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How is that? If anything it is an argument against UBI. From the article:

„ As government transfer payments to low-income households exploded, their labor-force participation collapsed and the percentage of income in the bottom quintile coming from government payments rose above 90%.“

„We are debating the alleged injustice of a supposedly growing social problem when—for all the reasons outlined above—that problem isn’t growing, it’s shrinking. Those who want to transform the greatest economic system in the history of the world ought to get their facts straight first.“

> Everything is political

This is a left-wing narrative. When you want to change the entire system from the ground up you want everyone to be involved in politics and campaign for your cause. Those who prefer to be left out of it become your enemies. This is the same narrative that was used in USSR and everyone knows how it played out for them.

> Outside of white-collar work there is little difference in wages

As someone who lives in Germany I can say this is extremely innacurate. ALL jobs pay better in large german cities, to account for the higher cost of living.

> May it be the bus or the subway, getting around should be possible to all.

You are spinning this in the wrong direction. I never argued that some people shouldn’t have access to public transport, just that people who stay away from large cities shouldn’t be forced to pay for the comfort and privileges of those living there. I’m sure small rural communities or even medium sized towns and cities can afford to pay for their own bus lines. Living in a large city has its disadvantages, and one of them is cashing out for the train ticket, out of those fat paychecks.

> it is common to have public transport on the country side as well to some degree. Most villages have bus transport.

I don‘t think it‘s fair to compare running a bus line on pre-existing roads to maintaining and extending a subway network. People living in big cities already have the advantage of better jobs and much better pay, so I think it‘s fair to expect them to pay for their own transport. Those who choose to live or better said not leave the countryside do it by taking a risk of a harder life yet with maybe more satisfaction in some ways. In this context, I think it’s not justifiable to burden them with supporting the city people when it‘s clear they will get zero benefit out of it.

That's what consent is for. GDPR allows tracking with user consent (letter a) of article 6). No need to enumerate all the purposes in the law. The problem is that the GDPR allows companies to use hide tracking behind the concept of legitimate interest, and behind 1 million checkboxes that users now have to click in order to opt-out of tracking.

> This "loophole" is necessary to allow certain usecases not to need a banner or opt-in at all.

This use-case was already covered by letter b) of the same Article 6.

„b) processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;“

That term is already confusing and not unrelated at all. It‘s an actual loophole which enables those abuses.

I guess we should ask the EU MPs who included this loophole in the GDPR law.

„Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following:

(f) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.“

> more Californians subscribe to the NYTimes than New Yorkers

This is saying more about the political affinities of both Californians and NY Times than about the quality of the newspaper.

It‘s not local, there have been similar cases in Germany and Italy, with confirmed deaths.

> In collaboration with experts in the field from the University Hospital of North Norway HF, we have found specific antibodies against blood platelets that can cause these reactions[...]

So the evidence is definitely not from only „this particular doctor“, but from a group of experts on the matter.

> It's fine to miss out

Oh, I thought I was required to read this specific article. You saved me a yearly subscription, I was about to click on „buy with your second newborn“ when I read your comment. Thanks!

Sure, let me get my credit card real quick to pay for the article about how dogs move in synchrony with their family members. I‘m sure most of the readers here have subscriptions for nytimes and 100+ other publications.

I hate this new HN culture of downvoting completely accurate statements when they don‘t align with the hivemind‘s ideas. Ok, maybe not the most insightful comment, but completely true. Schröder pushed denuclearization and advocated for the switch to natural gas (which is so convenient for Russia that he‘s now very close to Putin and held top positions in Russian energy companies)

> Why would a non-US visitor feel unwelcome seeing that?

As a non-US visitor with some knowledge of history I am extremely put off by the banner supporting an extremist communist organization, like it is nothing. Just have a look at their original manifesto that is now removed from their website (wayback machine has it).

> Given how much of EU innovation is bogged down by regulatory capture, I am extremely skeptical of this (note, I know EU/UK are separated, but nevertheless, lobbying is lobbying, universally)

That‘s probably how the concept of „legitimate interest“ made its way into the GDPR law, make it practically worthless, with the single upside of making people more aware of cross-site tracking.

Another example of half-assed EU law: EU data roaming. Given that EU is all about the free mobility of people, the data roaming „fair use policy“ makes no sense. If we‘re pretending to be in a single market, why don‘t we have a single market for telecommunication services? I can order stuff from amazon.fr and have it delivered, yet I can‘t have a mobile phone contract from say... a Spanish company.

> Google didn't build their rating system specifically to blackmail businesses into paying for tools that can get negative ratings removed

Quite the opposite, Google is constantly being harassed by lawyers employed by businesses with bad ratings, using legal tricks to have legitimate reviews removed. Then what‘s left is a very distorted picture of the actual consumer ratings, so the system is quite skewed in businesses favor.

> I have a hard time imagining the cumulative effect of “you’re wrong because you’re female” over a lifetime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecutory_delusion

> Outside of the nationalist far right, I never hear people saying anything of the sort. How are we "declining and sinking"?

You don’t have to be a far-right nationalist in order to have an objective look at the situation in EU, although I understand your temptation to resort to such low-effort arguments, it’s fashionable after all.

As a non far-right European, the EU is falling behind by failing to drive any tech innovation, by relying on non-EU countries for vaccine production, by not importing any external tech talent by having extremely unattractive wages in the tech sector. Every major tech innovation happened outside of EU, and this is something I’m not proud about. If your only metric for success is having decent public healthcare and social benefits, then I guess EU is doing fine, but I’m skeptical this will do us any good in the long run.

I read your whole comment and am very interested in seeing a source for how Bezos earned $60 billion last year as private taxable income. The fact that amazon (not even Bezos) re-invests a large part of the corporate income has nothing to do with distorting the US GDP per capita, as you claim. I would like to see a more solid argument.

> His income last year was around $60 billion

Are you really counting the increase of Amazon stock price as his personal income? This is totally inaccurate. Most of that worth is extremely volatile and can quickly dissipate if the stock price falls for whatever reason. Would you count a falling stock price as spending?

I wouldn’t normally respond to such a snarky comment, but does it seem to you like those who write these kind of articles are willing to change something about themselves? Or put some effort into educating their children? No, it’s always someone else who’s at fault.

> What would be the incentive?

I think that our societies are and will always be deeply hierarchical, and being individually reaponsible is just another dimension across which someone can end up closer to the top above others.

> I think we can encourage people to be resilient, and at the same time take a second to think, and then not belittle someone’s interest just because it’s enjoyed by teenage girls.

The fact that someone can be offended or emotionally affected by someone else belittling their interests already means that they are not resilient enough. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to be able to call out some piece of cultural work as being garbage, whether someone likes it or not. People have always had a cultural hierarchy and it has served us well. If you choose to like some cheesy-ass artist then do it at your own risk and don’t be surprised if others avoid you and don’t invite you to their birthday party.

How about instead of complaining and blaming other people for their cultural preferences, we try and encourage teenage girls and boys to be more emotionally resilient from external factors? Life is tough and if you can’t handle the idea of someone not agreeing with your choice of musician or actors, you’re in for a bumpy ride. I think it’s healthier for everyone that way.

Impossible. New member applications must be unanimously approved by the member states, and there are countries in the EU that would never be part of the same political organization with Russia, nor allow russian politicians to influence european politics. Never going to happen, and that‘s a good thing. Russia must deal alone with all the fallout of the terror they imposed on the neighboring countries in the last 100 years of history.

What reasons are there to believe that someone who‘s in the middle of a lawsuit with their former employer will tell the truth? For what I know this „leak“ might be part of their strategy to win the lawsuit.

> why people care so much

For the same reasons real-estate speculators care so much about real-estate.

Bitcoin might be interesting from a tech perspective, but it makes zero sense as a financial instrument. My main problem with it is the arbitrarily limited supply which doesn’t scale to adjust for a growing economy or wider adoption. Also, I don’t care for having to work with values like 0.00001 BTC.

Whatever happened to interviews and CVs? Since when must employers do incursions into private lives of their prospective employees in order to sign off on a hire?

> The company said in a statement that its systems had automatically locked Mitchell out of the corporate network after "our systems detected that an account had exfiltrated thousands of files and shared them with multiple external accounts. We explained this to the employee earlier today. We are actively investigating this matter as part of standard procedures to gather additional details."

> Mitchell has been a steadfast defender of her former colleague Gebru, publicly criticizing both Google's treatment of her, and the company's poor record on diversity and inclusion.