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This is clearly the worst aspect of our system and shows that it was designed by the mathematically uneducated.

It needs to be done in such a way that the total-income curve is monotonically increasing, so recipients never have a disincentive to make a little more money in their job. This should be fundamental and obvious, but because doing it requires just the tiniest bit of linear algebra, our elected representatives are not capable of it. Mind-blowing.
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Because all is more easily defined than some. Some is always some, even as the number of programs increases after the initial purge.
Most of our government programs are screwed up because they suffer from "over-fitting". Just like in statistics you can some up with a higher order polynomial that fits all your known data points but in practice it is going to be horribly broken if it is to be used to understand the nature of the curve.

The fact is:
1. We cant prevent all plane hijackings and incidents.
2. We cant prevent a lone wolf attack for whatever reason.
3. We cant help all people in all their difficulties
4. We can not come up with a government program or many programs that will help all needy
5. We can not prevent all frauds

Coming up rules like checking people shoes in TSA lines because of a past data point is overfiting.

The best way would be to come up with a very uniform welfare program that includes everyone without a racial, gender,handicap and any other bias.

Encourage private charity to help people get through exceptional situations.

Another problem with separate welfare programs is the massive wastage in overhead + the total lack of empathy among the people who actually run it. Encouraging private charity would solve that problem to a very large extent, a church group often achieves more with less money. Not to mention when there is more money in private charity companies like Watsi can come up which will bring in more innovative ways to help people. Currently federal government's welfare money will not promote innovation.
But you are just guessing at what the problems might be.

I think that is the point of this pilot -- find the problems that crop up.

Your own argument is that it should not be done wholesale until we know what the effects are at a smaller level: that's what's being done here.

Start small. Fix smaller problems. Ratchet up. Rinse and repeat.
Just to note that the session can still be thoroughly hijacked through malicious javascript on a page protected by HTTPOnly cookies in that the malicious code can make AJAX requests in the users browser to your domain and the HTTPOnly cookies will automatically authorize them. The difference of HTTPOnly cookies vs Local Storage is that the hijacked session is limited to the users browser/computer in the HTTPOnly scenario and in the Local Storage scenario the token can be downloaded and used later by the attacker (this is somewhat mitigated by things like JWT expirations).
> You can't sell the $800 you save in subsidized housing.

People sublease housing units without permission (and even outright illegally, even before considering rental contract limits) all the time. This includes units that are subject to one form or another of public support, whether its rent control or section 8. So, yes, you absolutely can sell (as for Food Stamp benefits, usually at a value less than the subsidy) the benefit you receive from a housing voucher.
Always a nice reminder.
reminds me of this:
https://deardesignstudent.com/in-praise-of-the-ak-47-a24cc8a...
Having interviewed a few people in the last year, my number one suggestion would be to show some enthusiasm for coding / tech / a particular language or framework that you have used. Tell the interviewer why you like it (or why you don't). Its really difficult to evaluate a candidate when they just give an answer to the question and no more.
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I do that a lot too, often I don't care to listen to the sound or am in a place where it would be inconvenient to listen.
I thought this about landlords as well, but landlords are also subject to the same economic rules. Many landlords are just trying to cover the payments on the their property + a little extra. If the landlord has BI as well as the renter, then the baseline doesn't really move at all. The landlord doesn't have to charge more to cover expenses because they get BI too.

That's the theory, anyway. I really have been on the edge of my seat to see how this idea works out and what the details will be like.

My biggest concern with BI is the abolishment of state healthcare. With healthcare expenses as astronomically high as they are in the US, I think the only real path to a workable system would be universal healthcare + universal basic income, and then getting rid of welfare, food stamps, etc. I can't see this working if people have to spend all their money on health costs.
I guess they simply won't. Apps that don't adapt can't open the file. Period.
This is well and good, but I thought from the headline that they were talking about Intellectual Ventures.
Just to check, you do have the histappend shopt set, right?
The other side of the growth hacking coin is retention, which is also fraught with systematic duplicity and dark patterns. Each of us needs to exercise our judgement about how we put food on the table. And if you don't know how the company that signs your checks gets the money to do so, you need to find out.
homeless, underemployed and malnourished etc. in USA are far better than Homeless, Underemployed and Malnourished 50 years ago and even the lower middle class in the rest of the world.

I would prefer to be a homeless in USA than lower middle class in India.
>Application manifests, which are mostly resources included in every executable file for compatibility reasons, will require apps to add a mention of this new policy, thus making sure that they support a path longer than 260 characters.

So if it doesn't have the manifest entry, the program will be assumed to not handle longer paths.
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I'm not sure that's the right ratio to look at - someone making under 10k isn't going to pay taxes at all. The average income in the US is just over 50k - I would expect that's about the income where your UBI would be 1 for 1 - your taxes go up 10k and you get 10k from UBI.
The biggest concern that I have with UBI is how do we avoid the Basic Income Trap? It's pretty widely accepted that we fell prey to the Two Income Trap [1]. If we institute UBI, how long will it be before a person needs their UBI and another job (or two, or three) just to scrape by?

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/11/two-income-trap
Adtech in general is kind of difficult to grok at first. It's dense with jargon and is largely driven by partnerships and resale. To a newcomer the industry can be very opaque.

It's likely they weren't working on the actual ad injection itself, but rather the backend systems that select and count the ads. From that perspective it's just a matter of handling X requests per second, without it necessarily being clear where the traffic comes from.

When I worked at Adzerk, we'd be approached occasionally by companies doing this kind of garbage. They were always very good at disguising their actual traffic sources. Our sales team had to be very adept at asking the right questions to eliminate the shitty partners quickly.
>But giving someone a months worth of rent/food/utilities/clothing in cash is going to be disastrous

If the poor can destroy our society because we cut them a check, we're fucked as it is. Who knows if BI is implemented "no strings attached cash", but it's not impossible to imagine outreach groups to get people to spend their money more wisely.

And despite the help, some of them will continue to buy vices. You cannot help those people until they decide they want to change. But this small waste of BI is not a strong argument against BI.
This is a rebuild of the original:

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Well it wouldn't be 100% subsidized, meaning that the company has to payout some money. With a subsidized payout, I imagine companies would hire even more people. And, even if someone gets away with not actually "working", there's a cap on the number of dollars the government subsidizes.

As much as I like the idea of programming side projects by just relying on BI, I'm not sure how realistic that is; I think cost of housing and food – both of which are increasing – needs to get much lower for that to be possible.
Which is relevant for the ~1% of the web that doesn't use JS then (even screen readers support JS) and LOTS of sites won't even work at that point - cookies or not.
By the way, the Pi3 had ARM64 cores.
It would be interesting if some of the homeless sleeping on the street were included to see if they get themselves together or not.
Not a very creative name. There is enough IT related products with the name Arc already.
then "We'll simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes."
If you are an engineer I would expect a better capability of root cause analysis than that. Your list of things there is entirely comprised of things that are largely outside of the control of individuals.

"Poor people are mostly poor because of the decisions they make."

* Drug addiction

Yes, a person can choose to use drugs. Usually the choice is made under intense peer pressure and at a young age. We won't let children under the age of 18 be bound by contracts, but we still stigmatize them with poor choices made when they were often younger than that. Once drug use becomes drug addiction, it is no longer a choice and is excruciatingly hard to break out without external help.

* poor budgeting

Yep, budgeting is important. It's a shame that this isn't given top billing from about grade 4 on. Budgeting isn't just about managing monthly income and expenditure, it's about forecasting, and understanding financial risk management. Unfortunately, at least in the US, the education system is pretty abysmal, and it appears to be difficult to actually get students through school in some parts of the country.

* gambling, alcoholism,, mental illness, etc, etc, etc."

These are actually all tightly linked to the word "illness". Gambling is often a learned behaviour that is linked with poor risk management and financial planning knowledge (see previous section on budgeting). Alcoholism is learned behaviour, that like gambling depends on poor impulse control, and addictive tendencies which are both physical and mental illnesses (or just illnesses once you get past the labelling stigma).

"Hard working people with not vices don't live in the slums and generally can support their basic needs."

Turn on the news, or better yet, read a couple of socio economic studies -- especially ones whose conclusions you find distasteful (it helps break your personal filter). This is flat out false - it is hard to support your basic needs when minimum wages are too low, finding full time work is hard, and there is a glut of skilled professionals who can't find work in their field, so they take up all the entry level jobs.

If you are actually an engineer you should be capable of composing a better comment than what you wrote here simply by thinking it through first.
Apropos of anything else, I definitely appreciate your ability to acknowledge and recognize a competing/separate product as better suited than your own for certain things.
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Could be. I will look into the choice before I commit - figuring out how one of these complex lock-free data structures works and implmenting it correctly and writing all the tests cases is a major undertaking. It's something you want to make sure you're making the right choice about before you invest the time.

As an aside, binary trees turn out to be really great with lock-free. In the obvious locking implementations, there's one lock per tree. You can use read-writer locks to get parallelism on read, but even so, the mere existance of a single lock of any kind induces memory contention which eliminates scaling as processor counts rise.

I'm sure there are in the locking literature better solutions, but I'm up to speed with lock-free, rather than locking, solutions, so I don't much know about them.

Regarding lock-free, there is no single lock, and btrees are beautiful because they naturally distribute memory accesses throughout the tree. Performance basically scales linearly. There's a gnuplot on the site from a 16 core Amazon VM, and that property can clearly be seen. Every new core simply adds another 200k benchmark ops per second. For the other, non-scaling data structures, new cores are death.
Yes, that's the point. People like it a lot but are worse at actually interpreting it. It's confusing when people have to read lots of confusing data quickly
UBI is barely distinguishable from negative income tax when you have a single tax bracket with fixed tax rate and a fixed amount of nontaxable income. Difference is in how you do accounting and usually frequency of the payouts.

When you have multiple tax brackets it's a little more complicated but I think still mostly the same.
UBI will be yet another political weapon to yield, just on the taxes side rather than the payout side. Where do we draw the line between who nets positive on UBI after their tax increases, and who loses money? That would be an enormous political weapon to yield.
We will definitely be following this protocol. We're committed to transparency throughout the study.
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I think you could solve that by increasing minimum wage at the same time. That would also make min. wage increases more palatable.
everybody will have emergencies and blow the money. BI just makes it simpler to get money back from society in general (where some individuals have plenty) to people in a more just way
Ctrl+R (reverse fuzzy lookup) -- In my early days, I quickly found it very annoying to have to scroll through garbage to get to the command I want.
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In the scenario you mention, you're scuppered regardless of whether sessions are stored. The best way to mitigate this particular problem is to use subresource integrity: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
His position is ‘that either position or momentum are “as yet undetermined”’. That means that the ‘uncertainty’ is not due to our ability to measure things, but ‘rather […] a statement about the actual reality about what variables (hidden or not) are stored by each particle’. :)
That is a very insightful comment. I wonder if anyone categorizes new ventures using the same methodology.
Yea, I think KVO could be done better. As I recall, Ember properties were pretty neat, and had a nice way of specifying dependencies. A lot less awkward than a bunch of + (NSSet )keyPathsForValuesAffectingValueForKey:(NSString )key methods.

I'd also want more strongly typed keys, less strings everywhere. I do use NSStringFromSelector as much as I can, but strings are unavoidable in IB.

Also the handling of one-to-many dependencies could be made a lot more intuitive as well.
With such small amounts, the fees would be a huge % - no different than loan sharks everyone already has access to.
I wonder if this would have applications for environmental cleanup?
I've fielded calls from several older relatives who thought their computers were broken because videos on Facebook had no sound. They saw the video playing and had no idea they would need to take further action if they wanted sound.
If it does not, how can you concurrently include and link against multiple versions of the library?
But at that point what you are describing isn't basic income. It's welfare+medicaid+food stamps+section 8 housing under a different moniker, along with all their administration costs and inefficiencies.
I suspect this is a biased sample. Those of us who have motion sickness susceptibility just won't volunteer for the experience.
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> "which means that it's also decreasing consumption and/or investment by an equivalent amount"

I am not sure about this, because the net amount is still new money in the economy, being spent for services, saved, or invested. Yes, a typical person is paying more taxes, but they will have net more money to spend or save: $BI - [Tax on $BI] is still > $0.

As a further example, let's say there is a salon that employs 2 beauticians before BI. After BI, they see an increase in business, and now can employ 3 beauticians, increasing employment by 1. The 3rd beautician is now paying taxes that were not paid before. Those taxes in part can help fund the BI.
Well, kind of. In BNW population too was controlled by government, but not through means of warmongering, fear and hate, but through pleasure inducing drug that made people numb to anything happening outside of their daily routine (and eugenics, mostly).

So I think banning is more Orwellian. But sure there are a lot of people who wouldn't care about censorship on the internet, even if it would affect them too.
The payments could be made weekly. That way if someone was irresponsible and blew their basic income on non-essentials they would only need to survive on whatever they had left for a week.

Also, there would still be a role for social services in getting kids out of harms way if their parents couldn't look after them, but basic income would be sorted out separately, without using means-based testing.
Debt. The government will simply pump more liquidity into the economy. Not that this will cause any side effects, right? This idea is all a non-starter anyways, at least in the US. As a "pure" form of communism, there's little to no real support once the details are actually discussed. Redistributing this amount of money is impossible; we can't even run a balanced budget in the US.

It goes against so much of the American ethos of independence and self-worth that I think we'll have self-driving flying cars before BI or UI.
Do you think our current government safety nets provide for this already? If so you are living in a dream world.

Besides we already have the answer, payday lending, while often predatory in the current system, becomes easier when you consider everyone you know will have capital to loan you, and everyone already has a basic income from which the loan can be paid.
The nrf51 is available with 32K RAM, but only in combination with 256K of flash, designated with the AC suffix (AA: 16K/256K, AB:16K/128K, AC:32K/256K). The 32K chip has been shipping on Adafruit's boards for a while, and is now even shipping on some of the generic Chinese dev boards and modules, so I assume it's widely available.

I imagine the main reason for going with the cheaper chip is that micropython was a pretty late entry to the list of supported coding environments, and the hardware was probably already pretty settled before the port started. Also BLE+4K of ram is probably usable in the other official (compiled) languages, and micropython does otherwise work aside from something that's a fairly advanced feature. So it would have been a tough sell increasing the cost of every board when most students and lesson plans will never use BLE and there are other languages available if they do want it/need it.
>In a future where wealth is concentrated and more jobs are automated, job types 2 and 3 most likely grow, not shrink. That's what happened because of past technological progress and I don't see a reason to think it will happen any differently this time.

The thing is, contrary to other eras, job types (3) (and some (2)) will be also be able to be performed by "robots"/software/technology.
And things that lag with an increase in demand? Housing, etc.?

I don't doubt that it will have some benefit towards the TPP of low-income consumers in the long term -- I do doubt that in the model of replacement of current welfare systems that this is an effective approach, and I doubt that it will be effective in the short term as housing prices will skyrocket. The long term effects of the latter would be interesting if the short term shockwaves caused the policy to be repealed.
you can also update your HISTIGNORE to do things like not log 'youtube-dl' commands, or not log 'mysql -u root -p<password>', etc.
The top 3% do pay their fair share. More than their fair share really. It is the .1% or even .01% that draw far more from society than they pay.
>Every nation is built on a hill of skulls

Did you quote that from somewhere? Because that is an amazing turn of phrase.
We have BI in Mexico for people over 65 years old since about 10 years ago. Nothing is different in general, but for some of those people I would think those few pesos are life changing.
This makes me uneasy, but not for the reason other people are saying. By committing to a 24 hour response time, they seem to be committing to a response strategy that doesn't involve any investigation. There's a risk that they'll end up removing important speech, and things that are only borderline in their questionability.
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Did you read about his/her background? Sounds very dismissing of that.
Well, it's difficult to see how this trial study is going to yield any useful information.

- The sample subjects are incredibly biased, in that they are already founders and presumably motivated individuals. Not a representation of the general population, not even close.

- The study has a time limit (5 years). So no test subject is going to make life-long or life-altering decisions based on this limited trial.

So, this study doesn't seem to accomplish any of the basic tasks needed to study ramifications of such an idea in practice.

All we will know after this study is concluded, is how founders treat monthly cash given to them for 5 years. In reality, it sounds a lot like YC is just paying them a salary to build their business.

YC is testing the outcome of paying their founders a salary in order to achieve greater gains down the road... something any business will attest to being beneficial. This is not a BI study.

I agree, start small, work up. This is why I said let a small nation conduct this test (such as Finland, who is already planning to convert into a BI economy full-scale, from my understanding).

> But you are just guessing at what the problems might be.

No, the issues listed in my previous post are clearly issues with conducting this test at a city level. Part of preparing a study is to examine complications that may impact the findings... and these are obvious complications.
> Oakland is a city of great social and economic diversity...

Ok, here's an honest question. These days we often are told that increasing diversity is the responsibility of all successful healthy organizations, end-of-discussion (see: GitHub).

Under what conditions would increasing _economic_ diversity be seen as a good outcome?
Perhaps my comment wasn't clear enough: I'm proposing we treat capital gains as income. From the article on Romney:

"The reason Romney's rate is so low -- despite having one of the highest incomes in the country -- is because his income was derived almost entirely from capital gains and dividends from his extensive portfolio of investments. And that form of investment income is typically taxed at just 15%, well below the 35% top tax rate for high earners."
You're saying we should ignore past bad behavior because Google, Facebook, etc. are good guys now. Logically, that would lead us to excuse current bad behavior by smaller companies because everyone does it, and they'll do good once they are big enough.
Agreed 100%. I usually call the venue and ask if I can purchase tickets directly from them instead of going through Ticketmaster. They don't always say yes, but it's usually cheaper and more pleasant when they do.