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Regarding inflation... if everyone instantly has $X now, doesn't $X become worthless?

For instance, why would landlords not raise rents knowing that everyone now has this cash?
Likely causation. Try rather adding 10-15s a day to the duration of your cold shower. Some research shows cold showers after 2-2.5 minutes aren't giving you any benefits and over 10 minutes are outright dangerous (unless you are a pro-athlete in recovery).

Even if you do it for longer time, you can still catch horrible cold - I got deep sinusitis knocking me out for a month and am still have some mild symptoms (it was a combination of a bacterial infection, another virus and cold showers prior to catching it). Be careful!
A typical assumption behind NoScript and similar blocking browser extensions is that it is executable code that is responsible for most of the bugs in the browser so disabling those reduces the attack surface. But with the complexity of modern CSS this is no longer a priory true. It could be that blocking CSS while allowing JS to execute minimize the attack more that the other way around.
>funneled resources toward consumption (since rich people invest, poor people consume, and we've shifted resources from rich to poor) //

That's a natty turn of phrase but I'm calling bullshit.

Rich people invest with the excess financial wealth they have after they've consumed hugely more than a poor person.

Give me more money and I can afford to eat better (reduced healthcare burden), can repair my house (reducing total resources needed over the lifetime of the building; and again there are health implications). Give that money to someone rich and yes, they will invest - sucking more value away from the populous without producing more value - but they'll also do things like buying a private jet which consumes/pollutes hugely and wastes resources.

Perhaps some of the wealthy won't be able to have private islands and maintain their more liquid assets, for shame.

Why not cooperatives and micro-investment? Why does a rich capitalist have to be the investor and suck all the value from the system?
I think you're both saying something similar, but there's a "why" in there to connect:

> Younger engineers are ignoring lessons learned

Why ignoring them? Beyond the 'youth' factor directly, the signaling from the larger companies mentioned (google, etc) is that those lessons don't necessarily matter, and... look, google did XYZ, you can too (ignoring that they threw potentially 3-5x as many people at problem XYZ than you even have, much less justify).

Maybe neither of you meant that, but that was the connection I just saw between your two comments.
"they openly talk about it"

Neither the SNP (by far the most powerful political party in Scotland) or the Conservatives (who look likely to be the 2nd most powerful party) are advocating tax rises.

Of course, there are people advocating tax rises - Labour, Lib Dems and the Socialists - but they are, of course, quite free to do this and the public will no doubt be just as free to not to vote for them.
I'm pretty sure that animal behaviour doesn't necessarily map perfectly onto human behaviour.
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No, Americans fetishize work.

If the work is so valuable and necessary, compensation should then reflect a price that incentivizes people who are no longer completely desperate for food, housing or healthcare because of a Basic Income.

I speculate that a BI would bring compensation closer to labor's real value, rather than the stagnant wages we see now because people have no other recourse to negotiate higher pay. The elimination an underclass that absolutely needs exploitive work to survive would drive pay higher as well.
10k? That's almost the average income (or more, depending on how you count taxes) of the Czech Republic. If I had to choose between living in a 2nd world country and working and living in a 1st world country and not working for the same money, guess which I'd choose?
I do like CEPL, but feel compelled to point out that it creates GLSL strings from its shader microlanguage.
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> we have $3.2trillion left to find.

Bear in mind that the current US budget is $3.8 trillion dollars. So even in this best case scenario we have to nearly double our budget. There just isn't enough income to make this work.
I remember growing up as a lower-middle class midwestern kid, Roseanne was a show I loved, because I identified with it so much. Dan and Roseanne were my parents, and my friends were just like Darlene and Becky.

Another similar show from that era is "Grace Under Fire".

As a 35-yo upper-middle class guy still in the midwest, I look at what's on TV (both broadcast and Netflix/Amazon/etc.) and see none of that representation of middle class America. Besides "The Middle", which I still identify with, there are no successful middle-class sitcoms on TV.
> What's going on? It looks like that 1300's little folk was better off than we are

Not really. Your standard of living went up by a lot. The apartment you have today has air-conditioning, electricity, refrigerator, internet access, cable, indoor plumbing, R-30 insulation, etc. Then you have all your neighborhood/government amenities that you didn't have in the 1300's...

And you can buy houses in plenty of US cities for the price of 2 year's salary.
I was thinking in the direction of a limited in the UK, having read that this is the easiest way. Do you have an opinion on that?

I'm a german living in France, the tax situation is already difficult enough, but yeah – I also think it is a good idea to separate any project income and costs from my personal finances
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You will not be able to do this with CSS animations. Example of how this is done with Ember liquid fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq_BcIFM8Rc
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Same goes for browserify. You can have lots of tiny modules and (watchify especially) is fast to re-build. And yeah perf of 'require' statements at run-time is a non-issue.
Housing is more expensive (relative to other goods) now than in 1300 because the population is so much larger. The population of England in 1300 was something like 1/15 of what it is now. Denser population means land costs more -- that's just supply and demand.

Most other things are cheaper than in 1300. Many other things simply didn't exist in 1300.

You mention Louis XIV (who by the way was ~400 years after the time we're talking about). Was he poor? Obviously not. But for much of his life he suffered from health problems that we could probably treat effectively now; only one of his (legitimate) children lived past infancy, whereas now death in infancy is very rare. Medical care of the sort we now take for granted was not available at any price in the time of Louis XIV, let alone in 1300.

Also not available at any price in 1300: Central heating. Running water. Transport faster than, say, 20mph over long distances. Any sort of near-instantaneous long-distance communication.

Do you like books? You can have, for a sum of money a typical professional can easily afford over a few years, a private library better than anyone had in 1300. Do you like music? You can have, for a sum of money a typical professional can easily afford over a few years, hundreds of first-rate professional performances at your fingertips. Do you like fine food? You can have, at prices a typical professional will pay without a moment's thought, ingredients from all over the world that weren't even heard of in 14th-century York. Do you like to play games? You can have a chess grandmaster in your pocket, or buy a thing that fits over your head and creates a very convincing illusion of actually being in a world that doesn't even exist.

Yes, housing is terribly expensive right now. Yes, that's a big problem, it makes a lot of people's lives much worse than they ought to be, and it's easy to imagine ways it could do a lot more damage in the future. But that's pretty much the only thing that's much more expensive now than in 1300, and there are sooooo many things that are much cheaper and/or more available now.
Doctors and lawyers as a class influence government just fine. If you think there are individual people impacting a dysfunctional government, I suspect you'd be surprised.
Land value tax. Basic income will raise rents. Tax land not labour.

http://www.landvaluetax.org/what-is-lvt/
I'm into my second year of extreme Scottish showers -- first 5 minutes as hot as I can stand (and keep turning it up as I get used to the temp) ... last 5 minutes as cold as it goes. I expect there are legitimate physical health benefits; however, for me, the main benefit is the challenge & discipline of it, of stepping out of the shower thinking that the hardest thing I'll do today may already be behind me.
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Yes, they're both on to-explore list. :-)
Not sure what is that, but I guess it's okay for a male dominated forum to disrespect females and still think that no one should complain about it.
You have been arguing against basic income for years now, and with some really good points[1], but I think you consistently miss the main attraction of the idea to the HN crowd.

Many here believe that if people weren't forced to work for income, they would be doing things that are more valuable but also more difficult to monetize (at least initially but perhaps generally), like open source development. There is an underlying belief that vast creative talents are untapped or wasted because of the need to work for money. It's the intellectual's dream lifestyle. One that used to be possible for writers and academics.

Other reasons are largely an afterthought. That's why basic job for example is not a convincing counterargument despite the numbers. This is not really about helping the poor, that would be an auxiliary benefit at best.

[1] https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/basic_income_vs_basi...
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Thanks!

My current response for that feature request (you are not alone with that wish) is to customise a recommendation with the arrow buttons at the side of each component box. It's mainly an UI problem – I don't see how to do it properly.
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Good point and interesting study. I do think people are different because of art and education, but I can imagine how it could lead to the feeling of meaninglessness.
Do mice have a concept of leisure? Exploration for its own sake? Cultural enrichment? Scientific endeavour?

Also, in that experiment isn't there a complete excess of resources? We certainly don't have that, opulence would still be expensive and out of reach of a BI.
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The real question is whether or not it'll pull a fart out of the air before the other passengers smell it...
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So? They will get the money when they are 18, the rules work the same way for everyone.
Think about all the automation improvements blocked by unions. With UBI you'd likely have much less of that.
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I find that rather difficult to believe. e.g. If you consider the heart-rate. 1 minute of say 180bpm just isn't going to equal 45 minutes of 150bpm. I'm sure it does scale to some extent but not that dramatically...
Of course it's not perfect. But when something we're proposing has once resulted in total catastrophe (complete end of civilization), it's worth researching a hell of a lot more.

This is why I feel any democracy is eventually doomed to fail. People will vote themselves more and more free stuff, but "free stuff" ultimately defeats the will of the human spirit.

It's worth researching more, but everybody just seems to focus on the economic impact and not the social one. If you think this will end crime, then I have a bridge to sell to you.
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For real frugality, I'd like to see much more innovation supporting non-collocated teams. The advantages are huge for everyone to work from home: no offices, no commute, recruit from anywhere without relocation. Instant messaging isn't enough. 10 years ago we had always on video phones and such. What is state of the art today?
Aren't you missing a variable for the cost the unskilled woman pays to have someone watch her children while she's being paid to watch the skilled woman's children?
To paraphrase that XKCD comic, "14 benefit programs?! Ridiculous! We need to create one universal benefit program that covers everyone! Now you have 15 programs."

I get the sense that liberals and conservatives have wildly different conceptions of what a Basic Income would mean in practice.

Conservatives and libertarians may like the idea of giving a single no-strings-attached check every month to everyone and anyone and sending them on their way. Liberals I imagine expect a basic income will be enough to guarantee food, clothing and housing and perhaps some means of allocating portions to those categories, which is more or less what we have now.
I spent a lot of time making toy engines with XNA and carried much of its lessons to my toy engines in C++.

If your asset can be built, then your asset should be built. Content pipelines.

> Shaders are Strings

If you're using Vulkan, compile your shaders to SPIR-V alongside your project. If you're using OpenGL you're mostly out of luck - but there's still no reason to inline the shaders even with the most rudimentary content manager. Possibly do a syntax pass while building your project.

> Stringly Typed Binding Boilerplate

If you build your assets first then you can generate the boilerplate code with strong bindings (grabbing positions etc. in the ctor, publicly exposed getters/setters). I prototyped this in XNA but never really made a full solution.

Graphics APIs are zero-assumption APIs - they don't care how you retrieve assets. Either write a framework or use an opinionated off-the-shelf engine. Keeping it this abstract allows for any sort of imaginable scenario. For example: in my XNA prototype, the effects (shaders) were deeply aware of my camera system. In the presence of strong bindings I wouldn't have been able to do that.

Changing the way that the APIs work (to something not heterogeneous) would require Khronos, Microsoft and Apple to define the interaction interface for every single language that can currently use those APIs.

It's loosely defined like this for a reason - these are low-level APIs. It's up to you to make a stronger binding for your language.
There is actually a sound argument behind it, regardless if you agree with it or believe in it.

Let's pretend that god exists and the bible is true. Under that assumption god wants humans to have faith and _choose_ to follow him/her/it, colloquially "if you love someone set them free". If god presents irrefutible evidence to his/her/its existence there would be no room left for choice/faith.

Regardless of your view on the rationality of that, it is part of the true/false teachings of that particular denomination, and within those set parameters I think the logic checks out.
Huh? There wasn't anything remotely middle class about Dan and Roseanne in my memory. They were proudly working class.

To me middle class means university educated, professional, two foreign holidays a year.
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WhatsApp have said they don't store the messages anyway, whether they were sent in plain text or not.

Also any such records would be stored on servers in the US, not Brazil, so would be subject to US law. The Brazillian judge should be entering a request with the US DOJ but is either too much of an idiot or too busy doing political grandstanding with stupid futile gestures like this.
I guess I can't blame them for excluding the PIGS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIGS_(economics)) when thinking about Europe.
Hey, a joke on HN ;)

Of course not. It's a nod to the discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11615639, from their reference to the idea to get a startup to ramen-profatibility fast I got the idea to ask here.
I see a lot of complaints about toy app size/complexity. There's definitely a judgement call to makes about app complexity when someone starts a project with a framework. I inevitably find that development in the middle/end of the project is substantially easier when using a good setup like React/Redux/etc or Angular, and changes are easier to make, whereas vanilla development is (relatively) substantially easier at the beginning of a project.

Yeah, Hello World might be expensive in size, but when you've got a substantially complex and fast app for not much more size, you start to feel the real benefits.
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It looks like both of these require changes to the application. Dapper appears to have the same issue.

My use case is for understanding a closed source application which has a number of separate pieces. Since I don't have the source code, these don't look like viable options.
I take your point, but if we remove the requirement for jobs to be present, a much larger range of locations become reasonable to live in. A broader range of acceptable locations spread amongst the same population is clearly likely to decrease overall competition for a given property.
According to the article "Nationwide, the annual salary for a garbage truck driver is $40,000"
Seems to me like there are two possible scenarios here:

1. Craig Wright is telling the truth, but has released a bad proof to misdirect everyone into believing he is not Satoshi. Maybe he's just having a laugh.

2. Craig Wright is lying.

Even if he's not Satoshi, he seems smart enough to know he wouldn't get away with releasing shoddy proofs. Perhaps he thought the mainstream media would say "Craig Wright invented Bitcoin" and anyone that disagreed would be called a conspiracy nut.

Perhaps this was a kind of pump-and-dump where he expected the price to change significantly and make a killing out of doing it. He doesn't care what people think of him if he's just made $20 million. Could it have anything to do with his ongoing legal troubles with the tax authorities in Australia?

At this stage, I'm seeing plenty of people saying "Here's why Craig Wright isn't Satoshi" and that's interesting and useful. But I haven't seen anyone establish why Craig Wright would be lying.

Also, it's interesting that "The Real Satoshi" has not posted something saying he's not Craig Wright, as we have seen with previous "exposés".
Prices would be much higher here. I imagine your $10k goes much further in Czech
How is it any better than Trac or Mantis?
A counter would be that when wage costs go up prices go up as well, right?

FWIW I'm in favor of a UBI to replace almost all other assistance programs.
> a complete excess of resources? We certainly don't have that

You seen the obesity rates in America?

The people who truly enjoy "Exploration", "Cultural enrichment", and "Scientific endeavor" are not those that I'm worried about in this world. Most of the world does not operate like that, nor do they use (or even understand!) such phrases.
Is it fair to say they're being paid if they paid into the system paying them for their entire working lives? Can someone please explain why people call Social Security an entitlement? Am I missing something?
One can always postulate hard to measure second order effects, such as the ones the Mincome study claims (note that it doesn't actually quantify them, but merely hints as to their direction).

However, it's a bit strange to expect that all the second order effects will happen to point in the direction of our preferred policy. The only quantified effect here - labor force disincentive - has been measured and agrees 100% with economic theory. It also agrees with other related (but not identical) results, namely that welfare/unemployment also has a huge labor force disincentive.

Why are we appealing to unquantified second order effects when the first order effects are measured and shown to be large, shown to be in 100% agreement with basic economic theory, and viewed by many proponents of BI as a desired feature [1]?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11619712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11619690 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11619691
There is something else to consider too: The political party that brings this in will likely be in power for a really long time!

Think about the consequences: Even if it was proven financial suicide for the country (Governments can always print more money I suppose and let the next generation deal with the fallout), what political party would have a manifesto abolishing or reducing it? It would be political suicide.
"And it's exactly something that will happen to us..."

There's nothing in your mouse anecdote which justifes this conclusion. Humans are, as I'm sure you're well aware, quite different from mice.
This is a difference between British and American English. In the UK, "middle class" basically means rich. In the US, it means that maybe you own a house.
> labor supply dropped by about 10%

Isn't this the exact effect you would want, if you are instituting basic income partly as a response to structural unemployment as a result of automation?

> fewer working mothers can find child care, fewer laborers to mow your lawn, fewer nurses, fewer teachers, etc.

Maybe these jobs start paying more. How is that bad? With basic income, more mothers would be able to stay home with their kids, more people would care for their own homes, and the nurses and teachers we need would see bigger paychecks.

Net, I don't see how society is worse off under that arrangement. It sounds a lot like how life was in this country before huge income disparities made hiring servants normal for people with means.

> It's not just wealthier people who will be worse off - it's everyone.

You assert this, but your comment doesn't successfully back up your assertion.
> no offices

Don't forget that, in working from home, you do want to have an office; its just a home office. For a lot of people, that means paying more for a home with an office room. Overall, working from home doesn't save money, it saves time (which is, at least to me, worth more than the extra money is costs to work from home).
Can see it now. Pop out more children, get more money. This incentives baby making. Which might actually be a good thing in countries with declining birth rates.
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There are many jobs that will need to considerably change - and I think that's a good thing in the end. For example no more restaurant staff working for tips, at crazy hours, without proper days off. That's one I'm familiar with (in the UK though) - these people work in absurd conditions and are so used to it they don't even realise because there's 10 other people lining up to take their position. Your restaurant steak will get more expensive, and it really should.

If someone's doing an effectively-below-minimum-pay job at 30, I hope they just quit if universal basic income is introduced.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589373