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I am sorry for you, you are just thinking along stereotypes here. That's way of thinking says much more about you than it doesn't say about reality...

> No amount of calling bullshit is going to change the fact that Spain and Italy are mired by corruption scandals.

Germany, for example, in the last years has been known for VW, Deutsche Bank and Siemens scandals, showing links between corrupt business and political power. BER international airport is another example, and there are countless of other examples. And those were huge examples of corruption. Corruption is a systemic problem, and thinking that in central Europe there is no corruption is just a very dangerous mindset.

> "to hell with everyone else as long as I have plenty to eat, guzzle, and screw".

...

> The results speak for themselves. For instance, what is the unemployment rate in Spain, especially among the younger generation? Why?

The reasons are complex, Spain no more than 10 years ago showed fantastic grow rates, very low public debt, very low unemployment. Essentializing the problems of Spain as a problem of "mentality" just shows ignorance.
A mercurial cheat-sheet would be an excellent addition to this.
A lot of Craig Wright's presence on the Internet - wikipedia, linkedin, etc. is full of ego-inflating hyperbole. To go to these lengths though, for the sake of publicity (or notoriety) is pretty incredible.
> Doesn't Turing completeness require the ability to modify an arbitrary amount of memory?

Why would it? Lambda calculus is nothing about modifying anything.

And GNU make (though with GNU extensions) is certainly Turing-complete: https://github.com/shinh/makelisp
One thing to consider is that basic income increases mobility. Without the pressure to stay in large centers, where most jobs are concentrated, people can migrate to lower-cost areas.
what if he is actually satoshi but used this as an obvious error to put people off the scent :)
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OpenCL was moving to LLVM IR away from programs-as-source-code-strings at some point. Still, you ought to have a JIT step if you want to be able to ship the same binary to multiple systems with GPUs not compatible at the binary level. And BTW shipping LLVM IR on the CPU would make things better in terms of supporting CPUs with incompatible ISAs... whether that ever overtakes native binaries is a question (it did to an extent, of course, with the JVM and what-not.) Of course you could move the JIT off the client device completely and do it at the App Store - prepare a bunch of binaries for all the devices out there - but still, the developers will have shipped IR.

Once you get to shipping IR instead of strings, which is nice I guess in that it should make initialization somewhat faster and the GPU drivers somewhat smaller, I'm not sure what you're going to get from being able to treat a CPU/GPU program as a single whole. Typically the stuff running on the GPU or any other sort of accelerator does not call back into the CPU - these are "leaf functions", optimized as a separate program, pretty much. I guess it'd be nice to be able to optimize a given call to such a function automatically ("here the CPU passes a constant so let's constant-fold all this stuff over here.") The same effect can be achieved today by creating a GPU wrapper code passing the constants and having the CPU call that, avoiding this doesn't sound like a huge deal. Other than that, what big improvement opportunities am I missing due to the CPU compiler not caring what the GPU compiler is doing and what code the GPU is running?

(Not a rhetorical question, I expect to be missing something; I work on accelerator design but I haven't ever thought very deeply about an integrated CPU+accelerator compiler, except for a high-level language producing code for both the CPU and some accelerators - but this is a different situation, and there you don't care what say OpenGL or OpenCL do, you generate both and you're the compiler and you use whatever opportunities for program analysis that your higher level language gives you. Here I think the point was that we miss opportunities due to not having a single compiler analyzing our C/C++ CPU code and our shader/OpenCL/... code as a single whole - it's this area where I don't see a lot of missed opportunities and asking where I'm wrong.)
Young fool, only now, at the end, do you understand... code is data.

CEPL demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4GfOUWEuA&list=PL2VAYZE_4w...

I get it, there are many good reasons to stick to C++ if you want to ship a game today.
Even in modern times, only suckers pay retail. That has ever been true, and ever will. Price in economic terms is whatever is paid. The list has for example different prices for ale, wine, and uni education. The descriptions seem to indicate both difference in quality and the affluence (or negotiation skills) of the buyer.
This isn't why we would do it, but only 1 in 10,000 'unemployed' citizens need make a significant contribution to open source or some kind of theoretical discovery to make Basic Income a bargain investment for society as a whole.
My hunch is that Holmes, clearly a highly intelligent woman, has a personality infused with high levels of narcissism and sociopathy. Her intelligent, curious side was probably overwhelmed by her negative traits after she had some initial success with Theranos.
It costs maybe 81 pounds a month to give you your 80 pounds. If it was means tested it would cost massively more per person you gave it to. In addition plenty of needy people would go without because they didn't know about it, or couldn't fill out the forms, or got arbitrarily sanctioned because their meeting with the job centre was on a day when the "advisor" hadn't met his sanctioning target
1. USA could have PREVENTED https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia had it initiated UBI in 1971 for rest of the world when it pegged dollar to OPEC Oil http://www.zerohedge.com/print/502779

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_around_the_world provides impetus to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominant_minority will OPPOSE UBI because they fear you'll NOT be subservient to them

4. UBI is prudent distribution of cash, not wealth
Can somebody with Direct3D-experience give opinion if it's any better?
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Warning: hate speech ahead.

Sad fact: a single impostor clown wasted millions of hours of experts' and other smart people's time that could have been spent productively otherwise.

Real question: has Gavin got insane or what game is he playing?

Speculation: I lost my faith in Gavin in 2014 in Amsterdam where I could observe him joining The Bitcoin Foundation while it was already clear that TBF was full of shit, pedophiles and nonentities focused on self-promotion and earning a quick buck (with few exceptions). So my bet is on Gavin's gullibility. He's got tricked by the con artist to the level that he is going to defend his position against the evidence.
How would it spur innovation? After enacting a BI, we've just reduced the labor supply and funneled resources toward consumption (since rich people invest, poor people consume, and we've shifted resources from rich to poor).

Labor supply = Labor servicing consumption + labor servicing investment

Rearranging this implies:

Labor providing investment = labor supplied - labor providing consumption

Simple arithmetic shows we now have less resources devoted to investment. So how will this innovation actually occur? I realize demand for it might go up, but if supply doesn't increase correspondingly, so what?
If you create a legal entitiy you will have to pay taxes / IHK (depending on your annual profit) and some tax consultant fees.

But in my eyes the benefit overweights:

- all your business expenses are kept in a professional setting and don't screw with your personal finances

- you will have a separate bank account

- you have a legal entity you can later sell to a real business

- you can use leftover money to (re-)invest into nearby business areas

- you have limited liability (and you can buy proper insurances for your risky business activities!!)

Your local IHK will be happy to guide you through this process.

I also started off as a sole proprietor and moved up the food chain through UG to GmbH(s), and there is so much you will learn during this process. I think every entrepreneur should have experience with local trade laws and taxes, so in my eyes you can't start early enough.

If you have any questions feel free to ping me.
I agree with your point, but Lego is not an acronym and 'together' is not part of it. From their website "The name 'LEGO' is an abbreviation of the two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well""

http://www.lego.com/en-gb/aboutus/lego-group/the_lego_histor...
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10k/year, or whatever it might be, isn't that much. Most people would want more, and you'll need to work for more.

As to "who would do the dirty work." You probably didn't mean it this way, but the question implies that we have to keep people down in order to do the work that "we" need them to do.

When something is in short supply, you compete for it. UBI would bring competition to employers, especially at the lower incomes. Part of that competition would be with "not working," but it would also be with other employers, as it would then be easier for people to look for or prepare for other jobs, and it would make it easier for people on the bottom rungs to expect better treatment.
Except it's not simple arithmetic, because the normal economy doesn't count - cannot assign - a value to work done for yourself or your family.

Someone going out to work and paying a large fraction of their income for child care is counted, whereas someone staying home and looking after their children is not. Only the first has value in an economic sense. Is it the only work that has value in a moral sense?
I think that most of those students already work during their studies and income difference is so big that they will definitely earn more money in total before 30.
I would be more worried about doctors which start to work independently a lot later and do not earn much in the beginning of their carrier (at least in my country).
When writing my first OpenGL code, I was stunned by the amount of boilerplate required. It is so bad it reminds me of COBOL. No one in their right mind would tolerate that monstrosity in a normal CPU program (except, possibly, some hardcore C++ fans).

I think in order to solve this, we need three things:
1) Intermediate representation for compiled GPU code. Bytecode mentioned in the article sounds like it.
2) Cross-platform GPU programming support in our programming languages' standard libraries.
3) Compiler plugins and DSLs that output the IR and link to the library.
Pretty neat, but the first thing I looked for was how to open a file in Python and it wasn't there. I'm guessing it's because the "File" column only displays methods on the file object, and open is a built-in function. I can see how this might be useful when context-switching between different programming languages.
Yeah, now that I took a look at the source you seem to be correct. The whole machinery appears to be hardcoded for the 4x4 case.
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The issues pointed out by OP are mostly gone in the new Vulkan API, which is the new graphics API from Khronos. Shaders are shipped in SPIR-V bytecode binary format and the binding of resources to shader inputs is more memory-oriented.

Time to go learn a new API :)
The judge cares. Because the basic tenet of a Republic is the separation of powers, a Judge is not allowed to decide whether or not a law is fair or good for the people; that decision falls on the legislative branch.
Where are you finding a drop of 10%? All I can find is "On the whole, the research results were
encouraging to those who favour a GAI. The
reduction in work effort was modest: about one
per cent for men, three per cent for wives, and
five per cent for unmarried women. These are
small effects in absolute terms and they are also
smaller than the effects observed in the four US
experiments, a result that once again confirms
the importance of not simply importing US
research results and applying them to the
Canadian context, with its different labour market
institutions, practices, attitudes and social
support programs."

From http://archive.irpp.org/po/archive/jan01/hum.pdf

Meanwhile, other studies have shown productivity actually increased when basic income was instituted amongst extreme poverty - http://www.bignam.org/BIG_pilot.html
>Why should we keep paying people for unnecessary bullshit jobs?

Because human services jobs employ thousands of people (a state like New York has 40k+ people in public sector social services and at least that many private sector) and control thousands of votes.

Democrats will have a hard time supporting it, because those unionized workers will get them voted out.

It's also very telling about what "basic income" really is. Conservatives don't give a shit about social welfare, this is just another scheme to enrich their pals and undermine the social safety net.
Well, that's the Internet, isn't it?

I mean this: https://anarplex.net/hosted/files/declarationseparation.html
I believe Halide is limited to 2-dimensional (Image Processing) use cases? Either way, it's designed to make it easier to find optimal parallel implementations rather than write code that can fluidly execute across a CPU and GPU.
True, but emotion can be expressed in a civil manner, which in my opinion is more effective as well.

A lot of people simply stop reading when confronted by rudeness or profanity and just downvote and move on, because experience has proven that such comments usuaully lack proper arguments. Use civil language to prevent being classified as noise.
You could look at Sweden here for a reference. Everyone does not get a fixed sum of money but everyone can get social services to help out if you are unemployed thou the amount of money vary from situation to situation. This and other things like everyone has a right to schools, universities and health care does not come for free however. 25% tax on products, salary tax 30-55% on different salary ranges + ~15% on top for pension plan and state tax that the employee never sees that the company pays. So sure it can work but it's not cheap and it builds on that everyone should get a job. If people lost interest in that and unemployment would raise more, that would be bad...
I interpreted the parent comment is implying ineptitude by the government in delivering positive outcomes and my comment is in reply to that. If the regime is inept at delivering solutions why would we entrust it to take more by way of taxation to support a basic income.

My comment is not about the efficiency or admin overhead of printing checks. It's about trust in government to deliver an outcome.
The primary problem with a guaranteed employment program is the proliferation of edge cases:

- I want a job, but I have no transportation

- I want a job, but I have no skills

- I want the money from a job, and I'm willing to show up to a job, but I never actually do the work. If you fire me, I will go get another guaranteed job.

- I show up to the job and do the work, but my manager hates me and fires me. I guess I will go get another guaranteed job.

- I show up to the job and do the work, but all the managers in this town have an unspoken agreement that they will report people of my (skin color, gender, orientation, whatever) as not doing the work, so I have been fired multiple times.

- Bureaucracy managing the guaranteed jobs program replaces the bureaucracy managing the programs eliminated by Basic Income.

I'm in favor of more spending on maintenance and public works, but I don't think a guaranteed jobs program will work as well as basic income.
Yap, and Southern European people is lazy, Jews are greedy and Arabs are terrorists. Because stereotypes exist for a reason.
Well, if you want to do computation inside GNU make there are tools like the GNU make Standard Library: http://gmsl.sf.net/ and I wrote quite a lot about GNU make stuff here ($$$): https://www.nostarch.com/gnumake and here (free): http://blog.jgc.org/2013/02/updated-list-of-my-gnu-make-arti...
But my code is more flexible, less dependent on the framework it's deployed in. So I can more easily survive things like "migrate to ng2"
Junkyard full of random Python, Ruby, or Scala is not any better.

Build rules are code, and thus should be treated like one. Not treating them
like code is the main reason many non-trivial makefiles (or rakefiles, or
SCons rules, or whatever) look like sh&t.
It might be cheaper to take the money and give it to everyone than build an elaborate means-testing system that requires taking far more information, a more complex computer system, more arguing over corner cases, and so on.

Straight handouts appear to be by far the most effective way of reducing poverty and its negative effects. It's rather like the War On Drugs; you can choose a system that moralises at people or one that improves their outcomes, but if you want to improve outcomes you have to give up moralising control.
>I suppose that can help sell the concept to highly partisan anti-liberals, but I know plenty of liberals and progressives who strongly support Basic Income.

Anecdotal experience. My anecdotal experience is the opposite where the liberals I know believe increasing the minimum wage is that "next big step forward." They won't even give the idea of Basic Income a chance.
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Glad to see fellow Prague expat here! Thanks a lot for the insight. What made you to move to Prague? We go to PBS here, and I've found private schools in LA to be less expensive. So, I guess, this part of the equation is solved, assuming I maintain the income (argh!) although I expect my overall expenses to double in LA with all the taxes, etc. I visited both LA and SF once and found traffic to be manageable in both (stayed in WeHo). We avoided peak hours, though, however, yes, I hear people complain on traffic when they have to drive to work. I've looked at Orange but couldn't find a walkable place. I'd really want to live without a car, so it's all down to walkable parts of LA + relying on Uber (Los Feliz, Venice, etc) or SF/Oakland for us. How is Oakland weather compared to Prague? I'm comparing numerically but always end up with different conclusions depending on what mood I am in.
It always held broad appeal. Milton Friedman, MLK, and Frances Fox Piven all supported UBI.
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So far I have at https://github.com/s-a/cronus this prototype https://raw.githubusercontent.com/s-a/cronus/master/screenshot.jpg.
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> If you want to get in on it, buy Treasuries.

Let them eat cake?

> ...they desire to avoid deflationary spirals.

I've never really understood this. Dropping prices (see the recent changes in oil prices) are really good for the impoverished, at least in the short run. If we are really talking about a post-scarcity economy, wouldn't deflation indicate efficiency and be a good thing?
With a kid in school, no, not really.
Wow it got really lots of new stuff since I last checked! The offline option sounds cool if you're working on a laptop while commuting etc.
That's already happening. I pay the guy mowing my lawn as much as the 40th percentile IT or programmer working at my company.
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There's lots of talk in there about office space and perks like ping pong tables and beer on tap and the like.

I wonder however if "frugality" might extend to software development practices - for example, we're not going to rewrite the frontend in ReactJS this month because it's working fine as it is and we need to concentrate developer time on new (profitable) features.

In other words things like "JS fatigue" (not pointing at JS in particular) are symptoms of over-staffed, over-funded teams looking for things to do.
Those are nice to have, but neither would change anything about this current situation.

Servers are nice but questionably useful when each one would be living in its own universe, in need of its own app, given Signal architecture.
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Thanks for your thoughts, stranger.

My comments are a reflection on the outside world. My own philosophy is very different.

Our (western) society is built on the premise of avoiding pain at all costs - even if it means exporting it to other countries or species.

That's why I'm saying that people will choose pleasure over pain - not just because it's convenient, but because we're constantly conditioned to do that - take the pill, pain will go away.

So I agree with Huxley - a society based on offering unlimited pleasure is even more insidious than a totalitarian state based on violence described in 1984. At least in a totalitarian state you can rebel...

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The idea about the horses really took me by surprise - I haven't thought about that.

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My personal belief is that "rebirth" is only possible by passing through the gates of suffering. By "rebirth" I mean "new, changed, evolved self" , rather then physical reincarnation.

Suffering is a necessary ingredient for stepping onto the next level of understanding. So I respect it and I accept it when it's unavoidable, although it's never easy.

There's the idea that "suffering and pain" are what makes us "feel alive", but if examined under a microscope, then the following can be observed: Life is the process of expending energy in order to avoid suffering and pain and optionally experience "pleasure".

To drift even further, I'd note that True human-like "AI" will only be possible when the concepts of pain, suffering and pleasure and love are somehow implemented into the AI's "brain"..

But to do that we'll have to somehow convince it that it's mortal.
Most countries have dozens to hundreds of government programs (a dozen federal, a dozen per state, another dozen per city, …) to support parents of underage children. You'd get rid of a lot of administrative overhead by outphasing all of them in favour of including children into basic income (maybe at a fixed reduced rate if expenses are a concern).
If you're earning more you will effectively pay the money back in higher taxes, so the transfer will be much the same as for a minimum guaranteed income, but without the costly administration, confusing rules and moral judgement that come with minimum guaranteed incomes
My concern is perhaps not with this generation but the next. I don't think anybody who is used to working and the lifestyle that it allows would seek a massive reduction in income to pursue something frivolous, but it is easy to imagine an entire group of people entering the job-market for the first time having no inclination to work for a job, when their own hobbies and interests can be sated without the need to be profitable. Which needless to say would be economically damaging in the long run
Agreed. I'm fairly seriously liberal and my filter bubble tends very liberal too. There's somewhere between significant and overwhelming support for Basic Income within that group from what I've seen.
Well the thing is that it's targeting "x86/SSE, ARM v7/NEON, CUDA, Native Client, and OpenCL."

Anyway, as far as I know it is limited to 2D raster images so far, yes. Since it's part research language with some very interesting features I do hope that it gets extended to more general cases, and at least make it easier to work with 3D use cases (image volumes and such) too.