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Revekiuson California approves $35M plan for nation's first state-funded UBI

I have always been fascinated about this. It isn't UBI by any means, but I am always curious about these "pilot" programs. California did a previous trial in Stockton, CA with $500 checks. You can find more information here: https://www.stocktondemonstration.org/ You can also find the first year of data on their website too.

Ray Dalio did a write up of UBI as well. https://www.economicprinciples.org/downloads/Primer-on-Unive...

Andrew Yang wrote up a good book over the topic with "The War on Normal People" that covers UBI more in depth. His interview with Ben Shapiro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DHuRTvzMFw) and Joe Rogan covers it well also. I like his ideology and it seems well thought out.

We, I, have been so ingrained of thinking that capitalism is the best thing since swiss cheese, and it seems like socialism has some good aspects that we can adopt from as well.

Revekiuson I might have gone a little bit overboard

I highly recommend reading "The Big Sort" by Bill Bishop to give you a better idea of why we look at "politics".

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2569072-the-big-sort

The idea is a lot less about politics, and more about being comfortable in the area you live in.

Revekiuson Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown

Masks and fever checks only do so much. First off, you need to have masks for people to be able to wear masks. That is something we don't have right now in the US. Secondly, fever checks only go so far. There are tons of people that are asymptomatic for two weeks before having a fever. Going off of China's numbers is ignorant in itself. Why don't you take a look at https://www.nytimes.com/series/people-who-have-died-of-the-c... so you get a better sense of people in just New York city dying from this?

Revekiuson The man who singlehandedly carved a road through a mountain

Is this even relevant to hacker news? I mean I could see that technically he is "hacking" through a mountain, but really?

Revekiuson Pie charts in your favicon

I feel like this would be rather annoying and distracting. I could just imagine my 10+ tabs in Firefox having a pie chart or something blinking instead of a plain image.

It feels like were devolving to the old websites of flashy and blinking images trying to lure people in. Don't get me wrong though, it is neat! But... Where is that disable favicon extension now?