Did you not see what else these guys have said?

Posting on FB is the least of their mistakes at this point..

Although there's still time to f* up even worse!

They were able to identify you?

Yep. Small team one time and a coworker of mine who knew I wrote it told the company on the other one.

Has there ever been a time like that?

Sounds like you have a bad case of "back in my day"-itis.

Yup, before they were public.

Considering 50onRed started as an ad network on facebook helping companies like Zynga, as explained in the article, point 1 can most likely in part be blamed on them.

Odd that there aren't any visitor posts on their facebook page..

Yes but it's a starting point. Conducting a generational study will take, well, generations, and that's too long. Unfortunately the longer term, multi generation study will have to be "done in production" so to speak.

It may work, it may not. But what we're (the US) doing now isn't working.

You don't need a generation to study basic income. The effect of a life-long basic income should be visible pretty much immediately.

True but there's a lot of benefits that BI proponents (and I personally) believe will happen that will show up in subsequent generations like closing the educational attainment gap between the poor and everyone else. Also there's the question of if it's sustainable in case the fears of it just making everyone drop out of the work force are true. [1]

[1] Though from the same people you'll hear that work provides so much meaning to life that if people aren't working because they can live without it that they'll just be miserable. Which seems to contradict itself, either work is so meaningful that without we're miserable so we'll work even if we don't have to. Or it's not that meaningful and we'll be fine without it.

> You don't need a generation to study basic income.

Yes, you do. BI will change mating patterns and child-rearing patterns and the consequences of those changes will not show up for a generation or two.

As us Alaskan's can attest, light can have a huge impact on general mood. Many of us suffer from "Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)", and purchase lights to combat it's effects.

This is the first I've heard of light being used as a more widespread treatment option. Very interesting.

This is one of those things thats just so common sense, its hard to imagine a solid argument against it.

Hopefully it will encourage the US to follow, although I'm sure publishers will dig their feet in and make up some bullsh*t reason why it would be a bad move.

>This is one of those things thats just so common sense

It really is, the public paid for the research, it rightfully belongs to the public.

Except it hasn't been like that for decades.

What happened? Where/why/how did it change?

Also the "Mandela Effect".

For example I, as well as many others on the Internet, remember the James Bond Semi-Villain Jaws's romantic interest as being a blond, pig tailed, bespectacled girl with a large smile and a mouth full of braces. We're sure she had braces, that was the whole joke! Turns out, no record of her having braces whatsoever.

Weird that a memory could permeate society like that.

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MandelaEffect/comments/3vzk53/my_ma...