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Better Call Saul is about a low-level grifter from Chicago who slept on a pull-out in his office after working his way out of a mail room.

The Big Bang Theory has two characters who worked as waitresses. One a struggling actress, the other putting herself through school.

The Silicon Valley guys were broke. Jared lived in a shed.

Two of them are great shows, you should watch 'em!
actually the reason that defense R&D moved off campus was the proliferation of foreign students and faculty as well as a more socialist ideology among a large subset of the educational space.
I think this whole 'research' needs to be taken with a grain of salt. We can keep guessing at what they meant but answers would have to come from them (or other researchers).
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So unlike JIRA, it's not a general purpose ticketing system, and apparently of
little use to anybody not working on front-end. Hardly an alternative.
There's this thing called a reputation. If you suck at your job you get a bad one. A bad reputation gets you passed over for raises, promotions, jobs and other opportunities for career advancement.
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> Also, Scarmig's comment was quite valuable. It showed exactly what the driving effect is - that's precisely why you should do a back of the envelope calculation.

And the driving effect turned out to be a disputed premise that we already knew about from our directional, non-quantitative discussions. The quantitative side is just a meaningless overcomplication (the monte carlo part especially), especially when none of the parameters was empirically validated. You wouldn't value a company you were thinking about investing in that way.

A quantitative examination would be valuable if we agreed on the premises, or if we disagreed on conclusions but weren't sure where the disagreement on premises that was driving this was. Neither of these scenarios is the case for basic income. We know what the questions under dispute are; it's time for empirical experiments.
Sure - or alternatively, employers move to another country where wages are lower and employees complain less. China for instance. Think back: what is still entirely made in the US or the UK? What can we still produce without China? And why with free money down the streets would that all over a sudden change or improve? But it will change in a worse way when employees want better working conditions...
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As a degree carrying "historian" I'd offer to you that there are 2 factors.

1) The way wars are fought has dramatically changed since WW2. Study of late-20th century warfare cannot be contained to "bullets, battles and biographies." Rather warfare has become intelligence and technology based, with the 3 B's only coming to play in breif flare-ups. The actors managing the new tech and intel tools are part of the intelligence community, who's main tenant is secrecy, meaning figuring out the who, what and why is that much harder to uncover. Then once you do, you need to be computer and infosys literate to understand what happened and how. This turns off a lot of people who can't manage reconciling the skills needed for pre-1950 history with post-1950 history.

2) Social and geopolitical climate has changes since 1950. 3Bs warfare is no longer accepted in the international community. Russia's annexation of Crimea is so shocking because territory has rarely been taken by force since the end of WW2. So while the United States has invaded many nations recently, the territory was not annexed like it would have been in the past. On a national scale, academia --and the officer corps of modern military -- are no longer the exclusive playgrounds of the first and second sons, respectively, of the wealthy/aristocratic families of a nation.

TL;Dr New military history is dichotomous with old and academia is no longer dominated by people who have a vested interest in military history.
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This kind of research allows people to think working out for only a couple minutes is okay if you do it hard.

I think many people could easily train to do 5k and then 10k and get many benefits. Our very evolution came about from persistence hunting which means many people should have the genetics for endurance and far fewer for intensity (speed).
A basic income fails on the same point as increasing the minimum wage - neither provides much additional opportunity in life, both simply make being poor and disenfranchised more palatable.
If those jobs "aren't paid enough for people to afford to live" then India should be full of a billion rotting corpses. I was there last week and I feel like I would have noticed the apocalypse.

A much better solution than BI would be a guaranteed job and/or an expanded EITC. These solutions - while not sounding as cool and hipster as BI - have no labor disincentive and cost a lot less.
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Those people are neoliberals, not progressives.
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Given the distribution restrictions cited in the document's opening pages, its public dissemination seems questionably lawful at best, albeit fully in keeping with the activist nature of the FAS.
Why would you get bipartisan support for the FairTax?
Redesigning the tax structure to favour millionaires (massive net beneficiaries because their US consumption expenditure is usually a tiny fraction of their capital gains tax and/or income tax bills) over the middle classes (no matter how high the stipend is someone has to pay for the millionaires' tax cut) isn't exactly a popular proposal even on the right

That said, agree with your main point that making BI deductible from [mostly] retained existing benefit entitlements is the least messy way of introducing it, but it also makes it more politically difficult since it's paid for purely by tax increases.
I switched to a totally nonmetallic belt and they always have me take it off.

I also always get a patdown and hands run on the inside of my pants waistline. I think this is because I have long hair and the scanner operator punches the wrong button for sex.
> compelled to rewrite the database

is 'compel' a synonym for 'paid'?
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Wouldn't across-the-board efficiency gains look like across-the-board deflation? That is, wouldn't automation in and of itself cause hoarding? Why buy a TV this year if the one next year will be better and cheaper?

Also, hoarding would theoretically only be a problem for the middle and upper classes since the working classes can't afford to save. But the middle and upper classes already hoard, more or less, when they buy and hold real estate.

So what's the risk exactly?
Perhaps I don't understand the number portability system enough, but it sure sounds a bit like the DNS system (in that the number portability system is used to refer queries to specific phone numbers). If I'm right, isn't the DNS worked on by people who are not U.S. nationals? Ah well.
pjc50, a very good question. There are many 'comparison' sites out there. Some are government run (energize CT), some are energy brokers (chooseenergy) and others are bundlers (comcast energy rewards) and of course the two you called out.
All of these sites have one or more of these drawbacks:
1) you have to do the research and switching yourself. Given the best rates are on short term contracts this is every 3-6 months.
2) you are not getting the best deal as they are being funded by the supplier as fees or a spread above the true rate

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Actually I can't imagine anything closer to the "free market" utopia than a labor market with basic income.

The current market is not free because people are forced to offer their services if they don't want to starve. That's a huge distortion that you would remove with basic income.
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The "ideals" [...] "of making the web a cleaner place" by blocking ads except for advertisers who paid the blocker is, very dirty.

What seems to happen here is the "pay-for-everything-you-will-access" paradigm, and it is frightening.
The article rather misses the opportunity to tie things together by pointing out that Laurie Metcalf was _in_ Roseanne.
You're ignoring that $10k/yr is well below the poverty rate in the US. That's abysmally poor.

I'm sure you'd like the $10k/yr + working option better if rice and dog food don't sound like appealing staples.
I agree, i also prefer an optionated Framework like NG2 in this case and i love Typescript. After 10 years as a webdev react and it's ecosystem feels like a step back to me in terms of maintainability of the whole thing if you have a really complex project. For smaller stuff, React is usually fine though.
that is not true, I dont type my pin in every 2 days.

from what I read, the device has to be left in a locked state for 48h.
I've only watched the first ep of Silicon Valley and a few eps of Big Bang Theory, but...

Better Call Saul is about a poor lawyer who works out of the back of a nail salon. Not exactly rich. Yes, his brother is, but the show is about Saul.

Big Bang Theory is about guys that live in apartments, and they don't seem very rich to me. Maybe they're headed there, but they aren't there yet. I'll admit they don't lack for tech/nerd toys, though.

Silicon Valley starts with a guy in an "incubator" who is clearly struggling, and then hits it big. It at least starts about a guy without money.
So under UBI, if someone in San Francisco, NYC, DC, Seattle, etc. loses their job, they should move to rural Wisconsin?
Even when I was 12 I found the show unbearably low-brow and condescending.
So let's say he's assuming the real Satoshi will never come forward or otherwise be proved, so he's taking advantage of the vacuum. He gets lots of attention, and along with that attention comes more cash than he would ever have earned as an IT consultant. He couldn't care less whether the majority of people on Reddit and HN actually believe he is the real Satoshi.

When I asked "why would he do this?" it was a genuine question, and I think you've given some good answers.

So how did he manage to fool Gavin Andresen and Jon Matonis? Again, serious question.
I think we should actually lower the drinking age. It's currently 21 here. In fact, being 18 really gains you nothing here other than the ability to join the military and get into trouble with the law.

My main point is that a few years should go by after a child enters into the adult world before they have access to a fund left for them.

There's usually a short "reckless" period immediately after graduating high school and college. However, this usually calms down after the initial shock of having sudden freedom wears off.

I have two friends who inhereted $20,000+ sums of money from relatives when they were in their late teens, and both of them pissed it away in under a year. Looking back, both of them seem to regret it.

(Me and my friends are all around 25 years old).
Yes. The SS system is clever, but it required a lot of sleight of hand to get it into place -- but that approach has kept it alive for 80 years so far.

First, SS is universal rather than means tested in order to garner enough support to keep it in place. It's ridiculous that someone with millions in assets will receive a relatively small SS payment each month once they turn 70, but if the system had any decision making in it, it would eventually be gutted by those who "only want it to go to the deserving", with all the misty, hoop-jumping etc that you get with welfare assistance. Essentially money is wasted on the wealthy in order to make sure those who really need it get it.

Second: "they paid into the system" is deliberate propaganda. We all "pay into the system". Dollars are fungible -- one marked "social security" on your paystub is no different form the one marked "federal income tax" any more than the electrons in your GPU are the same as the ones in the CPU. And we are entitled to the benefits of air traffic control, food safety, schools etc. And in practice the SSN money does work that way: how do you think it's "invested"? It buys government bonds.

It's a cumbersome fiction, with rich kabuki elements (I myself appreciate the wasteful "statements" that some idiotic congressman decided should be sent to every recipient). Claiming you paid for it so you were entitled to it was a clever idea.

This crazy system arrived because the model people had was private pensions; many people didn't or couldn't invest in them so the Roosevelt administration developed "a pension fund for everyone" in the face of stiff opposition. It was very similar to the difficulty of implementing Obamacare: the whole ludicrous infrastructure was designed to bring insurance companies into the system rather than sit beside them. So SS is much more efficient than Obamacare because the opposition wasn't as effective back in the early 1930s.

This whole "you paid for it" scheme has other pathologies as well: the tax is regressive. The people who need it pay a higher proportion of their income than the people who don't. That's just cruel.
Shanacarp, Tom from Utiliz here, thanks for the feedback. To clarify we have zero exposure to energy fluctuations. We don’t hold any credit, counterparty or price hedging risk as the contract is still ultimately between the supplier and the consumer. We are operating as an authorized agent of the consumer. If a given supplier mis-hedges and goes insolvent, their customers’ incumbent will step in as the supplier of last resort. Those who are also our customers will continue to benefit from switching at the next good opportunity. Given this we only leave the upside in your feedback of driving market efficiency and revenue at scale. Happy to discuss further. Tom
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CEPL does not try to fix the underlying problem, but provide a decent way of working with it. The Varjo compiler seems already quite evolved and sure, it could be better. On the other hand, this seems to be a single-person project (http://techsnuffle.com/).

Equivalent types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSR9eXLXH-A

CEPL and Varjo updates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBHDdYayOkE&index=12&list=PL...
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I've been doing this every day for the last 4 or 5 days, after reading a article about the same study. Basically I sprint around my apartment as fast as possible, try to do clapping pushups as high as possible, do a few forward rolls, jump as high as possible and try to touch the ceiling, and then repeat for as long as I can. I'm having a lot of fun, and I think it's definitely better than nothing. I think it's might even be a good way to get back into shape, and could increase it to 2 minutes one day.
Yep. I used to use the Sybase SQL precompiler in OS/2 with Watcom C++. Nullable columns were a pain because you had to define a separate boolean variable to hold the null status for each one.
Debt is a good point, but I'm not sure it's the government's job to pay off all debts. If the original contracts are untenable, that seems to be the source of that problem.

As for hoarding, what's the argument? That people will make Scrooge McDuck bank vaults and take baths in their gold coins? People will still need to buy things eventually, right?
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That is mainly because "these days" 18 year olds are no longer empowered to make any relevant decisions. You propose to keep treating them like children for seven more years. The day they become 25 you'll say "My gosh, they're 25 now but they're STILL like children!".

It is my opinion that this huge collective distrust towards youth is one of the biggest hidden problems of today's society. If it was up to me, kids would get a basic income from the age of 14.
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That's an interesting take, and I guess with the kind of money at stake here, it's not unrealistic.
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That has nothing really to do with Internet sovereignty (whatever that means).

It has to do with some countries suck more, and some suck less.

Plenty of countries don't block anything. Like military aggression, child mortality, literacy rate, etc., that is one important data point about any country and its government.
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"orthogonal" means "at right angles" - or "statistically independent"

Perhaps what pbh101 means is whether you're good at your job or not is unrelated to whether you're blue-collared or not. With that interpretation, you and he are in agreement.
Where did I say that the poor invest (they do, in The West, eg in pensions, but we're talking generalities)? We're all clearly consumers. Rich people costume more than there share, they still have excess financial wealth to invest.

Redistributing this would allow poorer people opportunity to take part in investment which in turn should lead to more redistribution.

Tax increases for the rich in recession would (with a similarly naive analysis to the one you proffered) reduce the tax burden on the poor and allow then to become richer, increasing their consumption. Millions can buy a new TV instead of one person getting a yacht.
Remember also that people's wants are effectively unlimited in aggregate. If we could all have 100 foot yachts and spaceships and Ferraris we collectively in large majority would choose to have those things. You know, in the absence of any negative consequences for those actions.

A beef carcass might have 500 pounds of meat on it, but only 5-10lbs of that is tenderloin. If we all have enough money to buy tenderloin it doesn't immediately follow that cows are then made up of nothing but tenderloin. So the price of tenderloin will go up until the demand balances the supply again. You can take this and apply it nearly anywhere in the economy and find it'll be approximately correct for a great many situations.
1. Most likely the UBI would only go to legal permanent residents.

2. It's at least no worse than today for those people. Support groups will still exist. If you distribute money frequently (e.g. weekly) it might help a little in preventing catastrophic situations where people lose it all. My concern here is that the payday loan industry grows instead of shrinking (tough to predict these types of things).