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> Technological superiority was the reason why the USSR lost the cold war I doubt that. More that the Russian population was fed up with the way their country was being run. And un…

It was bought by Russians because it had become the most popular social network for Russians. See... http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17177053

It's certainly getting there for some... http://thelancet.com/cms/attachment/2089909101/2075521280/gr...

I got curious as to how true it was that the Wright's first flight was hardly reported, so searched New Zealand's Papers Past. Maybe not front page news, but not ignored, either...…

"The reactive model we use is known as object-oriented reactive programming (using a 'push' model), which is both simple to understand and close to spreadsheet's model (i.e. Excel …

What I mean is it won't tell you how a BI will affect the economy as a whole. Not that studying a pension scheme will either, but it can probably provide you with insights that are…

I think we can assume those whose income is just a state pension or just a BI won't be able to afford cruises... As with a pension, many of those receiving a BI will have other sou…

> In Germany, I think, you can only get your state pension when you stop working? I think that's the same in the UK, too. In other countries you can work and still receive the stat…

A basic income is supposed to provide enough to live on. So if rents rise, so should the basic income to cover that rise. And the landlords would notice their taxes rising also. Mo…

A lot of people around the world have been receiving old-age pensions for quite a while. Many are still healthy and able, with some of those working and some not. Why will this stu…

If you had a lot of bitcoins and needed a good excuse for how you got them, convincing people you're Satoshi would be one non-taxable way to do it.

Maybe some would buy your art instead of paying Netflix to watch other people's art? I think it's safe to say we don't have a clue how things would pan out with a UBI, since none o…

Yes, you needed either the C128 or the ram-extension for the C64.

I attempted to write programs for C64 GEOS, and I found it worse than assembler! It may have been due to the programmer's manual being for an earlier version of GEOS than I was usi…

What computer today has a culture comparable to the Amiga Demoscene of the 80s and 90s... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6WtWYmz3iA (Part 1 of 3.) It wasn't just about games and …

> The future of programming should be one language for all layers of the stack, from the database to the model to the UI. http://www.red-lang.org/ (a Rebol-like language) promises …