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I'm cautiously enthusiastic about basic income. I want to believe that it really can change everything, until that nagging doubt of "but human nature just doesn't work that way!" inevitably kills the buzz.

The idea behind basic income is to remove day-to-day struggle from people's lives. If only they didn't have to worry where their next rent check is coming from, then potentially a huge groundswell of human capital could rise out of nowhere and carry us all into a new age.

But we don't need to actually implement basic income in order to test that out. Plenty of people already receive checks from the government every month that they live on, in exchange for no real work responsibilities. Like, a whole lot of people. There should already be a not-so-huge wave of accomplishment coming from all these people. Not to belittle them and their abilities, but there isn't. Just about everything that we consider a real advance comes from people working the system that exists using their own ingenuity, not from people allowed to escape the system by providing them an inalienable source of income.

Modern Western societies are rich enough that smart, motivated individuals can mostly rise to the level of their own ability. To do better than that we need to build a better society, not just make the one we have richer. Basic income could be an important step, but it's only one step.
Amap is also where Apple is getting some of its Chinese data from.
how would your website ever make money? Why would someone post a sweepstakes?
MSFT was profitable from almost day 1. I don't think its a good comparison.
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If they're okay with losing loyal customers, I'm okay walking away from them. Doesn't sound like a sustainable business strategy to me.
I don't think anyone I know would be interested in this website. So even if one person likes, it doesn't mean any of their friends will. As a web savvy person, I assume services like this are not worth trying because

1) it's just as likely to be a scam as not and

2) even if it's worth it right now, it will soon not because because of people gaming/spamming the system. The odds of winning an item for free are not displayed, and therefore are assumed to be astronomically high. It's assumed it's not a good return on my time to register and enter.

That said, it's a cool site, and I like your intentions. I do not think there's going to be a feasible way to prevent gaming and spamming unfortunately.
I wanted to post this as a child to @gist's comment, but since there are a lot of comments similar to yours, I'll put it as your child.

>"I've never encountered a problem big enough that would want me to do this and rather than start a company for the hell of it, I've just stayed put"

Fuck[1] those who make you feel bad that way. It is RIDICULOUS that working reasonable hours a week, doing a challenging (or not), but stable job, great benefits, and being rewarded for loyalty is now LOOKED DOWN UPON! Your entire life is not a challenge to see who can push the hardest, 'solve' the most problems, start many companies, etcetera. You should do what makes you happy. Honestly. And if that means starting a company, go for it. If you're not so inclined, don't fret over it.

I have realized that the problems will come to you if you look for them. Like, random ideas. For example, you will see in my comment history that I often suggest ridiculous business ideas as solutions to my problems/something I want. If you want something/aren't satisfied with some kind of stuff, maybe you should work on a solution, and try to sell it to people with problems you faced? You may not make a lot of money, or any profit, but might make yeah happy, and give you the satisfaction of having started something.

In a related note, in one of my previous comments I mention JuJu Dhau, this awesome/incredible yogurt from Bhaktapur, Nepal. If you/anyone wants to start a yogurt business to make that (I'm assuming U.S), I'd be a sleeping/reasonably active partner for a little bit of money. Just throwing ideas out there... : )

1. Does HN have a swearing policy? In either case, I mean in the figurative sense anyway.
FWIW, my employer is a legacy, heavily-employed company (3000 employees, 20 physical offices worldwide). We use scrum or scrum-hybrid for most projects/teams.

I do think it's incorrect to state "if you don't trust this developer, fire them." At least, it's no more true in an agile environment than any other.
Why do you see it as different from any other positive thing about a country?

All properties of a country are either intensive or extensive of migrants and of existing citizens.

Intensive properties would be nice weather and a rich history.

Extensive properties are things like public healthcare, public schools, and a civil society.

Basic income is no different than other extensive properties; all of these are affected by the culture of and the wealth generated by the country's citizens. Immigration, by changing the properties of the citizenry, will affect all extensive properties of a country, positively or negatively.
As I've been growing up I've realized increasing population, automation, and globalization are going to force some sort of change in how we distribute wealth and resources in nations, and in the world.

The study of the town in Canada is a favorite of mine. The results are staggering and nearly immediate.

Why we haven't moved towards solutions which in the long run may actually save us money through better educated and less stressed citizens sooner is an interesting thing to think about to me.

I've never tried to do the math though, it does get expensive quick.
This is all tied up in the Scottish independence debate, a "once in a generation vote" which is set to be replayed in the next few years because the "wrong" outcome happened. The economic argument for independence has collapsed since, especially with the collapse in the price of oil.

That given this background the article could say things like there being benefits to the health system from "ending poverty" given the article also took savings from not having pay benefits any more sums up this approach. The 60% of the median calculation used for the poverty* line requires ~£10k annual income, so if you don't have any children this payment would still put you firmly below the poverty line if you didn't / chose not to work.

A basic citizen income is incredibly expensive and essentially a massive benefit to the richer classes.

* That's leaving aside issues with absolute v relative poverty rates
I like this. I am also reminded of something I read about agriculture and food forests. The idea was that all land "wants" to return to its forest state, and that traditional agriculture requires constant energy inputs to hold the land in a raw, tilled state that can be quickly planted. The alternative is planting multiple compatible canopies—an edible forest—so it can stably sustain itself without inputs.

I think something similar happens socially... Whenever you diverge from the standard model of doing things (as startups do) it requires a massive amount of energy to stay in that raw state. Markets, employees, everything "wants" to pull you back to the typical way of doing things. The forest of the status quo fights like hell to grow back.

So ideally what you want to do is clear a little land and ASAP plant a complete ecology that can fill that little space. I think this is where I get to the potential energy.... If you are going to have to wait a long time to plant all the different parts of the ecology, you need more potential energy to hold the land open. If you are going to plant a balanced ecology right away, you can get away with less energy.

Anyway. Mixed metaphors but I appreciate the opportunity to mix in your idea to things I've been thinking about.
> Would you guys do it?

Nope. I'd find a way to do it in my off time. You say you're too busy with work, so get less busy with work.

If I couldn't do that, I don't think I'd quit a 200k/year job until I had enough to retire, although my view on that is probably drastically different from yours. I'd work on the side project after that.
I think your vastly overstating what videos people put online.

I think woodworking is hard to qualify. So, let's simplify.

1) A master craftsman video demonstrating how to make an Italian style flat bread oven from someone that spent ~15+ years learning and building them.

2) One of those small but highly accurate mechanical clocks that's accurate enough for navigation at sea.

3) A European ed: (English) style saddle made by a craftsman, as in someone that made and sold 100 others before it.

I am sure there are at least a few hundred people with those skills world wide, but actually finding a detailed video made by one of them online seems much harder. As in something that's good enough to learn from not just advertising or a 'how it's made' video showing some highlights.

It's 3:30 EST on Friday. Let's give it 24 hours. ;)
Or "If you don't build a great product, nothing else you do matters".
> There should already be a not-so-huge wave of accomplishment coming from all these people.

Could you clarify which people specifically you're talking about? I'm not trying to disagree with you. It's just that the main examples I'm thinking of are retired folks receiving social security and people with disabilities.
They want people paying more money to them. If Netflix paid $1M (This is just an example, I have no idea what actual costs are) to offer House MD to their US customers that's all fine and great, but the content owners want them to pay another $1M to offer the same show to Canada, then another $3M for India, etc, etc as opposed to them just handing it out for the same price for the whole world.

The other option would be asking for $20M to offer the content to the world which in turn would mean rising Netflix monthly fees. Either case it is the customer that suffers in the process.
I'm worried if this will provide an incentive to rent hikes - landlords can easily raise rents by pointing out that everyone has additional 800€ per month to spend.
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In light of all the IoT bugs we've been hearing about, it's really nice to hear that they are being super cautious about development here. I hope they keep the same level of caution (or increase it) as they get close to market. My biggest worry here is that as the different car companies get close to market on SDCs, there will be more pressure on each to hurry.
Hmmm, good point. Perhaps it's a partial explainer, and other factors like inertia, popularity, reach, etc. need to be factored.
Because Finland is in the EU you would have to apply to all EU citizens moving to Finland and pretty much all EU citizens (500 odd million) are legally allowed too move to Finland if they choose too.

You're correct that it wouldn't have to apply to anyone outside of the EU.
I would not worry about that specific case to hard. If you can make an arm, sure you can make an exoskeleton ?
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I think DRM is mostly forced upon Netflix by Hollywood. If Netflix didn't need to DRM every stream, they could reduce their hosting costs and network latency by pushing static video content to CDNs and caching servers. For example, Google hosts YouTube server appliances in ISPs to reduce latency.
I remember the "Nibbles Away" software on the Apple ][ and there was another one that worked at the bit level.

At one computer camp I was at, someone had hacked a bit copy program that managed to look like you were playing Pong in the foreground. (Otherwise the counselors would look over your shoulder and bust you.)
In an echo of what derekp7 said above about the music industry turning to no-DRM as a way around Apple's restrictions on the iPhone, there are publishers who are turning to DRM-free sales of books directly to consumers to bypass Amazon's control of the Kindle ecosystem. O'Reilly and Packt come to mind immediately, but I'm not sure if it's a function of their audience or I just know of them because I'm in their audience.

EDIT: Which, to the larger point -- DRM is two things, a content play and a platform play. Standardizing DRM is one way to limit the power of platform holders over content providers. Eliminating DRM is another. Deciding whether standardizing DRM is a lesser evil than leaving DRM up to platform holders is a question of who do you fear more, the content owners or the platform owners.
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Taxes are whatever the electorate want them to be. Plus the modern day idea of taxes is relatively new... I mean, income tax in the US is barely 100 years old. The whole basis of the US tax system rides on the "General Welfare" clause, so really taxes provide for the general welfare (food, shelter, etc), and a basic income covers all of the general welfare bases without all of the overhead of separate agencies and regulations.
Unless either 2014 or 2015 had a negative total, you did the math badly wrong on that "dropped 622%" line (most likely by using the end year rather than the start year as the base.)
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Yeah.

It also, frankly, isn't really a blindspot so much as a known problem by devs that contribute/heavily use OS. We just don't make the financial decisions.
1) I post a receipt of the item, have a video drawing of the sweepstake, and post the tracking number of the package after it's sent out. Short of revealing the winners name, I don't know what other proof I can provide (although googling the user's usernames reveals quite a bit about them, I encourage them to change their usernames). I understand what you mean, on first glance I can see how people think the site is a scam.

2) I show how many people enter, so the odds are 1/(total number of entries). I was thinking of requiring a valid/unique phone number on registration and require the users to input the code I text them. Think of Craigslist / Chatroulette / etc.

I don't envision any people from Hacker News using the site on a daily basis. In fact, I posted it here as a "Show HN" and a whooping <10 people visited. There are people where an extra $25 means getting to take your daughter out to dinner when she announces she's engaged or an extra $100 means you get to pay your bills on time for the month (real winner stories so far). What really pushes me to work on the site every day is that even if the site fails to grow, at the end of the day, I've helped people without asking for anything in return.

I appreciate the comments.
Yeah, I guess I'm more addressing those Type-A personalities who might be reading this thinking "I'm gonna go do this and kick ass, taking the practice to the maximum limit my mind will let me"... then going in and ignoring their pain through sheer willpower then coming out in a lot of trouble.
It would come from contracts from the NCI.
I agree that startups are categorically different from small businesses, but why do we believe that startups are a better approach for / more suitable for tech businesses than the small business approach?

(I'm deliberately leaving "better" underdefined, but I do want a definition that focuses on it being better for founders, early employees, late employees, users, or the world, more than better for VCs. I know it's better for VCs; that's not interesting.)
Sometimes I am disappointed by responses on here as spittle appears to end up on my screen, instead of logical calm responses.

The bottleneck is indeed the hard disk but everything else about the machine is perfectly acceptable. Unless I need more cores in my CPU and all software has suddenly been rewritten to do everything in parallel and nobody does queue based operations now?
Many people are on physical disability who could still be doing most of the things that basic income is supposed to enable. To the extent that it limits them in some specific ways, if the basic income elevator pitch is correct, one would think that it would make what they can do even more likely to come out.

This is a very interesting point I hadn't thought of, worthy of some thought. (And that's all I'm saying. I haven't had the thought time yet.)
Hola Unblocker already does that (for free). It's P2P though, so you should consider running that in a VM/under a separate account.
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Using Baidu Maps worked fine for me for public transportation directions / walking directions. Often I could search for a location in English or Pinyin as well.

It only gets tricky when you want to take a taxi. Sure - you could show the address to a driver, but I found that to be very awkward and it didn't always result in success.

So my major problem with using Baidu Maps is the fact that I cannot view addresses or locations in Pinyin. If I knew the characters I could pronounce it :)
I'm not so sure. The people who receive government checks in the US aren't the same people who would be amazing for the economy to have, which is why they're on government checks (they're either on disability or retirement).
It's an awesome blog in total too.
My managers can be somewhat closed-fisted and stingy. Blood from a stone is easier.
I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I don't think it was necessary. There are better ways to put it, and several of them have already been made.

A higher level of discussion and low noise is something to shoot for on HN.
> I'm a fan of the theory of basic income but it seems incompatible with an open border/immigration policy.

No it isn't. It is very simple to say "Green Card (no basic income) -> Citizenship (basic income) transition depends on N years of taxes paid on time with a dollar value greater than 25 hours/week at minimum wage (or some equivalent proxy value)."
Due to the map issues. Uber drivers always call you to ask where you are. Which is a huge issue if you don't speak Chinese. Uber is powered by Baidu map data in China.
I think I mostly agree with you.

I think standards bodies operate most efficiently when they provide a bit of choice. If some browser writers want to implement DRM in their browsers I would rather it be standardized than not. Simply because the W3C doesn't standardize it does not mean it will not be implemented in browsers. It's not like W3C standards are binding legal documents.

From TFA:
Much of the "Web" is disappearing into apps and into the big companies' walled gardens. If it is to be relevant in the decades to come, it must do everything it can to keep the Web open as an alternative to those walled gardens.

Then remove a reason for the web to disappear into walled gardens and allow the W3C to standardize DRM. Not providing ways for everyone to serve up their content via the web will only accelerate movement to other mediums.

I like the idea of the non-agression covenant. But the obvious problem with it is that implementers of EME don't have to sign it. It looks like it only covers those who participate at the W3C. It's a rather strange legal concept, and possibly unenforceable, but I'll leave it at that.
No, I only assumed that some people want to. There's a lot of folks who are quite happy working on Cobol systems too, and don't see what all language fuss is all about.

It's the notion that you only buy expensive clothes because you're stupid victim of fashion industry that I disagree with.
I'm not worried about money, I'm worried about growth. There are services like RaffleCopter / Gleam / KingSumo / Woobox / etc. which let you create Sweepstakes to promote viral growth for your website or business.
This, we went with Stripe before but apparently hosting is too high risk and (they claim) their banking partners did not want to do business with our little Irish startup. No such issues with bitcoin
For whatever it's worth, I didn't read their post that way. Unsurprising results, validating a null hypothesis, that sort of thing, they're all valuable, but this particular poster seemed to be using the opportunity to bring up their distaste for Cartesian duality and its over-appreciation by society at large. In a sense, "this shouldn't come as a surprise, but it's good they did the study since it stands as another data point in refutation of what's become standard folk dogma about mind/matter duality" -- or something like that.

In any sense, their sentiment didn't seem to be at all opposed to yours, at least to my reading.
Yep, coffee has very little to do with actual "coffee" as a product.

Coffee is a ritual, and often, a social activity. You go somewhere sooth your mind on some coffee sipping, people watching, chatting with others, or just daydreaming, and then get on with your day.
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A Github monoculture is emerging. And I guess there are people (I for one) who do not want to use Github and the like, for they are private and closed-source services, but are not experienced enough to set up their own solution. So, how can such people publish their projects, in a way that they're visible to the outer world and collaboration is possible and in the open? Are there any good tutorials on how to set up such environment?
Bear in mind there are 500 million eligible persons within the EU that may move to Finland if they choose. Once there they cannot legally be treated any differently to a Finnish native.
It's not contradictory for a majority of wealthy people to be wealthy because of their parents, and for 70% of wealth to be lost by the 2nd generation, even if both sets of stats were accurate and comparable.

What is contradictory is your assertion that the 1st generation wealth, and the remaining 30% at the 2nd generation, translates to "almost none".
That's a lot of people, and they shouldn't be left out of the discussion. Retired people and the disabled accomplish a lot of things. It's just that these are personal accomplishments.

Paying someone to not have to participate in the economic system, seems to me to force them to forever remain outside of it, unless they have a rare kind of motivation, that kind of motivation would mean they didn't need the basic income to succeed in the first place.
It's plainly not encryption. The Chinese maps use a different reference datum (ellipsoid surface representing the shape of the Earth), and translation between coordinates in the two reference schemes (GCJ-02 in China and WGS-84 for GPS) is straightforward.

Why Google and other mapping services don't apply this transform has more to do with business decisions and the hoops they have to jump through to be able to work in China at all.
Wow, this is a pretty tough level! I'm liking it so far.

It works really well so far in the Doomsday Engine, which runs pretty great on my Macbook.
Does youtube use DRM? All the youtube download extensions suggest not.
Do their children get basic income (not sure how citizenship works in Finland, but if it is like the US where being born in the country is enough to get citizenship and thus basic income)?