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Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said this is illegal. Well, if the military wins, then it will be called 'fight for freedom' or something like that. It's a question of legitimacy of state power. Traitors are those who lose.

  The hilarity is in how this perpetuates the reasons for excluding a class of individuals from participating in the software creation process.

  Good in math probably won't give you the empathy and insights into how technology could help rural Kentuckians.

  Additionally, software today is very much a 'poke at the frameworks, and mash it together' sort of affair.

  So, yah, one more exclusionary myth about the qualifications of engineers, and who's best at it (whites and Asians? really?)

- He wrote a paper on the fall of the Roman Empire [1] and thinks something similar could happen to the US.

- His fund 'Clarium Capital' bet on the fall of US dollar and lost a lot of money [2]

- He also stated that Hillary Clinton is going to win and be a one-term president, probably because the economic collapse is going to happen in few years [3]. He said "You kinda don't want to win 2016".

What do you think is behind his support for Trump? Does he want the economic armageddon to happen or not? Does he think that collapse is going to happen and that Trump is better at dealing with consequences than Hillary?

  [1] http://bit.ly/2acARwG
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarium_Capital#Recent_performance_2008-2010
  [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxtXMlPSQAY

They have very high taxes, it's very difficult to fire people and there are tons of other regulations. So, they are losing the future. That is why they are attacking Google - they want to take their money by penalties.

  [1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/277483/market-value-of-the-largest-internet-companies-worldwide/

About half of GDP of Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, France, Austria is taxes. It's easy to talk about redistribution after you've pillaged the entire world.

  very few economists agree that raising the minimum wage by X dollars will result in prices rising by X dollars so that the effect is non-existent

Instead, companies will move the production offshore, lay people off, make smaller packages [2], use machines, use cheaper ingredients etc. and those things create the illusion that the price is not rising. Price is the same, but the quality (of goods/services & of life in communities) is going down.

  cost of labor isn't the only input in pricing

  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrinkflation

  some will be writing novels, or starting bands, or making community gardens, or teaching, or whatever.

  UBI gives people the ability to follow their dreams without risk of homelessness and starvation.

So, maybe Americans could live like poets and gardeners, but first the rest of the world would have to be enslaved. Meaning, you don't trade with the Chinese and provide value in return, but enslave them. Is this a possibility? Do you think Chinese makers are going to put up with American poets and gardeners on welfare?

Could it be the result of a decade long propaganda by VCs targeting Zuckerberg wannabes - those who want to have UBI, so they can work on the newest blockchain-enabled photo-sharing social local VR app ?

For example, if you're trying to figure out whether something is 'moving', you would define the term in such a way that it could apply to planets or animals or other things/systems. If you define 'motion' = 'humans putting one leg in front of another', then of course non-human animals or anything else couldn't move. But, that definition is too restrictive. If you're trying to say that animals can't move, then provide a more abstract definition of 'motion' (e.g. 'change in location') and then you will see animals and many other things start moving.

Here is a video with a good explanation of how a lack of an abstract definition results in confusion:

  https://youtu.be/_Wvv-bt9SzI?t=11s