skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason it does so is that it's the only viable way to fund it.

235,715,590 people 21+ in the US. At $13k/year that's just over $3 trillion dollars per year. Social Security spending was $888b in 2015, Medicare spending was $546b in 2015, and other welfare spending was $1.031b. If you cut all SS, Medicare, and other welfare spending and redirected it into a $13k/yr UBI, you'd still be about 20% short of your necessary funding. Total federal revenues for 2015 were about $3.25t.

If you leave Medicare and SS in place? You could only fund 46% of the UBI requirement with existing welfare spending. Good luck passing the massive tax increases needed to fund that. And that's ignoring the fact that the SSA indicates that the long-term ability to meet SS obligations is already in danger.
I don't think networked X11 is quite the web we'd want (it's really outdated), but it does seem better than browsers, which as you point out are so bad you want to stab your eyes out. Unfortunately, now that the web has scaled up to this enormous size, people can't un-see it and it does seem like it's seriously polluted our thinking about how the Internet should interact with end users.

Maybe the trick is something close to this: we need an Internet where it's very easy to do not only WYSIWYG document composition and publishing (which is what the web originally was, minus the WYSIWYG), but really deliver any kind of user experience we want (like VR, for example). It should be based on a network OS (an abstract, extensible microkernel on steroids) where user experiences of the network are actually programs with their own microkernel systems (sort of like an updated take on postscript). The network OS can security check the interpreters and quota and deal out resources and the microkernels that deliver user experiences like documents can be updated as what we want to do changes over time. I think we'd have something more in this direction (although I'm sure I missed any number of obvious problems) if we were to actually pass Alan Kay's OS-101 class as an industry.

We actually sort of very briefly started heading in this direction with Marimba's "Castanet" back at the beginning of Java and I was WILDLY excited to see us trying something less dumb than the browser. Unfortunately, it would seem that economic pressures pushed Marimba into becoming a software deployment provider, which is really not what I think they were originally trying to do. Castanet should have become the OS of the web. I think Java still has the potential to create something much better than the web because a ubiquitous and very mature virtual machine is a very powerful thing, but I don't see anyone trying go there. There's this mentality of "nobody would install something better." And yet we installed Netscape and even IE...

BTW, I do think the security problems of running untrusted code are potentially solvable (at least so much as any network security problems are) using a proper messaging microkernel architecture with the trusted resource-accessing code running in one process and the untrusted code running in another. The problem with the Java sandbox (so far as I understand all that) is that it's in-process. The scary code runs with the trusted code. In theory, Java is controlled enough to protect us from the scary code, but in practice, people are really smart and one tiny screw-up in the JVM or the JDK and bad code gets permissions it shouldn't have. A lot of these errors could be controlled or eliminated by separating the trusted code from the untrusted code as in Windows NT (even if only by making the protocol for resource permissions really clear).
UBI may not totally clear the homeless problem. Many of them are insane person without any care.
You're unlikely to be able to control the root name servers for the domain, or SSL certificate authority, though that might be nit picking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8i1Ddj1Sw8
Are we? As a highly educated, highly skilled person I live in destitution, while some baby boomer jackass collects free money for buying an apartment decades ago.

Rent - or, rather, the inflation of real estate value in cities - is entirely about transferring money out of the productive part of society. If you make your living with "education" or "skills", you're on the losing end of it.
I'm sure it varies from time to time depending upon the voyage.
Jolla / Sailfish ?
> cowboy boots are associated with (mostly southern) rural areas

Your expression seems to become less meaningful as you clarify it.

Cowboy boots are part of Western wear. The specific style (as differing from general equestrian boots) started during the cattle drive era of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in the late 1800s.

It spread, certainly. Cowboy boots are a much more salient aspect of Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming - decidedly non-Southern states - than Virginia, Florida, or North Carolina. What cotton farmer, tobacco farmer, or citrus grower works in cowboy boots? The traditional Florida cowboy wasn't even called a "cowboy", which is the western term, but a cowman or cracker.

I'll say this again, they are indeed called cowboy boots, which means they come from the area where there are cowboys. That's the West, not the South. (The two areas overlap in Texas and Oklahoma.)

So 1) are cowboy boots a salient feature of rural life in the US? No. They are not common to rural life in Michigan, New York, Maine, and other non-plains states.

2) are cowboy boots a salient feature of the rural south? Based on http://www.newsobserver.com/living/fashion/article10118804.h... , at least in North Carolina it is the suburban population which buys the most cowboy boots, not the rural population.

3) Is the south the area where cowboy boots are the most salient feature? No. That would be the West. In the South you buy cowboy boots at places which sell Western wear. You don't buy cowboy boots at a places which sells "Southern clothing."

On the other hand, in the West, where cowboy boots are a salient feature, you are also likely to find people in the cities wearing dress cowboy boots with a suit.

So "cowboy boots" means someone from the West, and "suit" means someone dressed formally, "suit and cowboy boots" means someone dressed formally in the Western clothing tradition.

While "suit not cowboy boots" tells someone in the Western US to dress in the standard US/European business tradition.

But "cowboy boots not suit" makes little sense as a disjunctive. It certainly doesn't characterize someone from the rural US, or characterize someone from the rural South in the US, with someone from the city.
Woah. I have zero security experience or acumen and I probably could have found that vulnerability. Remarkably poor.
1. Indeed; that requires only very basic components; I would recommend a cheap digiscope + analog scope so you need even less components to have fun. The z80 is so slow that you can use very cheap scopes.

2. I bought an 80s EPROM writer from a forum for E1 which I use for that; because it's so old (and slow), you can actually understand and measure what everything does.
Profits would be unethical if they were derived from unethical business practices. This isn't difficult to imagine.
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...and it immediately shut down? Thats kind of depressing.
Why do you get to define what society is? Sure, if you take the definition that "society is the group of people who are working", then you get the conclusion that you are required to work to be in society.

I'm going to present a different definition of society:

> A society is a group of people involved in persistent social interaction, or a large social grouping sharing the same geographical or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations
(Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society)

> the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
(Google [https://www.google.com/search?q=definition+of+society&oq=def...)

> an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
(Dictionary.com http://www.dictionary.com/browse/society?s=t)

It seems the definition that you're providing for "Society" doesn't line up with the common definition of the word. It doesn't mean "work". It can, as the parent comment states, mean "Volunteer" or "Interacting with people socially".

You don't get to exclude people from society by using convenient definitions.
"Taxation without representation."
I don't know, where I'm from we look down pretty hard on trust fund babies. This may be different on the coasts.
I am not sure there is a difference as UBI's must be funded.

At least in the US, oil states for example have a somewhat independent income stream.
All they had to do was not use the NRA name and logo and call it something else like the MRA - 'Murican Rifle Association. Then it would have solely been a parody with no trademark infringement and no legal authority on the part of the real NRA.
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Can you share details on what specifically isn't computing?
I honestly figure as much with any of these temporary-messengers. Snapchat, Telegram's Secret feature, etc. Really sucks.
It would be interesting to see how much of the structure is modern as well. It isn't unusual to see fiberglass and other modern materials on replica ships like this.
I think it was covered in the first sentence of the second paragraph:

“If you’ve met one person with Asperger's syndrome, then you’ve met one person with Asperger’s syndrome.”

However, I think this could be replaced with the simpler: If you have met one person, you have met one person.
I've known Brandon for close to 10 years. I'll also state that Brandon and his team are some of the most competent programmers I know. He was easily one of the top developers of add-ons for ExpressionEngine before starting Craft. His dedication and customer service are top notch and he, in a very jobs-ian way, seems to know what developers need before they even ask for it.

Craft will be around for a long time. Open Source projects see higher adoption rates because hosting companies have 1-click installers for them. But if you look at high quality, high traffic sites the playing field is much more evenly spread.

Anyway, buy with confidence. Brandon doesn't know I am posting this. He did not ask for this endorsement. But I love what he is doing and would easily recommend it to anyone looking for a flexible system that is easy for clients to use
Two reasons come to mind.

First, "there aren't many" is vastly different statement from "there aren't any." It's not clear which category "I've never met" falls into, but it's easy to take it the wrong way.

Second, that whole thing is completely unnecessary. The answer could end at "I'm a man" and be done. He seems to feel a need not only to state his maleness, but to point out that the question is stupid because it's not possible for him to be a women given his skill.
Curious that they don't mention actual performance numbers in this blog post…
But I have to echo eanzenberg's comment,

> How do you reconcile the massive increase in spending this would cause?

If you're giving each person $13k/yr, does that not imply that you must then collect $13k/yr/person in taxes? Unless you're thinking it is all going to come from corporate taxes, then at least some of it must come from a citizen's taxes, no? (and if you do think this should come from corporations, do you not think that would have an effect on what gets passed to an employee? Why not pay a person $13k/yr less? — or more, since some people won't/can't work and we must cover them too?)

I have no idea if UBI is a good idea or not … but if people want to do it, I expect to know how it will be paid for.
I am an X2 user.

Is there grounds here for a class-action lawsuit?
I don't think that's necessarily true. It's true for some people, mostly those that are rich because of their past work.

But I don't think it's true for people that didn't earn their money through work like those that inherited it or won the lottery. Society can be pretty dismissive of people in these categories.

I even think that we differentiate between people who are rich from work. Some people are seen has "having really earned it" while others "just got lucky." Shades of grey for sure, and people might disagree here but I think this is a real phenomenon that those who are seen as having done more valuable work are held in higher esteem.
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It's impossible to tell if someone is genuinely making mistakes or simulating them, but just from a surface analysis:

I don't think a native speaker would ever say "I've already said about..." - you would say "I've already mentioned/written about/discussed". "Said about" is glaringly, obviously wrong.

In the second thing you cited, I could see that being a typo / editing mistake - could have meant to say "from the Marcel story" or "from Marcel's story" and it got mixed up in editing (e.g sometimes you write a sentence one way and then paste something in and don't re-read what you wrote). But if it was intentional then yes, it's definitely wrong.
Is there anything particularly Trump-esque about, "Work = being part of society?" Is your logic that anything Trump likes is automatically wrong? Or is that an entirely subjective appeal?

My personal experience with periods of time where I was under-employed, is that "Work = being part of society." People feel better when they know they are actively contributing. That's just a simple truth.
Yes, the most immediate thing that can be done to effect progress towards a UBI is to lower medical costs.

The tricky question is whether we can do that. For instance, does new medical technology do much to lower lifetime spending?
Qualified guess: As the support ship presumably had some creature comforts missing on the replica viking ship, they probably rotated the crew - say, four days on the replica, a day for a shower and some proper sleep on the support ship, another four days on the replica...

Doesn't lessen the accomplishment in any way in my book if my guess turns out to be correct.
Something i'm realizing more and more... What the hell do I really need remotely hosted mail for?

We all know mail is insecure. Unless you look really really hard, you aren't sure if the mail you received was spoofed or modified, a child can spoof mail and any MitM can modify it. So in general you can't trust your mail anyway, even if it's received by a reputable company. Sending mail is almost just as subjective... a random ISP's mail smarthost is just as good for getting your mail delivered as a hosted mail provider.

All I really need is a way to get my mails, once. Once you have the mail, you can back it up to an infinite number of places (Git repository, anyone?) if in the future you need to search it.

So really, the only thing I need is 1) to receive mail, 2) to filter the spam, and 3) to keep a backup of my mail somewhere.

Considering this, why do we even need domain-specific mail? Like, myusername at Gmail dotcom, for example. I don't need it sent to GMail... I need it sent to me. I don't care what server receives it. I don't even need to store my mail there once i've read it - I can keep it offline, and back it up to remote repositories to search. With a format + protocol like Git, this would be fast, efficient, reliable, secure, and compatible.

So really, if we just had a distributed decentralized peer-to-peer mail network, a unique address system, and a retrofitted mail storage protocol (IMAP5?), we could send mail anywhere, receive it anywhere, store it anywhere, and spam could be filtered by whatever product or company was hosting your Git backup. With the new address system we could even build in personal crypto keys and teach people how to send real, honest-to-god, secure mails, potentially even anonymously.

Now somebody tell me how someone already thought of this and how it won't work :-)
A portion of those people will make their own jobs. Most of that portion are some form of artist - I know dancers, leatherworkers, acrobats, and event planners that would readily go after UBI - although what's interesting is that al those people already DO have jobs, just not the ones they want, or that pay the bills well enough.
This is, IME, why big shops try to push outsourcing as much as they can. Whether development or structure, passing the buck to someone else is politically better.

If you or your provider succeeds, you both can claim victory.

If you try to upgrade/restructure and fail, everyone blames you. If your provider tries to upgrade/restructure and fails, you can blame them, and everyone in your company agrees with you. So politically, you can save yourself from "losing".
"Raising taxes is costly and so redistribution should be targeted to those who need help most." - Oliver Hart

So what if most people are out of a job in 50 years due to automation? What if "targeted to those who need help most" is 90% of all adults. Yeah raising taxes is costly, but considering owners of capital will most likely see most of the benefits from productivity gains in the future I'm sure they can afford it.

More from Mr Hart
"Bill Gates would get 13K, which is crazy."

Um yeah, Bill Gates also will get social security and medicare (and he should). That's the whole point of a benefit. I wonder if Mr Hart is an advocate for means testings of these programs? How lovely is it that "experts" like this have the ears of our policy makers.
>> Come out to Silicon Valley and get a regular 9 to 5 at a place like at SGI [Silicon Graphics], and then you can moonlight with us. And we’ll see where it goes.

That sounds so absurd. Today that would be like, "hey come out here and get a job at Instagram, and them after-hours we'll work on our own thing"
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Certain part of a society are definitely different than other parts.

For instance, children are definitely a part of the society, and a very important part, but they differ from grown-ups in many regards. For one thing, they are dependent on their parents / guardians.

Other people, even totally grown up, may be considered so dependent on e.g. the government that they are not even allowed to vote due to the conflict of interest. E.g. US troops were not allowed to vote for most of the US history.

Were UBI enacted, I'm sure people who choose to live entirely off it, and people who choose to work (and thus provide the means for the UBI, among other things), will inevitably be seen differently, and you can't help it. Consider it when thinking about equality, integration of the society, etc.
Tax cheats.

26 U.S. Code § 7201 - Attempt to evade or defeat tax:

"Any person who willfully attempts in any manner to evade or defeat any tax imposed by this title or the payment thereof shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law"

I have worked at companies performing the "double-irish". True, they aren't prosecuted. But legal? Because a british lawyer says it is? 26 U.S. Code § 7201 is extremely easy to read and meant to be very vague. It isn't complicated. They "could be viewed as" breaking the US law and that is enough for some IRS investigators. Why they don't? <- I feel, it is more profitable to tear apart thousands of small local businesses using algorithms and automated mailing. If there was any kind of left leaning shift in US politics I would assume a few congressional hearings. Sure Google,Facebook,etc got away with many years of tax evasion, but that doesn't mean the governments find it in anyway legal.

Further:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Double_I...

The above info graphic clearly shows an attempt to defeat the US the 26 U.S. Code § 7201. This is not only illegal but morally reprehensible.
> Google Search and Adwords are not developed in Spain or France. In effect these subsidiaries are just local distributors for a US product.

Neither they are developed in Ireland, but they chose to pay their tax there. Perhaps that's significant.
See this graph from [1] http://myzone-strengtheory.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads...

> Yes, you’re reading that chart correctly. The group that took a placebo and worked out only gained slightly more strength than the group that took testosterone and sat on the couch for 10 weeks. The group that took testosterone without exercise gained just as much, if not more, muscle mass than the people taking a placebo and actually working out.

[1]: http://strengtheory.com/the-science-of-steroids/
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During Let's Encrypt's beta, the certificates were already publicly trusted.
You can just print the money or otherwise conjure it into existence. For instance, by telling banks to change numbers in their databases.

It probably isn't a good idea, but it's possible.
That is a viewpoint that ignores the level at which humans, especially in the US, live at. The amount of work and people that goes into having convenient access to food, transportation and clean water is incredible. And those are just basic needs that we take for granted. Your employer creates good and services that people consume, therefore, the work enriches society. If your short-sightedness only extends to the point where you are evaluating who is making the bigger paycheck, I'd say that is a shortcoming of your self-awareness, not of society.
You're aware that Montoro hasn't been the only minister since 2003, right?
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Wow, seriously?

No surprise there, 5 days is far longer than most providers will give you. You're lucky to get 24-48 hours to take down infringing content at most DCs in my experience.

Did the other guys even make an effort to respond?
It's important to note this is not just controversial content, it's outright libel claiming false official sponsorship from real organizations. The parody video says:

“Paid for in part by the National Rifle Association of America with additional support from Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation." [1]

Conversely, I could imagine a parody video created by extreme conservatives mocking Planned Parenthood by happily and cheerfully promoting "baby murder" and "baby parts harvesting for the good of medical science", and quoting the text "This advertisement sponsored and paid for by Planned Parenthood."

Independent of your political views, claiming false official sponsorship of a parody is wrong. Slanderous impersonation of a person or organization is not inherently protected by freedom of speech.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8punyPP-bs
This is infuriating.

Have you seen the infanticide statistics in the US?
About 450/year.

That is per year, btw.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/10/parents...

One of the top reasons? "A parent acting out of revenge against a spouse or partner."

Yet, you didn't express any concern that the Ashley Madison leak is going to lead to a spate of child murders.

Honor killings are like that: rare, perverse, unrepresentative.
BTW most people who won a lottery end up spending up the fortune, not living off it for a long time.
-If nothing else, it may suggest that you claimed independence from the wrong colonial power.

We'll come over to incorporate you in Greater Norway any day, now.

;-)
C. diff. is just the disease first in line. Chronic fatigue syndrome may be lining up behind it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/0...
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