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And in particular what is really happening is that the disincentive (which is created by any taxation for any purpose) is being spread more evenly throughout the population

Agreed, which is why I object to your statement that: We already know how to design a program that won't discourage work. It's not that basic income discourages work more or less, but that it evens out the marginal tax rate. This might be a good or a bad thing, but your original post contains no argument either way. You run a very strong risk of the reader misinterpreting what you are saying, and believing that there will be a uniform improvement in incentives across the whole population.

which all else equal can be expected to have less effect on behaviour than concentrating the effect on a subgroup which will then be much more compelled to react to it.

I think the main argument behind the current system is that low income people need the money, and therefore are less affected by the marginal tax rate.

Moreover, how the taxes are collected is separate from the basic income. If we find that it is for some strange reason better to charge a higher marginal rate to lower income people than higher income people then we can have a basic income and yet still do that.

Either "basic income" should be used to denote a flat tax plus basic income, or a varying marginal tax plus basic income. Your first post implies the former to the exclusion of the latter. I think you are changing the definition because it's important to you that basic income "win", but really there are two separate issues, which are negative taxation vs welfare, and fixed vs varying effective marginal tax rates. Each of these issues should be decided independently on their own merits.
What is their logo supposed to imply? Exploratory anal...ytics? What an unfortunate choice of logo. And name. And tagline.
Had the Sweden Democrats not existed the proper parties would have had the full spectrum of positions to chose from.

By being so reprehensible the Sweden Democrats gave the other parties no choice but to dismiss them entirely.
You're assuming that everyone being frozen is "equal". Hate to say it but people like this girl will be unfrozen to see what happens long before they bring out the brains of Steve Jobs and the like.
The US has absorbed tens of millions of immigrants since 1980 (ten million from Mexico alone since then). While it's a perfectly fine point you're making regarding Syrian refugees, that has to rationally be balanced in the context of the vast scale of immigration the US is already handling.

By comparison, Sweden's total population has increased by less than two million in 50 years. The US takes in that many legal immigrants every two years.
It's a good example of how play in the future will also go the way of jobs.

Why garden when your neighbors will have amazing gardens cheaply designed and looked after by robots.

And it'll be smart, it'll know exactly how many weeds to leave so it doesn't look to perfect, exactly when to plant and pollinate, order things online when needed.
No, winter was an arbitrary example. Humans need to track yearly events during all seasons.
If there was actually a significant percentage of browsers that had this installed then it would ultimately affect the actual business model of ad sales. It would be really interesting to see what they could possibly come up with if CPC was no longer usable.
There are a lot of competing factors that drive language change. Probably the largest force is sound efficiency - speakers merge, elide, and otherwise mess with sounds in order to make speaking take less energy, or make it possible to talk faster (think runnin' instead of running). This increases efficiency for a while, until homonyms take over and meanings become too frequently ambiguous. (Think of the cot/caught merger, although that one probably confuses no one.) Then, speakers start to use lots of periphrasis and such, and eventually big compound descriptions get lexicalized as new words and grammatical structures. This makes the language more complex as it originally was. Thus language evolution often happens in cycles like this on the order of centuries.

The major factor that influences the equilibrium of this cycle is number of speakers and number of adult learners. Languages with lots of speakers change more slowly, and tend to be getting simpler especially if they are assimilating new speakers (think English as it is becoming the global lingua franca.) Small insular languages with few second language learners tend to get more complex and idiosyncratic.

Source: studied linguistics for a few years.
It's better to couch your prejudices in euphemistic language? Why is such minute dishonesty more credible? Do you fancy yourself capable of perfect impartiality?
It's pretty easy to figure out. You go to the site. You see ads. You stop reading and go somewhere else.
The chart comes from this AWS-provided document, actually: https://s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-reference/mongodb/latest...
Yeah, we made some terrible choices and did some terrible things, but those were very different times. The US led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq (plus it's history of funding all the wrong people to fight the soviets) has completely destabilized the region for the foreseeable future. Not 100 years go, now.

And as a result Europe, who's people never supported either US invasion, is dealing with the mess (which threatens to destroy the very fabric of the EU), while the USA sits out of harms way across the Atlantic and shouts about how it's not letting in any refugees.
It'll make no difference if you do it.

If say 30% of people do it, then it'll make their databases of who clicked on what quite worthless.

Unfortunately I don't see it reaching critical mass without providing some direct benefit to the user.
It doesn't remove the paywall though?

It would be nice if it did but the incumbents seem to be more interested in all out war against the internet as opposed to finding a workable solution?
That's really sad.

Thinking about what you said gave me an idea.

Real-world native languages fall out of use forever on a daily basis. Linguistic historians want to preserve the unique attributes of these languages, because they each tell a story and add to the character of humanity's history.

Computer languages share some of these attributes in a broad sense, but these must also be offset with the technical merit(s) of the language in question: if a language's foundational concepts have become outdated, continuing to use that language outside of a job description is a liability.

However, if a language's fundamental design is still interesting, but the low-level technologies used to implement it have fallen out of favor (for example, targeting IA32, or only functioning on an obsolete processor, etc) that language will also still become effectively "dead," and arguably unfairly so.

It could be said that there are language designers and language implementers. The designers have sufficient scope in their mental model to sweep across the domain of language design and implementation and distill that into a functioning codebase. Implementors, on the other hand, just want to fulfil a spec.

I wonder what would happen if there were a website out there that listing all "dead but worthy" languages along with instructions on how to get them running? Does anything out there like this exist?

I'm envisaging students, language enthusiasts, etc, modernizing these old language specifications - which would allow the community to readily reasses the technical merits of the language in question. It might ultimately be demoted again, but we'd have a reasonable, modern justification of why.
You are making the assumption that all companies will use a subscription or pay-as-you-go model. If their is a large enough market of people who want to buy their cars outright, a company will fill that need.

Think about the cell phone model where most people in North America are on a subscription which includes the cost of their phone, or at least subsidises it. You can still go out and buy an unlocked phone.
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Aargh. Sorry about that. It's so easy to mess that one up. Gets me with tar all the time as well. Thanks for the correction.
The journey is as much fun as the end product. Usually moreso in these cases.
Negotiation is typically one of the topics covered in MBA curriculum. Some of the business school faculty also specializes in negotiations and do consulting on the side. You might be able to find negotiation training and seminar through such faculty members. Also, look up a few books on negotiations and reach out to the authors. They most likely will be able to refer to negotiation training.
Do you think it's possible that words with similar sentiments are more likely to have a longer existance?

Take the word "dope" right now, which is often used as a synonym for "cool". What's the likelihood of a word like that breaking into the mainstream and lasting?
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Oh, so it only DDoS the ad networks who aren't adhering to No Tracking standards. Alright.
Because Uber, a company in a completely unrelated field, is engaging in what you see as unethical behavior does not give you the right to defraud other companies of any kind.

It's fraud because it aims to register false clicks to deceive and confuse the companies that provide ads. It causes trouble for website owners, who can easily lose their entire income stream because they will be banned if the amount of false clicks on their site is deemed to be too high. If you don't like ads, don't go to sites that have them.
Sure, not everyone cares about trackers. But the people who might care are being misled by the lies on the web page.
I totally agree, but the post above seems to be worrying about a scenario where you stop paying and immediately lose your access to transportation. As it stands, you can stop paying and probably get by for a while. I wouldn't recommend it and I'm not sure I see any merit in allowing it, but I gather that's what they're getting at.
Real estate prices are extremely responsive to very small changes in demand. Chinese buyers compose the majority of international buyers in most investment markets. I see the ownership makeup of several 200+ unit HOAs where we are allowed to get insight into LLC ownership. If Chinese buyers quit buying my estimate is that San Francisco prices would fall by 10%. There are just not many domestic buyers at current prices. If the most recent wave of Chinese investors liquidated properties acquired since 2011, the market falls another 10%; although that's unlikely because they tend to have a buy and hold forever mentality. What surprises me the most about the current market is the fact that rents have been able to rise so much without hitting a harder affordability ceiling.
Just to play the other side of the argument - does this really matter? Most of the major label music industry now is based on, at best, flimsy (if not outright false) connections between fans and artists. Genuine connections are very different things. If, for example, you could get every fan to pay £1 a month to their favourite musicians you'd only need a few thousand fans to be doing well. Contrast that with the millions of "fans" you need to succeed via traditional, major label routes. I imagine artists who really love their job would find that pretty attractive.

I'm no expert on the industry, but Ben Horowitz has been thinking about this sort of thing for a while afaik - I only know of it through Ryan Leslie, but this article's worth reading: https://pando.com/2014/11/20/with-the-help-of-ben-horowitz-r...
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On the subject of language overuse:

So ... why does everyone start a sentence with "So". Both verbally and in written media. This has bugged me for quite a while.

I've also been indoctrinated into it's use. It definitely assists conversation but ...

"Exactly" is another one (in London anyway). Recently "exactly" has come to mean absolutely anything. E.g. "I don't know what you're talking about but I'll say 'exactly' and nod my head as a lead in to what I want to say' or just to be sounding like I'm still in the conversation"

Weird how words like these become viral.

Mild rant over.
Companies from Equinox to Makers Row are looking for creative college students to write short, creative lines for their company. Win their contest, get your ad published, and make $20-$50 per company.

Last week, we paid out $200 to 6 winners, some of whom had never done advertising or won anything before. Contest ends Thursday and payout is Friday.
Stories get flagkilled all the time. This isn't a link to a news story about the product, but a link to the product itself.
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Even if you don't encounter an enemy attack that disables GPS (which is not difficult), you (meaning anyone concerned with national security) should still be prepared for navigation by alternate methods when you consider how often equipment malfunctions can cause self-jamming of GPS. It's happened to me on systems that I support.
Interestingly, the only vendor which sells 16GB unbuffered ECC DDR4 DIMMs seems to be Crucial: http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/ct16g4wfd8213
An additional article from a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6967889.
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beats ... I hope that was intentional.

Seriously though, you're right, even if it requires a human in the loop it's still a huge benefit. Farms could even use remote workers to do the identification.
ROS is being rewritten right now - 2.0 alpha is out.

http://design.ros2.org
https://github.com/ros2/ros2
This is kind of a side note, but is the idea of parents checking homework new to most people? Is it something that teachers now expect parents will be doing?
Well, they resuscitated a nematode. That's... actually worth updating my view of how well they can preserve things. I should go ask people for help interpreting that paper.
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This is what happens when you just let anyone with an asylum claim into your country and don't have a plan for how to handle the actual numbers of people.

What ticks me off the most is that at least the german gov't has known about this problem since 2012 (https://www.bamf.de/SharedDocs/Anlagen/DE/Downloads/Infothek...) and have sat around doing nothing to prepare. We could have actually had a system in place to integrate these people, get them jobs, quickly process those with/without ligitimate claims, etc, but no.

I live in germany and listen to a lot of sveriges radio news, so I feel I have a pretty good view of how things are in sweden and germany right now. In sweden, its so bad some refugees had to sleep outside a couple of days ago, and this is with many already sleeping inside immigrations offices, or buses driving in to let them sleep in, etc. Due to germanys size and relative economic prosperty I think it will take significantly longer to weigh as heavily on the system, but estimated costs for this year for 800k refugees were about 6 billion a while back (roughly 1/6 of anual Hartz IV costs) http://www.br.de/nachrichten/fluechtlinge-asylbewerber-koste....

Bottom line, if there is not an EU wide solution to this problem it will break Germany and Sweden unless they change policy - for sweden it needs to be ASAP. Since A) there is no end of warfare and legitimate asylum claims in sight in the near east and africa which means the current influx will undoubtedly continue over the next decade B) Integration will be near impossible with these kinds of numbers producing even more socio-economic problems which you'd think germany would have learned from with its turkish workers problems (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turks_in_Germany#Integration_i...) ...

Practicaly speaking, it doesn't look like any other eu countries want to buckle up and take the economic weight of all these people who will burden their welfare systems so basically Germany and Sweden will be forced to change policy, its just a question of how bad the situation gets before they enact a change in policy.
I always found it incredible how Rome, a city of angry shepherds without a real port and with no serious tradition of seafaring, ended up using the whole of the Mediterranean as its personal highway and the heart of a huge Empire.
People tend to get play and competition mixed up, with disastrous consequences. Do what you enjoy doing, don't worry if it's better than anyone else.
There are several technologies in startups that can kill weeds using custom levels/frequencies of light - it takes about 3 seconds per spot to kill a weed.

Lasers, especially fast ones will only handle superficial stuff.
> There is no solution here. Who decides what I can and cannot declare with the select? If it's not me, then how will this other body of control make sure to include all possibilities in their API, which satisfy my requirements that even I don't know yet? And of course, how will these features work together? and then also be efficient?

By that reasoning any library is not a solution. Somehow people keep writing useful ones.

The article is saying the form is useful but needs to be extensible. Doesn't seem pointless to me.
I'm not quite sure what you mean be 'exactly'? I thought at first you meant e.g. "I'm not exactly sure what you mean" - but you mention at the start? (Also London, just haven't noticed I suppose).

Regarding the use of 'So..' to lead in a sentence: this is an hideous Americanism that must be stopped from further penetrating our borders at all cost. I exaggerate, of course. But it is an Americanism; I do not like it.
I was aware, but definitely worth reiterating.

My post should have a disclaimer - "unless you have several years using many sql and nosql datastores and some background in algorithms and data-structures - DONT DO THIS"

My reason for _not_ using postgres and its GIST style indexes and full search primitives ( which I like and use often, btw ) was that I could find no way to configure postgres to hold the full top level index in RAM. I could run thru a query over all data to load it into the working set, but ideally I would like to mark it 'preload' - do you know a way to do this ? I did consider putting the inverted index in its own postgres DB on a RAM disk, but it seemed non-recommended.

The spirit of the post was : in most cases yes you can find something good off the open source shelf.. [ particularly redis which was very close to being what I needed ] but sometimes rolling a custom data structure that fits the problem can be a surprising win.

Particularly now that SSDs give a really different performance profile to what we are used to. I think DB implementations will adapt to fit SSD characteristics better over the next couple years.. just as they have made the desktop much more snappy.

New DB engines such as rethink and aerospike are very likely tuned more towards SSDs out of the box .. I haven't spent much time with those yet.

Theres a class of problems can be solved by scaling vertically, if you approach it by creatively applying the basics of algorithms and data structures. This is why many people use redis, its a superb bag of useful data-structures you can co-opt to your needs.
> Basically, you cannot distribute a modified ubuntu and call it ubuntu. Makes sense from a trademark perspective.

This might be the policy. The fact that the policy is -from a legal standpoint- at odds with what people informally claim that the policy says is the matter at issue. From the article:

'The issue here is the apparently simple phrase "you must remove and replace the Trademarks and will need to recompile the source code". "Trademarks" is defined later as being the words "Ubuntu", "Kubuntu", "Juju", "Landscape", "Edubuntu" and "Xubuntu" in either textual or logo form. ... The naive interpretation of this is that you have to remove trademarks where they'd be infringing ... [b]ut that's not what the policy actually says. It insists that all trademarks be removed, whether they would embody an infringement or not. If a README says "To build this software under Ubuntu, install the following packages", a literal reading of Canonical's policy would require you to remove or replace the word "Ubuntu" even though failing to do so wouldn't be a trademark infringement. If an @ubuntu.com email address is present in a changelog, you'd have to change it. You wouldn't be able to ship the juju-core package without renaming it and the application within. ...

This seems like a pretty ludicrous interpretation, but it's one that Canonical refuse to explicitly rule out.'

MJG -and others- have repeatedly asked Ubuntu representatives for official, binding clarification regarding Canonical's IP policy. Their requests either are ignored, they are pointed to a non-binding, informal blog post written by a community manager (rather than a Canonical lawyer), or they are met with a promise to follow up that goes inevitably unfulfilled.

Edit: Here is an interesting comment thread that -might be- related to my point: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/38467.html?thread=1474883#cmt147... (assuming that the anon is actually a Canonical employee, rather than a troll who's out to muddy the issue).
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No, it's the site which is free to refuse serving content if you don't view the ads. I'll happily go somewhere else.

Otherwise, I have an ad blocker so that I can go to the site, not see the ads and continue reading. Or if I feel particularly inclined to fight this shitty business model, I may install this ad clicker.
The kumar script is inspiring.
That's fair, but she's writing an editorial in FASEB, which is the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology journal :).
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When you install an ad blocking browser extension, you are trading limited, specific, mostly non-personal data sharing with publishers, for complete, unrestricted, uncensored data sharing with extension providers.

Extensions can see the entirety of every page a user visits. This includes their bank account, what they searched on google, what they searched on duck-duck-go when they didn't want their search to be recorded, what sites they are a member of, how frequently they visit those sites, at what times they visit those sites, what emails they have sent and received, what they typed in their encrypted proton-mail account, what 20 word passphrase they chose for their bitcoin wallet, what they posted anonymously on 4chan...

From a pure privacy perspective, it's a huge net loss.

Even if you only enable extensions on non-sensitive sites, the difference in the amount of data being given to the extension provider vs the data being restricted from the ad provider, is very large during that time.
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$8 a month is a pittance. You can't even get the NYT alone for that. You can't get the WSJ either. You can, just barely, get the Linux Weekly Newsletter for that much.

This is like the GMail-without-ads idea. The provider and the user are far out of sync with each other. You _can_ get a Gmail without ads today, if you want. It'll cost you $50 / year.

To make it worse, that decreases the value of your advertising space. When you have a free-only service, the value of your advertising is the benefit of showing the people who can afford things ads. If you have a free and a paid ad-free service, the value of your advertising is significantly lower, because the people with money (and willing to spend it) are no longer going to be shown the ads.

Great, now I'm going to advertise to a bunch of poor people and skinflints. There's no chance I'm going to pay the publisher an equal amount for those ads as I'm going to pay them for the rest. So that publisher will have to charge paying users enough to make up the shortfall.