We attempted to create this last year with https://pleasesign.me. Definitely a case of waiting too long on a good idea. Ah well, it still has some features Google might not launch :)
Interesting. Some real challenges getting started on day 1.
Now I'm seeing that the Github bot is created by something called Linovi Developments which has a busted ass website and fewer than 100 Github users authorized it... fishing?
Go watch some of the major streamers on Twitch. They're constantly trying to figure out why they're dropping frames or why SLI is suddenly fucking up. The illusion that the PC-Master-Race folks like to push is that maintaining and building PCs is easy. Having built many, and owned a computer repair shop, I know that it simply isn't that easy for your average consumer to troubleshoot a computer.
I lived in Chile as the first cohort in Start-Up Chile. Problem I had with Collectivo's is that I had no idea what their route was. Having the ability to arbitrarily say "I'm here and I want to go here." is very valuable.
This isn't a valid argument. You pay taxes for thousands of public services that you may or may not use. You elect the government that decides these things for you. You don't get to choose.
Some perfect examples: pot holes and road maintenance, tree care in your city, national parks, etc. etc. You could sit home and use nothing and still pay, and rightly so.
I used to think this was the right move. Tax everyone personally and let corporations do what they do best.
These days I have trouble reconciling the notion that in the near future we're going to need guaranteed minimum incomes for everyone as more and more jobs are automated. With fewer people working traditional jobs there will be even more incentive to shift the tax base toward the corporation and away from the individual.
tldr: how does abolishing corporate tax jive with universal basic income?
I suppose the answer to that question is that it enabled us to very quickly send our transfer logs into a system that a non-technical person could easily play with. Being somewhat technical helps as well because I can easily create little dashboards (and blog posts!) with great visualizations without having to dive into some nasty graphing code.
There ARE alternatives out there, but they're crazy expensive and usually designed to analyze things like Hadoop data.