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dann0 commented on Calibrated Basic Income by Derek Van Gorder [pdf]   greshm.org/files/2025-04-... · Posted by u/Suncho
dinfinity · 5 months ago
Another angle: We tell people to "vote with their wallet" to let the better producers rise to the top. That works a lot better if more people actually have something in their wallet to vote with.
dann0 · 5 months ago
This doesn't really work because the big firms that consumers boycott have political leverage and magically become too big to fail.

It also presupposes that unregulated capitalism is the best kind of market. But "unregulated market" only means unregulated in ways that benefit people.

BI and UBI are better ways to ensure that the people that governments actually represent are supported when they need it. They are more direct and have quicker market benefits.

What really gets me is that UBI would be great for everyone, even the rich and the big business. It allows more consumers to buy more, ensures only productive, motivated and properly rewarded workers are in the workforce, lets artists create fine art rather than doing meaningless busy work so that they can eat, and even lowers the cost and inefficiencies of social safety nets.

Conservatives can't see how anything can be anything other than a zero sum game. They are always trying to maximise their wealth, they assume that everyone else is too, but really, most of us are just trying to find enough to eat, have a home and stay alive.

They are scared of losing what they have because they want to take what anyone else has. They hide that by saying it's unearned or whatever, but they mostly haven't earned what they have. They have at best grown what they were given. They don't know what it's actually like to have nothing.

dann0 commented on Amazon introduces Nova Chat   aboutamazon.com/news/inno... · Posted by u/ao98
oezi · 5 months ago
I meant trademarks.

Of course a trademark of a common word might arise naturally from being in the market and becoming widely recognized (e.g. Apple), but you can't file a trademark for it until you have become widely recognized.

This is why Nova is a very popular term for products.

dann0 · 5 months ago
That's not right. The more a term is in the market, the more difficult it is to get a trademark approved.

The difficulty comes from the obligation to protect a trademark - if you have trademark rights to a term and don't take reasonable steps to protect it, you're at risk of losing your rights.

dann0 commented on All clothing is handmade (2022)   ruthtillman.com/post/all-... · Posted by u/panic
bluGill · 5 months ago
What people think is quality and what is are not always the same.

Modern building codes make the cheapest houses much better than the best houses from 100 years ago. Nobody knows how to see insulation so they don't count it. Old houses often overbuild some obvious beam and so that part of the house is very strong, but some other beam wasn't strong. Yes old houses had access to old growth trees that were stronger, but that doesn't make up for good engineering.

dann0 · 5 months ago
There's a huge survivorship bias in the overall conversation about old things being better than new things.

The poorly made houses from 100 years ago just aren't there anymore.

The junk clothing from 50 years ago was thrown out.

dann0 commented on McKinsey's 2024 annual book recommendations   mckinsey.com/featured-ins... · Posted by u/RafelMri
jrflowers · a year ago
I was not expecting to see Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage recommended by McKinsey & Co.
dann0 · a year ago
I saw God's Debris by Scott Adams and now seriously doubt the quality of this list.

Not helped by seeing the review of Der Kreativitäts-Code as being "Here’s a book I plan on reading".

Disappointed by this list

dann0 commented on Sonos lays off 100 employees as its app crisis continues   theverge.com/2024/8/14/24... · Posted by u/solardev
DaoVeles · a year ago
It is always wild to see the ways in a business that could have been sustainable for decades can suddenly implode because they get far to ambitious.

Alas there is the Japanese saying "A thousand years of good will can be ruined in a single hour". Even if they change the CEO, it will take years of good moves and good will to regain what they have lost so quickly.

dann0 · a year ago
It's really not suddenly. They keep making the same mistakes. This is the second or third time the app has changed and they've got it wrong. I have to use two apps to control my Sonos equipment because one of my old units is too old even though it works and sounds great.

They tried to not support old stuff, they tried to make the hardware not work if sold, and they have messed up the app several times.

I want to love them, but it's hard to when you investment could just stop working at any moment.

dann0 commented on What App to Use for Notes?    · Posted by u/bigbaldhead
bigbaldhead · a year ago
synchronization isn't good for me, it must be cloud, not via third-party software.
dann0 · a year ago
I sync it with my own synology.
dann0 commented on Ask HN: Weirdest Computer Architecture?    · Posted by u/bckr
mikewarot · a year ago
Vacuum tubes would be the perfect thing to generate the clock pulses, as they can be made to withstand the temperatures, vibrations, etc. I'm thinking a nuclear reactor to provide heat via thermopiles might be the way to power it.

However... it's unclear how thermally conductive the "atmosphere" there is, it might make heat engines unworkable, no matter how powerful.

dann0 · a year ago
The AMULET Project was an asynchronous version of ARM microprocessors. Maybe one could design away the clock like with these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMULET_(processor)
dann0 commented on What App to Use for Notes?    · Posted by u/bigbaldhead
dann0 · a year ago
I like Joplin. Has the features you've asked for
dann0 commented on Eight Feet Jolted a $180M Real Estate Deal   nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/jbredeche
daedrdev · a year ago
And the market has shown where people would like to live
dann0 · a year ago
No, people go to where the resources and opportunities are.

Markets are for maximising profits. Housing should not be a market.

dann0 commented on Thierry Breton: Under DMA, there is no room for threats by gatekeepers   twitter.com/ThierryBreton... · Posted by u/beejiu
MrScruff · a year ago
I have to say, speaking as someone that is generally very happy to live in Apple's walled garden for my phone and couldn't really give a toss about Tim Sweeney's crusade, this most recent continuation of the Epic spat seems like a pretty spectacular own goal from Apple. I can't think of any non-emotive motivation for their actions, and I can see plenty of large downsides.
dann0 · a year ago
I have sympathy for Apple. They are essentially being forced to do business with a known bad actor, and that bad actor has continually demonstrated a pattern of behaviour that is unreliable and untrustworthy.

But Apple really should have handled this better. Being made to look like the bad guys against Epic seems impossible, but they’ve done it.

I guess private toll operators can’t prevent repeat drunk drivers using their roads, even if they do the same “trust us, just because” nonsense Sweeney has written.

u/dann0

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