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I suspect that much like in Switzerland, many politicians are looking at something demanded of them that they wish to sabotage and are craftily pitting current social net recipients against it is one way to do that. I think the unfinished process of publishing and voting on it is meant to address that.

I'd be arguing from the opposite side, where you both get the ~$1200 in universal income if that is a normal pension amount, and then I'd expect the average HN reader to end up paying a little more in additional taxes than they get in income under a universal income plan. But over time, I think it will raise all ships.

There are many ways to implement that, but I think universal income has a better opportunity to remain intact and increasing once pushed through. Plans that try to achieve fairness through more complex benefits and scales tend to end up in tatters because they offer opponents a lot of surface area and ways to implement a thousand cuts where few people feel a connection to each individual part.

I've had friends and acquaintances in multiple countries who've had to choose not to do things because they risked no longer qualifying for disability and other programs that they were dependent on. Once you are in you tend to stay in because these programs inevitably victimize those who try to leave and fail.

Giving everyone a little backup makes for a better society where people can take the risks they should take.

I would rather allow you to do that than require you to harm other people if you want to be provided for in an institutional setting.

I would use node given that your plan sounds like it will involve several distinct JS clients.

I don't actually consider node/JS the most ideal choice for developing good backend habits if back end development was your central goal. But it will introduce you to a JS development process that is a lot better structured than you are likely to commit to when working with JS only on the client side. It will also make it easier to restructure with less of a mess if you realize you need to move between thin/online and fat/offline clients.

I think that explanation would be new edge cases for the risk of fullscreen sites impersonating the desktop?

When I worked on bugs I would always be careful to note that kind of reason even if I was a little too terse for the users.. I'd hate to see the motivated new hire try to improve ease of use by examining closed bugs like this one.

> a specific genetic study saying the genetic condition is inherited

These studies are not really about one genetic condition that causes alcoholism, but genes or combinations that provide higher odds of immunity.

There is an a gene more dominant in parts of Asia that increases short term side effects for alcohol, reducing alcoholism.

Europe is suspected to have similar changes through genes that are less compatible with alcoholism dominating over others that might be better for most things, but not for the pickle that was the middle ages.

I'd look closely at how they interact with each other. It is entirely possible that they are genuinely looking for debates to get to the bottom of things (which can often go to the point of comedy in tech circles.) There are a lot of ways to get along in that kind of environment by picking your battles and knowing when to change subjects..

But if you don't find a way to get along with them that suites you, then I would recommend going on interviews as soon as possible to gauge your markets reaction. Just don't say anything bad about them; you can always find an arbitrary difference between two employers and pretend that difference is a little more significant to you.

> Yes, it intentionally uses the feminine third-person, but I guess it makes a point about inclusion this way.

I end up feeling suspicious of an author that uses she about ~75% of the time since it seems they remember to use it more often when referring to people in a customer/student/etc role or with an example question/mistake, yet more often use he or avoid pronouns when referring to an expert or people with titles.

Meanwhile, they works perfectly fine, if it confuses someone that is their problem and if I said her problem there it would be because I was sexist for one reason and his for another. :)