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Actually, I see it every day in Japan. Elderly people, many of whom had distinguished careers, are up early in the morning to clean the streets——and believe me, this happens everywhere in Japan because there is no litter, no dead leaves, nothing. And you will see the same almost everywhere in Japan.

I met a retired Toyota engineer who was an expert in the hydrogen fuel-cell technology that is now in the Toyota Mirai. When I met him, he was volunteering his time to keep Atsuta shrine clean and feeding the local roosters, something he does whenever he feels like getting out of the house.

What I have learned in Japan is that if people feel like there is a chance of doing a good job together, it becomes a pleasure (not a chore or an imposition or an exploitation) to contribute. I believe this is universal, but Japan happens to have touched the magic ring (for the time being).
> That's because moral justification isn't at the center of our society. The market is.

The moral argument is that the market is more fair at setting prices because it is a more fundamentally democratic mechanism than price controls. That is, all of us together, compared to a handful of easily-lobbied people, are better at finding sensible prices.
In case of lambda calculus the equivalent condition is being able to evaluate arbitrarily large expressions. This sort of a Makefile-based evaluator could only do strings up to some hardcoded finite length.
The article does mention Vulkan:

Direct3D and the next generation of graphics APIs—Mantle, Metal, and Vulkan—clean up some of the mess by using a bytecode to ship shaders instead of raw source code. But pre-compiling shader programs to an IR doesn’t solve the fundamental problem: the interface between the CPU and GPU code is needlessly dynamic, so you can’t reason statically about the whole, heterogeneous program.
It's not true to say a stay-at-home parent isn't rewarded in an economic sense. They're rewarded by not having to pay a large fraction of their household income for child care.

It's a tenable line of argument to argue that the opportunity cost of child care - typically less than earnings foregone - isn't as high as the social benefit from taking care of one's own child, but I can't really think of a less efficient means than BI to try to redress that imbalance.
"The total amount of work hours decreased by only 13%."

https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...

Either way, whether it's 13% or 5%, it makes us all poorer.

The Namibia experiment is not remotely comparable. That was a) a transfer of wealth from outside the community into it (closer to imperialism than redistribution), b) poverty in Namibia is not remotely like poverty in the US, and c) a big chunk of the BI in Namibia was directed into investment.

The closest analogue of (c) in the US would be funneling money to rich people (who invest) rather than poor people (who consume).
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The haxe-language project 'hxsl' takes a pretty good stab at improving the situation. With hxsl you write your GPU and CPU code in the same language (haxe) and it generates shader strings (in GLSL or AGAL) at compiletime along with CPU code for whatever platform you're targeting.

There's not a lot of documentation around it at the moment but the author explains a little about it in this video https://youtu.be/-WeGME_T9Ew?t=31m49s

Source code on github https://github.com/ncannasse/heaps/tree/master/hxsl
I am yet to visit SD. I forgot some additional components in my "best place to live" formula. The place has to offer freedom and opportunities for artists. I am not sure if you can call it liberal or bohemian atmosphere, or that's too cliche. A person should be able to afford to live and be free to pursue "artistic exploration" in his life, or whatever it can be called. Prague and Berlin must be good in this regard, although I've heard Berlin is getting more expensive lately. SF has a good element of what I'm looking for, but I hear housing prices are driving people away. Is SD as active as SF or LA in terms of art exhibitions, museums, clubs, people gatherings?
At the very least I would recommend you allow it to work with a full RDBMS like MySQL/compatible or PostgreSQL. SQLite means you can't have online replication, which means you can't make it HA.
Another option to consider: Craig is being pressured to make this claim to flush out the real Satoshi.
Never been there, but photographs of Sydney and Melbourne I see are absolutely incredible. I wish it wasn't that far away though. It's funny to see a list of destinations and all the familiar places are ~ 20 hours flight.
Sure it does. A highly skilled working mother produces $X value per hour, and she can afford to spend $Y < $X on an hour of child care.

In contrast, the unskilled woman who might otherwise work in day care only produces $X value/hour.

By taking the unskilled woman out of the labor force, you've destroyed $Y - $X of value.
One thing that strikes me as a bit off is that there are a massive amount people that are "retired" but want to work. While I get that basic income is intended for a segment of the population that's able to work, seems like including a massive segment of the population that's already receiving basic income via social security AND wants to work would provide a lot of data for just the cost of measuring it; meaning the basic income is already covered.
Damn son, dial it back a bit.
You can divide people across class lines, religion, geography, political orientation etc. States are just one way but not the only one.
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"I don't see any moral justification for a software engineer earning more than someone collecting waste"

Garbage Disposal people earn over $100k. Software engineers earn about $80k. A job that can be outsourced or automated is not valuable.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/24/news/economy/trash-workers-h...
Funny thing happens when labor supply drops...prices for labor go up. In this case, the market would determine how much they'd need to go up by to get enough people doing things to meet demand. It may be more than many want to pay, but such is life.
The price of servants will go up, yes. And the price of prostitutes, too - nobody's thinking about that!
3 possible outcomes..
1. He pushes through his narrative. Gains exposure/cred he can parlay into more scams.

2. His narrative fails (happening) and eventually he is going to change course and says he was just trying to unmask the real satoshi.. bs of course, but sort of a cya move. 3. The real satoshi surfaces and denounces this fool.. thereby still giving him plenty of cred for causing satoshi to surface. THEre is no real major downside to any of these playouts. Attention whoring is an end goal itself. Fuck this guy.
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The government has interest in people investing in future growth (children), so it's subsidized. The alternative would be to tax childless people more heavily so they are always revenue-neutral with respect to retirement, health, and disability benefits.
You do realize that there are people less than eighteen years old who are parents ?
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Good point. I believe that SourceFabric's target audience is mostly in poorer countries and developing nations, where news organisations neither have the resources to build their own CMS, nor a more comprehensive workflow management system like this. They've been doing this for a good number of years, and I think are only daring this "big leap" after observing the needs of such organisations for quite a while.
Is 10% less work necessarily a bad thing? Couldn't this be supplemented with technology via automation?
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for some reason there are more comments on the newer submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11617002
Reducing the hours worked in the US by 13% would make us comparable to other civilized countries.
I imagine if TSA agents were required to randomly fly to another location during their shift, things would change.
The basic problem that makes universal basic income impossible is that it's simply not possibly to set the level of it. Have a try:

1. What should UBI be in San Francisco?
2. What should UBI be in Detroit?
3. Should they be the same?
4. What happens if they're not the same?
5. What happens if they're the same?
I understand that the article is mostly PR, but to demonstrate effectiveness of the filter, why not also present null hypothesis, where no A/C is activated in the car and/or a common car A/C filter.
I think the article is talking more about the difference from the current system.

> But by excluding 45 million retirees who already receive a basic income through Social Security, the cost falls to $2.7 trillion.

These retirees can be excluded from the calculation because they are already being paid, they wouldn't add any additional cost to the system.
I see two basic issues:

1. How do you implement this whithout border control - if you create a basic income that is higher than ~1/2 the world's income the amount of illegal immigration will be huge

2. Will we really have the will to tell people who are starving because they lost their stipend to drugs or gambling "too bad"?
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Based on what I read in the media (which means it's probably completely wrong) burning man seems like the most self-absorbed people doing self-absorbed things.

The photos in this article reinforce that impression.

So gross.
In what way does a centralized server prevent spam? You'll only receive messages after you've accepted the contact request, so the worst that can happen is contact request spam.
I'll have you know that money itself tends to disincentivise work for a lot of people. In this economy, monied relationships are too often wage slavery. People think that they can pay me to work on something I don't love. You are sitting here talking about people mowing your effing lawn. Are you kidding me? If you aren't gonna do that yourself, why in the dear beloved earth should you expect some stranger to do it except out of either good will or fear? Sure, you can get some deeply fearful stranger to sit in the same building day in and day out, doing your dishes and pouring you coffee, putting their own individuation on hold for your career, just to have basic economic security. But in the big picture, a whole world of people out of touch with what they love is bad for the planet itself.

Many people never get a chance to discover a passionate relationship with work. Collectively, when we kick the habit of forcing people into doing things out of fear (with money) means that a lot of people are gonna be feeling like fish out of water. Generations of slaves don't just jump out of their chains eager to get working again.
U-2 is notoriously hard to fly (at altitude the difference between optimal cruise speed, tearing the wings off or stalling is 12kn).

SR71 is horrifically expensive to fly and service plus it's engineering is complex (and the jigs don't exist anymore) and expensive to maintain (lots of fancy titanium parts) and the airframe hours are better spent on doing what the SR71A was built for.

The 'nice' thing with old planes is they are comparatively simpler to maintain and where often 'over' engineered by modern standards so are more forgiving.
Will universal basic income take into account relative cost of living per geographical area? If so, why isn't the same done with income tax. If no, why then is it really a universal basic income / all that useful?
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It only makes us poorer if the 13% work hour reduction is going to something less efficient than work, with regard to overall economic effectiveness.

With mincome didn't they determine that the work hours decreased was dominated by 1) young males entering the work force later due to increased high school completion rate and 2) females talking longer maternity leave?

If thats the case, then its possible that it made everyone richer if over the lifetime more educated workers and more cared for infants are more efficient.

*Note: I actually am a huge skeptic of basic income schemes as the math seems dramatic, but I think a simple "people work less hours" counterargument is overly simplistic.
1. $10,000. 2. $10,000 3. Yes. 4. They would be. 5. All of the proposed benefits of UBI.
My point was this: if you owned $220MM in anonymous cash, why would you attach your name to it? Now everyone will know when and where you liquidate, even if you don't liquidate the entire amount.
I think this what OpenACC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenACC) was created to do; its support is pretty iffy right now, though.
> I would like Basic Income to be a bit more than $10,000 per year, though.

Well, that's one of the major problems with this scheme: a whole lotta people will as well. In much the same way that we currently hear "I can't raise my family on minimum wage!" we will hear "I can't raise my family on my UBI!" Anyone who can't see how UBI increases will become a promise of every presidential hopeful hasn't been paying attention.

When the people realize they can vote themselves money... something something, I can't remember the rest.

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I also get a kick out of how people think welfare programs will be eliminated by UBI, and that's why it won't be so expensive to implement. So what happens when someone on UBI has their car break down or, as will often be the case, just flat-out doesn't budget properly and now they can't buy groceries? We're just going to let them starve? Of course not. There will be a safety net below the UBI.
I wonder if the real objective of this is to protect passengers from the hazardous fumes of damaged lithium-ion batteries? I'm not sure though if this could protect against those.
I am wondering how bad the disincentive to work really is. In the microcosm of my family home, our kids have their basic needs (and then some) met, they receive allowances, and yet they still seek ways to earn extra money. My expectation is that there are plenty of humans in our nation (let alone the world) who will have desires that will outstrip the about $10,000 of basic income. For anyone in business fretting on available labor, it seems the costs of wages, benefits, and maintaining a work environment suitable for human activity is a much bigger issue - which are mostly addressed by ever growing use of automation. There's already talk of $15/hr wages spurring on ever more automation at fast-food restaurants and retailers - and that $15/hr push being made largely because of the number of people who receive government assistance while holding down jobs (http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/04/13/get-a-job-most-wel...).

Anyway, per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome, this 5 year study has many qualifiers placed upon why the drop in labor, with the more interesting of these involving child care, education, and mental health: The results showed an impact on labor markets, with working hours dropping one percent for men, three percent for married women, and five percent for unmarried women. However, some have argued these drops may be artificially low because participants knew the guaranteed income was temporary. These decreases in hours worked may be seen as offset by the opportunity cost of more time for family and education. Mothers spent more time rearing newborns, and the educational impacts are regarded as a success. Students in these families showed higher test scores and lower dropout rates. There was also an increase in adults continuing education. ... Manitoban economist Evelyn Forget conducted an analysis of the program in 2009 which was published in 2011. She found that only new mothers and teenagers worked substantially less. Mothers with newborns stopped working because they wanted to stay at home longer with their babies, and teenagers worked less because they weren't under as much pressure to support their families, which resulted in more teenagers graduating. In addition, those who continued to work were given more opportunities to choose what type of work they did. Forget found that in the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 percent, with fewer incidents of work-related injuries, and fewer emergency room visits from accidents and injuries. Additionally, the period saw a reduction in rates of psychiatric hospitalization, and in the number of mental illness-related consultations with health professionals.
Interesting. I think it boils down to a freeman argument though - you're basically issuing refutation of your implicit social contract. While the sentiment therein is laudable it is somewhat premature. Though one has a great deal of independence in the cyber realm one is can still run afoul of limitations of the real world and her laws (as demonstrated today in Brazil).

I think cyberspace currently is best categorized as a distinct estate rather than realm in a similar vein to the press and the judiciary. Each functions with more or less autonomy but can occasionally be subjugated to the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Estate
I think you need to view state pensions and minimum income for pensioners into the numbers. You would also want to increase basic rate tax at least to the point where you'd reclaimed the money from anybody at or above the higher rate threshold.
There's absolutely nothing special in this case because WhatsApp happens to be operating on the internet. Suppose they were a mail order company based in Brazil but serving customers internationally by post. If a US judge issued a court order in the US requiring the company to hand over business records stored on paper in Barzil, he would have no jurisdiction whatsoever. Brazilian law protecting the privacy of information stored in Brazil would prevail. there would be no controversy about this.

The fact that WhatsApp's info is stored on servers rather than paper records is irrelevant. The jurisdiction in which the records reside applies. Although the fact that their servers don't even store the information requested anyway should be.
Which is why the default reaction shouldn't be offense
> But because of movies and TV, everyone "knows" that in the future we're supposed to have our technology unlocked by our fingerprints, so that's what drives people to buy and vendors to implement

I, for one, would love fingerprint unlock on my phone. And it's not for any crazy sci-fi expectation -- I just don't see any other method of unlocking my phone which could be as quick and convenient as that. Facial unlock is another possibility, but what concerns me about that is how easily someone could produce a picture of my face.
People's willingness to pay is not strictly positively correlated to their ability to pay. In many cases, such as rubinelli's example of increased mobility, an increase in ability to pay is marked by a decrease in willingness.

Overall, I'd argue that by increasing a person's ability to pay for anything you increase their ability to walk away from all kinds of bad deals. One of the best examples of this is given by Terry Pratchett:

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
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In the early 1970s, animal behaviorist John Calhoun built a "mouse utopia" to see what would happen if he created the perfect world for mice, with unlimited food, starting with four males and four females, that could reach a population of 2500.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z760XNy4VM

What happened next is absolutely astonishing. When the mice had nothing to do and nothing to work for, their society collapsed upon itself. Females stopped caring for their young. Betas began guarding the elite females, despite them not breeding with anyone. Fights broke out for no reason whatsoever. Mice stopped eating.

Their population peaked at 2200, and then died off extremely quickly.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1644264/

It was a big, fat, giant mess. And it's exactly what will happen to us if we don't have something to work and live for. Hell, it's already happening.

I don't think humanity survives with basic income as planned. We fall apart when we have nothing to do. We're no better than mice - we are still just animals with a larger hierarchy.

I'd rather see unproductive humans digging and re-filling holes in the ground than getting paid to do nothing. Or something like the biking experiment in Black Mirror.

Yet we need to do something as automation grows. Society is in for some serious decisions, and no country currently has the leadership to be able to tackle them.
Why is that ubi is considered the next big thing, while people on welfare are usually looked down upon? In the current (optimistic) horizon it might seem like a good idea, but a recession could easily spin this the wrong way imho. If you don't contribute by working and paying taxes on your income, there can be a problem when a stressed actor comes asking to justify your ubi. OTOH, if you do need to work either way, why not tweak the current distribution system and include ubi money in wages.
This article points out that military history used to dominate the field, but now is almost entirely absent from the top universities. But the article really doesn't make any progress explaining why. What's the conventional wisdom on this? (Politically neutral description preferred.)
This is a fact that I first learned in high school 45 years ago.