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I have not used this myself, but as serendipity would have it, I came across it the other day: https://github.com/rudism/Ficdown

15. Click on any of the links in the Trending Now section at the bottom of the article.

Such a horrible and sad disease. I was introduced to it through (surprisingly) a Jeep club affiliated charity in the United States called Crawling for Reid. A few thousand off-road enthusiasts get together in South Pittsburg, TN to have a good time and raise funds for a small child with this unfortunate affliction. $120,000 USD was raised last year with record attendance and this year is set to raise even more. In particular, as I understand it, this charity benefits the little boy (Reid), primarily, as well as ongoing research. If you feel so inclined to donate, you may do so here http://crawlingforreid.com/donate/.

I'm a complete armchair economist and realize that a lot of really smart people are tackling this, but, in my limited understanding of supply and demand, my concern would be that a new floor for basic goods and services would materialize due to the new buying power of those on Basic Income. Doesn't that artificially inflate the base price of those goods and services without ever having a natural (market-based) opportunity to decrease? I'm interested in any literature that might address this basic principal, because I suspect it may be more complicated than I am imagining. This is sort of tangential (from a healthcare perspective), but I'm also interested in any research from a historical perspective pertaining to adjusted price history as health insurance became more popular / commonplace within society (probably, in particular, American society as I'm sure it has been allowed to flourish for much longer here). Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be most appreciated.

I'm also assuming that they had to take a bit of a lowest common denominator approach to m2m communication given that they have cell-based (read - costs amazon money) and wifi (does not cost amazon money) enabled versions of the device. If they tracked every page read and sent a log periodically, that _could_ get expensive quickly on the part of the cell-based versions depending on what network agreement they have (numerex, for example, still charges by the kb for this type of low byte traffic). Given that the rules needed to be the same for both types of devices, you couldn't necessarily have an if(wifi){ //send log} else { //send last page syncd} code branch. This is just a giant guess given that I know nothing of amazon's partner network agreements.

I'm inclined to agree with the consensus here, so far. As soon as I saw that 38.8 hours a week was the consideration for "long hours", the rest of the article became suspect.

I'm not sure when the site was updated, but it looks like it goes the way of muxtape - http://getpopcornti.me/

Edit: Looks like this was written almost a couple weeks ago (March 14th, 2014 according to the time stamp on their medium post https://medium.com/p/93f890b8c9f4)

My sincere apologies for the sarcasm, but you mean to tell me that your previously free source of massive one click fan reach is no longer free?! There is no possible way that this was intentional ...

The Rolling Stone interview that this story is based on is actually pretty fascinating - I recommend it: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/bill-gates-the-roll.... While his opinions on the myriad subjects that interests him and his foundation can be argued and debated (and whose opinions couldn't, honestly), you cannot deny his pragmatism.

"And if they do become entrepreneurs, the companies they start will be far less successful than those started by degree holders." - suggests a zero-sum scenario which, by my anecdote back of the napkin assessment (which is all that seems to be required to be of merit), is ridiculous, pure and simple.

Another great piece on the same topic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/article/lucasarts-eulogy-...

Key quote? "If the cost of a fun game is a failed marriage, then it may be time to admit that the cost is too high." - agreed.

I've heard this figured bandied about quite often, as well, and I think it's mostly anecdotal and should be taken as a general rule rather than empirical fact.