skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect we would see a general price level increase if we used inflation to fund a basic income. But because it destroys household wealth in proportion to the wealth of the household and creates household wealth uniformly throughout the population, the net effect is not just higher numbers on the currency but also flatter distributions of wealth and income.

As for landlords specifically: the renters already have $x they are not using for rent, so why don't the landlords get that? If there is no good or service that absorbs all the money right now, there's no reason to think there would be one for the marginal money of a basic income scheme.
You can be more precise by only excluding actual dependents.
> Intensity training is good for fast-twitch muscle. Endurance training is good for slow-twitch. The two are not interchangeable.

[Citation needed]
It's like claiming my computer isn't turing complete because it only has 8 gigs of ram instead of infinity. I mean pedantically nothing is actually turing complete because the universe is finite. In this case you just have to write a sufficiently large grid, a 40x40 grid isn't required by the technique it's just how big this one was written.
I guess different income taxes may not have them but in many tax systems, deductible expenses provide some relief for differences in cost of living.
5.5 million per year would be 70 crew members wages? A small-medium organization.

Wiki -"The United States Navy has nearly 500,000 personnel"

No food costs. No one gets evacked cause their toe got infected.

No crew quarters, toilets, mess on a ship = a pretty cheap ship.

Can roll over in a storm.

No re-stocking food, although fuel needs might make that redundant.

Less time at port, perhaps, equals a bigger ROI.

I guess normal ships are not cheap.
The comments on that article are great too:

>> The ap-22s-2 Full Pressure Suits were my biggest immediate problem. The suits were ADC hand me downs, all going over age. New suits were finally procured after numerous equipment failures, but depot support managed to keep the suits going pending replacements. The suits did their job on at least seven occasions of cockpit pressurization loss at altitude and allowed the crew to return safely to base.
You're ignoring the value the children bring to society by growing up and entering the labour force themselves. The highly skilled woman making a lot of money is unlikely to have her child make significantly more than her (regression to the mean).

On the other hand, empowering an impoverished woman to provide higher quality care for her children will significantly increase their upward mobility.
If it was an obvious result we'd probably know about it already.
"To win a game of Battleship, you need to do two things: maximize your probability of getting a hit at every turn, and hope your opponent doesn't do the same."

Not exactly. You need to maximize the amount of information you get about the distribution of your opponent's ships with each shot, and distribute your own ships in such a way that it minimizes the amount of information your opponent is able to gather with theirs. And of course you need to take into account that your opponent has the same goals (the probability grid for hitting ships shown in the article of course ignores that your opponent, knowing the center is a juicier target for you, could choose to place her ships around the edges.)
> Yes, you can reduce the amount paid out by making it not a universal basic income scheme any more. But that rather misses the point.

You are entirely correct.. but I think you're missing the point.

Think of that first description as the marketing pitch to the general public. By saying it is universal and "free" to administer, it gets people behind it who don't think through the consequences.. which is a large chunk of the target audience. They are also the people who could put amicable politicians in power and keep them there.

But a "no-strings-attached" basic income would force politicians to give up the one thing they desire more than anything: power. So the second description with the actual mechanics of it, is for those people who actually get to administer the "free" program and tie their strings to groups, situations, and behaviors they want to punish or promote.

I am as free market as they come and find myself intrigued by the UBI... but the thing that prevents me from supporting it is that politicians and political systems DO NOT give up power so the "we can get rid of everything else" line is obviously a lie.
One of the largest challenges for regular people is finding 45-90 minutes to exercise in the first place. Research on shortening the length of time required for effective exercises is a worthwhile pursuit.
Non-empirically-validated numbers obscure a lot more than they clarify. The scarmig comment you link to shows that almost all of the effects you included were irrelevant and this whole exercise was worse than useless. Using this much precision at this level of accuracy can only ever mislead.
His name's Will Kurt - if you want to hear him talk a bit about his blog, he was the first guest on the Becoming a Data Scientist podcast:
http://www.becomingadatascientist.com/2015/12/21/becoming-a-...

His blog is great, as you say: even if you know the topic you'll find something new there.
I can reach them through a VPN, no problem at all to communicate with people outside of Brazil or with those connected through a VPN.

OT: Intrigued and tempted by ivpn.net but the about page don't give me enough info to decide (no team, no physical address...) Where can I read more?
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> It's not like this is some attention-seeking teenager

He is just not a teenager but he is absolutely attention-seeking. Hint: don't believe the statements he gave, do your own research. He has a history of doing exactly the kind of tricks he did this time again.

Edit (I can't post new posts):

An answer to your next comment where you write "he was clearly making good money out of being an IT consultant:"

As far as I understand, the biggest money he tried to make was to get millions from Australia as tax returns for the bitcoin transactions between the companies he made.

Far from having a history of a "clean IT consultant."

> the details of how he convinced some of the leading Bitcoin devs and major journalists will be fascinating.

The expectation of fascination can also be nicely sold.

One nice detail is already for all of us to see, on his page and Dan Kaminsky explains it in the title post.

I also need less than a minute to send to you anything you want "from the e-mail" "satoshi@vistamail.com" I don't understand why you'd refer to such an e-mail as an argument for anything.
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Are you suggesting that workers who are laid off in other industries will all find work as servants working for the other people who haven't been laid off yet?

That's not how our economy works. Only a small percentage of the population can afford to hire maids, nannies and gardeners, and even the wealthiest people will only hire a certain number of them. Just using simple logic should show that if 1% of the working population were all able and willing to maintain a staff of 5 full-time servants, this would only be able to absorb 5% of the unemployed population.

Structural unemployment has nothing to do with these servant-type jobs, and there is no way that these kinds of jobs can absorb unemployed workers laid off in other industries.
Law ≠ Science. It's an interesting thought experiment. It's not like homoeopathy or creationism in that legal precedent emerges by evaluating any reasonable legal argument and their counterpoints and determining which among many is 'right'. It is not hard to conceive of a "freeman" society but what's important is to point out why isn't a realistic aspiration, rather than just shouting "you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong".
Yes, isolated components with as few components being aware of the application state as possible. This is the fundamental structure if a redux app, which is effectively the point if Web Components.

Throwing on click tags or jquery selectors on a huge HTML document is not a good structure.
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I've volunteered at English as a second language classes. I've met plenty of people who live on less than that, while still having cars, smartphones, housing, and food.

America has about 11 million people who legally are forbidden from having a job. Many get black market jobs paying less than minimum wage, and still have money left over to send back home.
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Fast vs Slow twitch has been understood since the 1970s.

You think a body builder could ever run a 10K at sub-6 mile pace or a sub-6 runner benchpress what a body builder could?
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Since it's unmanned could you get salvage rights on it?
I'd seen the optical illusion before, it was one of the more impressive ones in my middle school design class. Very, very interesting to see how it "fools" a computer program.

I wonder how other computer vision systems compare.
Sorry, I have to clarify myself a little here. Until single payer healthcare becomes a reality, I would like to see an expansion of WIC from at risk mothers and infants to all mothers and infants and children under five. I know it sounds a little sexist but I think the qualification and means testing brings a little stigma to WIC which shouldn't exist.

It is not just money for formula. WIC has a potential to be so much more to new families. I know I sound hypocritical now but I'd like to think of it as being practical. Sorry, I'm not very articulate.
You can have blue-collar characters without showing them at the jobs; I don't remember ever seeing Archie Bunker at work, for example.
In the spring you have a specific number of weeks to prep and plant. The amount of food you can produce is directly tied to the horsepower you can apply. It's also the difference between spending 15 hours a day in the field versus 8.
The baker CANT make the same amount of money not working though. The baker makes additional money on top of the basic income.
I believe this is correct. The service ceiling for a very modern Boeing 787 is ~13,000 m whereas in 1957 a Canberra achieved the then-record altitude of 21,430 m: http://www.fai.org/fai-record-file/?recordId=9843
But that wouldn't seem to explain the many years of success Roseanne had. Also, as to the comedy, viewed in its time-period, it was a very funny show.
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If people don't trust their GD to convert to USD in 30 days, the only way for them to get rid of it is to spend it.

Who would accept it (at par value) under such circumstances?
Having retail prices is actually the best way to avoid being the sucker, because the "old" way - I think - was that you would have to pay an arbitrary price otherwise.
These seem like key issues. In particular I really can't understand how this can be compatible with any non-negligible amount of immigration.
That just means that the game of life simulation isn't a Turing machine in itself. You don't need to be able to change the size of the Game of Life grid at runtime, it's good enough if you're able to do so by changing the code.

Now I suppose you would run into problems with programs that write arbitrary amounts of data, but then again that's a limitation of nearly all practical 'Turing machines'. You can (probably) make a Makefile simulating a Turing machine with a tape of any size you want, so in a sense it's 'close enough'.
Yes, that's also what I have thought.
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Social security works basically the same way in the USA.

Once a system like that is in place, it's very hard to stop the pipeline.

I honestly don't see the purpose of that type of system either.

Why create this pipeline of money anyway? Why not just take the contributions that everyone makes and put them into individual retirement accounts?

Assuming the system is stable (which it's probably not), it seems there would be virtually no difference between me paying for the current retirees (and expecting my children to pay for my retirement) vs. me paying into my own retirement.

I'm not too familiar with these concepts, so maybe someone will school me.
Presumably it looks awesome and attractive for small/independent outfits though? And possibly that puts a pressure on larger corporations in the long-term, as they decide to check out this 'Superdesk' all the new hires are asking about?
Eh, you pretty much have to specifically design systems to avoid turing completeness. It's a hilariously low bar to clear.
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Ok. I'm just looking at a chart showing the US Federal Budget. 10% on welfare. 25% on pensions. That brings us to 35% so we're still short. Still about 15% off. I believe that the US has lower taxes than many other nations so for a UBI to work that would have to change and would bring us closer to the mark. Reducing some of the 21% spent on defence would also help and the health care sector would be interesting. I think for it to work you go to a completely public system. That would be important to make that $800 figure work and it might also reduce some of the inefficiencies in the current system (US is spending much higher % of GDP than other OECD countries despite having less coverage for citizens).

I think there are lots of ways to adjust current spending and make it work. My personal idea would not fly with the American public though (reduce defence spending by 80% and raise taxes - especially for higher earners).
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That's not "realistic advice", but that's what people did back in the day.

Also, the only reason it "puts having a family largely out of reach" is due to women's sexual choices - most women prefer a man who lives a higher status lifestyle. Sorry, but you aren't entitled to a wife; if women prefer a different lifestyle, that's their choice.

And again, what fraction of people who stop working in the for-profit economy will actually be as productive as Joey Hess?
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Perhaps (and saying this with a big caveat) that's exactly why we need better research and more subtle research into the subject. Plus didn't the research say that the HIIT group had the same increases as the 45 minute 'leisurely' group? So it did work equally well, just slower.

If you aren't wobbling when you leave the gym.... why? Masochism and absolutism around exercise is one of the strangest things to me. What if you need to walk properly the next day because looking like a weirdo at work will get you demoted. Maybe your work demands that you be physically coordinated and not broken, like factory work. Maybe you have kids and need to relax, not destroy yourself. Maybe you're 50 and want to get exercise in but don't want a heart attack. Maybe your knee joints are screwed. Maybe exercise should be fun, or skills based rather than 'exercise until you fall over is the only way'.
How about children are included, then provide X% to parents for child care expenses, and X% to a fund that the child can't access until 18. That way we don't have to do free higher education. Public universities can expect each student to have close to XXXXX dollars saved away and set tuition accordingly.
I don't think there are any "pits" in the UK anymore - the last deep coal mine closed at the end of 2015:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/18/kellingle...
George Orwell in "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" suggested that friendly personal offline relationships are all but impossible between people with widely disparate incomes. Exceptions as always, prove the rule.
I work for a moderately large regional newspaper, and I could see us implementing this. There's enough of a mindset shift underway here that something like Superdesk could gain traction.
Some good points, I'm curious about your final point though. Personal want just for more than just the income. IF the UBI worked, are you suggested people would want to, but couldn't work anymore? That jobs would be difficult to find?
Aren't you assuming that leisure time is worthless there?

Suppose country A consists of 99 peasants and 1 plutocrat. The peasants work full-time and the plutocrat consumes their entire economic output living a life of fabulous luxury. Country B consists of 100 people who work part-time and live simple lives that they can afford. Country A produces more goods and services and has a higher GDP than country B - let's say twice as high. Nevertheless it is reasonable to consider country B better-off.

Edit: The above is probably conflating some unrelated issues, so let's just simplify: country A works full-time (40hrs/week) and spends their leisure time expensively, country B works part-time (20hrs/week) and spends their leisure time cheaply. Country A's GDP is twice that of country B in the obvious way. Is country A really better off than country B? (If you're going to make a revealed preferences argument about working hours then bear in mind that there are very few less-than-full-time jobs on offer, partly an artifact of the way current regulations treat full- and part-time jobs)
The career obsessed part is interesting, because in public its mostly unacceptable to discuss the topic. So people talk about jobs and income instead of culture and wealth. Aside from the great american fantasy that we're all equal other than the minor detail of where we go to work today, LOL.

In literature its quite a bit different. "Class" by Paul Fussell goes over the cultural differences while glossing over mere employment. I enjoyed that book, it was fun reading it and seeing how accurately he called out various class behavior I observed growing up, he's pretty accurate top to bottom, from what I've observed. The book is about 25 years old and it would be interesting to see a more modern book. Seen in a Fussell point of view from 25 years ago, the whole social media fad sounds extremely middle class by his definitions of pathological desire for signalling and likes, for example, and has no appeal to what Fussell would describe as the extremes, although where I live twitter users seem exclusively the absolute lowest classes, which is strange. From a Fussell point of view TV has gone from mostly middle class culturally in terms of interests and attitudes in the 70s to exclusively prole feed. Its very unusual now to see anything on TV that isn't prole in attitudes and desires and outlook and values as defined by Fussell.
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Yes, indeed, I agree with all your points. And in pretty much all cases I would opt for "gradual refactoring" (and hopefully with lots of tests before starting).
Cool idea. I'd advocate for an age of 25 though.

An 18 year old these days is still a child. Give them a couple years into the drinking age to get their bad decisions out of the way.
This comparison made me smile. In the UK, we are rapidly reaching the point where owning a house === rich
You definitely make a good point. A lot of profit and productivity isn't driven back into doing what would make the most sense: making everyone's lives better.

But, as a consequence of whatever we're focusing on (what is it really, anyway?) lives have gotten better overall, for everyone.

I think everyone would rather live in a Star Trek world. I would. Maybe we could.
Sadly, it looks very much like both Vulkan and DX12 are going the way of their predecessors. By which I mean tons of extensions, and nobody really thinks that they'll be able to avoid working around buggy games the same way previous drivers had to, do they?

Maybe I'm being too cynical, but these seem like issues inherent in the situation, and not something caused by particular quirks in gl/dx.
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Its not exercise for 1 minute. Its exercise for 10 minutes, with 1 minute of that being all out. The actual comparison is 10 minutes vs 45, not 1 minute vs 45 as headline says.

I think author could have said as effectively 10 minutes of interval exercise may have benefits of 45 minutes of moderate exercise
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If someone's that highly productive they'll still be able to earn enough that going out to work would make economic sense.

This is absolutely true in a free market with no labor distortions (BI, tax, etc). However, we already live in a world with distortions (taxes, welfare, regulations) that drive a wedge between economically optimal and actual choices. How would adding an even bigger wedge help?

Also, due to women's sexual choices, most likely the father is also highly productive. So your "fathers change the diapers" is not really a viable solution - it just means you lose his output rather than hers.
I think the issue with BI is that no matter how many things are automated and how many items become abundent there are still things that will remain scarce: land, minerals.
Land will remain a scarce resource and all things that depend primarily on land will remain scarce (housing, agriculture, etc.).

And in this situation there is nothing stopping land owners from absorbing the basic income. This means that revenue generated by land owning (not necessarily land owning itself) would have to be heavily taxed. Maybe even taxed progressively to avoid economies of scale in land owning and prevent a very few from owning all the land.

Or we could terraform celestial bodies in the Solar system.

It is important to note that land itself is limited, not housing. As long as we can continue building even higher and deeper housing is not actually limited.
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I like CEPL a lot too, but I agree, it doesn't address the OP's pain points.

I am not enough of a gpu guy to know, but I thought that was what Harlan [1] was trying to address. It had used miniKanren originally as a region and type inferencer.

[1] https://github.com/eholk/harlan
I might accept that but it feels like a cheating shortcut somehow.

A major part of long distance running (10k+) is the mental aspect.

You are never, ever, going to get the mental endurance and discipline to run fast for distance by running for a short period of time, no matter how hard.