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She completely misses the fact that all of these open source tools run on top of completely closed and secretive hardware platforms. It's true that Intel (for example) is 'well-funded', but Intel has a track record of selling out the user's best interest (even if it is just transparency) for a profitable purpose. And Intel is among the better companies in the OSS world.
I don't think you've captured the nature of the question. If you give everyone a cash handout, some percentage of them might spend all of their allowance on alcohol and lottery tickets, and not have enough left over for food or rent at the end of the month, leaving them hungry and homeless. Under BI, is this situation acceptable, because it is their own fault for "wasting" the money?
Question, if at the base, poverty was eliminated, would it matter if there was more inequality?
The value of Etsy changed when Amazon entered its space. It is objectively worth less now that the 800 lb gorilla has decided to eat Etsy's lunch.
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The lockup agreement expired. Looks like employees and executives are selling up big time.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/etsy-shares-fall-after-expi...
Market cap is just value of a single share * number of shares outstanding. Do you have a better way of valuing a publicly-traded company?

When you say "its actual value is probably unchanged", what value are you talking about?

If you think there is a disconnect between share price and value (however you're measuring that), then it is an excellent opportunity to arbitrage an inefficient market.
I'll believe it when I see it.
If someone needs extra help after a basic income, clearly they need non-monetary help. Making it easier to distinguish those cases seems like an improvement.
It's not uncommon, I've seen it a lot in England. If the group is 100% women, a lot of people would say "hey girls". It seems far less common in the US. But yes, "guys" is used as a gender-neutral "group of people". We also do it sometimes in french.

As for whether it's PC/anti-pc/whatever, this is really down to the intent behind it and how it's perceived by the recipients. If you're a woman, addressing other women as "guys", there's no ill intent (and none received). It's far more offensive to have someone else police your words...
It's an older Dell Dimension, one of the very last Core 2 Duos CPUs. I am not too worried about it at this point, as I am going to replace early next month. Hopefully, my next computer will fair better.
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The sleeve says "Best Practical", makers of RT, so that's presumably where he got his.
The idea is that "sustaining themselves" isn't necessarily all that great, and there may be a lot of people out there working minimum-wage jobs barely scraping by who might be able to do something more if they were able to move beyond that.

How many people out there have a way to improve their lives and move forward, but which requires more free time than their minimum-wage job allows? I suspect it's a lot.
Etsy is a test, in some ways, to see if the b corp model can fit in a large, publicly traded company. The hope was that the b corp model would break out of its niche, and be applicable more globally.
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> You are rewarded for writing C++ safely because you won't have to fix any bugs and you can offload all the work onto the compiler for checking types and safety for you.

But that's not the case. No shipping version of C++ is memory safe. In fact, this is exactly what the article is about.
What point are you making? Perhaps it isn't too hard to look at examples of tech companies that have done well since IPO. This is quintessential cherry picking. The market in general has been downward recently but Atlassian and Godaddy are holding their own for example:

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ:TEAM

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:GDDY
> Until this irrational fear of quack medicine is cured, there will be no real progress in the field.

Are you suggesting we've made "no real progress in the field" of medicine since 1910?
Can you expand on why this a bad sign for B Corps more so then C Corps? Honest question. Before reading the link I did not know the difference between B and C.
French here: no, it is not common.

It is sometimes referred as "lemonde.fr", but the space is never omitted if we are not citing the web domain (with its TLD).
Small quibble but that number is comparable to Visa's peak transactions per second figure, which is somewhere North of 56,000tps. Making the hypothetical 32x-better Bitcoin network 0.2% as capable as the current Visa network.
And they're actually a better value today thanks to the proper correction, than they were at the point of IPO, despite what the analysts and pumpers (or shorts) would tell you.

Now they're trading for 2.x times sales for fiscal 2015. They have 1/3 of their market cap in cash. And they're accumulating cash from operations rather than burning it. The value proposition on the stock is dramatically higher than it was when the hype was on the moon.
When I was in China, I used ExpressVPN. But even with a fast VPN like that, it's still so much slower in mainland China than in Hong Kong or elsewhere. It really isn't a problem if you're Chinese and mainly use WeChat, QQ, etc. But us westerners who use Facebook, Google, and Instagram are SOL.
A bit off topic, but JP LeBreton, who is mentioned in the article, is also making a very interesting looking ASCII game. I can recommend his video devlog where he shows some of the tools he's made to create the game, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syFT1cZF_w8
It's absolutely public information, regardless of the fact that it's outdated.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.cs.ucsc.edu+"ther...

John's real email address is john@rome.ro (alternatively john@lootdrop.com).

https://twitter.com/romero/status/55535691681112065
Each organization is treated separately, all you need to do is install the extension and visit a repo of the other org. From there you'll start a 2 week trial and you'll be able to invite your team members and managers :)
I was about to comment that using the full time horizon for Groupon and Zynga was unfair since they IPOed years ago...

...until I checked and both companies had similar percentage drops within 9 months of IPOs as the other companies. Tech stocks are funny.
In other words, websites that are outside of mainland China seem to be significantly slower than websites in mainland China.
If someone can't keep their lives together with a reasonable income, sure it's their fault for wasting their money. I wouldn't say that they don't deserve help at that point, but I would say that it's clear they need some deeper kind of help than money (targeted or not).
> It's far more offensive to have someone else police your words

But which is entirely understandable in a workplace environment.
> They looked at levels of innovation (as measured by a particular kind of patent production) across individual states over time. They found a significant relationship between increased innovation in a state and the increased income share of the top 1 percent of earners in the state.

Are you F'ing kidding me? Patent production? Since when has looking at patent production been an accurate measure of innovation in the Valley? This is a hit piece, pandering to the tired narrative around "income inequality".
It is cherry picking, but you can cherry pick too for your case. Other than FB who is doing great?
The link in "...reviewing Show HN projects..." is broken, looks like a typo.
Zuckerberg has spawned a new era of addiction that we haven't fully realized yet because we are still living in it and have yet to see the outcomes. Facebook is a net negative for society.

Social media has replaced the really terrible feelings. When's the last time you were sad and alone for an entire day? Likely never, you can pull out your phone at any given second and plug those feelings, and you'll stop there and never realize what forces those feelings really have. It's the forces of human despair that drive us to do big things. Social media drowns out that force. You can plug any sad moment with a bit of social media and bring yourself from 'sometimes really sad' to 'never sad but always mediocre'.

I'm not the best at articulating ideas but I hope you know what I mean. We are slowly all becoming the same person in a different shell and it's terrifying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Also if it replaces the existing complicated system, what happens to the million-odd public sector workers who manage and administer it?
It does rely on alias xor mutability.
I _know_ there's a disconnect between the share price and the value, I just don't know what direction it's going to go in. This is why straddles are so much fun. :)

The efficiency of markets is widely overrated.
I don't expect Tim Berners-Lee to agree to this, given he was the one who championed DRM at W3C in the first place.

Also, I don't expect Mozilla to do anything useful, given they went along with it so easily. But then, I haven't expected anything much of Mozilla in a long while.
You don't need an ETF to short the startup tech sector.
Did you read the article? It addresses that assertion by indicating that research shows only a small fraction of inequality is actually caused by innovation. It turns out Graham's intuitive assumptions about what causes inequality don't agree with the data. The overwhelming majority is caused by rent-seeking behaviours - the "bad" causes of inequality Graham dismisses as small relative to startups. Here's a relevant section:

"When the math cleared from their analyses, the economists estimated that 14 percent of the increase in the share of income going to the top 1 percent of Americans between 1975 and 2012 "may be explained by an increase in innovation." The economists say those increases are temporary, they generate economic growth and they're associated with stronger upward mobility. Those are all good things. Point, Graham.

If you take that as a proxy for the Silicon Valley effect, though, you're left with a problem: 86 percent of the recent inequality increase can't be explained by innovation. You're also stuck with the fact that startup formation for tech companies has been falling for more than a decade even as inequality has been widening, and not rising, as Graham implies. Total venture capital funding remains well below late-1990s levels, even before you adjust for inflation, according to data from the National Venture Capital Association.

In light of all that, it's difficult to conclude that startups are mostly driving the income gap."

Furthermore:

"Other recent studies also suggest high levels of rent-seeking are driving inequality. Brian Bell and John Van Reenan, a pair of economists in Britain (which resembles the United States in many ways when it comes to inequality), reported in 2014 that increased bonuses for bankers accounted for two-thirds of the growth of top 1 percent incomes in Britain after 1999. There are all sorts of reasons to believe that premium financial sector pay is almost entirely rent-seeking; the British paper would suggest that at least two-thirds of inequality could be linked back to "bad" sources, in other words."
I recall playing a custom derivative of DikuMUD in the 90s. There was this technology called telnet that allowed me to play it from any Internet-connected computer, rather than dialing up a BBS.

The major keystone codebases, as I recall, were AberMUD, LPMUD, DikuMUD, MUSH, or MOO.

If the company is holding out for some kind of licensing deal, someone might want to remind them that their snowflake was probably a whole lot more precious before it melted.
Un-monetized self-motivation is not required, here. They would be have the opportunity to earn above and beyond the basic income. It's not Marxist or communal at all. We are not talking about abolishing work for pay. We are simply talking about an un-earned payment in addition to whatever they earn in conventional jobs.
...and rightfully so since Amazon entered the space back in October. That's a killer blow to a business that has struggled since it went public.
Isn't that the strategy these days? Extract as much value from a company and only then go public?
Amazon fails to eat other companies lunch more often than it succeeds in fact.

See: search, auctions, classified ads, smart phones, etc.
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Maybe I'm in the minority, because coffee to me is something I drink when I'm taking a break from work, or enjoying extended leisure time. The idea of never leaving my desk and having some lukewarm Starbucks drip delivered to me isn't exactly appealing.
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There was equality but not mandatory equality. There is an important difference.
The parent post (TeMPOraL) said:

have access to the best knowledge and experience entire humanity has produced

Sure, you can find plenty of videos on how make a hard boiled egg, apply tile, or do a card trick... But, that statement seems way over the top.

PS: Though, this is one case where I would haply be proved wrong.
Yahoo: from $11 in 2011 to $50 in 2014 to $30 in 2016

I am actually surprised Yahoo is worth three times as much today as it was in 2011.
Revenue growth flat and loosing money for the last four quarters doesn't seem to good.

https://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AETSY&fstype=ii&ei=...
That's exactly what it is.
So I suppose the take-away is: avoid putting your savings in tech stock?
> The open source projects that people/businesses really care about are funded. Isn't a non-funded open source project just one an open source project that no one really cares about?

It's one that no one with substantial spare cash cares about.

Granted, it's broadly understood that people without money aren't actually people, but it's considered gauche to say so out loud.
Yea, I'm surprised as well. What/how have they changed?
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Basic income is a hot topic because forward thinking people who see what's going on in the world right now already see it. You say lets cross that bridge when we get there; that's the point, we're there, you just aren't looking very hard.
It's only Alibaba stock they hold that creates any "value" in Yahoo.

"The latter part of the business is clearly pulling the former along. Here’s how to think about it: Yahoo has a stock market value of $34.1 billion, and owns a 24 percent stake in Alibaba. Estimates for the current value of Alibaba, which is planning an IPO, range between $75 billion and $125 billion. If it comes in at the low end of that range, Yahoo’s stake would be worth $18 billion, or just over half of Yahoo’s total market value. At the high end, Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba would be worth $30 billion—which would imply that the rest of Yahoo’s enterprise is worth as little as $4 billion, or 12 percent of its current value."

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-10-16/how-much-is-...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-yahoo-really-worthless-w...

http://qz.com/528986/charted-the-value-of-yahoos-alibaba-sta...
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Someone on benefits who spends all their money on alcohol will find themselves grinding their way through civil debt recovery - their landlord will sue for loss of rent and will evict them from the home; utility companies will sue to recover the debt and will cut off the utilities.

and whether that's BI or benefit makes little difference to that. You get the money and it's up to you what you spend it on, once you've spent it that's it, you don't get another dollop if you make unwise choices.

At least in England someone who becomes homeless through non-payment of rent (even as a result of alcoholism) is declared to have made themselves homeless, and they're not eligible for public housing. They might be able to get emergency accommodation in homeless shelters.

There are some slight complications if children are involved - a parent who causes the children to become homeless through alcoholism is going to find considerable child protection social services involvement in their life, but the presence of children may make emergency bed&breakfast housing available. Those are pretty terrible places. They're often not fit for human habitation, and are over crowded.
Yes, and for the same reason it matters now. Envy is a part of human nature and is not going away.
Two big points about BI:

1) You seem to be thinking of idealist communism, where everyone gets the same paycheck no matter what they do. BI is not like that. The idea with BI is that you get a basic income for nothing. It's just that: basic. Not luxurious, not even very good. Enough to live in a crappy little apartment with a roommate maybe. The incentive to do better is simple: do you want to live in a crappy apartment with roommates, or do you want something better? If you want more than the basic, then you need to get a job.

2) For the "not-so-huge wave of accomplishment", you're missing something pretty big: crime. All those lower-class people getting checks from the government may not be accomplishing much, but they're generally not committing crimes, and as a result, our crime rates are at historically low levels despite what the sensational news media would have you believe. Now why aren't they accomplishing more? Probably because most more-capable people aren't on welfare, they're gainfully employed. But you're also missing other stuff: a lot of these people getting government checks DO work, they just do it under-the-table. They do odd jobs: home repair, yard work, etc., and get paid in cash so they don't lose their check. The government may not like this, but it does add to the economy, and it shows that BI is a workable concept: these people frequently DO want to work, but for whatever reason, regular full-time employment escapes them, either because there's not enough full-time work available (and part-time doesn't pay the bills because there's no benefits and the minimum wage is too low, so they stick with welfare and under-the-table work), or because they have some physical or mental problems that keep them from holding down a regular job. Whatever the reason, most people really do want to make more money than the bare minimum, you just don't see it because it's cash-based and not reported to the IRS.
Yep, IPOs are the new down rounds. The founders/early investors sell shares on the private secondary market pre-IPO, leaving the public and the employees holding the bag after the IPO.
I am canceling my subscription immediately. How can they even have nerve to openly admit that they have teritory adapted offer...this is against all human rights...why people in one country cannot watch batman but they still pay the same subscription...i think we should all colectively stop our netflix subscriptions to teach them the lesson...
> This ensures that every person feels comfortable to be themselves at work, and it improves the quality of work our team produces.

Interesting thesis, has this turned out to be true?

An okay (not great) way to test this would be to only turn that on in certain channels.
I'm not sure, but perhaps it is similar to local voting rights? Do tourists get the right to vote in local elections, or do they have to prove to have lived there for some length of time first?
I don't think this has much to do with it. Amazon's attempt was really half-assed (classic Amazon, to be honest). The only mention of Handmade on the Amazon homepage is in the "Search by Category" dropdown.

The real issue in my opinion is that Etsy discovered that they couldn't keep growing without opening their doors to cheap non-handmade shit. Which they've done. And their search/discoverability is absolutely awful.

My partner lists her truly handmade products on Etsy but only as an afterthought. As the amount of garbage on Etsy has increased, her views/sales have dropped. She has put all of her effort into getting sales through her own website, where at least she's in control.
The inequality is more apparent than real. I enjoy watching videos of Dallas from the 1980s. They were the richest oil men in Texas. But look real close... They are using dial telephones. They could have had expensive radio phones in their cars, but who would they talk to? The couldn't even order a pizza. The entrepreneurial culture that led to cell phone being universal wasn't there yet. It is the NETWORKS that make us all rich compared to where we were decades ago.
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Atlassian has been public for just over a month. Give it time.
Might as well throw Angie's List on that pile.

From a high of ~$28 in Jun 2013, to $8.x now (IPO opened at $15 over four years ago).
There was a beagle bros software in their silicon salad collection that would alternative spin drives (on a two drive system) faster and faster.

It sounded like a train.

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That confirms what I wrote in bug 923950.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=923590
Read this: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-aren...

The economists Milton Friedman and Friederich Hayek both argued for a basic income.
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How does this reduce the risk of hijacking? An attacker would just hijack ground control instead.
I ran a couple BBSes with a friend in the mid 90s. We got rid of file downloads and door games when we transitioned to an all message board system, but we always kept one door game around:

Barneysplat! by Bong Software

Interview with the author, who is also blind:

http://breakintochat.com/blog/2013/05/08/austin-seraphin-cre...

Oh yeah, being snarky teenagers, we also kept Pimp Wars on the board.
Having a really hard time with this article. What is the author getting at? Do they not understand what "opensource" means? Are they suggesting we somehow try to monetize the tools surround opensource development languages?
It is basically due to their ownership in Alibaba.
Soon we will see uber, airbnb and dropbox added to this list. The problem is the new VC-funded startup model is a sham to rip off the public.

Basically build a bunch of hype around fad-based, unprofitable companies with unsustainable business models and capture massive valuation of ~50x sales before going IPO and then insiders dump all the overvalued shares on the naive dumb money and only stick around long enough to dump the majority of their stake by SEC regulations. Then proceed to shout about how you changed the world and how it wasn't for the money from your yacht.
Economists have to use something to make it seem like they themselves are being productive. Which voodoo would you prefer they use to measure the unmeasurable?
Yes, so what the repercussion is when they break that contract?
Ok, let's use yours instead. Thanks! If someone suggests a better (more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again.
I read the article and the main reason for moving is wish of Guido and some developers personally. I was following the pep for Kallithea and hoped it will be picked up given Python is using mercurial which is already distributed and at par with git in features and workflow.

Also GitHub is another sourceforge, when Python did not move to sourceforge when 80-90% of developers were using it. I don't see why they want to move to GitHub just for source code management now when roundup will still be self hosted by Python. This is one of the reason I like gnu and gpl they not just build open source but continue to uphold the principals.
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