3d printing is not the approach that will yield organs. My money is on the work Michael Levin is doing on bioelectronics, where you essentially “command” (/convince) cells to turn into the organ you need by talking with them in cellular electronic language.
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codersfocus commented on Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need? medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sp... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Your suggestion basically amounts to: digitize and centralize welfare. There are already electronic cards for food. If the money is drawn directly from the central bank as credit instead of from the state welfare fund, it won't make it any more efficient. In fact any experimentation among states will disappear. Also, if CBDCs become a thing, you could see a slow slide into behavior control. What people eat, and where they live becomes a concern for the central bank, because they get to decide who the approved vendors are for those things. "Central" anything is a design smell in most cases.
Getting rid of cash also requires proper paper work and identification so you can sign up for the CBDC wallet. In that case you're excluding the very people from the system who need it the most.
I never said get rid of cash, CBDCs and cash can coexist.
Also it would make welfare more efficient, as you can garnish earnings from citizens to repay back the debt, whereas now it's just a gift.
codersfocus commented on Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need? medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sp... · Posted by u/rbanffy
In this scheme, what prevents a central bank from abusing its position and denying you access to food due to ideological concern? Cash (for basic stuff) spends the same regardless of my political affiliation or criminal history. An employer can do the same, but I can get a new employer with some effort. I'm not sure I can switch to a different central bank easily.
CBDCs and cash dollars can coexist. If you don't like borrowing from the government, no one is forcing you, you can earn and spend as you do now.
codersfocus commented on Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need? medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sp... · Posted by u/rbanffy
>"...credit relationships with the central bank"
Will that come with the healthy interest rate one could never hope to repay?
Interest is not always fulfilled by usury.
For example, friends lend each other money without usury simply because the "interest" comes from helping a friend.
Similarly, the central bank which is an agent of the government fulfills its interest by having healthy citizens. So there probably wouldn't be usury.
Instead, earnings from the citizen would be garnished if they had debt.
codersfocus commented on Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need? medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sp... · Posted by u/rbanffy
UBI is the wrong approach.
Once CBDCs become a thing, citizens should have the ability to have direct credit relationships with the central bank.
We can then transition from a cash based monetary system to an accrual based one (similar to how businesses do their accounting.)
Public benefits, then, rather than being given out like it is currently (e.g. you get $200 for food stamps) will instead be based on allowing you to draw credit.
So, the eGovCreditCard would for example always allow any citizen to draw $200 per month for food expenses.
Potentially, if we want to do more generous policies a la "UBI," we could add e.g. $1000 always being allowed per month for rent.
Health care similarly, instead of if the archaic and very inefficient system we have now where those on the dole often go to emergency rooms, money is funneled through "insurance", etc... would allow you to draw money for regular doctor care. Maybe at a set maxiumim limit per citizen, e.g. $1M.
codersfocus commented on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle corentin.trebaol.com/Blog... · Posted by u/5mv2
This is not homelessness. This is "bandit camping". Not a value judgment on the act - when I was young climbing bum I did me a fair bit of it. But calling it homelessness is pretty insulting to the actual homeless, who aren't doing it by choice to optimize their time for a relative luxury.
> But calling it homelessness is pretty insulting to the actual homeless
I'm sure homeless people have more pressing thoughts than what words nerds on the internet use to describe outdoor living
codersfocus commented on A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs wsj.com/lifestyle/ford-mo... · Posted by u/Caiero
> his bill was less than a dime for what must have been two carts worth of groceries (early 2000s)
Ah, yes, the coupon cutters that would spend all of their free time trying to get a deal. But if they were happy doing it, then who am I to judge.
More likely he learned the algorithm to create fake coupons himself. If I recall correctly it's literally just the UPC and how much to take off. There was NO security to the system.
Love the product concept, and I’m all for more open/auditable models of autonomous driving, rather than closed-source dealer models that could be highly variable between models and years. If we’re going to do autonomous driving assistants, comma seems to be my preferred method - on paper, anyway.
For the owners in thread, maybe someone can explain to me the LTE modem requirement of the hardware. WiFi I get (easier to transfer records/video/data), but as someone still tooling around in a 2010 Honda and reluctant to buy into modern spyware-equipped vehicles, I’m wary of adding anything with cellular connectivity that could “phone home” without my consent. If the comma is fully self-contained and wholly offline, then that’s a huge selling point for folks like me who want privacy in our vehicles and a non-networked device that’s harder that’s harder to compromise remotely, and it’d definitely influence my future purchasing decisions so my vehicle choice supports these sorts of aftermarket modules.
One other suggestion (and honestly something I ought to write an essay on at some point): stop using Discord for support/community stuff. I’m seeing a lot of companies offload their forums/socials/support into Discord, and while I see the appeal on paper it’s not ideal for those of us who want to compartmentalize interactions based on goal (e.g., socialization vs vendor support). Just a personal nitpick of mine coming from some degree of community support background and well aware of Discord’s flaws and privacy shortcomings.
Based on the blog post saying they're able to use their fleet (i.e. owners of comma) to train their models, it's probably to send footage back home. Tesla does this too btw.
codersfocus commented on Trump wins presidency for second time thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
This is the weirdest thing I have read in a while. I can name multiple more democratic countries, for example starting with the Nordic countries. Just having a multi party system goes far in this comparison.
If you were going to give an example, Switzerland would have been a good one. But they have elements of exactly what I'm talking about, considering there are French, Italian, German quarters of the country.
Nordics have only recently become democracies, <100 years ago.
To clarify, the context of the discussion was the resiliency of democracy, not some dick measuring contest of which country is presently more democratic.
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