skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that you raise an important caveat, but I'm not as pessimistic about the transferability of this evidence; if the general claim against UBI is that it will disincentivize work, but we don't measure any disincentivization in this study, then it is certainly possible that there is a disincentivization effect that kicks in at some higher minimum wage level; however that result would be a strong justification to increase funding for similar research in wealthier economies to see where that effect might (or might not) kick in.

And on the other hand, if all of the predictions of the anti-UBI camp are borne out even in a low-income country, then that probably puts a dampener on further research in the US.

I don't think this study is going to provide a knock-out blow to either side, but it could significantly bolster the evidence.

I object to your objection about labeling this as a UBI experiment ;) To my understanding, the fundamental premise of UBI is that it can replace all charitable programmes, be that aid funding or food stamps. The theory is that the recipient of the basic income knows how best to allocate their spending, better than the entity that is making a transfer with strings attached. You may be correct that in practice UBI looks very different in a low-income country than a high-income country, and perhaps also that they may be funded by different types of organization (NGO vs. government), but I think they can meaningfully be called the same thing.
It doesn't have to be a .RAR file.

7-Zip infers filetype (by necessity in many cases), so any file that you open with 7-zip can trigger the problem.
> No, these are universal human rights.

A group of people, mostly men, got together and wrote some things down and declared that they are "universal" "rights".

> It's true across cultures

Except where it's not.

> The only places in China where people can decide their own rules have chosen these rights

Are you implying Chinese citizens share the same rights as everyone else?

> If people are so happy with your rules, why not take a vote?

This sounds like you're under the impression the outcome will be unanimous support. After all, these laws are universal, right?

To me this looks like another simple case of an advocate of some cause once again simply declaring themselves Correct, "the time for discussion is over". It's a fashionable and quite effective persuasion technique so you can hardly blame people.

On another note, I'd love for you to provide your definition of the word "nationalism". If you're so confident it is correct (I presume) then why not just explicitly state it? ;)
Would YOU quit your job and descend into apathy and lethargy?
You're saying you'd PREFER to be poor?

Centuries of human history shows that most people choose not to be poor, if at all possible. Many go to great lengths to avoid it.
Family is who you choose. +1 for that!
One of the big differences between the experiments that Finland did and actual UBI is that UBI is supposed to replace all kinds of monetary welfare. It sounds like the experiments in Finland failed because of the cost, but it's really hard to try that small scale, because many of the cost benefits of full scale UBI come from being able to shut down all of the overhead of various welfare programs.
It's 20% of the gross median household income. For the typical family it's probably closer to 25%-30% or more of their gross pay net of taxes. That's a lot of money to save for this kind of household. It's simply not a realistic goal for the majority of households in America.
Also see https://www.droneseed.co/
By "gatekeeping", I'm referring to the efforts made to exclude certain content. By this definition (which I probably should have defined earlier), I would say that SO is founded on gatekeeping and that gatekeeping even makes SO the great resource that it is. After all, the quality of content on SO would surely go down if low quality content wasn't downvoted.

So I'm not "blaming the group", but instead I'm trying to make the point that when the current SO system is paired with a homogeneous user base will, it probably naturally become more an more homogeneous for the reasons stated above, unless an outside force enters the system.

I would argue that this isn't about fault or blame or guilt, but instead about deciding whether or not to take action to make SO a more inclusive place, especially for those who may be predisposed to feel exclusion in the context of SO.
To some degree, but the valuation of shares is (in theory) based on fundamentals - price to earnings ratio for instance - as well as speculation of how well it will be doing in the future. Companies can also choose to pay dividends if they have made a lot of cash, and choose to issue some of it to shareholders.

Valuation of Bitcoin to a large degree is purely based on market psychology, and it doesn't pay dividends.
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Any UBI study that doesn't include everyone in a society is not studying "universal" basic income at all. It's just giving some people money. It would be very surprising if this didn't yield positive outcomes for that group.

The big question marks surrounding UBI involve its implementation at a society-wide level. (What are the macroeconomic effects? What if people blow their UBI on dumb things and still end up starving?) Anything short of UNIVERSAL experimentation will not address these.
I have been on a 747 that was business class only (Singapore Airlines). But the economy class passengers are definitely required for scale on most flights.
I'm a complete novice when it comes to distributed computing, so I'm not too sure I get the idea of a MapReduce framework. I'm gonna try to suss it out here as I understand it, and if someone could correct me where I'm wrong, that'd be awesome.

First off, when I see "map" and "reduce" I think of the functional programming/data processing equivalents of mapping, meaning to apply a function to every element in a set (like capitalizing strings or dividing everything by two or something) and reducing, meaning to iterate over a set, processing it and combining it with some accumulator (like taking a sum).

What a MapReduce framework seems to do is take these two function and run them in parallel, splitting the data to take advantage of the independent nature of these two functions. Data can be split however is convenient because the map function doesn't need to worry about another data than itself, and run in as many processes you can manage. Any mapped-data can be put into parallel reduce processes, which can be run in any order because the order of the data shouldn't matter.

All of that I get (although if I'm wrong that might explain why I'm confused). I guess my main confusion is why the reduce function doesn't really fit with the idea that I just put forward. I would think that the reduce function would need some sort of "accumulator" input, and that you'd only get one thing as an output, as opposed to more files of data. Perhaps the idea is that the reduce is actually just any function that can only work on post-mapped functions, or even the only one that's supposed to change state in some way?

Can anyone shed some light on my confusion? What is the reduce function actually supposed to do, if not what I just laid out.
people use phones daily and slowness it frustrating, if you get a cheaper flight (that you use 1-5times a year) you can afford a better phone.
Be nice if there was just one "virt for Kube" technology. I guess virt-v2v will end up having to support both.
It's fine that you have that definition. And certainly I can understand why you want the words to mean that. But that's just not what a 'productive asset' is. You can have your own language, and that's cool, but creating your own definitions to invalidate someone else's use of that word is just ridiculous.
No company has an intrinsic value either. If I fired all the employees, sold all the assets it would be worth nothing.

The transactions are the value. The network has value.

If I add up all the times people buy something with bitcoin and sell something for bitcoin and compare that against the fees the would incur it's generated some kind of value. It's just dispersed to the people using it not a central company.

Is it a good way to buy and hold...of course not.
Might need to carry a flame thrower for the black flies though!
Don't worry about that, they're just more used to see people that ruined their bodies.
The real reason for these projects (Virlet, KubeVirt, RancherVM) is that OpenStack is too damn hard. Even with all this focus on containers these days people still need an onprem VM solution. But the requirements are really pretty simple for most use cases and the cost and complexity of OpenStack is not justified.

Edit: disclaimer: my company does RancherVM.
>If the handful of devs that have commit access to Bitcoin were working for the CIA, would we know?

probably not, unless they're comically incompetent

>What kind of damage could they do? Eg. Could they introduce consensus bugs without anyone noticing?

not much, considering there are independent implementations, there's no auto-update for clients, and consensus code changes are heavily scrutinized. I'm sure they can ram a PR through if they really wanted, but it's going to be very obvious what's happening.
True, but according to the article, "Lyme disease accounts for about 80 percent of the tick-borne illnesses in the U.S."

Plenty of people who get Lyme don't get the rash, and don't necessarily even know they were bitten by a tick. Deer ticks are tiny and you have to check yourself thoroughly to see them. An effective vaccine would be very helpful.
I disagree with that point of view, on the basis that it seems humans don't seem to work that way. Historically, we tend to shy away from hard problems unless we have a compelling motivation to go there. So, for instance, your memory foam would probably never be discovered if the only research allowed was "how to make office chairs and beds more comfortable". There's plenty of options good enough for the market to lock down on them, and nobody would bother with spending lots of money on advanced materials science in vague hope it'll eventually result in a mattress good enough to compete on the market. So it turned out that NASA needed to go there for other reasons, and then the tech was there. Technology transfer is cheaper.

The argument boils down to the observation that you want to invest things that tend to generate lots of transferable technology. In the history of mankind, the usual "technology generator" was war. But we want to avoid that. Space exploration seems to be a very nice alternative (incidentally, itself spawned by war).

But in my comment, I was trying to argue for two other benefits of space. One is, a lot of money in space sector goes towards "directly researching things that will solve problems we know about on Earth". Satellites are vital tool improving our daily lives at all scales - from GNSS systems like GPS, through emergency response (beacons, satellite phones), to weather prediction, farmland management, climate monitoring, etc. Even the missions looking at other celestial bodies are important for Earth. We got our first concept of global warming problems through studying Venus. Monitoring space weather is important for communications down on Earth. Etc.

The second thing though, is the long-term potential space opens up once we cross the threshold of establishing a functioning economy outside of Earth's atmosphere. More resources, cleaner manufacturing letting us fix up the environmental damage down here. Opening up to practically unlimited livable space. Yes, it's far off, but you can't get from here to there without going through the current space tech phase.
if you are piping to xargs, for love of god at least use -print0
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> It sounds like high reward behaviors (ie: addictions), small hippocampus size, spatial awareness and time awareness could all be interconnected. Or maybe they're separate causes for the same phenomena.

Yeah, I suspect these are all deeply related. Fascinating.

> I wonder how much it costs to get my brain scanned.

Sounds like something that could bankrupt you stateside. If you want to get it done cheaply and by qualified people, there's always Eastern Europe :)
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I think the point of the comment you responded to is that she was able to do what you say primarily because she and her husband didn't need (most) of her income at all: it was (almost) entirely disposable.
This effect is easily confirmed by comparing a periodical from today with back issues written 50 years ago. By contrast, today's fare has been simplified for both style and substance, presuming the reader has no foreknowledge of science, and more markedly, zero facility in math.

This is no more apparent than in "Scientific American". The writing in the issues from the 1980's back through the century before was intended for professionals -- the engineer, scientist, or serious amateur. By contrast, the literacy of today's SciAm has declined to the level of a middle school. And substance suffers comparably; regular contributors of fare that required nontrivial thought like Martin Gardner and Doug Hofstadter are long gone.

But SciAm isn't an isolated case. Even today's more literate magazines like Harpers and The New Yorker seem to have difficulty writing for a thoughtful audience, all too often preferring to provoke the reader not with provocative ideas or fresh perspectives, but by eliciting anger with the injection of irrelevant references to base politics.

This problem is hardly unique to Britain.
Beautiful!

I had not heard about this kind of addressable LEDs but now I'm inspired to think of my own projects.
A "sleeper plane" with bunk beds instead of seats, kind of like a flying capsule hotel? Sign me up!
You know as well as I do he's referring to a real verse. The fact that he cited it as 1 Thessalonians instead of 2 Thessalonians doesn't change the fact that there's a line in the New Testament that says "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat."

There is context for it, and I don't consider it an indictment of Christianity, but pretending it's not in there doesn't help your credibility.
ranger looks awesome... Going to try to integrate that into my workflow. Thanks.
No, that's called the book value of the company. At the end of that process you would have an amount of money worth the book value.
Illusion? It depends on the exact range of your definition of the term.

What exists itself is the truth. Who can see it as it is? No one can speak of something they haven't seen as it is.

Every living thing suffers.
I have been curious about the case for bitcoin.

A short time ago all currency was on the gold standard. Then it was loosely based on the underlying productivity of the country that issued the currency. Then it was loosely based on the underlying safety of the country that issued the currency. Even gold has bounced around in value.

Having said that, I am still not convinced that bitcoin is a viable monetary standard. There is no way (that I can see) to evaluate its underlying value. Underlying value is needed for trust. Trust is needed for exchanging goods and services. Monetary standards are just stand ins for barter.

Please convince me.
True UBI will have to be implemented along with mechanisms where value from automation is integrated with the system - creating a floor for a basic (moving towards good-to-excellent) quality of life for everyone.
Wait, what was the point of linking that article? I read it but it just furthered my point - a ton of metro areas lean liberal.

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "little tolerance," are you saying people are being run over by cars for being conservatives? Are houses being spray painted? Are wedding cakes not being baked for Republican couples?
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> The root problem with this aircraft is that people prefer cheaper flights over faster flights.

Agreed. And that's not even mentioning the climate angle of it.

I've done some reading lately about the effects of air travel on climate. I was very depressed by what I found. Basically, air travel is terrible for global warming. Besides emissions of greenhouse gasses CO2 and NOx, the trails of water vapor ("contrails") form cirrus clouds that contribute to warming.

Unlike the electric car, there is no emerging technology that can save air travel from this environmental impact. Meanwhile, air travel is growing at ~5%/year. At this rate, by mid-century air travel alone will consume the world's entire emissions allowance, if we want to keep global warming to 2 °C or less. And supersonic travel appears to be even worse for the climate.

For all the talk about fighting global warming, I almost never hear about this. It seems like the most inconvenient truth of all: if we want to fight global warming, we have to fly less. This is a hard pill to swallow. Tesla is built on the idea that we can have cleaner cars without having to give up anything (because electric cars can be luxury items). But electric airplanes exist only as research curiosities -- they aren't up to the task of their fuel-burning counterparts. Right now it looks like the democratization of fast, world-wide travel might be a late 20th - early 21st century phenomenon that we can't get back. :(
Yes, it's one-way communication. I guess, extending to two-way can involve any of the practices used in modem communication. The biggest issue though would be dealing with the noise and making it reliable.
I can't elaborate on what the application does, but I can talk about high-level architecture and development.

Basically we have an API that performs asynchronous data analysis and processing. Our fronting service receives a request, writes some metadata, and places the request in a "queue", which is picked up by a backend poller that starts a workflow execution, which orchestrates the fulfillment of the request. This is all serverless (AWS tech...API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc.). Serverless makes deployments much easier, since we can version our Lambdas and State Machines using CloudFormation, and have many different versions running at the same time (not fun if you're managing your own hardware!). We have a CD pipeline that builds code changes, deploys them to a test account, and runs integration tests. We use CloudWatch Alarms to monitor production and alert us of any issues.

We have some development scripts for pushing code changes with CloudFormation for testing during development. We use that to develop, then once we check the code in, it works its way through our pipeline and into production.
Publishers never got together to regulate themselves so users are now doing it for them.

Unfortunately, that may also prove to be a tragedy of the commons. If everyone blocks ads aggressively, ad-funded resources will need to find new business models or they won't be available any more.
I do agree, but this seems a step closer than everything else that has been labeled a UBI experiment before.
Bingo. He's also a value investor. He understands cash flows. Bitcoin produces no cash flow.

Also, Buffet is the insider's insider. Banks work for him. He has exactly a 0.00000% chance of having his accounts frozen. The US Congress would hesitate to pick fights with his companies. When you have those kind of connections and power, you're not well placed to understand the benefits decentralized sources of authority provides.

What Buffet is missing is that bitcoin is an alternative to cash, and when lightning networks and side chains are widely deployed it will be very, very competitive with cash on most axes. Eventually (if hyperbitcoinization actually happens) even the variability will be less than any one national currency, since global demand and stabilizers will buffer it against any localized shock.
I’m not a succesfull investor with decades of won bets but the amount of people pitching Bitcoin to me and wanting to talk about it drove me crazy for awhile.

I can’t imagine the frustration Warren Buffet feels when surrounded on all sides by digital snake oil peddlers.
Which is great! The daycare discovered a lucrative business growth opportunity that help improve their customers' lives. Next step shout be to set a fair price for being late, so caregivers and parents can make mutually beneficial exchanges of time for money. Social mores are crude heuristics. Explicit prices can do better.
I think there are thresholds there. Reducing a 12-hours long flight to 8-hours long flight makes no practical difference to people traveling. Cutting it down to 6 hours might start. Cutting it down to 2-3 hours (or under an hour, as SpaceX is proposing) enables new use cases for which people might be willing to pay premium. Suddenly, a company can send someone to a meeting/conference on the other side of the world and have them back the same day.
One can guess that the primary source of release of the chemical is not by rubbing yourself on things, but from washing your clothes. Thus, it would end up in the oceans.
Why would open a .png or something in the like in 7-Zip?
in reality it would probably be "stop stealing our food"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

The concepts of social welfare really make me want to visit the Scandinavian nations to see how they get it right and how it is compatible with their their social culture.

As an American I really don't see social welfare working the US without dramatic shifts in the social culture.

I also see taxation as a huge factor. The US needs to eliminate income tax in favor of other tax programs. The state of Texas has high property taxes but no state income tax and the results to the state economy are fantastic. Wealthy people can deduct all manners of things from income taxes, but there are exceedingly few deductions from property taxes. It naturally punishes the wealthy more, such as the goals of a graduated income tax, since it is a percentage set by the local city against the value of the property. People who do not own property do not pay property taxes, so less wealthy people are naturally excused from such taxation.

Property prices in Texas are generally low compared to much of the rest of the country, which means more people are capable of owning property and thus contributing to property taxes. For example the value of my house in Texas is the equivalent of the minimum down payment for a similarly sized house in California, which I could never afford.

With a universal basic income more people would be capable of owning property, thus having a higher standard of living, and also thus further contributing to property taxes.
> Finland's two-year pilot scheme started in January 2017.. But it will not be extended after this year

Sounds slightly different than the parent's phrasing -- the trial was not "walked back", they just decided not to invest more money in it.

Given that the research hasn't been completed, it seems perfectly reasonable for the government to decline to extend the trial; I'd think it sensible to wait until they have analyzed the results before making any decisions (unless they have already seen some early data).

> "The employment effects across the whole experiment will be available by the end of 2019 or at the beginning of 2020."
MIT Should Not Be Supporting the Saud Monarchy
Why would it do that, since presumably you are already giving all the money to charity that you willingly give?
Consideration of an illness' context is the one of the most important reforms needed in our approach to health. 20th century doctors were trained to think that nutrition/stress/living environment were of no relevance to their diagnosis and treatments.

This study confirms that context is very important to developing malaria-resistant societies.
That's unfortunate, I still spray before I leave to hike in Banff from the US though :)
It's a good idea to check your groin and armpits after walking through high grass or other vegetation in a tick area.
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