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I give Atom a shot once in a while. Had week long atom periods 3-4 times now, always went back to ST3. However, this time i've been on it for a month or so. Haven't had a big complaint other that the boot time.

I think it's gonna start replacing ST as daily driver for a lot of people with this development pace.
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> The best chance (IMO) is for very a small country to try it first.

How about a city?

"The city of Utrecht announced that it would give no-strings-attached money to some of its residents, other Dutch cities are getting on board for social experiments with “basic income,” a regular and unconditional stipend to cover living costs."

http://qz.com/473779/several-dutch-cities-want-to-give-resid...
Cutting the jobs is very doable, the UK shed hundreds of thousands of public sector employees over the past 5 years.

The concerns I have are:
a) a ratchet effect along the lines of state pensions where the basic income keeps being put up in populist moves but is never reduced
b) that specific entitlements (with their administrative burden) either continue to exist or again get created by politicians in "something must be done" mode. Specifically things like disability benefits, state pensions, child benefits are all likely to still stick around

Finally many of the lessons we've seen in the where welfare reform has been attempted over the past 5 years is that it is the detail which gets you. Young healthy people are not the majority recipients, it is questions over how to support the partially disabled, children of separated parents with joint custody etc. Giving a new entitlement is easy as it is something that wasn't there before. Taking it away is incredibly hard politically.
This is so true. Milton Friedman's negative income tax proposal was implemented in the 70s as the watered down earned income tax credit. Welfare reform didn't occur in any meaningful way until the late nineties.
Would you like to live frugally for those 20 years though? One could assume that you'd get bored of doing absolutely nothing after a while, so you'd end up working anyway, even if just to raise your living standards. People generally hate boredom. You may even be more willing to start your own venture since you're not risking extreme poverty if it doesn't pan out.
Interesting quote:

"[...] Ellison’s relationship with his own cats was remarkable enough to deserve two mentions in his 1997 biography The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison (subtitle: “God Doesn’t Think He’s Larry Ellison”). Ellison’s biographer, journalist Mike Wilson, relays a story told to him by Ellison’s first wife, Adda Quinn. When Ellison’s cat Yitzhak died, Quinn said, he “took off two weeks in mourning. He was nonfunctional.” In another anecdote, Ellison tells Wilson he once returned home to find out his cat Clio died while he was out of town on business. Ellison had the cat’s body exhumed so she could be buried under her favorite tree."
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The thing with a tax for basic income (as opposed to other taxes) is that the money doesn't go to the government, it goes directly to the people. The government cannot decide how this money is spent, so it's not a "fat government" thing.

And what is this "past experience" you refer to? If you are referring to communism, this is in some sense the very opposite of an unconditional basic income - unconditional means the government cannot tell you what to do (nor can employers, as long as you don't want to own a car, have a nice home, etc.). Yes, "fix the economy". But how? Basic income is actually a proposal how to fix it, I think.
So i should work so that a lazy bum gets my money? Seems like a plan. Or we just hand the money everyone and see hyperinflation?
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> Where do the "efficiency savings" come from? Largely they come by cutting salaries associated with managing a welfare system

I think this is a misunderstanding. Those programs generally have low bureucratic overheads percentage-wise to begin with.

Some of the main benefits are 1) reducing welfare traps (accepting work doesn't cut your beneifits) and 2) encouraging independent behaviour by decreasing the stressful and dehumanizing busywork of continually reproving in various forms your entitlement to the benefits (and resulting economic uncertainty, mistakes derailing your finances)
> The core question of basic income is: if people work, do they lose it entirely?

That's not a question in basic income. If you would lose it when you start working, that's just basically your standard welfare system. Basic income is by definition given to everyone without discrimination.

To compensate, you adjust tax levels. In my country you don't pay tax the first few thousand dollars. You can remove that. Then you can increase the tax rate a bit, especially in the higher brackets. Then you end up with most people getting the same net income after taxes and basic income. And you get a smooth and bureaucracy-less progression from unemployment to full employment.

I agree with your comment on people not being good with money or budgets. You would still need some social support system for people with issues or mental disability. Perhaps the government could be granted the power to take some of the income and putting it directly towards housing.
For a lot of business owners using an old version of IE, the browser is something to facilitate their bespoke ActiveX application. They probably don't care if their employees can browse less sites.

And on the flip side, a lot of those employees are a sizeable chunk of business for other businesses when they browse on their lunch breaks or whatever. So, large sites aren't going to fully drop support for any browser until after the market share has dried up.
Skimming over the title and the URL, I was hoping to find a Bonsai care/maintenance contractor network.

How do you reach your target audience with a company name and URL like yours?
Could you provide a sample contract without the need to enter a valid E-Mail address?
If you want high-impact stuff, why not go to Singapore and get involved with one of the many #fintech incubators or accelerators. Some large banks like DBS and insurers like AIA/MetLife are creating these programs to work on wellness, big data, health, financial innovation (payments, remittances, bitcoin etc). The businesses provide the problems/issues and guidance while you can work on the tech side of solving the issue.

Just my 2c, not knowing exactly how feasible this is for you.
If your point was "Why bother if you're building a site where the IE traffic is of no consequence?" then you should have said that. Obviously there's no point spending time and money writing code that no one benefits from, but that isn't the case for every site. Plenty of sites still need to work in IE because it will affect their income. If someone out there is writing a website whose only customer is an eccentric billionaire who spends $100m a year but insists on using Mosaic 2.0 on a dusty old 286, then they should be testing their updates on Mosaic.

Go where your customers are. If you don't have customers, do what you like. Although I'd question whether you even need a website if that's the case.
Just installed it
Just pay for basic income by levying progressive property taxes. Right now, most societies have very regressive property taxes. The wealthy (who own vast amounts of property) pay very, very little tax on all of it while small homeowners pay very large property taxes.

You could even pin the basic income to a % of revenues. If landlords started raising the rent to try and capture the basic income, their property values would skyrocket and then they'd pay a higher tax rate which would bring in more revenue to support basic income. This would effectively create a feedback loop until the landlord class would no longer be able to afford to raise the rent.
Have you used DB for your repos where you work on different machines that are not always on, and therefore there is a sync delay occasionally? And then get conflicted syncs on DB's end as a result when you try to interact with the repo before syncing is done across all machines? There are many headaches to just putting a git repo in DB and forgetting about it -- the one possible exception if you are only working on one machine all the time, with zero collaborators.
> The core question of basic income is: if people work, do they lose it entirely?

Usually basic income is intended to be irrespective of any other income source. This article about Finland states the same.

It's the key difference from other kind of welfare.
The other being that you don't have to prove and thus nobody has to check anything.

By removing the marginal disincentives it gives the ability to accept any job opportunity, no matter how temporary, non continuous or whatever; you can only gain
by doing something.

It's not clear how this would affect the whole society. Especially since now everybody has X bucks more, will the prices go up for everybody, thus excluding the poorer and thus making the system counterproductive ?
Disclaimer: I'm stupid broke, live in a van and take a highly-effective antidepressant, so I might have a little authority on this subject. ;)

Depression is terrible (anti-social, self-destructive, painful, etc.) but useful when it's grounded in an existential crisis... it makes people reflect on themselves and think about what else they can do or change.

They're not worries, they're concerns. Also, that resource doesn't list a single successful, large-scale deployment. Finland is considering it. (The US will never, ever have such a fanciful thing because the plutocracy prevents it, even with Bernie 2016.)

And another concern: if people don't earn money themselves, the tendency is to waste, in all regards. This tends to reinforce learned helplessness, even farther away from the brutal reality of life/business/nature.
Thanks, looks quite nice.

I rather use tools that embrace the native platforms.
Ok, so? I'm sure that Pure CSS has as many components and options as Bootstrap
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Also worth noting: remote IE [1] can be used to test IE from a remote machine.

Would prevent from wasting disk space installing one window VM for each IE version to test...

Has anyone tried it? It's not clear from the site which version of IE is available from that service.

Too bad they don't have a linux client either :(

[1] https://remote.modern.ie/
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Op here.

First of all, let me say that I'm totally aware that with Swift lurking around the corner, Objective-C is far from being the cool kid on the block. However, the latter is not going away anytime soon, and as long as Objective-C code has to be written and maintained, there is a need to produce readable and succinct code.

During the past year, I've basically worked full time with Objective-C. Since I use the excellent ComponentKit (Objective-C++) to build app UIs, it wasn't really practical to switch to Swift. So I was sitting there, stuck with Objective-C, and coming from a Smalltalk background, I couldn't help but notice the influences it took on Objective-C. But I also couldn't stop noticing where brilliant design decisions didn't find
their way from Smalltalk to the Apple world.

That's why I created OpinionatedC.

The thing I was missing the most was the super-immersive and highly-consistent Smalltalk collection API. In Smalltalk, most of the time it doesn't really make a difference if you work with an Array, an OrderedCollection, a Set or even a String. In ObjectiveC, it does. That's why the focus of OpinionatedC is clearly on collection extensions at the moment.

P.S.: I'm aware of many of the alternative libraries that offer a similar feature set, like Undersocre.m or ObjectiveSugar (or even ReactiveCocoa - which is great but a really big dependency if you just want the kind of extensions offered by OpinionatedC). However, none of those did really convince me. Don't get me wrong, they are great libraries, and badmouthing them is the last thing I want to do. But ultimately, I decided to build my own alternative anyway ;)
My stats show that this month (Aug 2015) Microsoft Edge is about 0.9% of total, and about 1.2% of Windows
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need to try it
I wondered this too. If a small country implements basic income, they really will have to put strict limits on immigration. If the whole world was doing it, it wouldn't matter as much.
Regarding run time, you can see there is no free lunch:

The first twenty elements are returned in 4msecs.
The first 200 are still running (> 2 hours already).
Links are broken :(
I do have customers: about 97% of them. I also provide free services as a gift to my local community ( Groningen ), just to give back.

I am not downloading GBs of VMs and spend hours of time to validate IE for a couple of illiterate smugs.
Besides Qt, JavaFX, wxWidgets, Xwt, even Gtk offer a better native experience than a browser widget.
so it'll increase the efficiency of the workforce, instead of people just doing ANY job to survive they can take a short break while they look for what they really want to do in life.

You could pursue a hobby creating computer games, and when your game is ready you can they make profit and start paying back to society.

The work/welfare system stifles innovation, people with skills end up doing work they hate, those who wanted that job have to get a job they don't want and the unemployable take advantage of the system to watch TV all day.
While of course basic income is not a replacement for healthcare, the health spending cost reduction under such scheme is an interesting topic. A country could probably save a lot on psychiatric hospitals. It's not rare that a person attempts suicide (or looks like they're going to attempt it) because they're poor and in debt, barely holding to a low-paying job; they get put on an observation (during which they'll probably lose their job), stuffed with medication and then thrown back to society at large. The hospitalization itself can cost more than the debt the patient has is worth.

I think such cases are making benefits of BI hard to estimate - because it could eliminate some percentage of costs across so many different aspects of public spending that it's getting hard to keep track of them all.
>> Those programs generally have low bureucratic overheads

What makes you say that? I have tried to look into this before and failed. But, from the way these things are structured I assume they have high overhead. The anti abuse/fraud work alone…
What makes you say that? I have tried to look into this before and failed. But, from the way these things are structured I assume they have high overhead. The anti abuse/fraud work alone…
It exists since a couple of years (before the departure of Balmer). You can thank Microsoft.
C++ isn't the only way to write native code.
Pretty neat. Another terminal/GUI interface is Magit, the emacs mode for git.

Stuff like this is nice because it does let one directly manipulate objects within a git repository easily with a few keystrokes, rather than having to type 'git exchange-frobnozz --quark-handler=positronium' constantly (or having a million aliases, each of which is useful right up until it needs to be modified slightly).

The disadvantage, of course, is that one really should still know how to use git competently at the command line for the 15% of tasks such wrappers aren't good at.
This is great. One of the main reasons I think political progress is so slow is because its near impossible to experiment with any new ideas. Few countries can just scratch something and say ok that didn't work lets try something else - because 10s of millions of people are already working in or dependent on said system. There are however a handful of countries in the world that can actually do this, because of the wealth and relatively small populations they have. Finland is one of those, so this is exiting.

The same problem exists in city planning. I'm sure civil engineers could design much more environmentally friendly and efficient cities, free of cars and with optimal transit, waste, and housing systems. But you always have an existing city where millions already live and work, and you have to have 20/30 year plans to get anything changed.

Its like trying to build a new piece of software but having to mold it out of a 20 year old monolithic legacy app where everything is interconnected and you have to maintain full backwards compatibility.
You're assuming that the pool of unemployed workers would have the same skills and abilities as the early retirees, many of whom would be in the most productive phases of their careers. There may not be anyone who can fill the job and justify the same pay. If unemployment rates decrease the availability of skills drops off.
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How does using IE make you an "illiterate smug"? Not everyone has a choice.
If you are in the UK, 50k a year (above average but honestly, if even remotely close to London, not that much) will bring you a tax bill of around 38% (19k) if you consider employee NHS contributions ( data from http://www.listentotaxman.com/50000? ). So you are already at 38% and you have council tax (probably another 2k or more a year) plus VAT (21% or something?) on stuff you buy. I don't remember other taxes I paid while in the UK but these were the big ones. It isn't hard to get to the end of the year and see that you(+ employer) paid around 50-60% in taxes.

I live in Portugal, and if I consider VAT+income tax+social security contributions (self employed so I pay both parts or approx. 33% in social security) and ignoring other extra taxes (property, road tax, etc) 62% or so of the money I earn goes to the government (this was for 2014, my accountant did the math). I could probably get this lower with some creative accounting I guess.
Finland has an aging population and too low birth rate 1.8 / little migration to support the elderly. The need to fix the 0.2.
That is very surprising to hear. Regular expressions are used all over the place! I wouldn't want to work with a person who does not have at least the basic workings of Regex down pat.
Why would you want it to replace other institutions?

Why not simply add it to the mix?

Politically, the way to make it happen would be to campaign for a small one to be introduced. This would get the infrastructure in place. Then ramp it up gradually over time.
This is correct in general, but there is some detail missing. I wouldn't call myself an experienced Python developer, but it's my most comfortable language so I'll use that to illustrate.

1) I'm comfortable with Python, and have some understanding of web frameworks. Should I use Django or Flask or Pyramid? Which ones have a shallower on-ramp, or will help me make my project more modular?

2) It's 2015, should all web apps consist of a clean RESTful API, decoupled from the front-end? Or is it OK to have all server-rendered pages?

3) If I should separated as per point (2), then does that mean I should stick to a lighter web framework, instead of using Django+DRF to provide the API? How should I build the front-end? Backbone? React?

4) If I don't separate front and back-end, what do I do about the little things that need some Ajax magic? Just write some 'onlick=...' stuff in my templates? Or should I be keeping my JS modular and using gulp or something to collect stuff up?

Even if the answers is 'just use Django' or 'just use Rails', there are lots of specific things to decide, and it's annoying to have to do so. If I were a Ruby expert starting a web app tomorrow, at a minimum I'd have to decide between Rails and Sinatra, and between rbenv and RVM...
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Whether you're exchanging it for a free service or selling it for cash, how do you feel about giving away your data in exchange for value?
Indeed you may not care less, but a lot of people do. 80% of my visitors are on corporate locked-down machines running IE8-11.

I, and many others, do care. It is appreciated someone else sees the bother.
I don't think you understand the Paradox of Choice or why people love In-n-Out and 2-tiered pricing plans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice

Also, there are lots of people whom already do things they love. My stepsister is a special ed TA and loves it, but makes peanuts. Would this help her family, absolutely.

With wide-scale deployment, a common issue will be too many people doing all sorts of terrible# crafty work without making something people would actually want to buy like bric-à-brac kitsch shops that wealthy spouses subsidize while having zero foot traffic.

# Terrible because it's far too common for people to make the novice mistake of asking opinion of friends and family whom will say only nice things, and those people to base their perception on those lies.
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I remember conversations about this 15+ years ago. Opinion among my peers seemed to be that it was in order to prevent British Telecom monopolising the comms infrastructure.
Equal basic income for every citizen would still be a net win.
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UK is not Europe, in fact you pay less taxes and you actually do get a pension since it's tied to a low taxation fund that belongs to you.

Germany is about 45% once you go over the 45-50k bruto, which is not much if you ask me (rent tends to be 35-40% of your income). Also, note in Germany the company has another 30-40% cost on top of your bruto (they pay the other half of your pension and health insurance, for instance). Don't look just at what you get, but at your overall cost for the company.

Past experience? After World War II public spending has been trending up everywhere (also in US, but more in Europe). What did we get in Europe? Slow growth, huge public debt, 3+ times the unemployment they have in USA, should I continue? The thing is: government is just really, really, bad in any kind of productive spending. Government should take care of the ones in need* and should make clear rules for everybody, that's it, everything else is waste (and we have seen it).

*And let's be clear here: this doesn't mean public housing in the city center. This means giving enough to keep your dignity, which means you need to accept to leave far from the city. Just that people "in need" should be actual people in need, not some privileged class (like in Denmark students get money to study, those are NOT people in need)
pg made his money in an Internet business:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb

I see you've cranked out a blog entry with your beliefs:

https://medium.com/@drb/the-computer-science-driven-start-up...
And this one http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/738336560 - which I've read, and it seemed to make some sort of sense at the time.
Sucks if your business's users are corporates and the CEO's PA books her bosses flights/hotels with a competitor
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