehow a reason that makes them required to vote for not just a Republican no matter what but the worst possible one who is not even a conservative but looks our for absolutely no one's interests on any side except his own fame and wealth?
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Canada is like the US but lite. Ontario's government just replac car license number plates with blocks of color of the party in power, led by the brother of the former Toronto mayor who smoked crack with gang members, on video, while he was mayor.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/torontosun.com/news/provincial/...
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
The fact remains that millions of people are screaming holy hell about things "Trump does" that they were silent about 4 years ago when Obama did them.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
No because their income it not Basic.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Money is fungible. UBI + progressive income tax is the same as negative income tax plus UBI to cover people with 0 income. The parameters matter not the name of the model.

Also we already have EITC negative income tax in US. So negative income tax is either irrelevant rewording or cruel to people who can't work.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Under 200million working age people Seniors already get BI via SS.

People with good paying jobs would pay additional tax that cancels out UBI.

So only the half earning below median would actually take cash out. That's 100M, or $0.5T net expense, a substantial but not order of magnitude tax increase.

Even median is above living wage, so you could reasonably cut even further.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Small population and they sell oil.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Rural areas are expensive, but heavily subsidized, from roads to Telecom and other utilities. This is only reasonable now because we need people out there growing food. It's crazy to spend money on moving people to the prairie instead of just building more housing in cities where people want to be.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Google/Android fights this sort of abuse by making short lifetimes for smartphones, so adversary can't accumulate many working secondhand phones, or Google can detect and filter them by obsolete OS version :-D
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
...which can be exclusded from car driving predictions.
lonelappde
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
FOFA? FOIA?

How did you make your case? The court trusted your Google takeout? Or you got a subpoena?