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There's a massive difference between active management (e.g. short let luxury rentals) of a property vs passive management, though.

If they were renting out properties long term, the yield would be lower. I have a friend who did something similar in London, and he was renting out apartments for £200-300 a night which would rent out for £3,000-3,500 on a long let lease.

Also, I would assume the average property worth $6m would rent out for a lot less than $25k a mo. Most properties worth $6m can't even be rented out consistently, for years on end unless you're in a prime city such as London or NYC.

Santorini is a great place for wealthy people to spend a week, or even a month, but I don't expect many to have their permanent base there.
im sure VCs would love a company that's already profitable too. But now that you are there's no need for venture capital.
Maybe that's the natural size for a company and growing beyond that is simply an aberration!
I think that building a good UI for the desktop is only possible if UI developers agree on "look-and-feel" and that may be simpler for Canonical than for a community like Debian and they came to the conclusion that building their own is just the way to go. AFAIK their home-grown desktop is FOSS, so it's not like you are buying into a proprietary system and this is tremendous.

When I started with Linux I used a distribution like Mandrake with a KDE Desktop and by default you got several text editors, browsers and other tools (the drop-down menu was huge) and for me as a starter (I did not know any programming then and just wanted to play with a different OS coming from a Microsoft stack) I was overwhelmed and although I could appreciate the customization it was hard to get started as there were too many options.

Ubuntu changed that and they really thought a lot about how to improve the Linux Desktop experience and IMHO they did very, very well. E.g. I use Ubuntu as you can find lots of documentation, it is supported well in cloud infrastructure and they (re)distribute a lot of packages.

In particular I do not get critics about the Desktop Environment. In no way made Ubuntu your Desktop less customizable and I use e.g. xmonad as my WM which is totally straight-forward and it just works. My mom uses the default Desktop and is pretty happy with it.

That may be controversial, but I think there are often just 2 points of users; those that want it to just-work without any configuration and those who want to customize everything. I think Ubuntu is doing pretty well (currently, I hope that never changes) in both camps.
The https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack page has the appropriate upgrade command in order to upgrade the kernel to the newer and supported version.

According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Kernel.2FS...
you are now at the Linux kernel 4.4 and it will remain the same until the EOL of Ubuntu 14.04 (in 2019).
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I've heard a counter argument that basic income (and gov't funded social welfare, more generally) may actually reduce the amount of time/effort/money people personally expend on volunteerism/philanthropy.

The thinking is that the existence of extensive gov't social welfare programs make people feel as if they have contributed (via taxes) and this reduce their personal responsibility to work on behalf of the less fortunate. Likewise, it undermines their empathy for the less fortunate because "well, they already receive welfare - so if they remain poor it must be because they [are lazy/addicted to drugs/antisocial/etc.]".

I don't know if I agree with this argument; however, the cultural ramifications of BIG are certainly an important question to wrestle with.

Edit: clarification - the argument is that this belief ("I've done my part") is extended because BIG covers all sources of welfare rather than targeted toward specific populations or purposes (children, mothers, food, etc). When everyone receives social welfare payments (rather than just specific kinds of people) it more fully extends the "I've done my part" feeling to the larger population (rather than specific slices of the population) and reduces overall charitable action.
> Let all citizens live to a basic level, but not too good a level that the incentive to innovate or do more is gone. The basic income will, in my opinion, lead to a more entrepreneurial society where risk takers are supported - and also a more socially responsible and caring society, where people can donate their time to help others.

You can never eliminate the poverty line. You can only shift it. Poverty in the 1400s meant you lived in squalor with no utilities and no sanitization and very few public services.

Poverty in 2017 means (for the most part) you have a small or shared condo with running water, electricity, refrigerator, television, smartphone, access to lots of public services (libraries, parks, hospitals, etc) and more. The poor people of today have it better than kings of old, but very few people hold that perspective.

Under UBI poverty will just get shifted to the new standard, but people will only be temporarily happier with their new standard of living. The next generation will be discontented with their standard of living. People will complain that UBI isn't enough to live on, etc. How is the end game not communism? Who gets to say: "stop complaining, UBI is enough for you." Won't it be more tempting for the politicians to say: "You're right, this is outrageous! The rich have oppressed you enough, we need to tax them more to raise your UBI."
I'd argue that the average monthly income of artists is lower than that of software developers. Same for workers in care.
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I assume that your number of 150 comes from Robin Dunbar.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number
greed is part of mankind since ever, and it's not going anywhere, like it or not. you have your opinions, and I respectfully disagree with them. swiss voters apparently consider it a pipe dream too, based on results of referendum on UBI
Because the source code itself is already a visualization of the software. It's easier to navigate around the code directly, using grep or IDE features to discover where identifiers are used, than it is to go back and forth between the code and a separate simplified representation.
And amusingly, "epic" replaced "awesome" a few years before that.
I wouldn't waste your time with hired.
Solar hot water heaters are vastly more convenient and generally cheap. But, rocket stoves are great for rarely used structures, cooking, or the far north.
I do remember reading something about GitHub preventing some keys from being pushed (AWS secrets etc?) But it's a vague memory from a long time ago!
It surely has. One could probably argue whether it is smell or taste, or whether it is due to the water itself or the [lack of] minerals and gases dissolved in it, but there is definitely a noticeable variation between different things commonly called water.

Even more, there is at least some evidence [1] that there is a noticeable difference between normal and heavy water where heavy water is described as slightly sweet, see for example this, admittedly not very scientific, self-experiment [1] on YouTube, drinking at 4:30 and 7:50.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_water#Physical_propertie...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHVqId0MQc
Another idea: during the Soviet perestroika just before economic collapse, the "CEO elections by employees" became quite popular in the Soviet firms.
It's sloppy shorthand though because it can be (deliberately) misconstrued to suggest agency and directional purpose.
Probably! But I don't know of em. I helped build a movement based organization a few years ago, someone saw us falling into the same trap, was around during the time of ActUp, and gave me a bunch of papers describing what I just restated above to help. From my own experience, if you're building an organization around something people really care about, there is always an excess of people, so the constant shifting doesn't really matter too much.
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I think we should also move to something in the spirit of "basic startup funding". In a way this is an extension of the microcredits idea.
And forcing everyone else by ultimatum. Facebook needs to go, period. It's too convenient, and we're too much into convenience to figure our way out of the mess collectively.
Sometimes it's just fun building things in a nice technology.
I hugely agree. I've done a lot of web development in a range of circumstances and this current period is frustrating. I just started a new project at a new company; decided to use React; bought and downloaded a React Admin template; spent 2 hours trying to get it to "build"; gave up after I couldn't sort the node_modules conflicts among about 50 modules (totalling nearly 1GB!), each of which had 10+ modules as a dependency.

Angular did have its issues, but I dropped a reference to CDN's version into a web page and was off to the races very quickly.

I'm literally using Makefiles to build, test and deploy a set of about 7 microservices (including their web admin tooling). It's incredibly straightforward, flexible and clearly documented... Gulp, Grunt, WebPack... What are we doing?
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> Canonical is doing great job of putting, fairly reliable system on massive number of devices, something that other distributions can just dream about

[edit]

I'm getting lots of downvotes from people talking about off-the-shelf laptops and other generic x86-based projects. Lets be clear that the following post is in the context of other CPU architectures and other platforms a little more exotic than your typical PC or laptop.

[original post]

I'm not here to bash Ubuntu as I couldn't care less what platform people choose to run - even if that's Windows - just so long as I can run whatever I choose to run. However with that said, I still have to disagree with your statement above (re other distros only dream of supporting a massive number of devices). Ubuntu supports less hardware than their originating platform, Debian. Less than Suse, Redhat, and derivatives. Even Slackware and Arch support a considerable number of alternative architectures through 3rd party ports. And stepping away from GNU/Linux for a moment, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD all too official support more platforms than Ubuntu.

Support for multiple devices and architectures isn't something unique to Ubuntu - it's pretty typical in the FOSS community. In fact back in the 90s and early 00s there used to be a running joke about people installing Linux on a whole plethora of odd devices just for kicks; talking kettles, toasters, stuffed animals(!!!), all sorts of things (baring in mind this was before the IoT revolution).
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> ...and he'd only have to find a CEO for Facebook to...

He already has a CEO: Sheryl is more than capable of running the business. Sure, she'd need a tech-visionnaire CTO (like a Jony Ivy for her Tim Cook-style), but I think FB would be perfectly fine without Mark.
If that "vision" relates only to the design or structure of the software, then I believe that meritocracy means conforming to the project owner's standards. But if it's about politics or social issues taking precedence over the code, then I would be opposed to it.

There are plenty of angry, uncivil, misogynistic and racist 'thought leaders' in tech who are respected not for their political views (although sometimes, yes) but for the quality and popularity of their projects, so I think the premise of software being meritocratic is fairly well established.
The Swiss unemployment rate, around 3.5%, is one of the lowest in Europe. So at this point it doesn't look like too many humans are without a job after having been replaced by robots.
Could it be that just like with the industrial revolution, old jobs are being replaced with new ones? In that case there is no need for a basic income.
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Something a simple filter takes care of easily.
Again, I see point of disagreement, other than an odd bit of defensiveness about ORMs.
Robots work really well for manufacturing. What they don't work well for is repairs.

IMO, the natural progression that combats the impact of robots is to transition from a "buy a new one" society to a "fix the old one" society. There's an entire service industry there that mitigates waste, is better for the environment, is entirely localized and isn't realistically ever going to fit the "make the robot do it" line of work. 3D printers should make this even easier.

The only thing that makes the current approach work is people not feeling the cost of waste disposal due to free trash pickup. As soon as disposal's real costs are actually attached to it you'll begin to shift people's mindsets to products that are built to last instead of built to replace. Investing in a purchase that's harder to repair than replace is one of the reasons for a lot of the issues that we experience in society today.

EDIT: Apparently many European countries charge $2/lb for trash pickup but recycling is free, just as an example on that note.

http://www.wisebread.com/should-we-pay-2-per-pound-for-garba...

http://www.howtogermany.com/pages/recycling.html
> Water has no taste.

At least not to humans. Many animals have taste buds tuned for water.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/canine-corner/201104/ho...

Edit - formatting
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I know people who make 600k with zero masters degrees and whose parents weren't the President. This sort of income is almost enough to buy a house in New York City and have a couple kids!
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Wow, thanks for following through there.

As much as I complain that sloppy research oversells its conclusions, I tend to forget how often reporters will take a good paper and simply skip all the lines like "not significant" and "no causation" that stand in the way of an exciting article.
It's bs, it supports more hardware since the kernel is more recent, good luck running Debian / *BSD like on modern laptops.
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>> people mostly like him

I think that depends on geography and demographics. He's popular in SV and the tech community, but perhaps not as popular elsewhere. It's hard to find objective data on it. The only thing I could find was a silly cbinsights bracket vote. [1] It would be interesting to see what his Q score is.

[1] https://www.cbinsights.com/research-tech-ceos
The average monthly income of artists is massively lower than that of software developers. It's probably lower than that of janitors.

In the UK a professional author, on average, earns below minimum wage, for example.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11550871/Just-...

Again: power law curve. A very small number of authors create something that becomes a massive hit. They get extremely wealthy, because society really values their work.

Most - and by "most" I mean 99.99% - don't.

I'd call it an "inverse square law", but the distribution is so uneven that most artists would be tearfully grateful if it suddenly changed to only be equivalent to 1/x^2 .
I'm rather doubtful this is true. Any sources to back up your claim?
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>> My kid's kindergarten class has an FB page that is very important to how the class functions day to day.

> This sends chills down my spine, because we're selling out kids to the same Surveillance-Industrial complex we sold out to before they even get a choice in the matter.

Absolutely! I don't understand how people are just letting this happen or even promoting it. I see Facebook pages, WhatsApp groups and such - all used to share sensitive information about children - fundamentally making it impossible for the children to reverse the effects of these actions when they're adults. I'd rather prefer an email group to these mechanisms. Or they might as well put everything on Twitter in public view to avoid any pretense of having private communications. I'm far too focused on privacy to consider any benefits as outweighing the dangers and damages.
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Thanks for sharing those links. It looks like it would be hard to start the rocket action correctly. You would have to preheat the circulator "chimney" somehow. Until then, smoke would pour into your house.

This is a problem with normal wood-burning cooking stoves as well. Smoke doesn't go into the chimney until you establish a convection draft or the wind creates a venturi effect.
Unless the interstate highway goes right to your door, you're still using roads overwhelmingly funded by urbanites. And the gas in your car? Subsidized at all levels. Hell, we even bailed out a terrible automobile company with federal funds, subsidizing the losses on the manufacture of a generation of shitty cars!

But it goes beyond just subsidizing roads and fuel and SUVs. The federal and state governments subsidize rural and suburban power networks, water distribution, waste disposal, schools, police, firefighters, doctors, telecommunications... a whole host of things that drive down living costs in rural and suburban areas.

Yes, it's cheap to live outside of cities (in the US). Nobody's debating that. Nobody's saying it's not an appealing lifestyle for lots of people. We're saying that the reason it's cheap is because it's subsidized. It's basic economics. There are precious few places in the world where "it's just cheaper to live outside of cities" without strenuous government intervention.
Yeah, this seems not-terrible - most of the serious health concerns with fires are with wood stoves, where smoke either enters a house directly or leaves a chimney and settles back into it.

From the article up there I get the sense that wood fires inflict a lot of particulates even when you can't smell smoke, but open-air fires are still way safer (on this level) than in-home ones.
If you mean that Wolfram advocates programmatic generation of structures, then that's true; the approach is very different though. These appear to come from a continuous optimisation process, i.e. starting with a "bad" design and iteratively tweaking it. In contrast, Wolfram tends to focus on discrete systems (e.g. cellular automata) and perform the search interactively, like a form of superoptimisation rather than numerical optimisation.

The examples I'd cite are from the 1990s, e.g. evolved antennas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna ) and integrated circuits ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolvable_hardware )
AFAIK there is no mic in the doll, you cannot get responses from the internet without the smart device app, you technically talk into your phone/tablet, not the doll
I think these tools (Phenomic, Gatsby) are aimed at front-end developers who are already familiar with React resources and who can leverage that knowledge and the ecosystem of tools to build static sites much the way they build apps.

The bells & whistles are mostly added bonuses - not an argument that all static sites should be built this way. At least that would not be an effective argument in my book.
"A thousand disparate networks would not have the same potential for global change and community."

But Facebook is exactly that - thousand disparate bubbles. People are connected only to items they are analyzed to care about beforehand. If something irks them, rather than coolly analyze it, people get offended and react - often en masse - which triggers the social media rages.
Just blogged about static site generation with Webpack [0]. This is an React independent approach, you can basically use any renderer that runs on Node.js.

[0] https://dev.to/kayis/create-static-sites-with-webpack
so that's a flipping village and most villages / hamlets wont have any local jobs
">Consider - how many times have people complained about a lack of parking, but really mean a lack of FREE parking?"

Ha ha. Do people actually complain about lack of free things? I think however it might be more effective to impose a congestion charge on non-commercial than to raise parking rates. Although certainly there is no reason to not do both.

>"Consider - how many times have people complained about a lack of parking, but really mean a lack of FREE parking?
>"The delivery costs of goods into cities already makes those same good more expensive in a city with the current pricing scheme." - do you have a source for this?"

The logistics of delivering those goods in a urban center is just more challenging. And this cost is passed on to the retailer and or consuer. See item 5 here:

https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch6en/appl6en/ch6a2e...
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HN's primary audience is "hackers", which generally extends to the engineering types. I however have gleaned a lot of insight from comments written by non-coders, particularly those without an engineering background.

If you're one of those, I'd love to hear how you found out about HN and what keeps you coming back.
This seems like a really good question to raise, and I'm embarrassed that I didn't think of it at all. I know carcinogen studies are already touchy since cancer risks vary so wildly, but this is a nice reminder that even within primates you get this kind of problem.
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> I trust that Zuck has grown up a bit since then.

I used to think this a few years ago and consider that he might have changed (I wanted to believe this more so after his daughter was born). But I don't think it's true. He's very much the same person who said those things years ago, except that he's super rich now and has a lot more control over things.
So, the idea is simply that talking about it and seeking conversations might be better than furthering the current devision and split in the people we are seeing today.

Oh, and I must add that the whole thing is totally anonymous and I urge everyone to stay civil. Also, I build in a report function.
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Having a car (I don't btw) allows you a lot off flexibility both in terms of work and in your social life.
No sane company is still using Windows XP, given that support ended 3 years ago and development ended a decade ago.
Oh come on... he's just setting up the chess board to run for the US presidency in 20 years. Give him space to do it
>Most Americans cannot imagine a luxurious or aspirational life without a car. It has nothing to do with not having the means for it.

The thing is, even in the densest cities in the world it's not like people are completely without cars. They just manage to get by with one car per family rather than one car per driving age member of the household.

It has the additional advantage of letting their teenaged kids get around and do shit on their own without having their parents play chauffeur all day.

Between car sharing services, bike shares, and on-demand ride-hailing it's easier than ever to get around without a car and fill in the gaps that a transit system leaves. The only thing that actually gets hard is being able to drive out to go camping or manage the extemporaneous pick-up of free-shit on CraigsList. Even that would be doable if car rental companies were more focused on long term rentals for road-trippers rather than just people who need commuter econoboxes to leave their hotels.