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(copied from another comment that I posted this in originally by accident)

You consider NHS to be an example of a well run nationalized system, and yet the NHS deals with chronic rationing [0] [1], has queues for many things (and actually lets you pay to jump place in line) [2]. I'd hardly call that efficient or well run - instead, I'd call it symptomatic of central planning. During the 90s and 00s I thought that perhaps China's simultaneous transition from poverty and shortage to (relative) wealth and abundance (which was driven by their transition from state control to capitalism) would have finally put this 'the state could eliminate shortages and give everybody everything' nonsense to rest, but it seems that people have very short memories indeed (or just weren't born yet when the major experiments in nationalization were underway).

To give you a preview of the links, this quote is particularly poignant:

"Rationing is nothing new, of course. When waiting lists stretched to many months and even years, treatment was often rationed simply by the patient dying before they reach the operating table."

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/08/nhs-rationing...

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2015/apr/24/ra...

[2] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3104106/NHS-charge...
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As far as I can tell from a quick glance (WhatsApp Web is blocked at work unfortunately), the battery level is transmitted once at page load. So, a constant indicator might not work well.
Might take a further look later.
Basic income, unfortunately, is not a problem of economics. You can argue for month about its viability, but ultimately, I think basic income is a problem of politics, because I can't see western governments and their representatives agreeing to change their systems to implement it. Reaganomics are still alive and well.

Basic income really sounds like one of those socialist counter weight, that, just like new deal policies, can make capitalism viable again, but I feel it will criticized for being some socialist measure. The end of the cold war is still too near.

It's more a concern of political belief than anything else. Of course economists and administration can argue about it, but in the political scene, I'm very pessimistic.
I was going to say hubris, but Wednesday also works.
Here's a thought experiment I've been been wrestling with... Imagine a dirty low skill job. Something that currently doesn't pay much and is generally considered low status. Assume it's a job no one really wants to do but do because it pays them a living. What would happen to that job under UBI? I would assume that due to vacancies demand for people willing to do this work would go up, and companies would need to lure in applicants by raising pay. Imagine that would indeed attract workers. How would this affect that company? It's costs would rise. Will it become less competitive? Will it raise price? Would the sector have to be subsidized to stay afloat? Would it start some kind of 'moral revolution'? I imagine new coping mechanisms would need to be devised and the economy would morph into something quite unlike what we live under today.
Land being lived on by its owner is being used to live on, not for investment.
Yup, but running stability studies is also costly too, not so much for the testing, but for regulatory approvals - you need to write up the stability part again, argue why the results are still acceptable in case you see any increase of degradation products, and pay a fee and wait 6 months to 1 year to get it approved, then enjoy paying again to relabel all your package, PIL, etc... that goes with it.

Most of the time, unless you had a realllllly short shelf life at submission timing, the additional work is not worth it for the pharma industry side. Resources are better used working towards new/pending products.
Did a similar thing a few years back, with playlist support and uzbl as the browser (which is much faster and lighter than chromium) and omxplayer to play/stream full screen video.

Just a Python script with playlist support, really:

https://github.com/sapo/digital-signage-client

We eventually gave up on using Pis due to lack of decent hardware acceleration on the browser (still missing, BTW) and I then built this:

https://github.com/sapo/android-signage-client

Plenty of videos and samples at both links.
Yeah, items 1, 3, 8, 9 and 10 are somewhat nonsensical (3 might need geometry, but it would be more about physics).
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Relevant to the article about Robocalls[1] that recently made the front page on Hacker News:

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11792776
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No is the answer to your second question, other first world nation's governments pay for the drugs and bear the cost burden.
So... let's make some solar panels and relax?
This one is easy. Just ask everyone in the town one question:

"We're going to provide a basic income for you and everyone else. Now, what are your plans for work?"

Basic income will manufacture laziness.

As a homeless teen, when I received charitable handouts, it was humiliating. "Why am I so inferior that I can't provide my own stuff, and rely on others to support me?"

- makes you lazy
- and paradoxically you begin to dislike the handout-givers -- "they probably think they're better than me because they're self-reliant and without them I have very poor prospects."

I turned things around by joining the military. Having handouts and not having to work was okay but it leads to resentment, and if you're not lucky enough to feel you're as good and worthy as the handout-givers, you start feeling worthless and stop trying.

Ever see signs in national parks warning "don't feed the animals" ? A lot of park-goers believe that's because human food is bad for the animals. That's only part of it.

The parks do not want the animals to become dependent on handouts. They want the animals to always get their food the normal way -- hunting for it, working for it. NOT getting handouts.

Once an animal (or a person) becomes accustomed to handouts, they stop working hard, or hunting/foraging in the animal case -- just wait for the handouts.
I very much disagree. I suppose it depends on how exactly you define "far"... but I've been a professional programmer for 15 years now, and have very little math skills (maybe some algebra? mostly forgotten by now, and calculus always escaped me).

As a web developer, most of my skill have to do with designing user interfaces and API's, learning various libraries/languages/frameworks, defining problems, estimating, communicating with other humans, etc.
Good on you. FYI you can theoretically hire Penrose and Knuth too - they're all alive.

You may find it interesting to read Einstein's discussions of religion and spirituality too, in particular this quote:

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal god is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Albert_Eins...
"Do you pay for DVDs? Pay to see movies? What about the artwork on your clothing, or the design of your car?"

1. No.
2. No.
3. What "artwork" on my clothing? Everything I have is for work, white or blue collared shirts. Occasionally I'll be really wild and do something in plaid!
4. Don't have a car and I won't support the consumer vehicle industry. I use mass transit, thanks.
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> do people still develop desktop app for windows and make money doing it?

I have been doing Windows desktop development in the last three years and there are lots of requests for doing so in the enterprise space.

More than we can fulfill actually.
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This would likely be undistinguishable from schizophrenia, no? Intrusive images and sounds - no thanks.
> With healthcare, a person is going to need it [...]

Not really, at least not at the current stage of technology.

During most of your life, healthcare is more like a lottery, ie you might never need it.

When you are old, something will eventually get you. And a lot of health care costs are spend on these end-of-life conditions. Alas, our massive spending at the end doesn't actually help very much: they mostly give you a few more month of suffering. (For things like cancer etc.)

For a lot of people hospice care is both cheaper and provides a better quality of life. (Some in-law of mine went from hospital care to hospice care when the cancer treatments got worse than the disease.)

See eg http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/09/10/robin-hanson/cut-medi... for a similar argument.
in Africa most of the mobile phones sold here are from huawei, xiaomi and other Chinese companies. And you find them cheaper and with most of the features a high end smartphone have as.
That is a npm issue.

I do web development on Windows using Java and .NET stacks, never had the problem.
> one of the main reasons for the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy

Hmmm ... based on what I've read, that might be the main rationalization. The reason is that the agricultural industry demands subsidies and has the political power to obtain them (as in many countries).
You are right in some theoretic sense.

Alas, politics is the art of the possible, and hypocrisy is a valuable tool.
How does that happen? Doesn't this imply government interference in people's lives (eat this, eat that, exercise etc.,)? Given that such advice is frequently shown to be wrong, this is problematic.

The NHS doesn't seem to incentivize prevention of diabetes in the UK. To quote 'UK Diabetes': "Diabetes is the fastest growing health threat of our times and an urgent public health issue. Since 1996, the number of people living with diabetes has more than doubled. If nothing changes, it is estimated that over five million people in the UK will have diabetes.". This disease largely results from personal choices often made on the basis of misleading information.
Then why do we have taxes at all?
or at a client site where you're not given network access for a few hours cause the network guy is out to lunch.
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Very true. They default to believing all use is illegitimate, though
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"Post-scarcity" is nonsense and would end all problems if it wasn't. The problem is declining real value of most people's best laborer prospects without eliminating scarcity. Which isn't no jobs, just progressively crapper jobs for a large segment of these population.
Yes, pretty much.

(And incidentally, that's a great argument for replacing almost all taxes with taxes on land rent: any extra money people have left over after paying taxes etc goes to bid up housing costs. Lower taxes and you get higher housing costs. A land tax can recover the lost revenue---and it's really hard to hide land and evade the tax.)
Sounds a bit like 'declarative vs imperative'.
And yet we still have states, and they still provide basic services (e.g. roads, water, waste disposal). Why is that? If they were as useless as you think they are we would have removed them a long time ago. Maybe there's still something useful in them?

Regarding your point of reading up on USSR etc.: I've talked with people who lived in these countries at that time, thanks. They don't see it as black and white as you do. Which kind of makes my point.
What sort of organism is our society? As a group, we have granted the right to turn down all work to numerous individuals. Since before we picked up tools we have been driven to minimize unwanted labour. Perhaps we are evolving into the 0.01%
It's not arcane notation, it's content-aware compression at work. When a mathematician sees a small greek delta with subscripts ij, they immediately know it's the Kronecker delta. If every paper would explain every convention and notation in the field, all papers would be huge and much less readable for those working in the field.
I fully expect the market to take over in this regard, providing opt-out "BI services," which will provide people all basic needs that fit within the basic income stipend. That way people won't even have to think about taking care of their most basic needs (utilities, food, communication, transit).
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In a dream world this would go underground at Jackson Heights and connect LGA to the subway system.
I know it's frowned upon to discuss downvotes, but I think it's relevant to the conversation.

Godwin-evoking private forum moderators exercising their right to police their turf aside, I always find self-moderating upvote/karma systems on forums interesting. Ostensibly the point is to allow users to control the tone of the site, and promote interesting, relevant content. In practice it is used to bury unpopular opinions and register distain.

Some comments are justifiably downvoted for being of spectacularly low quality, whilst many others are hit for not reflecting prevailing opinion - essentially we (internet commentators in general, not specifically HN, although it's hardly exempt) actively squash Free Speech on a daily basis.
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How funny, we have the same idea, but I think it's going to be market driven, but kind of like obamacare, where its opt-out with a basic provider given to everyone.
Stumbled upon this when searching for an easy way to give my docker containers data volumes, that can move to another host, when the container moves to another host.

I wanted to go with Flocker (although it is a bit complex) seeing it has some nice features, but it only supports rather complex block device backends (https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/latest/flocker-features/storag...) and I'm not on AWS / GCE. I have free space lying around on some servers' disks (not extra devices or partitions, mind you) and there was no easy way to make this space accessible as / to a cluster.

This blew me away! Setup was a breeze, just add an apt repo, install a deb + maybe 6 deps and answer some prompts, done. The docs are easy to read and not cluttered, see http://www.skylable.com/manuals/sx/manualch3.html (use sxsetup --advanced to change the port, if needed).

They have support for mounting a volume from the storage cluster as a normal directory via FUSE (http://www.sxfs.io/#install).

Did I mention it's free and has Users and basic ACLs for volumes?

A basic web GUI is also available (as an alternative to the enterprise version) here: https://github.com/skylable/sxconsole-lite (runs via docker, just answer some prompts)

But wait there's more! Some other goodies include an S3 compatible API (https://www.skylable.com/products/libres3/) and Dropbox like apps (http://www.sxdrive.io/) - which I haven't tested, yet.

Bonus: One founder of Skylable is the author of ClamAV.

So my curent plan is to just create a volume or several, mount them on each docker host via sxfs (FUSE) and bind them into the containers, where needed. I'm curious if anyone has other suggestions on how to make use of spare space on servers for multi-host data volumes.
Right, like nobody has died while staring at their smartphone.

You're either an idiot or a troll.
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But do they pay as much as US citizens do? Note that I'm not suggesting that it's bad if they don't. It seems like part of the purpose of single payer insurance is that you can negotiate much better rates with pharmaceutical companies. So either other first world nations aren't negotiating really good rates, or they are negotiating good rates and they're paying less than US citizens are. (I would hope it's the latter.)

Let me sum up my thoughts this way - if single payer insurance saves money overall, that money is coming from somewhere. As it's been explained to me, that money is most likely coming out of the pockets of pharmaceutical companies and private insurance providers. Obviously saving money is great for everyone - except the pharmaceutical companies and private insurance companies. If that money dries up, is it possible that will stifle innovation?

I don't know the answer, and I'm not using this as an argument directly against single payer insurance. I see the value of single payer insurance. I'm just curious about side effects.

EDIT: Just to be totally clear, I'm not crying any tears for drug and insurance companies losing money. If we can get people the treatments they need at a lower cost I'm all for it. I'm just mildly curious about the macro effects of these types of changes.
I have been eyeing Xiaomi for some time and even bought some of their products. And I was not disappointed. Something tells me that it's going to be the next Samsung.
Even if it didn't cost a dime, some drug companies might not be interested in longer expiration dates. If the expiration date is passed, and you throw it out, you'll have to buy a new supply. More profit!
It's a perverse effect, but that's the way it is.
Government provides many basic needs in the U.S., from roads to airports to sanitation to education to security (police, fire, and military); to food, water, shelter and healthcare for the needy; to justice, to much more.

These services generally function relatively well in the U.S. and other wealthy countries.
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>gotten a total 35% raise since starting

Relatively meaningless percentage if you don't state over what time period. One could ballpark the minimum %/time.
Or maybe I stay where I am, in a country with a healthy mix of government provided services and market provided services. Shocking idea, isn't it?
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Yet people in the UK love the NHS, afaict. I watched the debates on Scottish secession; both sides, Yes and No, were emphatic that if the vote went their way, citizens would retain what they called their "treasure", the NHS.
> It teaches critical thinking

Not my experience. Actual critical thinkers lose half their IQ points as soon as talk turns to history. People who know last week's history as reported by journalists has to be taken with a big pinch of salt, yet cling to whatever narrative of centuries past they've once read in a book, as if they had first hand knowledge.
I can't help but wonder - if there is basic income, won't the economy adjust and prices would rise so that any basic income would be insufficient again to buy you anything more than food for a week (not enough for rent or anything fancier)?
WITHIN BOROUGH, just try to get from LGA to the Ronkonkoma LIRR line. Not an unreasonable request. The line shows sort of helps. But at the least, it should have a station at LGA.
I guess the right amount would be, if you're democratically inclined, to whatever reduces political influence of the wealthy over the less wealthy. The current US distribution and it's political and economic destabilizing effects seem in favor of higher taxation on the top incomes.
Also people with pre-existing expensive conditions would need to pay a lot more.

Either, because insurance companies charge them more.

Or, if insurance companies are not allowed to charge them a special price, healthy people will be reluctant to pay for (now) overpriced (for them) insurance.

One clever technical way out is to have your parents buy insurance for you before you are even conceived. This way, because neither the buyer nor the seller of insurance knows what's coming, it's not a market for lemons. (And if the parents genes make this kind of insurance too expensive, because it's expected that you inherit some defects, perhaps they should rethink their decision to procreate with each other. (Just like couples with sickle-cell-anemia on both sides are already advised.))

But of course, people will not be that farsighted, and we don't want to penalize people for their parents making stupid decisions, like not to buy insurance, more than necessary.

So in actual life, a basic version of an NHS like system plus optional extra insurance you can buy seems like the most sensible policy.
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Let's say you have a person living in a remote area and they don't interact much with other people and they don't have a basic income. Are they free?

Let's say someone lives in the city without BI, is it fair to say that moving into the wilderness is an option for them, and therefore they are free? Does it change if they started in the wilderness?
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I think there are a lot of data points missing in this anecdote.

What do you pay for health insurance? How many people in the lower levels of society could afford to pay what you pay for healthcare? Do you have an employer that provides you with healthcare benefits?

I agree that healthcare in many countries could be greatly improved, but at least in many of those systems you could just walk into an hospital to start the process.
Ready to enter US market.