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For example, Walmart makes so much in government subsidies and tax breaks, and they pay their employees so little that their employees have to live off food stamps. The Waltons (owners of Walmart), are one of the richest families in the U.S. Pretty easy to see the connection.
Economically diverse areas have workers and capital living close together. It makes it easier to find employees, and easier to find customers. Poor and middle-class people don't have to commute as far to work, and middle class and rich people don't have to drive as far to access services--or pay for services to come out to them.

Cities are generally economically diverse areas. Suburbs, rural areas, and slums are not. Not coincidentally, economies tend to be most stable and dynamic in cities.

> These days we often are told that increasing diversity is the responsibility of all successful healthy organizations, end-of-discussion (see: GitHub).

The goal is not to increase diversity, but to better represent in a company's staff, the diversity of the society in which that company operates.

You can't increase total diversity, but you can change how it is distributed.
why all the down votes? This would be optional! Just like a couple decides to have kids, they can decide to do this.
> I would like to see an opt-in program where you can receive food, in exchange for $X out of your BI.

Doesn't this already exist? You can exchange $X for food at stores, restaurants, etc. Why make a program that just turns the government into a grocery store?
>The GMO debate really has nothing to do with modifying the crops genes

Maybe for you. This makes a big (and stupid) assumption that agribusiness giants are working in your best interests. It also makes some smaller (also stupid) assumptions that agribusiness giants and scientists know what they are doing, are infallible, and never make mistakes.
Boot to a live CD/USB based OS.

Keep in mind that even outside of a corporate environment, Windows is not private.
My co-worker referred to financial literacy training as "basket weaving" and a "waste of public funds". So, yah.
There's https://www.google.com/work/chrome/devices/for-kiosks/ but I never tried it.
Hmmm.

I wonder how difficult it'd be to spider the web and index all the pages with a certain density of useful information.

There's ole entropy, but we also have a priori knowledge of certain bits of information that suggest that useful information in the content is nil. E.g., anything that is a listicle.
There is no such thing as unbreakable security. You always have to compromise security for usability somewhere. I trust LastPass' procedures more than I do most websites'.
I choose a "meticulously deconstructed" variant. I call it the "onion method".

First, invent a self-replicating robot. It does not need to be miniaturized. It would actually probably work better if they were all stadium-sized. Allow replication, using solar energy and near-surface resources, until the entire planet is covered by a uniform layer one robot deep.

The robots then securely connect to their nearest neighbors. You now have a uniform robot tensegrity shell around the planet. The linkages expand until the shell rises to a uniform altitude above the surface. This likely requires a material with tensile strength higher than any currently known, and a material with compression strength higher than any currently known. I haven't done the math. Reasonable strengths may require that the shell robots run on the surface a bit to start the whole thing spinning faster than the planet.

A circular section of the shell directly facing the sun de-links, falls back to the surface, and begins replicating as before. The remainder of the robot shell opens like a jellyfish mantle, to catch the solar wind and reflect additional solar energy to the dark side of the planet. The shell sails to a different orbit, so as to not re-collide with the planet.

Repeat until all shells have sailed away.
I'd sincerely love to hear how you would improve Indeed.com. I no longer work there, but I did previously, and I still care about their UI. If you have real suggestions, I'll make sure someone at Indeed sees your comments.
> For most of recorded history, people married for logical sorts of reasons: because her parcel of land adjoined yours, his family had a flourishing business, her father was the magistrate in town, there was a castle to keep up, or both sets of parents subscribed to the same interpretation of a holy text. And from such reasonable marriages, there flowed loneliness, infidelity, abuse, hardness of heart and screams heard through the nursery doors. The marriage of reason was not, in hindsight, reasonable at all; it was often expedient, narrow-minded, snobbish and exploitative.

I hear this opinion everywhere, and I'm curious to see if there's any bearing to this idea. As far as I'm concerned, loneliness, infidelity, abuse, hardness of heart all occur with some regularity despite marrying for romantic reasons.
The people who need social services the most are not necessarily going to manage their money well.
Streams can be encrypted and decrypted, even arbitrarily. Here's a good read by Adam Langley: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/06/27/streamingencryptio...
I have an Android phone running Cyanogen. I mostly don't install anything ever (other than Signal).

No games, no social media apps, etc. I also have Spotify because I mostly listen to music rather than make phone calls.

I rarely browse the web on my phone, unless I'm testing a mobile application.

I refuse to install Telegram.
Yeah, the leaked/faked slide has it at 5.5GFlops, which is just shy of the 980ti.
Supposing the BI funding proposal doesn't include printing money (which is not at all clear), the price of inelastic goods (in particular housing) will rise to absorb the universal increase in income. There will then be calls to index BI to inflation, which politicians won't be able to resist, and the spiral will begin.
> Per-unit costs would consequently be much lower.

The government is notoriously bad at this.
I'll be in Barcelona this summer for a month. It's great.
A lot of the discussion here seems to revolve around UBI as a solution for poverty and homelessness, but I would argue that that's missing the point. As I wrote this this morning in re: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11807201

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Keep in mind when discussing UBI, especially in the context of poverty, that it is not a solution to poverty. It is a solution to automation crashing demand by throwing earners permanently out of the economy.

Robots take the jobs so people have no money to spend even as the robots make more stuff, cheaper.

What to do with the people? Throw them in a volcano? "Hunger Games"? Let's just give them money and see what happens, okay?

That's UBI.

UBI isn't for the bum. It's for you (okay, well, your cousin. You read HN, you're probably fine.)

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The thing that makes UBI make sense is that the economic order is being overturned by automation.

We simply no longer need to work to live. Bucky Fuller pointed this out decades ago. His estimate put the inflection point in the mid-seventies.

We are punishing ourselves.

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I want to have UBI so I can devote myself to a program of research. It may not pay off, in fact, it almost certainly won't. But there is a small but non-zero chance that it will pay off handsomely in terms of benefit to society. It's also a very non-linear, meaning that there is absolutely no way I can predict when it might payoff, right up until the moment it does (or I die, whichever comes first.)

There is no one to whom I can honestly say, "Fund me, it's worth it." Maybe I could find an arch-angel investor, but it would be pure patronage (not to say charity.) But with a Universal Basic Income I can devote myself to gardening and research and be no trouble at all to anyone. And I'm not doing anything uniquely important at my job so no one would be harmed if I quit.
Wikipedia says he was sometimes invited by the actual pilot to take the controls. Presumably that was just holding it steady. Apparently, he knew enough to switch it to autopilot.

He also didn't do a very good job as a doctor (supervising the residents doing the actual work). Wikipedia mentions that a baby nearly died because he didn't understand what the nurse was talking about.
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A liberal arts education makes someone broadly informed and fairly well rounded, who says that is useless?
The citations do not support your original claim.
>But wouldn't that lead to people living in the middle of nowhere where there aren't many jobs?

In theory, no. A UBI is not a free pass for a luxurious lifestyle, it's a basic income. If you want more than that, you'll have to work. If you want to not work at all and sit on your ass, then sure, you can go move to Tornado Alley or frigid Minot or wherever and live cheap and make some extra cash doing odd jobs like shoveling snow maybe, and smoke pot most of the time. I don't think most people want to live that way; people are too greedy for that, and want a nicer standard of living than the bare minimum. So, people will strike a balance, like they already do: they'll look for places that are affordable, but where jobs are also located. But unlike now, they won't feel so much pressure to live where jobs are, and might take a chance moving somewhere cheaper. We'll probably see more movement to lower-cost, smaller cities, and maybe some revitalization of small towns, but overall I don't think it'll be all that huge. I would expect a lot of people to move out of the really high-rent places where they're being subsidized by government programs to stay there.

>also what happens to all the people living in projects in what would otherwise be expensive areas? Ship them off to a sparsely populated non desirable area? Good luck with that

Why not? If they can't pay the rent, they'll be evicted. Then they'll have nothing but the clothes on their backs, and their UBI check, so if they want to have a roof over their head, they'll get a bus ticket to someplace cheap. This is a good thing: they're not contributing productively to their current city of residence, and instead of draining it of taxpayer funds, and they're taking up space that could be used for more economically productive residents. If their labor is really needed there, then the business owners need to raise their wages to allow them to afford the rent there, otherwise the businesses can go under. If the place is so high-rent that all the businesses move out and all the service workers move out, no problem, it'll collapse under its own weight and then after the landlords all go bankrupt the rents will go back to sustainable levels. Trying to keep people like that in an area isn't doing anyone any favors, except those who are profiting from the situation.
If the UBI isn't set high enough to allow someone to survive, then it by definition is not a "basic income". It has to be set high enough for this.

This may require some kind of extra government programs and legislation to do things like 1) make sure enough low-cost housing is available, and maybe 2) help people learn to use it effectively, including maybe moving them to low-cost locations if necessary.
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The brain is a computer, a chemical regulator, and a number of other things. Those are functional descriptions. The eye is an optical sensor, built in part on a jelly and protein substrate, just like the rest of our bodies.

Put another way, the eye is composed of jelly (among other things), but the brain isn't composed of a computer (among other things). It's a difference between function and composition.
This happens now, all the time. There isn't a government office of "I need money because my car broke down". Soup kitchens will still give out food and the Salvation Army will still provide shelter. Perhaps even more so, because Basic Income will allow more people to donate time and money to charity in their communities.
Right, 'cause Tumblr is the first site that comes to mind when I think of hyperbolic threats.
Stories from Radium Age sci-fi, which ruled the early 20th century
I think a good UBI program will eliminate the crappy social programs, and will keep some around to help transition people to the new society and also to help people who aren't helped just by having money to spend. For instance, child abuse: we have CPS for a reason, but giving everyone a monthly check isn't going to magically eliminate child abuse, so obviously we still need CPS for that. There's plenty of other places where we'll still need social workers to help people. But the savings we'll realize by not having armies of government workers making sure someone isn't "cheating" by getting a welfare check and then trying to supplement that with another source of income, along with various other benefits, will help pay for UBI. And eventually, by eliminating poverty and changing the culture (with both UBI and social workers), we won't need so many social workers.
Yup. I hadn't realised there was an alpha out; last I checked 11.0 was still on nightlies. I'll definitely give the alpha a look, and try it out if all seems good. Thanks for the heads-up :)
I would be interested if I could

1) host this myself. Something like apt-get install hyperdev.

2) have an integrated SQL database in the runtime. Concept of migrations should be known by the runtime.

3) have a one click deploy option that synced everything to a remote runtime, be it on my own servers or hosted by a 3rd party. Syncing to a runtime with older schema should automatically run migrations.
Hotelling's law.... with baseball bats.
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How does one read that quickly with any degree of comprehension, particularly with regard to technical books?

I am a fairly intelligent person, with a large vocabulary, but forcing my "mind's voice" to read faster than a normal conversational pace dramatically reduces both enjoyment and retention of material. Doubly so for anything of technical content.
I an of the view that it is a problem, but one which is almost wholly ignored and as such, not addressed.

Generally, software projects version as you have described, based on breaking the external API. If the API is unchanged, the library is deemed to be effectively unchanged.

I am not happy with this. ANY change in a library requires revalidation - and so the only way to deal with this is to have no change at all, not even in the library binary. To do otherwise is to assume correctness, which as we know, given the nature of software, this is something which is never always true.

This level of care about change is I think almost never used and normally software libraries take for themselves the advantages of fixing versioning at the API-breaking level - it makes development easier, at some of cost to the users of reliability (if the users accept the changes without revalidation) or at some cost to the users of work (if the users revalidate).

I think a library should act as a factorization - it should take into itself all possible work which would otherwise have to be performed by ALL its users, so that that multiplicity of work is converted into a single instance of that work, performed by the library authors.
It's a one minute read that is informative. You can do it.
The high taxes for cigarettes (and similarly alcohol) should also be taken into account when considering net gains/losses. According to this [1] in the uk at least the taxes more than cover it for tobacco

[1]https://fullfact.org/economy/does-smoking-cost-much-it-makes...
Good luck reinstalling lenovo laptops from scratch... I mean, I always do a clean Arch install, but if you want windows youll probably have to buy a copy or have them ship you their bloated version
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Detroit is cheaper right now, but people aren't moving there. Post-BI, Detroit landlords will raise rent to capture any additional disposable income, so everywhere will still be in the same relative position.
There is a lot wrong with how things currently work. I don't think that fact proves that we would be better off with basic income.

I am currently homeless. While homeless, I started a website to try to help me keep track of services that were actually useful to me with as few strings attached as possible so that I could, in fact, work on solving my problems and not get trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty. There are some things that are currently being done that are useful. And I think we would be better off identifying those things and trying to grow those things and get more attention for those things than simply throwing it all and starting over with something entirely new, which tends to have the effect of fucking over the people who are familiar with the current system and managing to get something out of it without ever delivering the sweeping benefits that are always promised.

I am very much for finding a solution the terrible problem of "housing inflation" where new housing now is around 2500 sq. ft. The rise of homelessness in the U.S. is directly related to the rise in size and cost of housing.

I am also very much for developing more gig work that actually works. A lot of it is done very badly, but gig work has allowed me to develop an earned income of my own while still homeless and my problems are getting gradually better. I think this is a better approach than basic income.

I also think we are at a place where we can help people be physically healthier and where we can start to resolve the root causes of mental illness. Getting myself physically healthier has been a cornerstone of my plans to resolve my problems and get off the street. Poverty relief problems are terrible about not trying at all to actually help people improve their health status or mental health status. This helps make them more intractable problems.

Thank you for your excellent comment, and for the work you have done to help homeless people.
Just as a tangential addon to this - I think if this were to happen, a computer with internet would have to be part of the basic necessities package. Maybe it's because I'm a nerd or the internet has had such a huge effect on me, but I feel with the internet and proper guidance to get tutorials, search things online and so on can really help those people produce things and learn. Without it, they might end up just roaming in the streets, doing drugs, maybe watch TV. Not to be cliche but I really feel like if people aren't introduced to the more "intellectual" side of life, they may never seek it themselves.
That site is amazing and it is shocking how many of my emails have been compromised by random games I've played.

For example, D&D Online and Heroes of Newerth both were compromised.

Here's my question...what recourse is there beyond resetting passwords? If a company did something as dumb as store my PW in plaintext, do I have any realistic legal recourse for what seems pretty negligent? I'd assume I'd have to prove damages of some sort, and I am not a fan of an overly litigious society, but it seems there is no real recourse for impacted users.
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ChaCha is also going to be the default for OpenSSH encryption (it's already supported by upstream, but I don't know if they've changed the default yet).
ArcGIS, ArcPy, all sorts of collisions in the GIS namespace.
I'd imagine it's more about not driving all the domestic companies away.
There is an enormous irony in a Recruiting SaaS company being so bad at recruiting.
samaltman, have you compared and contrasted your approach to GiveDirectly's and other existing programs?
I don't know. It seems even when people are irritated by a product they still keep using it. See TV or political parties. People don't like them but they are still reluctant to do something different.
I would like to take the time to follow up to some of your points. I don't think you are wrong, or are invalid, just offering other thoughts to your thinking.

>Automation is an absolute necessity to end poverty.

I have found that the people who are biased towards automation being society's silver bullet are the only one's who think this.

> Do you really think stone age people could have ended their abject poverty by just "fixing" their society?

I suppose that's one way to look back at history, quite revisionist, however. Great nations were united under great causes. Alexander the Great build the most diverse empire on this principle. Russia is currently being (mostly) united under its renewal of it's Orthodox roots, that were suppressed during the Atheistic regime that crippled it prior. Value systems can be provably shown to improve the well-being of societies. Obviously the problems arise when different value systems clash, which is why I am against the current era of globalization, but that's another story. (I think it's okay that different people be different). The other side of your point here I think is the technology. Yes the technology helped the stone age folks, but so did education -- sharing knowledge. The tools, in my opinion, always had one purpose in mind: better the fellow man. Our current tools we are building have lost this purpose long ago, or it's ends are highly questionable, at best they are being built with this utopian view in mind, without considering the great tragedy that will happen in between then, which was my original point. The rich oligarch caveleaders didnt oppress the other lesser pleblean cavepeople when they invented the hammer or fire, or keep it to themselves. It immediately improved everyone's situation.

> It is the immense wealth create through increased automation which has allowed the general well being of most people in the western world today.

I am really glad us fortunate to live in the western world are benefiting. By the way, as it relates to the overall population, the "western world" is miniscule.

> E.g the years bad blood between blacks and whites in America can't be changed by merely passing a set of laws.

I would 100% agree. We have to get the people who promote this worldview of separation out of positions of power. Here's what some people will consider a cooky view: Both sides of that issue are financially incentivized to keep racisim alive and well.

> It is likely much faster to develop an advance AI system than getting blacks and white American to trust each other

I take the symbolism as us having a black president for 8 years with generally good favorability ratings, and an excellent impact on the country overall as a sign things can improve much faster than you give it credit for. Cognitive systems, on the other hand, I think is much further away.
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Yeah, just like the military spending $600 on a toilet seat. The problem is that spending other people's money is easy.
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Again with the Ramsey theory! Every day, i'm reading about some amazing new result in Ramsey theory! It's like the microservices of discrete mathematics! Enough already!
>The problem with having many small creaks like that is most people don't know about all their rights, or are just too lazy to pursue them.

That's why it's better to just cut EVERYONE a check. Everyone starts at the same BASIC level of subsistence, and there are no welfare cliffs, administration overheads, frauds, tricks, etc. etc. etc. Then we work to improve our situations - as we ought.
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The ability the US has to assure people that you'll be able to buy oil with USD through military bullying of OPEC countries is a pretty good guaranteed value.
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I agree but Lisk can be great in theory if it can simplify these issues.