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I usually really, really hate when people trot out the "go back to econ 101" argument, but in this case it applies. The reasons why a minimum wage might be inefficient (to what degree is very much debatable and dependent on the cirumstances) are explained thoroughly in any introductory microeconomics educational resource.
It's time that IoT vendors understand that they are making devices that are a part of homes themselves, and those things have lifecycles of decades, not months. Many people like to not unnail and unscrew everything every 2 years because the manufacturer decided to not maintain them anymore. Whereas the dumb equivalents didn't need that much maintenance to begin with.

How many phones and computers have you replaced in the past 20 years? When was the last time you replaced the outlets you plug them into? IoT has a long way to go to be viable for people like Moms and Dads.

> The fact is that I can fix the problem by purchasing a replacement device such as a Samsung SmartThings hub. It’s not terribly expensive, a few hundred dollars.

Many people will think that is terribly expensive to keep novelty automation happening. And from what I've heard about Samsung's touch screen refrigerators, I bet that it's lifecycle won't be any better.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/calendar/Uhfp...
Can the escrow agents determine their own fees?
Negative income tax makes more sense to me. (NIT is a system where you either get or give money from/to the governement, depending on your income.)

First it's both a simple welfare and tax system in one package. Basic income as typically understood is only half of the story.

It's also easier to reason about, the money flows are way more obvious, it's immediately clear whether you are a net contributor or receiver and it's easier to set the (few) parameters.
And? It keeps people who want to work from working. People who would be willing to work at less than the minimum wage. Subsiding on government relief can lead to depression, loss of social status, load term mental illness. Not having a job is a very unhealthy thing for most people.
Why would you <em>want</em> to have as many babies as you can?
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It does not. At a practical level, you can't "wiggle" one entangled particle to be in any particular classical state without destroying the entanglement.

At a theoretical level, the no-communication theorem in quantum mechanics forbids it absolutely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem
I'm not so sure: Because currently ARM processors are currently sold in a large volume (if not for a technical reason then by momentum) they can be made a cheaper by economy of scale. This does not mean that this has to stay in the future, but currently this seems to be the case.
The VW XL1 is the most efficient car in production. According to VW's site, it comes in at 0.186.
As with most borders, they do not.
awesome to see this!
I have no idea where you detected anything having to do with Ayn Rand or any of her ideas. It's a pretty way that saying that the rewards of experience can't be granted and must be earned; not that no one eats for free, unless people eat mountaintops. What is a mountaintop without a mountain anyway?
I know almost nothing about the inner workings of Google or the Nest team, and yet I regularly hear about Tony and what a piece of work he is.

If someone like myself, only casually acquainted with the organization, hears so many bad things about Tony, how does he still have a job? Forget his apparent management incompetence, at this point it's just bad PR for Google.
Is this how the Burka comes into fashion worldwide? :)
I think in the long-term their plan is to be a fully decentralized marketplace, like a darknet market which can't be taken down (ofcourse they don't explicitly condone the sale of illegal goods).

One of the most impressive parts so far to me is the strong UX though. It feels a bit like browsing instagram+etsy.
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Insulatejs
Library to create constants, immutable objects, members and methods in javascript (constants polyfill for ecma5).

Constants are now a port of javascript ecma6, but the more ubiquitous ecma5, has lacked this essential for any language feature. This is my humble attempt to improve this situation.
Does this make msys(git) defunct?
Someone has to program them.
Anybody can be an escrow agent, yes. Fees are customizeable.
That gets you commuting to work and driving around your city, for which a Nissan Leaf is already perfectly adequate. It doesn't get you long-distance road trips.

Not sure if this is still planned, but at one point the intention was to have automated stations that would pull off your battery and replace it with a freshly-charged one, which should take about the same time as a gas station stop.
Which makes it additionally funny when this guy actually has a prototype which in an unscalable way costed <x> $. Simple depreciation would put it at an order of magnitude higher price for early, mid scale production. That's per unit.
> the poorest are not starving to death; in fact, they're more likely to be obese than higher earners.

That isn't because they're eating well, it's because of the opposite. Malnutrition, poor sources of food(fast food) and lack of time to adequately exercise(beyond standing) cause this, not an understated availability of food to the poor in the US.
Actually, mortgage interest deduction was considered to be limited to only 1 home. It causes higher demand than without, which helps to drive house prices up, and at this point, out of reach of many in some cities.

Same with the availability of cheap loans and grants for colleges - it only really serves to increase the price of an education.
Interesting. I have always thought that its simplicity was its primary virtue. The government winds down all of its existing entitlement programs (except, perhaps, for health insurance) and, instead, writes everyone a check for $x per month. The big question is just the right value of x.

But it sounds like you've looked at this harder than I have. What are the questions I'm overlooking?
> when the business case no longer makes sense

Doing this kills ALL future business of this type. Who would buy such a device knowing this could happen?

Unless they don't plan on making consumer appliances anymore.
What if having a big family brings me joy? If welfare and basic income provide the support I need to have a huge family without being productive, why would I choose to live a life that is inconsistent with my life's motivations? Why work for a living when I can do what I want, and be just as comfortable? I don't need a Tesla, so I'll leave the working for the chumps.
This isn't as necessary as it used to be: conhost.exe got a major overhaul in Windows 10 and it sucks a lot less now. There's wrapped selection, copy/paste, and transparency (if you're into that). There's plenty more to go but overall the experience is no longer pull-your-hair-out agony, and Microsoft did say (without providing any specifics) that more improvements were on the way and that they are still soliciting feedback and feature suggestions. You could propose changing the way commands are displayed if you wanted.
You would still need programs for people with mental and emotional problems, but that would be a small subset of current welfare recipients. And with far fewer people to focus on, we might be more effective with that care.

So, yeah if you spend your year's stipend on a week in a Hilton suite, then can't afford to eat, you might get additional help, and lose complete control over your BI.

I knew a homeless guy in Anchorage that did this with his PFD and disability money. He needed more help than a check every month.
It makes people who got a bad education unemployable and perpetuates their culture of dependency on welfare.

Conditional welfare perpetuates it also because people are afraid to take a job and then lose it.
Being obese is not the same as being well fed.

Also, I'd never propose universal basic income as a complete solution. UBI doesn't make our complicated world suddenly simple without any effort. It requires a certain level of economic especially agricultural productivity for us to even consider ubi as viable for a large economy like ours.

Firstly, ubi like single payer universal healthcare will not be free of cost. I expect full cooperation from my work force in this matter. Taxes will have to go up, at least in the short to medium term and incentives and deductions must come down. The economy will likely suffer a slowdown in the short and medium term as well. We can't turn back and run away. We need a clear commitment and mandate to stay the course even if it send incredibly stupid do so.

Secondly, in my mind universal basic income requires a certain level of community support. As the saying goes "man can't live on bread alone". People need a reason to live. Perhaps indoctrination is to string of a word but we'd need a support structure to motivate people. While I strongly believe people are inherently good and not evil, it will be a difficult challenge to motivate people without the easy monetary benefit.

Thirdly, I think ubi requires a certain level of automation in what we shall term as essential goods and services. This means these guys and services should continue to flourish and flourish highly efficiently even if the workforce shows low participation. In other words, we will need a way to keep our utilities like water and electricity, our infrastructure like roads and Internet connectivity, our food supply and so on to pretty much work on autopilot.

What do you think?

Edit: in my mind, ubi replaces most if not all other entitlement and welfare programs. An important premise of ubi is we will save money on compliance such as trying to make sure wic money only goes to qualified people. If we extended wic to all children, we would not have to determine eligibility. This I think will help adoption and help remove stigma of welfare.
Problem 1: Transportation will load the grid and generating capacity in rather nasty ways

Maybe. It depends on exactly where. He cites simultaneous draw from many commuters at once. If the utilities incentivized slower charging overnight through pricing (which is something that they already do for power intensive industries) then this would be greatly ameliorated. Also, in many places, as noted by the op, people will start charging after getting home from work. If charging is delayed by just 3 hours, they will merely be using capacity that already exists for running air conditioners.

Problem 2: Rapid charging is actually not so rapid, highway re-charging stations will have to be much larger than current gas stations

Op is assuming the same structure as gas stations. No need for this. What if the car companies implemented a "charge crawl" feature, where a charging car would slowly inch down a track for a half hour while charging, attached to an overhead suspended cable? Actually, there's no need for that. Just have lots of parking, with each space with a charger. Most road trip rest stops take about 1/2 hour anyhow -- and that's when I'm in drill-sergeant mode with my passengers.

Problem 3: Gas stations are not generally in the neighbourhood of electricity generation stations.

Tesla is already building stations that get power from solar.

Problem 4: Re-charging will not work nearly as well when vehicle utilization goes up due to sharing

Consumers may not want battery swaps yet, but car-share companies might well want it.
Exactly. I was commenting more on the direct costs but those are probably dwarfed by the indirect costs of loss of productivity on the economy.
The mortgage interest deduction disadvantages renters compared to owners. Subsidizing home ownership effectively taxes renting.
If you're using sprocs to fix SQL injection you're Doing It Wrong.
F is for Family is the last of their "original series" I tried.

Wow. What a hateful show. It's like they found the world's greatest misanthropist, gave them $10,000,000, and said, "here, make a show that's kind of like The Simpsons I guess."

I have to admit I watched all the episodes, kind of like how when you see a horrible train collision you stick around to see how many bodies will be strewn about when it's over.
> It keeps people who want to work from working.

That doesn't mean the work (the individual is capable of) is valuable enough to justify the position, in the locality.
Wait, what? Employment is a net-negative, the denominator of economic productivity. If we have the same amount of material wealth, it's better to not work as hard to get it.

"Increase employment" is targeting the wrong measure.
same reason you're replying to this post
businesses would look at total operating costs. Taxes are increased but payroll is decreased. It's a win if you can structure it such that the savings in payroll are greater than the increase in tax.
I'm not sure to what leader you're thinking about. If you're thinking about the US, you probably mean Syria, in which case I'll need a lot of convincing that events down there would have evolved differently without US involvement, considering the agendas of the local players.
A Basic Income from Govt comes at a huge price of loss of individual liberty.

If someone gives you free stuff, they will expect controls like where you are allowed to spend your money and time.

This model of taking from the productive sources and rewarding everyone else will have to break at a certain point. how come you get rewarded for enjoying the gossip column and I spend extra effort doing something else which is harder and my earnings are taken away? so lets put a control on how many hours someone else works. The productive people are dragged down and discouraged.

Automation is replacing the labor that humans don't have to do. This frees up human capital so we can focus our endeavors somewhere else. America already provides free education up to high school and with this education why should people of next generation aim for minimum wage jobs?

In a modern capitalistic economy it is very difficult to make money without adding value to society and this equilibrium is reached naturally due to free markets despite of politics meddling with it.
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Load shedding.
According to the specs linked in the OP that POWER8 supports little-endian mode too.
From what I understand, it used to run at way too low a level in the kernel for some reason, so third parties couldn't touch it. This was fixed in Win10 so alternative shells are now possible.
I think it would be politically difficult to replace most or all existing entitlement programs with a basic income.

When you get a bunch of disabled people up on stage and they say, "Wait a minute, we are genuinely unable to work most jobs, and we have special needs to just get through the day, and you propose to just give us the same amount of money you do to some 22 year old healthy slacker from a good family who wants to take a few years to play X-Box?" and you're already trying a very very contentious policy proposal, is that the hill you want to die on? If not, we still have disability.

What about the just genuinely irresponsible mother who blows her income on, whatever, in-app purchases, and then she and her children are homeless and starving. Do you say, "Well, tough break, you could've been more responsible" or do you have programs to keep them fed and off the streets? Food stamps and Section 8 are back.

Healthcare pretty much has to continue to be separately subsidized unless you want anyone who has enough bad luck to have an expensive health condition that exceeds the value of basic income to die.

At that point, is there a really significant entitlement program still off the table?

(Edit: Sorry, yes, of course there is one significant entitlement program not touched on above: Social Security. I think you might somewhat reasonably make a basic income essentially "Social Security for everyone," and avoid having a special carve-out for seniors by saying, "We're not taking away your social security, we're just giving social security to more and more people.")
I open pretty decent size sql files (200m-1g) all the time in vi without much issue.
Without government power, corporations don't have any power. They only exert their power through the government. What, is Apple coming to my house to tell me what to do, how I can work, or to collect a tax? Just like Disney keeps you from file sharing by using the government, so does the your local health insurance company keep out the competition by excessive government regulations they helped write.
I read the whole thing and I didn't catch that part either.
$0 an hour is life's true minimum wage.
"Want to be a millionaire? Start with a billion dollars and start an airline"

~ Richard Branson

Edit: Didn't see the same quote below!
It said in his part time he welded, it never said he did it as a career.

In my spare time I engineer electronic devices, fabricate parts, enclosures, mounts and simple machinery, manage data networks, and perform landscape and automotive maintenance. And you'd be an idiot if you hired me to do any of those things professionally.
> This conversation is specifically and only about new cars

I understand that's certainly how you've been behaving. Despite several people trying to disabuse you of that notion.
Hasn't msys been half dead for years now? I still use it, but it has felt like it is on its last legs for a long time now.
This is some epic semantic nitpicking right here.

> Similarly, it is legitimate for others to publicly express market preferences for avoiding conferences that feature him.

It is in the interests of any technical conference to discourage radical political agitators from using the conference as a political battleground, whether it's a "scientific" or "commercial" conference.
Who does it help? Anybody? When you tell every home shopper "you can afford x% more house thanks to this deduction", what do you think that does to prices?
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I see, are CLWB and PCOMMIT for NVME safe?
Disagree. I've owned 3 homes and my mortgage interest deduction made no difference on whether or not I purchased.

The difference between renting and owning is income, savings rate, and lifestyle. If you can't afford to buy, you either don't make enough or don't save enough. It's the down payment that separates a lot of renters and buyers. If you are arguing homes are expensive, I'd argue that $15 minimum wage isn't helping.

Mortgage interest deductions may be bad policy, but it doesn't "tax renting." That's asinine.
Issues I saw (it was months ago, maybe now it's better):

- was not clear what was the limit on the total size, I think it was supposed to be 50mb, but it was not exact.

- edit the lambda function code, and wait 10 min till it is uploaded by the eclipse plugin

- finally not being able to attach a debugger

On the plus side, once you had all up and running, I agree it worked nicely. I complain about the developer experience only.
Why do you care if someone spends it on alcohol? Where does this paternal instinct to tell someone else how to spend money come from?
I knew you'd like that. The temlib is impressive because of its completeness, though it seems like hobbyist thing, maybe useful for retrocomputing and software archaelogy ;) But this comment http://temlib.org/site/?p=567#comment-210 makes me realize that the design doesn't even fully utilize the almost EOLd Spartan-6 (a low end one, even in its heyday). Now imagine what could be done in something new? Combined with the Utleon3 implementation of the Microgrid concept from http://svp-home.org
On something like this f.e. http://www.achronix.com/products.html ?
AFAIUI this would smell like Soft Machines VISC, only better, because FREE!

PS: two more pdfs for you to digest wrt Soft Machines VISC
http://dist.svp-home.org/doc/foundations-and-achievements-of...

http://dist.svp-home.org/doc/operating-systems-for-many-core...
Posix on Windows! Yay! Together with the open sourcing of DotNet (that now enjoys an MIT license), this new Microsoft stance is looking more and more compelling. Comparing MS policies that to the rather hostile licensing/litigation policies of Java/Oracle makes me reevaluate.
Aren't UBI proposals designed so that those who earn more than the yearly stipend from employment don't receive it?
Unlikely msys can handle the DOS/POSIX EOL conversion. Which is something I totally take for granted and is gonna be really annoying to deal with in Windows once BASH support is added.
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Just to clarify for anyone who is puzzled: a higher ranking in that survey means that a nation is perceived to be less corrupt. So the U.S.'s 16th-place ranking means that it is perceived to be the 16th least corrupt nation.

Saying that "[t]he US is 16th in the world in perceived corruption" seems to imply the opposite, to my ears.
I'm not sure how any of the things you said are true. How is negative income tax easier to reason about than "every citizen gets X dollars per month, unconditionally"? How is the money flow more obvious?

Furthermore, why is it important to identify whether someone is a net contributor or receiver?
As long as you can program your own keys into it

Is this not the definition of gatekeeper?

A system where you have to ask permission, but that permission is always granted is inherently different from a system where no permission is ever needed.

Among other things, that permission can be revoked at any time for any reason.
As an American with a Swedish wife, I was very surprised to learn about the availability of this data. But something that really turned me around was that it makes verifying strangers much easier. My cousin-in-law was using it to look up the people offering to become au pair to her children. Then also of course, I remembered that we have the same service in the United States, it just costs you ten or fifteen dollars for the information. You can get exactly this information that is up-to-date and accurate by paying for one of those background checks from one of the major providers. Same stuff.
While the discussion here on HN is good about this topic, I think the actual article missed the point completely.

Sure, tracking is an important issue with ads but I really don't think Do Not Track made any sense nor would have made any difference. It's the continued, forceful intrusion into our minds that these ads make.

Without ad blockers: I go to a page and, the first thing I see, is an overlay with a Ford Truck on it. Then I click the x that appeared after 25 seconds on that and I continue down the page. I manage to read half of the article in spite of the "Social Bar" that is blocking some of the text and then I see a "article continued after the jump" and an ad served right below it. I scroll past that to the rest of the content. I continue to lose track of the article that I'm reading because there's a giant flashy banner to the right side of my screen replaying some video with crazy motion and is following me as I scroll. THEN, I finally get to the bottom and I'm like "I liked that article. I should read more by these people!" and, instead of their content, there's a bunch of click bait bullcrap that leads to poorly written articles about topics that I don't care about at the bottom. I then proceed to leave the page in anger.

With ad blockers: I go to a page and read an article. I get it done quickly and efficiently and am able to concentrate and take in all of the information. I get to the bottom and want to read more but I don't see any more from that site because it's all served through some scammy ad network and is blocked. I leave the site but I will return when I see another link from said site, for sure!

None of that would have been changed by Do Not Track and THAT is the problem with ads today. (IMO at least..)
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