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Odd that right now we're living in an era where the "liberals" have become intolerant and aggressive, criminal war hawks as well as enablers for criminal activity. It might be time we started qualifying what liberal really means anymore.

Not in the significant numbers that have been coming into France by way of land.

Statistically speaking, the fewer terrorists you allow into your country, combined with the fewer amounts of terrorist organizations you allow to operate in your country, the fewer terrorist attacks you will have.

> France has managed to avoid most islamic extremists

Yet any extremist can literally walk into France and terrorize, which is essentially what's happened.

So perhaps the biggest difference the fact that Britain has a physical border wall?

You act like WWIII isn't inevitable but for other reasons. The fear of nationalism thanks to WWII has caused the pendulum to swing way too far in the other direction.

And it's okay to call it "globalism" like everyone else does.

NIMBY is a powerful force. You go against them as a council person, your political career is as good as over.

That's all well and good, but data on over 800,000 people really didn't show any statistically-significant fewer number of cancer deaths from fruit-eaters.

Obviously there's benefits, but I maintain that adding fruits and veggies to an otherwise awful lifestyle is akin to putting lipstick on a pig. Eat all the fruit you want -- if you smoke, you're not fooling your body.

That's a great point. Thanks!

I recently wrote an article discussing how increased fruits and vegetables can prevent mortality from cardiovascular diseases, yet not cancer.[1]

My conclusion was that cancer is best prevented by removing negatives from life, not necessarily adding positives. ie avoid anything from stress to pollution to sunburn to obviously smoking. Interestingly, organic food doesn't seem to matter in the cancer equation, given the data we have.

Yet there's one thing you can ADD to reduce cancer: exercise. Preferably moderately hard to strenuous.

[1] https://blog.priceplow.com/vegetables

Are you working out of home? If so, have you considered getting a real office to get legit working time?

Maybe you just need physical separation, and not necessarily W2 income / benefits...?

I've long wanted a type of hidden tagging / categorization system that friends can add to each other's photos or posts.

If it's tagged "baby" or "religion", for instance, I could have that filtered out. Would make it 1000x more enjoyable to use.

Yeah but this was the most transparent administration in history. Hope and Change indeed!

We blog like crazy mofo's.

Educate yourself and your consumer all at the same time, and do it daily for two years straight. You can't not have some level of results if your writing is decent or better.

Combined with excellent technology, it's a nice win-win.

At this point, I'm just going to enjoy it for what it is. Good prevailing over evil.

Enjoy the wins when they're around. You can never predict the future too well anyway.

We survived those - changed, but in tact. The very basis of the Constitution could very well not survive this one.

American free speech as we know it is effectively dead with the replacement of just a couple of Supreme Court Justices.

We are that close to it being gone. 2016 is the most important year in the history of this country, I am thoroughly convinced of that.

Sometimes you gotta live the Ramen life with roommates...!

A bit offtopic but the switch to business.facebook.com has eliminated a ton of wasted time in my life now that I hardly ever get stuck checking my personal feed.

I don't have a personal Instagram - just a business one, but I'm definitely a fan of them segmenting these services off away from the consumer stuff. Far better productivity. Get in, do your work, and get out.

Been doing it full-time for nearly six years. This one stunning trick I picked up has really been the best lesson learned, and many of the startup founders here may enjoy:

Make more money than you spend.

Sorry if I just hurt your book sales.

Like spending $8 MILLION in Austin just so they could upset the citizens and lose what should have been an easy battle....

> I am open to other suggestion for "What do you do with all of those idle hands and minds?", but you don't provide any.

I don't think there's any perfect solution, once automation is truly nailed. People don't want to be told what to do or forced into work, but I also think that they need something to work for otherwise we'll collectively go insane.

Ever watch Black Mirror? If not, go see the episode titled "Fifteen Million Merits". Something along those lines, sadly....

> but isn't there already today a sizeable chunk of the population in the world that does nothing or close to nothing

.... and where do you see the majority of violent crimes occurring??

Actually, they never reached their peak capacity of 2500.

What I've found here on HN is that there is an extremely large amount of "wishful projection" and selection bias, in that many people here are young and promising entrepreneurs-in-training, and they believe that basic income will allow them to work on their startup dream without having to worry about paying the bills.

While that may be true, they fail to realize that they are in the extreme minority of actually-motivated people who would make a good use-case of basic income.

The vast majority of the world will fall into other categories, such as non-productivity or black markets. Not everyone wants to go build the next great app, folks!

I personally believe that this is the most important decision that humans must make over the next half-century, as we automate nearly everything and have little need for cheap human labor:

What do you do with all of those idle hands and minds?

In my opinion, if you allow the masses to do absolutely nothing while providing them the necessities for life, society will collapse upon itself over time, as people vote themselves more and more benefits for doing less and less work, while ostracizing the working and ownership classes. Question is only how many generations it takes.

My favorite example is what happens when you put rats into such a utopia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

IMHO, humans are no better than they (possibly far worse, in fact), and I see no reason to believe how anything else will happen over the course of several generations of "free stuff".

Humans without responsibilities and accountability = chaos. Tell me it hasn't already begun.

I've brought this up in the past, and am always met with arguments that just don't seem to dent the problem statement.

My simple question I always pose is this: "If everyone has $X dollars, then wouldn't $X become worthless?"

I fail to see how there won't be some kind of inflationary situation amongst the lower class, especially in the form of rents over the course of a year as leases reset. I also refuse to accept any argument that involves the majority of landlords "doing the right thing".

Thanks for posting the Law of Rent.

Stop asking or even answering the whole "What do you do" thing then...

Try getting into something completely different than tech. Like aggressive athletic stuff (ie MMA / boxing... not cycling where you have lots of techies) or do some improv, which can drastically improve your bullshitting skills if you can stick with it.

This plus I have a Google Voice number for things that I know I'll never want to answer. I give out my actual cell to as few parties as possible.

I really only communicate via phone if it's scheduled in the calendar.

I think about this frequently, but they recently revamped their associates screens after years of not touching them at all. So I'd say there is a bit more roadmap.

My best answer is that right now, they realize it's best not to ruin a great thing. They're on top of the world, things are going well, why rock the boat?

I know you're messing around, but that's a lot of unnecessary risk for a reward that I can just delay for four or eight years when the Olympics are in a reasonable country.

As a spectator and not a competitor, I'd be far more concerned about the crime in Rio.

It's tough to know what's really going on with their crime (given our sensationalist media and my not living there)... but you couldn't pay me enough money to go to the 2016 Olympics.

Stoicism != sociopathy.

I never said not to feel emotion. Stoicism simply doesn't act on it without first checking other valid logical responses. Understand what you're dealing with here.

Extremely emotional people are only predictable in that they are going to behave unpredictably and irrationally.

What I find hilarious is that I explain what's gotten me superior results in life and everyone argues with it rather than try to understand why.