CrazyDave

I assume it helps trim off the branches of research that become unviable with the new evidence.

This is more of an alternative to SVG than an alternative to JS. You could always create charts using plain SVG. Most JS charting libraries just do that for you.

Aren't more volatile valuations also better for the value seeking employees? Let's say in 1 year there's a 50% chance of the valuation going up 3x, and a 50% chance of it going down to 0.

You rest and vest if it goes up, or find another company if it fails. The ante would be 1 year's RSU and job searching for a payoff of 3 years worth of RSUs.

Irresponsible gambling costs the government money because we have safety nets. This applies to both institutions and individuals. The government needs to bail out banks and provide social welfare.

It's not a moral issue to me. Gambling through leveraged stocks should to be taxed more heavily to offset its cost. Something like the rate on lottery tickets.

The percentage of someone's income that they spend on property/land probably goes down as their income goes up. For someone like Elon Musk, the lower tax rate is probably more enticing than the lower property/land costs.

For simpler math, lets assume someone makes $10k per month pre-tax. Their tax rate would increase by roughly 10%, and they would receive a $1,000 check in the mail. The net cost (and benefit) for most people could be 0.

Well, why do UBI at all?

I think the goal is to simplify our means based well fare system, which can create some economically inefficient incentives.

For example, imagine someone receiving disability checks who could go back to work. Going back to work would mean they stop receiving disability checks, and they could easily end up reducing their income.

Funding UBI through "printing" money would cause inflation because that increases the money supply. But most UBI proponents plan to fund it through new taxes and consolidation of the current "means based" welfare programs.

Can't you say that about any income generating assets?

Hi HN,

Committing to lockdowns is a powerful way to fight covid-19. I wanted to show its (encouraging) effects so I overlaid the lockdown dates onto different growth charts.

I used the time series data from here: https://coronadatascraper.com And the lockdown data here: https://auravision.ai/covid19-lockdown-tracker.

I think the comments in this thread captures it pretty well. If someone doesn't see the benefits of typed languages, TypeScript will just be something that slows them down for no apparent reason.

Same goes with RxJs, dependency injection, unit testing, and modules.

Hi HN,

There are many fuzzy search libraries. Sometimes, a match appears near the top that is hard to explain. This tool was created to visually understand those matches.

This can also be helpful if you're curious about how fuzzy search works, or wouldn't mind a refresher!