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>Mutual funds depend on the fund manager not going under / properly managing assets.

Err, no. This is not a risk of properly structured mutual funds. The manager does not directly hold assets - they make decisions about what to do with the assets, which the custodian executes. And the fund's management has no recourse to the assets held by the custodian. How the fund goes under is if the assets they hold go to zero value.

There's still execution risk, though, which is why passive management is ideal. I'm pretty sure VTSAX can successfully hold a market-cap weighted mix of the 3600 largest US firms pretty much indefinitely. The risk is that the largest US firms stop being generally profitable, like what happened in Japan.
As much as the UI appears dated, Edgar is consistently one of the fastest websites I use on a daily basis. Punch in a ticker under "Fast Search" here (https://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html) and click around the filings for a bit to see what I mean.
Here are the ones I actually use.

w https://www.google.com/search?&q=site%3Awikipedia.org+%s&btn... first result from wikipedia

h https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+%...

r https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s reddit

y https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%s youtube

m https://www.google.ca/maps/search/%s google maps

b https://builtwith.com/?q=%s add "b " to a url to find out what tech is being used

wo https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s wolfram alpha

i https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%s google image search

g https://github.com/%s "g upspin/upspin" to jump to https://github.com/upspin/upspin.git

br https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formul... read homebrew formula

c https://caniuse.com/#search=%s
I far prefer his early mobiles and even simple but recognisable abstract wire work to the later work described. He seemed to go from small carefree and fluid to large heavy and crude/austere. I'm sure the latter made him more money.
I'm not sure if I or the people here are representative of the people the proposal targets, but if I had a guaranteed basic income for 5 years, I would attempt to start a startup full time.
Will this research enable conclusions about the macroeconomic effects of UBI? It seems like it'd be difficult to predict how national and international markets will react to an entire country suddenly receiving a UBI based on a study of only a few thousand people.
My senior project as an undergrad used them. Working on the PRUs was easy and all the information you need is in the datasheet.

Working with the linux to talk to the PRUs... that was another matter entirely. There were like 3 different ways to talk to them, none of which I understood, and they all seemed to have arbitrary limits and I couldn't figure out which one was the most modern. It was a huge clusterfuck. I ran into massive memory update problems on the linux side because I was trying to funnel way too much data to handle without knowing what I was doing.
> Do you have any evidence to support this ridiculous claim? Two of the largest movies of the year (Get Out and Girls Trip) are predominantly black produced.

It's a bit silly to say that Get Out was successful because it was "black produced"; it was clearly well written and produced, it stands on its own merits.

> Had they had any diversity on the show, maybe it would stand the test of time better. Now it just looks dated and white as fuck—way whiter than you'll ever find in NYC.

Who cares? I live in Toronto, and my Panjabi, Mumbaikar, and southeast Chinese flatmates are thoroughly entertained when they put on Friends.

They're of clear mind, so they're not thinking "what's with all these white people?", they're thinking "LoL, that definitely wouldn't cure a hangover, so it's funny that they depict it as doing so; LoL, Joey is factually oblivious but really has his finger to the pulse when it comes to people, how charming!".

When I watch a Japanese or Korean drama with a friend, or a Hindi movie with my flatmates, I'm not thinking "what's with all these coloureds on my TV?".
I think a better direction would be if YC Research could figure out a process to growth hack a new high density city from scratch instead of everyone crowding into physically constrained existing city. Make YC entry conditional on relocating to somewhere besides Silicon Valley/San Francisco. Maybe somewhere in California (Redding, Modesto) so you have the same rules/regulation as in California but with minimal earthquake risk, plenty of land and existing water resource
Maybe even do something like the Amazon second headquarters RFP.

Sort of like what PG describes here:
http://www.paulgraham.com/pgh.html
Wow those are some nice prices, thanks for the links!
You're wrong. Look at the comments below - you're reacting emotionally and not doing your research properly. I apologize if I'm mistaken, but I'm guessing you're Chinese. I've seen a lot of Chinese people get defensive over little things like this and respond with knee-jerk attacks, but it's really unnecessary. As your country gains influence worldwide you'll only see more articles like this - best get used to it and try to respond in a more useful way.
Whatever the reason for the change in flood zone lines -- less risk tolerance by the insurers, more accurate mapping, over-development, etc. -- it shouldn't be because of a change in the rate of sea level rise, because there isn't one.
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oh, you're right! That...makes even less sense.
That's really smart. I hadn't even considered that and was naively operating on a default assumption of increasing GDP. Especially during a recession, adjusting the basic-income downwards with GDP could create a devastating runaway feedback loop. I think as you wouldn't want the economy to grow faster than basic income, though, in the circuit-breaker-style implementation as GDP increases by more than x%, the amount should also increase x%, by default. When the GDP is assessed, say annually, it should only increase or maintain the current basic income rate. In the event of an unprecedented long-term decrease in productivity, the congress should be required to take action to lower the payouts.
The idea that UBI will wipe away the ignorance and cultural dogma that keeps poor people poor is absurd.

How many lottery winners hold on to their winnings?

Let's be realistic. If you give the uneducated poor free money, the only thing that will change is how much money they have to spend on junk food and dated electriconics.

UBI as a policy in a place like the U.S. is hopelessly niave. Our culture of poverty if the typical culture of ignorant poverty. I speak as someone who lived among the poor-hell, in high school I dated two women from the same trailer park, poverty in the U.S. is about getting mine, and often times about getting one over the man.

These aren't temporarily downtrodden future intellectuals. These are people who haven't understood education or work for generations. But, on the other hand, who are we to claim our culture is superior?
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Sometimes nothing. Sister Sister and That's So Raven starring white people bould have been the exact same show.

Sometimes small things. Bharlie Murphy's true Hollywood stories (particularly the episode about Rick James) might've resonated more with people who were his fans in the 80s or grew up with their parents playing his music on the radio.

Sometimes big things. Insecure has a recurring bharacter that ban't use the letter 'c' in a word because he's a member of the blood gang. If you grew up around gang members -- or wannabes -- you'll laugh at the pointed jab at their taboos.

Oftentimes its not about wanting to see your race, its about wanting to see your bulture.
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This is rad! Got any ideas of stuff that can be done with this using Keras?
I read it as a glitch that gave him 2 weeks of pay (1 full pay period) after starting 3 days before pay day.
I suspect that a lot of people in favor of this idea have not actually had much contact with the poor or working class, and have not spent much time thinking about the distortions UBI would create in the economy. People in the tech industry seem to view this idea through their own prism.

A guaranteed income for the entire population would result in inflation of basic goods and services, as well as rental housing. Given a truly universal income, there would be nothing stopping people from borrowing as much as they can against this guaranteed income and spending it on a new car, or new furniture, or drugs, or going to a loan shark for any other reason.

The government would have to place restrictions on what UBI could be spent on, and limits would have to be placed on increases in rents. In effect, UBI would be a backdoor for much more government regulation.

If society wants to provide for the basic needs of people, they can always build government housing, and give people food vouchers.

The US economy is not productive enough to meet all the needs of everyone, without having to work for it. US tax revenue for 2016 was only $3.2 trillion.
You are assuming an awful lot of things about me. Why would I challenge you if I wasn't intersted in what you had to say?

You completely ignore that there is no need to structure work if I don't have to hire people to produce or develop my products. This is the whole point and why I believe you are fundamentally looking at this wrong.

The industrial revolution replaced physical work, this revolution is replacing intellectual work.

You are betting on some political/ideological/moral change in people, not actually addressing the points I was making.
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Obviously there is an increase - but I think OPs point is that the steady increase has been going on since before we really burned fossil fuels. Wouldn't you expect an increase in the rate if our CO2 production was having a large effect on ocean levels?

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edit: In response to Jtsummers below, since HN thinks posting more than 3 times per day is too quick:

>If the radius of the balloon increases at a constant rate, the volume of the balloon is increasing at a much greater rate (specifically, proportional to the cube of the increase in radius).

Sure, but we're talking about a numerical value which moved ~20cm over the entire measurement time, compared to the balloon which is 1,270,000,000 cm in diameter. The effects that you mentioned are entirely negligible and probably even beyond the resolution of our measurements.
Wow, Satoshi was incredibly naive, dishonest, or just didn't have any idea how quickly it would get out of control.
Isn't alchemy a important part of learning about the history of science, as taught in elementary/secondary schools? It is one of the precursors of chemistry after all. I also recall learning it in history in the context of gunpowder, which was developed by Chinese alchemists trying to transmute metals and prolong life.
I recall a lot of really deep dives into details that I don't feel moved the story along. In my mind, the wing suit, her trip back up in the wing suit, the ring world, a lot of these things were described in excruciating detail.

Maybe there is more to the book than could be fit into 200 pages, but I also don't feel like there was enough to it to fit into 600 pages.
Get a full sized regular bluetooth KB to attach to the ipad pro...
flexible array member ≠ variable-length array

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15303211
Hi, I’m someone who happened to both grow up on welfare AND watch zero people close to me work any sort of job ever.

Your comment reads to me as an implicit argument against UBI. Is that your case?

Allow to me comment from an insider perspective.

- The welfare money didn’t cause the lack of work. They were not strongly related or if anything it’s the lack of work that drives the need to take up welfare.

- It’s likely an extremely small minority of children in welfare-assisted families who see zero closely related adults working at all.

- People who grow up without working role models do have a harder time learning the ropes on the work life, on that we agree. That doesn’t mean they’re doomed to fail completely. (Saying this as someone who had no idea how to do this right but eventually learned, went through grad school, now works in tech, outearns the median income in her city, etc). Also how do you explain the many underemployed/unemployed/deadbeat kids of successful high-status parents? The connection seems rather spurious to me.

- Taking away the welfare money would do nothing to get someone employed. Instead it might endanger the family’s life. You realize that right?
You would still need to change floodlines if the ocean levels are constantly increasing, so I'm not sure what your point is with this post.
Can you email me the tracking number of the "fake" delivery to
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Hope people around the world can help with this.
The difference here is that you can easily calculate taxes based on the price you can see since taxes don't vary in the same state/province (because this also applies to Canada...).

On Airbnb, it's up to the property owner to decide cleaning fees and such, and there isn't any rule about what that includes (that I know of).
How does liability help?

What's the idea; that if a whole network of criminals now has my personal info, there will be an insurance-backed fund that will instantly buy me a whole new identity, so life goes on merrily?

Nope! We must rather completely get rid of this Equifax and make it a criminal offense for anyone to share such info with any emerging Equifax-like agency, or with anyone else.

Your data going to Equifax is the fucking security breach. What happens afterward is just a footnote.
Exactly. Comments are for intent, not what the code does. If I want to know what the code does, I can just read the code.
The unoccupied homes in the U.S. is primarily due to banks holding onto foreclosed properties.

You could say, "This is a problem with the current financial system," which it is, but it's not a problem that UBI will solve.

If UBI is enacted, then prices will still inflate and people who purchase foreclosed homes at auction will continue to do so today, because they will also have the same increase in income as everyone else.
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I've tried and tried over the past several days, to enroll. According to Equifax, I was one of the "potential victims" (e.g. yeah, my info was stolen).

Has ANYONE been able to enroll in their credit / ID protection service?

-Marc
Perfect for those who are terrified of facing the possibility of needing to survive the nuclear holocaust, but not terrified enough to pay the $3.99 for the updated 2001 edition.
>because it allows us to legitimatze our individual struggles

Please. Have you ever lived in poverty? The people who climb out will tell you what other poor people are like. And I'm not just talking about poverty. Look at what former Soviets have done in NYC, especially Brighton beach. They live out of the projects but stereotypically drive BMWs. The average poor person is not your aspiring PHD father, its someone who wants a quick buck for the immediate future.

UBI is textbook ivory tower politics. Poor people aren't just poor because they have no money, and by and large throwing more money at them won't solve anything.

Now if you want to argue that the waste is worth it because of people like your father, thats plausible, but acting like UBI is the answer to poverty is absurd. Not to mention that you're essentially setting a demand floor which will "unnaturally" interfere with the economy. Another potential can of worms.
Still not good enough. Why is this nap function in there? If I want to make it faster and didn't know, I would just remove all references to it. What did I break? Can't tell by that variable name.
> ODEC

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This would make the 51% miners' chain grow at half the speed as the 49% miners' chain, because the 49% are building on both their blocks and the other miners' blocks, whereas the 51% are only building on their blocks.

This, of course, is assuming that the 51% doesn't create blocks considered invalid on the other chain. This would cause a hard fork and it's exactly what is happening now with Bitcoin Cash, except with a much smaller fraction than 51%.

So no, what you are describing cannot happen with the default rules.
IIRC Voith developed these... I'm in no way an expert about these, but I'd guess that going gearless and using a slow-running generator would have the advantage that you get a much longer and fatter shaft to put bearings on.
Let's set aside questions of what a particular person's labor is worth for a moment. One may have all sorts of opinions as to whether someone deserves the wage they earn, and such arguments are beside the point.

Let us also set aside the questions of taxation. One may likewise have all sorts of opinions on this subject, but again, they are a distraction from the central argument.

And finally let us set aside the questions of the exploitation of workers. Again, this is important, but it is still a distraction.

The central concept behind a wage is this: It is a contractual exchange of X for Y. I am giving you something, and you are giving me something in exchange. The "something" I am giving you is my labor. You consider this a thing of value to yourself or your company. You feel a need for my labor, so you make an agreement with me to give me something of equal value in exchange. "Equal value" in this case is determined by negotiation. If I do not agree that what you are offering me in exchange for my labor is of sufficient value, I can choose to accept the agreement and gain a more limited benefit, or I can reject it.

The thing you give me in this case is money. It could be room and board. It could be many things. But unless the thing you give me in exchange for what I give you becomes "mine," the entire exchange is a fraud that no rational person would agree to.

To say that the benefit I receive for the benefit I provide is not "mine" in any moral sense is completely irrational. And if it is true that my wages are not "mine" then it must also be true that my labor is not "yours," and you have no right to keep the fruits of my labor.

What this article assumes is equivalent to saying that there is no such thing as personal property of any kind, and that includes your own life and energies. If your wages are not yours, then neither is your labor, and thus your labor can be coerced from you just as surely as your money can be stolen. Your life does not belong to you. It belongs "something other." That something other, as near as I can tell from the article, is the collective whole. You are only of value so much as you benefit the collective, and as such you are disposable as soon as you, in the estimation of the ruling authority, cease to benefit the collective.

If you want to make a legitimate argument in favor of taxation (and I believe in just and mutually-beneficial taxation, just to be clear), you cannot do so by denying the fundamental and moral nature of labor and wages. Deny that moral principle, and you are ultimately denying the value and dignity of human life itself.
It's almost as if you are unaware of the website you are posting this comment on.
People regularly vote to cut government entitlements. See healthcare funding in Canada which still does not cover prescription drugs or dental care.

UBI is going to be treated just the same as a tax break for the poor and likely to stay at very minimal levels.
> The problem with government in Canada is apathy. Nobody, and I mean nobody, cares at all about Canada as an ideal or concept; nobody really cares all that much about their fellow Canadians.

It feels the same in Germany, if i had to guess i'd say most western countries are going through something like this at the moment.
Definitely seems like an interesting read. Thanks for the recommendation!
I never understood that point. Almost everyone I know works fulltime although they could live a "fulfilling (if somewhat minimalist) life" on maybe 15h/week of work. If minimizing work would be a goal, most people would be able to do it right now.

Yes, this requires employer flexibility and the move from 40h->15h per week grants much less freedom than stopping work entirely but masses of people suddenly being content with a minimum amount of money does not sound convincing to me at all.
So you've never written code and come back to it 6 months later said said to yourself, "why did I do this?"
> It’s not hard scifi.

I'd say it's pretty hard sci-fi. What's harder?
How would you propose making bitcoin "have stable value"?
I wouldn't worry about O2 saturation with regard to passing out. When I've done holds using an oximeter, I can't really get my SpO2 below 90% either, even when I know I'm pretty close.

But there's just so much that contributes to being near blackout that isn't oxygen saturation that you're better off learning to recognize the subtle physiological cues. For example, you can blackout earlier (higher measurable O2 saturation) if you inhale too deeply. It may seem counterintuitive, but expanding your lungs more fully can increase pressure on the heart and make it harder for it to distribute the blood to your body and brain. Your blackout O2 saturation will also differ depending on how much gravity your heart is having to deal with. Standing, sitting and lying down will have different blackout O2 saturations and that's only considering dry training...in water, both swimming position and depth/pressure will factor in too.

So when I'm doing a hold, the main things I pay attention to are first diaphragm (first contractions, for me, are pretty reliably at 1/3-1/2 of a max hold), and then the feeling in my fingers/toes, but you'll start to notice a couple of other sensations as well if you start pushing yourself to the brink. Incidentally, you can be pretty sure if CO2 tolerance is your limiting factor if your first contractions come in the second half of your hold.
>UBI does not "create" new money and just give it to everyone (which would cause inflation). It's a wealth redistribution.

UBI is Universal Basic Income, meaning that income is increased for everyone universally. Nobody is claiming that money is created out of thin air.

What you're thinking about is a negative income tax or some other disproportionately weighted welfare program.
Actually, L in LWN no longer stands for Linux. From their FAQ <https://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn >:

What does LWN stand for, anyway?

LWN, initially, was "Linux Weekly News." That name has been deemphasized over time as we have moved beyond just the weekly coverage, and as we have looked at the free software community as a whole. We have yet to come up with a better meaning for LWN, however.
I've been doing Ruby for several years now. Mutant (the tool the author forked) taught me
how to write tests. I always felt like I was feeling around in the dark before. I think this post captured that well.
The idea of UBI at $1K per month shows that UBI advocates don't know how to do math. The US tax revenues (combined Fed and State) are roughly $6 Trillion. Giving 150 million people $12K per year is $1.8 Trillion. Unless you raise taxes by 1/3, you're going to cause inflation.
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The net increase in income won't be the same for everyone.

If UBI is funded by printing money, people with assets will see them devalue through inflation (people with no assets won't have this loss).

If UBI is funded by taxes, it's likely to be progressive. So sure, the high income people get the UBI check. And a bigger tax bill to go with it.
Lime has the best hardware/specs at their price points, but their software toolchain is atrocious; just trying to do simple tasks in GNURadio is so flaky/error prone
"default-allow". What is this, a firewall config file or a conversation?