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> That doesn't benefit all of society now does it?

How does then involuntary wealth transfer from the rich to the poor benefit _all_ of society, including the rich?

> Attacking a neighbouring country won't benefit society

Wat? If attacking and robbing a neighbouring society wont benefit the attacking society, how does attacking and robbing the rich neighbour benefit the poor attacking neighbourhood? Its the same concept, just another scale.

Conquest and enslavement have been successful empire-building strategies for millenia.

> are rich ... because of rent seeking

Whats wrong with that? I work and build a house, you need a stay and pay a monthly rent, whats wrong with that except your envy?

> the world belonging to mankind they by violence [usually of their ancestors] have acquired a larger share of it's resources.

We're not talking about wealth-by-robbing, as you see above. Youre explicitely throwing chance (aka inheritance) and rent-seeking into the mix, even though they are completely moral ways to accumulate. If my ancestors were hard-working accumulators, and your ancestors wasteful rakes, it is difficult to construct an argument why half of my inheritance should be awarded to your ancestors progeny instead of my ancestors progeny. Why should the ant be forced to take from his children and give to the grasshoppers children?

> should we just let 9 starve so that the 1 can keep "his" portion?

If the society is composed of 10 people, 1 is rich and 9 are starving, who is "we"? "We" is either the rich guy or the 9 starving ones. There is no single entity called "we" that can impartially and benevolently move around wealth. So if he robbed you, it is not "his" portion in the first place, then its ok for its rightful owners to take it back, including by force. But if he didnt rob you, and just accumulated it by hard-working and saving, then it indeed _is_ his portion, and youre shit out of luck. If you can construct an argument why its ok for you to attack him because you brought yourself in a situation where you literally cant survive anymore without attacking a hard-working innocent accumulator, then he has every right to also premptively attack you in order to prevent your planned envy-motivated attack. Youre essentially advocating for an vicious, eat-or-be-eaten climate of constant conflict.
Did you try eBay? I see 50 for just one manufacturer on ebay.co.uk, a mixture of new and second-hand.
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I'd pretty much agree about the F15, but I do think that the F14 is underrated in the role[1]. It certainly seemed much better in its day than the Super Hornet (aka "shit the F35 still isn't ready. Please give us something. Anything.") is today. I guess the Super Hornet is better than the old Hornet though.

[1] http://theaviationist.com/2014/08/18/the-story-of-a-legendar...
Or quality improves asymptotically as price goes up.
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There are two approaches to sustainability:
1. Use quality material that is slow to come by, but build stuff that lasts for decades, or even centuries.
2. Use "sustainably" produced material, but build utter shit that doesn't last and that you expect to throw away in a few years.

For stuff like houses, I prefer the first approach.
In Nordic countries you get state funded unemployment checks if you have permanent residence in the country. No citizenship needed.

Any change in welfare should lessen the pressure of immigration or make immigrants more productive.
Not consulting.

It would be having a person pitch a business or groups of businesses to sponsor an open-source project.

The overhead of communication, negotiation, and writing contracts is outside the scope of what most open-source developers are willing to do in terms of time.

Simply put, there is a disconnect between the value of the open-source software and the availability / willingness of open-source project maintainers to monetize a project.
The whole point is that a UBI is a realization of the wealth that is being automatically generated. Calculate it from the GDP. It doesn't require a tax. Prices continue adjusting accordingly.
Yes, it's a staple of hard science fiction. It's generally assumed that interstellar cultures are isolated, extremely long lived, and/or have solved the problems of practical interstellar travel (maintaining high thrust, dealing with radiation, not going splat on a dust particle at .99999c).

It's interesting to note that a traveler on a spaceship that can maintain 1g of acceleration would experience 14 years subjective time while traversing 1480 light years. (According to http://convertalot.com/relativistic_star_ship_calculator.htm...)
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The F15 is an interesting story, it was created in part as a reaction to the terrifying intelligence they had about the Mig25, they went all out to create something to beat something that turned out not to exist in a sense (The Mig-25 existed of course but it's actual characteristics where very different to what intelligence suggested, it was big and fast and that was about it, if it ran at full speed the engines ate themselves).

In doing so they created the best air intercept fighter of it's generation and a design that is still considered premier-tier, the US consider it obsolete because it lacks stealth but not every country has fully adopted the stealth mantra (the Russians never really did or possibly didn't have the manufacturing capability).

It will be interesting to see if they continue it's development, there where nominal plans for new variant called the Silent Eagle which adopted some radar reduction measures and upgraded it's electronics to state of the art, I think once you except stealth that we are at a point with fighters where the airframe is secondary to the avionics and weapons, they all have the capability to kill the pilot from G forces so maneuverability isn't really an issue anymore.

It's interesting to see what the Indians have done with their Mig-21 upgrade program, with modern avionics and weapons it's reputedly as potent as a middle-bloc F16 which considering that's a 60 year old air frame design is incredible.
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IBM was big, really big. At one time, it had more than 70% of the computer business, so it was twice as big as every other computer company added together.

In fact, IBM was really big before computers even arrived. It dominated data processing based on punch cards and was sued for monopoly abuse in the 1930s. It was the original Evil Empire.

Microsoft -- founded in 1975 -- has been spectacularly successful, and IBM's performance has been mediocre for the past 15 years. Even so, Microsoft has only just overtaken IBM in revenues. (Both are now around $93 billion. On any reasonable growth path, IBM would be well over $200 billion.)

See the graph at http://www.zdnet.com/article/tiny-microsoft-overtakes-the-mi...

Indeed, Microsoft would probably be nowhere without IBM. It was IBM that set the PC standard with the IBM Personal Computer in 1981, and Microsoft was lucky to be part of it. In IBM terms, Microsoft stole a small part of IBM's rightful monopoly. IBM's response was to try to kill it with OS/2 EE and the MCA bus in PS/2 computers, as part of SAA.
Something that tends to be ignored a bit is the build quality. Especially cheaper consumer gear is fraught with shit like glue disintegrating, solder connections becoming loose due to vibrations, wood increasing in volume due to humidity... for headphones, cheap plastic stuff breaking after a single drop, wires so thin they easily break, connectors which don't meet specs...

edit: also, in my experience, expensiver speakers handle abuse like clipping or otherwise "bad" input far better than cheap ones. Most likely because cheap speakers operate on the upper end of their abilities and don't have much reserve margin, while a more expensive one is spec'd below what it can actually handle.
They certainly were. Bruce Berndt is one example of a mathematician who has spent an entire career proving the results found in Ramanujan's notebooks. He has written a number of very thick books showing methods of proof for all his results.

Notice that Ono says that only a few people knew about this stuff. Another way of saying the same thing (the more usual way in my opinion) is that "this was already known by the experts".
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I've seen people use that for compiling regular expressions to LLVM assembly at run time.
A meme's widespread existence only tells that the meme itself is good at survival and propagation - not that it is in any way useful (or that it isn't (or is) harmful).
A Swedish speaker manufacturer have been trying to change this for many years and have top reviews on all speakers even though they all cost a fraction of the competition.

http://www.xtz.se

They have measurements on all speakers and room measurement equipment for "cheap" - the room really makes a huge impact on the sound.

I have the S-800 Speakers and the new Cinema Package
What you propose is sensible and funneling more of the wealth that corporations derive from using OSS projects back to the development of these projects is certainly a desirable thing.

But there are other problems discussed in the post and I'm afraid some of them cannot be solved with money alone.

Suppose you are overwhelmed with a thousand meaningless pull requests. Whom you are going to ask for money?

Suppose you are called a douchebag for rejecting an ill-thought out pull request. How is money going to mitigate the vitriol?

Suppose you are called a douchebag for asking money to fix bugs. Same thing.

Attitudes need to change too. There needs to be growing recognition of the respective contributions of users, developers and maintainers of OSS projects and their value.
I don't get what these hackers are after by pastebin'ing their attack.

It can't be money (as mentioned, by selling the data to gossip magazines they could earn more Bitcoins than MtGox), it can't be security (or else they'd have posted how they gained entry) and it can't really be fame as the feds will stop at nothing to hunt them down now...
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If:

* basic income was unconditional, and thus, additional to your wage

* basic income wasn't enough to live comfortably, but just enough to survive

then most people would still be compelled to find a job, because most people don't want to just survive. In that situation, the assumption that employers could get away offering very low wages to the least skilled workers look quite credible to me.
> When you inevitably compare yourself to others, remember that there's probably a lot you're not hearing about them.

That's definitely true but I find little consolation in it because for me it's not only about being really successful. It's also about being perceived as really successful by other people, so it's not just about "winning" the "competition" of who has the "best" life, it's about winning the competition of who other people think has the best life, which is a competition in which it doesn't matter whether there's a lot that you're not hearing about the winners, because the majority of people (the judges) will only take the stuff you do hear into account.

I hope that makes sense, couldn't really think of a good way to phrase it.
I do the same.

Hobby projects get licensed as GPL.

Professional work, it is whatever the customer decides to do.
I think what the poster is getting at is any place that's not San Francisco or the Valley is cheap because we're all a bunch of rubes playing in jug bands in the rest of the country.
>“Just to clear this up,” Cracka tweeted on Thursday about the breach of the JABS database. “CWA did, indeed, have access to everybody in USA’s private information, now imagine if we was Russia or China.”

If this is true, I'm a little surprised and disappointed. The U.S. can spend trillions on its military conflicts around the world, but can't do good cyber security? Even when handled with the highest precision, a massive cyber security team would be much less costly than building warships and the next space-age jet fighter, surely. How is it possible for a country with the resources of the U.S. to miss such important areas of technological security, such that a team of "crackas", as they call themselves, can come along and exploit it? Is awareness of the needs of the digital age really so far behind the technology itself?
> Cows & Pigs don't deserve to be murdered for their meat, but we do it, to live.

We dont _need_ to eat meat. We _want_ to eat meat. We want it so much that we'll kill them to get it.

But for some psycho-social reason unknown to me, we're not willing to flat out admit that, and spend aeons constructing convoluted arguments why we are so so sorry but cant avoid killing them.

> If you are going to do it, own it.

As you can observe, exactly that last bit absolutely doesnt work. For some reason theyll fight tooth and nail to avoid admitting "I'll kill you now because you taste soo delicious".
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Survivorship bias. People point to a 25-year old washing machine and say "look, it still works!" but are unaware of millions of other 25-year old washing machines that are currently in our landfills.
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My wharfedales are built like battleships, not even that expensive but just excellent build quality.
The problem with this topic is that you start to see it everywhere, in everyone's behavior and thinking. It will drive you batty, and you can't do anything about it.

I spent a lot of time learning about all the different ways we humans fool ourselves. I'm not sure it was time well spent.
I'm using Autohotkey now, but I cannot have same shortcuts when I am using a Android or Apple device. This would negate the need.
The tricky bit is that most of this is probably NOT due to access to health care - most studies show minimal impact of variation in health care. E.g., the Amish live a long time.

http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:d...

https://www.nber.org/oregon/

If anyone has a real plan to make poorer people and southeasterners do some cardio and eat unfried vegetables, it would be awesome to hear it.
I've heard quite a few, but none I'd consider "great" by any means.
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Is the going rate for Haskell in finance especially high?

I used to work with Haskell in finance, but as an employee not contractor. Money was OK, but not higher than for any other language as far as I can tell.

(I wouldn't be surprised if going rates for Cobol and Fortran were higher than for any sane language.)
Very interesting read about the history of UBI, even if you don't agree with the author's conclusions.

One point that he doesn't mention, though, is where would the UBI money come from: taxes of course, but taxes on what? I think that is a very important point.
Regarding your P.S., there has been a huge controversy here in Ireland regarding the move to Lisbon since it was announced. Paddy Cosgrave has blamed everyone under the sun for the problems that apparently require the event to be moved, but at the end of the day, the Portuguese government offered them money while the Irish government refused to cater to their demands so I would have no doubt that the only thing that matters to those involved is the cash. The whole debacle has been pretty embarrassing for Paddy Cosgrave and the WebSummit.
There is little to compare our approach to. Does it really take 17+ years of education before the average person is ready to enter med school? Must the average person really be 32 before they can become a specialist doctor?

k-12 (13 yrs), Collage (4yrs), Med School(4 years), Residency (3 years), Specialty medical training (3yrs) = 28 years. Ignoring pre k and the fact that this is the happy path.
That isn't the point. The ultra wealthy are using all that extra cash to buy expensive apartments and housing and leaving them empty or renting them out.

This 'demand' for property raises the price of it.

Since rents track property prices, rents go up too.

As soon as the ultra wealthy have a fat tax bill due all that property comes on the market again. Together. Crash time. Sane prices once again.
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Google basically rewrote MS Office in Javascript. (And Microsoft rewrote the real MS Office in Javascript.)

Text editors are pretty tame beasts by comparison.
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>I'd argue that rents are high because too many people want to live near each other.

So your theory is that people have gotten more and more desperate over the last 35 years to live near each other?

What?

>Property that people want is a scarce resource

Is exactly why the ultra wealthy have been buying it all with their tax free profits and using it as a savings account. Guess what happens to prices when that 'demand' increases?
You should mention this to the developers! I remember 1930s cartoons having less disruptive visuals as that, too. That said this is an impressive undertaking and the animation does look incredibly fluid. Hoping they make a great game and do well.
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I think that such expensive speakers fall in the same category as all "audiovoodoo" items, like this "quantum purifier" or cd mat :)

http://stonessoundstudio.com.au/stone/Bybee/Bybee_Slipstream...

http://marigoaudio.com/titanium-power-cable/cd-mats/3-d-sign...
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Not quite, though? You don't get double the quality by spending an extra $1000.
It may mean some products will cost more, because there is no one to exploit to build them for cheap.

And that's a good thing.
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So it's similar to hypothes.is / genius.com, only the actual document gets edited instead of a contextual-overlay / annotation overlay?
We just got one pretty cheap for our 20-years-old Miele, it came from a machine that had something else break.
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman, has both sides in the conflict sending spaceships at .99c to where they think the enemy will be.. with the unfortunate reality that if the enemy has populated & developed from that location first, the arriving fleet will be thousands of years of innovation behind and be wiped out without a chance.

Written by a survivor of the Vietnam War and a frighteningly poignant read.

"'The laws have changed sir, you no longer get a discharge after 1000 years. We're shipping you back out in 2 weeks' and of course the bastards only pay you for your subjective time, otherwise we'd have soldiers getting rich"

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They probably figured out an individual's password. Maybe the system shouldn't allow outside access to individuals with just a password, but it isn't really that shocking that they got into it.

I like how grandiose that tweet is, as if Xi Jinping starts every meeting by making fun of a few felony mug shots, look at the mustache on this guy, hahaha.
People will be under far smaller pressure to work at all costs. They will search for a job much longer. They will sacrifice their pay and benefits far less.

Thus, their overall wage will be much higher (though it may be subsidized by basic income and not fully paid by the employer).
I don't think the world is anywhere close to Utopia. We have:

* Starving people

* Wars

* Racial prejudice

* Vastly uneven distribution of healthcare across the globe
>As long as people are living in them, what does it matter where the owner lives?

I am personally not a fan of paying 40% of my income as taxes to Russian oligarchs.

When property taxes are lower than the value of the land (and in London they are virtually nil), you effectively have a privatized land tax.

The proceeds of those taxes tend to fund kleptocratic billionaires.
Short story dispensers:

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Yeah I know, already done, but all the best ideas are co-opted and marketed better. What if instead of this, we could also have:

- Disposable $10.00 phones

- Disposable 'Tweet' cards, or single use tweet tokens

- Disposable emoji greeting cards
etc
Very nice these old machines are still getting some love. It's very unfortunate the later models don't have switches (or any sort of front panel) anymore. Toggling in a program from the switches is a feeling that you don't get from the octal keypad.
How often do you think plaster should last?

I've lived in Europe for almost 30 years, and have never seen the plaster fall off the wall/ceiling without some serious other cause, like a leaking roof or serious subsidence.

My mum's house was built in 1908. A water leak in the summer meant part of the ceiling was ruined. The plasterer said it was original lath and plaster, and gave her a discount as he said it was a pleasure to work with.

21% of dwellings in England were built before 1919.

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This is just amazing. It's an elegant visualisation, something I hadn't seen before.
FWIW Le Corbusier is responsible for perhaps the most livable city in India. Chandigarh. It is perhaps one of the few orderly cities in India.
By school run, do you mean an athletic competition, or just walking to school?
That's part of growing up. We can't let the burden of teaching words for swearing fall entirely on TV.
>Maybe the system shouldn't allow outside access to individuals with just a password

Well that is exactly my point. If that is indeed possible, then why? Who is running the American government networks? Are they really so naive?
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I really think representative democracies are almost as good/bad at public works than pro-totalitarian regimes. Veto players are as relatively likely to veto moderate approaches, because nobody has real interests considering the actual functionality of the building. It may be more towards cheap eccentricity than expensive eccentricity, but anyhow you aren't guaranteed to have anything beautiful.

Private business playing safe is not really surprise to anybody. Also completely private houses play safe most of the time too. When somebody actually has something to gain from architecture, there is no need to reinvent the wheel.

My point is that some form of direct democracy would calm down public works. Which only seems fair. If million eyeballs have to see a building daily, why do you let ten decide on it?