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If we make it something available to _all_citizens_, I don't think the location where you live should matter -- just like paying taxes.

If you're a citizen of the US, and get an unconditional monthly check deposited from the gov't, I don't think I care whether you (my fellow citizen) decides to spend that money living in Los Angeles, or decides to travel to Vietnam and live cheaply. You pay income tax as a US citizen even if you live elsewhere, so I don't see how it's unfair to send you a check either.

That's _the point_ of UBI: you get it, and can do what you feel is best with it. If that means buying steak one night a month and ramen the rest, or pay your tuition, or pay for a gym membership, or sock it away in a bank account to fund your 15-year anniversary trip to Italy, I should not care.
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I could find the implementation at : https://github.com/pingcap/tikv/blob/master/src/storage/mvcc...
But a lot of the detail are not clear.
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As an early adopter, I'm used to being burnt by technology, but for some reason, the Revolv disappointment really hurt. It actually reduced my early adopter tendencies ever since.

I think it hurt so much because the product underdelivered from day one (I purchased it on day one) and did not improve over time in an area of technology that should have been doable.

Oh well.
It's the opposite. The utility of money decreases as the amount of money owned/earned goes up. $9/hr to a person without basic income is worth more than $9/hr to a person with basic income.

Now people need more money to gain the same utility as they could have previously gained without basic income.

Why would people wash dishes if they didn't need to pay the bills?
And the mortgage deduction makes a house a better investment, and so increases the price of buying and renting houses.

These are all tradeoffs that we decide to make.
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Hacker news crowd are usually wealthy programmers who got very lucky in the nature's randomness. You have to be definitely smart to be a good programmer and the comments are usually very optimistic and ideal world scenarios.

The programmers who graduate to be good managers and fail couple of businesses really care about liberty. The best leaders I ever worked with cared so much about giving their productive people more liberty and they think like programmers. So there is hope after all ;-).
You keep saying that "someone should have noticed something" but as the old adage goes, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

What you seem to keep missing is that we know from the Snowden leaks that the capability already exists, and NSA has successfully used implants to do data exfil in the past.
Economics has no particular respect for human self-sufficiency. If businesses can operate with employees just above starvation wages then all sorts of technologically feasible efficiencies are skipped while human suffering is prolonged.

From a practical standpoint, it feels like for a time that capitalism seeking local-optima was perfectly ok in that the efficiencies gained were lifting society all around - and it still seems that way in the world at large.

However, in more mature economies it seems like a different discussion needs to be made because the business actions seem to be divergent from the interests of society - optimizing on the same financial metrics seems merely a shell game of keeping a larger share of the production -- to the point that there is little to no growth in value to most of society.
I think "deflating" is a more appropriate verb.
Wouldn't a basic income tend to increase self-employment? It lowers the barrier to striking out on one's own, I would think, at least in fields like ours that don't cost a lot to spin up.
Thanks for trying it out this far fjallstrom! Out of curiosity, which part of the process did you get stuck on? We've been trying to work on the UI a lot, so would love the feedback.
1. What are some data points that have proved to be "most" useful in evaluating the startups? From YC's experience. Hopefully rest of the startup community can contribute and add to this data set.

2. What are some data points YC wish it has in evaluating startups? This would be a very interesting discussion topic. It can be something that the startup community work on together as we move forward... to make the industry/process more "scientific".
Indeed. I'm happy to see Tesla succeeding, because I love their moxie and feel like the Big 3 have had a forcible perspective shift coming for a long while now, but I have no interest in buying one of Tesla's cars. The powertrain is great but I hate the cockpit and the "phone home" stuff. I am looking forward to future competition which moves into the market Tesla is prying open and offers a car which I might be happy to drive.
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> some politicians in one of the world's most socialist countries, Sweden

I almost stopped reading there. Sweden is not socialist, and never has been.

Public ownership of production, workers control and management, social equality and a democratic plan of production. Nope, none of those. Just as much privatisation and market forces as other economies.

They just chose to fund their welfare state, education, prison reform and pensions rather better than some others. There's been some drawbacks, but you won't be hearing many renditions of the Red Flag.
>Hardware has that upfront cost which consumers take as this should work for x amount of time.

What is X?
Teenagers don't need to live on this wage, but their parents need to have sufficient margin in their wages to support that.
The OP's point about certain businesses disappearing is valid. Just as an example, pizza parlors may disappear. Instead that demand will be satiated by highly efficient instant delivery services (with no storefront and almost no staff) or perhaps not at all. Do you see many elevator attendants lately?

Also to be clear, we're not talking about anything remotely like a free market.
Watched it and as I guessed you will again have, like in a distributed system, some management facility. Friedman call it a judge or arbitrator and everyone can have their own, where judges will work out contracts between themselves for disputes of their own.

So, this all sounds like P2P with an evolutionary system of contracts between all kinds of parties, where there's no universal rule book (aka what we know as a country's laws).

If this really works, good, but how do you solve that humans will see that the contract between two other parties is better and will want the same deal? Will you give it to them?

I'd really like to think this is workable as it would give custom-fit "laws" for everybody. Though, there still needs to be some kind of general laws for heinous crimes, doesn't it?
1/4 blood quota is what most tribes require to be tribal members. If you have children, its worth the effort to make sure the kids are listed by the tribe even if they don't make the blood quota. Some schools get extra money on decedents for certain programs.
No its not in practice.

NIC is generally tied to working. A part time employed person will make less than a full time one.

Under BI it is not tied to working. The incentives are worse.
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I've worked in an industry that is notorious for long hours, low pay, high cost of entry, and have even had coworkers get killed on the job. Not 6 hours after my coworker was killed I was asked if I was ok to keep working (my normal 14+ hour shift in shotty dangerous equipment). So I've seen abusive business practices. You know what I did. I went to another place. When that one sucked too, I retooled went into web development. I don't work in an expensive tech town or long hours and I didn't take on student a penny of loan debt.

Not everyone needs a 100k CS degree and to move straight out to San Fran to be useful or productive and there are plenty of things someone can do (plumber, electrician, skilled trades of whatever kind) without shelling out 100k for a degree.
What's wrong with that? You don't really own the car if you haven't paid off the debt. As long as it's not disabled while it's being driven (that would endanger others), I don't see an issue with that.
I moved to Montreal last summer and spring, after years in Seattle and Berkeley. Then I gave up and moved back to Berkeley.

Pros:

+ Bitcoin Embassy Montreal!
+ Really cheap hipster life
+ Wonderful cheap food
+ Walkable city
+ A French culture that values living, parks, & community!
+ Beautiful women, and lots of them
+ There actually is a tech scene! Woah!
+ It's different

Cons:

- Less edgy culture. Less individual extreme boundary pushing.
People move in largish herds of friends.
- Racist against people who speak English. Language racism.
- Corrupt government
- McGill and Concordia are nowhere near as good as
Berkeley and Stanford, and not even UW.

Overall, it has a culture that supports working for a startup or doing tech contracting work, but it lacks that revolutionary west-coast culture that I like to live inside of to take a stab at doing something breakthrough.

And language racism really sucks! On the upside, it's a great way for a white american male to experience being a discriminated minority.
The Muslim Brotherhood, being the religious extremists whose declared purpose was establishing Sharia-ruled state (my previous post), would lead people of Egypt to even worse situation that they are now (compared to the MB wishes, Egypt was more secular even before the "revolution"). Therefore I don't agree with your view. The U.S. supported "democratic spring" only brought Muslim Brotherhood to the power (and the article author knew he was helping that, in his words, he was an "activist" and they a "political" power). Note that after the article author fought to bring the "democracy" once the Muslim Brotherhood came to the power he became disillusioned in them (his words "religious fanatics"). Against the possibility to have an Iran equivalent (or worse) in Egypt (his words: "made us fear our country would soon look like an Iranian theocracy"), the activity of the military seems to have been necessary. Note also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood

"as of 2015" Muslim Brotherhood "is considered a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain,[7][8] Egypt, Russia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.[9][10][11][12]"

But in 2011 the U.S. politicians and operatives called them "our guys" who "won" in Egypt.

Recently, however:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/223...

"32) On May 27, 2015, a group of 159 Muslim Brotherhood-associated scholars from 35 nations announced the publication of a document endorsing violence in Egypt in response to a “war against Islam's principles.”."

"It is the sense of Congress that—

(1) the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for designation as a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189); and

(2) the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, should exercise the Secretary of State’s statutory authority by designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization."
Congratulations, you get to be productive by raising society's next generation.

Sincerely. Many people don't desire large families, if any, or are physically incapable of reproduction. So why pressure them to when others are perfectly willing to pick up the slack?
"fails to address the root causes of class division."

What are the root causes?

I'd imagine that companies would make MORE profit in a world with UBI because more individuals have more disposable income to use on their products.

Would they raise prices? If so, how do we make it work?
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If you have no cash, and you've used up the meager funds TANF gives you, there are other programs still available to cover the necessities of life.. SNAP comes to mind, as do overnight shelters. It's not much of a life, but at least you're not out in the cold. A safety net for the safety net if you will.

Okay, now that stuff goes away, and you just get the one (significantly increased, but still, just the one) payout every so often. There is no safety net under the safety net anymore.

Those two stories I see linked reference other countries with radically different cultures. How many studies have been done with families that live in the USA and are subject to its cultural norms? Culture drives spending and expectations.

I say this as someone that thinks UBI is a Great Idea, but this is a question that from what I can tell remains unanswered.
People expect immediate gratification. They pay for it and expect it two days later. We become upset because it falls out of the patterns we have adapted to.
I reverted to a generic kernel (it doesn't look like I ever had /boot/GENERIC - did I read out of date doco?), then ran freebsd-update as normal. Seems to be fine. I'll rebuild my custom kernel later.
This is something that hits gaming especially hard, yeah. It sucks. What especially sucks is most people don't understand the downsides. Most people don't understand that their kids won't be able to play or even look at those games.

Most game devs don't even realize it. I had an interesting chat with one of the WoW devs a few months back and I asked him what his thoughts were on the ephemerality of what's created. Not only how nobody will experience the content but how all the lessons learned from creating the content, all the man-years spent in creating the art, the design etc are also lost. Well, he didn't really have an answer, I think the question just made him feel bad. Understandable.
>> Down Syndrome [0] .. are they worth hiring at $2.00/hour? Yes, and they and their families are willing for them to work at that wage, because there are huge benefits to being productively employed.

Realistically, for people with disabilities that aren't being able to be in the regular labor market, there are some societal useful things to do, like volunteering(say in a soup kitchen), helping their community,etc. Those are probably activities that wouldn't be done otherwise, carry a real sense of value, and usually in a custom fit environment.

That is the situation at least in enlightened places with decent government services. I'm not sure about the US.

I wouldn't want that to be replaced with people at the margin being exploited at a shitty factory , where the work is meaningless and often depression inducing, sometimes risky, etc.
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This comment doesn't belong here. Please keep nationalist politics off Hacker News.
My objection was to the word "artificial," (which is why I didn't quote further) as if mandating a minimum wage is somehow different from everything else we do with the economy. The "natural" economy doesn't exist, except insofar as the adjusted economy we have is the natural economy. Making changes from what is to what someone wants is entirely normal.
Canada as a whole sees locals fleeing to the US for higher wages and lower taxes, primarily professionals as defined.
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They all ultimately answer to Larry Page, presumably.
It's not as clean-cut as it sounds. Especially when it comes to saving money. If you're really good about saving but your income doesn't rise or rise quickly enough, those benefits start drying up faster than you might expect.
I might add that the standard for both coffee and bars in Montreal is quite high, and also priced cheaper than the midwest. Montreal is truly a hidden gem.
I wish more US citizens would demand the same: http://www.fixthedmca.org

That said, similar garbage laws exist in many countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention
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It's because history shows that more government intervention, especially in the domain of education, health and labour, creates better societies.

Two words: New Deal.

Most of the US' prosperity since has been as a result of this. Then in the 1980's it was rolled back and guess what? Things are going to shit again. Maybe not in NY and California, but large swaths of the US are mired in poverty, poor employment prospects, crumbling infrastructure and shitty education.

How about Europe? Here's a bunch of tiny states with different languages, pretty much zero resources, very little land, who accept unprecedented amounts of immigration (partially to their detriment), who are still able to provide their citizens with the highest standards of living in the world.

Show me a single large, prosperous, libertarian state. Not a city-state that cannibalises their neighbours' resources and acts like a tax haven (Monaco, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Singapore, etc...) - but a large, prosperous, diverse state that is libertarian. The problem is, there are none.
I've been looking at the ubiquiti nvr for a bit as i like their wireless stuff but i'm not sure what cameras i'd want. The reviews of the newer micro cameras are crap and the new-new g3 ones they just announced aren't delivering til fall.
I find this is a culture that pervades most of Canada (with perhaps the exception of Waterloo). It's a culture that follows, not leads and innovates.

We're all for pretending to be like Silicon Valley… but not trying anything new :)
An average car in Germany would require about 10kWh per day recharge, this can be done on a plain wall socket. Even if you drive twice that range every day, you would not need anywhere close to the powers you are talking about.

The comparison about the energy transfer speed between gasoline and electricity is misleading. First of all, an electric vehicle is about 3x as effective, so you would need only a third of the energy transfer speed.

Then, with a gasoline vehicle, you have always to drive to a fuel station and wait for it to be filled up - there speed matters. With an electric vehicle, the common case should be overnight recharge, so charge speed does not matter much there. This also means, that you are likely to start with a completely filled battery every morning. So unless you are doing long distance travel, you never have to recharge except over night (or, if your work parking facilities offer electrical outlets, during work time). And for long distance travel, there are Superchargers. Yes, those do take longer than refueling gasoline, but unless you travel long distance every day, this might be a good tradeoff.
The main problem is the salary. Startup are having a really low salary compared to other jobs in Montreal with often the speech of being part of the next big thing to compensate the salary. In the US, startups are offering very competitive salary which make it easier to have people going into startup.
People can still shop around, which is a balancing economic force. What makes people balk isn't just how much money they have, but the competing prices in the market. Less competitive markets will react to GBI to a much greater extent. I'd expect mobile phone service, internet service, housing, education, and healthcare to raise prices in response to GBI. I wouldn't expect the price of rice, steel, concrete, or airplane tickets to change much.
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(quebecers here)

Not language racism but english-phobia. Everyone that I know will switch to english to help people, but they expect that the reverse will be true too. You will be expected to at least attempt French. Attempting it will be enough and people will gladly help you out.
The article is specifically talking about the 'next Netflix'.
I'm talking here about the 'next Bitcoin'.

Perhaps the current one is fine. What about the one after that?

What about the 'Bitcoin' that launches in 20 years? Do we have any mass market free platforms left then?

Workstations may always exist - servers may always exist - but right now, the masses have general purpose computers on their desks, in their messenger bags. I want that to last.
> Similarly, it is legitimate for others to publicly express market preferences for avoiding conferences that feature him.

If the anti-inclusion folks were merely "publicly expressing market preferences" they wouldn't be so furious about how LambdaConf managed to find enough funding to keep going. They're already not going, and they've said so loudly and publicly, right? So why are they so bothered that anyone is going, that the conference continues to exist at all?

It's not about justice; it's about power. Simple as that. It's not enough to not attend a talk by Yarvin, or even to not go to a conference he's attending; it's about making sure he can't speak, anywhere, pour encourager les autres.
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Interesting. The reality is that every connected device has an ongoing cost to the company that sells it. Most consumers probably aren't aware of this. Depending on the architecture, # of users etc this could be some fraction of a cent/month in AWS costs or much more. Should Connected Hardware companies/startups disclose this upfront when making the sale? i.e. say "Your $199 purchase includes a free license to our software for x years."
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>No one wants to hire them at a high minimum wage, especially when locals are readily available

Tying this in to our own economy, this is what Bernie and the Unions miss (or perhaps they don't). A min wage increase of 50% will entice low skills Americans who were on Snap to enter the workforce, driving out foreign low skills workers.

And I agree with the increase. Too many of our workers possess too few marketable skills that jobs once the province of teenagers and part times have become the jobs for many adult household earning Americans.
Any hot tips on places to apply to for junior mobile developer positions in Montreal? I am graduating in a month from a college in Ottawa with a diploma in Mobile Application Design and Development and need to start gearing up to find a job. I have experience in Objective-C iOS, Android and Cordova and am wrapping up decently large native iOS game for a school client project.
Yet they have 300k preorders lready. Sounds like a lot of people didn't really care how well rehearsed Musk was.
I'm a on the fence as your argument mirrors my own, but I can see the fear of basically voting yourself a raise with pandering politicians. I think the line of thinking is inspired by professional voting blocks which is a more as likely scenario.