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You won't slap me in the face because you've got something to lose. A house, family, job, ..

Someone homeless hasn't!

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> unless you explicitly inflation index the benefit

You can be 100% sure that unless this is specified you'll have people lobbying for it every year. Or just flat rate increasing the UBI, etc. I can envision a strong push from some political groups for this already.

> if too many people drop out of the work force because the benefit level is too generous given the current level of productivity, it will accelerate inflation, reducing the real level of the benefit, leading more people back into the workforce.

This is a good point, but in this case, everyone essentially loses value from savings to pay the UBI. Definitely not a hit I'm interested in taking.
The pareto principle is everywhere. 90% of the productive activity will come from 10% of the people in a situation like that - if not more heavily slanted.

So is there a better way of finding that 10% and investing in them directly, without ridiculously wasteful organizations?? Do you force them to make ROI?

You are being downvoted because your real world experience violates the increasingly liberal tenets amongst HN readers lately. Free money for everyone means that I get to work on my killer app idea during the day, so free money for everyone is clearly a Good Thing(TM), right?
as does US GOV... https://www.wired.com/2015/04/researchers-uncover-method-det...
> You go on welfare.

If you have children, you may qualify for whatever your states implementation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Family (TANF) is -- which has a work requirement.

If not, your jurisdiction may have a "General Assistance" program, but these tend to be very small benefits, and often restricted in how long someone deemed "employable", whether or not they actually can find employment, can be on them (either in total, or within a given period; e.g., some jurisdictions have something like a 3-months in any 12-month period limit.)

> As much as people outside the US like to think it's some sort of heartless society, the US has a substantial safety net setup.

The US has an extraordinarily weak social safety net compared to most other developed countries.
There's a big difference between an economy and a currency.
race conditions

> Textbooks will tell you that if you always lock in the same order, you will never get this kind of deadlock. Practice will tell you that this approach doesn't scale: when I create a new lock, I don't understand enough of the kernel to figure out where in the 5000 lock hierarchy it will fit.

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-...
Microgrids are going to power the grid
Probably the best thing we can do for homelessness is to not see it as a problem of "others", but as a continuum with a self-sustaining end that anyone could end up at.
The ability to poke at hardware from the command prompt and easy integration of text or graphical user interface. The difference is between "my computer has a port" and "this external device has a port."
I think the idea is that a UBI would increase the cost of labor by removing some people and some motivations from the work force and thus forcing a higher level of competition between employers.

Increasing the cost of labor increases the incentive for automation to remove the need for the labor.
David Attenborough has a degree in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. No one in England would characterise him as an entertainer - he is well regarded both in front and behind the camera as a science communicator, and was responsible as the head of BBC2 for commissioning a vast range of science television programming.
I can help with this a bit.

The simulations are quite difficult - flow simulation is well-established, but it's a big step from that wind farms. You need to simulate many turbines interacting at a specific site, under a variety of conditions. That's not the problem with modeling single turbines, though.

Rotor design is hard to simulate productively for the same reason that Cringely's analysis is flawed: many of the biggest factors are unrelated to everyday running.

- Even blade counts create resonance patterns that stress your tower.

- High solidity designs suffer more stress in storms (even while stopped), so they break more

- Noise interferes with putting rotors near houses or over pastures

- Storage is difficult and consistency is valuable, so expanding the operating range up to high winds is less useful than expanding it down to low winds

And so on. If you model pure efficiency, the sims are pretty easy. If you model real value, you either can't do it, or you get a search space so jagged that finding maxima is hopeless.
Getting on welfare and Medicaid is not as simple as you seem to think nor is it quick. Also if you are a male without any kids in most states you are out of luck.
In case you're someone who usually sleeps pretty well, I would caution against talking poor quality of sleep too lightly. Forget the impact to your health, it can fuck up pretty much everything about your life, including your productivity (partly negating one of the reasons you'd be doing it in the first place).
Why can't I donate bitcoin
Depends on a bunch of factors. I've seen people who have reapplied and received it for years. I think the cutoff is 2 years under any circumstances. You have to prove that you're actually looking for a job to continue extending.
> Just because someone can spend Satoshi's bitcoin doesn't PROVE that they're Satoshi.

Unless that spender is Nick Szabo. At that point, it's no longer rational to entertain any lingering doubt. :)
To be fair, a couple answers there mentioned the Chi-squared approach, and a z-test could also be appropriate for testing a difference in proportions. I think your Bayesian approach would make the most sense for this kind of stuff, to examine the posterior especially. There's other things that could be done than what you mentioned too to assess a difference. I'm not convinced the parametric assumptions made by the standard tests mentioned (including difference in proportions, whether a z-test or Chi-square test) would hold up well for this kind of data, it would take further examination. I think a z-test or Chi-square test are a decent starting point, and could be fine to use if the assumptions made for those tests are met (to defend some of the Quora answers). The issue is often tests are used without folks either knowing how to check or ignoring the underlying assumptions, but that isn't an issue with the test itself I'd argue.
Last Matrix movie came out in 2003. First real Anonymous attacks occurred in 2008.
very cool, Phrack was one of my favorite publications along with 2600. I am really happy to see this. Also there was a writer for Phrack from a long time ago I used to be friends with IRL, does anyone know who I could contact to help find him?
I know it may not be too interesting or relevant but it would be nice to have similar configurations for common/popular enterprise tools/platforms such as F5, Cisco, Juniper etc.

I see so many badly configured systems as part of the day job that it certainly would be great to help start socializing good configs.

PS. even for something like Tomcat (which changes features on minor versions?!?), it's hard to find good configs. I have a whole bunch of notes on things like this and happy to share if someone wants to codify it.
+1. Would be an extremely useful addition !
"So you're saying that if something is "legal," even if it's unethical/unconstitutional"

That's what you're saying. Strawmaning is full-time profession in Snowden threads here. I've said consistently in my replies that the legal stuff is activities against foreign countries, within their operational mandate, and that Americans have accepted as morally right (or a necessary evil) for decades. Not unconstitutional stuff, not gross abuses, not anything like that. Just that they develop tools and capabilities to spy on foreign countries for America's interests. Aka, their job and one that's legally a state secret.

" Just because behavior is deemed legal, does not make it so."

It actually does. The whole concept of a legal system haha. However, I'm allowing for activism against abuses. It's why, as above, I'm talking about all the stuff he leaked that Americans were fine with and endorsed as legal. Even celebrated in "patriotic" films.

"Obviously the US government and the NSA believed that everything they were doing was on the up and up (and obviously this was not so.)"

Red herring important in other discussions about NSA's bullshiting legal team but not here. NSA's beliefs != the laws. Snowden, as a trained spy, knew it was legal for them to spy on foreign nations. That's what we're talking about.

"Do you think that Snowden should have hired an entire law firm"

Jesus. You're really grasping at straws and blowing up the hypotheticals. He claims to read each document at one point. No, all I expect is a simple question asked on each one: does it fall within their legal mandate or is it evidence of unconstitutional, deceptive activity against Americans in violation of the Constitution, their mandate and claims? That simple. Would've kept the leaks to just what America collectively would've had a problem with. Instead, the fool leaked all the legal stuff, too, giving right-wingers the excuse to dismiss him entirely as a traitor. Lots of lost votes for reform.

Also, leaking our foreign secrets to foreign media and trusting them to act in our interests... wtf. You don't need to be a lawyer to know that was treason.
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> But the idea that we should be castigating attorneys for taking advantage of legal loopholes that exist in their clients favor is utterly absurd. If you fail to take advantage of those loopholes you wind up getting sued for malpractice, plain and simple.

This seems worrisome to me. It looks like one of those cases where the system is set up so that we end up getting exactly what no one wants. Moloch[0] in other words. I don't have a solution (no one has a solution to Moloch), but it's worrisome.

[0]: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
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> As much as people outside the US like to think it's some sort of heartless society, the US has a substantial safety net setup.

This is not true whatsoever.
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"Dumping" is a mercantilist theory; other schools of economics view the same phenomenon as a gift or subsidy (for the recipient). Bastiat wrote a famous criticism of proponents of "anti-dumping".[1]

[1] http://bastiat.org/en/petition.html
He should have published it under a github organization called Setec Astronomy.
Oooh, good one! Do I have your permission to use it in the code review I'm going into in 30 minutes?
The second stage has a smaller ballistic coefficient than the first one, though. Their cross-sectional areas are the same, but an empty second stage has much less mass. If it could survive entry (and that's a big if), it's terminal velocity would be smaller.
If they don't need it, they don't need it, but I wonder if there would be any other way do the secure the rocket without requiring welders to board the barge. Coat the deck with solder and put heaters in the feet to attach? A robotic Roomba-style welder? Giant arms that rise up to clasp the rocket regardless of the exact landing position? Fun to think about...
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To make an implied reference explicit: "[Fermat's] famous Last Theorem was first discovered by his son in the margin in his father's copy of an edition of Diophantus, and included the statement that the margin was too small to include the proof."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat
Location: NYC (desired), Toronto (current)

Remote: NO

Willing to relocate: YES

Technologies: iOS, Objective-C

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Email: gwu@outlook.com

I am a senior in the University of Waterloo looking for a fall internship working on iOS in NYC. I have 5 previous internships including Yelp and Bloomberg. My expected graduation date is April 2017. I am a Canadian Citizen.
Any chance you might be able to expand on this? I don't dislike OneDrive, but I've started to run into more and more issues with various machines falling out of sync unless I restart the OneDrive service to force changes to be detected... Dropbox has the same issue on those machines, so I'm not really sure what 'causes it.
GiveDirectly's previous work involves finding the poorest communities in the world and targeting the poorest members with direct cash transfers. I was turned on to them a few years ago by GiveWell (unrelated), which attempts to evaluate charities based on cost effectiveness and capacity for more funds.

In addition to the GiveWell reports, GiveDirectly also document and publish their work and research. It's exciting to see the impact that they are having (and how minimal the systemic abuse of the money is):

https://givedirectly.org/research-at-give-directly

https://givedirectly.org/research-on-cash-transfers
Not at all, just that people read these stories and form bad opinions from them.
A cautionary tale of what this can lead to:

My brother's startup wasn't bring in much money and there was always the near promise it would. He went through all his savings and retirement funds and went close to $100k into CC debt. This was a swing of +$1m to -$70k. Yes, he had a problem (unacknowledged, btw) that was more dire than yours. Just be aware that this stuff can get out of control, if you let it.

After getting to the -$70k state, he asked me and my parents for money to continue. We all refused because we knew that our money would be like the $1m+ he had already gone through. We told him to get a job. He refused. He couch surfed for a while. After 6+ months doing that he realized, because his family had abandoned him, he would have to get a job. He did ($155k/yr). He started a month ago. He's angry at the family and won't talk with us now. Ironically, he admitted that he wouldn't have the job now, which he needs, if we had given him money last year. However, that doesn't matter. He still maintains he did the right thing and we didn't support him.

It's been a sad year for my parents and me. Actually, sad few years, since we all saw this coming (and tried to prevent it, but he only got angry at us for being "negative").

It was personally hard for me to let him go right to the brink of being on the street. I did it because giving him money would have drained my resources, and for no reason. His reality distortion field was so strong, he would not listen to anyone.
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What you're missing in your arguments against rent control is that rent control protects socioeconomic diversity. Without rent control, fair market value may force people who are not high earners out, displaced by a more homogeneous population of highly-educated and high-earning people. This is not an unalloyed good.

One of the primary goals of rent control is to ensure a mixed-income population in highly-desirable urban centers, and in many cases it is precisely rich socio-economic diversity that many (not all, but many) people find attractive.

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Huh. Never lived in Ann Arbor or Detroit, just visited/had friends and family who lived there. My impression of Ann Arbor is that it's a college town where the population is relatively insulated from the surrounding community, unlike Boston where the colleges are heavily connected to local industry and so on. Everyone I've known from Detroit is an activist of some kind, so I probably have a biased sample set. But based on that I'd say "no", whereas I would definitely lump Cambridge in with Boston or Berkeley/Oakland in with SF.
I wish more people added a comments section to the documentation of their software projects.
Accessing data with permissions towards access only going to specific, pre-determined parties. Brings blockchain in line with the current data control paradigm by doing so.
It's true that when you write code, that code can have bugs. When I write file system code and I have a bug, we call it "data loss". When I write user interface code and I have a bug, we call it "not user friendly". And when I write code that uses locks and it has a bug we call it a "race condition". Just because you can give it a name doesn't mean it's bad. Just because a programming idiom can be misused doesn't mean it's bad. All programming idioms can be misused!

WebKit's lock hierarchies don't involve 5000 locks. We try to do as little work as possible while holding a lock, and that usually means that we don't hold more than one lock at a time. It's true that when you hold multiple locks at a time, it can get confusing. So, don't do that!
I am so happy to see this today. I've missed this style of writing and publication in today's noise of mostly self promoting blog posts pretending to be informational. Hopefully they keep up with the paperfeed and continue to release issues.

Mirrored for anyone behind a corp firewall that might block phrack.org: http://paste.click/s/amfVqd
I wish MSFT would get their shit together on their "cloud drive" offering. First it was...I don't recall, what was the product they bought? Anyway, that turned into Live Drive or something, which was in parallel for a short bit with Sky Drive. So which one do I use? Which one will win the internal power squabble? Oh, okay, OneDrive won out (what?), here's your 15Gb, umm, make that 5Gb. (EDIT: just looked on wikipedia to try and find the name of the company/product they bought. Could find it, but found the list of prior names: "OneDrive (previously SkyDrive, Windows Live SkyDrive, and Windows Live Folders)". Five different names?)

Gawd, I'm supposed to trust this with family photos? I happily pay Apple for iCloud. The only change I've seen them make is to increase storage for the same amount of money. I pay you, you give me the product we originally agreed to. So far Apple has held up their end of the bargain. Pick your own provider if you don't like Apple. Dropbox works just fine, host your own with OwnCloud, hell, put it on your Synology NAS with DS Cloud (which I highly recommend). Just don't use the MSFT product.
>with capacity to produce 35 gigawatt-hours of battery cells and 50 gigawatt-hours of battery packs per year.

Edit: this post was a misunderstanding of the sentence. It's actually 35 GWh cells produced there, which are assembled, together with 15 GWh of external cells, into 50GWh of full battery packs.

Whoa I thought total capacity was only 35 GWh per year, not 85 GWh/year.

Massive amounts lithium ion batteries are even more feasible than I thought!
> What, people are going to stop wanting luxuries?

Not sure about you, but most of the luxuries I own, I've basically only bought because I had money for them. If I didn't have money to blow on them, they really don't bring me that much joy, relatively basic items would suffice.

So many things I think of as the real luxuries these days are free or basically free. I can spend hours watching youtube or playing games for extremely little cost.

I would not exert extra effort to buy better phone or a 4k monitor and a 980ti instead of settling for a weaker setup. Instead I only have these things because the money was there already and I had nothing better to do with it.

Basically, I'd drop out of the workforce in a heartbeat if I could afford living and a few minimal luxuries. $15-20k/year would do the job to split a cheap apartment with a friend and keep the rest under control. This is half of what some people have proposed as a UBI.
I guess i'm not a programmer/coder/developer, these 10 things don't apply to me.

Another Medium article completely lacking substance with a bold title, imagine that...
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We need to offer free camping in federal, state, and county parks to citizens? We have a catastrophe that's just going to get worse. It is homelessness.

We need to allow homeless to sleep in their vechicles, if said parking allows overnight parking.

We need to build Kibbutz's. (Or just give them a field to pitch a tent? A outhouse? Anything?

We need to stop making homelessness a crime. Every homeless person I know is camping illegially. They get tickets. They can't pay tickets. Tickets turn into felonies. It's just wrong.

If Jesus appeared, he would be ticketed for a multitude of municipal/criminal violations in a matter of days?
Yeah, I don't think you deserve downvotes either. Your skepticism is perfectly reasonable, and you explained it well.

I've never been to Kenya, but I have spent a lot of time in countries with roughly similar levels of development. I'm skeptical too. But I would love to be wrong. And I think it is awesome to run this experiment.

The reason that I'm a little skeptical is that a lot of the big obstacles to entrepreneurship and investing in long-term social improvements come from big structural challenges that having more money in your pocket doesn't necessarily fix. For example, government corruption, lack of a good justice system to enforce contracts, lack of physical infrastructure to allow people and goods and people to move around the country, lack of access to banking resources. Those problems kind of need to be tackled at a higher level, and giving random individuals either money or goods doesn't really solve them. UBI seems like it could be much more effective in countries that don't face as many of those structural problems.
I don't think this is a strong driver. GE 1.5 MW turbines only have a relatively small space near the base of the tower that is consumed by power electronics and control systems.

Siemens has largely gone to a system where everything is in the nacelle. This way it makes it easier to completely test and connect the power electronics and control, since more of the work is done at the factory instead of in the field. Labor and equipment is much more expensive in the field than in the factory.
I was referring to the question I was answering, which was getting greyed out. My bad, it was ambiguous and I should have tried to that clearer.
There is a 40% chance that you updated the code to the newest version.

Quantum ops you are never sure.
Different states have different time frames and may have conditions on those.

I was laid off a while back. Because I got a severance package comparable to 1.5 months salary, I couldn't get unemployment assistance for 1.5 months plus 4 weeks - even then I had to document that I had applied to a minimum of 3 jobs a week from the day I was laid off.
I am really only approaching this as an investor so take this in that context.

My point was, it's not really a question of how much can be produced, but at what price you can produce it. Right now the market is paying ~6,000$ per tonne which has been fairly steady if slowly growing over time. With battery's making up about ~1/3 of the market. At say ~12,000$ per tonne production could double in well under 5 years.

So, as long as Tesla is happy to pay 12k/tonne they can get more or less as much lithium as they could ever want. More importantly the price need not spike anywhere near that much as long as demand is predictable. In 5 years the price for most commodities is often more or less a function of the delta between expected demand and actual demand.

If you can get into production at say 4k/ tonne it's no question the market is growing so at the price is unlikely to crash any time soon. At ~6k/tonne cost cutting is going to be really important fairly quickly, but it's a reasonable investment. At 7+k/tonne it's a huge risk which is only worth it IMO if you can line up a long term contract at a fixed and profitable price or if you can tightly control costs and only ramp up in case demand spikes (ex: your mining something else, but you could also exact lithium from your tailing).
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