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SeaSeaRideron Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better

Basic Income is Utopianism. Every generation thinks they can solve the ills of society with this “one simple trick.” Like the failed Utopias of the 20th century, it would fail when confronted with the reality of human nature.

SeaSeaRideron Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better

No European country has implemented any form of UBI, nor do they intend to.

SeaSeaRideron Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?

Why are websites having to individually implement dark mode? It should be done heuristicly by the browser.

It would take me weeks to redo my website to support dark mode. Better to wait and let browser technology catch up.

SeaSeaRideron Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot

Rather, the BBC is a socially conservative institution and does not want to be responsible for the content of external links.

SeaSeaRideron Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips

Website completely broken for EU mobile traffic. GDPR popup hidden under another popup (yay 2020) and page cannot be scrolled or viewed.

SeaSeaRideron IKEA invests 200M euro to become climate positive by 2030

In Sweden, the land of a billion trees, Ikea wooden spoons are made in China and transported to Sweden. ANY company that does this and claims to be green is blowing smoke up your ass.

SeaSeaRideron Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

100% with you, and you can see that second hand prices for it are rising. The only modern fitness tracker with beautiful style and no watchface. There are chinese copies if you are willing to put toxic tracking devices next to your body.

SeaSeaRideron Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit

No way I’m putting a Chinese product on my wrist. Especially one that tracks. It’s 2019, those days are over.

SeaSeaRideron Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

“Without massive progress in the next decade, civilization will probably collapse by 2035.”

This is deathcult type rhetoric which has no scientific basis whatsoever.

SeaSeaRideron Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup

Thanks, I’m a Tea Pig drinker, was looking for this comment.

SeaSeaRideron Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe

... it’s written by a guy who uses flight simulators, this is crank stuff.

SeaSeaRideron Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe

There is a debate to be had, but this is a naked propeganda piece. The crux of the article is based on:

“Among Boeing’s critics is Gregory Travis, a veteran software engineer and experienced, instrument-rated pilot who has flown aircraft simulators as large as the Boeing 757.”

... someone who uses flight simulators. This is not credible journalism.

SeaSeaRideron Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm

“No one will bat an eyelid if you take a day off work.”

You forgot to mention that you WON’T get paid if you take a single day off work, something that makes Sweden unique in the modern world?

Sweden is a great place to work in many ways, but there are severe problems for people moving here to work if they are accustomed to other EU countries.

SeaSeaRideron Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm

You heard wrong. Sweden has one if the longest working weeks in the EU. Normal work day starts at 8am.

Most stuff that you read about Sweden (ie stuff that gets shared on socisl media) is false.

SeaSeaRideron Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says

Commenta saying “it wasn’t real basic income” remind me people who say “it wasn’t real communism” whenever their utopia fails in mass starvation and murdet.

SeaSeaRideron Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says

“No one cares if you have a job, if you are homeless or have to suffer poverty.”

What on earth is this comment. Where do you live in “the west”? Western societies are structured around redistribution which ensures that most people are looked after (nothing is perfect). Your rhetoric is baffling.

SeaSeaRideron Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says

In the vast majority of capitalist societies, you don’t need a “well paying job” to eat. There are all manners of safety nets. Even in the USA no-one has starved to death in modern times.

SeaSeaRideron Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says

Basic Income is a completed unworkable pipedream, a revival of the “utopianism” of 100 years ago, when society thought that everything could be fixed if we just introduce “x solution”. But we live in complex changing times, so they need for “simple” solutions will always be appealing. For examples, see the current political situation in the USA and Europe.

SeaSeaRideron Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

The terrifying thing is that people with your mindset are actually part of the bureaucracy of the EU. No credible company will keep a .EU domain if they go ahead with this unhinged plan to delete 250000 domains.

SeaSeaRideron Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

The EU acting in a beligerent way is an admittance of weakness. If they were powerful then they we would let the UK leave with no problems.

SeaSeaRideron Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

Threatening to delete domains for political reasons is “restrained”? I hate brexit probably as much as everyone here, but the institution of the EU has not come out of this any better than the Tory government.

SeaSeaRideron Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

This would be an unhinged move; essentially deleting domains for political reasons. Any business doing due-diligence would be forced to move from their .eu domain.

SeaSeaRideron Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit

Amazing how many people don’t understand the difference!

SeaSeaRideron Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killing us

The amount of scam callers able to do this is approximately zero.

SeaSeaRideron Why I’m done with Chrome

Ah so it’s not just me!

SeaSeaRideron Traveling the World on a Third World Passport

No they are not, his post seems to be political rather than factual.

SeaSeaRideron Traveling the World on a Third World Passport

Ironically, Russia is one of the most difficult countries to enter in the world, for passport holders from any country.