cgore

Basic Income is literally taking money from people by force of law (and therefore, threat of violence) and giving it to other people, against the first person's will. It is communism and completely antithetical to any reasonable definition of libertarianism. An argument that it's less bad than other forms of government-sponsored theft isn't exactly a solid libertarian argument.

That's kind of missing his point. "Russell's Teapot" is a mental exercise that states the person making the claim that is nonstandard of current thought needs to provide proof. He's suggesting that there IS some way to provide proof perhaps, one way or the other.

My old 1978 Chrysler Cordoba has it behind the license plate in the back, so you can fill up from either side, and so it doesn't interfere with the lines of the car. I think they stopped doing it because rear-end collisions are so common though :(

I don't know about oil, but I thought airplanes were rich people's silly toys at first? And then WW1 happened.

If he actually manages to halt massive importation of cheap labor, which directly competes with these people, both less-educated rural whites and less-educated urban blacks will quickly see wage increases. If you have tons of under-educated poor people without jobs, the last thing you want to do is import more.

I think that too is on the company. A good one-level-up manager will check up on their underlings, the managers in question, and figure out who's good and bad and resolve the situation.

Wow, a year ago. Reading the title made me assume it was just now, and somehow related. Good catch.

I think you're definitely getting at my point. There's the recognition of your inherent freedom of speech in the Bill of Rights, but it is not derived from the piece of parchment, just recognized by it. And if the US Federal Government can't impede that right, why should some random corporation that's never even turned a profit be able to?

Or, you know, we could actually have freedom of speech for everybody. Crazy talk included, whatever your definition of crazy happens to be.

Some banks might use it. It's kind of like if there was a Napster clone in 1995 endorsed by a few record companies.

And I'll pass a law to ban poverty by 2525.

Yeah, and that's exactly my point. Okay, I'll act like an owner. Make me an owner.

"we expect people to act like an owner"

This has got to be the most stupid thing I've ever heard in an interview. Okay then, I'll act like an owner. Make me an owner. Oh, wait, you didn't mean it like that?

I wonder if they are going to release a Mac Pro too, or if this is it.

Student loans are a bad idea. It's debt slavery, plain and simple. And most college degrees are less than useless these days anyway. $100k in student loan debt, and a liberal arts degree from Noname U? You've got a problem.

No mouse on a Mac? What's next, no BSOD on Windows?

I've got an iPhone X in the mail that I'm waiting patiently for, and I've got the 7+ currently. It's a really good camera ... for a phone camera. But it absolutely sucks compared to a real digital camera. They are all basically pinhole cameras with no optical zoom and a really small sensor size, so they will always be worse than a real dedicated digital camera, especially one with interchangeable lenses.

Mostly software issues, locking up and rebooting, stuff like that.

It used to be that putting a video on YouTube guaranteed it was available on basically any device anywhere. I guess Google is ruining that too now.

I've got one of those, it's a piece of crap. I mostly use my Apple TV.

Until Google just decides to ban older players.

It used to be that putting a video on YouTube guaranteed it was available on basically any device anywhere. I guess Google is ruining that too now.

It used to be that putting a video on YouTube guaranteed it was available on basically any device anywhere. I guess Google is ruining that too now.

I love this:

    if(CHRISTMAS){
        return “PUT NUTMEG IN EVERYTHING”
    } else {
        return “PUT SORROW IN EVERYTHING”`
    }

Little projects like this are a pretty good way to play around and learn.

"We'll have real AI in just a few years, we swear!"

-- Every AI researcher since 1950.

"All the techies helplessly watched as their mostly useless, perennially over-funded ideas exploded in their faces and made them as penniless as the poor people they'd previously stepped over to get their lattes."

"former high-rolling, coke-huffing, web-famous dot-com douchebags around town suddenly found themselves working in cafes, bitterly wondering why the meritocracy had forsaken them."

Wow, journos must be really jealous of techies if that article is any indication.

Because it has the distinct possibility of replacing a large segment of the current banking complex?

A standard medical ID bracelet is probably a better way to handle this for anyone out there that has a DNR signed.

That's the way it would change. Some places are a lot more open to 'directionless' work and others are amazingly focused on deadlines and the like. If a place is cool with you spending X% of your time on open source work that may or may not be directly related to your 'real' work than that's a much nicer place to be.