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How do the economics of providing Basic Income work?

I guess you would have increase taxes or provide lesser services? e.g., expect that basic income will cover some parts of the medical costs and provide a lesser health care for the average person. I'm guessing an implementation will be somewhere in between.

Money has gotta come from somewhere.
Only if you let them.
I have installed little snitch and the only applications that have unlimited access to the Internet (all servers on port 80/443) are my web browsers. The other applications barely have access to their on servers (only if I find it necessary for them to auto-check for updates) let alone google analytics.

To achieve the best security, you should disable most bultin rules or customize them yourself.
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This seems like a non-story.

Lets say a company buys another company for its SAAS product, customers and revenue. GAAP rules state that anything paid above "book value" for the company must be called "good will" and be depreciated. This might have made sense in a world where the value of a company was the equipment it owned and the value in a brand name but doesn't make as much sense for a SAAS company. That is why companies are often valued on "EBITDA" - earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization
The air is transparent because those are the wavelengths we (as air creatures) evolved to see. If it wasn't, we would have evolved sight in wavelengths (or media) that was transparent: ie: sonar, x-rays.
Would really prefer it to be opt-in instead of opt-out as others have said. Sharing the info with Homebrew is one thing, the GA borg-malware is another entirely. Something like that should require an explicit request. At least in the browser, I can blacklist all requests with uBlock.

Atom does the same thing and I'm not a fan. You have to explicitly remove the analytics 'package'. Soon every piece of software will be reporting, silently.
Where or how do you find places that make chassis? I'd love to buy 100 or so completely basic cases to our design.
Isn't that just a temporary thing and the end results of Amazon's platform is either manufacturers selling directly to consumers or selling to Amazon ? What value does a 3rd party create in such world ?
You use Homebrew. In return, you send anonymous stats to save the developers time. If you'd prefer not to, set the env var or stop using Homebrew.

Alternatively, fork it, take out the modifications, and run your own version of Homebrew. But that takes time, and effort; that same time and effort homebrew devs are trying to save with a feature. Why is your time as a user valuable but the Homebrew dev's time not?
ARGH! I HATE TEH GOOGLE AND TEH MARKETERS AND I WILL DOWNVOTE YOU BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE ANALYTICS. IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT YOU ARE RIGHT.
seriously? do you really believe this? the addictiveness of opiates is pretty well known. I have trouble accepting that anybody starts using heroin without knowing they might get addicted.

maybe you meant something like "nobody _intends_ to get addicted". that's a very different sentence.
You have that backwards.
> the number of elevators needed to properly serve the building starts increasing dramatically, eating up valuable floor space.

I assume that assumes that every time I take the elevator I am going take the trip to the ground floor to exit the building. But work and stores and cinemas could be on floor 40 of an 80-story building meaning the average distance traveled in elevator would be shorter than if I need to get out to the street every time.
Although if Homebrew wasn't using Google Analytics, maybe people would. It could just be a "Do you mind sending us anonymous usage data? [y/N]" prompt. Many other apps do something equivalent, and I don't mind giving it to them. The fact that those apps ask in the first place makes me much more amenable to the idea.
If you've been working on a bug for an hour+ and it's 2AM it usually means it's time to put the keyboard down.

For me, what usually happens is I go to sleep, wake up, and have it fixed in 5 minutes.
I was accepted to the program the year that the online masters was announced. At first, I was not amused.

However, I really really enjoyed my time actually being on campus. There were a few classes I took that would have been very difficult to do online, such as mobile & ubiq computing, where I got to spend quite a bit of time in the prototyping lab. I also had the chance to socialize a bit with professors and do some research with them. And personally, I don't do as well with online classes. I think it's really useful to have both kinds of programs. They're different experiences and they appeal to different people. Having both campus and online programs gives more opportunities to innovate in education.
There are many laws that exist with the singular goal of keeping jobs in the market that are no longer naturally supported by free market capitalism. Universal basic income eliminates the need for those inefficient laws by removing the negative externalities of labor market shifts caused by innovation.

As a creator of technology, I would be more than happy to contribute to UBI so that I can both continue to innovate without restraint and guarantee that the people do not have to fear innovation as an instigator of their personal financial instability.
Firstly, this is a decision that should be up to the user, not the webmaster.

Secondly, do you have a source for that? I find that a very dubious claim, from a business perspective.
Automatically opting a user into data collection, without explicitly asking the user, is a dark pattern.

Requiring the user to set an environment variable to opt out is smarmy.
Your last point contradicts the first three
Define "long time." Among the general public, it was only 2011-12 when more people wanted marijuana legal than illegal: http://www.people-press.org/2015/04/14/in-debate-over-legali.... That's a very short time in political timescale (especially in a government with representative rather than direct democracy).

The public opinion on other drugs is not controversial. People broadly agree they should be illegal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/drug-legalization-p....

There is pretty much nothing 75-85% of Americans agree on, other than that heroin, cocaine, LSD, etc, should be illegal. Well, that and that we should throw people in prison for life after three felonies: https://books.google.com/books?id=_wcyrot2kcUC&pg=PA234&lpg=...
The article discusses this. Basically you take the current set of services, and by removing the means testing and eliminating all the separate departments that facilitate them you save money and repurpose it towards this single program.
I was thinking about this issue when I attended a meet up for independent game developers. I was shocked at the number of people I had met that just develop games full time. I met an entire team of 4 people that have been working full time over the last year designing and developing a mobile game. They have a playable prototype and it's fairly entertaining but nothing ground-breaking in my opinion. Running the numbers in my head, I thought that this game would have to clear over a million dollars for it to even be considered a break-even for 4 well educated, hard working young people working over a year on the venture. I didn't know their personal financial situations, but I couldn't help but be both envious and terrified.

I met another person who worked on indie game development for two years and now works for a company designs games for others for money up front. He told me he hadn't made any money in the years working for himself.

It's incredible how many young people devote their time to passion projects with the very limited social safety net of the US. Surely a basic income will increase the allure. The question is, does the world need more indie mobile game developers?
Which might break some scripts that expect home brew not to require user input. The right way to do it would be to ask if a terminal was available but in reality, scripts are not careful enough to tell applications that they are in fact headless. I've seen some scripts break under that assumption.
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Let me pose to you another scenario, and you tell me if you think my actions where abhorrent:

Whenever I work from home, there's often a knock at the door from someone trying to sell me solar panels. It's always a hard sell, they don't take "no" for an answer, and I don't have the time to deal with it. So when they ask if I'm the homeowner, I respond, "No, I rent.". They thank me and continue on their way.
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care to share some of the cron script??
Compounded with things like 3d printing...e.g. Our shed came with 6 plastic hangers and 36-ish slots for them. A few minutes with a CAD package and I'm printing out a bunch more at a unit cost of $.18 a piece...if I upload the model, another person can also print as many as they want for next to nothing.
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Well, it's important to point out that the Federal gov't has little direct power. All their tooth comes from coercing the States into making drug possession illegal and then co-opting the Commerce Clause into making it a Federal issue.

Much as is happening with marijuana when the States decriminalize/legalize it; the Fed can't do much without lower cooperation. Hell, they had a hard time 15 years ago using the Commerce Clause to convict people on an ounce of weed as "intent to distribute".
People that repeat these "marijuana was made illegal because ..." stories should really get their stories straight. These stories are a dime a dozen and there is truth to many of them but it is more complicated than one thing.
I propose we call these graphs "Hypertext". We could even create a markup language to write it. And a transfer protocol for resolving these hyperlinks by URLs.
I do this, am on it right now, except I don't chroot. Just wiped out ChromeOS entirely because it's pretty nasty and installed Linux on SeaBios. I even bought a second one since it worked so well.
"At least 35 sections of the continental shelf were acquired by Brazilian or transnational companies for oil exploration, up to 20 of which may soon be producing oil near the reefs."

Sigh.
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When you're on the ground floor you are more likely to be targeted than when you're on the 40th floor.
You would be astounded to learn how much use MS Office still gets today. Excel...that thing runs the world.
> Rail is much more reliable then buses since it doesn't compete with car congestion

That is not true in some places. MN built its light rail in such a way that interacts with normal traffic quite a lot (including killing people because of a really badly designed interaction on a former turn). I get the feeling someone in the planning office had taken no lessons from street cars.
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Differently flawed. And actually very useful as it is - I log many more hours now playing (instead of thrashing over problems) because it almost always works. Wherever I am; whatever machine I'm on. There's no denying the benefits.
I think if the guys kicking down doors over here had the same restraint, rules of engagement and accountability as the guys kicking down doors "like it's Fallujah circa '05" then that would solve a lot of the problem...
I know a lot of the Chromebooks allow swapping out the mSata pretty easily. I've done it with my C720, swapped in a 128gb. I know the new Pixel is more locked down than the last, but haven't looked into it enough to say.
Some people disagree. If they didn't, why is this on HN with a lot of comments from people who a unhappy with this change?

If software compromises my privacy, I feel that I have been betrayed and lost something that I can not take back.

If you don't get to automatically participate in a "anonymous" usage survey, have you lost something you can not undo?

That in my opinion, is why software should always err on the side of privacy.
Only if you're willing to pay for it. Otherwise, you trade privacy for convenience, or some other benefit.

Its, of course, always your choice if you're willing to trade it for something.
Could you provide constructive criticism for why Homebrew is so bad instead of lambast it?
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Because inflation? I assume the "real interest rate" was much lower.
Might I suggest Mr. Blake Ross' blogs? His post "Mr. Fart's Favorite Colors" is among my favorite blog reads of all time.

https://medium.com/@blakeross
Could you elaborate what you dislike most about home brew? I only don't like that they refuse to package old versions, although they are still supported by the author and quite popular (I'm looking at you Python).
Furthermore, it often leaves deprecated APIs on my computer without offering to upgrade them (because other packages rely on them).
> It might be a little error, but lack of understanding of deep technical issues lead directly to specious statements that bitcoin and the blockchain are going to solve world poverty, privacy, fix the economy and neuter the surveillance state.

If people need to know or understand this stuff bitcoin will never work. Success rests on the what not the how. The end user doesn't care if your website was written in php or node. All he cares about is what it does.
EBITDA - earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization - is often used for companies that don't have large pieces of equipment that wear out.

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ebitda.asp
"formulae" is plural for "formula".
its better to create am empty ~/.homebrew_analytics_user_uuid and remove write permissions
Sensible cars have a device bridging high and low security networks, forwarding data from one to the other, specifically so that a misbehaving media device or light system can't clobber the brakes or ECU. No idea if the Tesla does this or not, but it's a fairly standard approach.
... which, if true, tells you something about the value of this 'feature' to the user.
This already exists as GetAround and I used it all the time when I was in San Francisco. Similar pricing to ZipCar, but I found that there was typically better options/availability (YMMV). The other big plus was that I was able to get approved by GetAround within something like 24hrs, where ZipCar I had to wait to get my key delivered (~2 weeks) or pickup my key at their office (during business hours only).

https://www.getaround.com/
I'd consider it less strong opinions and more power of defaults.
If that's the goal, they're doing it badly since the non-GAAP measures show higher profits.
Public key cryptography is a good example, which solved the seemingly impossible to solve key-distribution problem:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptography/lecture/be3ae/th...
I had an idea like this a bit ago, where essentially you would dump your tiny (PGP) message in a giant noise haystack at a random, or generated offset. These messages would get rolled up into a big torrent that gets served every so often.

This is similar to PGP over Usenet, but has the advantage of fooling traffic analysis as well.

It is actually more like dead drops, storing something secret or obfuscated in a very public place, and agents check it only every so often. Since it would just look like a giant torrent, it would be very hard to detect legitimate torrent mirroring from also pulling information out.

Only problem is still the message expiration, which I don't really believe is possible except when using a third party server.
> Businesses, especially consumers, are helped more by the mobility of a car than public transport

This assumes that everyone has access to a car, and that all automotive commutes are possible during "rush hour". Many businesses directly benefit from public transportation by expanding the labor pool to those who would otherwise be unable to commute.
I'm running FreeBSD as it happens and C# works absolutely fine - I have even just downloaded random .net exes and run them and had them work.

If you had a race where you picked a random C program and a random python/perl/C# program off github/sourceforge/whatever and tried to run them on OpenBSD, I'm pretty sure 9/10 times the python/perl/C# would win.
Got it. The whole complaint was intellectually bankrupt. Even if the comments were identical I don't understand why they would be expected to score the same way.
> But ultimately, it's about money. Always has been. And this country values profits above all else. And if a few more thousand innocent people need to get imprisoned and have their lives destroyed - well, that's a price that we, as a society, are willing to pay.

Money didn't create the modern incarceration state. Corrections Corporation of America had about $55 million in revenue in 1990 and less than $200,000 in profits: http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/history2/76/Corrections-...: http://notunlikeresearch.typepad.com/.a/6a0133f1fb8812970b01.... The incarceration rate had been exploding for 10-15 years before that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_ra.... The rise of CCA (which was a pioneer in the field), actually coincided with an inflection point where the growth in incarceration rate started slowing down.

The incarceration craze of the 1980's and 1990's was a response to a real spike in violent crime that started in the 1960's: http://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/wp-content/uploads/... (showing violent crime per capita increasing by more than 4x between 1963 and 1992). And it was fueled by a conservative backlash against the liberalism of the 1960's and 1970's.

We can argue about whether mass incarceration was the correct response to that increase in crime. But it's ridiculous to say it arose before of some sort of profit motive. That argument ignores the data right in front of your face.
I don't know, but if you decide to tint your windows it doesn't somehow magically invalidate your powertrain warranty.
If that server is on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, wouldn't it be totally vulnerable to national security letters?
Broadband data caps are having their intended effect: punishing cord-cutters
gjolunds post was definitely in the second person though.
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Hi everyone. I'm working on strengthening my programming skills by working on fun projects and going through books like "Exercises for Programmers". I was wondering though, since I don't have any teachers or mentors right now, what are some great ways to get feedback on my code and problem solving techniques? I know some great ways are to post questions on sites like Stackoverflow and niche forums, as well as keeping a blog, but are there any other approaches? I figure the best way though might be to just get an entry level job down the line. Cheers.
Does there need to be one? Yes, there is IFRS.
I only use Linux, so what do I know, but... is the highly interesting Nix package manager a full alternative to Homebrew ?
Are you referring to Westwood High School?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Chomsky saying it is not actually evidence that it is true...
I love Scott Hanselman's blog. It's one of those blogs I check in with every so often. http://www.hanselman.com/blog/
Seeing as someone would have to be physically present on your property to breath your air, I'm not sure what would make kicking a trespasser off your land so exciting. There's probably videos on YouTube showing how people have handled trespassers on their property.
I don't see it is that different. A wiki page typically assigns human-readable properties through its text. You don't write

<a href="foo.html">Read more</a>
<a href="bar.html">Read more</a>

but:

<a href="foo.html">Example code</a>
<a href="bar.html">Grammar</a>

If desired, one can even make this easier to parse programmatically:

<a href="foo.html" class="ExampleCode">Hello world example</a>
<a href="bar.html" class="GrammarNotes">Grammar</a>

That allows for styling different types of links differently. Also, a wiki's backend software could extract separate indexes for sample code, grammar fragments, links to compiler source, etc. you could also easily include an attribute for, e.g. Click-through rate, and, if desired, style links accordingly.

In fact, the difference between a classical wiki and a graph database is, IMO, an implementation choice. If you want to process complex queries rapidly or a lot of your attributes aren't textual or aren't intended primarily for visual display, a graph database is more appropriate. If you want to serve standard web pages rapidly, storing the content as HTML may be more appropriate, even if that means that processing queries such as "give me all links to source code examples" run way more slowly.
There's a fourth possibility:

4. Companies increasingly occupy Extremistan, where a large portion of their financial performance comes from one-off, Black Swan events. Both the GAAP and non-GAAP numbers are true but useless; the future cash flows of the company depend upon unforeseeable events in the future.

The description that the article gives of the non-GAAP results supports this. Take, for example, a lawsuit against the company that results in a $5B judgment, payable out over many years to survivors of an environmental disaster. GAAP results include this lawsuit, non-GAAP results exclude it. Which more closely represents the future financial performance of the company, from the POV of a long-term value investor? Well, that depends whether there will be future lawsuits like this one. It depends whether the verdict will be reversed on appeal. It depends how many survivors survive.

The same goes for things like severance pay and patent lawsuits. Increasingly, it also applies to "normal" business, things like product introductions and the price of oil.

In Zero to One, Peter Thiel mentions (and decries) that an increasingly large portion of America is adopting an "indefinite" worldview, where the future cannot be known and it's futile to try to predict it. I'm not sure folks really understand the potential implications of this shift. Does "investing" have any meaning when the assumption is that returns will be dictated by large, random events? Does "meaning" have any meaning? What does it even mean to be rational, when reason is a tool we use to predict and our assumption is that events are unpredictable?
This is exactly what I was thinking. You do not see many comments from Tommy Tacticool on HN.
https://en.drivy.com/ is another "Like AirBnB, but for cars" I recently learnt about, which is available in some European countries. I like the idea, unlike AirBnB which eats up the rental market, there are too many cars not being used.
to be fair, I havent seen any underwater basket weaving robots
There's a sort of obvious 4th option: The non-GAAP numbers are fake and flattering and most of the investors know this but believe all other investors to be chumps and so everyone acts as if the non-GAAP numbers are true hoping others will buy in and let them cash out handsomely... thus beginning a game of chicken.
Tonight I'm going to read about pkgsrc and tomorrow give a try. It has active community last time I used it few years ago. Seems to have also binaries available at http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/
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