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ebikes are great!

I actually don't have one, though, but that's only because everything I do on a regular basis is within 2 miles. My ride to work on a normal pedal bike is 6 minutes.

I agree that cities are absurd for banning small 2 wheeled vehicles with little momentum while permitting large 4 wheeled vehicles with massive momentum (and with it, massive ability to mangle and destroy human bodies).
Even among experts, there is no consistent, widely-accepted definition of "robot"...
> But we don't have long term structural unemployment.

No, we have (arguably) the early phases of an economic revolution with rapid changes in the kinds of jobs in demand (which is the other thing I mentioned), long-term structural unemployment is a speculated future issue, both of those (as short and longer term concerns) are issues that are usually cited as motivations for UBI (personally, I'm more interested in the former than the latter, at least in the form of "unemployment" in the strict sense, rather than "decline in the relative value of the median hour of labor".)

You can disagree that either is something we ought to address, but by (earlier in the thread) presenting an alternative solution to BI, you are implicitly agreeing with the problem it is being offered to solve.

> We actually currently have a scarcity of labor

If we had a simple scarcity of labor, you'd see rapid, across the board increases in the market clearing cost of labor, you do not. We may have a scarcity of certain skills, but that's a problem that while a mature UBI addresses (by making it more possible for people to take time for retraining in the hope of future wage gains), a Basic Job as you have proposed does not.

> and BI makes this problem worse (about twice as bad as the great recession did).

The great recession didn't produce a scarcity of labor, it produced a surplus of labor. So "makes this problem worse (about twice as bad as the great recession did)" is simply incoherent.

Anyhow, the experiment you point to is not a BI, its a Minimum Income (a traditional, means-tested welfare program, with a 50% fall-off for outside income and the associated reduced incentive for outside income-earning activities, including work -- the central problem with means-tested benefit programs that UBI is directed at solving.)

Claiming that an experiment with the exact feature of traditional, means-tested welfare programs that UBI proponents point to as a reduced incentive to work that shows that such a program does, in fact, reduce work by some specific amount as proof that a UBI at the same level would reduce incentive to work by the same amount is unjustifiable.

> EITC increases incentives to work

EITC increases incentive to earn additional income within a narrow range at the bottom, has no effect on incentives just above that range for another narrow range, and then decreases incentives to earn additional income within another narrow range, and then has no additional effect above that range.

It increases the incentives for work at a minimal income, and somewhat decreases the incentives for moving beyond that for people who can achieve that but don't see a path to a very large increase.

> Welfare and BI have the opposite effect.

Even granting, arguendo, that that's true, the key issue in evaluating proposals to replace means-tested welfare programs with BI is the relative effect of the means-tested programs replaced vs. the BI replacement.
There are plenty of organizations that use H1-Bs properly and correctly, but when people talk about H1-B fraud it's exactly as you describe. They've poisoned the well. It also explains why there are people that can honestly claim we need more H1-Bs because legitimate use is being choked out.
This is the SEC, their entire reason for existing is to regulate transactions between USD and the rest of the world. If you want to transact on the blockchain directly, you are absolutely free to do so, but if you want a situation where law enforcement backs you up when something goes wrong, the US govt has been pretty clear that they are not interested in recognizing transactions as legally enforcable if they can't know where the money's coming from or where it's going for about 15 years now.
> Furthermore, the fact that you think everyone lives near a Starbucks is pretty illustrative of your privilege

I didn't say "everybody can do it because everybody has a starbucks" I just gave one example of type of place that provides many of those resources free of cost. Name 3 coffee shops in your town that don't have electricity?

So here's a slightly more complete list for those who can't extrapolate:

- libraries often have electricity, bathrooms, wifi, chairs, and tables

- mall food courts often have electricity, chairs, and tables, many have wifi

- cafés, restaurants, and pubs nearly always will have some kind of seating and tables (correct me if I'm wrong)

- friend's houses come with electricity more often than not

- many schools are open to the public that you could probably just walk in and sit in the cafeteria and get some work done

I know some people live in amish country and don't have access to electricity, but I believe most North Americans are 'on the grid' so to speak.
I think a lot would be your answer. Not strictly new as a concept, kids get raised to hunt happiness. Every stupid action movie that ends with a big party, celebrities whose job it has become to look happy, every ad promoting x because it will make you a happier person...

Kids get raised being told they can buy stuff that'll make them happy, and it's only when you become an adult and get a bunch of real world thrown your way that you get the chance to realize how much crap that is actually worth. And yet the majority of the western population doesn't seem to understand that you can't buy happiness. Sure, it's nice to have central heating and a full fridge, but these would make less fortunate people extremely happy! For a while, until the pipes bust and you need to make the guy come 'round to fix them.

Still, heating and fridging have at least some intrinsic value. They keep you from freezing over during sleep and keep your food from rotting. But everything else, after the initial surge of serotonin or whatever other hormone, just becomes part of the annoyances that keep you going throughout the day. At best, it blends into the furniture, so that you forget you have it and buy it again.

There is something seriously wrong with our lifestyle, but it's not clear to me how it can be fixed peacefully. Or violently. Or at all. Because human nature led to this, and how are we supposed to overcome that?
I realize that this comment is tongue-in-cheek, but the reality is that Alphabet is a corporation, not a research university. Corporations by definition need to ship and make money.
I would agree this is generally true. There isn't anything that is easier to do in "space" than it is on the planet. But I think that might not be as true for other planets.

You could, for example, put radioactive waste in an open pit on the moon. Nobody is going to "accidentally walk by it unprotected" as the radiation levels on the surface of the moon are "naturally" higher than anything we've got in our waste pile due to a lack of atmosphere between the Sun and the Moon.

Now the first thought would be "Gee Chuck, sending a Kg to the moon is pretty freakin' expensive." But if you pause and consider the money already spent on Yucca mountain and other projects, and the fact that it still isn't operational, and the on-site nuclear waste storage issue continues to make nuclear plants riskier rather than safer, then is is too freakin' expensive? Remember you don't have to "land it gently on the moon" you could literally drop it from orbit if the impact plume was pointed away from the earth.

Solves a real problem perhaps? Perhaps not. Hard to say definitively.
all of it will be tallied up electronically regardless and you can manipulate it in any number of ways paper or not, challenged elections have shown as much.

so I don't understand this fantasy that "paper" which is an ambiguous term is bandied about as the ideal solution. From paper ballots to punch cards, there are hundreds of stories of fraud. If you don't just up and lose them or mysteriously get different votes than the district involved would imply. If you can't find fraud you simply challenge the votes until you get the results you want, keep some polls open than longer, or take people to vote and help them.

The ideal solution is getting it out of the hand of politicians into an independent board which can implement and secure it as needed.

The real reason this comes up is because one side or another wants an excuse for losing over and over at various levels. It also is because it is becoming even more difficult to hide fraud that they have to scream its more rampant than ever or lurking right around the corner.
I actually do expect more from a longreads post. They're usually a top-notch site and above dark patterns like that.
Thanks for the feedback! Definitely actively looking for a job, so I'll go ahead and change that blurb.
Is not as bad as article suggests:
https://www.solveforx.com/graduated/

It just operates on hype curve. GoogleX takes projects from "technological trigger" to "peak of inflated expectations":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
Worthless but happy is not a worthy goal.

Verify any approach to life by generalisation: what would happen if everyone followed it?

The Buddhist approach leads to stagnation.
C++ on embedded is a godsend. It's so much easier to be productive, the code looks much cleaner, etc. At this point, static analyzers and compilers are also pretty good at catching the most common issues. Too bad many embedded compilers don't support all of the latest features.
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> You'll know that iterating through a linked list is O(N), binary search is O(log(N)) and a hash table lookup is O(1). What if I told you that all of the above is wrong?

It's not wrong, it doesn't have enough contextual information to be right or wrong.
How can this app be free? To good to be true; looks amazing on first glance, will definitley give it a better try in the next few days. Have always used outlining to get my ideas down on paper and this could be the tool that assists me in that from now on
Amazing point of view. they've either really drunk the koolaid, or are trying to force it down someone else's throats.

linkedin, indeed and monster are "not helping anyone but themselves". really? that's really how you are pitching (internally or externally)? that's how you view linkedin? only helping themselves? There's many criticisms you can level at LI, indeed and others, but they do help many people beyond themselves. This shows an incredible naïveté about the business world, imo, or maybe just an incredible "rah rah - let's just keep repeating stuff" mindset.
It's a good idea.

But I just want to correct one thing. The CEO has generously put a lot of his own money into the company. Nearest I can figure close to (if not over) half his net worth. I don't blame him for not wanting to use his whole net worth. If anything that is part of the issue, he's used his money to lengthen the runway but it hasn't been able to take off. He's also used that as a guilt-trip on me a few times.
> Since nuclear reactors are dangerous, what if we build them on the moon instead? Is there any way to generate energy there and get it back to earth?

Yes, but it has its own drawbacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(short_story)
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I think the general case—navigating unusual terrain, intersections, traffic patterns, changes in aggressiveness tolerance, construction, adapting to "normal" problems like needing to turn left illegally at a stoplight when the oncoming lane is continual—is almost entirely unrelated to where Tesla has an advantage. This entirely autonomous general case seems to be where Google is attempting to dominate.
I don't know, but they do have a history of logging a lot of data. They've used some of the logged data to rebut high-profile critics in blog posts in the past, in cases of accidents or low-mileage claims.
Tesla's auto pilot isn't at all comparable to what Google are doing. It essentially the same as the adaptive cruse control (cruse control that adjusts to traffic in front) and lane assist (auto stearing to stay in lane) you can get from most other car manufactures as an option.

That's not to say that tesla isn't developing full automation it's just that what they sell now is just clever branding on something you can get elsewhere.
The type of person who needs more than 4 ports at once on a laptop is exactly the type of person that should probably just have a USB hub. I would think that 4-6 ports should cover the vast majority of use cases, presuming 4x USB3 and 2-3x thunderbolt/mini-dp. I do think the dedicated audio jack should stay, as standard headphones should just continue to work.

That may just be me though. That said, I don't plan on buying another MBP until my current one is well-dead or stolen (like my last one). I love the MBP's look/feel/hardware, it's one of the nicer laptops I've used, and certainly the best trackpad by leaps and bounds.
How are you so sure that I'm not part of the majority that faces systemic discrimination? I can tell you right now if I had applied to university in the same town I went to college in I would be discriminated against - I don't match the race or gender of the average student in my town if that's what you mean…
Hmm. Good point. I guess it would be more technically accurate to say I wield design to solve problems, and code to build out my designs.

Can't say I've solved many strictly technical problems outside of some quick Python scripts to analyze board game endgames.
From a certain point of view, it is always true. You will never get a second chance to raise any specific child.
Asteroid mining is a support business, not an end goal. It's more like selling stoves, it may be lucrative and a big field, but won't make people go to the middle of nowhere by itself.

Some day we'll probably start to send supercomputers into space, but there isn't really any kind shortage here on Earth that this would solve right now.
- Zero g manufacturing (good edit, has some potential)

You have something with the spaced based solar (SBSP). The unsolved problem there is the microwave power beaming, which has some technical hurdles (synchronizing microwave frequencies across multiple dishes is apparently hard, but necessary for power beaming, and there is an ozone problem). Any other space based power system has this same transmission problem (people have proposed attaching conductive tethers to orbiting NEOs to drag through the magnetic field).

The "nuclear reactors are dangerous" bit hasn't really been true in a long time (Chernobyl was the worst disaster, but killed a lot fewer people than hydro/coal/etc).

Space is actually not great for computers. Dielectrics change in vacuum, and cooling is actually a big problem (turns out space isn't actually "cold" in the traditional sense, it is insulating, and heat tends to build up). Quantum computers are probably a red herring, there is vey little difference on an atomic scale in/outside of micro-gravity.
Tesla may have an order of magnitude more kilometers, but the quality of data that Google is collecting is (IMO) more than an order of magnitude superior per kilometer.

Tesla (currently) has one radar, one camera and 4 short distance ultrasonic sensors. Google has LIDAR plus a lot more.

Tesla's suite may or may not be sufficient for operation. But for training, good data is critical.
Resource contention with coercion, violence and/or warfare, which AFAIK is something we've had for thousands of years.
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Thanks for the correction. :)
... unborn children ... ;)
I feel it's important to note that the entire world of "not car guys" spends pretty much every interaction with "car guys" rolling their eyes about everything. Generally speaking, people just don't care about being cool for the sake of subcultures.
Some of the articles seem to be journal articles. Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it, but isn't this partially what Aaron Swartz was indicted for?
What makes any robot not "just an oscillator"? Aren't CPUs just oscillators in a novel implementation? Does it have to be made of semiconductor? Metal?
The article linked to an Economist article on British Columbia's $30/ton carbon tax, where it seemed to have a much more significant effect:

>BC’s fuel consumption is also down. Over the past six years, the per-person consumption of fuels has dropped by 16% (although declines levelled off after the last tax increase in 2012). During that same period, per-person consumption in the rest of Canada rose by 3%. “Each year the evidence becomes stronger and stronger that the carbon tax is driving environmental gains,” says Stewart Elgie, an economics professor at University of Ottawa and head of Sustainable Prosperity, a pro-green think-tank. At the same time, BC’s economy has kept pace with the rest of the country.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/americasview/2014/07/british-...

I'm not sure I trust future projections much from the EIA; they are extremely conservative in terms of being unable to imagine non-fossil fuel energy. They've been consistently wrong on renewable technology as well:

http://cleantechnica.com/2016/05/15/us-eia-responds-cleantec...

I don't mean to diminish the excellent work they do. But for projections like this they must necessarily embody lots of opinion, and there's a good chance that their opinions embody the slow-change mindset of the energy industry.
This is comparing miles traveled to fuel costs when it really should compare fuel consumed / person to fuel costs since MPG is not static.

I would bet with hybrid (and arguably electric) cars being as usable as their ICE cousins that the demand for transportation fuel will become far more elastic.
Also, I was particularly embarrassed this weekend... my cable modem went down, as it has been doing a lot recently (!#$%# Charter...) and I showed my daughter the Chrome game. She told me "oh, I already know about that." She's eleven...
Raising children is not enough. You should also provide them a future. This generalises to providing everyone a future as best as you can.
I'm not sure the cost of accessing the storage medium belongs in the complexity of the algorithm, since that cost will change based on the storage medium, not the algorithm itself. It strikes me as more of a constant, (even though it isn't constant).

Still, interesting read, nontheless.
Not using WiFi, but their own RF spectrum. Very cool though.
True, that depends on the country where the PV panel is installed. The original argument was probably made for France where electricity is very low on carbon.
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I think it makes a lot more sense to switch to electric car right now. But taxes contribute to more than 50% of the retail gas prices in Europe. So what would happen when majority of drivers switch to electric cars? How european governments will recoup lost tax revenue?
Google brain was an acquisition, not a Google X project.
> Oh man, I always wanted OmniOutliner to be as clean and well designed as this gem - instant love

from an account made shortly after this was posted

> How can this app be free? To good to be true; looks amazing on first glance, will definitley give it a better try in the next few days. Have always used outlining to get my ideas down on paper and this could be the tool that assists me in that from now on

from an account made 7 minutes ago.

If you want to promote your product on HN, just submit a "Show HN:" post. Enough with the blatant astroturfing.
I know this is very hard for this forum to consider at times, but the world is not only the US, and the question about what do with coal, oil, and gas is a global, not a US problem. United States is a somewhat lucky outlier when it comes to energy production. Unfortunately, even in other currently lucky nations, the public sentiment is strongly against nuclear power.

In 2013 91.6% of the energy cames from CO2 producing sources[1], and nuclear production is decreasing[1], having peaked in 2005.

The exact percentage, whether it's 91.5% or under 60% doesn't even matter though, what matters is that fossil fuel burning is increasing in absolute terms[1].

[1] http://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication...
Isn't the blockchain technology that Bitcoin uses, perfect for this? It is 100% public, and you can review your vote easily.

Each person just needs a private key, and it could actually be issued once for each election.

However, I am not saying that we are ready for this, as not everyone is able to access the internet still.
Just wow. This is terrible. You don't understand the difference between a statutory employee and independant contractor.

If you are an employee, the company is required by law to withhold taxes and pay you regularly. Every state in the U.S. has an agency that will take and prosecute wage claims. People have gone to jail for messing with witholding taxes.

If you just invoice, you are effectively an independant contract, they might not pay you, and you are on the hook for paying your taxes. A big difference.
I share your skepticism, but my working hypothesis is that it will help. That said, fear of it going wrong does keep me up at night.
I'd say their standards are too high, they'd say mine are too low. :) In some ways it's like high-school vs college, they both have juniors but they are is worlds apart. This is true for companies as well. Our FE needs are relatively straightforward, the hard bits are all in our robots. In other companies FE is the product and hiring people who have no experience just isn't an option.
I think the fact that a project would receive unlimited funding is a negative, not a positive.

Instead of getting lean startups that have to move quickly because of resource scarcity you have bloated startups that feel no pressure to move quickly because of the unlimited resources they are receiving.
Any examples? There were none at OP's link.
"Not even wrong" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
If everyone focused on raising their own children properly they wouldn't need to provide a future for everyone else. I'm focusing on my kids.
>Actually that is incorrect as there is no guarantee that every prisoner has been in the room at least once over any amount of time.

IIRC, in the original statement of the problem, there's also a stipulation that, for all prisoners, the king/chooser/whatever will visit them an infinite number of times (so at any time it must be true that each prisoner will be visited [again or for the first time] if the game doesn't terminate).
The problem with this analysis is that in the graph in the very first part he shows that memory access IS O(1) for pretty substantial scaling factors, and then when you hit some limit(e.g. size of cache, size of RAM) access times increase very rapidly. Sure, if you draw a line across 6 orders of magnitude, it ends up looking like O(n^1/2), but how often do you scale something through 6 orders of magnitude?

The "memory access is O(1)" approximation is pretty good, certainly good enough for almost all every day use. The median size of a hash table I allocate definitely fits in L1 cache, so why shouldn't I think of it as O(1)? If you are reading off of disk, the O(1) approximation holds as long as your dataset stays between 1 MB and 1 GB. That's quite a bit of room to play around in.

Yes, you need to be aware of access times and the changes in them if you are really scaling something way up. But I'm not convinced that I shouldn't just keep thinking of "hash access is O(1)" as a convenient, generally accurate shortcut.