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The iOS version of http://popcorn-time.se appears to work still, even though it hasn't appeared to move much. Why not merge the codebases of popcorntime.io and continue on with that fork and fix underlying issue of relying on a single torrent feed api?

From outward appearances, the core issue of the meltdown was people not getting along, personal registration of shared resources (important passwords should halved and split among core devs and emails sent to a group account, not personal emails) and trusting unproven people too much. Don't keep "talented" a*holes because they'll just f%ck everyone over the first chance they get. "Hobby" or free is no substitute for unwise and lazy practices.

Future PopcornTime-inspired apps (as well as other privacy apps) must go fully distributed to survive, or starting something is dead on arrival. Also, folks might try sticking to something for a change, not just throwing away their time (lives) and work because they got afraid of attaining some success, because it probably won't happen twice.
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What popular paid service has Google terminated? Any?

We built our recommendation engine for Recent News (https://recent.io/) on Google App Engine in Python. There was some tricky engineering involved in making sure that it would work inside that particular environment, but it's paid off in terms of scalability. We're not worried about Google shutting down App Engine; in fact it's being continuously improved.
It's not a bad thing if you can afford it.

But if you can't then society should be right there and without such a catch-net people will have children to support them, not because they actually want children (they simply see them as an economic asset and a pension plan).

I strongly suspect that UBI will result in a net decrease in the birth rate wherever it is implemented.

For the record, I supported my mom for some years because (1) I could and (2) she needed it but if she could have kept herself afloat she would have definitely chosen that path instead (she got hit with a brain hemorrhage (sp?) and needed to go back to work long before she was physically able to).
The "who-you-happen-to-know" part is very true. It's a small world up there in the "upper" tier. While I generally agree to the implications of chance, has much to do with that inner circle and who gets picked to do the job.

No one is perfect, and the upper tier do not seem to have a solid understanding of this fact. People get picked because they can talk the talk or had some success at some point and that automatically decides they are good. Even failing can increase your prestige for reasons such as learned from failure or the blame gets shifted. However, I feel that it's all too often that the CEO failed to adapt and shifted blame.
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The money for basic income will come from automation driven productivity improvements. Many of the people who are "paying for it" (ie, putting in the thousands of man-years to create those technologies) have exactly that intent, to free people from drudgery.

EDIT: pvnick, yes the consensus is measured in decades. Some think fewer, some think more, but yes and thanks.
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This is makers v takers argument.
On a global level if you're posting on this board you almost certainly have far, far more than everyone else.

So by "everyone" you really mean "not everyone but only certain geographic groups of someone".
They've proven that they can make a PDF. Will they sell me one?
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Distributed is much more swat proof, and the clear way to go because it reduces the SPOF of a single domain or API taking everyone down.

Popcorn Time proved to be another Lavabit doomed to fail as expected... you need Popcorn Time beauty and ease of use with distributed "netflix meets TPB meet Wikipedia meets i2p" voting and metadata corrections to ensure the system is as reliable as the number of reachable users, not subject to some half-assed, un-swat proof central SPOF servers that don't have at least as good hosting and security as TPB.
The 'unconditional' I take to mean that everyone, rich and poor, would get the same money. So even though the people with high income are paying more in taxes to cover this, they're also getting the same amount paid to them in a separate check. So yes, they're paying more in taxes, but they're also getting the same benefit as everyone else, and this will take some of the sting off.

UBI is an excellent libertarian/small-government solution.
>Second, creating inflation is very beneficial when current inflation is below target.

That's not a blanket truth. Inflation is good if you don't have savings. It's bad if you do.
If square is the 'merchant of record' that is a very risky proposition. See also: DMR and iBill.
If I could live and not have a job, I wouldn't have a job either. I could grow as an engineer, finally pivot into biotech, finish the couple of open source projects I know would be useful to many as opposed to the bullshit job I have in webdev (had, actually, right now I'm finally working on something remotely useful - manufacturing management). The economy would be totally fucking fine, enjoyed by all people, many of whom gotten bored to near-death after watching Netflix for an entire month and decided to follow their passions instead - passions they never had time to follow, because they had to work their asses off in low-paying jobs so that their families could eat a warm meal every other day.
Wait, is that the reason you would have children?
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Kafka promises strictly ordered delivery, PubSub promises mostly ordered. The differences between those promises are what drive PubSubs ability to scale throughput and global availability.

From an availability standpoint, I don't disagree with anything you mention, but the difference between the consistency models means that PubSub is solving a different set of problems than Kafka, thus my opinion that comparing them is problematic.
If bad CEOs are bad for company performance yet good CEOs have no effect on company performance, then is having a CEO all downside with no upside? What is the large company, public or private, that is run democratically without a CEO?
Just thought I should point out The Dwarf Fortress guys have a Patreon if you would like to support them https://www.patreon.com/bay12games?ty=h
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Hello! I'm working from Hubud (http://www.hubud.org/) for a couple of days. Would love to meet up with fellow enthusiasts for a hack day.

my github: https://github.com/neuronspike
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Turned Ghostery off to check, and the ads here are as innocuous as I've seen on any ad-supported site in the past several years. Not sure why this one in particular grinds your gears.
I found this article difficult and confusing to read. It says stuff like:
"beauty standards that placed a high value on lighter skin and hairstyles that imitated white looks,"

then says:
"began offering skin-lightening and hair-straightening products to compete with white companies that marketed these items to black consumers"
"Walker rebuffed a reporter in response to an article that derisively referred to her as the “de-kink queen.” "

I couldn't figure out if the article was saying Walker was a black woman who supported natural hair for black women (which I imagine would be a good thing for black women, and good for the planet as well given the toxic chemicals in hair straighteners, and general waste of resources on hair) or if the article is saying she just built a hair company and provided whatever the masses wanted even if it was damaging to their own self-image and communities?
Well, you could do other things to encourage more births. It's been done before, with significant success.
St John's Ambulance does first aid training here in Melbourne. They're basically a volunteer group who work alongside the professional paramedics; St John's generally does events like concerts and festivals, while the professionals do the usual emergency stuff. St John's also do a lot of first aid training here (the above examples come from a course of theirs).

The side chest compressions tend not to break ribs - normal CPR compressions do, but CPR needs to squish the heart - a smaller, tougher organ than the lungs. The heimlich also has to be done in an upright position, which makes it more awkward to do if you're not physically strong; it's all bicep strength, and you can't use your own weight to your advantage. Chest thrusts are also not complicated by a patient who is obese or pregnant.

Just googling around, found some research arguing for (normal) chest compressions over heimlich, from 2000: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10767497
Yes, half the people on HN can save $200-300k, go to India and retire and live very well, yet, they don't.
> However, the people who already have far, far more wealth than everyone else have nothing to gain from that way of thinking, as they already have most of the wealth without having to pay UBI. So why would they allow it?

That sounds less like a problem with the idea and more like an obstacle to implementation.

Also, what do the rich have to gain by not helping make UBI happen? Probably starvation, unrest and war as automation puts the lower ends of the economy out of jobs and destabilizes the society. Think at least French Revolution levels of mess. Some rich may survive, but their world would be quite shitty, and their conscience may not like it either.

What do they have to gain, on the other hand? A stable and growing society, able to continue on the path of scientific, technological growth. They'll maybe lose a zero from the bank account, but they get a fair shot at seeing the world improving for everyone, and being little less rich in a world that's much more wealthy is good - just like being a poor in XXI century West is much better than being a king in Medieval Europe.

I think smart rich people will totally go for it. Hell, I think some already say they want to.
This should not be surprising to anyone. This is how these things work. It's the reason PayPal is so brutal. To avoid things like this.
It happens also in Hong Kong as well and is an intentional policy of the government. There is also a small HKD$1000 per month and is only intended as a subsidy. I note Hong Kong has one of the lowest personal income tax rates in the world.
Very helpful feedback, thx.
I will get on it right now.
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That's a fair point. But remember, Kafka promises this as long as the underlying VM infrastructure is alive and well. PubSub completely removes this worry, or even the concept of VMs.

There are several ways to look at it, but I'd opine that a "mostly ordered" fully-managed truly-global service that's easy to unscramble on the receiving end is more "guaranteed" than something that is single-zone and relies on the health of underlying VMs that YOU have to manage.

edit: Kafka and PubSub have a lot of overlap, but they each have qualities the other one doesn't. I suppose you gotta choose which qualities are more important for you.
The article makes more sense (or at least it did to me) once you read the byline: the author is a politician in the British Parliament, and this is more of a budget-related op-ed than analytical or historical piece. He wants to reduce UK science funding, and this is his defense of that position.
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> they specifically select sentences that form a poem that is valid in the English language

How many possible rhyming couplets are there? I'll give you a hint, it's a huge number.

> and is easy to memorize.

They do this by choosing from a million candidates. That reduces the key space by log2(1000000) ~ 19.9 bits. Compensate in full by increasing the key size by two more words.

> social engineering

Irrelevant. The passphrases are selected by computer.

> to about 10,000

Do the actual calculations.
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> This is how these things work.

It isn't always. Segregated merchant accounts are the way to go if millions of dollars change hands at that level the overhead of setting up a merchant account are negligible, and if you can't get one then that's a pretty good sign you shouldn't be working with that kind of money.

A couple of these instances and square will get shut down by VISA and that's the end of that. That's the references to iBill and DMR, that's exactly what happened to them and all their merchants were left without recourse.
Right, but those don't exist in a vacuum. There are people who funded that research and think that they should own the fruits of the labor as per the contracts that they executed with the people they paid to perform the work.

If you want to do away with various kinds of property rights that's a valid argument to make. But you don't get to pretend that it isn't a new, different way.

Ultimately you're going to take some things from some people in order to give it to other people.

Maybe that's smart, maybe it's not. But no matter how you slice it, it's not manna from heaven.
Basic income is just classical economics rebranded, and basic income is not drastically different from welfare systems that are simple, rule based, and have minimal compliance monitoring, for example Australia's.

Most of the arguments for basic income apply just as well to a welfare system like Australia's. The ones that to not are the worst ones. E.g. it's said that basic income avoids disincentivizing work. And yet as an accounting identity, all redistribution schemes must disincentive work for some people. Welfare systems place a greater disincentive to work on the poorest, which to me makes sense as many of these people have a lower intrinsic incentive to work in the first place. In any case, the lower marginal effective tax rate for the poor under basic income, is only possible because of a higher marginal effective tax rate for the middle class.
This is interesting, now if only they had 3d topography maps.

I'm building a GPS tracker that I can take on hikes and will store coordinates and altitude to an SD card so I can generate 3d models of the path I take or overlay with 3d maps.
Probably starvation, unrest and war as automation puts the lower ends of the economy out of jobs and destabilizes the society.

Yes. We're definitely headed toward a world where significant percentage of the population have no skill or talent that anyone will willingly pay them money to perform.

There are ways of papering this over, but most of them are pretty unappealing. For instance, bringing back a servant, or even less appetizingly, a slave, class. You can probably think of others. They're all ugly.

The ugliest option, where we just leave people to starve, is a non-starter, both from a moral perspective and a practical one (as you say, if you get enough starving people, property rights are going to go out the window).
The lawyer's words don't pass the smell test.

> “I don’t know with 100% certainty, ma’am, but I would guess that [Urbanovsky and the single seller] probably are [the same person],” her lawyer Steven Lefler told BuzzFeed News.

He just admitted on record that his client cost the payments company they used several million dollars.

> “This is a case that I didn’t charge enough money for,” Lefler told BuzzFeed News.

> “But of course, I’m her lawyer. So who gives a shit what I think.”

This is quite possibly the single least professional lawyer I've ever seen.
UBI might be a great policy, but your argument makes no sense from an accounting point of view.

Every kind of redistribution must sum to zero across all people. Basic income is no different in this regard. So to say that basic income is different because the right and poor both receive it is pure sophistry.
> PubSub is also a GLOBAL service. Not only are you protected from zone downtime, you are protected from regional downtime. Is there an equivalent to this level of service anywhere in the world?

Could you point to some of the documentation that describes more about its reliability model and SLA? I glanced through the documentation and couldn't find out any information about this.

It seems like a service that has this kind of global availability would have to make a trade off in latency for writes and potentially reads. If it's a multi-region service, then all writes need to block until they're acknowledge by at least a second region, right? It seems like that will add latency to every request and may not necessarily be a good thing. Similarly, at read time, latency could fluctuate depending on which region you query, and whether your usual region has the data yet. I'm just speculating though, not having read any more about the service. It does sound nice to have the choice to fall back to another region and take the latency hit, instead of an outage. On the other hand, regions are already highly available at existing cloud providers (with zones being a more common failure point).

Is PubSub mature? The FAQ suggests that you should authenticate that Google made the requests to your HTTPS endpoint by adding a secret parameter, rather than relying on any form of HTTP-level authentication.

> If you additionally would like to verify that the messages originated from Google Cloud Pub/Sub, you could configure your endpoint to only accept messages that are accompanied by a secret token argument, for example, https://myapp.mydomain.com/myhandler?token=application-secre....

This feels rather haphazard. If I'm exposing an HTTPS endpoint in my application that will trigger actual behavior upon the receipt of an HTTP request, then of course I "would like to verify that the messages originated from Google Cloud Pub/Sub", so that they're not coming from some random bot or deliberate attacker who happened to learn my URL.
How does this compare with RoboVM (https://robovm.com/)?
A la Mussolini-esque pro-family propaganda?
Thanks. I did not notice the repo with the wiki, tho I'm still not sure if this constitutes a spec or a user manual.
Who knew gentle could be so painful? I recommend anyone with a reasonable grasp of mathematical notation look for a less verbose introduction.
I think we've gone so far from what I was arguing - we can talk hypothetical 500 year future - but that has no bearing on what we should do right now. We still have more than enough resources even with current technology to sustain current population growth for the foreseeable future - suggesting that we should start population control is just green bullshit these so called environmentalist bring up because they are afraid that their favorite animal is going extinct.

I'm not much in to that "native American wisdom" about how we should be one with nature and how we can't eat money - money = resources + capital + labor = solution to whatever problem you're facing given enough time. As far as I'm concerned we should be working on solutions to reduce our dependence on the ecosystem - climate change is just an a symptom of a bigger problem - the environment we depend on is fragile - the solution isn't praying that everything stays the same and maiming ourselves so we stay within some magical limit they think is going to "appease" the "balance of nature" - we should be working towards replacing it with a more robust systems (eg. like controlled/engineered food production instead of relying on weather, pesticides, herbicides, etc. and hoping all goes well). This is what I mean by regressive thinking - instead of focusing on how these eventual problems could be solved trough innovation their solution is "stop doing whatever we beleive might cause that and hope for the best".
YouTube Red, So I am likely not making it into the signature box any time soon with wanting to start a channel that I have been thinking about for the last 5 years and now that I am retired and have the time, this comes along. Like many other people with the same thought all now in going up in smoke, or in the crapper. I have been working on videos for the last five years along the same format as the late Huel Houser with his California Gold Series. Only taking it a few miles down the road capturing all or at least the most of my motorcycle adventures with interviews of people along the way in as far off the path as I can find. Who are they and what do they have to say or do. So all of that said this YouTube Red thing Orwell was being an optimist this is like having big brother looking down your throat to see what you had for lunch. If you piss of the status quo you get the dubious honor of being privatized or canceled all together. Seriously who wants to shell out 1200 bucks a year to watch the little guy. Not me I want premium shit. I quit watching The boob Tube due to commercials and pay view crap. It is costly enough a month for the internet ad the price you pay for watching streaming video? That cost is what 180 220 a month for the a few gigs and exceed you plan and well you know. Add now add another 10 bucks a month. There is my tear in the beer, my bitch and moan, my two cents. I do not expect to lead you on this quest cause there simply is now enough of us hold outs to wage a war, as for the battle we are out gunned out numbered out classed, well shit we are just out. Don't follow me I'm lost ball high weeds. I'm just a funky old bastard bitching about the assertion of power and control over what was "WAS" free media. thats all stick a fork in me I'm done.
A $10,000 basic income, perhaps the bare minimum to prevent starvation and homelessness in the most rural parts of the country, for everyone in the United States over the age of 18 involves roughly 2.5 trillion dollars in payouts per year, about 10% GDP for the country (about twice the GDP accounted for by social security). Increasing basic income to $20,000 per year doubles that to about 5 trillion, and that is still starvation wages in big cities. I am curious as to how automation pays that kind of cash. That's a big freaking number.

Your suggestion about automation providing the wealth for basic income is the only argument that makes sense, because wealth redistribution from the nebulous "rich" just would not work on such a massive scale. Personally I don't think we're there yet, but maybe in a couple decades when we have strong AI and automation is more pronounced and self-improving.
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That's a possibility, if being a CEO is mainly a matter of not screwing up in some spectacular way, and not dipping your hand too deep into the cookie jar. Performance doesn't have to be a monotonic function passing through the origin.

There are other jobs like this: Surgeons, airline pilots, and tympanists. Maybe the skilled trades in general. Sure, the good ones may show their brilliance on rare occasions, but those don't happen often enough to show up in a statistical study. Mainly they need the training, practice, and self discipline to follow the correct procedures and get it right every time.

I'm thinking of an analogy, which virtually guarantees that it will be a bad one: A bad plumber would be bad for the performance of my house, but a good plumber can't really make my house perform any better. Yet I don't want plumbing to be run democratically in my house without a plumber. (Note: I'm the plumber in my house).
The only words he should have spoken were 'no comment' and hung up.

If he were my lawyer he'd be out on his ass.
Propaganda, increased tax credits (or even outright subsidies) for having children, tax penalties for not having children...
It's still a net loss for them. Yes they're getting some too, but it's just their money coming back to them. You'd be foolish to feel comforted by that.

Also, UBI is far from libertarianism. Libertarians want to be in control of their own money.
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