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No, it doesn't make sense to spend lots of high-value human attention on small children. For a pretty huge part of the day, small children are better off exploring the world on their own, and making social connections on their own. What's needed is safety, comfort, and some degree of monitored structure.

Again: once your kid turns 5 (4, if you're rich and you send your kid to private all-day preschool), you're generally sending them somewhere where one adult will watch as many as 30 kids concurrently, all the while educating them to the point where they can creditably pass standardized tests. That's a harder job than just making sure kids are happy and engaged, and yet we pay far less for it than we do for child care.

Child care is a huge part of why people get crappier jobs than they might. You can't go back to school if you have no savings and need to pay at least $15/hr for child care; in fact, you can't even speculatively take a lower-paying job for career advancement if that job doesn't pay enough to offset child care.
Ear infections aren't always bacterial. They can be fungal. Antibiotics will do zero if it's fungal. Do NOT go to a general practitioner with an ear infection. They will prescribe antibiotics and tell you to get lost. Bad idea. Go to an ENT (ear-nose-throat doctor) instead. They have the right equipment on hand and the experience necessary to properly identify what you have and how to treat it. They will take away the pain in minutes by relieving pressure using specialized equipment. Huge mistake to go to a regular doctor.
I would love to see a GiveDirectly (https://www.givedirectly.org/) trial in first-world countries.

Take a few people that would qualify for various public assistance programs (reduced housing costs, food stamps, disability, welfare) and instead just give them that money in one big annual lump sum.

My hunch is that this would be more cost effective, particularly given the much lower cost of administrating cash payouts vs restricted use programs. But it's also possible all of the money would just go to drugs and alcohol. It'd be a fascinating study.

(I realize this isn't basic income, as basic income is not means-tested -- but it'd be a great first step in that direction.)
To drive down the cost of housing you'd have to drive down the cost of land in places where lots of people want to live. The house is the smaller part of that equation, unless you're looking at the third world and there a whole pile of other problems come in to play.
> who can?

there's still demand for quality investigative journalism, it just has to be right-sized away from bloated megacorps.
Especially check out some of the research they have done which addresses some of the questions in this thread:
https://www.givedirectly.org/research-at-give-directly

direct link to paper:
https://www.princeton.edu/~joha/publications/Haushofer_Shapi...
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"We’re looking for one researcher who wants to work full-time... who are driven and talented but come from poor backgrounds." (please read the entire paragraph to understand the context of this)

The combination of hiring researchers that come from poor background with the author's stated belief that a basic income would likely be a good thing makes the entire set up seem very biased.

I like the idea of promoting research into the subject but I don't think this is the right way to do economic research.
Dell / EMC / Vmware Borlanding all over again.
The regulatory bar for childcare is absurdly high, and I can't imagine how much of it serves a constructive purpose (source: my sister, who is a teacher, once looked into opening a daycare center). But like the "war on terror", it's regulation we can't get rid of because nobody wants to be the guy who made kids less safe.
That is rich. So they US wasn't fighting the good fight here, but rather looking after itself, arm twisting the existing tax heavens so that it could become the new tax heaven!

Ah well I guess hypocrisy is something the US has mastered to perfection decades ago.

Well I hope the EU is not going to stand for this. I am tired of American bullying. Some mutual respect would be nice for a change.
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No, because you're treating each sex differently based on their sex.
It shouldn't be $100k because that exceeds mean income, and we don't have strong evidence about how much BI improves productivity.

I think the reason most proposals are well below the mean is that we prefer a modest effective intervention, and the desired effect is to remove the hardship of poverty, not to achieve perfect income equality.
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I'm not sure providing basic income for a group of people for 5 years is a valid experiment. That group would still need to improve themselves because their money will be gone in 5 years, and they would then need to have built enough of their lives to get a job or be self-financed. The other flaw is that they will be a unique group, not part of a population who all gets the same basic income, so their lifestyle choices will be dictated personally, whereas if everyone had basic income, culture itself would have more impact on choices.

It sounds like a great idea to spend time and energy researching this... I just don't think the description as posted is going to hit the mark.
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"great society" is not being used a rhetorical device to refer to a particular society; it is (I am reasonably sure) referring to the "Great Society" program in the United States [0] in the mid-60s. I don't know enough to address the claims in the GP, but they did frame their argument, at least.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society
> "The problem with basic income is that people need purpose, not charity."

When most of your energy is spent on survival, the energy left to follow a greater purpose is drastically reduced. Providing the basics as a human right frees people to pursue goals beyond the basics. The cultural element is important too (the goals you set will be influenced by the society you live in), but let's tackle the survival issue first.
I'm not interested in litigating basic income; I'm confining my responses to the terms 'sama set up: "things startups can conceivably do". That doesn't mean I believe startups are the most important vector in improving public policy.
I think the packaging is incredibly important -

negative income / social welfare are packaged in a way that telegraphs dependency and low self-worth.

[ I would also be really interested in seeing an economic analysis of how much money and time is spent on administering social welfare ]

Basic income needs to be marketed as a positive way : here's some money - it is your share of the basic wealth from the land/resources and the benefits of our technology to the country - do something useful with it.

[ I also wonder how many of those 'lazy-dole-bludgers' now on social welfare would have a better sense of self-worth, and actually get off their arse and do something useful if we didn't make it so clear to them they were total failures from school age ]
I am all for research into basic income -- and in fact a big believer. However I take a HUGE issue with reading too much into the viability of the system based upon research done on small sample sizes:
"Our idea is to give a basic income to a group of people in the US for a 5 year period"

There is emergent behavior that arises in the economy as a function of the number of people given a stipend or living wage. For profit colleges are the perfect example. If grants are given to a small set of people the scale of demand necessary for such businesses to exist is insufficient. Crank up the number of people and a new market is created that allows for the existence of predatory "for profit" college businesses that take advantage of funds that would have otherwise been allocated properly.
Workstation and Fusion have never been free, and not even "cheap".

The problem is that really-free alternatives are now good enough for most uses: VirtualBox is the go-to choice for Linux and OSX and is fairly solid, while Hyper-V now ships with Windows and is overall quite good.

VmWare have also run out of mainstream features to add, so it got harder and harder to solicit paid upgrades for what is basically an old-school shrinkwrap.

What they will likely do is freeze the codebase and turn it in a mini-SaaS where you don't get Tools updates and new OS support unless you pay a yearly sub. In practice that's already the case, they will just make it more locked down. You don't need talent for that sort of thing.
I was a homemaker for two decades. I did lots of volunteer work. I strongly disagree with you.

You should Google "emotional labor metafilter". A lot of "caring" work has traditionally been done by women and we are expected to do it for free, out of the goodness of our hearts. If we expect to get compensated for it, we are taken to task as harpies, gold digging whores, etc.

I was one of the top three students of my graduating class. I have done many things that enhanced the lives of other people. I have struggled with trying to figure out how to monetize my work. The main thing I need is work that pays adequately and doesn't keep me sick. A lot of people who have benefitted from my volunteer work, public writing, etc. are offended and outraged that I desire financial compensation.

I have been homeless for just over four years. The people who expect me to do nice things for them because I "care" generally do not give a damn about that. Plenty of people have made it abundantly clear that I should shut the fuck up about how poor I am and how hard my life is. They seem to think that telling people I am homeless amounts to trying to panhandle them.

I am pretty pissed off about it because I am not a beggar. I have only ever asked for help in trying to figure out how to turn the work I do that benefits others into an income source for me. The idea that I deserve compensation gets pissed on, often by the very people who seem to think I am after their money as a beggar.

We need to pay for these jobs if we want them done. No one should be expected to live in poverty on an allotment of Basic Income while taking care of others. It is a shitty, shitty expectation.

"Fuck you, pay me" should apply equally to the kinds of work you describe. If society NEEDS this work done and it doesn't pay adequately when handled by the private sector, then create a government service. This is why fire and police are public goods, not private sector services.
By the way, does Facebook have a patent (or other IP-protection) on the "like" button? Just wondering.
Got anything about the article's content you want to complain about or is it just the choice of words?

Just because you got it all down does not mean that the very same topics won't be discussed again and again by the next generation. And you know why? Because YOU (and me) apparently failed to provide the next generation with a "programming bible" that answers all questions once and for all.

Let's try not to be the "young, hip executives" Zappa complained about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GowCEiZkU70

Last but not least: with age comes wisdom or so they say. Sometimes it is wiser just not to comment at all.
> What can startups do to increase prosperity for everyone?

One thing I've been kicking around, though I am not sure yet how it would work, is measuring potential demand for a traditional good or service -- a type of sentiment analysis to find gaps in the market.

When I'm thinking about this problem I tend to imagine market gaps in physical space -- where could people use a sandwich shop or game cafe or a heavy equipment rental, for example.

The traditional route, which seems needlessly wasteful in a world driven by data, is for someone who happens to have capital to come along and start a business either because they /feel/ there is a need, or because a similar business has been started in similar situations, or a similar business is raking in profits -- basically they guess (educated or not) at demand and spend a lot of time and money vetting that guess. Or, even more error prone, because they have a passion and decide to roll the dice. Then it either succeeds or fails to make a profit for a variety of reasons and their test is validated or not.

With kickstarter proving demand for potential goods that can be ordered and delivered, there should be a way to measure spacial demand for a good or service and move the capital required to willing and able people in that area to get it started. Perhaps even collecting information on what particular business practices might have a high likelihood of working...distributed and generalized franchising based on latent demand.

The idea seems particularly relevant in a discussion of basic income. If someone hates their job and are working only to stave off homelessness and starvation or to maintain some basic level of comfort and they are given the means to not worry about that anymore -- well, then they will likely try to figure out how best to improve their situation. What better way than starting a business with a high likelyhood of creating value for your neighbors? It answers the question: what can I do to to have the most impact in my community?
This is a great indicator that Paul Graham's oft displayed obliviousness to issues of morality and fairness in capitalism is being challenged within YC. Good news.
I think you're right it doesn't help those who don't have a culture of education. I.e. people who "are first in the family to attend college/uni" of which many are minorities but also a great many are poor whites.

But.... It does help a lot of kids who find it hard to afford college/uni while also having other responsibilities.

Those people who sell a pint here and there to afford gas to get to class, etc. It's not an insignificant amount of people.

So chip at this first, then chip away at the abjectly poor or who simply don't think they have a chance at college/uni.

Of course there is always the danger of human nature wanting to claim, I went to uni as told but still can't get a job. That is it's not just a rite of passage, you have to show personal progress.
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I'm going to take a leap and assume you've done some Rails work because Ember tends to have a lot of Rails users.

In Rails, there's a default view layer handled by ERB but it can be mixed and matched with HAML, Slim or any other view layer. Likewise, you can use ERB, HAML and Slim outside of Rails entirely.

There are frameworks like Meteor that let you have an interchangeable view layer. There are others that build the entire full stack framework around THEIR view layer.

If Meteor made React the default view layer...that would be a step towards unifying the fronts. One full stack system with a shared layer that can be use inside or outside of that particular framework.
I've struggled several times to formulate this question properly. I'm not convinced by your formulation. I'll give it an other try.

Does space have an existence per se, that is regardless of the matter it contains, or is it just a mathematical framework for the interactions between particles?
This is true (although basic income is not exclusively a left-wing idea). But I was not trying to use his quote as evidence-- I was using it to explain the thesis of the book.
Factory-produce modular housing units that fit inside a 40' high cube shipping container. Factory-produce the 88"L x 40"W X 30"H modules and the 4"L x 80"W x 90"H bulkheads that separate them. Each unit would have four internal bulkheads and up to 18 room modules that aren't a 40" wide pass-through space. Each "room" would consist of three or six stacked modules, and each module is small enough to fit through the doors when disassembled. Side doors can be opened on each side of rooms 2 and 4.

On-site construction consists of a concrete foundation pad, steel racks, and an outer weather shell appropriate for the region. Utility hookups are provided for each berth.

When a new housing unit is needed, it arrives in an intermodal shipping container, rolls into an open berth in the rack, is anchored in place, and the utilities are connected. If anyone needs more space, the internal doors and modules can be reconfigured to join multiple units internally.

Current manufactured housing in the US is premised upon hauling the pieces to the site by truck. If housing could also be moved by container ship and stacktrain, it is more easily importable and exportable.

A size standard for home modules opens up a huge aftermarket. Don't like the factory-installed kitchenette or don't cook? Swap it out for an exercise room or workbench or hydroponics garden or nursery or whatever else you may want in its place. It fits. The utility connectors are in the same place.

The number of berths in a rack and the size of the outer weather shell can be different for different housing markets. One near a city might have multiple levels, cramming dozens of units into a single shell with a fashionable brick facade. One far out in the country could have space for as little as just one unit--and it might not even be filled all the time--but it might also have a tornado-resistant outer concrete shell.

If you change jobs, rather than pack up your possessions, you could just secure all your loose items inside and ship your owned housing units to an empty berth in a new rack, across town or in a different city.

The major problem is lack of elbow room. You just can't cram very much living space inside a shipping container, so even if you connect many units, your home still consists of a maze of doors joining a bunch of 48 sq.ft. rooms.
Farming is quite a bit more expensive that what you realize. Besides, this model doesn't even make logical sense. Follow with me... 1) Advertising is only worth it if the people who see your ads can and will buy your goods at a large enough rate to give you the needed ROI on those ads. 2) If people are so poor that they need free food then they won't have the means to make point #1 viable.

Your second point on food. Yes, lots of it gets wasted. There are quite a few areas where we can talk about waste and food cost. The best way to cut transportation costs is to just improve farming in places where food is scarce. This is not an easy task, but a much better long term solution in every way measurable. Ethiopia is the shining example of progress in this area. One of the largest wastes of food in the United States is what slides off of our dinner plates and into the trash. This increases demand, which increases prices, transportation cost of both supply and disposal, increased cost in cooking and prep, etc. We could save billions a year as a society if we cut our waste.

Divorce rates are the fault of the people that are married. Marriage, if the vows are followed, is amazing. Married people live longer and have children with lower crime rates. The answer is for people to actually stick to their covenant and make a marriage work. People need to learn to forgive, extend grace, and act selflessly toward their partners. Marriage is no place for rugged individualism, it is truly a team sport. A family where children grow up with both of their loving parents is the ideal situation. Situations are not always ideal, but at least we have something to strive for.

Under the crowd-funding life section... aren't both of these sections essentially just co-ops? Not that they aren't good ideas but I think they do exist already and without the buzzwords.
> The problem with basic income is that people need purpose, not charity.

This is based entirely on the assumption that work=purpose, which I think is bogus.

> Look at the success of programs in Africa that give people the ability to make a living...

For many, perhaps most of the poor, simply BEING poor inhibits them from being able to make a decent living. Jobs may not be available, the means to get to a job reliably may not be available, the physical/mental health to sustain a job may not be present and the resources to be treated and rehabilitated are obviously not there.

In effect, the hypothesis is that in a highly developed economy, handing out cash might be the equivalent of "teach to fish" for, say, rural Africa. And even then, at least one study showed that basic income guarantee did amazing things for an african village, increasing education and entrepreneurship (sorry - don't have the link handy, maybe someone else can point to it).

> suffer mostly from hopelessness

On a final note, be careful here... if I have cancer, and I can't do anything, do I suffer mostly from hopelessness or do I suffer from cancer? Hopelessness is a symptom of people suffering from poverty.
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The sad generalizations are in E.2

Things like stating that "evolution has stalled" while also recognizing that the format is stable is hand wavy when you consider we're discussing things that go over the wire and even end up on disk. Yes, stability should be a goal.

The real difference between CBOR and MessagePack is that CBOR wants to be "schemaless" in the applications themselves instead of just on the wire. They hold up json as the example format for something that doesn't require schemas, and yet I see "json schemas" being published[0], and even people trying to standardize the schema format[1]! Looking at any modern JSON API would tell you that "schemas" in the xml sense are not required, but applications all must be very knowledgeable of the format.

Having a data type for "PCRE" is just insanity on the wire, and I can't imagine the type of API you'd be publishing where you would accept URLs or Regular Expressions or Text or Binary, AND want to be able to decode them into proper types in memory all without applications on both ends knowing that ahead of time.

Which brings me back to my initial point: CBOR is not just a "standardized Message Pack", it's a very different approach to what they think the applications on either end of a protocol should be doing.

[0]: http://json-schema.org/

[1]: tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-03
Easily solved: Basic income is paid out to people to go and work on infrastructure projects.
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..so why are all of the search terms suddenly gone from google searche referer headers? Which happened at the same time google defaulted to https?
That doesn't mean anything other than "we like the idea, you convinced us, we have some budget, we will sponsor in some way money and human resource."
Which is hilarious because the reason I can't switch The New Yorker website to HTTPS is because of ads - which I'm getting from Google DFP which allows non-secure ad assets.

In short; Google will penalize me because I use Google.

The universe has a sense of humor.
They said laptops wouldn't be as necessary. They were right. Lots of people who needed a laptop now only need a tablet or a phone. The laptop and the desktop were never in danger of going away, though, even in 2012.
I think the iPhone 4 is from 2011 so roughly 4+ years old. With safari though, I'd also be interested in knowing the iOS version.
You're right that it is difficult, probably infeasible, to program productively for 8 hours per day. But there's value for a youngster like yourself in toughening up and working a crappy job for some time. When you go back to a better situation, hopefully you will appreciate it more.
The "Great Society" was Lyndon Johnson's domestic legislative program.

It created the framework for how social services are delivered.