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> On top of free healthcare and education, why don't we just top up everyone's income to the equivalent of the minimum wage?

That strongly incentivizes under-reporting income. One of the strong points of universal income is that it is relatively easy to administer.

And well-off people would be taxed more so as to return all or most of their payments. It's not pointless, since it serves as a safety net the instant the large salary goes away, with no application or needs-based investigation that slows the process and costs more money to administer.
Wouldn't it be cool to have thousands of things like these swimming around in your circulatory system, repairing damage and fighting illness as they found it?
I think that's still up in the air. Hopefully they'll consult with the researcher they just hired before finalizing their back of the napkin design.
Awesome fun. Love the attitude
Calling GamerGate a terrorist hate group is a much more supportable premise than his dismissal of the Mass Effect 3 fiasco. For more background see: http://kotaku.com/5898743/mass-effect-3s-ending-disrespects-...
I guarantee you that you did see the dialog the first time you pressed ⌘-Space after upgrading to a version of OS X that includes Siri Search. You probably just skipped past it without thinking and then forgot.
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White sheets?? Are you in the KKK?
That is the least important point, but please keep in mind then that the decreased expenses (alternately, increased tax expenses) to offset the cost of BI will make others unhappy.
Agreed, hate cannot be distinguished by 1/0, but only men. And men is proved to be biased.
Looked this up, and it's not only selling snake-oil to parents of sick children, it's MLM selling snake oil to parents of sick children. I honestly didn't think such a level of depravity was possible.

Oh, and they had Ben Carson for a spokesman for a while. Amazing.
Participants' financial health, including savings and ability to weather economic shocks, is one of the key outcomes we'll be examining.
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You'll find there are two voices for BI, the liberal and the liberatian. The liberal would prefer to keep universal healthcare and food programs and put cash on top, making the total distribution to the poor larger. The liberatian would prefer to simply move the complex paternalistic safety net into a simpler cash payment which doesn't disincentivize work while not increasing it's size.

As an aside, if you pay attention you'll see the two types of people will squelch their vocalizations in the interest of a short term alliance in support of BI.

Personally I believe the liberal position has both moral and practical superiority. 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.
Well, 50,000 years ago, if you were hungry you could find some edible plants, or throw a stick at an animal and eat it. In today's society there is limited hunting and the land that grows food is privately held. And if you try to build a shelter anywhere on land that you don't own, it will get torn down. Not to mention the fact that you really can't own land -- property taxes makes it a rental at best.

Now one thing that would be neat -- what if most of the utility ground cover was actually directly edible by humans? Imagine replacing all the wild grass and weeds with edible vegetables. Of course they would have to be bio-engineered so that they are desirable for people, grow like weeds, yet not get consumed by vermin.
(Dude, the "work ethic" predate capitalism by all of recorded history. C'mon.)

(Also, buy some robots. Enough to make more robots.)
Indeed, it would have to be guaranteed by some big insurance company (e.g. YC could simply buy annuities). If those companies fail, there will probably be bigger problems in the world :)
It would replace welfare programs, not all social services.

If children are not being cared for, the state will still intervene.
> Or, alternatively, to have fewer kids, if they were planning (as many parents in the USA do) to provide financial support for college to those children.

How's that? Every BI plan I've heard floated around starts paying out when a person reaches 18 years of age (absolutely college age). So, as soon as a child goes to university, they get BI, and parents don't have to afford a single expense. Seems to alleviate the burden of having a child in that age range.
We theoretically already have Child Protective Services to take children away in that case. Child abuse includes "[failing to] provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care or supervision."

On the other hand, there's the darwinist approach...
Brython's too slow. It's not reasonable to push an entire Python-to-JavaScript compiler to your clients on every page load!
>you need to loosen from a theoretical moral ideal to a practical one that is informed by the competitive landscape of capitalism

Not necessarily. It's very easy to think that existing industry protection laws are immoral and operate a company that skirts those laws without breaking morals.
The grandparent's POV is a pretty common one. Just about anybody can get a job making minimum wage, which will bring home at least (7.25 × 40) × 4 = $1,160 each month (more in some places).

That is enough money in most places to rent a basic apartment and buy plenty of food to eat. Plenty of people in that bracket also have cable TV and a car and a smart phone. It's not easy and it's not all that much fun, but you're not going to starve or freeze to death and the Wheel of Fortune you watch every night is the same Wheel of Fortune that Bill Gates watches.

That's the definition of "solved" that's in play here.
The meaning of speech depends on context, always. If I say something by myself, in the privacy of my home, it's much different than if I say the same thing with a microphone to an angry mob. Yelling "fire" when a building is on fire is different than yelling it in a crowded theater where there is none (a classic example from law).

Similarly, if a white person publicly says something discriminatory against black people, it's a much different context than if a black person says the same thing. As an simple example, imagine a two black people in a room of 40 white nationalists: If one black person says to another, "hey n-!", that's much different for the person hearing it than if one of the white nationalists says the same thing.

There's a lot more to that word, including black people taking power for themselves and away from racists by using it (really a brilliant, innovative way to push back), but that's too much to write here and now.
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I thought Gibson and Stephenson were plagiarizing Pynchon's style.
Inflation is caused by a total increase in the money supply. That doesn't have to be the case with UBI.

The way that you get rid of the inflation caused by the money that is added to the system by UBI, is by taking away from someone else. Usually this is done through taxes.
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Wow! So it balances out? I am not supporting 50onRed here, but the point that doing some good and some bad things is okay, is no good.
Short of internment camps, how does any welfare/safety net program address this?
I wonder what happens when the Earth's magnetic poles reverse, like they have in the past. On average, it happens every 200k - 300k years, so animals have experienced this many times.

I'm guessing there's a lot of initial confusion, but that they become accustomed to the new orientation, once they associate a direction with whatever sense they have of the magnetic field.
"Nobody forced you to take the money."

Prices rise to what the market will bear. Cheap debt means the market will "bear" more than it would in a less leveraged society.

If everyone but me takes a loan, the price of tuition goes up. This means I now have to take a loan or not go to school (which means I can't get a job).

Same happens with housing. If everyone but me takes out a jumbo mortgage, prices go up and I now must take out a jumbo mortgage or forego homeownership.

As long as a degree is a required piece of paper to obtain most jobs, college will be a requirement. As long as rent offers no equity and mortgage interest (but not rent) is deductible, homeownership will remain one of the middle class's sole paths to the accumulation of wealth.

Today's wacky "in-deflationary" economic condition can continue as long as central banks hold interest rates near zero and wages are stagnant.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent
The US has a separate set of social services that deals with protecting children from abuse and neglect, which handles such cases. Basic income can't fully replace that because not all of what it does is about poverty, so don't expect them to go away if basic income is adopted.
The problem with most BI solutions is they just want to hand out money but not change how its used and where. There is certainly sufficient technology to track and even restrict the usage of BI funds.

So my idea is this, your restrictions on your BI lift as your income does to the point its just flat out money the ends up in your account. You could put forth some requirement that to receive BI you agree to have that portion of your income tracked.

So you get your BI. You are permitted to spend it at certified service and goods providers. A service provider could be your landlord, your mortgage company, or more, when it comes to residency. We already track food stamp usage so you lock down that too good healthy foods; no smokes, beer, or chips for you!.

With regards to medical. Catastrophic and preventative services are where government should look at for health care. Just play it out under similar rules to how most HSA based insurance plans work. You are subject to X amount per year and the rest is not your worry.

the danger of BI is that government fees which adversely impact the poor are just as likely to increase and worse knowing how many programs for the needy can work there are ample opportunities for fraud.

Oh, Canada's liberal party is thinking the BI solution http://winnipeg2016.liberal.ca/policy/poverty-reduction-mini...
isn't this sort of a use-case-specific choice?
for unsecure data you can sign it and put it in a token as a cookie eg JWT. Different use cases will support different approaches and have benefits and draw backs. The more state you put in the browser, the less you have in your app. That can be better or worse for many reasons - simplicity, performance, scalability etc are all impacted.
Not defending anyone in this, but plenty of women affiliate with ISIS, too. That doesn't mean ISIS is good for women.
Not at all my intent to skirt the issue. Slavery is objectively wrong and has always been wrong. The entire Christian reason is human freedom and liberty to captives.

Christianity is what ended slavery and additionally, without it or apart from it, slavery would not be wrong (if you have reasoning otherwise, let's hear it).
I'm unsure about the German system...

I've been on welfare here in the USA. The way it works is dependant on your income. The more you make by hard work, the less assistance you receive.

That sounds fair... Until you realize that section 8 (housing) is the same way. Food stamps are the same way. At the time, there was a cutoff for the free clinic (which counted benefits as income).. I made $100 too much.

When doing work and getting paid $1 means taking $3 in losses from assistance programs, this grinds people further into poverty. The further I try to dig out, the deeper I get until I hit the point that I can start to survive without any assistance...
Is this intended just for prototyping/dev or full hosting of production apps?
The logical extension of that is a justification for current, smaller players building new "hills of skulls" in their quest to build their own new nation. But hey! You know, once they're big too, they can put it all the shady dealings in the past and be one of the good guys, and it'll all be fine!

It's a weak justification.
You can have any opinion you want as long as it agrees with our's. Everything else is hate speech.
The YCR statement says:

"We think everyone should have enough money to meet their basic needs—no matter what, especially if there are enough resources to make it possible."

Why give free money to people who are too lazy to work?
Serious question: why should everyone work?

Followup: why is having some minimum amount of resources to live on immoral as opposed to merely unfair?
He's totally right, and it's scary.

The hive creature(s) will be cool, though. Little gods.

Maybe, behind his proposed barricades, little enclaves of individuals will survive, for a while.
Bloomberg site is godawful. It reloaded the article on me 3 times while reading it. Great way to rip off advertisers with more pageviews and piss off readers.
A tent, a pair or two of clothing, and meals of rice/beans/vegetables can be provided for less than $2k/year. A life comparable to this, but requiring more work, has been and continues to be lived by hundreds of millions.
I think you could allow cookies only for the initial request (you may even be able to simply only allow cookies for GET requests, as long as you're careful to ensure your GET endpoints don't have data-manipulating side effects) and require passed tokens for all other kinds of requests.

For example, you could use a cookie to authenticate serving GET /user/account-settings to render an HTML form, but then require submitting the form (e.g. POST /user/account-settings) to pass a token from localStorage.

This wouldn't protect you from all kinds of cookie-based attacks, but at least you'd have a guarantee your endpoints aren't vulnerable to CSRFs.
Just because the government says it will be "forever" doesn't mean it will. When thinking about planing the multi-generational prosperity of your family (something few people do to any serious degree) you can't take the perpetual existence of this-or-that political institution as granted.
Yes. I have seen the white paper for the red-black tree, and the approach used should work for AVL (I've not seen that paper). I've just not had time to implement yet. A full O(log n) data structure is necessary for the library to be really useful piece of work - but there's a lot of other things which are necessary for that, too, and they have so far taken up most of the development time.

About 10% of the effort so far has gone into coding the actual data structures - almost all the work goes into testing, benchmarking, performance tuning, documentation, porting to new platforms, fundamental improvements in the basic design and so on. The benchmark app alone has taken all in all about six full months to write. I thought it'd be simple, it turned out to be a tar-pit!
But few people want to participate in message boards filled with hate speech. Any public forum needs rules of decorum, just like any public or social setting in real life - few would want to participate in forums where others behaved like 4chan message board posters.
Your work is stunning. Could you describe your process for choosing a color palette? Does that tend to come after you've completed the shape?
Fandom isn't broken. Are there nutcases in fandoms for things? Yeah sure, that's life. Everyone from authors to musicians to film directors and video game designers have a few fans that take their love of the work too far. Only difference is that there's no authority or editor that can filter out the 'hatred' before it reaches the creator.

As for GamerGate... it's not a 'terrorist hate group'. There are some extremists in it (and some extremists against it), but it's basically a revolt against what some see as a broken media, political correctness being forced on a community that didn't want it and favouritism among the gaming press. Kind of like the situation with Trump or Sanders or UKIP or the anti establishment political movements really.
> You can say that any time anyone says anything (and on HN someone usually does)

As well they should, personal anecdotes rarely contribute much to the conversation.
Well played! :D
Notice that people do undesirable jobs because they probably don't have many other options. UBI gives them another option. This would either make pay for undesirable jobs increase, OR people would be forced to automate them. Seems like a win win.
244 atoms still sounds like a rather large molecule (which is cool). Not being a chemist, how does this generally compare to other compounds, synthetic and natural?
Why would you want ECC for a gaming box?
these intermediate ruby salaries are 3x the market price for South Africa.
What kind of results do you expect from this pilot? I imagine you could get some positive results (i.e. people change behaviour when they get unconditional income), but my expectation would be that not a lot would change. But the problem is that if the result is negative (the behaviour doesn't change), it will be invalid, but most likely misinterpreted by casual observers.
The funny thing about debt is that it's looked at as a fundamental force of nature and not from a political economic relationship. The debt is owed to someone. Someone, somewhere is getting the interest payments. The duty of a debtor to pay the lender is enforced politically. The creation of fiat currency is controlled by the central bank, etc.

The Chinese realize this. On a political basis, they regularly buy up and write down bad loans with money the government electronically prints itself. This wouldn't work in our democratic system because politicized debt forgiveness is too obvious of a way to buy votes. Instead we have the fed buy bad debts from the banks in a form of politicized bad investment forgiveness, but the debts never go away and the taxpayer is partially stuck with the bill and hence austerity in the form of government bailouts.
The author probably could have used an ANN to segment the images as well before feeding it into another NN to classify the images. This has the benefit of re-using the character recognition network, which would better simulate what humans do, since we read new equations character by character into memory (unless we've seen so many that we begin chunking them like speed readers do with word groups)
Toronto is a fantastic city. I say this having lived in both New York and Chicago. The best part about Toronto is every kind of person can and does live here. It's a little bit different than ethnic diversity as there is also an economic diversity. Nowhere is it more evident than the ridiculous number of community programs available.

The other side of that coin? The pay as a developer is FUCKING SHIT.

Best strategy is to get paid in USD and live in Toronto.
"NEVER"

You might think that, because no country has implemented BI, then considered it a failed project, then scraped that system for something better, yet. But one of the countries on this planet might be the first to try that. It's one of those "nobody done it yet thus it can't be done by anyone" ideas that reality so often find is false.
For further context, I'm not saying there aren't a disproportionate number of misogynist assholes in GG, but plenty of people who have used the GG tag / affiliated with it had far different agendas. For example, a frequent target is ill-advised Polygon / Kotaku clickbait thinkpieces - you don't have to be an alt-right neo-Nazi to find something objectionable about those.
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this shows me that there seems to be a cottage industry sprouting up around 'technical interview prepping' (this blog post is an advert for such a business). it's interesting that we've arrived at this point. curious to see the direction it takes
It's actually pretty easy to mitm your own https with tools like mitmproxy: https://mitmproxy.org/

But in this case getting the application to use the proxy may have been tricky.
My last vipassana retreat I met a doctor of Chinese medicine who became a doctor because of his vipassana background. I expressed an interest in acupuncture and he told me that I didn't necessarily need it because acupuncture and vipassana both produce the same end; a free flow of energy through the bodily channels.
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You don't need a generation to study basic income. The effect of a life-long basic income should be visible pretty much immediately.
The whole point of BI is that it's unrestricted, so I would say you're not actually a BI fan but instead broadly in favor of well run social programs.
It's interesting that you mention Palantir. Can you give some more detail as to what unethical business practices are conducted there, or are you simply referring to the HBGary business proposal scandal revealed in the Stratfor leaks in 2012?

Disclosure: if you look through my comment history, I have a moderate pro-Palantir bias. So "shill" accusations are slightly appropriate.
Goooood luck. I have reported so much neo-Nazi scum posts, people and groups, and guess what? Not a single one got blocked, despite Hakenkreuzes, refugee hating and other stuff that's outright illegal in Germany. It took over two years to block "Anonymous.Kollektiv", a fake "anonymous" site spreading extreme right-wing hate - and it isn't even certain that Facebook blocked them; many people suspect Mario Roensch to have shut it down voluntarily after he failed at opsec and subsequently got outed on mass media; now he's on the run with multiple warrants.

Meanwhile, Facebook threatened to block "Kein Mensch ist illegal", a 122k-liked pro-refugee page, and its administrator got suspended for 30 days for posting a sourced, valid image (http://kein-mensch-ist-illegal.org/fb.jpg) which shows that 90% of religious muslims like democracy and 28% of right-wing AfD allied people hate democracy with further 61% being frustrated with democracy. All in all, nothing that violates any FB rule. It took mass-media outrage for FB to rescind the block.

As long as FB repeatedly and openly rather allies with neo-Nazi illegal crap and instead bans admins and pro-refugee pages (because Nazis regularly organize "flagging" contests), I won't trust them.
"Basic Income that ends in 1/5/10 years" is not basic income at all.

For some of the population they will literally be studying the effects of a temporary salary increase that follows a person if they change jobs.

For some of the population they will be studying a don't-have-to-work sabbatical.
There are two types of "web storage" that you could use for this, localStorage and sessionStorage. The former persists indefinitely, the latter is removed when the tab is closed.

If you wanted user tokens to persist past the current browser session, you'd use localStorage.
So? I don't think the world needs more bad open-source code. If people only open-source good code, then that saves everyone the trouble of sifting through the junk like this. People being afraid to open source bad code would be a good thing.

And having a top comment on HN warning me that the code is pretty bad saves me time, too, because I don't have to read the code or try using it to find that out. So I really appreciate people publicly pointing out that the code is bad.

I'd feel more positive about this code if it had been submitted with a request for code review and feedback rather than being presented as a "a portable, license-free, lock-free data structure library written in C" with a whole website advertising it as being ready for use.
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