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I'm an American who grew up on the East Coast, went to USC (Los Angeles) for university (left in 1990), later worked for a San Fran company and have been living in Prague for 15 years so I may have some perspective for you. Long story short, LA and San Fran are fantastic for single people or married working couples w/out kids. Once kids enter the equation, your perspective changes. You are not going to find cheap, good schools in those cities. And unlike Prague, will not want your 7 year old to ride the buses/metro alone. LA weather is fantastic, no doubt. Its the thing I miss most. The thing I don't miss is the traffic. Literally bumper to bumper crawling along at a snail's pace will drive you crazy after a while. Farther south in Orange County is an option, but housing is pretty expensive and the traffic is not a whole lot better. San Fran is even more expensive to live plus the weather is not as good as LA. I understand opinions will vary, but as someone with direct experience with all 3 cities you mentioned, there is a reason that I'm still in Prague :)
Misleading title. (The original title is even worse, claiming to give "mathematically proven winning strategies".)

The article is actually about simple models for various games. What are the most popular chess moves. Thinking of Diplomacy as a graph. Etc. Not particularly deep.
> There's not as much of a culture of writing APIs that way in Python because it's generally a terrible way to program

I would love to see evidence for you making that statement. Almost every programmer would put out their fav programming language as the 'right' way to program.

> everything except HTTP servers with absurd numbers of concurrent connection

Once you introduce async operations in your code - you need to follow the execution path through. http request can be async - but then what if the http request results you doing a db lookup or some form of file handling ? you need to make the whole thing event driven.
The basic income will provide only the basics - if you want luxuries, you will still need a job.
The point is that, as mentioned in the article, the POSIX make spec is positively barren! Indeed, this is another example of very simple substitution systems turning out to be emergently Turing complete.
In CS, if we include industry pure research, you make a lot more ;)
No, a lot of pictures and audio messages as well go through Whatsapp
No it's not a minor detail, because it's easy to bypass

All laws are easy to bypass, what's your point? Ever tried to go 60 in a 30km/h zone? Lack of 100% enforcement does not make a law useless.
At least it is https, so no mitm attack. You have to trust the Sandstorm developers, even if you download the source and apply all the steps manually. If the site gets compromised, the attackers can modify the source and the website documentation for the PGP verification.
Interesting analysis. I just finished a year of using Node for implementing an HTTP API and a chat server, and found it to be actually pretty pleasant. I'm not chasing the latest and greatest things, there's no ES6, no ORM, and I'm on an older version of Node. But it works and has actually been quite stable! The things I've missed are static type checking at compile time, and execution speed (which is less of an issue when you're talking with databases all the time). I'd be happy to write in more detail if anyone has any questions, but I found I had the opposite experience of this author. The situation makes all the difference though.
It seems low. I think this is what cashiers at Lidl or Leader Price actually make in Switzerland. Or rather, it's the urban legend in France that this how much a cashier in Lidl/Leader Price makes in Switzerland.

Though this might be part of the whole "Everything is better in Switzerland" psyche prevalent in France (streets are paved in sheets of gold, etc).
Note that the standardization effort is not what most people expect. It really is just a call for:

a) each platform to document its C++ABI.
b) each platform to offer a ABI stable variant of the standard library as an option.

Both points are really already the norm and the default on many platforms. For example GCC on most OSs follows the documented Itanium ABI while libstdc++ has been ABI stable for a long time at least on Linux.

The notable exception is windows and MSVC. While the C ABI is documented, I believe that C++ ABI is pretty much "whatever MSVC does" and had to be reverse enginereed. Additionally MSVC reservers the right to break its library ABI at every major release (and in fact it does).
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Your comments are so noted. However, I objected to the phrase "In the US there are only two languages, English and Spanish. In Europe there's too many to count with the modern revival of local dialects."

The US has more than two languages, even in official government use. (You linked to the same source as I did, which points out both Hawaiian and French use.)

If we use the same metric, which points out the "modern revival of local dialects", then we must also accept the modern revival in the US of indigenous languages, and their use in tribal governments.
I see a whole lot of nothing on that page, Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 Mobile build 14327
Supplanting the USD - the world's premier reserve currency - with a private currency is just not going to happen.

The plan isn't just to supplant the USD, but to cannibalize it from within. Any currency in which no basic income is provided is vulnerable to disruption by one in which a basic income is provided.

So the whole scheme amounts to providing basic income via continuing bilking of VC investors.

Yes. If we fail, that's pretty much exactly what it's going to look like. But also keep in mind that the currency's USD reserves are crowd funded, so it would be continued "bilking" of everyone, not just the VCs.

Did you read the whitepaper I linked in another comment here?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2jhCMrrxoeONVNQTVd6NG5pNz...
People join the military for reasons other than money. Become doctors and emergency services etc all for reasons that are not related to money. People will do the things they do, but having some money means that people can take risks and feel safe in society. It removes the hard floor.
Is it possible to save snippets from pages, or just bookmarks?
I'd recommend against that. You'll probably be fine as a sole proprietor (Einzelunternehmen).

A separate legal entity (UG / GmbH / Limited / whatever) is mainly useful for three things:

- avoiding personal liability

- shared ownership

- tax optimisation

For a website like this, there is practically no liability to worry about. And if you don't have a partner, you don't need to worry about shared ownership.

For tax purposes, the overhead of a legal entity only pays off if you already have a lot of revenue (in Austria, more than 200k€ per year)
By the New York Times Public Editor, who isn't part of the normal editorial process - she's meant to represent the readers and handle their complaints about things like undisclosed conflicts of interest.
Not sure how the discussion here will be used but here's some of my ramblings/thought process (people related to the projects feel free to chime in):

I like the Author Investments idea but the sparse OP and reading the discussion doesn't have me convinced that the person who entered it has the skills/true desire to actually make it happen. It's more of a "I wish I could have this now" (which is not a bad start) but I can't see the path towards the product happening.

There was one entry that seemed interesting but the hostile interaction lead to me not voting for that (can't see that character translating well to a successful startup).

I voted for AutoMicroFarm because I want to have one. It seems like that should be my strongest vote but I was actually somewhat hesitant because crowdfunding might be a better approach.

The trusted skill certification is a decent enough disruptive shot and I got the feeling it's possible the OP could pull it of. I'm thinking about working on the same problem from a very different angle so I kind of want to see how this angle works out :)

I like JuryBoard because I can immediately envision it being useful and bought + have a net positive impact on society. Despite that it was a borderline vote for me.
A lot of political polls are phone-based, at least in the US. Maybe talking to someone, even someone you don't know and are not likely to meet again, triggers the same inhibitions that you have picked up via interactions in your social circle?
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If the market rate for dirty jobs goes up, will the basic income be enough, or will I struggle to pay for my waste collection (and everything else) on the basic income alone?
I don't know if that would actually be the case, but if it were, the question would be: is it actually a bad thing?

I don't see any moral justification for a software engineer earning more than someone collecting waste [1]. In fact, it is normal that as our society gets more educated and the supply of unskilled workers goes down, a lot of hard manual labor will become expensive. This is already the case with mining, for example. The fact that we software engineers do a job that we like and is well paid at the same time is a very lucky (for us) historical accident.

On the other hand, I see in basic income an opportunity to also do unalienated work. For example, I'd very happily use BI to take buy some time off and to do a kinda "libre software retreat", hacking on free projects for a while without needing to bargain with an employer that owns everything that comes out of my head.

[1] Excluding the cost of education, let's assume university is free as in a few places in Europe.
On top of that you might be able to only have to work half a year or jobs could be shared among multiple people. Jobs may even pay more for harder work. Sharing jobs or partially working might also be needed to keep prices/inflation low, this actually meshes with the gig economy that is being talked about and moved to it seems. Entrepreneurship would be a huge result of basic income as well as competition for workers and increase in demand along with more consumers.
The reason UBI has such broad appeal is that, well, people are able to do basic math.

Take for instance the amount spent on the bank bailouts, which were supposedly done to help stimulate the economy. If you'd just let the banks fail, you could have spent the same money giving everybody a check for somewhere around 20K (the number is debatable).

Hate poverty? The U.S. has spent more than 5 Trillion on it over the last few decades. That's another 20K or so per man, woman, and child. The national debt is closing in on 20T. Would you rather have a balanced budget and a check for 100K? (I understand the math is way fuzzy here. It's to make a point.)

We're reaching the point where the average person who supports helping the poor can figure out that we could have just set up an endowment for each poor person when they were born and spent less money than this. And at the same time we would get rid of a lot of folks doing useless overhead simply because the system is so complex.

For those reasons and more I like the UBI idea.

But ideas are worthless. Execution is everything. We need about a thousand different experiments -- ran for 10 or 20 years -- before we can begin to start saying what might work or not work. When I look at other charitable causes (aid to Africa comes to mind first), the rhetoric got way out ahead of the actual results for many, many decades. Tons of time, effort, and money were spent on strategies that didn't work but sounded pretty cool. We'd be idiots not to recognize that this is the danger here too.

The first question we have to ask is this: What is UBI? Is it a reliable income in place of a bunch of other services? Or is it in addition to a bunch of other services? The difference matters. Once that's defined, I sure would like to see if a majority of people doing nothing "rubs off" on ambitious, driven people. Or maybe it works the other way around. Maybe a small percentage of ambitious, driven people, in a society without external pressures, can persuade more and more folks to find meaning in helping others. Beats me. Sure will be fun to learn more.

Slogans are great. Results are better.
I also would improve your site, first, before expanding.

Also, if I search for a PC at 460 € ... I get a CPU recommendation for 120,90 €
But when I inrease the limit to 660, I get a worse CPU for EUR 58,32 ... but with a much better GPU. But I think the great GPU won't be of much use with that slow CPU ..
When I think about it from a business perspective, the advantage is not just smaller government but workforce flexibility. If I only have 20 extra hours of work some weeks, there is no way I am hiring another person full time. With a basic income in place, I can hire someone at market rates just for those 20 hours without all of the stress for both parties. Still not perfect, but much better.
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So why use this instead of U-2 or SR-71?
A basic income could make low-pay jobs more interesting than ever, and companies could benefit from it.

In most developed EU countries, a "social" income is given to unemployed people. In Belgium, it varies between 550€/month and 850€/month, depending on the situation. People lose this income as soon as they start to work, that means that a part-time job with an income of about 1000€/month is really unattractive. With a basic income, unemployed workers could be stimulated to accept this kind of low-pay jobs, as the pay will add up to their basic income.

With the increase of productivity we got in the last 50 years, the hours worked by low-skilled workers must be lowered, or we will face endlessly increasing unemployment rates. An universal basic income can stimulate this.
Apart from the extra income, consider that most people don't actually want to be hanging around their houses all day every day. Of course, employers may have to make working conditions more attractive and many people may want to work shorter weeks. Hurray for quality of life, I say!
No need for the rudeness.

I always get bothered when people bring up the `curl [...] | bash`
“argument” (which is usually less of an argument and more of a rude
dismissal of a good product).

Sure, the script downloaded with curl should be validated.

Not sure, but I’m pretty sure you don’t validate every tarball you
download, and even if you do validate them, you certainly wouldn’t look
through each line of code making sure there isn’t a backdoor or something.

Any malicious person could break into a tarball download site, and
replace the checksums as well (only way to mitigate that is using a
signature that is associated with the tarball maintainer), and even if
something like PGP is used, the attacker would be able to replace the
instructions to obtain the PGP key with their own generated one, or
even remove the signature completely.

This is, of course, the same for curl piped into bash, but my point is
that it’s only slightly worse than an unsecured package site (which
I’m sure there are many of). The only thing worse about it is that
it’s less noticeable when the script has been replaced.

Also, some scripts (such as the rvm installatio script) /require/ PGP
to be used for the installation to even start.

In conclusion, please don’t be rude and dismiss an entire product
because of a single installation method, which isn’t actually worse
than a malicious tarball.
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"people can [...] feel safe in society": This is the most important thing from my point of view. If people feel safe, you reduce stress, tension in the society and you increase the quality of life of everybody in the same society. It should benefit everybody.

This is really why I want this to happen on a large enough scale to see if it really works or not.
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Why did he lie?

Is he a serial liar trying to take credit for someone else's work or is this an elaborate attempt to get the real SN to reveal himself?
Selling apps is like selling any other product.

I can’t sell medical marihuana in most states of the US – and I don’t go and try, and then complain about getting arrested.

Instead, if I wanted to start a business doing that, I’d check out where it would be legal, and in which ways, and sell my product in those markets.

Why do you assume you can sell your product in markets without having checked the legality, and then complain when they ban your product because it violates the local law?
Well the website you link to has several different calculations for £5 1300 in modern money. The "real price" is £3,534 but the "labour earnings" is £69,140 which would certainly enable you rent/buy a property in York.
I'd wager that there are a lot of people that avoid a career in CS much more than a career in plumbing...
I haven't read into it too much at the moment as it's still a bit of a pipe-dream just now although it's looking more likely to change but I sit on the fence at this time (with a lean towards "no").

I don't see that happening to be honest but I do see something worse...

Won't the price of everything go up for those that don't currently need the welfare system? Is this a sort of stealth tax increase on the middle class?

I live in the UK and pay a lot into the system but I am by no means rich. I don't claim anything except child benefit (dunno how I qualify but I do... for £80 a month or something).

If you remove the need for someone currently on welfare to take a min-wage job then that means the job either doesn't get done or the salary for it must go up. So, if it goes up, then that company's price will go up or they face going out of business.

If they manage to stay in business, I will need to pay more to use their service than I did before but if they go out of business because I am not willing to pay it, they end up claiming welfare and my tax goes up to pay for it.

Honestly, I don't see an upside for anyone except those that can't/won't work!
I don't see how the government can be shrunk, short of violent collapse. UBI will be introduced, and not a single government program will be dropped, not a single government official laid off; wars, bailouts and $500 toilet seats will continue, but we'll have to tax, borrow or print a few more billions (or trillions, in the case of US-sized economies - I live in a small country).
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Higher wages for dirty jobs would certainly spur innovation in labour saving devices to reduce the amount of manual labour.

"Dirty" jobs being paid more certainly does sound a little more ethical than today, where those with little options have to work those dirty jobs to keep their house and to eat, and they are paid low.
Won't a basic income just increase inflation? Minimum-wage jobs would by necessity then need to pay more, which would then cause the costs of goods and services to go up, which would then make living more expensive, necessitating an increase in the basic income and so forth...?

For example, say I'm a landlord. If everyone all of a sudden had an additional "base" income, why wouldn't I increase my rents to absorb at least a portion of that? Then, only people who had a job would still be able to afford to rent from me, while those on the basic income would be unable to afford it. I'm not out either way.

So you would say you need to introduce legislation to stop me from doing that, but the free market would abhor that and likely accuse you of being a communist. So you can't. So I'm failing to see the point of the whole exercise?
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I don't see any moral justification for a software engineer earning more than someone collecting waste [1].

In general I agree. However, besides education costs (I have quite many friends who have a sizeable loan), software engineers also enter the workforce quite a bit later. E.g., taking Netherlands as an example:

- Waste collector: age 12-16 VMBO

- Software engineer: age 12-18 VWO, age 18-23 BA+MA university

Also, very few students actually finish university in time. So, they are usually 24 or 25 when they are on the market. So, there would be less opportunity to build up a pension at equal wages.
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Spent 5 years in Boston studying Elec. Engineering & Comp Sci at MIT and working, 5 years in the SF Bay Area working.

No longer in the US (to be closer to family) but have no problem matching US timezones for the right opportunity.

Languages/frameworks/technologies used in the past include Python, C++, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, web (Django, Flask, Rails, Bootstrap, some Ember.js), Android, Qt, ARM-based embedded systems, PostgreSQL/MySQL, PCB designs using Eagle etc.

Highly interested in work that touches on physics/other forms of engineering (Mech E & Automotive, Biomedical, Civil/Structural, materials etc).

Also interested in creating nice looking UIs in general (can do some design work using GIMP). Now learning React.js.

For any electronics work, I can design, build and test circuits locally then have them fabricated in the US or China.

Primarily looking for a short internship (say 3 - 6 months ).

engineering.devotee (-at- gmail).
Gregory Clark (economics, UC Davis) has a prive history of English agriculture from 1209 to 1914.

http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Agprice.pd...

Adam Smith discusses prices and notes that whilst silver prices are more uniform across the decades, corn (grain) prices are across the centuries. Daily food is a pretty good constant, after factoring out annual ag variability.
I would presume the quality of low-paying low-income jobs will increase. If people have the opportunity to leave there is an actual business incentive to treat employees well. I would presume the overall "quality" of the workforce would increase, as the detrimental effects of poverty on cognitive development and capacity is well known.

So who will do the dirty jobs? I presume ways are found in which to make them less distasteful. They are not about "dirtyness" per se, but about application of high dexterity manual labour on various tasks.
The biggest problem with the UBI debate is that few people explicitly name the amounts they imagine. You seem to imply a level near the minimum wage, but that's flat out impossible. The total US tax revenue is around $20k/year/person, so a realistic UBI is upper bounded at perhaps $2-300/month (full time at $15 is about $2,600/month) - and at 20% of total revenue, that would have to replace substantial portions of existing social programs to be viable.
And to second another comment, the more countries you have to support, the more expensive any modifications becomes... Right now you have the luxury of a malleable project that you can evolve fast - which is a necessary thing because you don't yet quite know where you are going. So defer internationalization for when you have validated the business model and technical architecture on the current couple of countries.