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I've only tried once, but I wasn't able to find anyone who could do that when mine died. It's possible the repair people I tried were just not knowledgeable, but they claimed you can't get those kinds of parts for older discontinued models (it was somewhere around 8-9 years old at the time it got knocked out by a lightning storm, while a washing machine mechanically should last ~15-20 years).

I do know someone whose entire business is reverse-engineering bricked old devices, sticking in a new circuit board with custom software. But it's expensive enough to hire him that his customers are all businesses with expensive equipment they want rescued, mostly 1990s vintage produced by now-defunct companies.
Lack of competition gives companies more money to throw around, some of which will make it's way to employees. It's the competitive industries where wages need to remain low.

Goldman and Google have a 20% profit margin and pay their employees well. Walmart has about 3% and lots of competition.
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I think many place too much faith that while someone isn't working, they will be doing good things with their time and not having negative effects on the society or economy or the human race. Everyone earning their keep is not an antiquated concept. It humbles people. Fills their time with purpose. Improves their intelligence and resiliency. I have known many idle people in my life, none have been worth a damn. Supporting someone because they exists is a horrible idea! Maybe these elites should step out of their bubble and into the real world of poverty. A paycheck is not the only issue in the world of being poor!
> Why do we need a 'scientific study' for everything?

In the field of psychology, counterintuitive things happen all the time. And there's plenty of things our forebears did that were not optimal - one easy example is women being second-class citizens pretty much everywhere people settled down.
Because many intelligent and skilled people want to have children, and they'd rather work in a challenging and rewarding job that pays them enough to pay for child care. That's why.
Oh yeah, true. Excuse my ignorance. Although in Australia the merchant banks also do business lending.
Just yesterday I was thinking, IBM went too much into 'shallow' software tech. Building a lot of stuff around Java, Eclipse etc that wasn't valuable neither for them or for customers. Instead of focusing on brand and tech, they should bring back talents that solves problems on anything. I'm sure that would sell like hot pancakes.
> 2) removing child care service taxes.

Remove those taxes, and the new fees will just bump up to the same amount. The fees are where they are because people have been shown to be willing to pay them. Take out a cost center, and the bosses will simply pocket the difference.
Re: Low "hobbit" ceilings.

...in many cases i have seen in NYC, homeowners are economically motivated to "lower" their ceilings (cheaper to heat/cool living space).

I bought and still live in an early century Georgian, and the maintenance costs over the past two decades has been a very real challenge.

If a pipe leaks, if there is a crack in the wall, if/when the floor eventually gets bowed, etc. It is an entirely different, time-consuming and expensive approach to maintaining everything.

For the majority of homeowners, it is clearly and absolutely a cost issue.
New Horizons is only about 33 AU from the sun. Voyager 1 is currently 133 AU from the sun, and is leaving faster than New Horizons; however I am not sure what os voyager is using.
As you note, monetary policy is largely a tool to "smooth out financial expansions and contractions"; that is, its a tool to tweak around the edges of fairly short-term normal cyclical fluctuations. It may be sufficient to adequately mitigate harmful disruptions from those kinds of normal cyclical fluctuations in the economy, but its not adequate for dealing with all economic issues.

The more powerful tool for dealing with economic issues is fiscal policy, which is the domain of Congress, not the Fed. But Congress has largely failed to act, or acted counterproductively, for many years, and left the Fed and monetary policy to handle things that need Congress and fiscal policy to address. So, yes, the Fed's pretty much exhausted its tools, because its been forced to deal with a problem exclusively through monetary policy that should have been addressed through fiscal policy.
> Housewifes also prepared food, cleaned the house, washed clothes, found time to repair clothing, went shopping

These are all tasks that 'child care' includes, and some of them are magnified in difficulty when kids are attached.
"At launch, a slow-burning fuse was lit; its length was calibrated to the estimated time to arrive over German-controlled territory. At first, the balloon rose rapidly and expanded in size until an internal cord tightened and preventing further increase in altitude beyond 25,000 feet (7,600 m) by releasing some gas; the balloon would then begin a slow descent due to the hydrogen gradually leaking away.[4] After a while, the slow burning fuse would release a bung in a can of mineral oil; as the oil slowly dripped out, the balloon's payload would lighten arresting its decent. The same slow-burning fuse was also used to release the balloon's weapon."

Obviously these aren't drones by today's standards, but they did have automated mechanisms to control flight and drop incendiary devices.
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> Edit: and don't forget income tax.

At the income levels at issue, payroll tax is far more significant than income tax.
The value of Apple's products is in the design and other intellectual property development, which is created in the US by American workers.
Realize that what you can achieve in your life depends on the DNA you started with, the life circumstances that got you to where you are today, your world view, perspective and perception, and a healthy dose of luck.

Then realize that there are zero other people in the world who have that same set of attributes. Therefore, no matter who you interact with, see on YouTube, or read about, the difference between the two of you is not going to be explained by something you can control.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/communication-success/2...
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The point of Universal Basic Income is not to provide a good standard of living, but to provide enough for bare necessities. A standard of being alive, if you will.

The point is that there would be fewer people in precarious situations where they cannot afford food and shelter. With basic food and shelter not being the primary motivator to work, more people may do innovative things that could help the economy ... and humanity overall.

Any employers of professionals, i.e. medium/high income would probably have to pay the same amount of money, because the higher taxes would cancel out the benefit of the minimum income - the net effect of UBI on medium/high incomes is relatively small.
I've always thought that with automation, increasing population, and globalozation we would need something akin to the universal basic income.

The question becomes, does that just exist for Western societies or for the entire world?

I didn't read the entire article but it struck me to point out that "The Captive Mind" by Czeslaw Milosz is extremely relevant here.

While the USSR was no wonderful place to be, artists tended to be happy there, because even if they were forced to "art" in a particular sense, the USSR recognized art as a fundamental human right and dignity. Compared to capitalism where people were starving just to make it.

I've had a few drinks, but I absolutely recommend "The Captive Mind" to anyone interested in this sort of sociatal interaction. The part where society collapses (the USSR) and all of the "secret" papers are spilling on to the street will open your mind.

At least it did mine. When it comes to gold, silver, or secrets, if they can't feed you, clothe you, or shelther you, when things break down, they're not worth shit.

This is my spurious comment of the night. Check that novel out. "A Captive Mind".

I'm for a universal basic income. I'm a socialist for essentials, a libertarian for personal liberties, and a capitalist for the rest. I couldn't make it through that entire article. All downvotes are deserved.

Cheers.
VISA are investors in Square.
I would love to explore more lisps. I've learned a lot about clojure recently and scheme has always felt like the natural evolution into more classical lisp.
I'm not sure I would agree with a lot of what you say here, but nevertheless you bring a very important point that I think is chronically misunderstood, or overlooked, about Marx's analysis. Free market is a crucial assumption in Marx's labour theory of value. It is the free market that drives commodity (exchange) values towards their labour value, which then drives the whole Marxist theory of capitalism forward.
Not to mention that Tom Christie raised £32,650 for DRF 3 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tomchristie/django-rest... :)
Screw that guy; love that the "disgruntled" workers took action.
Self-driving vehicles will permanently eliminate several of the most common occupations in the world – truck drivers, delivery drivers, bus drivers, and taxi drivers – and that's coming in just a few years.
No one really has to worry about food in our society with the plethora of welfare programs, churches, food banks, etc, as well as the many people such as myself who will routinely give the needy food or money. Shelter is tricky, however the majority of people have shelter security by proxy of family or friends. It is only recently that the proxy has been weakened because of the crumbling relationships and social structures. We are trying so hard to solve problems we have created. Sad we are trending toward valuing benevolent strangers than the network of those you know. What is so wrong with our society that we cannot stick together in tough times? We must be a very sick society to do all these mental gymnastics to treat our symptoms of deep cultural flaws.
The US is extremely wealthy, and not all that far behind Norway on the PPP scale of things.
Sounds more like Confluence than JIRA.
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This is amazing! Thanks for linking it. 8 bits... sheesh.

I'm impressed.
Have you never heard of SUnet, the scsh web server/framework? It's been around since 1997.

http://scsh.net/resources/sunet.html
EITC and in some locations child care credits, may offset this. Alternatively, tax internalises externalised social costs. Flipping your argument, since self-provisioned childcare isn't taxed, there's an effective subsidy for this.
How on earth is anyone going to get elected on a platform of "less regulations around children" in today's political climate?
> I think many place too much faith that while someone isn't working, they will be doing good things with their time and not having negative effects on the society or economy or the human race

I think you need to look into the assumption that humans require so much work; it's not historically true, hunter gatherers spent much less time working and much more time in leisure, even tribes today.

> Everyone earning their keep is not an antiquated concept.

Earning your keep doesn't require 40 hours work a week in a world full of automation, what is antiquated is the notion that there's enough work to keep everyone working all time; look around, that's changing.

> It humbles people. Fills their time with purpose. Improves their intelligence and resiliency.

So do other things, like art and culture; there's more to life than work. Seems you've been brainwashed into thinking only work fulfills people.

> Supporting someone because they exists is a horrible idea!

No, it's called being human and it's what has to come whether you like it or not; there simply isn't going to be enough work to go around to rely on a labor based means of distribution anymore and automation is going to further distribute what's left into the hands of a very few. Those trends can't end well without a radical change in how society is organized.
> We are not yet in the era when humans are useless.

I didn't say we were, I said it's coming, and we need to adapt before then or it'll be terribly hard on society.
When article described the protein in the lens as "amyloid", it occurred to me how similar it is to the abnormal proteins associated with Alzheimer's dementia.

Sure enough, the last paragraph suggests the very same thing, if we know how to "unfold" the lens protein maybe it's possible to do the same in the brain with therapeutic effect on Alzheimer's.

Of course it's a long shot, but exploring that lead sounds important. Nature, and science often work in strange, unexpected ways. Though benefit for cataracts is itself non-trivial. Several people I know have not had good outcome of surgery. Ability to just "melt" away the lens cloudiness would be very useful.
Both of my kids go to in home daycares in the neighborhood. The caregivers take care of 4-6 kids per day, and make 60/day per kid, and they get paid vacations. Financially, it seems like they make significantly more than they would teaching in a large center. I like the homey feel of the daycares, that it's a little cheaper, and walking distance. They also both provide snacks and lunch, which is nearly impossible to find in a large center.

They have to live in homes that are set up as daycares though, and it's very hard for them to take a sick day.
Do you recall the name of that town/study? I've seen that a similar example used for pro-UBI points, and it'd be interesting to find out that it actually didn't work out as it's been claimed.
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I'm not a shill.

I really just want to see this succeed, so that I can get mine :)
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this means you are allow Google to datamine every click

you should be running an add-on to scrape all tracking off Google
The market is probably around -$500 to -2000 so yes.
1971 was late to be doing that. Take a look at the Viatron, from 1968.[1][2] $39 a month. This was a respectable computer, with 4K of (core-type) RAM, two cassette tape drives, keyboard, and CRT. The company had trouble manufacturing it, because it pushed the limits of what you could do at that price point, but systems were built and delivered.

[1] http://www.retrogator.com/2014/07/23/1969-viatron-system-21-...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viatron
This isn't really what happens though, they avoid paying taxes in China too by running everything through their Irish subsidiary.

And then it gets parked there while they demand a tax holiday so that they can distribute these profits to their shareholders.
Here in Sweden, we pay about $230 per month for two kids, full time. The oldest one has after-school care, about $50 per month. Tax subsidised, of course.

Of all the ways tax money can be used to create a more level playing field for the next generation, this is IMHO one of the best. Parents get to have a career, kids get to know other kids from varying backgrounds, and kids with less than ideal parents get to do more worthwhile things than stare at TV and eat at McD.
As for the "why" - presumably it would be in the public interest for the government to spy upon notorious public enemies like terrorists or potentially hostile governments? Is there a good argument otherwise?
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Awesome project, I hope to make some contributions to it on Github in the future!
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> The Japanese were still trying to barter with the Soviets, going so far as to offer Manchuria and southern Karafuto...The Soviets snubbed the emperor's request to send his special emissary, Fumimaro Konoe, to Moscow because Tokyo's surrender condition remained too "opaque". Reader of Zinn's account learn nothing of this broader context.

Readers of Zinn's account learn nothing of this broader context? What US high school textbook goes into any of this? The answer is none. It's a laugh that Zinn is accused of not addressing some Soviet/Japanese negotiation with Fumimaro Konoe as some kind of unique shortcoming. No one discusses this, except in very specific post-grad type historical work.

I mean, the US is so US-focused, you never hear mentioned even things which aren't really controversial. Like that one of the main worries on Stalin's mind when Operation Barbarossa commenced was that the Asian Axis would attack Russia from the East. But due to diplomacy, other concerns for Japan etc., it didn't happen. In fact, Soviet ships used to sail with Soviet flags from Vladisvostock to the US West Coast and safely bring supplies in, during a time that the Atlantic ocean was patrolled by German submarines. 99% of Americans aren't aware of this, never mind more minute concerns about specific last minute negotiations between the Japanese and some other country. Wineburg himself is being crafty about this.

Also - Julius Rosenberg was arrested for being an atomic spy, and then his wife Ethel Rosenberg was arrested to put pressure on Julius. Both were executed. Wineburg himself is guilty of leaving out evidence - we know now that physicists like Klaus Fuchs, Ted Hall etc. were the atomic spies, not the housewife from the Lower East Side who was executed for it, orphaning her children. Even FBI agents who were on the case nowadays say there was not evidence to link her to atomic spying. Wineburg also does not mention that Sobell said that even Julius was not involved in atomic spying. So who is being selective about facts? If Zinn isn't fleshing out new evidence in a book written many years ago, why is Wineburg leaving out important information he already had, since he referenced it?
The article mentions law of excluded middle which doesn't hold in constructive logic so I wonder what exactly happens in the constructive setting.
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I was surprised to find that New Horizon is using Nucleus but I guess it makes sense since it was developed largely outside of the NASA-JPL west coast mafia (only slightly joking...). JPL has been using Wind River's VxWorks RTOS since the mid-1990s including on missions like Mars Pathfinder, the Mars Rovers, and most recently on the Mars Science Lab Curiosity. I don't have an authoritative list but if two missions running VxWorks are on opposite sides of the solar system (very likely) or on a slingshot out on the opposite side of Mars (less likely), VxWorks might take that most wide spread crown. It's definitely present on at least half a dozen active missions in the solar system.
I work at a company that uses a large amount of free software.

For much of it, if we find a bug, we either fix it ourselves locally, or go through the normal process of submitting a bug report, possibly submitting our own patch, and waiting for a fix from upstream, while finding some way to work around it or the like.

For some of the software that is central to our business, we have a contract with a company that provides support and development services. If we have a bug that we need fixed right now, we get in touch with them and pay an agreed upon rate to do so.

We don't do this for everything we use, because most of it works off the shelf, or we just replace it or work around it, or the open development process works well enough. But for those things that are absolutely key to our business, and for which there's a consulting company that employs several of the core developers on the project, it's definitely worth it to pay for the support that we need.
> However Square believes they can do this better than other services because they can effectively secure the advance by taking a piece of each card swipe at the merchant's point of sale system.

Payment processors have been active in the merchant cash advance space for a long time. What you describe (split withholding) is not new, nor is it something that only Square does. Where split withholding isn't available, merchant cash advance providers set up lock box accounts. This is not a complicated process.

Also of note is the fact that according to Square's S-1, it "fund[s] a significant majority of these advances from arrangements with third parties that commit to purchase the future receivables related to these advances."
My company? I work in sports science, our services are expensive, my employees are paid well above average wages. This is not uncommon.
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It doesn't matter how much it cost. It's about priorities. If you watch the video and get the sense that this company's founder has his priorities straight, maybe you can chip in and buy the next set of panels.

On second thought, it appears that the office is going to be pretty quiet soon enough.
The UK requires all welfare recipients to have a bank account and to enable this legislation was passed requiring retail banks to provide basic, non-discriminatory current accounts.

They don't pay interest and don't have an overdraft but are available to everyone.
On further consideration I agree with you. Knowledge of the accumulator would merely allow for the arbitrary creation of forged spends that appear valid, but the rest of the system would still remain opaque (much to its detriment in this instance).

Also there is nothing so suggest that a clever MPC will solve the collusion problem. Of course the participants will make claims about their honesty, but if ZeroCoin is worth massive amounts of money the temptation to seek collusion will be there.

Of course, whilst it's true that some participants might stick to their proverbial guns, what is going to prevent a motivated state-level attacker from monitoring as many participants as they can during the computation? Then they only need to compromise the handful that they couldn't monitor, and for that they have rubberhose cryptanalysis.
Having been one of these kids, I can assure you this is totally untrue.
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A bare standard of living where? San Francisco would be what? $50K per year? Or Kalamazoo, MI where you coulf get by on $15K?

Do we force people to move?
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Voyager spacecraft do not use any operating system. Due to the highly custom CPUs in Voyager, writing a compiler to build a 1970s era OS for the architecture would have been extremely risky and inefficient. It wasn't until the mid-1990s that the cultural restrictions on operating systems relaxed enough for some missions to start using them, and often times they are used for simple features like task scheduling and memory management because the vendors have already put the time into testing their implementations (which are well tested for other aerospace, telecom, medical, and automotive applications).

Until about 20 years ago, the complexity of the hardware didn't really necessitate off the shelf OSs anyway, and often times the overhead cost was too much to be practical anyway.
I'm an Italian living in Italy. AFAIK the article is correct about the history of languages here.

I never heard about capicola. I googled for it and discovered that it's called capocollo here, a word I heard but can't identify. It's more commonly known as coppa which is what I've been calling it all my life. It's good :-)

Coppa is a cup (the one you win at competitions) but it's also used with other words to denote something being above something else (southern Italy usage and I'm from the north). And that's probably how it relates to capocollo, which is a part of the animal around the neck.

You can glimpse the Italian Wikipedia page about it
https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppa_(salume)