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I don't think it's actually a problem if people receiving basic income are 'wasting it' on 'frivolities'. If we don't start redistributing wealth, the economy is going to freeze up. There's only so much stuff that computer programmers in silicon valley can buy.
> The main drawback to a minimum wage is that it artificially increases the cost of labor,

And? Why is that artificial increase a problem. Every law on the books is an artificial act.

I don't see many people wringing their hands over the mortgage interest deduction, another of those artificial changes to the economy.
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Theoretically with UBI there is no need for a social safety net beyond catastrophe insurance (Medicare).

In practice I'm not so sure. Many social safety net programs have restrictions because it's too easy for an alcoholic to pick up his entire family's check and spend it on booze.

Also, UBI is political poison for the people who wring their hands in worry that someone is mooching off of their had work. And make no mistake, there is a sizeable segment of the population that will be perfectly happy to sit at home and do nothing all day, wasting their lives and the public's resources. They will show up in papers and angry up the old folks. What the paper's won't have is the story of the charitable work people can do without the need to constantly work to eat. It won't have the story of the artists who are breaking new ground and doing exciting things in their tiny studios. It will have the story of the 300lb lazy asshole who watches TV all day long.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Companies sunset SAAS products (with subscription fees, one time setup fees etc) all the time when the cost to support them becomes too high, growth stalls etc. Clearly Alphabet/Nest could have done a better job of customer service and offered users a partial refund or discount on a replacement product. That said, is it realistic to expect a company to support a software service indefinitely (when the business case no longer makes sense), just because it's tied to a piece of physical hardware that you paid $199 for a few years ago?
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Sounds like most successful applications.

Fills a need. Everything else sucks.
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Yep. It used to be prototypes looked like prototypes and so the 'polish' of a demo/concept gave you some idea of how mature the manufacturing/operations process was. Now it's so easy to fast prototype just about anything it's easy to bamboozle easily-fooled gadget enthusiasts by showing them something that makes them think the future is now, but in truth the "product" they're looking at is the modern equivalent of a bare PCB and a bundle of wires.
> The ICE won out over electric drivetrains for the express reason that liquid fuels are far easier to provide logistics for than batteries

It was purely logistics, not that energy density of early batteries was logarithmically worse than hydrocarbons?
Ironically, I was at a presentation by a Chinese surveillance camera company and they were saying that they are moving their image recognition and processing to the device from the cloud because the bandwidth and centralized processing is not scalable enough. Just as a general engineering matter, the devices will get more smarts.
The WashingtonPost article linked by another reply mentioned he was a sign welder at one time, and talked about him working in his workshop. Do you think the article overstates these things? It seems like he has at least some hard skills.
I wonder if this means that Windows will be finally able to use ext3/4 filesystems out-of-box, read and write.

Or Microsoft won't dare to hurt their FAT-LFN & exFAT cash cows and make that "uh-oh developers only" feature? ;)
"..but secure boot? What possible reason could you have for being against a system that prevents bootkits from pwning your machine?"

The fact that I can do the same thing with firmware on a cheap ROM write-protected with a jumper. Additionally, the fact that there's competing I.P. in FOSS and corporate sectors for firmware that does trustworthy boot while leaving what's allowed in my control.

"In general, code signing is a Good Thing, so long as the control remains in the hands of the user."

With Microsoft and Intel style secure boot, it remains in the hands of Microsoft and Intel. And so on. Which is why we're against it.
Won't higher taxes here in the US drive more and more business overseas (specifically to China) and further exacerbate the problem of income inequality?

We already see corporations keeping massive amounts of capital overseas because of high tax rates. That money should and could be here in the USA.
>But the whole point about Basic Income is what we do about there being fewer and fewer jobs that pay a proper salary.

The fact that there are few jobs rebuilding America's crumbling infrastructure is due to a political choice, not some sort of inevitable outcome of a 'fair' and just market.

Likewise, the fact that China makes most of the cheap things we buy at Walmart was thanks to a series of political choices (trade policy).

There's absolutely no reason why we couldn't reverse those policies to bring the jobs back.

Moreover, our infrastructure is going to keep crumbling and China isn't going to sell us cheap manufactured goods forever.
This makes me wonder if food deserts would persist even in a UBI world. Within a traditionally poor community, with a lack of education about healthy eating as well as a lack of competition between grocery stores, could we see locations where all foodstuffs became more expensive, and people maintained their existing eating habits?

I'll need to do much deeper thinking on this.
Children are included in the basic income in Alaska.
It seems weird to me that conhost.exe handles how console commands are displayed. I've read where some 3rd party attempts to improve the terminal experience on Windows have done so by essentially scraping what conhost outputs and then using the data to display output themselves.

Am I wrong about this? I have never worked on terminals so I very well could be, but my expectation would be that terminals call into shell APIs which return a result that the terminal can then display however it wishes. If so, then I think the next natural step would be for Windows to decouple conhost's responsibilities.
Yet I imagine that a basic income for e.g. a family of four would be quite a bit higher than that for a single 20 year old. Minors have to be factored in somehow.
It's a joke man. Why would I put down someone I don't even know!
People are perfectly capable of trading food-stamp bought groceries for booze right now.
It's cheaper from what I understand.
As I understand it, that gap is a myth. You don't lose benefits as soon as you cross some imaginary threshold, they are phased out as your income increases. So you don't have as much incentive to make more money, but you never lose money in the process.
The future earnings have huge uncertainty to them. A company with a $50 stock price might have $5 per share worth of cash in the bank, (which is something you can actually observe.) The other $45 represents expected future earnings. If the stock pays out a 50c dividend, the stock now has $4.50 per share in the bank and the $45 expected future value is unchanged.
Maybe I missed it, but now they just need to add an inbox so you can talk one-on-one with customers that want to reply.
Yep. I think the biggest problem is the assumption that universal basic income would replace any existing welfare programs. In reality, it seems that this is not going to happen, because one size doesn't fit all, and existing welfare programs cover vastly differing cases at vastly differing cost levels (unemployment, disability, old age, serious and not-so-serious illnesses).

Over here (Finland), the current government is planning a trial for UBI. It looks like pretty much none of the existing benefits can be cut because they are "fundamental human rights" or similar.
Thanks for the feedback!!! I'm working on the recommendation feature, i just wanted to get an MVP out there first.

Thanks for pointing out the 'get', I'll have that removed soon.

As for the clearer separation between episodes and podcasts are you talking about in search results or the podcast page? I thought about doing so for search results but I ended up mixing the two because I thought it would help with the discoverability story of app. The idea is that you can perform a search and find both podcasts and episodes in one list and not have to navigate to another tab or area of the site.
I married a woman who was raised on the Crow reservation. Her and her brother were mostly white, but they were members of the tribe. Interestingly, at the time we married, I was a Cavalry Scout with the US Army (19D secondary MOS, 11B primary). Anyways, stories still pervade that culture. Everybody knows what it takes to become a war chief. I believe there will be another in the future at some point. The circumstances get more difficult to fulfill, but I do think there will be another one day. Also interesting is the "generally known, accepted fact" of Custer having been killed while wading through the river by himself and with one other soldier (bearing the standard), apparently leading the charge into the village. He did not die on the hill. Also, it's told that he was mighty drunk when that happened.
Everywhere in this article, and in all of the current comments, where the word "unique" appears, it really should be the word "distinct" instead.
Sorry, what statistics?

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/09/wel...

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/25/240590433/what-...
There's a risk that people decide that pumping out children is an effective way to make money in the short term.
That's if the rewards of automation are shared with the remaining employees.

If that doesn't happen wealth inequality will continue to spike and lead to severe consequences.
"while you’ll be able to run native Bash and many Linux command-line tools on Windows, it’s important to note that this is a developer toolset to help you write and build all your code for all your scenarios and platforms.

This is not a server platform upon which you will host websites, run server infrastructure, etc"
there are nearly three thousand Federal assistance programs, 1800 that are domestic - meaning families and people in general, and 1200+ just to states, cities, and localities.

Not many are going to be willing to give up on any of them. There is too much power involved here to easily give it up.
Yes but it won't matter because the newly displaced workers will receive basic income!
My guess is it's about looking for the perfect setup through trusting some random server with the keys to the castle (by disabling signature checks) instead of learning how to configure your own system.
It would completely remove the necessity to be productive. That can't turn out well.

What's preventing me from having as many babies as I can knowing that they too will not have to work or find a job to be supported?

I know this won't work at scale, because I understand math.
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What happens to the people who can't get jobs to begin with? Also, does this make it harder for companies like McDonalds to higher people, if they are worried that the employee might be a future claimant?
Why I won't hire you

1. You want a high paying job but think you're too good to put in some effort in the interview.
I was alive back then. It was not common belief that search would be a huge money maker. No one thought Google would be bigger than Microsoft until they started doing the ad auctions and people could start to see how the money could actually flow. That Google won the Internet money pot was a bit of a surprise to most.
>The hardest sell will be the truly glacial speed of modifying laws to get these vehicles on the road without drivers.

I disagree with this. Yes, autonomous vehicles will be held to a very high standard--both in terms of statistical safety and in not doing "dumb things." A higher standard than humans almost certainly. But that is not an unreasonable bar to set.

When vehicles can indeed go door-to-door reliably across a wide spectrum of roads and road conditions, I don't really expect laws to be the limiting factor. But I expect that to be pretty far out.
I think probably the only thing that would have to go along with UBI is extreme restrictions on credit and borrowing for people that are relying on it. It's not really a huge problem for someone to blow all their UBI money for a month or two because they'll have more coming in. If they compound that with high-interest debt, they can dig themselves into a whole they can't get out of of.
Thanks, I unaware of Hailo. It sounds like what I was hoping services like Uber would actually be.
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Exactly. This isn't an IoT problem, it's a cloud-based systems problem. "Cloud" actually just means "someone else's computer", and that somebody will turn off their computer someday.
What value exists in bringing that capital back "in" to the USA if it provides no benefit to US citizens in doing so?
Imagine a new tax passed at the same time as basic income where anyone making more than the median income of $51,939 paid an additional $10000 in taxes. Now, lets tack on a dollar for dollar replacement for anyone receiving disability or social security.

These kinds of thing make that number start dropping pretty quick and are in the spirit of what basic income would look like. The raw number you gave isn't what anyone is proposing.
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you need to emotion this a little more and get back to us.
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Wouldn't it be a better idea to have unions, and have them negotiate shared ownership?

It seems that some people have already solved the problem with dividends in companies they own part of.
The Model S is very popular in the crescent park neighborhood of Palo Alto. There were brownouts until they upgraded the neighborhoods supply and transformers.

Just some food for thought. Most neighborhoods simply are not wired for overnight charging of a significant number of EVs. I would expect EV interconnect fees or time sensitive tierd electric consumption independent of your net metering deal.

Or hyper-local generating capacity based on natural gas...?
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After 30 years using windows this is very good news.

Right now on Windows I use Git Shell which works great but is based on mintty. Will be nice to be something close to native.
The fact that I can do the same thing with firmware on a cheap ROM write-protected with a jumper

Except secure boot isn't about firmware, it's about the code loaded on DASDs.

>With Microsoft and Intel style secure boot, it remains in the hands of Microsoft and Intel.

As long as you can program your own keys into it, I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion.
I generally agree with this, but I think it is often overstated. There are still many domains of employment where there is room to raise the minimum wage significantly before getting anywhere near the margin at which the employer feels it's not worthwhile to hire the additional worker. Food service, for example. There are examples on the other end of the spectrum too, such as cashiers in a major convenience store chain, like CVS or Walgreens. These businesses are more capable of scaling automated cashier technology than others, so workers of this type would be disproportionately affected.

But overall, many types of business have an inefficient profit surplus right now that should rightfully be eaten into by workers claiming more share as wage.

I also think there is a genuine moral argument to be made that society, in some cases, should intervene when a person believes they are willing to sell their labor at an unsustainably low price. It's not quite right to characterize a minimum wage as "denying" them that "opportunity" as much as it is saying that the "opportunity" itself is unhealthy, unrealistic, and a person's reasons for choosing it almost always involve forms of coercion that cannot be dealt with as effectively if the person gets locked into believing they actually must provide their labor so cheaply.

Incidentally, this is perhaps the most common thing I hear about the minimum wage (that it hurts employment due to marginal employment reduction on behalf of employers). A lot of people seem to think it's counter-intuitive and that it somehow shines real economic theory on everyone's pie-in-the-sky dreams of egalitarian wages or something. But really that's not true, this argument is extremely common and is brought up in almost every forum or discussion about minimum wage, whether it's just a bunch of nonsense troll comments on a YouTube video or in a place with a higher signal-to-noise like HN.

It always makes me do a double take because I don't want to end up regurgitating what is effectively "sponsored content" from wealthy libertarian types who spam out this message to ensure it trickles down to all the conversations about minimum wage. Like I said, I mostly agree with this, but with some reservations.
Many people would not receive this money from the government as their taxes would be more than the $10K payment. 160 million Americans work, and likely half would receive little or no money, and only the bottom two quintiles of income earners would earn the full or close to the full amount. So probably only cost around $2T, or about 25% more than Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid combined (although this would only replace Social Security).

Very expensive, but doable in a world where our representatives weren't corrupt to the hilt.

Not sure what is an equitable solution for children, but giving the full amount per kid seems grossly unfair.
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They do what because it works? Airlines did not start charging for checked luggage because of sites like Priceline and Orbitz - those site are just aggregating the fares that are set by airlines(which themselves look price fixing.)

Charging for checked bags didn't start until 2008, the better part of a decade after travel sites began. There is zero correlation between charging for checked bags and travel websites.

Prior to this awful and cheap practice the assumption was that you bought a ticket that covered the cost of getting you and a bag to a destination.
Not the top marginal tax rate, the tax rates on probably the top 50% -- certainly the top 25%.

Which is not necessarily crazy -- I think that a basic income is an attractive idea, though I doubt the ability to implement it well. But just like we shouldn't pretend we could just shuffle some social safety net programs, we also shouldn't pretend that you could just tax the 1%.
Does a basic income need to be generated directly through government spending?

With all the talk about QE and "helicopter money" over the past 8-9 years, I'm curious why very few have considering the merits of a basic income through inflation.

What if the central bank had a mechanism to fund special "basic income" accounts at banks on a yearly basis... These accounts would not be considered deposits but would rather be a special type of 0-interest loan that is not paid back and doesn't not count against each bank's fractional reserve requirements. Each citizen is able to open 1 of these accounts at a bank that meets the qualifications to participate in the program.

Is there any merit in a basic income through inflation? If we are going to inflate our money by through QE and throwing it out of a helicopter to banks, why not use the same principle and inflate our money by throwing it our a helicopter into the homes of citizens?

special "basic income" accounts
Thanks, a good amount of his were grayed out when this thread had ~50 points. Looks like they've balanced out now.
Part of the reason I'm not a UBI proponent is that I have absolutely no confidence in the ability of the real world to "obsolete" that much work. Literally the next bill passed after UBI would be a bill to limit and/or extend it somehow to some favored or disfavored interest.

We got to where we are not because of arcane technical procedures, we got to where we are because of the humans in the government. Pass UBI with the same humans in the same government and the same result will occur at speed.
If you read precisely past the point where you stopped quoting, you see their reasoning why this bad, the answer to your "And?"

Whether or not you agree with that answer, shouldn't that answer be the part you respond to, instead of deliberately misrepresenting what the poster you were responding to was saying?
I expect they would persist. The poor, ultimately, would remain poor unless we're talking about a UBI well above anything anyone has proposed for the United States. But UBI could help alleviate the significant stresses of navigating the byzantine U.S. entitlement programs, reduce the stigmatizing effect of poverty by eliminating the application processes for entitlements, and save money on the government side by reducing complexity and bureaucracy.
Read the rest of the sentence

>it's no longer worth it to an employer to hire a low-output employee
This is a very good back of the envelope calculation. But, I think you need to take a similar look at the cost of social security, etc...
The mortgage interest deduction "hurts" only government tax revenues. Raising the tide on minimum wage impacts every business that has employees, regardless of what their cost structure is.

What if your business worked in such a way that a single employee wouldn't even produce $15 of revenue in an hour? You can't lose money on every sale and make up for it in volume.

The artificial increase is a problem because it goes against supply and demand, which is a natural law of economics.
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I've often wondered this too. I suspect that a family making use of WIC, medicaid / medicare and/or disability is commonly using more than $10k/person/year or gov't assistance, and would lose money going to UBI at that rate. I also wonder what could be done to avoid the UBI version of the two-income trap[0] - seems like UBI would naturally pressure entry level wages downward.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Two-Income-Trap-Middle-Class-Paren...
He gave the "and" in his comment- artificially increasing the cost of labor can potentially prevent people whose contribution is worth less than that cost from ever entering the market.
The majority of economists (as well as many other people) think that the mortgage interest deduction is bad policy.
what you are describing is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudlet which is a machine which sits on the edge and enables spinning up and down of vms for services in an isolated manner
It is a problem if all of the would-be employers look at you and say, "Well, for what you bring to the table, I would be willing to pay $3/hour, but no more. If I have to pay more than that, I will simply make do with life having fewer employees."

You would prefer $7/hr instead of $3/hr, but you would prefer $3/hr instead of $0/hr.
That's too bad. I always thought flights on Airbus's are a lot smoother during take off.
Not since the roadster. I'll let Elon say it directly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9c...
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This assumes the cars are plugged in when there is the most 'extra' capacity being generated from , say, solar thermal/pv. This is when most cars are out at a workplace, not plugged in.

This is also when industrial consumption/ac use peaks, so why would you over produce and feed a battery rather than run a plant/keep places cool...
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