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It's not _universal_. A truly UBI would be handing out a fixed basic income to everyone, irrespective of individual wealth, income or needs.

You jest, but it took forever to add somewhat intuitive layout mechanism to css which allowed you to do what could be done easily with html tables. Vertically centering a div insid…

But price elasticity isn't infinite. A large part of the middle class would be priced out of most modern amenities if these would be produced domestically. Import substitution is o…

Right, it's collusion.

Ironically, they insisted at a very narrow definition of the question and answer format and consequently failed at creating a good wiki. There is no way to approach broader topics.…

Import substitution is one of these ideas that sounds great but seldom works out as intended. Bureaucracies instead of markets now pick winners, and their picks tend to be signific…

No, Europe will not go back to the Stone Age. US services will be substituted for somewhat shittier European services. That’s how it goes. On average, everyone will be worse of. Th…

You certainly did not see an activist hauled off by the police for giving a seminar about censorship the other day.

Have you tried mixing up games with daily moves with rapid and blitz? Mixing “do it right” with “do it fast” training is more effective than doing only one of both.

Completely different. Ruby‘s yield calls a block, which is basically an anonymous method with some special syntax tacked on.

Huh. That’s interesting. I can see something like this be useful in certain circumstances. But I would intuitively assume that gen0 collection is probably a better compromise.

They would start with undesirables like political opponents and minorities first.

Yes. But strangely, he always promised wide simulations of worlds with fascinating emergent behavior. But even his truly great games were never like that. But it took journalism ro…

Even his greatest successes were never the breathtaking, revolutionary advances he promised. Populous, Syndicate, Themen Park, Magic Carpet, Dungeon Keeper were nothing but a fairl…

I never understood the extreme hate. "Pain"? We’re talking about video games, for Christ’s sake.

Why can’t everyone be as productive as Steve? When I assign something to him, it’s done in a week! When I want you to add a tiny feature, it takes three!

That would remove a good percentage of correct answers. The obvious solution is to fix their weird and completely dysfunctional moderation.

Nah, that’s demonstratively wrong dogmatism. Obviously it’s not a good idea to take three times your national GDP in debt to build three oversized airports next to each other becau…

PPP is meant to account for things like a haircut in San Francisco creating way more economic output than a haircut in rural China, and therefore inflating the numbers. It doesn’t …

Unfortunately, we are not allowed to print the world reserve currency like there is no tomorrow, and we do not possess the qualities of the US that make them the natural haven for …

Despite all its shortcomings, the USSR did pretty well in areas they really cared about, like tank production. And it’s very difficult to compare the value of a t80 with the value …

That’s not really what I meant. Ads rarely get through my Adblock anyways. No, the problem with the dead internet isn’t that powerful entities flooded it with artificially generate…

The hyper commercialization of the internet has turned people into spam bots. That’s why todays internet, with billions of users feels less populated than what we had in the early …

Mental illness is a huge risk factor for becoming homeless, which in turn will escalate any mental health issue to a massive degree. Better access to treatment and better safeguard…

Well, I’m sure OP got her job back as soon as it was revealed that the person she was accusing as a war criminal with blood on his hands was indeed an asshole.