Fair point, though I was going to complain N is too small. This is way too small to be statististically significant, and won't capture all the possible types of people. You need rich people, middle class people, lower class people, educated people, uneducated, men, women, people with children, people without children... and you need all combinations of those categories and you need them in sufficient numbers to be statistically significant. You need thousands of people for it to mean anything.

Apparently you didn't do Econ 1, week 1, because that "free money" won't be freshly minted, it will be taxed from someone who won't be able to spend it anymore, thus overall money is constant. So the money is the same, and the services in the economy is the same, so nothing changes.

Having said that, things *could* change.. the people with the free money could spend it differently, and the people it was taxed from might be resentful and stop working. However this is not Econ 1, week 1, this is Econ doctorate level thesis and major study stuff.

It's not going to be inflationary, provided it is funded. Provided the overall money in the economy is roughly the same, no inflation. Presumably somebody will be taxed to pay for it, they will spend less money, thus it all balances out.

Having said that, there could be some effects, because the people getting free money will spend it differently than the people it was taxed from, but this is the least of our worries with a UBI scheme.

That might happen deep into the war when things are looking hopeless, not in the first week.

Aren't they in danger of creating a carnivore that can't or doesn't like hunting? Or a dodo that's vicious, or some other mockery of the original, that might fool our eyes but otherwise doesn't really relate to the original?

To be fair, AI is replacing human journalists that lack the ability to critically analyze information and understand context with machines that lack the ability to critically analyze information and understand context.

Doesn't mean it did either. That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

Yeah, but will there be age verification before you go to Catholic church?

It's a good question what is "a web site".

Yeah, just upload a copy of wikipedia.

I don't really like U2 but I absolutely adore that album. For every whiner out there, there must be been dozens of silent people appreciating the gesture.

How do we know that the Bruce Willis denying it is the real Bruce Willis and not a deep fake? Maybe the duly authorised deep fake denied it to cover its tracks?

If you're allowed to work remoted if you left the area, all you have to do is say you left the area.

The blurb says the c++ compiler was the "largest" software ever released, going on to quote it in pounds. But is weight really the right criteria for measuring the largest software? I hereby release a special version of pwd with documentation on tablets of stone. I win!

Sounds possibly ok, if inactive means nobody read from it for several years (although far from ideal).... but if inactive means nobody sent an update, that's terrible. It should be everyone's aim to create a project so perfect it doesn't need updates, and if everyone is still accessing it and using it as a read repository, the last thing you want to do is delete it. ... of course, if you make that the definition, someone will probably make a bot to read every project every year... may as well keep everything.