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One important component that should not be overlooked is how BI is tied to basic occupation. People do need something to do, no matter how automated the future becomes, and that thing ought to be something they are well adapted to do.

It should not be entirely left to chance. Unoccupied people will find every avenue for their unspent energy, and too easily this becomes competition, and conflict.

Farming is a good example of a pastime that is historically maligned yet immensely rewarding and pleasurable when done right.

Along with BI ought to be a very carefully structured form of basic income that allows people cultural engagement that is productive and sustainable.
In the same vein I've got to recommend

* Norman Yavin's Usenet archive of interesting technical and science related posts (http://yarchive.net/)

* Prof James Calvert's pages on about everything worth knowing (http://mysite.du.edu/~jcalvert/)
> So, as soon as a child goes to university, they get BI, and parents don't have to afford a single expense.

Most near-term UBI proposals (and all plausible ones) wouldn't pay all living expenses in most college communities + the costs of actually attending college, so the idea that having BI available to college-age recipients would alleviate all parental burdens of college-age offspring is, well, sheer fantasy.
The operating cost per TEU is inversely proportional to ship size. New container ships are 17, 18, 19 thousand TEU behemoths. Even the New Panamax ships are 13,000 TEU.
In the article, it said that the market price for shipping capacity has dropped by 60+% in the last 2 yrs, dropping below the operating cost for the ships.

Also, not all the ships are being scrapped, but there will be lower demand for Panamax sized ships once New Panamax capacity comes online.
Why would I want sqlite to run in the kernel? I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.
I don't think the issue is availability of shipping lanes. I think the issue is that they will be no longer economical to operate those ships when the new panama canal will allow ships that have twice the useful load to go through.
> Shooting electrons out gets harder and harder as you go since you're counteracting an ever increasing positive charge from the Earth.

Sure. This is fantasy of course - my accelerator is powerful enough to handle it.

> excess charge distributes over the surface

Yes. The plan is to put the accelerator in a hole so it can tap into all the electrons that are hiding below the surface (since the surface would be depleted of electrons). As the surface is blown away it would dig itself deeper.

It wouldn't blow itself to pieces like a bomb in a move, but rather as giant chunks fling themself into space chasing the electrons I've shot there.

I like my plan because I think it's the most energy efficient one out there that is actually theoretically possible today (i.e. doesn't require new physics).
The consequence is that a whole body of work winds up coming with an asterisk until people figure out what they can and can't trust. Papers may be looked at for inspiration, but won't be quoted for results. Eventually some of it gets proved properly, and the rest is abandoned. After that the older papers become mere historical curiosities.

A reasonably recent example of this is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_school_of_algebraic_ge....

A possible place where this could happen is the classification of finite groups. It has been "proven", but the proof is long, technical, and never was adequately reviewed. Lots of papers these days start off using the classification in interesting ways. However there is an open program to produce an actual reviewed proof. If in the process of doing that, we found that the original result was long, there would be a fairly large project to figure out the consequences.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_finite_simpl... for more.
1) Check out Meteor. It's very similar and can be self hosted. https://www.meteor.com/

2) You can use your favorite Node SQL package for that. Yeah, the DB has to be hosted somewhere else, but that's getting pretty easy if you're using PAAS services.

3) Yeah, that'd be nice.
>Safe spaces do not stifle free speech.

The definition of a "safe space" is one where free speech is not allowed. We have had safe spaces for centuries, they are called homes. At home, you are free to shield yourself from whatever speech, ideas, or behavior you find offensive. The whole crux of a free society is the freedom to be boorish, crude, or otherwise offensive. That's what freedom means. It means there is no authority that decides what forms of speech or expression are not allowed. We already have laws against assault and harassment, and those are enough.
> but there will always be work for those willing to do it.

No there won't, the past doesn't predict the future and post scarcity is a different problem than past automation. If you're looking to the past for examples, you don't understand the problem being discussed because the whole point is that automation is at a level that even white collar jobs are no longer immune and most people simply aren't going to be able to compete with machines at anything they're capable of doing.
There is plenty of work to be done.

When people talk about only having a limited number of jobs, I hear "tremendous waste." Don't fix that TV, throw it away. Don't bother sorting out the recyclables, throw it all away. Don't clean that, throw it away.
Agreed. The problem with comp time and swing/night shifts have to do with the inability to have time with the REST of your friends/relatives.

Sure, an occasional Tuesday after a nasty weekend is nice, but I wouldn't want to make a habit of it.
> It seems true that, given a single hour, you're "destroying" the value of the individual's leisure. However, the individual wouldn't have to work away all their leisure time, would they?

Sure, but every hour they're working would destroy valuable leisure time.

> Also, I would imagine that the world is big enough to get a job at company involved with a topic you're at least mildly interested in.

That's a really good point. There are whole classes of jobs which lie on this spectrum, up to "volunteering"—jobs which provide sufficient non-pecuniary benefits to not need a wage at all.

It's also a big problem with the current system where jobs and living are inherently coupled. There might be a job which could pay $1/hr which I would gain $7/hr in satisfaction from, but such a job can't exist because of minimum wage laws.

A wage subsidy might be a way of encouraging the fulfillment of such jobs, but it's unfortunately also going to end up subsidizing destructive jobs (like the minimum wage Walmart jobs that a sibling comment refers to). A subsidy program is very open to manipulation and also entrenches us in a model where a "job" should be the key determinant of income, even though lots of valuable work can be done through freelance or casual collaborations.

In contrast, UBI directly addresses the problem of needing to work to live. So people can do thinks like focus on art studio work (which might be fulfilling enough to require no wage), but can also do slightly less fulfilling work (for example, trail maintenance) at below minimum wage.
That makes little sense. Far more likely they just didn't take into account the fact that not every domain is a long-term "google.com" owned by a single entity for its lifetime.
Just a note, it is mostly American rice that has high levels of arsenic, in particular brown rice grown in the south.
> Tuition is due a few times a year (usually twice, but some systems are quarterly). If the student gets a BI every month, there should be no issue affording tuition, in addition to living expenses.

Tuition, fees, books, etc., together at many institutions are, annually, is near or even greater than the total amount of annual per-person UBI in many proposals I've seen.
Cool idea, but it feels a little like using FTP to develop in a live environment. The pitch seems to be saying SCM and deployment tools are bad things, but they're valuable and useful tools.
I think it's more that all types of software tech companies have been overvalued, rather than a specific cloud-based company problem. If it's a pure software product that works in a web browser, like marketo and zenefits seem to be, then you could stop innovation and maintain it with minimal development for a good long time.

Anecdotally, my father has been doing tech support for a product that hasn't seen any new features in over 10 years, but customers keep paying for it. His team is only 5 support people and a part-time developer loaned from another department who fixes an occasional bug. It makes many millions of dollars every year, and my dad doesn't even make $60k, so you can do the math.

If a company wants to sell-out to PE and stop innovating, good for them. That's the nature of business, and it opens up the market for a more innovative company.
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There is something healthy about having a rhythm in your life. I hope no company adopts an "unlimited time off" policy. Take off whenever you want but obviously only when your project allows for it.
I hear you, I do. But it irks me when people wave this stuff around like a magic wand, because it's just not.

It's like saying you have an O(1) solution to all TSP graphs with the teeny, tiny caveat that you start with a solution to the TSP graph you're working on.
Did you read #3?

"sales of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program vouchers brought in $858 million in cash in the 2009-2011 period"

That's almost $300M/year just for SNAP benefits. $300M here, $300M there, and pretty soon, you're talking real money.
Of course it is, that's the whole point. Its why the 1st Amendment guarantees all speech (despite the Unconstitutional restrictions imposed over the years by our broken legal system). You either have free speech or you don't - there is no middle ground.
And by NATO you mean who, exactly? The US constitutes basically all the long range power projection capabilities of NATO. Hell, the rest could barely sustain a bombing campaign in Libya without US support.

So, let's be honest, the US is the core of NATO, and everyone else depends on US logistical capabilities if they want to deploy troops outside their immediate area, with the limited exceptions of the UK and France.
I'm not sure what exactly is the alternative plan the author proposes with "Take days off spontaneously whenever you feel like it".

So basically just grant additional vacation days in exchange for the former weekend-days? (and maybe streamline the process to request days off)

This sounds like a recipe for the same psychological mechanisms and incentives of self-exploitation that are at play in "unlimited vacation" places: "Sure you can take a day off... but do you really want to let down your team in this critical phase of the project"?

Except now there you have literally no resting time unless you make the conscious effort to ask your supervisor for it (or invoke whatever other process is in place). Your supervisor doesn't like you? You want to do things that your current employer shouldn't know about yet? (e.g. applying somewhere else) Though luck!
While I was homeless I noticed how few people really made a difference. There are some, but you figure out pretty quickly which people to go to (and which to avoid).

Do you think crime will increase when every person receives money at the same time?

I think money management skills are going to be needed even more (but just receiving a deposit doesn't teach you how to master your money).
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All three of the programs you name are untouchable because they are funnelling money directly to powerful political stakeholders. Being real blunt here, poor people don't make political contributions and they hardly even vote. For the most part, they are easy political marks and cuts to general-population social programs happen regularly.

There are notable exceptions, like senior citizens - which is why we haven't done anything about the unfunded expediture on the Medicare prescription coverage.
I think they complement each other. Gimp is probably powerful, but I by the time I figure out how to do something, I forget what I was trying to do in the first place. Krita is easy to use, but can't do SVG. And Inkscape is still the best for SVG.
Ask HN: How do you restart a coding project after vacation?
Imagine you are coding a fairly complex payment system with 6 or so classes, invoicing, payment confirmation, email messaging, due date tracking, etc. Memorial day comes and you leave your code as a series of half completed read and write methods, getters and setters, and some buggy calculations, briefly commented. When you come back, you are at a loss on how to restart. This is what happened to me and it's taking all day to get my head back in to it.

How do you come back to a coding project after being away from it for more than a few days?
> While in reality, you simply need to block the distractions for a few hours to get work done.

Oh, I see. I suppose that depends upon your relationship with coworkers/clients. My expectation is that people around me understand that anything less than a phone call or in-person request does not demand immediate attention. If they don't, that's their problem. I've never had someone fire me for letting an email go a few hours. They might ask about it, and then I would just reply I was focused on something else. Pretty understandable in my opinion, and if not, again that isn't my problem.

That said, I think being able to do context switches without losing work is an acquired skill. There are people who can do it in conversation; when interrupted, they can come back to the original where it left off. I don't know of many people who switch between code and people but I believe it's possible to get good at it.
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My personal idea of a solution is to make basic income a "stream" of income instead of a lump sum once or twice a month. We have the technology to make a transfer happen hourly, or even minute by minute. By apportioning the income in that way it becomes impossible to "blow all [your] money" to the point where you can't afford food, because if you just wait half an hour or whatever you'll have enough on your card again for a decent meal. Rent is a little more complicated because with our current system you're typically expected to pay a month or more up front, but there could be an opportunity to come up with new rent contracts and payment methods at the low end that are paid hourly or minutely instead of weekly or monthly, removing the need to save up to pay a lump sum.

There's actually nothing in this scheme that's tied to basic income either -- we could do this reform with existing entitlement payments today in a totally revenue-neutral way.
I was joking. Honestly would be funny if this were a podcast tho
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Government agencies aren't expected to innovate, they're legally required to carry out the will of Congress and do absolutely nothing else but the will of Congress.

Most of the "failures" you see are the result of a dysfunctional political system. For example, the Post Office was looking to branch out into services like bill payments, identity verification, banking, etc but Congress forbid them from doing it. Not to mention the crazy requirements Congress set for pre-funding their retirees. No private company has to do that - most of them are pushing their funding obligations off to the future. Underfunding retirement isn't a good idea by any means, but the playing field is most definitely not level here, both in terms of responsibilities or ability to pivot.

It's wildly unfair to blast government agencies for not innovating. They don't have a CEO or a board, they have Congress calling the shots. Of course they aren't agile. And even worse, half of Congress thinks the entire concept of government services is illegitimate and is actively engaged in sabotaging and defunding those services. There's not really a parallel in the private world where a CEO is destroying a company because he thinks it shouldn't exist.
Well, there's kind of one place: when a value is converted to a signed type and it's out of range for that type, the standard says "either the
result is implementation-defined or an implementation-defined signal is raised."

However, integer overflow within an expression is trickier than this to define, because you want to preserve the compiler's ability to reorder sub-expressions that are mathematically equivalent when there's no overflow, without forcing the compiler to prove that there won't be overflow. The same is true of CSE and hoisting expressions out of loops.

For example, if you have a machine that traps on overflow and thus under this hypothetical standard your implementation defined signed overflow to trap, you can't simplify (a + 2 - 1) to (a + 1) because the second might trap when the second does not, and your implementation has said that the trap will happen. It also means that you can't hoist an expression out of a loop if that expression might overflow, because the trap has to happen at the point where it would happen on the C virtual machine, not later after other side-effects have become visible.

This is why trapping implementations imply "undefined behaviour" - it's because defining to trap severely restricts the compiler's freedom under the as-if rule to reorder and simplify expressions.
Going to have to say this is likely more do to consolidation in the industry. the top 10 shipping companies control two thirds of the capacity so when others join forces allowing them to share capacity they no longer need their own ships or simply need less.

Removing these ships saves money on crews, taxes, maintenance, and more. Throw in sharing capacity with other similar minded players and removing this excess capacity could raise rates.

Of course the downside is less independent players mean shipping prices could rise for non competitive ports
Definitely not 'the whole world'. Almost nobody I know uses Facebook any any serious sense. Facebook 'login' - yes. Sometimes to contact someone. Some lazy browsing. But nobody uses it in terms of the 'Facebook experience' as we come to know it.

I suggest that the majority of FB 'daily active' users amounts to logins. I check FB once every few months and yet surely, I'm commenting or logging in somewhere under FB pretenses.

I suggest FB is dying as we know it, though clinging on in peripheral usage and it's new messaging app.
If you release the content to people who shouldn't have it, the next set will not be distributed to you. Your contract will not be renewed.

https://archive.is/qt0n2
Isn't it unfair to think of Saas as a classification of software a la "word processing software" and more as a business model?

Like, nobody sets out to build a page that will host ads. One builds the product and then later settles on a way to get revenue. I've always thought of Saas like this, just another potential business model to follow.
I think we might be talking about different things. Miami is not an international destination. If you're living in Miami, you aren't traveling internationally.

I'm just saying that I don't spend a lot of time in Miami because it is expensive and there are cities that are similarly nice (at least in some dimensions) that much cheaper to live in. I don't know any nomads (digital or otherwise) who spend a lot of time in Miami...possibly for the same reason. Miami is a super cool city, but not an affordable one.
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can you give me specific examples of how tho?
This entire blog post could be reduced to use the HISTFORMAT variable, which the author doesn't apparently know about. Put this in your ~/.bashrc:

export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M.%S | '

An example of the "history | tail" results:

$ history | tail
50198 2016-05-31 10:15.57 | cd docker
50199 2016-05-31 10:16.03 | cd rpms/
50200 2016-05-31 10:16.11 | scp docker* omniscience:/tmp/
50201 2016-05-31 10:14.06 | screen -ls
50202 2016-05-31 08:33.34 | screen -x
50203 2016-05-31 19:06.53 | grep HIST .bashrc
50204 2016-05-31 19:07.46 | history | tail
50205 2016-05-31 19:08.10 | task ls
50206 2016-05-31 19:08.23 | docker ps -qa
50207 2016-05-31 19:08.30 | history | tail

A few from my bashrc:

$ grep HIST .bashrc
HISTCONTROL=ignoredups:ignorespace
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
export HISTFILESIZE=99999
export HISTSIZE=99999
export HISTTIMEFORMAT='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M.%S | '
export HISTIGNORE="ls:exit:history:[bf]g:jobs"

And then a cronjob that simply backs up the data.
You're right that no one is required to listen or allow posting anywhere. But you should, or you'll miss out.

I feel like this is covered in the link I posted!
well I have a lot of accounts I don't care much about, but it's still nice to know. the ones I do care about: Amazon, banking, Facebook etc do you have unique passwords.
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Did you know you can die from cold turkey withdrawal on some drugs, including alcohol? Do you consider that irrelevant to "need"?
Neat take on it. Finite state machines tend to be very robust since the designer has to lay out all the state transitions beforehand. Everything else is all combinational logic. Bad OO tends to have state spread out everywhere, but even good OO usually won't be so strict about state.
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Isn't obama care a so called disaster ?
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More information on their direct website, for those who are interested:

https://www.givedirectly.org/basic-income
there was a paper published 2008 on the state of linux/bsd package managers. some of the information is outdated (eg. pacman now signs their packages) however it is probably still of interest, esp. with all the language-specific package managers bent on repeating the security fuckups of the 90s/00s

https://isis.poly.edu/~jcappos/papers/cappos_mirror_ccs_08.p...
There is a problem with that though. For instance, if you're on foodstamps right now, and gas is not cheap, or it's very time-expensive to make it to the grocery store too often, then you're making single large trips. A continuous stream doesn't gel as well with that situation. You'd need a more comprehensive solution, like getting rid of food deserts in poor areas.

Or at least, if you're going to do this, you'd have to be very careful to not overcorrect for the 1st of tha month problem.

Not to ding your overall idea, I like it, think it's very cool. Just, to implement it with current infrastructure it would require a lot of care.

(Actually also I think rent or other large payments are less of a problem in your solution than you think - for anything on contract like that, you could simply reduce the rate at which continuous income is obtained. If your basic income is 100 units per whatever, and your rent is 43% of your basic income, you just reduce the stream down to 57 units)
For those that skip straight to comments, this is an article in which I introduce myself and talk a little about my experience of applying and being accepted to a coding bootcamp.

Hope you enjoy!
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