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A basic right is something you inherently have, and cannot be taken away. It's not something to be provided by the government. I wish more people had a better understanding of this.
When I was younger I would only download these via bittorent because our connection was extremely unreliable and bittorent was always restartable.
Bigger issue seems to be people overestimate how much they spend on fuel. You buy the car once, but you refuel it hundreds of times over its lifetime, giving the impression that fuel is a big expense.

For example, if you assume $0.073/mile, for 100,000 miles, that is $7300. If going electric cuts that in half, you save only $3650, which is only ~10% of the cost of the vehicle.

Looking at total cost of ownership (car + maintenance + fuel) makes much more sense than just fuel.
Consider the resilience of a system like Social Security, where everyone both pays in and gets benefits, compared to means-tested programs.
> To me, I now believe the overarching purpose of life is to have children. Two distinct groups: those with children and those to help those with children.

I reached the same conclusion myself very early on when it became very obvious that it's the most logical conclusion to reach based on the evidence we currently have about the "meaning of life". From a biological perspective, the meaning of life is to stay alive procreate. It sounds empty and ironically, a bit meaningless, but most of what we do in our lives that we find great joy in are rooted in these two very fundamental goals.

Every time we eat a delicious meal we're keeping ourselves alive. When we have great sex we're fulfilling our procreation desires. Even travel can be traced back to those two base desires because we've evolved to take great pleasure in exploring new worlds and relying on our wits to survive.

Now that I have two children of my own I'm more certain than ever that ultimately, it's what I am here to do. My life only has meaning insofar as my children's lives have meaning, and in that way I am fulfilling a centuries old promise to my ancestors who ultimately gave me life by living meaningful, fulfilled lives themselves.
"those who are net recipients... and those who are net contributors"

We already have that in the US. For example, on a state-by-state basis: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...

Every serious basic income article I've read addresses the question of who pays for it. The answer is, unsurprisingly, everyone who pays taxes.
I used it because I didn't understand what I needed and wanted to stay in the Docker ecosystem to try to limit tooling issues. Kubernetes sounded like more than I needed given what Swarm offered. Turned out alright because I was able to learn a lot, but Docker tools aren't as great as they make them sound (nothing is production ready and devs are too constrained to improve anything). I've moved up to kube and feel like I would have saved a month if I'd gone with it in the first place.
Hasn't US petrol prices seesawed from $4 to $2 fairly recently?

Of course, over here in the UK it's £1.10/liter, which is about $6.
Taken to its logical conclusion (a hired fleet model for cars rather than individual ownership), the charging becomes someone else's problem and they get to leverage economies of scale that you as an individual wouldn't.
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And every single one could be interpreted either in favor of or against universal basic income. So what?
After visa on arrival, tourists traveling to India will get a local SIM card too
I think you'd enjoy The Code Book by Simon Singh.
Would a 2-factor voting model help resolve some of these issues?
Ask HN: Can you suggest job portals which specialize in remote jobs?
Some of the listing is as below, need the portal with the remote filter (remote as in truely remote and not restricted by timezone or country)

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs?allowsremote=true
https://weworkremotely.com/
https://authenticjobs.com/#remote=true
https://angel.co/jobs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202865
https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
https://whoishiring.io/
http://remoteok.io/
Gas prices vary by that amount just from state to state.
If my brother tells me he's hungry and broke I might make him dinner and let him crash on my couch. If I just saw him spend $500 on weed I'll probably tell him he's on his own. The demonstration is essential because if we don't require it, some people will exploit our kind nature to rob us.

This is already a massive problem in programs where we do require demonstrations of need. See NPR's expose on rampant disability fraud: http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

It's hard to see how eliminating safeguards will improve things.
I'm also thinking it would need to be at least a couple hundred people to be classified as a town. Which then the odds of someone subconsciously counting a number that high in their head is unlikely.

In a classroom with 30 people right now and I couldn't tell you how many of each gender there are unless I actively try. If that meant certain death, why would I count?
If we cannot agree that cooperating with TLAs on messaging is acting as a tool of propaganda, then I don't see the point in discussing further.

Moreover, did you not see the links previously posted in this thread?
I think an important point in the context of Python (and other languages) vs. C/C++ is the proliferation of cheap hardware capable of running Linux. The relatively new phenomenon of a $10 Linux device makes it an attractive option in many situations. The cost gap between a traditional microcontroller (no Linux) and a linux device is closing.

The Linux device is compelling when speed (and ease) of development is important, scale is low, or the market is insensitive to pricing. Not to mention the added bonus of more processing power. On the other hand a traditional microcontroller is still compelling where volumes are high or there are strict real-time concerns.

As an embedded software engineer, I'm watching closely. Personally I'm reaching up to higher languages like Python to make myself more attractive in an industry that I see moving toward more Linux devices.
Just have a SMS message texted to voters once their vote is counted with a link to a scan of their paper ballet. Would make voter fraud a bit harder as each person could validate their vote was correctly counted. If the voter doesn't get their SMS, then provide a 1800 number for them to figure out what happened. This would only stop the changing and non counting of a real voter, but does not stop fake voters from adding their vote....which would need a diff fraud protection scheme.
Unfortunately, the mail thieves declare "outside" to be the volume in conformal space on the side of the boundary definition that contains the point at infinity, and "inside" to be the volume that does not, and thus steal the ring.
Every time basic income comes up people seem to missunderstand the key points:

1) It's basic income, like, enough for beans and rice and a small apartment. Nobody who is willing to work at least a part time job is going to just sit back and live off of basic income alone for their whole life.

2) It's a huge reduction and simplification of government, replacing several huge bureaucratic entities with one that effectively just mails out checks to everyone periodically.
I don't know what the NPR piece was about, but you're right... when I _don't_ have a fallback is absolutely when I work the absolute hardest.... but not at my job. When I don't have a fallback, I'm doing the absolute minimum at my job, and working extra hours around the clock studying to line up a fallback. When I think I have a fallback, or things are going really well at my job is the only time where I'm fully dedicated to my employer
I would approach this with two things in mind.

1. Pick something you can do in a relatively short time, say less than one year. That way you do not run out of steam working on it.

2. Pick something that you will learn a new skill or skills working on. Regardless of if what you choose succeeds or fails, you still come out ahead with a new skill.
A reasonable expectation is something that should be provided by others in a society to those that need them and is the glue that holds that society together. I wish more people had a better understanding of this.

Edit: for example, if someone is in a severe accident and unable to help themselves, it is a reasonable expectation in a functioning society that a passerby might call for help or help directly.
Why break it down by state except to make a politically charged generalization? The modern economy is dependent on cities and states are a mostly arbitrary political division inherited from a time when cultivated land area determined economic value.
I think as often as not, engineers hit on something that works, and later on the scientists come along to explain why it works, and figure out a framework of rules around the principle that allows it to be systematized.
While this is true, what DNSSec solves is the distribution of trusted identity.

It's one of the lowest layers in the Internet, if you can hijack DNS, then all connections the client is routed to can be used to exploit higher level security features like TLS. Yes, things like pinning of certificates can reduce this, but all a bad actor needs to do is get access to a poorly managed x509 trusted cert.

DNSSec does offer a layer of trust that most people lack today.
> those who are net recipients of government money, and those who are net contributors.

Isn't that already the case?
Making it optimal is not a way to foster adoption.
I have seen it in every discussion. Some of the forms of evasion include:

* focusing on the wealth/profit generated by a surge in entrepreneurship from the millions suddenly motivated to start successful businesses

* focusing on the unlimited wealth created by robots/asteroids/solar in space which will fund any program we wish

* focusing on how we can't afford not to try BI, i.e., the default system is a financial failure anyway so comparison is pointless

* taking the position that BI is only replacing current welfare programs (until it's pointed out that current programs would not support anyone if spread around)

Occasionally, someone will admit that they are proposing a 100% tax rate, which is about what such a system requires. Even more occasionally, it's admitted that every country must implement a 100% tax rate at once to avoid mass emigration of anyone earning more than ~$20k/year.
Python does have bit shifting, for what it's worth.
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The Diceman is never fair.
I think there would be more training centers popping up if there was funding for them; just because they help a region's economy doesn't mean they're a good investment, and it's plausible the state will have to get involved. Essentially, I think the talk of "saving coal" is less about the coal tradition and lifestyle and more about the fact that nothing seems to replace it; if former coal miners were getting new jobs, I think they'd quiet down on that front considerably.
Does embedded mean micro-controllers only? I've worked on i7 boxes with 16GB of RAM as "embedded systems". Various customers bought them as such. I guess we've been fooling ourselves and our customers for 10+ years.
Voters must not be allowed to prove to others how they voted. That's also a disaster scenario of a different kind. Not just vote selling but voter intimidation.
> Opportunity is not evenly distributed, yes. But neither is skill.

Skill can be learned with enough drive. Opportunity is required for success, there's plenty of smart, skilled people in the world who are stuck in the workforce because of lack of it.

Malcom Gladwell's book "Outliers" is a good read on the effect opportunity (or the lack thereof) has on our lives. It can come off as pretty over simplified and anecdotal so don't take my praise of the book as me touting it as something it's not, but it's worth reading (and I rarely say that of required texts from courses I've taken).
We are indeed using the CentOS repositories. The current version on our production servers is 1.10.3.
Very interesting, but it should come down like two or three orders of difficulty if we want anybody to even remotely attempt something like that.
It's okay, the DA office would find out for them.
This was by far the biggest red flag. I'd completely forget about the wage claims and wrongful termination suit and pursue this instead.
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I'm also coming from Hg, and this picture [1] sums up the problem. The history tree in our company is way more messy - basically over 1/3 of all commits are just merges.

[1] https://twitter.com/michaelhenke/status/585142133167751169
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But at what level do we accept there's assholes and move on and not let them ruin it for all of us?

If we have a program that helps 1 person and 1 person scams it, we might get rid of that program. What if it helps 10 for every 1 scammer? 1,000? 1,000,000? Certainly with the last we'd say it's ok.
So it is your sincere belief that most poor people are 'broken' in the sense that they can't even make rational decisions where 'rational' means 'likely to improve one's life'?
I don't believe I justified any of Russia's actions. It's a complicated situation and there are lots of questionable actors...

For example, there is credible speculation that the US funded anti-Russian neonazis in Ukraine http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/04/is-the-u-s-...

Am I saying the US is "bad"? Am I saying that Russia is "good"? No, I'm saying proxy conflicts like this are gray and complicated and it's not a typical "good guy" "bad guy" situation.
> Nobody who is willing to work at least a part time job is going to just sit back and live off of basic income alone for their whole life.

That's a glib statement that ignores the experience of welfare pre-reform, and SSDI currently. Of course some people will do just that, and the relative difficulty of earning a wage compared to the relative generosity of a basic income would determine the proportion of people who live like this.
I'm not sure if there's agreement on either of those points, honestly. A good number of people who talk about basic income are talking about giving less than is enough for subsistence living. And many talk about keeping additional programs in place, such as disability (somebody with special medical needs will not be able to live on the same income as somebody that can care for themselves and does not need additional medical care).

It's important to come up with concrete proposals. I don't think that there's going to be much overhead savings from your point number (2), and I'm not sure if we're ready for the tax levels that (1) would bring.
How frequently do you get a ballot that size? Are they all on four or two year terms?
Contrary to AT&T preachers there were plenty of languages being used before C.

I never used C on the few compilers I worked on.
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Basic income shouldn't be welfare imagine you have an ai or robot doing your job who owns the output? If only a few people benefit from this productivity the system eventually implodes. In order to keep capitalism functioning in a post human work society you need a mechanism for redistribution . Basic income shouldn't be welfare it's supposed to represent your share of the productivity of a post human economy.
Tinfoil. Lots and lots of tinfoil.

Conductive meshes work as well provided that the holes are small enough.
People often miss the fourth dimension when talking about welfare and social security, even though it's a fairly direct element of most of it e.g. "you pay when you're healthy, you get healthcare when you're sick", "you pay when you're young, you get money when you're old".

So there wouldn't be a bright line division, as some people would be receiving one week/month/year/decade and paying the next.
One of my favorite pieces of software ever was UserLand Frontier which combined an outliner like this with a scripting language and object database. It's gone now but you can kind of still get it by piecing together with Dave's OPML editor: http://dev.opml.org

ps: the HN headline (currently: "Finally this solves the “notes problem”") sounds a little overzealous.
You are right -- that's how we built the Pyramids and America pre civil war, and look how far that got us.

If you want interpret my response at the extremes I'm more that glad to dance.
Are you highlighting a problem or verifying that a paper ballot worked fine?

18 US states currently do use paper ballots.

https://ballotpedia.org/Voting_equipment_by_state
> While this is true, what DNSSec solves is the distribution of trusted identity.

Attempts to solve. I don't trust identities just because the US government tells me to do so.

I believe certificate transparency + ubiquitous TLS + RFC 7858 (or DNSCurve/DNSCrypt) is a better cocktail.
I'm fine with Exxon benefitting from a carbon tax. They have the political clout to push a bill like this through Congress, and it benefits the country as a whole to have carbon legislation in place. Seems like a win-win to me.
As an entrepreneur, you need consumers to succeed. If there is a healthy middle class (assuming basic income helps) your businesses has better chances.
Not well defined, but to me embedded just means the device is not a PC or a server.

Could be a microcontroller running bare-metal code or an RTOS with application code. Could be a device like you describe above which, in some cases, resemble a PC with custom I/O requirements.
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With the recent Vesper closure, I was wondering it if it was viable yet for 3rd party software to store notes in iCloud? It doesn't seem officially supported but there might be some work-arounds?
>I don't know why you're being downvoted into oblivion.

Recurring pattern, just like the author of the article it's rather likely that due to it's irrelevancy the downvoters just don't know what DNSSEC actually does.

It sounds like a cool security feature for DNS until you look at what it actually does and realise that it doesn't work.
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Even now I do the same. In india direct downloads are slightly slower. I guess it's to do with the mirror location or something else. Torrent makes it much faster
> Digital Don Draper.

FFS.
At the time, I was under an NDA regarding negotiations of a possible deal with the very large memory vendor that ultimately picked Fuhu so they could have used that as a venue to sue me. Even now that the NDA has expired, I only shared a small portion of the situation. Sadly, if you can't afford to defend yourself in a lawsuit, you can't afford to speak truth to power.
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An interesting hack on that outlook is my home state spends a lot of money on bureaucracy and paperwork to "stealth up" what we do with a fraction of gasoline taxes which offset the general fund (aka lower our state income tax) and we obfuscate the heck out of state lotto income by embedding it in prop tax relief.

It would be possible to hack the system by getting rid of all the stealth and corruption and just issuing each of us a check for the gas tax and lotto tax. Then just issue simple, cheap, straightforward normal un-obfuscated prop tax bills and un-obfuscated state income tax forms.

As a side dish WRT "The government's money" all of this money came from voluntary participation in various tax schemed monopolies and centrally controlled economic planning.

A state level "mincome" funded entirely by lotto players and gas tax and so forth is interesting. It should be sustainable and cheaper overall than the current system of byzantine complexity.

Frankly we have a large number of "bribes" paid to the government by non-humans. It would be interesting rather than slush funding them and obfuscating them to mincome all incoming bribe money. All state corporate income tax, all our weird little excises and fees and utility cable tv franchise fees, all of it goes to mincome and the government itself can only accept personal human being state income tax for general revenue. Its an interesting mental model and if implemented would likely save a lot of money... obfuscation is expensive after all. I'm pretty well paid and spend pretty freely, I'd likely remain a net tax payer, but I could imagine many poor people continuing to pay very little tax and getting the same state mincome check.
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Ask HN: Storing passports pics in the cloud, any technical advice?
I want to collect passports/identity cards pics for user validation purposes.
Any technical advice to handle this in the best possible and most secure way?
I was thinking ssl+image encryption+amazon s3 is it enough? Should I think of anything else?
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I'm wondering if torrents as such are actually useful for this. I'd figure some kind of virtual file system (perhaps based on BitTorrent) would be very useful. You'd simply pass a file path to an open() routine in your scientific code and data would get opened transparently. You currently have this with URLs and HTTP but there's no useful caching or data distribution.
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I'm not sure you're worries are about the right things. As an entreprenuer I highly value safety nets. The odds of failing are so high that without things like publicly supported bankruptcy I don't think I'd ever risk going into the kind of debt necessary to succeed. So I imagine minimum income to be a huge boon entreprenuership.

As an economist however, I may be in agreement. I have some concerns about the inflationary effects of a minimum income. I have a strong suspicion that goods strongly associated with low income will tend to get more expensive, negating much of the benefit of a minimum income. And I'm also concerned about the positive feedback in the political system where the majority continue to vote for increases to their stipends uncontrollably.

All in all I'm not sure which is going to have the bigger effect long term on the economy.
How can some people exploit basic income system to "rob us"? Maybe they can fabricate people which don't actually exist? (Or more realistically, delay reporting death to collect basic income of dead people.) These are concerns, but hopefully modern government can deal with fake identities. These still seem a lot better than current welfare system.

If you consider giving basic income to people who spend $500 on weed "robbing", well you are entitled to your opinion, but that's not exploit of system, because system is working as intended.
I think the grandparent was talking about the general perception of torrenting
As pointed out by someone in another thread, some countries is the ME approach a basic income concept. It'd be interesting to read about the results found in the ME where a near UBI has been implemented and whether that has had net benefits or mixed results.

I think some kind of UBI could be of benefit, but there could be some undesired effects that need to be understood before we can consider it a better replacement for the current system.
The OP's question was:

"of the advancements unions have brought to employees in the US over the last 10-20 years?"

Not what's possible. Also local trade unions are not really involved in federal immigration policy.
I don't know.

In the past I argued that the poor are completely rational and simply choose to exploit the safety net. It's a hypothesis I can't rule out.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2011/why_the_poor_dont_wo...

But that doesn't explain many of their other bad behaviors, e.g. wife beating.
Use whatever you know works for your usecase. Look at George R.R. Martin for one example.
Yet, voting is still not under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security.
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