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In Germany 14 of 80 million people are doing some form of unpaid community service [1], often while also working fulltime. I think that proves that there is a lot of will to better the world around you, even without getting paid.

[1] (German source) https://de.statista.com/themen/71/ehrenamt/

I think you should think of UBI not as "everyone gets $X more" but rather a redistribution of income. The lower half of income earners will in sum receive more than currently while the upper half will have less due to higher taxes.

Their Stack Overflow integration is to me one of the best things that ever happened to search engines.

When do you even need to type a phone number anymore? For me it's only in cases when I'm reading it from a website or such, where my phone should be able to read the number from the camera. So maybe the most important ux aspect would be adding some OCR.

It would be fascinating to know which factors make cooperations and which competition strive. Families and circles of friends quite likely work better on cooperation, large amount of anonymous actors like our economy probably with competition. Countries utilize both. In Star Trek on the Enterprise there seems to be mostly cooperation happening and it is very believable to me. Very interesting topic. Does anyone have good resources about this?

Interesting points about SA and UAE. My take would be that Basic Income requires a certain level of society. Just like democracy, which requires people to be informed and free of the worries of basic needs.

>> But the thing is there’s no way to know how many will just sit on their ass doing nothing

I absolutely agree but don't see it as an argument against BI. We can just approach it slowly.

>> Unconditional Basic Income (UBI) is based on the assumption there will be no jobs for most humans in the future.

That is not true. It could work very well in today's society. And UBI is not designed to have every other guy slacking around, you will still need incentives to work (i.e. paychecks).

Basic Income can, in theory, have wonderful effects without much changing the working world: Taking the pressure off people and a give them a hell lot of freedom and a stronger stance in negotiations.

There actually is a small movement in the EU called Quantitative Easing for People which wants exactly that: Why not give central bank money directly to people instead of as loans to businesses?

I love the idea but I am afraid the EU is much too conservative, anxious and in general not an institution serving its people to do something like that.

But what a marvellous world that would be to live in.

As others have noted, most "traditional" dedicated server hosters should have good offers.

Hetzner in Germany for example has 8 TB HDD with 32 GB RAM and a i7-6700 Quad-Core for ~55 USD per month.

edit: US hosters seem to be quite a bit more expensive. Does anyone know why there is such a difference?

Why is the comparison itself absurd? Both are just normal people that work all day. I guess whether the dentist "should" earn 2x or 50x is a matter of values and culture. As such I find it quite reasonable to attribute the high dentist salaries in the US to the population's high tolerance of the high income inequality.

Where have you got that 30% number from? I am pretty sure it was around 10% four years ago in most parts of western Europe and it would surprise me seeing it tripled.

Similar food delivery services get around 8-12% of each order afaik.

You could e.g. require a national poll for any change to the BI. Or it would not be introduced nationwide but per state or even communal so individuals have more control over what happens.

I never understood that point. Almost everyone I know works fulltime although they could live a "fulfilling (if somewhat minimalist) life" on maybe 15h/week of work. If minimizing work would be a goal, most people would be able to do it right now.

Yes, this requires employer flexibility and the move from 40h->15h per week grants much less freedom than stopping work entirely but masses of people suddenly being content with a minimum amount of money does not sound convincing to me at all.

I would love a regulation for companies that they must make all user contributed data freely available for everyone. This way YouTube (and Facebook and Twitter and...) would not be a data silo but just one of many access portals to that data.

I know this is a question of values, of what is considered "just". But for me it would feel fair if all the 20k reviews of the nearby mall on Google maps would not be Google's property but belong to everyone, since many many people contributed to it out of goodwill.

Looks like great project! It is a pity they don't provide the data for download yet.

The Tatoeba project focuses on crowdsourcing translations of sentences but has also around a few thousand spoken ones in a variety of languages. Everything is available for download for free.

https://tatoeba.org/eng

They have the perfect training data as this is a Linguee venture (https://www.linguee.com/). They have millions of translations of paragraphs from one language to another.

I have no information on the model, unfortunately.

>> but there's about 0 being put into production use

Daimler for example is currently using Blockchain to manage a 100 million Euro loan [1]. They will still use their old tech (faxes and lots of beaurocracy) in parallel on this deal since is there is much at stake, obviously. But it is a nice experiment that will certainly inspire others, if successful.

[1] https://www.daimler.com/investors/refinancing/blockchain.htm...

No, it is a valid point.

Take Germany for example: In the neighbouring country Switzerland you can easily earn twice as much and the higher living costs only cancel out a part of the difference. >80% of Germans would have the money to move and would be much better off and still only very few do it (<2%).

Same with all the unemployment in Spain, people could move to e.g. Germany in masses but they don't.

People just don't like change and are not the rational players everyone wants them to be.

Amazing, although I am not sure I understand their business model correctly. So they are a middle man for digital storage rental and those transactions are done in Filecoins that only they can mine and distribute? So that company has >$200M in cash now or who gets that money? And the investors are in because they saw the surge of Bitcoin (and now of Filecoin)?

Just this weekend I heard a friend say they "googled somebody on Facebook", meaning they searched for them in the Facebook search form. So it may have become a synonym for "online search" for some.

Also, I have used Post-Its all my life but did not even know until now that this was a company or product name.

> A legal doctrine where one can not bother reading contracts and yet get them decided in favor of ones imaginary terms doesn't sound like a workable system.

Having to agree to dozens of pages of contract every day just to do seemingly ordinary things like using websites or ordering stuff online doesn't sound like a workable system either.

Looks great! How did you find your first customers? Cold contacting?

Amazing! All revenue is from ads? Do you use networks or do you have direct ad partners?

PHP is the only language compared in the article that natively provides this:

"PHP also includes a functionality in its standard library that none of the other languages here do: deep merging. array_merge_recursive will recursively call merge on string key collisions."

The user obviously should be able to switch the language, for example in the header.

But you have to display the site in some language on the first visit. Or do you want to show three big flags and nothing else? The internet would get annoying very quickly.

Of course wealth is a zero zum game, because being wealthy is defined as having much more than others, disregarding the absolute amount. This is how we humans work, we compare us to our neighbors.

So 1) not everyone can be wealthy and 2) for a single person to become more wealthy someone else gets poorer.

I don't think you could write the headline any less sensational and more informative. Tesla has to repair 53.000 cars, this is in itself newsworthy as it becomes clear that they are struggling with the same issues as any other car manufacturer and it should be a challenge to their operational logistics.

Well, entrepreneurs are humans, not robots, and humans have this instinct to help each other. At least here in Germany I hear from time to time about (SME) businesses helping their competitors.

I am working from different coworking spaces for some time now. I think they actually (can) have the positives that your dad and others are missing - working alongside motivated people, causual smalltalk, you can make friends. I really like it but it is some luck to find a fitting location.