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> My child goes to daycare and it is infinitely more stimulating than anything we could do for her at home even if we've "given our best effort".

Is stimulation the most important thing in childrearing?

> What is the spouse who stays home supposed to do in ten years when the child is much more independent and at school or activities much of the day?

Volunteer? Find self-fulfillment in something other than a career?

Plus, I think you may be begging the question: while older children require less immediate attention than younger ones, they still require plenty of care. It just tends to be more planning and less direct interaction.

Plus, why do you assume only one kid? My mother spent more than a quarter-century with children at home. She certainly was never bored.

> And what are two spouses supposed to do when they both deeply enjoy their work and the value it brings them as individuals?

Maybe work from home? Ultimately, though, parents today must sacrifice for their children, just as parents have done for millennia. Kids aren't expensive status symbols: raising them well is a duty, not a lark.
This is a level of evil I hadn't considered.
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As terrible as this is, at least they can continue selling their renewables out of state. The winds in Wyoming are incredible (google image search: "Wyoming wind sock"; it's less an exaggeration than you'd think).

The Fine Article also points out that ~90% of WY's electricity already comes from non-renewables (though, for whatever reason, they count hydro amongst those).

Net, this isn't exactly changing the status quo for WY.
If it is just an idea at this stage it may feel like it has value, but believe me, it does not.

In order for an idea to have value you actually have to build something. If you can't be bothered to build something, it probably isn't a very exciting idea. So what you are trying to sell is an idea that you, by your own admission, don't think is very exciting. And what you have is essentially something you could put together in an afternoon.

The maximum I have ever paid for an idea is lunch. If I have reason to believe that someone will be able to interest me long enough that I'll make it through lunch, heck, I'll buy them lunch

If you want to transform it into value, you need to do a bit more. If the idea is really so boring that you won't, you could pay someone to work on the idea or you could partner up with someone. Freeing you up to have other ideas or whatever you are doing that is more fun than acting on the idea you are trying to sell.

Now here is a free tip: if you take an idea to a bigger audience, you may find other people that are interested in it. People who might want to do it. People that might have other ideas because of it. And yes, people who will tell you that your idea is rubbish. If your idea is good, someone might want to do it on their own. But this is less likely than you think. Because other people also have ideas. But in any case, if you tell more people about your idea you stand a bigger chance of getting help. Start with people you know who have built stuff.
Correct. Personal taxes (taking things via threat of force) are theft. It does not matter who is doing the taking.
Well of course it is.

But again, a "signal" with a high false-positive rate (eg, most people not wearing shoes pose no threat) and false-negative rate (eg, most criminals, especially the dangerous ones wear shoes)
is not a good or meaningful signal. You can't make reliable predictions of danger from it, while attempting to distracts from more useful signals and gives us false confidence.

So not only does it not reveal danger, it gives us false confidence we can reliably detect danger, making us more vulnerable to real danger (eg, serial killers).

The instinct was likely useful as primitive humans (eg, preferring our species or pack to other species or packs), but likely is a detriment in modern society.
RSA is still secure with a few caveats.

1. It isn't secure against quantum computing attacks. Granted neither are elliptical curve based cryptosystems, so this isn't the motivation for switching.

2. It requires complicated padding schemes to prevent certain classes of attacks. The padding schemes do succeed at solving this problem, but they add a layer of complexity, and are often done incorrectly by inexperienced crypto users.

3. It is speculated that there are additional attacks based on math that hasn't yet been discovered. There is some speculation that the NSA has/is/will break RSA using these types of attacks.

4. There are a huge number of potential side channel attacks based on weirdness with how RSA key's affect the computation performed during encryption/decryption. Like with #2, there are ways around it, but it can still cause problems.

That said, if you use reasonable sized keys (2048 bit or larger), use libraries implemented by professionals with the correct options enabled, and you are worried about garden variety attacks, not the NSA, you are probably fine with RSA. Some people are starting to think that they are a little to much to bear, particularly when elliptic curves solve a lot of the problems and have smaller key sizes and faster computation.

Side note: But for a few exceptions, any processor on the market today (including mobile/embedded) could easily establish an SSH session using RSA without it being a significant cost. RSA (and Elliptic curve cryptography) is only used at the beginning of the session to establish a symmetric session key.
Alternatively the government tells the robots to lock up the poor rioters, so the rich can keep spending their money in peace. There will be violence on both sides. Still this is all hypothetical, all we did was make some neural nets be able to classify some images, there is still a ridiculous amount of work to do.
> In 2012, the last year of recorded data, developing countries received a total of $1.3tn, including all aid, investment, and income from abroad. But that same year some $3.3tn flowed out of them. In other words, developing countries sent $2tn more to the rest of the world than they received. If we look at all years since 1980, these net outflows add up to an eye-popping total of $16.3tn – that’s how much money has been drained out of the global south over the past few decades. To get a sense for the scale of this, $16.3tn is roughly the GDP of the United States

I'm very unclear on what this actually means.

Does it imply, for instance, that if developing countries were to cut themselves off from the rest of the world economically so that both the inflows and outflows all stopped, they would have $2tn/year more to spend domestically to improve the health and wellbeing of their citizens?
Wouldn't Rust be overkill?

I think Forth is much more suitable here. You can implement a lot of features in 512K. You can extend the code (and language!) at runtime, you can debug remotely, and do other nice things.
The precise amount will not be enshrined in the constitution. It will be most likely adjusted periodically to ensure subsistence without removing the motivation to work.
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You would need a basic standard library built with the binary when building for xtensa (esp) aswell. So yes, the size of the core parts of the stdlib between c and rust definitely do play a role.
Yeah perhaps this is not the best hypothetical response...

I still believe there is a way to adjust such an encryption scheme to meet the ideal criteria:

1. you're not lying
2. you can't provide access
3. you're not drawing extra attention to yourself
In a sense, the terrorists had already won. They succeeded in planting fear in our heart.
If you're on HN, it's very, very likely that you have a skill set, and knowledge base that makes career-changing fairly easy (relatively speaking, anyway).

If you've worked in a factory all your life, and suddenly all the factories around where you — and your well-established, extended family — live are closed down, or moved overseas, or whatever, you're probably going to be a bit less sanguine about the situation.

The myopia of tech people will probably never not astound me.
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Reforestation is good in regions that used to have forests. But using rocks might also work in ardi regions where freshwater is a limited resource (I assume they can just use salt water to pump CO2 into the rocks).

And you can't just plant forests everywhere, for example china experiences issues with its Green Wall, where the trees soak up so much water that it causes the ground water level to fall.
Capitalism is surprisingly adept at evolving. I don't think it's "going away, no matter what". I'm also skeptical of the "automation apocalypse" that everyone is talking about. MY predicition is there is going to be a massive shift in blue collar work such that basic programming will become a trade to deal with the exponentially growing software maintenance problems.
I hope not. Most of the security for modbus are in the form of MasterLocks (those locks everyone learning to pick lock buy a dozen of). If you have physical access to the system it's assumed you're supposed to be there.

At least in the limited number of systems I've seen, modbus is used for communicating status rather than control.
The link prefers Ed25519 over RSA and uses ECDSA last where possible. It's faster and some also trust djb's work on curves over that from NIST.
And what is your "main" product?

Maybe that is actually new, cool, etc., or maybe the actual research is interesting, while this iRope thingy seems almost a parody.
Biochar is a possible method to permanently store the CO2 captured from plant matter.

Playing devil's advocate here, water vapor is an incredibly powerful greenhouse gas, even more so than CO2.
Thanks, I appreciate the comment (and your intentions), however working in a Swiss company with a _lot_ of German speakers (plus actual Germans, too ;) ) I can assure you that if the occasional 'quack' was the issue something would have been said a long time ago :)

EDIT: Now self-deprecating humour, that has been an issue :D

EDIT2: I mean _other_ forms of self-deprecation, not quacking.
In addition, there are random local dudes who can set up an office Asterisk system based on commodity hardware for like $2000, and whom you can pay another $200 every couple of years when something needs to be changed. An Avaya system can't get close to that.
And, as evidenced by the actions of our Republican and Democratic party legislators, by the NSA and FBI ... the US government does not have my best interests in mind.
> My child goes to daycare and it is infinitely more stimulating than anything we could do for her at home even if we've "given our best effort".

Are you sure? I remember daycare and it was mind-numbing torture. The parents all thought it was great but I would have preferred to be anywhere else.
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I think this is probably correct. But I would be sure to encrypt my device before mailing it too.
You should be well aware that such name calling is not OK on Hackers News. Please don't do this.
They're not terribly practical. They are fairly large, only seat two, and have no cargo capacity. Low suspensions have...difficulties in many situations. They are also not especially aerodynamic compared to most modern sedans.

I have a Corvette, which is a freaking hatch back compared to most high end sportscars.
It is, but where would you get the nutrients needed to grow the algae at a scale needed to offset global climate change?
Also, a bit of a bikeshed since energy usage in Wyoming isn't all that significant.

That said, the use of the all too common dismissive comment stating that if you are not physically doing something about it then you are part of the problem is caveman thinking.

Actively fighting and protesting can do more harm than good. Freedom of speech is sometimes more about combined civil public discourse as opposed to aggressive and manipulative tactics of seizing power and pushing propaganda as you have suggested.
Your comment makes an excellent point. If our economy really was organized around incentivizing production, there are many things we could do to that end. In addition to a 100% inheritance tax, we could also surely implement policies that discouraged most types of rent-seeking and the passive growth of wealth that has allowed the richest in our country to become even richer without having to produce anything.
> going thru an xray machine that haven't been properly documented

Don't forget data retention. Those pseudo-nude pictures of all of us (including your children) are probably stored somewhere for perpetuity.
My hunch is that costs of services will increase while consumables remain flat. Australia has a complex minimum wage system, but 20 AUD is typical and on the order of 15 USD. The result is that services such house cleaners, laundromats and car detailing are order 3 times expensive as in the US, however produce and imported goods (Australia continues to systematically kill off its domestic manufacturing capability) are more or less comparable with US prices.

Maybe its just a SV thing, but having my (share) house maintained by an army of Latinos for a fraction of my income makes me feel incredibly uneasy. The other one that gets me are the car washes along El Camino where white people drink coffee as their cars are tended to by Latinos.

Basic income will kill businesses that rely on cheap labour, as suddenly incremental incentive to work will be minimal at $9/hour (why work only to double my anual income?). To restore the incentive wages will also need to rise, and the net result will be more expensive services accessed by a smaller percentage of the highest earners.
> Not to mention, a large majority of the US population is xenophobic and/or racist.

Prove it. I'm well-travelled (within and outside the US) and I disagree entirely. Stop spewing libel about the American pubic.
How about this:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/13/us/airport-luggage-theft/
I too think your economic arguments are pretty far off from a likely scenario, so I'll try to say a little bit in counter.

In your example, $12bn goes to people who are 'poor'. You imagine all of this will be spent on scarce consumer resources and housing, creating increasing cost for those items.

You make a number of assumptions that have to be teased out before we can know how likely that scenario is:

1. Poor people will just spend any additional income.

2. Poor people will not have housing mobility and therefore be subject to rising prices for housing.

3. Consumer goods are scarce and supply will not increase based on increased demand.

1. has shown to be (surprisingly?) untrue in basic income trials so far. Read about India's Basic Income experiments at resources like this: http://www.salon.com/2015/01/25/sponsored_by_my_husband_why_... It turns out poor people use income security to accrue useful economic assets that have sustained financial benefits. Food security also improves. In addition, research into economic security shows that money worries vastly lower IQ (google for Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir to learn more). So the data we have so far is pretty uniformly the opposite of your narrative here.

2. This to me seems pretty obviously false, or at least likely to at most be a small impact net of the money. Poorer families must choose between job proximity, communities, schools, all kinds of things, often with less than one month of safety money. Mobility is extraordinarily low in these circumstances. Guaranteed payments will vastly increase mobility for this community, allowing them to purchase property in economically appealing areas while expanding the number of jobs they take. This will at most redistribute people. Perhaps slumlords will raise rents immediately, but they will find two things: tenants who stay can pay, lowering their own costs, and tenants who don't like prices will move much more quickly. Liquidity in markets is good for efficiency. I don't think you can tell a compelling story about harm to poor renters with UBI here, it's just not sound reasoning.

3. This seems like a very silly assertion to make. Automated factories and low-labor-cost factories around the world would cheerfully sell 5x the consumer goods they manufacture now, and prices will decrease as demand increases. Perhaps the increased demand for factory workers would drive some additional jobs. But, a) I'm not sure what scarce resource you imagine will drive inflationary costs, and b) the India research shows spending goes into a pretty diverse basket of things, education, food security, investment and housing among others.
Given that certain opinions are very unpopular around here, why should I be forced to use my primary account to post on political topics?

If you look through the comment history of this account, I think you'll find that the posts are all very civil.
Reminds me of DoorPI, which uses SIP software to build a programmable Doorbell that calls to your phone: https://github.com/motom001/DoorPi
Only if new money was introduced into the closed loop system instead of being redistributed within the system
Can you elaborate on this point? What are the problems that you see as needing to be addressed?
"We will NOT be shipping root baked into the ROM."

Does anyone know why this is the case? Is there some kind of issue with shipping it rooted + a root manger (SuperSU, Superuser, etc) as CyanogenMod did?
Sliced apples in my kids' lunchbox!
Certainly our understanding of the world is improved, no? When you mean 'tangible' in the sense of 'solving a real world problem', i.e. an immediate application, then I feel this is getting a little circular. I simply reject the claim that one of the parent comments were making whereby science in general is not progressing. (edit: question mark)
Could you share some of the choices you made?
> Encourage contribution by people underrepresented in the community

Why is this necessary? There's no force keeping people from contributing, they are just choosing not to.

edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain to me what is wrong with what I said?
The myopia of tech people will probably never not astound me.

Isn't it equally myopic to assume that factory workers as a class are unable to learn or adapt?
Without meaning this as an endorsement but as some explanation of part of the political landscape, this perceived hypocrisy is a non-trivial part of the reason why we have Trump now. I imagine most HNers are far more familiar with the Democrat side of the drama of the last couple years, but as most of you at least know to some extent, Trump encountered significant resistance from the Republicans, as well. If you recall the #NeverTrump idea, it was mostly coming from these conservatives.

Like many organizations in the last couple of years, they decided to go all-in opposing Trump, only to discover that they didn't have anywhere near as many chips with their putative voting base as they thought, because it has been the perception (key word, please do not ignore it, arguing about whether this is "really" the case would be missing the point) among the conservative base that "their" politicians said conservative things to get elected, but promptly shed them the moment they won the election. It is probably fair to say that it is the perception of almost everybody who does not live in Washington DC that there aren't really any free-market conservative politicians whose actions are accurately described by that term; each of the two major sides may have their own reasons for believing that, but both do.

So probably just about the only people who would not describe this as hypocrisy are the actual politicians in question. There has been plenty of hypocrisy to go around lately, unfortunately.
This, this, this.

In simpler terms: You can't build a "Ferarri shaped car" at the same price as an Chevy Impala because the shape is a part of the cost.
This would be checked baggage and would be subject to a different kind of inspection.
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How about (farm) waste water runoff?
I have a serious question for folks who support UBI: what is stopping you from getting started now and helping your neighbors?

Why not just cut out the middle-man (government bureaucracy) and provide someone with a monthly income from your own pocket?

This could be accomplished by individuals with high income (like many here), or by voluntarily pooling your money together.
Elementary :)

I will send you an email.
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RSA is very difficult to implement correctly and has a great number of caveats there. Generating keys is a very complex process, which is very slow compared to (some) ECC systems.

RSA is an asymmetric system that gives you: 1.) eternal signatures 2.) encryption. But today we often don't want that anymore (eg. in instant messaging), instead we want:

- Forward secrecy, necessitating ephemeral keys and DH: but RSA keys can't be feasibly generated for each message or connection. Compared to eg. 25519-based ECC, where generating a key pair is 1.) generate 32 random bytes 2.) curve multiplication, meaning that you can generate many thousand keys/second/core.

- Authenticity, not signatures, hence again DH + MACs, not RSA signatures.
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California & NY should just leave the US. That'd send the idiots down to the level of Albania, probably lower.
I too would like an answer to this. If I'm flashing my phone already...
This would be awesome. i'd quit working and rely on others to produce goods and services for me. If I needed extra income I'd just play poker.
Don't misunderstand me, I am not criticizing someone who chooses to stay home with their children. Opinion masquearades as fact on this topic, and I firmly don't believe that a child is going to be better off raised at home or better off going to daycare. They will for certain be better off in a family where their parents are happy, and if that means both work or one stays home so be it.
Did you deliberately skip the bit where a significant factor in my notional factory worker's situation is the "established, extended family"?

If you also can't move out of the place where there are no jobs left, that's an extra layer of fucked.

I made zero assumptions about anyone else's situation. I merely point out that the assumptions tech people make about job mobility are, on the whole, a lot less applicable if you aren't a tech person.

What tech people call "changing careers" tends to mean something like "Well, I do React now, but I used to do Rails." Trajectories like mine — I started my career writing C++, now I get paid for keeping people's PostgreSQL instances happy — are "uncommon", and mine happened gradually, over a few years.

What much of the rest of the US means by that is often more like, "Well I used to be a salesman, but now I'm a tool-and-die machinist." And those jobs are disappearing, too. (And all that leaves aside pursuing things that might require a certification or degree.)

Riding that level of cultural and social change is not something people know how to do, and might well look dauntingly impossible when you also have a family to feed. So to see people making six figures on the coasts talk down their noses about mobility and "intestinal fortitude" (from one of your comment's siblings) is, honestly, pretty galling.
What evidence do you have for those things being equal? Which class has more ability to retrain, has more education and resources to begin with....
I beg to differ.

https://www.melbourneinstitute.com/downloads/media_release/f...

> “Our analysis of mothers’ intentions to have a child, and an examination of reported births statistics, suggested that the baby bonus increased the fertility rate by 3.2 per cent”, said co-author of the study, Mark Wooden Professorial Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Melbourne Institute.