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+1 for oshstencils; I recently tried their new stainless steel stencils -- very nice! Stiffer than the kapton ones (less oozing underneath) and much more durable.
It's called a market externality. In economic terms, any externalities like this are a symptom of market failure. Get enough of them and a market won't exist or arguably should not. At the very least it represents inefficiencies. Everybody's supposed to agree to hate all of the aforementioned in a capitalistic economy.
At MIT, Science Embraces a New Chaos Theory: Art
Wow that curriculum looks humongous for a 6 wk program.
People seem to be more concerned about school district quality, restricting the amount of housing supply seen as viable. (I made this one up, apologies if that's wrong).

Not just school district quality, but if you have kids who are entrenched in specific activities, then there are other factors as well:

* Are there enough educated parents in the school district to manage the schools effectively through involvement and activism?

* Good private music teachers?

* Healthy lifestyle, such as bike and pedestrian friendly?

* Socially tolerant?

Those are some things on my own punch list. Another family might have its own interests that are no easier to fulfill.
you sure can, just dont accept the ride and wait 20 minutes and try again. i imagine they dont give an option to reduce the price by giving them a specified extra time they would have to wait because models get complicated

... and a game between people choosing the 2nd option and drivers denying rides after the peek window erupts. uber has to have some sense of a guarantee the person can get the ride when uber says they will, so I too would shy away from an overly complicated model.

its my opinion that people are not upset about having an option to wait longer, but are in fact upset they have to pay more for the ride when they want it. they think they are being price gouged for more proffit
MVP my son
(2014) publication date.
What? Of course they can wait longer. Wait until the surge is over.
Interesting but remember when high frequency trading was news like 8 years ago?
Palo Alto is a suburb.
Read some of the public policy literature about 1960s and 1970s cash grant programs.

Spoiler: they failed spectacularly. Giving poor people a wad of cash and the power to choose often leads to poor choices that negatively impacts children.
Coffee?
Screwtape Proposes a Toast (1959) [pdf]
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>> Does he not get that the tax structure and minimum wage would need to be changed to accommodate UBI?

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
Eventually yes, but I was speaking of the transition period that the OP was asking about... what will happen while businesses still need labor? That is, before we've successfully automated all of the low skill human labor? Well, until then, we need people to work, so the UBI would have to be below a livable wage.
I also like what Someone (literally their username, lol) pointed out on another comment, that you can think of K as "klimb" to move up.
Give Cinnamon/Mint a whirl; I couldn't "do" Linux desktops until Cinnamon. It works really well out of the box. It's not quite as OSX-y as Unity but Unity had a few quirks that I couldn't stand.
It's funny how different the reaction is in forums like HN when you see a similar story focused on Walmart.
Off-topic: I love your username. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12068116
I think either the me or the author misunderstand the advice. Writing everyday (or for me, painting/drawing) isn't really about finishing the novel, blog, painting, etc. that you have as an actual goal.

The daily writing or painting or [insert thingy here] is more about practice and getting momentum and letting ideas grow. If you want to write, being creative while writing about your day or your dreams gets the mind going and gives lots of practice on how to describe things and paying attention to details so that when you are working on your novel or blog, your brain slips into the mode much easier. It all helps. I do this with painting and drawing, and my "effortful" works are better for them.
The T962-A reflow oven once modded/re-flashed is an excellent addition to your workshop. I've run several hundred boards through mine and the finish is really professional using stencils (from oshstencils) and hand-placed components.

I also use the oven in manual mode to warm the boards to 150C before any hand soldering of through hole components such as headers (so the ground plane doesn't suck the heat out of the soldering iron!).

(Now if I could just figure out how to do home-brew wave-soldering of the .100 headers rather than by hand).
It's actually a pretty good selling tactic: tell them why you think they need surgery but add "I might not be the best person to tell you this because as a surgeon, I look at all problems through surgery"; this makes you come off as honest, putting the patient before your benefit, and because patients don't expect such disclosure, they end up trusting you a lot more.
Whether you are looking at JSON with a bit of expected structure or otherwise, parsing something that big is not humanely possible in a timely fashion. Throw it into a db to analyse it.
The link is about change in values; the absolute value is also important.
Yet I have heard taxi drivers complain that uber and lyft drives down wages? It's almost as if an artificially restricted supply of workers increases wages.
The strong never stopped dominating the weak, it's just that what constitutes the strength required to wield power changes over time.
Its invention, developed by the firm’s co-chief executive officers, Robert Mercer and Peter Brown, first sends an order to a central server, which breaks it up into multiple smaller orders. Those are then routed to venues that offer the best prices and most liquidity, much the same as brokers do now.

But before that happens, the smaller orders are sent to servers located as close to the exchanges as possible, along with instructions on the precise times they should be executed. The co-located servers sync their transactions so HFT firms won’t have enough time to identify an order on one exchange and then race to another to trade against it.

A crucial part of the system is the optical, atomic or GPS clocks that will be used synchronize those orders. Renaissance says in its application that GPS clocks are accurate to within nanoseconds and any time differences between them are “too small to be perceived” by HFT firms.

Maybe I'm missing something but sending orders ahead and releasing at a specific time is obvious is it not? If you add a really accurate clock suddenly it's patentable?
Short answer: several trillion dollars.

242 million adults in the US.

Just $10,000 per adult is $2.4 trillion. That of course wouldn't come close to being enough. Even if you assume tax redistribution of the money (rich people getting UBI, and then having it taxed away), for $2.4 trillion you probably would only manage to get the poorest 1/4 up to something like $15,000. Today the poorest 1/4 are receiving a net of more than twice that sum between Federal and State benefits.

Federal budget ($3.9 to $4.1 trillion or so depending on which year we're talking about) minus dozens of things that won't be replaced by UBI and won't go away (eg NASA, military, agriculture subsidies, budgets for countless agencies like HSA or FBI, transportation, justice and so on) = you might be lucky to break even or bleed just a few hundred billion on the budget if you allocate $2.4 trillion to UBI. That's assuming Social Security, all housing subsidy programs, all welfare programs, half of all social services programs, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare etc etc are all ended.

The equation at the state level is a whole 'nother calculation, and would be a very significant factor given the states budget is another ~$1.7 trillion and represents all sorts of welfare programs and healthcare spending.

Personally I favor Warren Buffett's premise of significantly boosting the earned income tax credit, and freezing or lowering the minimum wage. The UBI is dramatically regressive, there's no reason to be giving the top 50% in the US a UBI.
Internet advertising spending replaced newspaper advertising. What is going to replace internet advertising? VR? Those ads will probably still be sold by FB and Google.

To me, Google and FB's PE ratios are sensible, taking into account current profits, continuing growth in the short and medium term, and uncertainty in the long run.
The irony in your post is delightful. Creative and subtle indeed.
This is productivity versus wages over the last 45 years: https://i.imgur.com/nb1qbkZ.jpg

Note how wages have not increased as productivity has? UBI is what fixes that. Its distributes that productivity to people so they are not slaves to capital.
@ianai, how is this an externality?

Aren't externalities costs/benefits that accrue to third parties? But this doesn't seem to be in that category.
For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcfFJ6pNEZk Keep in mind, this is 48 hours and he had created a "few" games before this.
Of course, a war on drugs - why hasnt anyone thought of that before /s
It seems to me some economists simply can't fathom en economic system not fueled primarily by human labor. "Employment" is treated like a good in itself instead of what it should be treated as: a means to the desired end of high quality of life.

For convenience, direct link to the paper being reported on: https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/page/files/20...
Couldn't UBI end up in a death spiral where it does destroy the economy? If the BI is too generous people will stop working. Cost of goods and services go up. Tax base shrinks. The people vote in a larger BI to make up for it?

For as little as 15k a person, I'd strongly consider never working again.
Automated driving could unemploy millions of truck drivers. Give me one other industry that needs millions of workers and that retrained truck drivers could do. Or even 5. But I don't think it exists outside of creating other, large "new deal" type programs.
>So what is the potential cons?

That these 'results' have not been verified for accuracy and are largely fictitious? That's why the FDA shut them down for providing such reports/predictions. Nobody has proved these reports are valid or useful in any way whatsoever.

http://csmonitor.com/Technology/Tech/2010/0915/How-reliable-...

>In July, a report from the US Government Accountability Office presented at a congressional hearing on genetic testing roiled the waters. The GAO found that direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic test results were "misleading and of little or no practical use to consumers." As a test, the GAO sent identical saliva samples to four leading companies. It found that disease predictions varied widely, "indicating that identical DNA can yield contradictory results" from each company.

If you'd like to send me $100 I'd be more than willing to provide you with pages of sciencey looking reports as well.
Could you elaborate? You're just saying it isn't feasible, right?
> Art, Museums, Sports, Music, Food etc. all contribute to what what we call culture.

I love museums, but I go once or twice a year. Same with live sports. It doesn't really justify living in a place. Live music is great, although admittedly I don't do that as much as I used to.

One of my favorite cultural activities? Traveling to experience another cultural. Nothing's quite as conducive to that as a low cost of living when I'm not traveling.
p.s. As someone who's actually experienced a triple compound facial fracture, cheek bone entirely smashed off, exploded sinuses, facial palsy, etc. from a violent unprovoked cowardly assault from behind (and spent 3 weeks coughing up blood) - I think I'm in a better position to understand what that means than most.

Not to mention having stood at the pointy-end of a large kitchen knife wielded by a borderline disordered manic woman (and that's not even slightly the worst of it). I don't hate women - because I know the majority of women aren't like that (just like the majority of males are violent either). In fact, I've never even had ONE single genuine argument with my current partner of 3 years and I certainly never had any seriously heated one with any ex either, apart from that one.

In case you think I was raised as some radical women hating MRA; my father nominated the first female District Governor of Rotary International in Australia. My auntie was the first foreign female academic to teach in China in post-Communist China. My grandmother was one of the very first women in her city with a drivers license. AND my cousin actually WORKS for AusAid on women's right development programs in Pacific nations (Fiji was her last posting, but no full time PNG secondment AFAIK). I have three sisters and never laid a finger on any of them (although took a kicking or two).

I still don't support gender discrimination - nor do I agree it's even remotely effective at helping reduce violence against women (or children) or minimising harm and breaking cycles of violence.

Even-handed means reasonable, evidence-based, justified proportionality (plus NOT only including evidence from organisations with stated explicitly gender discriminatory charters and purpose - which Australian policy generally does).

The evidence basis proves that ignoring female violence is NOT helping reduce violence against females and in fact, the gender-based approach (particularly a disproportionate one is counterproductive). Anyway, you're clearly locked in your ideological position, so there's probably little point continuing discussion.
My hypothesis is much simpler and doesn't involve a conspiracy of evil corporations and evil government:

The only way to grow an economy is to grow the private sector.

That's not yet my hypothesis, it's just a plain fact as the government sector can only exist by the taxes paid by the private sector.

My hypothesis: The government believes that too many will simply stop working (thus causing a contraction in the private sector and in the end also in the government sector - which is supposed to use its shrinking resources to pay for UBI)
Do you believe the same thing about other forms of social assistance like welfare? If not, why is UBI different?
>refer to it as a technical degree in software

So, you think they should just blatantly lie about what their program is?

It isn't a degree of any kind, or anything even approaching a degree.

It is a bootcamp, and people should take it exactly as seriously as the name implies.
Or just take a taxi. Uber will never get my money. They're a terrible company.
I don't know if it's the only solution, but it would definitely help if there was adequate, well-respected and well-promoted free education.

Unfortunately, paid education will inevitably work aggressively to maintain their place in the system.

The biggest problem I think is not just the availability but the motivation for people to see it through. There are great options available now for people willing to teach themselves, do online courses (free or cheap) and most don't bother.
Austin and LA are pretty comparable in terms of cost, at this point. LA is quickly becoming the affordable West coast city...
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What if the widget-makers are teenagers who are working their first job? They don't need to support themselves by their labor yet. I think there is some room for these kinds of jobs.

Obviously, when adults are trying to support themselves with this kind of job, we have a problem.
Why is UBI so popular on this site? This is a site for hackers, programmers and engineers.

Could it be the result of a decade long propaganda by VCs targeting Zuckerberg wannabes - those who want to have UBI, so they can work on the newest blockchain-enabled photo-sharing social local VR app ?
Yeah I agree it's a good idea. The thing is though that as we are selling to a very targeted market most people already know what they want when they come to the website. Other than that I don't know anything about html/javascript. I used free Shopify template for a winery, removed the bottles and that's how the website came to be. Adding a nice comparison table to that website would take a lot of hours which I prefer spending doing something more fun.

I just don't like doing marketing and I don't like convincing people what they should or shouldn't buy. I realize that maybe we are leaving some money on the table but on the other hand we get great reputation, a lot of word of mouth referrals and very small refund rate (below 1%) so that's good for mental health :)
As someone actively trying to hire front-end developers I've come to see Hack Reactor as a red flag. Unless the candidate was selected as a tutor for the next batch I rarely let them past the resume screen.
This. I am in hack reactor now and am a satisfied customer. They were upfront about what you get for the money and to this point have delivered in full.
I'll be very interested to see the results of the YC basic income study, and whether people actually choose to loaf around, drop off groceries for beer money, engage in self-study, or start businesses.

I don't know which'll happen. I'm surprised to see the degree of confidence exhibited by both sides of the debate, people who are either sure it'll result in entrepreneurial utopia or sure that it'll be the end of the world as everyone does nothing. My sense is that there's a good deal of projection here, where people who have successfully cashed out a startup assume everyone will build a startup, while people who wish they could do nothing but loaf around all day assume that's what everyone else will do. Personally, I just want to know, and so I'm waiting on the data before judging.
"officials said they had concluded that between 64 and 116 civilians died in 473 strikes."

This is a shockingly high number when you consider that any male 18-50 with the target is automatically considered to be a combatant. So the real figure it likely to be considerably higher. Imagine if you heard that Vladimir Putin was sending agents abroad to assassinate people that Russia considered terrorists. But they managed to also kill innocent civilians every other time. I suspect most people would condemn that action. Is the drone war any different?

Not to mention that I believe the drone war is actually counter productive in the long term. Imagine you live in a village and regularly hear a drone overhead. Every few months it kills somone in the village. Sure, might have been a bad guy but that's not a great environment for people to live in. Only likely to create resentment and create more terrorists.

America seems to never learn from conflicts like Vietnam and more recently Afghanistan. If you sit in someone's backyard and kill people you create more of the people that want to kill you. Want to bet how many years the drone war continues before you realise it has not solved anything and your just perpetually creating and then killing terrorists.
Raleigh and Charlotte are in a coastal state...
I absolutely agree with you. I downgraded to a smart phone that only runs maps and has a camera and this has forced me to semi switch off tech when I'm away from my computer. My friends think I'm crazy (mostly because I'm a developer who doesn't have a "smart" phone).
That's actually a pretty common title for any medium or big company. Companies that sell potato chips or windows also likely have something akin to a head of Global Threat Intelligence, sometimes with that exact title.

It generally covers detecting and mitigating fraud, cybercrime, hacktivists, espionage, and rogue insiders.

However, I don't think it's typical (or appropriate) that this person or their team would research lawsuit plaintiffs or conduct such an "offensive" action.
The coasts tend to be more Democrat, and the coasts tend to be MUCH more densely populated.
Drop me an e-mail if you're considering one of these, I'll happily mentor people for significantly less than that, and I'm a full-time, active, multidisciplinary coder with 20+ years experience and background in both UX and visual design. And with enough industry contacts to almost certainly find you somewhere interesting to land afterwards.

I've taught classes at New York University and the School of Visual Arts and I'm almost certain I can get people spun up on the fundamentals of programming as well as any of these bootcamps. I also just enjoy that kind of one-on-one mentoring relationship.

(Sounds like a shill, but maybe my bigger point is that students might be better served by finding personal mentors to help learn this stuff rather than go through these expensive mills. Many accomplished coders would probably love to help out a protege.)
Haha yeah, sounds familiar. That's actually one of the primary reasons to raise them! Unfortunately, your biggest support costs will be from unreasonable people on the cheapest plans. So by raising prices you often weed out the people who complain, but make up for it in the extra dollars from all the silent people who love the product.

The "exclusive features" thing is awesome in theory, but unlikely to matter to most customers. Having a simple, well-designed, straight-forward product can be worth a few extra bucks. Extra features will be gravy in the future (or more stuff for the higher plans).

Free plans are tough, because adding one without a good strategy usually ends up being a distraction and more server/support/etc cost than good for upgrades. Most people will just sign up for a paid plan or a free plan and stay there, unless you have a really great strategy for getting them to upgrade. With that said, I worked at Twilio and we made sure to give a bunch of free credit because we knew getting devs to try it for fun or personal projects would often translate to them convincing their employer to use us for something that made us a lot of money. The difference here is that the true customer was businesses that paid a lot of money.

(If you can't tell, I really enjoy this stuff haha. Hope it's not annoying.)
> ... employment issues raised by [artificial intelligence] than would UBI.

I didn't know that the economic situation we are in was caused by artificial intelligence. In fact I didn't even know that there was an artificial intelligence or that anyone has lost his job because of that.
Was this due to poor experience with people from the program in the past?
From the rules file:

> fingerprint('anonymizer/tor/torpoject_visit')=http_host('www.torproject.org')
and not(xff_cc('US' OR 'GB' OR 'CA' OR 'AU' OR 'NZ'));

So yes, it would appear that you would be in the clear. At least for looking at the TOR project website.
Search electrostatz if you are looking at newer technology.
Only 24% of minimum wage workers are teenagers. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/09/08/who-makes-mi... That mans 76% are 20+.
The article seems to have been updated, it now clearly says: "Though the image below has been photoshopped (“Restrooms” was replaced with “Pokémon”)[...]"
I haven't followed UBI too closely, but I don't think I've seen discussed the inflationary effects that it (in my opinion) would likely have.

What is the breakdown of winners/losers that UBI would target? From what I imagine, it's a bit like an upside-down bell curve. People who have close to 0 would be better off, big companies too, and everyone in the middle a bit worse off. Is that the intention of UBI?
Has anyone had any experience with coursera's nanodegree programs? I am thinking about their machine learning course. I'm worried it won't be super useful to me because I already have a master's in economics.