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60% of economists disagreed that market conditions were correct in 2008 for a global recession.

Why people continue to put so much stock in economists?

The only other profession I know of that is proven wrong so consistently but remain doggedly dedicated are religious institutions.
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Because they're living in a world devoid from reality;
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The "News" in Hacker News can be interpreted as a bit of a misnomer. The idea that it's only for newly-published material is a mistaken one. It's for anything that "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity"[0]. It'd be a shame to prevent submissions only because they weren't discovered recently enough.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You don't need economists to disprove basic income works, you need evidence. All the evidence I've seen points to it working well.

A lot of economists work in finance, the industry that benefits the most from our financial system staying the way it is.
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Why in the world would you think he would be able to raise his prices? For him to sell, he needs to compete with clothing shops in other states (and countries) that don't have the same minimum wage.
The title is misleading in two ways.

First, 60% does not sound like too much (makes you think that 40% agree) until you see that only 2% actually agree with it.

Second, the question is not about UBI in general, but about a very specific proposal: "[U]niversal basic income of $13,000 a year — financed by eliminating all transfer programs (including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, housing subsidies, household welfare payments, and farm and corporate subsidies)".
Because In India, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility != https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility
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Again assuming the meaning of "getting by".

> In 2015, in the United States, the poverty threshold for a single person under 65 was at an annual income of US$11,770; the threshold for a family group of four, including two children, was US$24,250.

Do you consider this getting by?
AR is still a category without an elegant 'Apple' solution, to its detriment. As they did with smartphones when the technology was at a place to support such a game changing device I could see them defining/kickstarting the AR category when mobile processors can handle it.
> indians (both kinds, but one of those terms is pretty racist

I'm pretty sure it isn't.
The headline here is an unfair summary of the actual question asked. The question asked lays out a very specific proposal and quite some comments indicate that the person disagrees because the sum proposed does not adequately cover the services cut - which is quite contrary to a disagreement with UBI in principle.

(e.g.: Eric Maskin: "A minimum income makes sense, but not at the cost of eliminating Social Security and Meidcare.")
Another stupid decision by apple. Next they'll probably go after this party browsers, try and pull some stunt to force people to use Safari- some unique macos feature which only safari can access or something
It sure seams like 60% of economists missed the Great Recession, too
Basic income isn't some magical panacea. It does exactly the same thing as social security/welfare, but slightly more efficiently. It has the same problem: the rich aren't going to give up money to make it work. Would you accept a 10% tax hike on your income? Because that's roughly what it would take to make basic income provide anything resembling a quality of life to the incoming jobless class.
What evidence is it that you've seen?
This Hacker News headline is bogus. The linked article doesn't prove that at all. This is click-bait.

A simplistic one-paragraph $13,000 UBI proposal was made, and the question was whether it was better than the status quo. Many of the economists chose "disagree" because they felt the details of the UBI proposal were unworkable; not because they disagree with the idea of UBI.

Here are some of the comments from those who disagree:

"And the children get nothing? The basic idea is sound but too simplistic as stated."

"A minimum income makes sense, but not at the cost of eliminating Social Security and Meidcare."

"John Cochrane proposes variants that would be better."

"13K is inadequate for anyone with no other income."

"The simplicity is attractive, but deceptive. Coupled with universal health care & tax reform it could work. but we are far from that."
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He certainly tries to get pity, however awkward the attempt.
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It's comforting to find other Hacker News readers who have experienced stress-induced cognitive impairment. A recent mental breakdown eroded my cognitive abilities. One of the worst aspects of this experience is the feeling that I'm no longer good enough for the work, the communities, and the discourses that are the primary passions of my life.
I've been informed repeatedly that the cost of real estate and prop tax and rent is so staggering that losing a large percentage of productivity via open offices is still cheaper than providing civilized working conditions for people getting $150K+. That seems to be implying that its better to lose say, $20/hr in productivity than to double rent costs, so rent in CA must be more than $40/hr for a couple sq feet, lets say rent is $4/sq ft in CA, or annually about $8K/sq ft. Some google real estate results for sand hill road indicates that $2000/sq ft per year is somewhat high but not unrealistic... For averaging purposes at a non-24x7 operation rent in CA is going to cost about $30/hr/employee no matter how much or how little you pay the employee.

Some garment tasks inherently taking a lot of space to lay out cloth for cutting or sewing imply garment companies are paying maybe twice as much for a garment worker's space than for a software dev's space, an extremely large multiple of employee income is paid in rent, and moving away from CA would result in enormous savings in rent.

Clearly moving production anywhere other than CA would save an enormous about of money in rent. In rural nowhere you can get industrial zoned buildings for about $4/sq/yr or about 500 times less than CA office space, at which point you have to start looking in more detail at costs of utilities and other expenses that were noise at higher rents but are now significant relative to the cheaper rent.
From June 2016.

"Universal Basic Income – Poll Results from IGM Economic Experts Panel"

Previously posted on HN with 120 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12009562
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> All the evidence I've seen points to it working well.

Could you provide some references?
If you're an economist or work in finance and you are asked this question, your answer is almost certainly going to be based on what you think will happen to the economy. If you think that the economy will get worse, or improve at a slower rate, you will automatically assume that means it should not be introduced.

Maybe. Just maybe. Something which makes the economy worse, might also be a good thing to do.
One of the things that really hit home at my last job and that I see missing from a lot of these dashboards is comparative context. So I walk in in the morning and we have a dashboard for vists and signups / payments and it shows lots of visits and no payments. Is that normal? Is that expected or concerning? Without showing what it was yesterday at the same time or on the same day last week, or weekly/monthly avg how do I know how to feel about anything I'm looking at.

I know the answer to that can be "you should know your product" but I'm not sure that answer is enough.
No, you have seriously misunderstood economics if you think it predicts that all restaurants in California will close. Lookup supply and demand curves. The price to eat out will just increase, which will subsequently decrease demand and there will be fewer restaurants.
I've been thinking there should be a 'second' (?) currency. Basic income would be paid in this currency and you can buy certain stuff with it. Food, rent, gas etc.

Then we keep our current currencies right next to it. You can buy the same stuff but also other 'luxury goods' (or find a better nicer name for it)

I know that the Dutch government already makes this distingsion where we have 6% tax on food, art, medicine (and other stuff) and 21% tax on the rest. Since the distingsions is there and recognized, we can utilize it for other purpuses.
It's been a bit, so I might be wrong on some of the details here, but...

I did have keychain access, and was able to fully unlock the keychain and use it in other areas. However after chasing down several issues (including the keychain expiring after 300 seconds by default, moving the keys around between different keychains, various "jump up and down and spin around 3 times"-esque solutions of using multiple commands on the same line, or different lines, or in different orders, or others). I finally eventually figured out that I could unlock the keychain on the system manually, ssh in, then i'd have till it timed out to sign, only to have it be rejected on the upload...

Once I moved to just using a remote-desktop software and doing it through the GUI, it just worked. However now it's a 2 step process where our build system does literally everything but the signing then i need to manually remote in and click a button to sign and upload.
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I wish Google would allow classic maps back :(

For some reason, here Google Maps force lite mode, no matter how hard I try to force normal mode.

Still, even in lite mode, it is incredibly slow, if it was slower it would go backwards.

And it is missing basic features that classic maps had, like latitude and longitude lines, and measurement.
Would I give up 10% of my income to prevent riots and a rural/urban civil war? Yes, yes I would and frankly if you wouldn't you're being penny wise and pound foolish. You can't just write off the entire blue collar class as they slide into starvation and go "well that's unfortunate," those are people, and more specifically people a lot more used to surviving off the grid than you are. We need them a lot more than they need us.
> It seems to just complicate things for very little benefit. It's a pretty abstraction, but I don't see actual results from it.

This is a curse which keeps affecting large groups of programmers, to read about some pretty looking abstraction and then wanting to use it everywhere regardless if it is suitable or not. I'm thinking of Design Patterns, CQRS, complex microservice architectures etc.
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The massive profits of those family owned diners or the business from this article that is employing <100 people...
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Great idea. Could really use some more ambient effects.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Soundcloud copied this and added it as a pro feature.
The 60% is irrelevant. I could equally look at the list of economists that they asked and make the ridiculous statement that "17% of economists are women"
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It doesn't make sense to demand businesses give money away any more than it makes sense to demand that random people do. Do you want me to give away most of my income too because some people are poorer than me? Are you setting an example of that yourself?

If you aren't proposing that businesses give away free money, are you instead saying that the government should reduce what it gives away in social welfare for low-wage workers? That could make low wage jobs unworkable if workers can't afford to actually commute to work or live nearby. That would in turn force wages up.
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> The nature of a dev's daily work can vary greatly with what kind of dev they are doing.

This was a very important part of your comment. It's good that 16gb isn't an issue for you, but for some of us, it is.
Figma seems pretty neat. Does anyone know of something similar but open source?
It's not a false dichotomy, I'm saying that some books need to be culled and that they need to make decisions about it. One of the metrics they have to use to make those decisions is what is being checked out and, like I said, regardless of how they use the metrics, this guy was manipulating them. It would be better if he made the argument that they shouldn't use the metric than to just manipulate the metric into doing what he wanted.
Yep, terrible title.

"People disagree with implementing an idea in this specific way? They must not like the idea at all, in any circumstance!"

Of course, the only way you could finance a $13 000 UBI is by getting rid of all those other transfer programs, pretty much.
Adding a few demos would be great (esp since its not supported on firefox)
It's one of the meanings, and presumably the one that was in mind when the term was coined.

But an awful lot of people seem to take it to mean the other sense - "in good health, especially because of regular physical exercise", and extrapolate that out to mean that it's always the strongest/fastest etc that survive.
Under the proposals the new body would no longer be able to receive anonymous tip-offs, nor have a spokesperson, and would be under the supervision of the House Ethics Committee. Accusations against lawmakers would not be made public, as they are currently.

That's just the beginning, because those guys don't believe in regulations, and they've been very open about what they want to do - do away with regulations.

Like under the last Bush administration, it will be free-for-all. There will not be a single anti-hrust case brought against any company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...

71% making less than $50k/y.

51% of households.
Well, economists only get things right 50% of the time (i.e. their predictions are purely aleatory), so this doesn't really mean much.

Here is a very interesting article about all those major failed recent predictions by economists:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/magazine/06Economic-t.html...
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I think past-apple did do a really decent job and set the stage for many other vendors to follow. Everybody has caught up and surpassed it though.
The irony is airlines included free food to get people on board.
The big application I'm aware of is structured recursion schemes: http://maartenfokkinga.github.io/utwente/mmf91m.pdf ( implemented in Haskell by the recursion-schemes library ). Used carefully they allow a very lightweight/concise way of expressing transformations of tree-like structures, which is the essence of compilers (and of a lot of other programming, particularly when you start working in DSLs and regarding everything as a compiler).
I cringed when I realized bing maps were closer to classic gmaps than anything google maps today.
Well you knew that they would figure out a way of going after Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid somehow. They'll now sell it as universal basic income, brilliant. Grab yourself some champagne, the elites are going to celebrate.
What are the unemployment stats like in those locations? How high is the minimum compared to the median?

Note that this is basic supply and demand, some businesses sitting right at their maximum labor price point will be shut down.
My beef with UBI is that it is seen as a fiscal policy to replace welfare (and therefore funded by tax), rather than an alternative distribution of money created by monetary policy.
If you pick a bunch of people who all think the same way it's not very surprising when a majority takes one particular side in a debate. For example, in another survey of the same group of experts, 98% agreed that the USA is better off after NAFTA[1]. That isn't to suggest they're wrong, but is does indicate that this might be a group of people who aren't very diverse in their opinions.

[1] http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/free-trade
This was a hugely exciting development, I'm not up to date on current plans to investigate further, now reminded I will certainly be looking.
The thing is, it doesn't matter if people will spend more or not. Say you regularly purchase something, and pay $10/lb for it. And you usually buy a 6 pound package. So you spend $60.

And the one day you go into the store, and they tell you "We just introduced a new Basic Economy package!". It's still only $60, but now it's 5 pounds instead of 6. Or, for $12 more, you can upgrade to your previous 6 pound package.

May you pay more to upgrade, maybe you pay the same—but either way, what used to be $10/lb is now $12/lb. The price went up.
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That often doesn't show the whole picture. Let's say Viacom operated at a 1 billion dollar loss, does that mean the CEO doesn't get paid?

We would have to know how this business is structured to know if that figure means anything. 200k loss after the owners 500k salary could be the case here.
All of these words and nothing tells me what is the functionality of the new organ !!
Well, they have that, as "food stamps". But of course it gets arbitraged often by people buying storable commodity goods (like soda or detergent) with it, and selling those things at a discount.
Allowing multiple backgrounds, and rotating the background at different points by reacting to the music would be a nice touch - I kept waiting for the background to change.
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IIRC, uranium enrichment centrifuges in Iran were infected by Stuxnet because someone brought an infected USB stick, found in the parking lot, into the facility.

Social engineering is the best way to infiltrate the airgapped infrastructure.
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Reading this made lawyers the closed source programmers of society in my mind.
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The economists are responding to one very specific version of UBI: Granting every American citizen over 21-years old a universal basic income of $13,000 a year — financed by eliminating all transfer programs (including Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, housing subsidies, household welfare payments, and farm and corporate subsidies) — would be a better policy than the status quo.

E.g. William Nordhaus disagrees as follows: And the children get nothing? The basic idea is sound but too simplistic as stated.

Some of the comments seem quite shallow too. E.g. Oliver Hart (Nobel prize laureate) says: "Bill Gates would get 13K, which is crazy". You might object to giving the 1% $13K on moral grounds (but they profit from e.g. free infrastructure too, that is no problem?), but if the wastage is only 1%, it would compare very favorably with many other programs.
There's Oversight [1] and Little Flocker [2] from Objective-See which can tell you if something is attempting to user the microphone or webcam, and allow you to block it if you'd like.

[1] https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html

[2] https://www.littleflocker.com/
I'm gonna guess that the "evidence" is programs where limited number of poor people were given money, no strings attached. I think that was some program/study in Africa. And the results were good but that has nothing to do with universal basic income and calling this "evidence" is akin to approving a drug for in vivo use, based on in vitro studies.
If everyone would start bringing their own food that would lead to a huge mess of transporting, storing, unpacking, preparing and disposing of food in all sorts of random ways at various times throughout the flight by the hundreds of hungry sleep deprived passengers. Airports would be even less efficient going through security, vendors trying to sell food to go and people congregating to buy things. There's really enough general unbundling of comfort and efficiency at airports already. I would definitely pay more if even more things was standardized and included for everyone on the flight (like luggage, security, airport seating).
For the feature set I'm using, iTerm2 and Konsole (KDE terminal app) are on par.
you know.. I have been an user of some of these paid dashboards and you hit on a very good point! historical context is something I always felt was missing. i end up having to store the history myself and comparing it but it would make sense for these dashboards to be "smart" and actually do a little more than just display the current data.
See also the awesome youtube-dl script: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ - especially useful for videos you plan to watch more than once. It also handles far more than just youtube, despite the name.
No, it doesn't. Look up communism. Look up productivity in conservative communist countries. They had universal income and a huge group of society was milking the system. If you want to help people, deregulate street trade and small trade and you will be able to help unemployed people get simple jobs selling homemade products etc. Add $0,10 tax on all plastic bottles - force large supermarkets to buy them back from people. This will eliminate extreme poverty immediately. Remove brackets that force a person to forfeit welfare if they find part time job - instead dynamically reduce welfare when other income is introduced. Allow people to work and to earn money easily, and the will. Do not hand out money for free.
In the US, I don't think I saw it until a course in set theory, although it could get rolled up in a topology course.
Its always a race to the bottom for costs. What no one talks about is the trail of bodies that are left behind.
I'm guess that, like me, he's appalled that a library should choose to discard useful books on the basis of popularity. I'd manipulate goofy metrics like hell to preserve the collection too. Else you end up with a popular-culture library with a memory of a year or so. Instead of a true library.

All that's been said. I'm just agreeing with the strategy to defy the Philistines at all costs. The librarian was a hero.
When this is linked, I'd like to add this article about a concrete fiction of post-scarcity: https://medium.com/@RickWebb/the-economics-of-star-trek-29ba...
The problem with a checklist is it's _highly_ nation and state dependent.

That said, in the US, generally:

1) Last will and testament: what to do with your stuff when you die

2) Living will: what medical treatment you desire while unable to decide for yourself

3) Power of attorney: who handles your accounts if your incapable