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throwaway2245 commented on An experiment in giving cash to recently homeless people [video]   bbc.com/reel/video/p096hf... · Posted by u/neom
notahacker · 5 years ago
> Arguably, that saves even more money than trying to only give it to people who "need" it.

Some people argue this, but never with reference to the actual data, which unambiguously proves them wrong. The UK Department of Work and Pensions' unusually bureaucratic approach to eligibility results in admin spends of a little over £6bn, or around 3% of its total budget. If you could eliminate all those costs you'd be able to pay working age Brits a UBI of around £180 per annum!

throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
You could double that number to account for the "fraud and error" spend at DWP: I would presume that further spending in this regard is dedicated to other departments.
throwaway2245 commented on Short fat engineers are undervalued   nested.substack.com/p/sho... · Posted by u/atticusberg
pcstl · 5 years ago
People whose value lies in coordination often need to dabble in multiple fields. Think of a technical artist in a game company.
throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
I would count coordination here as a deep technical skill, which requires a depth of study and/or experience. You are selling your coordination skills.

It's the stick of the T.

throwaway2245 commented on Short fat engineers are undervalued   nested.substack.com/p/sho... · Posted by u/atticusberg
throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
People who have broad interests with no depth of knowledge have not identified (for themselves) where their value lies.

I would imagine that this type of engineer needs to be carefully managed to stay on tasks that add business-value.

As such, it's not unfair that they are seen as juniors. They are juniors.

throwaway2245 commented on An experiment in giving cash to recently homeless people [video]   bbc.com/reel/video/p096hf... · Posted by u/neom
foolinaround · 5 years ago
the money has to come from somewhere.

Why would you and I, members of the society with our needs met, also need to get money... This massively increases the cost of the programs.

this is the part that i don't get...

throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
Requiring "means testing", i.e. excluding people who are not in need, is often shown to cost more money than it saves.

(and allows some people who don't technically qualify to fall through the gaps)

If you receive an extra $10,000 that you say you don't need, you could receive it and be in a tax band which gets taxed an extra $10,000. That's more straightforward.

throwaway2245 commented on Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week   reuters.com/article/us-au... · Posted by u/tgvaughan
graeme · 5 years ago
The market price for a referral is negative. Businesses would normally pay to seek them out.

The australian law seeks to flip this on its head and make you pay to recommend, and forbids you from declining to recommend.

Right now it only applies to google but the principle is insane. People actively pay google to recommend their sites: it’s the entire basis of google ads!

throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
> The market price for a referral is negative. Businesses would normally pay to seek them out.

By threatening to withdraw from a national market, Google seem to be saying that its business model depends on getting its own users by this mechanism.

As such, it's reasonable to believe that the true market price won't remain negative.

throwaway2245 commented on Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming   vice.com/en/article/bvxa7... · Posted by u/booleanbetrayal
slowhand09 · 5 years ago
I guess I'm triggered by people who feel the need to get in officers faces and video them when they are trying to do their jobs. I'm sure my privilege is showing, but cops don't hassle me because I don't do stupid stuff. I don't deal or use drugs, beat my significant other, steal cars, etc. My last interaction with a cop was getting pulled for not having a front tag on my car. "No prob officer, I'll take care of it." I don't make a thing of it when somebody "disses" me. I don't "not show for court" or anything else that causes me to be flagged for outstanding warrants.

I'm not saying there aren't some abusive, nasty cops out there. But the "nice" cops aren't so effective when dealing with nasty people.

Number 1 way to prevent violence during arrests, or avoid arrest is (Ding Ding!) BE RESPECTFUL.

throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
I think the video evidence people wish to collect is exactly the evidence that you are wrong - that people get arrested (or perhaps brutalized, or killed) despite being wholly respectful.
throwaway2245 commented on New model could explain old cholesterol mystery   sciencenorway.no/choleste... · Posted by u/shadykiller
hpoe · 5 years ago
This is why I have three things I never trust the experts in. - How to be healthy - How to educate - How to raise kids

It seems like every decade we find out everything we did last decade was bad and wrong but now we've finally for sure got it figured out, and this time we know we are right because we have fancier gadgets and more citations in our name.

From Frued to the Food Pyramid it seems that the experts always have just finally figured it out.

throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
I learned recently that the Food Pyramid was created by the Department of Agriculture in the US, i.e. not by the Department of Health.

So, not experts. (Not in the field they were claiming).

throwaway2245 commented on EU privacy agency urges more safeguards to curb U.S. tech giants   reuters.com/article/us-eu... · Posted by u/stiray
Jestar342 · 5 years ago
I see the usual OneTrust modal, with a giant, very easy to locate "Reject All" button at the bottom of the modal.

https://imgur.com/uZmlGlc

throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
I would wager that "Reject All" does not, in fact, opt you out of "Legitimate Interests" - sites are using the language "Object to Legitimate Interests" for this.
throwaway2245 commented on Drug for treating obesity cuts body weight by 20 percent   sciencedaily.com/releases... · Posted by u/Bender
foobears42 · 5 years ago
> There is more to weight gain than lack of willpower.

Is there? The study you quoted suggests the opposite. The drug doesn't directly cause fat to melt off. The fat is lost by eating less. Why is the control group eating more? lack of....

throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
If the drug is granting people willpower, then it really is miraculous.
throwaway2245 commented on Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week   reuters.com/article/us-au... · Posted by u/tgvaughan
graeme · 5 years ago
Security by obscurity replied to hacking. You don’t hack google. You’re analogizing from the completely wrong situation.

The closer analogy is stock trading. Prices move on news. If you have advance knowledge of news, you’re rich. If you learn, for example, that google will soon start favouring links from aged domains, then you buy as many aged domains as you can.

If you learn that google will devalue links from aged domains, then you have two weeks to rid your network of such links.

And if you are a spammer who gets this information from australian news insiders, then you can beat your competition by moving faster.

When the algo changes are released to everyone at once, it’s like how stock markets function: everyone learns the same thing at the same time.

As for why they don’t mention it, perhaps it is too complex to explain in what is clearly a complex topic. Most people who don’t build websites have no idea of the cat and mouse that goes on with seo.

Are you seriously denying that spammers game search engines and try to keep up with algorithms? Look up the black hat seo industry.

It’s on par with denying programmers use keyboards or something. You’re trying to deny a fundamental fact of reality.

Or watch some of Matt Cutt’s videos. He was the public face of googles rules and algorithm changes. His role? Head of webspam

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Cutts

throwaway2245 · 5 years ago
> Security by obscurity replied to hacking

Considering that Wikipedia dates the concept and its rejection back to 1851, you have understood it wrong.

u/throwaway2245

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