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Whoa there Moshe!

While there are undoubtedly counterproductive incentives created by a basic income program most governments already have numerous programs with arguably worse incentives that are less effective.

In most conceptions of basics income it replaces all the other assistance programs for the poor. Although in practice this would be difficult for two reasons: (1) some people are simply incapable of budgeting their income across their needs and (2) the poverty industry would resist any reduction in their role.

Eugenics and forced sterilization are as unnecessary with basic income as with the modern welfare state.
Are the proponents for basic income willing to cut other social programs related to food, housing, child care, unemployment, etc and cut down costly bureaucratic infrastructure supporting government programs??

Or are they trying to double down on basic income + all these government programs?
Man, so many things that I always wanted to know. Why didn't a marketing team at Tide make a infographic about this a decade ago?
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Hoarding = saving and investing. Almost every point you make is confused about basic economics.
Is there some transcript available or is it only in audio form?
>1. It doesn't look good on your CV if you only worked on projects that don't have any business value.

I completely disagree. If you work on a really cool project that's very technically interesting, that looks great on a resume.

Do you really think your interviewer (at the company you're applying for a new job at) is going to call the old employer and ask them "Hey, did this project on this guy's resume delivery any real business value?" Of course not. They only go by what you write on your resume, so you can spin it however you like. If it was an interesting project but was shit-canned because of bad management or bad timing or whatever, you don't put that part. You talk it up in the interview when asked about it, talk about how technically interesting it was, what you learned there, etc., you don't volunteer that it ended up being a bust. Even if you have to spill that (because you're specifically asked), you concentrate on the good points, how it was a great learning experience, how what you developed should be useful on future projects, etc.

Prospective employers are looking for skills and experience you have which will help them in the future. How financially successful some project you worked on was is really irrelevant, since there's far more to the success of a project than just the technical aspects. Lots of companies have built technically superb products only to have them fail in the marketplace because of bad marketing, other bad management decisions, too much competition, etc. OS/2 was completely superior to Windows 3.1 and 95 yet it failed in the marketplace; that doesn't mean that you wouldn't hire a guy who worked on it.
It's pretty well known that tees made using 1920s-era loopwheeling machines don't suffer from size changes, and age really well. But sadly these are now super expensive, and only offered by Japanese niche brands who bought machinery from American corps.
See also: Silicon Valley's Basic Income Bromance by Lauren Smiley
https://medium.com/backchannel/silicon-valley-s-basic-income...
Maybe it is. But, on the other hand, it's a nice example because it makes you wonder: if companies who've been making webcams are failing so much in security, what should we expect from companies making products which aren't related to IT at all? How are the oven-making companies faring, security-wise, in this IoT thing?
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Hehe. And we (Swedes) felt the opposite when getting connected to people from the rest of Europe. :)

(I'm only slightly confused that you learned to recognize the Telia prefix rather than the B2/BBB/Bredbandsbolaget prefix. Telia was predominantly ADSL with like 15/1 and B2 was Ethernet with either 100/10 or 10/10.)
Have you taken a look at Cyph (mentioned elsewhere in this thread)? Their app is also basically cryptocat, but they've taken the time to engineer an interesting solution [0] to the "Trust on Every Use" problem that secure web applications have.

Of course, you still have the problem of deploying a secure application within the attack surface minefield of a web browser, but that's a separate issue.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PGS50eZB9Ud7wVKmrc0HU_FD...
I would guess they'd be willing to do whichever one is most equitable and effective.
I'd like to see some of those insanely documented things and look at them critically. For example, the job callback thing pertains to people with black-sounding names, not whether the the applicant is actually black. Perhaps that speaks to cultural privilege instead of racial.

Consider scholarships: if you're a white male, you have to be exceptional vs your cohort in some other way (academics, athletics, etc) to find a scholarship. If you're a minority, you have to... be a minority. That's a disadvantage of being Generic White Male #434242.

To be clear, I fully recognize that real, actual race-based discrimination on a systemic scale happened fairly recently in the US, and to an extent still happens today. 100% no argument there.

The problem with "privilege" as a label is that it describes a population, yet is applied consistently - sometimes weaponized - to individuals.
As far as I understand it, the whole point of basic income is replacing most of other social programs, especially those related to unemployment.
Would hate to hear this guy's thoughts on caring for the disabled.
That's still population control doesn't matter how you dress it up.

There is nothing wrong with sex ed and abortion should be a basic medical procedure accessible to all but that's not the point.

UBI has never been tested on a large scale it works great in small scale experiments but those are balanced by the existing open market.

Communism also works great on smaller scales like communes and kibbutz's but it doesn't really work on national scales that well.

If you implement UBI in a single city the fact that it's only confined to that place makes things like potential inflation untestable even local resources like rent can be controlled in such cases where in reality they'll run amok.

Rent control for example was also posed as a great service but in pretty much all cases it either resulted in an extreme shortage of housing or a huge price inflation over time because government funded rent set the low bar as far as pricing goes regardless of the actual worth of the tenancy in an open market.

If you implement UBI on a national scale the open market is quite likely to adjust fairly quickly which will make most basic goods and services out of reach of low income families again.
It also can come at expense of other projects like vocational training and tuition grants.

And if you want to control the adverse effects of inflation you usually start to step in into the realm of planned economies which never has ended well so far.
I remember visiting a Japanese clothes shop here in Dubai and I noticed their shirts were quite different in texture than anything else I'd seen. It was expensive too. I think it's called Superdry? Could that be one of the niche brands you're talking about or are they just using a unique blend of textiles?

In any case, it's quite fascinating how sometimes old tech is simply better than what we have today.
How would that inflation work, exactly? UBI doesn't mean creating new money.

This article [1] addresses that concern in a little more depth. Basically, the evidence we have from places that have tried this is that it might decrease inflation, and that in any case, the value of the income would far outstrip increased prices.

[1] https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...
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Hey all! I've been working remote for 6+ years and have observed that some days get hard (Not the movie :). Am I alone in this?

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Would love any personal or professional feedback!
Rust's error handling is, empirically, not unusable. I use it every day.

Even Go's error handling clearly isn't unusable, as controversial as it is, and try! is pretty much just a more sugary version of it.

Also, we were well aware of monads when we designed the Rust error handling system and in particular why they do not work very well in languages that have rich, imperative control flow structures. try! is basically just monads for imperative languages. To see this, work through what happens if you try to add break/continue/return to Haskell's system.
There seems to be a strong correlation between total fertility rate per woman and the probability of survival of infants.

I don't know if there is a direct link here but a low infant mortality rate seems to correlate to a low birth rate as well.

In any case, I fully support better sex education, greater availability of contraceptives and birth control, and access to voluntary abortions.
uBlock is killing some of our graphs. Fixing this is on our todo list (although not top ten) so hopefully resolved in not too long.
Superdry are faux-Japanese, they are actually a British company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperGroup
Certainly SOME inflation would happen if "all people get more money", but a thought on that, since it seems to be more subtle than that:

I'd imagine that we'd already SEE that inflation, motivated through e.g. SNAP instead of UBI. There's an optimization curve that producers are fitting; and if the lower segments of the economy have more money to spend, that curve would probably lift some, but to lift sufficiently as to preclude such a significant market segment I imagine would be self defeating.

That being said; I only feel that intuition for goods that can readily market to the poorest market segments with profit. For goods that already require jobbing (mid-high end luxury goods as an easy example), if UBI was on top of that, I imagine you'd certainly see inflation in those domains, unless enough people stopped working entirely to fall into the UBI-only market segment. I'd be curious to hear what someone with any real economics background (not I) has to say on this, since I can only reason about it on a very first-order level.
> That's still population control doesn't matter how you dress it up.

Yes, apologies I wasn't clear.
Superdry is a British brand which produces rather nice shirts with Japanese print on them :)
Just look at LeBron James.

He's the 10x of basketball.

The team gets built around him.

Same goes for 10x anything. Steve Jobs was the 10x of CEO, company built around him, etc etc.

To say the causes are environmental is just to live in denial. There are people out there waaaaay smarter than you. Or way more athletic, way more X.

This doesn't negate the importance of getting along and being able to build teams around 10x people but make no mistake - id Software was John Carmack and everyone else. Same goes for anything else wildly successful.
From first hand experience, big companies are hiring constantly from overseas to the US. If you can pass the interview, they will figure out how to legally get you on payroll. If you are flexible in which countries you will work, so much the better.

However, when you apply to big companies, don't go in saying "I want to be a senior engineer". That means different things at different companies. Quora has some great answers on how the ladders work at the big players; you will see that "Senior" can mean 10+ years of experience at some places. Feel free to send me an email if you want more info about one of the places you mentioned.
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From my experience, Telia was always known as quality, and BBB as the lowest tier crap. The routing quality difference was huge. Although yes, the Telia connections were business/edu class.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10956699 and marked it off-topic.
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> landing the booster is newly under development.

They're already one step further though: actually reusing the rocket
I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but it is my understanding from past discussions of this idea is that cutting all the other social welfare programs would pay for the basic income and bring conservatives on board.

I like the idea of a national sales tax with a prebate. Everyone pays the national sales tax instead of income tax. A prebate is given to everyone to rebate them for taxes paid on necessities like food. The prebate is similar to a basic income. A tax on spending instead of income has many advantages like not penalizing production, encouraging savings, easier reporting requirements, etc.
When I find myself in this sort of situation repeatedly, as it appears you do on this topic in this forum, my solution has generally been to assemble a blog post that covers not frequently asked questions but instead frequently delivered answers.

Then rather than getting aggravated at having to repeat myself I just hand them a link to said post and move on.

(and in case you're curious, yes I'm mst on IRC as well, though I think your network got disabled in the last or last but one config prune)
Read the headline and thought 'Did I accidentally stumble into quora?'
If it's a wash for the middle income household, that's fine. The UBI would primarily help those at the very bottom, people with essentially zero income. They can't afford anything now, but with the UBI they will be able to pay for their basic necessities, at least, more than they can now.
Somewhat off-topic:

I'm not sure I can be described as "humble". I do however place extreme importance on sincerity, particularly in debates. (Being able to switch positions when proven wrong is another essential part, of course.)
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I think I have been a 10x programmer having being called that and I am like that because it suits my work style. Its hard for me to work slow. But its also not possible to be 10x all the time - I am mostly that way in the early phases of the project and the X multiplier gradually comes down to 1 or 2. For example - when it comes to defect fixing in somebody else's code, devops and monotonous stuff - I might be less than 1x.

However, I have noticed that whenever I am called 10X guy, something happens and I ultimately end up to being 1x or leaving the company. The following are kind of negative thoughts/symptoms that occurred

1. In most companies - it means doing 10 times work while getting paid just 5-20% higher instead of 10 times higher (here 10 is just an example multiplier).

2. It means I am a workaholic - and others enjoying the benefits of my work because of (1)

3. The above two can potentially result into toxicity build up within me and then within the team. It does happen occasionally and I have to work harder to avoid it.

4. You are not with your own kind (like species on a mental plane and not race/religion) and your growth is limited. I ended up leaving companies or teams when I was called out-performer consistently - not because I was an out performer, but because I was not learning much from the team.
(On 4) - I tried to stay in one company like this, because it was hard for them to fire me for obvious reasons. Ultimately I got fed up after few years. I also unsuccessfully tried to get fired by deliberately underperforming, because the severance was too good - but they wouldn't derate me or fire me. Finally I resigned and left on good terms. Retrospectively thinking, I wasted those few precious years of my life

5. One gets used to elitism - and that is a very bad thing. It closes the persons mind. I remember how I disregarded an amazing solution from a junior team member because I was comfortable with my way of doing things. Unfortunately, I realized the mistake a bit too late.

6. If I am a rabbit I am constantly worried about the turtles - they will beat me with consistent performance over longer run because I will get bored of the race.

Also, I don't think having a 10x engineer in a team as a good thing. And if everybody is 10x, then nobody is - which can be good.
I've thought about this a lot, and if you assume that automation will continue to put more and more people out of work, then there seems to be two probable paths forward: either bureaucracy continues to grow, causing more and more people to do meaningless busywork, or a UBI is established. Neither option seems great to me, considering human nature, but if I were to bet I'd say that current inertia is moving us toward the bureaucracy option.
What happens in the case I am working in a foreign country on a visa? In that case, I can imagine the home country would refuse GBI because I am no longer resident, and the host country would refuse because I am not a citizen.

If that is the case, I can imagine that GBI would put a drag on workers abroad. Maybe people would even refuse to emigrate because they wouldn't be able to afford the few years without GBI before they are a citizen in their new country.
These sizing charts are incredible and must have taken a lot of effort to put together. I'm gonna come back to this page a lot.
There are hundreds if not thousands of courts and government offices that keep the relevant records. Each has a different way of making those records available. If the background check service doesn't get all or them then it won't be effective because a person with a serious criminal record could just go to a different jurisdiction to escape their record.
It confirms that American Apparel small fits me well, but I need XS from other brands. I guess Zara small would be OK too.
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Yeah and Jeff Atwood is a 1000000x engineer because he wrote some blog posts that made other programmers more productive and then built Stack Overflow and made even more programmers more productive.
Strange.

BBB actually (sorry, I simplied above) had two types of customers, ADSL and Fiber/Ethernet. Maybe the routing to eastern Europe was different.

Hmm, actually: I do know that Telia Networks invested quite a lot in eastern Europe during the past two decades. Perhaps what you were seeing was a result of that.
The results are too important to accept without peer review, examine the methodology, etc.
Sadly, it will be difficult to explain why we will give Donald Trump and Warren Buffett a basic income of the same amount we will give to a homeless person.

It seems we don't discuss the details of any plan and all the news outlets want sound bites that they can repeat every hour. Even NPR hourly news seems full of sound bites.
Just came here to say that the tired argument that UBI "start[s] creating some pretty powerful disincentives to work" is really just old at this point. What someone that trots that out is saying is that more people would be able to forgo wasting their lives in menial jobs and instead create art and new businesses, or stay home to raise a family or care for elderly parents, as if either of those is somehow morally wrong or shameful.

There will still be incentive to working - cars and houses and jewelry and iPhones and etc and etc will still cost money, likely above what a basic income gives you (except for the most basic apartment and car maybe). But people will be able to choose to not work in deplorable conditions or for terrible wages or for below minimum wage because tips, and won't have to live in constant fear of losing a minimum wage job and losing the leaky roof above their family's heads, or going bankrupt when your kid breaks his arm.

When people claim UBI will disincentivize working, they mean disincentivize being taken advantage of by a system meant to keep them under foot and under served - and that not willingly participating in such a system is somehow morally reprehensible. Which I find morally reprehensible.
Seems like you guys and http://Markable.com would have a natural symbiotic relationship for data sharing.
I'm looking forward to reading that. I think of a UBI as a redistribution, not creating new money. So once it's redistributed, how do we keep that money circulating and growing among the populations who need it? How do we prevent it not all floating back to the top. For example, if the low-income population in a town suddenly has a little more resources and groceries are no longer quite so difficult to procure, how do rents not rise soon after?

I hope the answers are in that article! Thanks.
I can relate to a situation where a container of iterators is the seemingly correct solution yet not necessarily the best thing to adopt for maintenance considerations.

Containers tend to persist over relatively large blocks of code, whereas iterator invalidation can be very tricky and most people get bitten by it at some point.
Also any webserver written in Go uses sendfile transparently when sending mmap-able data down to a socket.
> B) decrease hoarding of wealth at the very top (that's not to say inequity can/should be solved for all). <

Nobody is hoarding wealth, they are hoarding money. There's a huge difference between the two. When money is 'hoarded', it results in lower prices for the remaining goods and services in the economy, which is equivalent of investment in money itself.

To put it another way, whenever someone hoards money, it becomes equivalent of him investing into every other investor's investment in proportion.
There's no way you'd be able to get rid of them all. What happens when people spend their entire income on lottery tickets? You can't let them starve, you'd need a way to divorce money from services in that case, which is part of what the US welfare system tries to do in part.
Damn, it felt Japanese though :(
I was moved by your comments in this thread as well, and would be happy to exchange some thoughts if you're ever interested. (Email the address in my profile and I'll send you my personal one.)
Talk about moving the goalposts. People's appetites are not literally insatiable; it's certainly possible to make sure everyone is well fed. Making sure everyone has a roof overhead is a doable goal, and Canada seems to be making good progress on it. [1]

It's true that no amount of money will let everyone have a house in San Francisco, so for real estate in particular, inflation is a big problem. But there are other places to live, and on the margin, UBI will make it more feasible to move to cheaper places instead of where the most jobs are. (Social security is why there are so many senior citizens in Florida.)

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08/13/housing-first-federa...
C.H. Douglas and the Social Credit movement were absolutely immense during the Depression period and slightly afterwards (especially in Canada). His philosophy was a syncretic mix of positive economic theory, Christian philosophy and policy proposals that amounted to a UBI among other things. Today, it is nearly dead and largely unknown.

The MMT people have made their strides on the blogosphere, and did get Stephanie Kelton into the Senate Budget Committee. They loathe the UBI, however. They want to go straight for a job guarantee, as advocated in e.g. Hyman Minsky's writings. Assuming a Sanders presidency, their vulgar Keynesianism might pass.

These things tend to come and go, especially after crises. Sometimes they succeed. The Townsend Plan was a major impetus for Social Security. But I wonder if in some years we'll still be debating this.