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> I'm just thinking that instead of taxing some other money (primarily debt) to fund the basic income, the basic income itself can be the money

The basic income can't be the money that pays for the basic income, unless your concept is that the government prints additional money for the basic income directly (note this is distinct from the Fed printing money and buying government securities, which is just debt financing.) That's possible, just as it is for any government spending, if you break the whole independent central bank system.
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> affordable food (or food stamps), and free public housing within 30 minutes to major city centers would seem like a sensible alternative to the basic income system of 'just give people money'.

We give people food stamps, they sell them for less than they're worth for cash. We have public housing. It's called "The Projects" and they're generally known as the rough area of town.

Both of these services cost taxpayers exorbitant amounts in administration. If we eliminated most of that and just gave people cash, we could let them spend on what they need. Because they know better than we do what they need, and their needs are much more varied and specific than one agency could ever cover.

There would be inflation, yes. But inflation in itself is not a bad thing so long as wages keep pace with inflation. They haven't. A minimum income would bring people with almost-no spending power into at least the bottom. And poor people don't save their money -- they spend it, often at local businesses.
I find the 0.1% loss rate for Square to be much, much lower than expected. I'm actually shocked by that, especially given their size.
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Side note: I think what Google does is great. But I am somehow dissapointed that this low bandwidth energy saving site isn't the norm.
I have the same, but I don't think the fear is totally irrational. For me the fear is of being disliked and/or embarrassed by something I say or do. This is exacerbated by having the opposite of what the author of the article has - I read too much into negative social cues and take them personally. I don't have much capacity for going "oh, they're just having a bad day" - I take it on board and in my mind it's because of something I did or said. Unless I know someone well already, then I know their moods and can remove myself from the equation when they in bad ones.

For me it's a catch 22 as well. If I'm not feeling socially anxious then I'm relaxed and it's easy to have confidence. Then there is nothing to fear and I'm not reading into anything or taking anything personally and it's all very easy and fun. But if I'm feeling socially anxious then I'm more likely to come across as unfriendly or weird, read too much into social cues and feel negatively about myself at the end of the interaction. Which feeds the cycle.

Something that helps a lot is meditation and being in the now. It's very hard to be in the now during an anxious social situation, because your brain is trying so hard to distance itself from the situation and get you out of it with minimal damage. But acceptance of the situation and reminding yourself there's no lack and literally nothing to fear in the present moment can help. And definitely presence after a (maybe just perceived) negative social interaction can help a lot as well to break down the cycle.
Disagree. The 'market' is far less important when the good you're selling takes up no tangible shelf space - people have been buying games just fine without Steam for decades before Steam, and still are.

Steam itself, by dint of being another layer between gamers and their games, have to justify its existence and value to them, and generally does through a variety of features as well as its legendary sales. But being a marketplace and distribution network alone does not get you anywhere, not when the cost of setting up shop on the Internet is so low these days.
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While I agree with some of the premise of the article (you can't become a great developer in a few weeks), it tries almost too hard to scare people away from programming.

>Would I like to type text files for hours a day?

The bulk of my time is spent thinking, not typing.

>Am I comfortable being a digital construction worker?

Programming is a creative job that the author is trying to sound so mundane and boring. Yes, it might not be for everyone, but showing people screenshots of GameSalad Creator, which looks quite scary is not really representative of the vast number of easy-to-use game creators we have today [0].

The fact is that programming is a highly rewarding job (both financially and mentally). As long as there is a demand-supply gap in the industry, people will try to bridge that gap, by whatever methods. Coding academies are just one such method.

If we ever reach parity on the demand/supply situation (or if Universities start training students better), these will be left redundant and new methods would evolve.

[0]: http://www.pixelsham.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/indie-ga...
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> > Many people wouldn't consider the UBI to be enough to sustain their lifestyles so they'd continue to work

> No they wouldn't. They'd vote for an increase in UBI.

UBI isn't magic. If you raise UBI to high for the conditions in the economy to sustain, it drives inflation such that further increases to the nominal UBI level produce ever smaller increases to the real UBI level.

(And people who understand this, and those who have moral objections to UBI beyond a minimal level, and those who oppose the UBI entirely but weren't strong enough to prevent
it from being passed -- they would all vote against the increase to the UBI, either always or past certain points. So, there's political limits to the ability to raise the UBI, as well as, even if not all completely independent of, the fundamental economic limits.)

In the end, even with a UBI, people who aren't happy living on what the UBI does (or can) provide are going to need to engage in economic activity to produce non-UBI income.
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yeah, not perfect, probably constrained to a specific species/subspecies, sorry about that, general point I was trying to make is that the range is not as vast as the ocean volume :)
I guess it won't exactly work with a "standing" vacuum cleaner(like [0]), but in recent years, most vacuum cleaners I see -- like the one you linked to -- have a long hose, and you can definitely fit it in someone's mouth. (you remove the big attachment at the end)

On the cost side, you can probably get a nice vacuum cleaner for $150 :)

I'm still wondering about how effective vs. how risky this technique might be though

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Rowenta-Lightweight-Cordless-Cyclonic-...
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I don't know whether they did that in the studies, but here in the U.S., we have a long tradition of immigrants moving in and participating in the local bounty. We celebrate it, in fact. A major holiday coming up next month is centered around exactly that - immigrants being thankful for the wealth they had received.
> Who needs to code when you can use visual building blocks or even plain English to describe intent?

Stopped reading there, despite predictions this has not happened in the last 20 years and I see no evidence that it will happen in the next 20.
Why such/similar tool with a simple GUI interface isn't default standard, for most popular languages/platforms ?

Wouldn't it tremendously save developers time ?... And, accordingly, huge amounts of money ?

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If availability and scale are not important, and you can tolerate having to engage a human in the event of a hardware failure, then sure a $20 VPS might suffice. You could also run a single virtual machine in one zone in the cloud.

But I think you might underestimate the amount of use-cases that do legitimately benefit from and desire a greater degree of reliability and automation. When one of my machines dies, I don't want to be notified, and I don't want to have to do anything about it. I want a new virtual machine to come online with the same software and pick up the slack. Similarly, as my system's traffic grows over time, I want to be able to gradually add machines to a fleet, to handle my scaling problem, or even instruct the system to do that for me.

Plenty of use-cases may not require this, but I'm not convinced that the majority of systems in the cloud do not. Every system benefits from reliability, and it's great to get it cheaply and in a hands-off way. In the cloud, I can build a system where my virtual machine runs on a virtual disk, and if there's a hardware failure, my VM gets restarted on another physical machine and keeps on trucking without my involvement. As an engineer and scientist, I can accomplish a lot more with a foundation like this. I can build systems that require nearly zero maintenance and management to keep running, even over long time scales.

I don't think I disagree with you that some people overengineer systems, but I think I disagree with you about how much effort it requires to achieve solid availability and a high level of automation. It's not a lot of effort or cost, and it's a huge advantage. Once I build a system I never want to touch it again.

A certain segment of users are adopting these technologies because they want to be prepared to scale. One of the advantages of "big data" products even for small use-cases is: all successful use-cases grow over time. If you plan for success and growth, then you may exceed the capabilities of a traditional technology. If you use a "big" technology from the beginning, then you can be confident that you'll be able to solve increases in demand by scaling up, rather than by rearchitecting. As these platforms mature and become easier to use, the scales begin to tip, and they no longer require more engineering time than the alternatives; a strong hosted platform actually requires less time in total, especially when you consider setup and maintenance. Many of these technologies do an excellent job "scaling down" for simple use-cases too. While they have been difficult to use, they're getting easier. For example, MapReduce-paradigm technologies are becoming fairly easy with Apache Hive, and fast with Spark. They're becoming easier to set up due to hosted variants like AWS's ElasticMapReduce or Google Cloud Dataproc, etc.
> Visual content creation tools such as Scratch, DWNLD and Telerik will continue to improve until all functionality required to build apps is available to consumers — without having to write a line of code.

> Who needs to code when you can use visual building blocks or even plain English to describe intent? Advances in natural-language processing and conceptual modeling will remove the need for traditional coding from app development.

Seriously? This dream died long, long ago. The hard part of software development is not the syntax; it's deciding exactly what you want to happen for every possible input or event.
Natural languages have evolved around the human scale of things and humans actions on those things. When you try to describe nature using these concepts you will always get weird and unintuitive explanations.
Writer quotes Scratch and NLTK, as state-of-the-art tools which will take my coding jobs way... How afraid should I be?
I agree with @mediumdeviation about the Gatekeepers section remarks.

Steam cost real money to develop and operate. Valve also has additional operating expenses as a business. It's a free market and others are free to compete with Steam with a lower priced product. Additionally, the creator had a choice whether or not to distribute via Steam, and obviously the decided that the benefit outweighs the cost.

I don't mean to be rude, but I lost interest in finishing what at first appeared to be a potentially interesting article based on the naivety of these remarks. I would suggest to the author to give it more thought.
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I think the core of the matter is the weird idea of "intellectual property" which is different from the idea of "physical property" as you can copy/paste intellectual property but you cannot do so with physical property.
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Does anyone know if the "relay network'[0] addresses this? It seems like it should, and I think most of the major pools/miners are using it already.

0. http://bitcoinrelaynetwork.org/
My experience is this, As got in to mechanical work (lathe, milling etc) and computer. Before about 16 i thought everyone will do right thing only and not really cheat absolutley but the real work hit me and i found people will do mediocre job for no reason or simply lazy so when ever i see structure or car i double check break or think it may fall...
As I understand it, not much. It seems to work fine with Rust, for instance.
> But often, you first become good at something, and then you become passionate about it. And I think most people can become good at almost anything.

So many people don't get this. When parents send you to learn a profession, don't say "I'll do what I want". You can always do it later.

Instead, go get a proper, extensive education in anything - it will help you immensely, and you might find that you love doing what you learned.

Otherwise, you may waste years being stuck in a loop of finding yourself and your purpose, which sometimes really sucks...
At first read, I read "stoned" literally, as in stoned to death as still performed to this day in Saudi Arabia.
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Agreed. Also, if a code academy is that stepping stone that provides enough impetus or motivation for someone to take their development efforts further, then I can't see how that as a bad thing.
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Anyways, what do you guys think of Popcorn Time?
At least LA has low and medium wage jobs.
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...what?

Most people fail at most things they try. Most businesses fail. Most ideas suck. Most personal projects never see the light of day. And because some people can't bothered to send a damn e-mail you propose... ?
I suspect Intellectual Ventures placed this little PR piece to counter all the negative publicity they've received.

I don't care, this guy sounds pretty amazing and makes me hopeful for the world. Definitely someone that I'd like to have a beer with sometime.
So 400x pay ratios are the modern day equivalent of sacrificing a lamb in the hope the gods will bring good fortune?
> I tried to make the point that this game is itself a derivative of other things, without which it couldn't exist.

Being a derivative in the sense of borrowing game mechanics [1] or drawing influence [2] isn't nearly the same as copying (or deriving from) the content. Many artists put hard work into developing their content, and it cannot be right to say "Hmm, that's popular, I should use it to market my product" without getting proper licensing. Even if it happens to be a corporation in ownership of the content.

I do agree that there might be some benefits to copyright reform, especially relating to culture and literary value. The latter part of your article hints at some interesting alternatives, but I not sure I believe them to be 'absolutely' better.

[1] http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html

[2] Copyright is only applicable to fixed expression.
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> The net effect cannot be anything other than to stifle creativity

This could not possibly be more wrong. The entire purpose of copyright law is to enable creativity. Two main reasons for this:

1. If anyone can take the stories and characters and images you create, and exploit them commercially without having to worry about copyright, that is a massive stifling effect on creativity. You made a popular character? Tough, some big company is going to make all the money off of it and you're going to be left broke. No incentive whatsoever to actually put in the time and effort to create things if you can't reap the benefits. Copyright law exists precisely to let the creator actually benefit from their creations.

2. If everyone can make money by copying other people, who's actually creating stuff anymore? The other main reason for copyright law is to encourage people to come up with their own unique creations, instead of just copying each other.

Now, it's certainly true that corporations have managed to extend copyright law far beyond what most people would consider reasonable. But that doesn't negate copyright law's reason for existing.

> if I want to express my personality by putting a button with some character on my shirt - again, how exactly is this hurting the original author

Because the author has now lost control over the distribution of their work (which is one of the exclusive rights granted by copyright), and any income that said distribution would have generated. Even if they don't want to sell buttons themselves, that's entirely their right to do so, and maybe they have good reasons for not wanting to flood the market with every possible expression of their character. Maybe they don't want to dilute the character, or don't want to have bad reproductions or low-quality merchandise hurting their public perception. Or maybe they just don't care about buttons but would be happy to sign a licensing deal to let someone else sell them if that someone else actually went through the effort of proposing an appropriate deal.

No matter what the reason is, it's absolutely their right to control their creation. We as a society have decided that artistic creation is a valid form of work, just as valid as any other kind of work, and that the artist is entitled to benefit from their work. You are not entitled to copy someone else's stuff just because you like it; the very fact that you assign value to their creation means that their creation is valuable, and your copies are literally stealing that value from the creator. If the creator doesn't want to sell the merchandise you want to buy, that's absolutely their right, and the fact that you want something does not entitle you to that thing.
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Basic Income sounds great on paper but I fear that it will lead to a new kind of servitude towards the state, that will be the only provider. Politicians will have even more access (direct access) to the quality of life of their electorate. What will stop states to link the "Chinese style credit score" to the quantum of BI one receives?

How will we make sure the quantum of basic income is enough for a decent life? How will we convince people that they got enough and avoid falling into dissatisfaction with it? I suppose people will always bitch about BI being too low.
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And Iran. Iran in fact has the hugest rate of execution by stoning according to http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/special-rep...

Mostly they just use hanging though.
I'm curious how the immutability of block chains meshes with the fragility of programming. What happens when a contract on the Ethereum blockchain is found to have a bug? How can it be amended?
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Octopodes are quite intelligent, as well. Though I think they might be seen as food by dolphins...
That seems like an important consideration. Another I wonder about is whether it will just create a new baseline for poverty, causing either short-term or continual inflation. (Though I'm not opposed to basic income, just skeptical about the net benefit.)

Another related issue is greater incentive to restrict immigration, deny benefits to criminals, etc, compared to a society where no one collects any benefits.
Wow, that is great news. solving optimisation problems is one of the true benefits of IT that few people know about. From warehousing to routing we use it every day in logistics and supply chain.

It is gradually moving out in finance and accounting from the big guys.
Ego is essential to breaking through those tough barriers and new opportunities. Disregard for risk. Is this really what is needed when Google is being criticized for falling behind its competitors in innovation.
But should not people know what exists?, similar to the case above i had/have severe sinus almost blocked all of em. But symptoms are veery mild but all the english medical doctors (Allopathic) mentioned was that i need to go for surgey many of them not even willing try longer one week medicine where i had great releif with something like naso clear. But they would not try anything else but recommend surgery and tell me that it is not permenant cure??... so based on recommendation i tried Homeo it work only when take medicine and i did not like the achohol or similar substance in those medicines so tried Ayurvehda (did not want Siddha due to diet restriction) and took a 10 day message etc in ayuvedha medical college ($250 for 10 days can u beleive in with 2 bed and flat tv in room and neat and clean)... now i feel far beter... and have no headaches and can sleep well... yeah i think it is ok recommend but receiver should verify or go to experts
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Hmm… my sister has a Fitbit, but she only syncs it with her iPad. I’m guessing this won’t affect her.
Coding is translation as much as translation is translation. That is to say, it isn't.

People who translate are trying to convey meaning. They are not just converting instructions from one language to another. There is intent, emotion, connotation. And you have to do this elegantly. (Everyone who grew up bilingual has spotted clumsy translations.)

I think this article takes a very narrow view of coding. Yet also a fairly common one. If you're one of the people who just wants a machine to do as you tell it, you'll be about as good as coding as someone who cooks in order to not die of starvation.

In order to really master it, just like in any other walk of life, you need passion. You need to have an aesthetic experience, an appreciation for both function and elegance.

You need to find yourself interested in topics that are not directly to hand. You may never need a Bloom Filter or Erlang, but you'll have heard of them and at least placed them on your map of the field.

Getting back to the article and the cooking analogy, better tools will not replace chefs. We have better cooking utensils and machines than 100 years ago. And yes, you need less effort than before to microwave a meal. But chefs still serve a purpose, and you would never mistake a meal made by a guy at home with what a professional chef makes.
I find it both funny and appalling how Americans view any sort of movement in the common social interest as a threat. It's as if they want to maintain an inegalitarian status-quo that only protects the richest minority, even if they are not part of it. Absolutely ridiculous.
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This is very true. The idea of visual programming has been around forever and there is nothing wrong with it inherently. It certainly hasn't quite delivered as expected. But even established visual programming environments (e.g. LabView) are a skill itself now.