Move to Ireland, they just rolled out basic income for artists

There is a program for Basic Income for artists in Ireland, but it obviously assumes you are a legal resident of Ireland. It is limited to 2,000 artists and there are more applicants than there are spots. Property rental is expensive in Ireland. If there are people seriously interested, these links should clarify the details of the program.

https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employment/unemploymen...

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-a...

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-a...

Ireland is a great country but I wouldn't move here for that specific reason. There are other great reasons that would be much more important or relevant.

One reason to not move to Ireland is that housing is very expensive, there are plenty of other problems too.

How does that work? How does the government decide who is an artist and therefore worthy vs someone who just pretends to be one to get the free money?

It's being discussed in another Hacker News submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977175

Could go either way- I think that ruthless free market forces are what keeps art good.

yeah! without the threat of financial ruin we'd never get to have the brilliance of thomas kinkade and kenny g

I did a nature guiding course a long time ago, and according to that the biomass of termites in the Kruger National Park exceeds the elephant population there.

Fully agree, I came back searching for this submission again just to say that. Looks beautiful on both mobile and desktop without all the normal ads and links screaming for your attention. Love the full background photos and videos

Very well done!

Didn’t know about that. Does not look like it has Safari or IE support

Correct, there used to be a granary (for storing grain) from 1657 in the time of the VOC (Dutch East India Company)

For some strange reason, Dr Christiaan Barnard keeps popping up in my life. There is a distant family connection and I found him associated in the past in one way or another with a number of places and organisations that I have been involved with. I live two blocks away from Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town and look up the hill at the imposing and beautiful building every time I leave the house. Sadly I have not been to the museum itself (isn't that typical for locals), but know about it and will make a point of it to visit next week. The other thing is that I grew up in Ceres (a small rural village surrounded my mostly fruit farms) and I had no idea that he was a GP there, admittadly a long time before I was born or my family moved there, but that is normally something that a town will boast about. You learn something everyday!

The login page has ssl. https://enterprise.surety.com/MyAbsoluteProof/ChangeMyAccoun...

If the page that links to the login page hasn't proven it's secure, I shouldn't trust the links, and therefore shouldn't trust the destination. Hence why static landing pages need HTTPS just as much as login pages.

Fair enough, although you could check that the domain names are the same in this case.

When to quit... great question! Seth Godin wrote a wonderful little book on this called 'The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and when to stick)'

Thanks for the recommendation!

The movie Simone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)is about a producer that invented a digital actress.