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Oil is in everything. Transportation of course, but it's in our clothes, our houses, computers, our food (fertilizer for example), etc. It's very difficult to point to something that oil ISN'T in (here in the US). I'm sure I'll get responses which do.

NPR Planet Money recently did a series of podcasts about oil - it was pretty good. #4 was the episode where they talked a bit about what oil goes into: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/08/19/490408060/oil-4...
Yesterdays discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376805 (43 comments)
That's a fair point; I guess what I was trying to get at is that when I worked for NYU, I think it would have been an incredibly tough sell to use torrents in any capacity, because of the stigma of piracy. However, I think if I were to pitch it now, there would be serious consideration.
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Actually I didn't notice such thing when I used it extensively around 2013 for instrumenting some page loads. Which part was slow in your experience?
Actually the increase is more than "slight". It's a 13% reduction in work effort, more than double the reduced work effort caused by the great recession.

http://public.econ.duke.edu/~erw/197/forget-cea%20(2).pdf

Heck, even the reduction in bureaucratic expenditures might be enough to offset this cost.

Why don't you do a back of the envelope calculation to demonstrate how this could possibly work?

I have yet to see a single successful attempt at this.
So, a plug-in hybrid will be lugging around a gas engine and (probably full) gas tank which it won't be needing for 90% of all trips. Am I the only one who thinks this is terribly inefficient?
The resources that I built my business on:

- a chair

- a table

- electricity

- any computer

- internet

- coffee (for food)

- bathroom

If you can bring your own laptop to a starbucks, they have plenty of the rest of those. A laptop can cost as little as 230$ USD, so thats really the only barrier and I beleive its an attainable goal for anybody in North America. If your life depending on having a laptop, thats something anybody could find.

My point is that business will leave. Those with the most means (Google, etc) would be out of the coutry by the end of the week! It would take longer for the small guys to pack up and move, but the point is that knowing how I would respond surely must be an attitude others have too. Just had to get that out there while we're talking about mincome yet again.
There is no such accepted definition of "basic right".
The author states:

"They allow you to insert, erase and look up things in amortized O(1) operations (O(√N) time)." Are they staying that the average time is (O(√N) and that is amortized to ~ O(1)?

I assume (O(√N) is the same as .5 multiplied by N? Is that correct? I don't think I've seen a square root in Big O notation before.
Ceremony attendees don't leave with part of the signing key.

Despite the folklore around these ceremonies that there are 7 people with "the keys to the Internet", those seven only retain a metal key that is used to access a safety deposit box in the ICANN/IANA facility, each of which contains a smart card of which there is an "m-of-n" configuration to activate HSMs containing the actual key.
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One reason that people like the author might not be on a 'do not call' list is that long lists of crappy leads are often what gets passed to the new sales person [and what is recruiting other than a sales process?]. I mean why waste good leads on someone who is just learning the ropes and might screw up a slam dunk or why pass good leads to someone who may not be cut out to handle the high rate of rejection and will move on to a better match for their talents in a few months?
Thanks!

Drat, I just realized that I mistyped my original comment. I meant to say, "I've been teaching programming 1-on-1 with mild success by introducing concepts related to _testing_ fairly early.." Hopefully that wasn't too confusing.
Is it really viable to apply old world paradigms to USA?

> It's really not possible to have a coup in the US

Then what exactly happened on 9/11? In non-banana variety republics, the person in charge of national air defense would have been minimally subjected to a court martial. This still happens here too [1] for far less serious events.

The general in this case, however, got promoted. [2]

> US. Government is too distributed for a quick take over

How about a very slow and deliberate take over. Would that work?

[1]: http://www.stripes.com/news/middle-east/another-navy-command...

[2]: http://www.jcs.mil/About/The-Joint-Staff/Chairman/General-Ri...
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A faith in what?

One definition of faith found on the internet: "Belief not supported by evidence or reason, but assumption alone."

I have seen many people finding happiness and/or purpose in believing various things not supported by evidence or reason, and have always wondered: how to choose which of these I should believe?
"Actions per minute". It's a metric used in competitive gaming to describe how many actions a player can dispatch.
I think that the "it works part" is science ( measure quantify qualify) this is what the software community does really badly.
As far as special medical needs, if we'd go ahead and switch to single payer/otherwise socialized healthcare while we're at it then the job of making sure that the disabled have enough would not be basic income, but the healthcare system.
IIRC, Google didn't want to run it because they'd end up running all the notaries themselves, which they didn't want to do.
One of my favorite pieces of software ever was UserLand Frontier which combined an outliner like this with a scripting language and object database.

I guess this is where Dave got the inspiration for his outliner projects (Fargo, Little Outliner)?
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I'm arguing for good government, not no government.

Unfortunately good government requires carefully understanding and administering a bureaucracy, taking into account individual incentives, and building something non-simple.

Basic income is just a cheap mental hack used to seduce the lazy. It's like looking at a webapp, realizing that 75% of your compute cycles are doing error handling and then saying "aha, the solution is to ignore all errors!" It's seductive, brilliant in it's simplicity, and complete idiocy.

Among other things, this is why essentially no basic income proponents are willing to even do a back of the envelope calculation to show how it would work. (Similarly, "eliminate all error handling" guy will refuse to write a proof of concept.)

[edit: I altered this comment to explain in better detail what I think is wrong with BI, but eliminated a sentence that SandBOx replied to. I believe the real goal of most BI proponents is to create a vote bank of government dependents.]
What problem do space flights solve?
I want to become an enterpreneur, but can't afford it. I'm not interested in "make money fast" schemes just for the sake of making money. I have ideas, things I want to try to build, but building my product would not happen overnight no matter how f*ing hard I work. More likely a minimum of anywhere between 6 and 12 months is required before it's feasible to start selling the product, and from there on it could take long before the income becomes a steady livelihood.

I don't have the money to pay the bills for that long, I can't afford to become an enterpreneur. BI could change my life overnight.
"How can we reach males who have empathy for women’s causes, but are oblivious to male privilege?"

Women have higher reading rates, better graduation rates, and more are graduating from college than men.

We have a much higher percentage of women as: teachers, vets, and biologists to name a few..and nobody is complaining or fighting for more 'equality'.

We have women executives in almost every large company in the US and contrary to popular belief, there is no gender-pay gap when you actually account for the career/position.

There was male privilege in the 1950s and 60s, but our society is different now.

I don't agree with most of the feminist causes online because I can see that when they get any sort of power, they only want to oppress men. It has nothing to do with true 'equality'.
David Revoy is an extremely talented illustrator and a long time supporter of free & open source tools. He released "Chaos & Evolutions"[1] a few years ago where he shows his workflows in gimp, alchemy and mypaint, he was involved with the making of the movie "Sintel", another open source project made in Blender[2] and his blog is filled with tutorials for the Krita software (photoshop alternative for ilustrations). You can find a lot of his wonderful works on deviantart, but my favorite by far (and I urge everyone to take a look) is the graphic novel "L'heritage en couleur" [3].

[1] http://www.davidrevoy.com/article44/artworks-from-my-dvd-cha...

[2] https://durian.blender.org/

[3] http://deevad.deviantart.com/art/l-heritage-en-couleur-30812...
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Actually, I just remembered I did have 1 recruiter do a fantastic job which landed my my first job in Video games. And yes you are correct in pointing out I could be the problem, however in my case the only interaction I've ever had with recruiters was very courteous but they always seem to be "shooting from the hip" and simply contacting me in a haphazard way without any real or concrete offers other than to expand their contact portfolios? Never any follow through or any contact after the first initial email. As stated before, I did my best to help them help me. I just simply ain't no rockstar/ninja/10x dev enough for them I guess.

As for HR, their incompetence seems more due to the fact that:
1) There seems to be a turnaround rate in HR departments, which if harvested could power a small city
2) The head of HR is usually not given the power to enact proper recruitment efforts (see #1)
3) The level of disorganization is at best amateurish.
This is not a personal statement against any HR employees, which seem like great people who are stuck in sinking ship.
Wage theft causes American workers to lose an estimated $50 billion dollars per year.

Usually low-income workers, many of whom are not in a social class where they're friends with a smart lawyer, are the victims.

This is just the SV flavor of what millions of American workers suffer from year-round.
If they give taxes a bump of course, but what if they radically rearrange taxes. There are many voices i hear who believe people above certain limits should be taxed 90% or more, and some cutoff limits Ive heard have been 250k, or even 100k.

If you suddenly fell into a 90% taxation bracket would you still be just as happy as today?
Actually, World of Warcraft was released in 2004 and I think it used BitTorrent for patch distribution from the beginning.

So very legitimate uses date quite some time back (as you would expect).
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You do. But keep in mind they have way less parts, moving or otherwise. Spark plugs, cables, the entire engine cooling system, fuel pumps, all of that is missing.

It boils down to: battery (big unknown, but seem to be holding up surprisingly well), engine (incredibly simple!), no transmission or a very simple one (Nissan Leaf has a single gear), inverter, charger, brakes, and the standard 12V battery you find in all cars (which doesn't have to drive a starter motor, so should last longer).
I thought the point of basic income was that EVERYONE gets it? How can that be exploited?

Some will get a basic income and choose not to work and continue to live, others will choose to work (while also receiving the basis income) and will have a better lifestyle because of them choosing to work. Is this not how this work or am I wrong?
More narrative here: http://imgur.com/gallery/1n4Jn
"#CodeLikeAGirl."

The irony of discussing privilege and equality on a forum entitled '#codelikagirl' is not lost on me. If you want equality, you should act like it..instead of creating websites and forums that segregate yourself into gender-based groups.
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It is going to be 2048-bit RSA, same as the existing. It was considered rolling the key for the first time would be complex enough that tracking the effects of an algorithm change as well probably should wait for a future opportunity.
Any references you care to give out?
This is fantastic. I am so glad someone built this.
Domestic abuse is not limited to the poor.

But, back to the point, assuming they are not as rational as the rest of us, somehow sub human, is a harmful position to take -- it precludes any positive action to change the incentive structure of the poor -- in your view, no matter what is done, they are still broken creatures beyond help. That you admittedly take that position with other more useful hypothesis still worthy of exploration is deeply disturbing. All the more so since I doubt you are alone and that your position is common.
And that variance is also considered "a lot."
The link is about state economic dependence on the federal government, not which layer of government distributes welfare benefits.

It's just a rehashing of the red state-blue state federal dependence argument, which is really the rural-urban dependence argument.

If you want to knock rural areas as being net welfare recipients, just call them rural areas rather than red states. But even that's still an unhelpful generalization.

If you really want to be granular, you would single out the urban neighborhoods, suburbs, and yes rural areas (such as oil patches) that are net contributors.
It's just over saturation. Not everyone can work for a reputable, well paying company. Hopefully with stories like people will become more privy to the talent shortage myth. It's a money grab that allows startups like this to survive. If there really was a talent shortage no one in their right mind would ever work for a shady startup in Silicon Valley where the rent is 3x the national average.
As an American entrepreneur I've run a small business for nearly ten years, over that time earning nearly a quarter of a million dollars (yeah, not quite Facebook). I've observed that my income closely tracks a Fed metric having to do with disposable income of working class citizens (almost perfectly tracks a metric of increases/decreases in that labor share)

As such I'm finding your attitude impractical. Why do I, as a business owner, care whether you personally think some third person is a try-hard eager beaver? If you yourself don't want to work, you should indeed leave. I'm not at all sure you understand the math of this. Personally, I'm all for the poorer classes having spending money, because as near as I can work out, sometimes they will spend it on me. When they starve, I starve.

No amount of exceptionalism will change that simple fact, and if you're honest about the math you see that the whole point is getting rid of 'a few strong tentpoles'. Those guys are distorting the system and SHOULD leave. Celebrating them is a fool's game.
Using the government to redistribute money to those in need is like giving your right arm a blood transfusion from your own left arm, but spilling 2/3 of the blood on the way over.

I strongly believe in charity and social assistance, but its MY job, not the governments job to make sure my family and neighbours are fed and safe. Government needs to deal with national and international issues. What happens to my neighbour is MY responsibility and I believe citizens can organize and redistribute resources for muuuuuch cheaper than a government can.
In Italy one of the first providers to offer "fiber to the building" (Fastweb) basically tolerated on their network a huge seedbox / ftp / file exchange that everybody knew about. This was better for them, because keeping things local as much as possible kept their costs down and real internet traffic light.

I don't know if that "thing" is still there, I expect the copyright ayatollah will have eventually cracked down on it.
The comment elaborated on the explanation of "non-trivial" and didn't explicitly say you can't lie. Right? Or am I not hearing this correctly?

Some of the questions incorporate a "new idea" or allow you to change elements. Triangle boxes, prisoners who can make requests, tired tennis players.... I introduced a yellow dot or am I supposed to change the variables to two?
$230 extra above living expenses is not attainable without title loans or something similar for many in America.

Not to mention that if the laptop breaks you have to know how to fix it yourself or pay $100+ to fix it (or buy another new one for $230). If you don't know enough about computers to transfer data off a "dead" machine then you have to pay $100+ for someone to do that even with the new one.
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>No matter how you arrange your basic income scheme (and the tax system to support it), it's going to split the population into two groups: those who are net recipients of government money, and those who are net contributors.

When the idea of basic income is boiled down entirely to dollars and cents, sure. But, because of the volatility in the labor market, there isn't a way for an individual to know or predict whether they or someone else will be a net giver or a net-taker, as these things must be measured across a person's lifetime. J.K. Rowling was a taker for years, now she's wholeheartedly a giver. These status are primarily self-assigned and perceived based on.... well, I'm not sure what they're based on. See the author's 'popularity' argument, see the interviews with people who are anti-welfare but pro-mincome for themselves.

It's also worth considering -- as every discussion of UBI brings up -- the incalculable, invaluable net effects of such a scheme (and indeed of welfare itself). There are intangible benefits that are unnoticed even to the 'net contributors' -- that is, people who are housed and fed are less likely to stab you in the street for your iPhone.

>Don't let basic income advocates evade the question of who pays for their utopian scheme.

If a particular advocate of UBI doesn't include the tax increase in every point she makes about the system, it's only because that's a given, and has always been mentioned in some other comment. If you believe a particular funding scheme is flawed, have at it.

>you imply that others are obligated to provide them with that income.

UBI doesn't imply that others are obligated to provide them with income. It's explicit in the system. Unless you believe all taxation is theft (in which case: Game over, you'll never come around to UBI), it's safe to say that you believe 'society' has some obligation to the health and safety of its members. UBI is just the free-market expression of that: Rather than have the government try to create a massive, bloated system that tries to predict what people need, give them the tools they need to get it themselves. That tool is money.
If anyone is interested in the mechanics of the higgs field / basic quantum mechanics in general, I found this lecture to be an excellent explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY
Flagged. this site seems to be an agreegator that is intended to generate adsense ad revenue , not original content

For example, the article on the sidebar about the 'dying man' was copied from Reddit and elsewhere

https://www.google.fr/#q=Powerful+Advice+From+a+Dying+Man

We should try to link to original sources, not aggregation sites.
No O(√N) is O(N^0.5)
I will doubly confirm that is what they sound like. Additionally, he is articulate in addressing the variety of considerations while at the same time not getting lost in the minutia of any one consideration, which is common.

I'm surprised and pleased to see an interest in some of the more technical aspects of materials and manufacturing.
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Please at least have a cursory glance of the history of any of these countries from around WW1 to the present day instead of just assuming things magically came to be the way they were 6 hours before the first gulf war. States are _not_ abstract entities that just sort of float around existing at geographic locations
The problems would be that the real implementation of basic income will never be as simple as proposed. We would start out by saying every adult will get a fixed amount. Then the question comes out about people with disabilities needing extra money for their care. So we carve out an exception. Then what about parents who squander the money and the detrimental effects on their kids. Do we let the kids starve? What about kids in foster care? What if parents have lots of kids? Should kids also get a basic income? As we add more and more exceptions there are more opportunities for abuse of the system.
Its not about an increased tax ration, its about entitlement and motivation. Would you feel better giving $1000 to charity, or having $500 stolen from you?
People take intro courses into subjects in the first year of university all the time when they're undecided. If something sparks an interest, some follow it all the way through. It doesn't necessarily produce 9-5ers -- it just means some people discover what their passion later in life in a different manner.
There are followup comments to this paper:

* http://physics.uark.edu/hobson/pubs/13.09.a.AJP.pdf

* http://physics.uark.edu/hobson/pubs/13.09.b.AJP.pdf
That answer isn't compete though and assumes too much.

It's a cynical answer under a cloak of "experience." Might as well just say, because god wants us to be happy.
However much I want to see these culprits caught and punished, I think it's a lot to ask a jobless, possibly homeless person to attract retribution from people who have already proven that they will do absolutely anything to maintain the appearance of success.

Even when you win, bogus lawsuits are expensive and painful to sort out. My mom was sued after a business deal went south. Seeing the judge find for her on all counts and upbraid the plaintiff and the plaintiff's lawyer was satisfying, but it was not worth the 18 months of severe stress or the substantial legal bills that we had to pay.

If you would like to see more names named, then try accompanying your request with a credible offer of a legal defense fund at least $100k in size. That's a lot more persuasive than the notion that random internet commenters will be disappointed.
> This form of "electronic warfare" cuts both ways and since detector-detectors use a similar superheterodyne receiver, many early "stealth" radar detectors were equipped with a radar-detector-detector-detector circuit, which shuts down the main radar receiver when the detector-detector's signal is detected, thus preventing detection by such equipment.

TIL there exist radar detector detector detectors.
How exactly did lightning kill 323 reindeer in Norway?
There's never an option costing zero as long as the brother in question has the ability to punch you in the face and take your food for leaving him to starve.
Isn't that theory rooted in the particles view of the universe? It's totally at odds with this paper, it seems to me. Is it not?
I think there's a lot of room in the embedded system space beyond just a microcontroller, but I would not be comfortable calling something that beefy "embedded."
> as America is the most happy-obsessed culture in the world in my experience.

You haven't met a lot of French people :-)