SeaSeaRider
Re:Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:35AM (#23201937)
Welfare state and UBI are completely different things.
Re:Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:33AM (#23201924)
Basic Income is Utopianism. Every generation thinks they can solve the ills of society with this “one simple trick.” Like the failed Utopias of the 20th century, it would fail when confronted with the reality of human nature.
Re:Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:29AM (#23201898)
No European country has implemented any form of UBI, nor do they intend to.
Re:Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
on Saturday May 16, 2020 @05:15AM (#23201818)
Why are websites having to individually implement dark mode? It should be done heuristicly by the browser.
It would take me weeks to redo my website to support dark mode. Better to wait and let browser technology catch up.
Re:Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:35PM (#23094665)
Rather, the BBC is a socially conservative institution and does not want to be responsible for the content of external links.
Re:Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips
on Saturday March 21, 2020 @05:52AM (#22645547)
Website completely broken for EU mobile traffic. GDPR popup hidden under another popup (yay 2020) and page cannot be scrolled or viewed.
Re:IKEA invests 200M euro to become climate positive by 2030
on Thursday November 28, 2019 @05:01AM (#21655964)
In Sweden, the land of a billion trees, Ikea wooden spoons are made in China and transported to Sweden. ANY company that does this and claims to be green is blowing smoke up your ass.
Re:Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:24PM (#21390451)
100% with you, and you can see that second hand prices for it are rising. The only modern fitness tracker with beautiful style and no watchface. There are chinese copies if you are willing to put toxic tracking devices next to your body.
Re:Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @02:21PM (#21390430)
No way I’m putting a Chinese product on my wrist. Especially one that tracks. It’s 2019, those days are over.
Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @02:24AM (#21331666)
“Without massive progress in the next decade, civilization will probably collapse by 2035.”
This is deathcult type rhetoric which has no scientific basis whatsoever.
Re:Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @09:17PM (#21077265)
Thanks, I’m a Tea Pig drinker, was looking for this comment.
Re:Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:33AM (#19510877)
... it’s written by a guy who uses flight simulators, this is crank stuff.
Re:Software Won’t Fix Boeing’s ‘Faulty’ Airframe
on Thursday March 28, 2019 @06:28AM (#19510854)
There is a debate to be had, but this is a naked propeganda piece. The crux of the article is based on:
“Among Boeing’s critics is Gregory Travis, a veteran software engineer and experienced, instrument-rated pilot who has flown aircraft simulators as large as the Boeing 757.”
... someone who uses flight simulators. This is not credible journalism.
Re:Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @05:42AM (#19206975)
“No one will bat an eyelid if you take a day off work.”
You forgot to mention that you WON’T get paid if you take a single day off work, something that makes Sweden unique in the modern world?
Sweden is a great place to work in many ways, but there are severe problems for people moving here to work if they are accustomed to other EU countries.
Re:Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:58AM (#19206616)
You heard wrong. Sweden has one if the longest working weeks in the EU. Normal work day starts at 8am.
Most stuff that you read about Sweden (ie stuff that gets shared on socisl media) is false.
Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:43AM (#19152052)
Commenta saying “it wasn’t real basic income” remind me people who say “it wasn’t real communism” whenever their utopia fails in mass starvation and murdet.
Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:40AM (#19152038)
“No one cares if you have a job, if you are homeless or have to suffer poverty.”
What on earth is this comment. Where do you live in “the west”? Western societies are structured around redistribution which ensures that most people are looked after (nothing is perfect). Your rhetoric is baffling.
Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:31AM (#19151989)
In the vast majority of capitalist societies, you don’t need a “well paying job” to eat. There are all manners of safety nets. Even in the USA no-one has starved to death in modern times.
Re:Free Money Didn’t Help People Find Jobs, Finland Says
on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:29AM (#19151971)
Basic Income is a completed unworkable pipedream, a revival of the “utopianism” of 100 years ago, when society thought that everything could be fixed if we just introduce “x solution”. But we live in complex changing times, so they need for “simple” solutions will always be appealing. For examples, see the current political situation in the USA and Europe.
Re:Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:38AM (#18987493)
The terrifying thing is that people with your mindset are actually part of the bureaucracy of the EU. No credible company will keep a .EU domain if they go ahead with this unhinged plan to delete 250000 domains.
Re:Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:18AM (#18987413)
The EU acting in a beligerent way is an admittance of weakness. If they were powerful then they we would let the UK leave with no problems.
Re:Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:14AM (#18987392)
Threatening to delete domains for political reasons is “restrained”? I hate brexit probably as much as everyone here, but the institution of the EU has not come out of this any better than the Tory government.
Re:Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:12AM (#18987386)
This would be an unhinged move; essentially deleting domains for political reasons. Any business doing due-diligence would be forced to move from their .eu domain.
Re:Commission to revoke British .eu domains after Brexit
on Thursday January 24, 2019 @05:09AM (#18987373)
Amazing how many people don’t understand the difference!
Re:Apple needs to change iPhone’s call UI because robocalls are killin...
on Thursday December 27, 2018 @02:07AM (#18767967)
The amount of scam callers able to do this is approximately zero.
Re:Why I’m done with Chrome
on Monday September 24, 2018 @04:11AM (#18055870)
Ah so it’s not just me!
Re:Traveling the World on a Third World Passport
on Thursday August 16, 2018 @11:52PM (#17780176)
No they are not, his post seems to be political rather than factual.
Re:Traveling the World on a Third World Passport
on Thursday August 16, 2018 @11:49PM (#17780162)
Ironically, Russia is one of the most difficult countries to enter in the world, for passport holders from any country.