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Paging Justice Don Willett, for a new iteration of Patel.

Well, at least the canadian federal government is turning dollars into AI research facilities.

Not terrified, just amused that people hold these rationing schemes up as some sort of victory.

> "The £1.66m project largely was financed by the European Union’s European Regional Development Fund,"

perhaps that explains the desirability of "for show" elements

> a traffic light system is set up at the pier. A red light requests residents to limit their usage; a green light, normal usage.

That seems like a dystopia.

So their main generator is a standard hydro turbine, 100kW, and they have some wind/solar toys producing so little on average as to be just for show. And they suffer rationing and higher-than-normal prices.

This seems like a design anti-pattern.

There is a well-integrated web api/interface to the shell-based services.

Would be curious to see a good C++ translation of that, which a modern compiler can unroll/inline about as well.

How about "larger, not smaller" rather than implying a moral judgement?

That sounds more appropriate for a vocational program in community college.

First hand observation is sufficient for some conclusions. Inequality of productivity is obvious. In order to equalize income, those of greater-than-average productivity would have to have some of their wealth redistributed, ergo less free. It's not rocket science.

"Legal standing and economic accomplishment go hand in hand. Always did."

That's pretty lame, "The rich can buy a verdict." Even if that were true, that would be a bug not a feature.

"world of equal opportunity were individual work and merit make all the difference"

straw man

Not that much. I'm more concerned that the government is buyable by anyone. It should be defanged and disempowered, so it is not worth buying.

Seriously, not needed, just look around. In the context here, "equal" refers to economic accomplishment not legal standing. But of course the left likes to equivocate this term.

That is not a causal chain that Trump has campaigned on.

because socialism

free people aren't equal. equal people aren't free.

"local government, there basically are no constitutional limits"

They certainly get a lot of leeway, but "incorporation" applies many federal protections against municipal governments too.

"those in government or heavily connected to it"

Whoa whoa whoa. What's "heavily connected"? Government employees? Welfare recipients? Taxpayers?

It's almost trivial if you use the customary definition of "top 1%" as an income percentile, and accept that income is a measure of productivity.

"but is there another serious alternative?"

Certainly. Enforcing constitutional limits on government action.

"one-percenters"

Riiiiight, as though the ruling party of a totalitarian dictatorship deserved the same appellation as the people of top productivity in a free country.

"let a company supply a substance to intentionally harm people"

Isn't that just a loonie interpretation? Making Butterfingers available for sale don't "intentionally harm" anyone. Surely you're not working on an "attractive nuisance" sort of legal theory here.

Of course water is not a "human right" - else whom can I sue for being thirsty?

"It may astonish you which countries have the highest ratio of rich persons per capita live."

I hear Hugo Chavez' daughter has billions.

In the longer & broader view, it may well not, I think that's the OP's point. This could be due to second-order effects such as the wealthy (= productive) people losing incentive (due to taxation) to work as hard, or inflation.

"With this pilot, we want to provide a true test of a universal basic income."

... except for the part where taxes are collected from the population to pay for said universal basic income.

How do people justify asking such stupid questions?

"Even if it's harder that does not mean it's more useful than to drive car properly."

It's more useful TO THE BUYER. That's why the buyer TRADES MORE MONEY for it.

No one cares what third parties think about "value" or "difficulty" or "justification".

It burns back into CO2 before too long.

"a labor market without basic income or some other kind of safety net is not a free market at all"

No, you're just redefining "freedom". It does not mean "freedom from consequence from choices". It means "lack of compulsion to make particular choices".