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> Not AI yet but it shows how the economy could be centrally planned using technology.

Nonsense. Hayek explained why that can't work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fatal_Conceit

Of course, it can be planned - Lenin and Stalin showed that. Just make an AI that emulates those two geniuses.

But the results would be equally great like they were in Soviet Russia or Mao's China. Why would anyone in a centrally planned economy work beyond the bare minimum needed to survive?

It's hilarious that someone has to call you out on that. HN...

> Pinochet's coup ended the experiment.

I won't say that the coup was great, but it likely did less damage to the people than Cybersyn would have done.

That's the whole point of a bureaucracy: grow, which means spend as much as possible.

That 60K/tent makes a whole lot of unionized gov workers, contractors and NGOs happy!

That's very encouraging news for the British taxpayer!

Knowing how fanatical the busybodies in the UK government are, it's probably mot going to last long. But it's great news as long as it does.

How does it matter? I don't care what other people do with their money. How is that any of my business or concern? This whole article is ludicrous.

I donate (microscopic amounts, comparatively) to causes I care about.

Donate, or don't.

The CCP are the scourge of the Earth

It's shocking that most people still believe public governments ought to exist.

Why productive, able-bodied persons to live in a democracy is puzzling.

Maybe they've never heard of private government, or think they can beat the system and steal through government redistribution more than they pay in taxes.

I'm happy for them, at least somebody manages to avoid taxes.

Shame on Pro Publica for conducting and publicizing anti-public research, by the way. Involuntary taxation is a crime against the people.

it seems there's another level below that, an inability to distinguish violence from defence.

Sight, those socialist thugs...

All of them are above the minimum, so what does that really achieve?

Message for the central planners: you can't tax me anything if I don't work. Or if I work but not here.

And let's not forget that involuntary taxation is theft.

Divisive? How? And what's wrong with divisive debates?

Do we need more Faucism? Let the people see whatever evidence hasn't been destroyed and make up their mind. I don't need a government Czar to make informed conclusions.

Cool, but to me it's a liability, not an asset.

Appreciate the feature but I don't want Google to have anything to do with my searches, password-protected or otherwise.

Wut???

They would benefit the most, from having a small government.

The NY article is junk.

Examples:

> We're going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.

A private police force wouldn't rely on after-the-fact payments, but on subscription-like service contracts. Citizens could still hire private investigators, of course.

> Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion

That doesn't describe a private police force, but today's police which works according to its own priorities[1]. Employee of a private police force has a very strong economic motivator - customer feedback (or customer retention, as far as owners are concerned). If you provide a shit service you lose at least one subscriber - not (possibly) in some election years later, but as soon as next month.

Does Netflix support ask you to pay up before they investigate your regular service issue?

[1] https://mises.org/wire/why-police-prefer-drug-raids-over-inv...

It made sense to Tesla then.

It may be better "understood by general public today", but it sure as hell wasn't a random, pointless invention 100 years ago.

The duration and quality of security updates/fixes is roughly commesurate with the price users paid for the s/w part of their mobile devices.

That's pretty cool - you can pay almost nothing for the s/w and still get a phone that works.

Nonsense.

Yes, you may repair it if you want, that's never been the issue. But then don't come back asking for free service or free replacement parts when you can't fix it or when it breaks next time.

The manufacturer has no moral or other obligation to provide help, info or assistance beyond conditions under which I've sold the device or equipment. If you don't like a deal, find yourself a better one.

1) Use none of them for software you open-source. Write free software - use any of the BSD licenses, MIT, Apache, etc

2) Actively avoid using AGPL and GPLv3 licenses if you can - don't encourage software socialism

> but costs more than 30x Storj on bandwidth alone ($90/TB for outside access, plus the cost of doing cross-region replication).

Yeah but if use AWS S3 for off site backups, those huge charges cost me exactly $0/TB.

I agree with others - Filecoin and Storj have no meaningful commercial use cases.

Who wants to understand how those things work, let alone use it for anything that involves commercial use cases?

AWS S3: put, get, delete, pay. Done.

> anti-free speech and harm prevention people

But you repeat yourself

Modeling a wealth tax correctly is to not tax anyone.

I reject your morality and economics.

Good.

When you make everything that's not permitted and highly taxed illegal, you find yourself in a money laundering war you can't win.

What a shitpost...

How is it anyone's business how much private employers pay its workers?

Meanwhile the Busybody Insider conveniently forgets that the minimum wage rule is immoral, anticompetitive, discriminatory and unconstitutional.

The minimum wage should be $0.

> Or, indeed, any heavily used real prediction market.

Predictious, Bitbets and others have had some success before. It didn't work well because none of the cryptos are stable, and also - given the semi illegal nature and the need to rely on anonymous operators - exit scams happen every now and then.

Oracle is simply a URL where the info will be sourced from to resolve. For example, bloomberg.com/in/fo, or trusted.g.uy/bet12

They had the feeling lucky button because the chance the answer you wanted was ranked #1 was significant.

That malware for OS X that does nothing (so far) from the news earlier this week also has one multi-arch binary for all modern Apple notebook architectures (AMD64 and ARM64)

non-paywall = copied

I don't care if and how the rich got richer if it was above the board.

Related Palemoon Forum thread - https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=26106

Well, anyting that's an opinion, I already ignore so no change for me.

If an article says a country has 7.6 million pop, or some software was released in 2015, 2017 and 2019, it's likely true.

But when it comes to "opinions", I have my own and don't care whether it was written by a diverse team or not. In fact don't read those articles anyway.

> One way is to become more restrictive in licensing, choosing only copyleft licenses that were originally created to offer more protections to individuals than corporations.

I would disagree with how you made that characterization. Licenses apply equally to everyone, and corporations are made of individuals.

If you meant end users vs. service providers, that's what Elastic did and to end users their new license looks more permissive than GPL 3.0. Yes it does have "a major restriction", but it doesn't force individual users and even those who redistribute Elastic software to release their modifications, whereas GPL 3.0 would have that effect.

To me - a user - the new Elasticsearch license is more permissive (because before some Elasticsearch add-ons were restricted) and I can live with that. Amazon - thanks to a more permissive license that Elasticsearch used to release under - can still do their thing. Good luck to them. If that license wasn't permissive they wouldn't be able to do this. And the Fedora community and other busybodies ... I don't care what they say :-)

You have no right force own morality on private enterprises and other people.

If something is illegal the government is supposed to deal with it.

Speaking of witch hunts: when Amazon uses their ethical standards to terminate a paying customer with minimal warnings, that's fine. When a hosting company accepts this deplatformed customer, you want to go after the provider although neither the customer nor provider haven't been convicted of any wrongdoing.