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The largest chunk of federal "cash transfers" is not welfare; it is retirement and disability spending. The rural population is significantly older than the urban population. Bear …

I'd like to add that I feel quite strongly "Universal" and "Basic" are hugely probematic words. You end up with massive digressions immediately.. case in point.. look at this AMA f…

The EIC connection is covered in the history pages, which are fascinating in my opinion: https://rgmii.org/history-of-gmi/ As for a "does this person actually live in this area" cr…

with GMI the conditions are very simple math: what percent of the poverty line are you within? I agree that adding a lot of conditions is part of the problem, but "help those who m…

Yes, within 8 months we went from "how do we make systemic change" to actually doing it. This is proof. And the GMI topics are on that dedicated site, not Coding Horror.

"Why rural Americans? The same amount of cash will go a lot further and likely be more effective in rural areas of other countries." Again, the data goes into an open global reposi…

What's bad about this idea? I'd like to know.

I strongly recommend you check out the book "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America". People -- in this country, not in the third world -- are regularly selling their blo…

it's "yes, and". Help those people who are selling their blood to buy happy meals first. I am not exaggerating. I wish I was. Check out the book "$2.00 a day: Living On Almost Noth…

100% do things locally. If there is a food bank in your area, support it heavily. That's the absolute base of the hierarchy of needs. For example, in that blog post, expand the imm…

well, none of the study data actually supports these claims, for one thing. Take a look. https://rgmii.org/gmi-study-analysis/

"The whole reason he's a public figure is from his blog posts that include a bunch of deliberately placed attitude and bombast of the sort that turns a lot of people away but is se…

I suggest you look at closely at DHH for an example of what you're really talking about.

Thank you! We did it together. More news will be coming soon ;)

Thank you for the kind words! A project should never be about me, personally, anyhow -- it's always joint decisions between the team and the communities actually using the software…

"hired" is a bit of a stretch! Joel had some design input, and the original "let's replace this terrible thing with something better" idea for sure, and Expert-sex-change was the m…

I dunno, I'm with Joel on this one. Not a Java fan.

Hi Ben! We'll always have London..

It's not though; all topics are permanent and searchable. So it's the best of both worlds. Have you ever tried searching chatrooms and 100+ channels? Excruciating.

Well, in Discourse press the pound key to jump to any date or specific post. Press ? to see the full set of keyboard shortcuts.

Try pressing CTRL+F twice and see what happens

The software didn't change; the people did. Starting in 2014, everyone went online.

errr. in Discourse conversations are strictly chronological, 100% of the time.

bravo! the carnegie book is a classic for good reason.

You are thinking of Nim with the white page; Discourse serves up a page with JS disabled. Try it! And of course everything is searchable. We would literally go out of business if w…