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Basic income should be subject to garnishment, just like any other income. There are limits to the amount that can be garnished (In WA state its 25-35% of total income, depending on type of debts) that would protect them from having it completely taken away.

Doughnut holes in benefits always create odd distortions where people would turn down a small raise or increase in hours because they would actually loose money due to the loss of benefits at the higher income level. In this case, it would be people not willing to work as the extra money they would make would go mostly to the debt rather than their pocket.
The Philosophers' Mail is from the same people who started The School of Life. Alain de Botton is the author.
Not having kids is an extremely common option that's growing in popularity. It's also incompatible with the modern welfare state as currently structured.
"It's going to be cheaper to make sure people have bread and vaccinations despite themselves than it's going to be to solve the resulting issues later."

The limited research so far seems to show people generally make good decisions when given money without stipulation, and the idea we need to tell them how to spend their money "despite themselves" is probably very misguided.

Of course, more research is needed, which is exactly what the YCombinator program is planning to do.
speaking of this, how do you do delete those crazy node_modules in Win10 from the command line? Powershell or CMD
The system that exists now in the US is broken and already exactly what is described.

Those with money pay too much for insurance because those without insurance are only covered at the last stages, when it becomes inhumane (by anyone's definition) to deny them care (which is also the most drastic and expensive level of care for a problem) which is then 'written off' and padded in to the 'prices' asked for other services.

A LOT of medical costs are actually sunk fixed op-ex. Big expensive machines that cost deferentially little to use or not (but always coast a lot to have the option of using), drugs and other supplies that have shelf lifes, etc.

Labwork presently requires a lot of humans, but much of it could also be converted to automation and human review, lowering the per unit cost; if there were incentive to make such technology.

It's also a major bit of administrative overhead to have to haggle with different insurance companies, hound patients for billing, and in general worry IF someone will pay and how much.
Ah so it's not to catch them while they have money, it's to catch them when they know the poor people with poorly maintained cars will be heading to town. That's quite shameful.
I guess we now must expect much more like this from Vice after Rupert Murdoch got them.
Sweet, I've been wanting to create an OS on a RasPi, and your project just made it easier. Thanks! I was going to use Electron, but I guess Chromium is good too. I'll have to change some things to make it work with my FeathersJS app.
Yeah, I think this exact article was there but it's down now. I immediately checked my pocket archive and even though I pay for premium(meaning my library should be permanent) it's gone.
I liked it when I first read it and I like it now.
Depending on your race.

https://ourworldindata.org/future-world-population-growth/#w...
In every debate, there are people on the wrong side of history. Mr. Porter, welcome to that list. Granted, the point that it won't happen today is true enough, but it is an inevitability (assuming we don't blow ourselves up beforehand), so it's important to start thinking about it now.

What frustrates me the most with these articles is that they don't base any of their information on actual fact. Take, for example, the argument of disincentivizing work. This is one of things that seems "logical" if you're a pessimist or an asshole, but past experiments with basic income have proven it to be untrue (look at the "Mincome" experiment in Manitoba for proof).
Sorry - by war in the west I meant from a European perspective, not global. Poland being the 'war in the east', from a German perspective.
I more or less agree with the parent. The article poses a pessimistic approach to mariage as a sane approach, but I find it utterly depressing to consider a whole life married to someone you have to make constant painful efforts to live with.

Of course you can, but from the outside you'll be miserable. You are master of your emotions, and can still make do with the situation. But you could have married someone you are more compatible with and only need slight efforts every here and there.

Everyone has flaws and in any couple there is a need to make adjustments, but the size of these adjustments will still wildly vary wether you take care to choose someone that fits you or not.

Saying "nobody's perfect so why care ?" is a thing nobody in their sane mind would take seriously.
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I hope there is some self-interest in having kids! One thing that I hope to impart on my child is that martyrdom is a terrible go-to practice.

The goal I have with raising my child isn't to create a miniature version of myself, it's to raise an autonomous individual with a robust moral framework. As far as self-interest goes, sharing this experience with my partner is one of the things I look forward to most over the next few years.
Why did you say you were fired for underperformance? Why didn't you say it was a bad fit? Usually, that's the root cause.
History isn't a 'useless' major
There was a time where "computer" used to be a job title. The digital computers we created were basically made in our image. Given this, who can be surprised at the idea that our nervous systems are computers of sorts?
There are a fair amount of pingdom clones out there with free trials. Throw a few of them at a webpage that does select count(*) from users query, and you can get notified within a minute or two of a failure (for free).
It's OK he's just taking a nap.
IMHO

VC is tightening, the job flow is slowing and those two trends were forecast to last longer than their funding sources were willing to stick it out.

Next up to bat are those whose client base is other 90%+ funded startups?

However, never up to bat are start ups producing cash or with the prospects of doing so. I don't think this is going to be a nuclear winter event, but that the gap between "making it" and "not making it" will grow wider. Those that are on the bubble are the bubble that'll burst, and sama will still win his bet. :)
How is it free when it says it is 10 cents per hour per host? There is a LITE plan but it seems like no alerting?
All currency is a "pointer", not "value". That's the purpose of currency.
Look at other popular libraries, and consider how they solve this problem - and whether it even is a problem for them (and if not, why).

Usually, this sort of versioning is done if and only if a breaking API change occurs, and such changes are avoided if possible for that very reason. If you only rev the major version number on breaking changes, then you only need to reflect that number in your API (and even then only if/when you actually rev it).
This was the expectation that the author believes makes everyone the wrong person to marry: that a perfect being exists who can meet all our needs and satisfy our every yearning
+1 looking for elaboration. I mostly agree and want to know your reasons!
Ya I guess that is the bigger difference. NYC you travel less far to find sanity than Palo Alto.
Me too. I figured I was about to see problems with and alternatives to current VC models. Instead, the site is an advertisement for an unusual VC. Title should probably reflect that.
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I have hit this limit when trying to make backups with rdiff-backup (written in Python) on relatives' computers. I found out about UNC paths that way, haven't managed to get rdiff-backup to accept them. Does anyone know how to do that?
Handle six months of adventure together?

Try eight years of monotony. I guess if you have the monetary means and nothing to tie you down to a monotonous lifestyle, this will be avoided. But for the standard 2 kids 9-5, good luck.

Not saying it isn't a stress test, but it just isn't the same. And the unfortunate truth is there is no test other than actually doing it.
That is an amazingly nice home page for a project. No clutter, to the point, all the info I needs, and loads fast.
Or alternatively, a digital impulse chemical continuum computer.

Features include:
* No stack
* Mostly type safe
* Process complex thoughts known as emotions

Bugs:
* ships without a C compiler
* Consumes too much coffee
* Version upgrades correlated to earth's rotation around the sun.
And the comment train I was on was using unit test for documentation on valid inputs and outputs.

Asserts are documentations on valid inputs and outputs that very cleanly break when violated.
I got this information second hand, but for what it's worth: There was a graduate student at my university that was well known and highly regarded for his stellar software engineering skills. At one point he took a job writing a missile guidance system. His reasoning was that there were two options, either he wrote the system, and could make damn sure it worked exactly to spec, or someone else would write the system, and do about as good a job as the other complex software engineering projects he had encountered. In essence: he took the job to minimize collateral damage.
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I guess I count myself lucky in that I never bothered to look for anyone, not even in the context of casual sex. For me, people are such a complicated topic that I'd rather share my time with a cat than another human being. It's not to say that I don't enjoy the time I do share with my friend (yes, I literally just have one friend) but I can't see myself having anything but a friend or two in my life. I may be setting myself up for a lonely life in my later years but I've lived this way since college (never had much in the way of friends during my k-12 years). And honestly, I'd rather be lonely than miserable. I can always make a friend, but I can't unmake bad memories of a failed relationship/marriage.
I say code the happy path, and then have assertions.

Saves writing 12 unit tests that show passing null breaks the code. No one cares about that.
rmdir should do the trick:

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp...

Although installing MSYS2 http://msys2.github.io/ provides a far superior command line environment IMO and then you can just use rm.
This makes me very excited for Zen CPUs pricing/performance, too, especially in light of Intel's tendency to add a couple more cores and double the price of its chips.
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As with current welfare programs: you get a check every <interval>, end of story. People are free to make bad decisions and get themselves evicted, but those situations will be because someone is incapable of managing their money, not because they're incapable of making it.

Likewise, landlords will be more willing to give people a chance because they know you're not going to 'lose your job' so to speak. That said, the idea of a basic income seems like it should also include free courses on managing your money – best practices, techniques, ways to work around impulse buying, how RRSPs/401k/etc. work, and so on.

Also, welfare programs as currently implemented aren't a safety net below existing incomes; they're not a line of credit that you fall back on when your car dies again. They're programs which are paid in lieu of an actual income, which is frustrating to apply for and be on, and in most cases they pay you so little that you can't afford e.g. child care and rent, but which also force you to prove that you're out there applying for jobs even though you can't afford someone to watch your kid while you do.
It's straightforward: throw the moon off in the direction of Earth's motion around the sun. The Earth has 81 moon-masses, so you'd have to throw the moon 81 times faster: still less than 1% of the speed of light. That'd take considerable energy, but the sun outputs 3.846×10^26 W, so we'd only need 17 years of total solar output. It'd be a lot easier to just roast the Earth's surface, it's true.

(I haven't read the original post in a long time, but had thought about it myself before.)
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I read the book and it didn't seem like it was embellished in anyway.
It sounds like you were doing two things that don't really work well in Python + framework environments in my experience:

1. Depending on internal state: I've always had a harder time working with state, regardless of language. I usually try to structure my code so that most of my business logic is encoded in functions that have inputs and outputs and don't modify any state. Only the toplevel functions modify the state, and they do so by applying database queries or updates that were generated functionally. This also can often drastically simplify or even eliminate your mocks.

2. Not unit testing. Without static types, it's pretty necessary to unit test. Think of it as that you test whether the types are correct by trying to use them in a trivial case. This is a double edged sword: on the one hand, unit tests give you more than static types: a type checker can tell you if the two things you're adding aren't numbers, but it can't tell you that you're adding the wrong numbers. The flipside is that nothing will tell you if you didn't test something, or didn't test it correctly.

I don't know if you'll have opportunity to try it again, but maybe next time try a test-driven development (TDD) approach where you define your function's interface (inputs and outputs) write failing tests that test those inputs and outputs, and then implement to make those tests pass. I don't encourage dogmatic TDD, but it can be a good starting point. Once you get a good feel for what kinds of interfaces are testable and where tests are helpful, you can scale back your testing a bit and test more pragmatically as needed.
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A smart interviewer doesn't need that to be wordsmithed. I would follow up by asking some questions about what it was about the position or culture or company that didn't work out well.
What you're saying is that we should provided more robust child protective services. Those services would have the authority to determine if dependents were malnourished. If found to be malnourished those dependents would be forcefully relocated into a state (or private) run system that would feed, clothe, and educate them in the interim before they were placed into an adequate adoptive or foster home. At which point the state would pay the foster parent(s) a daily stipend which would be used to continue to feed and clothe the dependent until the point at which they reached adulthood. The state would also provide healthcare and continue to send child protective workers to the foster home to evaluate the home and verify that it meets the standards of an adequate home.

I agree that the solution you presented has the potential to help "break the cycle" so to speak. But inherently the cost of a program the magnitude of which was described is likely to be a large investment. Which, would suffer from the same perspective of economic unfairness as society would end up paying even more than now to raise other people's children. Due to the economic impact, those opposed would likely spin it as a government program to "Steal away and indoctrinate your children with agenda of the state." A subset of the population gets angry when any mention of taking their guns away occurs. How do you think people would act if it was their children? It doesn't matter if you're a responsible guardian, any talk of the state increasing its power to "remove your children from your home" is bound to strike an instinctual part of your brain.

Proposing "free breakfast and lunch" to solve the immediate small term problem of hunger within the school system to help reduce behavioral problems has a direct positive impact. The only real negative is the cost.
> The total money supply remains constant under UBI.

Well - it doesn't, actually.

A self-sufficient program would have to be self-sustaining via tax revenue, and unless the goal is to defeat the whole purpose of the program, the tax revenue will disproportionately come from the wealthy. However, the wealthy are less likely to spend every extra dollar that they have, which means that they're more likely instead to save (invest) it[0]. In other words, this proposal would transfer money that is currently being used for long-term investments[1] and put it towards consumption.

The velocity of money would increase, but the actual supply of money would almost certainly decrease, holding all else equal.

[0] Money stored in the bank is an investment; it is the source of capital for others who want to procure loans for investment and infrastructure projects.

[1] These deposits create money, thanks to fractional reserve banking
Healthcare != food. As a liberal and a libertarian, I'd like to see BI replace welfare for basic living expenses like food, shelter, and transportation. Healthcare is different. It can be very cheap, or suddenly very expensive.

Part of the motivation for BI is that it's the least expensive means to the end of not having homeless people starving in the street (among other ends). Likewise, universal health care is the least expensive way to keep working-age adults from dying or being crippled by treatable health conditions.
Then again, how are you going to quit your job, with its sweet golden handcuffs of medical benefits, when you have kids to provide for?
Method 1: Annihilated by an equivalent quantity of antimatter

I don't think this would work as well as one might assume. When Earth and anti-Earth collide, the vast majority of the mass will be blown into space by the initial explosion, and will never actually get a chance to annihilate. There might even be some coherent chunks left over.

If you can manage to transform every other atom from matter to antimatter, evenly distributed through the body of the planet, then you've got yourself a good kaboom.

Method 11: Ripped apart by tidal forces.

The idea here is to move Earth within the Roche limit of either the Sun or Jupiter. The problem is that the Roche limit depends on density, and Earth is substantially denser than either the Sun or Jupiter (Earth 5.51, Sun 1.41, Jupiter 1.33). I haven't done the math, but it's possible that the relevant Roche limit in both cases would be below the surface -- i.e., the Earth would (barely) survive the tidal stress even in a surface-hugging orbit. And once you've done that, you might as well just drop it a little lower; falling into either the Sun or Jupiter would do the trick quite effectively.
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There is a difference between the two. Getting doxxed is caused by social regulation going awry. Getting removed by a company is that company controlling the narrative. Neither is good, but one still allows for the freedom of expression.
The upside is that when we figure out how to stop hate speech, we can apply the same solution to spam, and finally be rid of it.
No, I made sure not to click anything, though I did check the raw message to confirm the links were genuine (or at the right domain).

I've got 2FA enabled, and I checked my gmail access history and there are no unusual locations or devices.

It's just very odd to me that this has continued, gradually, over a month.
"This makes sense to me because I have a feeling most people who would need to rely on BI also have a problem managing money."

This belief is the underpinning for most current welfare systems, but is there any evidence supporting it?

Some citations to studies indicating the opposite is true:

https://givedirectly.org/research-on-cash-transfers
Ask HN: How do you sync your source tree from the host to the VM?
It seems like syncing source between the host and VM should be a solved problem by now, but I've yet to find something that satisfies all of my use cases.

NFS/Samba with the source hosted on the host machine means that git/search operations inside the VM are slow and don't get file change notifications.

NFS hosted by the guest prevent Atom and VS Code from using filesystem change events to keep their UI in sync. Also tools like ag and git are slow.

Periodic (or change-triggered) rsync is too high-latency for huge source trees. Ideally, within 100 ms of saving a source file in your editor, it would be available on the VM.

Surely there's a tool that, on both the host and the guest, 1) rapidly keeps source trees in sync 2) provides filesystem change events and 3) has great performance and sync latency... Conflicts aren't an issue - they can be be resolved arbitrarily as long as the trees are eventually in sync.

What do _you_ do here?
It seems to me that this is all about access to data (state).

Pre-OO (and FP), we had structured programming, where the data lived in variables or structs, and anybody at all in the entire program could alter the data. That turned out to be difficult to maintain, because if the data wound up in a bad state, any line in the program could have changed it.

OO (as typically used) meant that an "object" owned the data, and nobody else could touch it. That meant that, if the data wound up in a bad state, only a very small section of the program could have (directly) changed it. That was a huge improvement.

In (pure) FP, the data disappears. You don't talk about it directly (except within one function, where you have bindings to it). The data disappears into the plumbing (the connections between functions), and nobody changes it. If it was computed correctly when created, it's correct forever, because nobody can change it.

In this sense, both FP and OO are trying to solve one of the biggest problems with the old structured paradigm.
What I think the system(s) should do at this point is actually 'arrest' the person, take them to someplace that evaluates them for why this situation occurred and then addresses the malfunction.

Maybe it's a legitimate case of hardship; the individual is doing the best the can, but society and circumstances have simply doomed them to failure. Forgiveness (of various kinds) and moving forward are recommended.

Maybe they are in an area where the cost of living is too high or they can't find jobs to supplement the basic income and allow them to afford additional expenses. Find them a job and/or help them move to an area that society needs them.

Maybe they cannot manage their own life and circumstances: convert BI to paying for semi-managed lifestyle (E.G. a dorm and/or community food kitchen in their housing block).

You might have noticed a common theme here, instead of handling an exception with a punishment you handle it with identifying the actual cause and attempting to address it. Any 'punishment' as a result is a loss of freedom (in exchange for society helping you with your problems).
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