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There have been plenty of news articles in the last two days about the current administration forming a task force to remove citizenship from naturalized citizens that they believe lied on their applications. That's citizens, not just permanent residents. The immigration process is long and complicated. It would be easy to make small mistakes here and there. Technically, some of those mistakes could get you deported.
> It took just a week or two sitting next to someone I could bounce questions off of and the groking was complete.

That is insane. At $dayjob we teach SVN to non-devs (graphic designers and marketing types) in 30 minutes, and never have to train them again. They even do merges.

Git is truly a cool tool under the hood, but the UX is a massive drain on productivity.

We should be trying to get more non-technical people to use VCS in lieu of Sharepoint, not having engineers spend weeks to “grok Git”
From the article:

"Half a century after the introduction of blind auditions, in which candidates are heard from behind a screen, women make up just over 47 percent of players in American ensembles"

I wonder how close the proportion has to be to 50% to satisfy the New York Times.
In SF current residents are blocking new construction and driving up the cost of housing. I assume that Aspen can't grow denser even if its rich residents wanted it, because of its location on a mountain. But that's largely not true for SF and its surrounding cities and suburbs.

Even in the case of Aspen, now that the town is an enclave of incredibly wealthy people, there are presumably more jobs in town for locals (largely in the tourism and service industry, but still). If it wasn't a world-renowned ski destination it would be a sleepy mountain town with a limited economy. Most of its young people would have to leave the area entirely to build their lives and careers. So there is still some good with the bad. Some old residents will say things were better before, others will say they're better now.

To the point you made at the end, are you thinking of "average income" rather than "median income"? If median income goes up it means most people are now making more money.
"And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins

When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!"

[0] - http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
What is the difference between the libertarian perspective and anarchy?
Political axe aside, the tax rate is foremost in entrepreneurs minds when they decide to build a company in CA. Maybe even more so than labor costs.

You don’t obsess and negotiate over 0.1% increases in option pools and ignore the silent 15%/25%/35% partner in the room.

CA eliminating the QSBS Section 1202 exemption is an equally glaring wart on establishing CA residency for entrepreneurs.
A government is for protecting our inalienable rights.
From another commenter...

> Universal basic income is an old libertarian idea. It's greatest advocate is probably Milton Friedman. It's seen as more equitable than welfare programs, which libertarians view as too highly regulated and thus an infringement on individual freedom. That's the libertarian argument against welfare. You add that to the libertarian argument for welfare (that people can't be truly free if they're having to pay for things like health emergencies, etc) and you invariably conclude that the way to maximize individual freedoms is to provide a universal basic income, if you're going to have any kind of welfare program
> he found more than one hundred federally funded courses covering everything from computer programming to nursing.

That's the first sentence of the article. You're telling me that in a list of over one hundred course, covering everything from computer programming to nursing, there's nothing with pay and benefits comparable to coal mining?
Why the world won't adopt a basic income: Basic Economics.
I have read it multiple times, in fact. I am not denying that it was originally intended as a peer to peer currency, but saying it was marketed as that when the creator was publishing an academic paper of sorts and releasing it for free into the world is a bit of a stretch. Marketing implies that there is a customer you are trying to sell a product or service to.

He or she did not care about getting rich since the original coins have never actually been touched. The creator did not even know that people would start to exchange existing currencies for Bitcoin at the time the paper was published or that it would catch on at all.

I am not trying to rewrite history. I was only stating that Bitcoin is not a company. There are no big corporations controlling it. There is no sales team. There is no marketing team. Anyone who promotes it is doing it out of their own free will.
No one can answer that question with any certainty. Ideas are very fluid.

But if I can attempt an answer. I believe it is libertarian in the sense that it does not require a large bureaucracy with onerous rules and regulations controlling the funds distribution and use.

The money is available to everyone for any use. The government may just serve as a pass-through entity.
That's when it made me wonder whether it's really that efficient.

It's probably not. The reason why cultures around the world have historically eaten insects is not because insects are easy to farm but because they are easy to gather from a wild environment. Large scale insect farming as a replacement for other sorts of large scale farming kind of misses the whole point.
Property rights pretty much.
f# definitely allows this with single case discriminated unions. and in f#, you can add members to any type, which includes discriminated unions, records, classes, etc.

in fact, you can add member functions somewhere else after the definition of the type. so you can define the type, write functional helper functions against that type and then later add member functions to the type that are defined in terms of the helper functions.
They want to create a single global government. The best way to do this is bankrupt sovereign governments, especially of rich nations.
You’re much better off in liberal neighbor state Nevada while only being a 25 minute flight away from the bay.
Because your understanding of their ideology and motivation is wrong?
Would you really want to eat something in the food chain only one step removed from sewage and rotting waste?
The libertarian response would be to ... do nothing. Sure people may get hurt, but no one will get hurt because they didn't have the resources to avoid it. Every person who fucks up has only themselves to blame, not the whims of some government bureaucrat.

Just as a note, I'm not really a libertarian sympathizer anymore, but that is my understanding of the libertarian justification for UBI.
If people aren't smart enough to know how to spend their money, perhaps we need to provide better financial education in school. I don't remember having an iota of financial education from K-12 -- it was all focused around math, history, literature and science. "How to live your life independently" may as well be a core subject, because the United States is becoming breeding ground for dependent people. It doesn't seem in the government's best interest to push for better financial education, because they profit off of dependency.

It makes way more sense to have your constituents be financially educated than to "accept that they are dumb" and then just attempt to fix everything they mess up. The latter is unsustainable. UBI + better schooling should preclude the need for food programs, etc.
By that reasoning, direct cash disbursement charities like GiveDirectly would fail miserably. But they've been shown to work extremely well. People in general understand how to allocate their own money better than the government does.
> rustdoc’s obscure plugin functionality, consisting of its loading plugins by default from a path that is globally writable on most platforms

It's supremely disappointing that a brand new language/platform like rust suffers from the same classic security mistakes that we keep finding in old software. You normally expect to see these types of things in stuff like Bash that has been around for so long nobody has taken time to review lots of its code with a more modern thread level.
The quote,

"My debt was the result, in equal measure, of a chain of rotten luck and a system that is an abject failure by design"

really kind of made it hard to be empathetic for the rest of the article. In equal major, someone decided to go deep into debt obtaining not one but two degrees in English literature in the late 2000s when this was already well known to be a terrible idea.

I think student debt should be reformed and it should be possible to discharge student debt through bankruptcy (with modifications to the previous status quo, I think), but this is just kind of grating.
The entire Bojack Horseman series on Netflix.
It empowers the individual vs let the govt decide.
To use your own terminology,what he's saying is that just because something is tasty doesn't make it a pudding.
> It is more than 1 MILLION times larger than the Earth.

What does size have to do with anything? If you are alluding to energy production, the intensity of electromagnetic radiation (light) follows the inverse square law, so even though the Sun is 1 million times the volume of the Earth, it is very, very far away. This planet (and all planets) receive a minscule amount of the radiation that the Sun produces.

> Anything it does with Solar flairs, heat waves and reduced cycles can cause the Earth to change drastically.

Sure, but none of those have changed very much in the last few thousand years. The Sun is super stable at the moment, and the cyclical 11 year sunspot rhythm is as well (to the point of your solar flares).

Meanwhile, the Earth's atmosphere has changed very drastically in the last 150 years. Both affect Earth's climate.. care to guess which one is affecting it now?
Here's the thing, UBI will be used to argue that other social interventions and support are no longer necessary. "We're giving you free money, and you want more?"

UBI is a convenient way for the wealthy classes to wash their hands of the poor without having to give up too much of their wealth. Not to mention it will probably be provided by a government donor corporation in the form of a cashless card with moralistic restrictions on how the income can be spent (e.g. no alcohol or legal cannabis).
Disclaimer: I am not the author of the page. I've read the tutorial paper they refer to, and work with related material. In our lab, we've had a very hard time finding accessible material on predictive coding that's actually amenable to equations and code, and so this is something of a godsend.
Well, the libertarian argument for a UBI says yes, you ought to tell people they should've budgeted better. Under a universal basic income, everyone would receive exactly how much money they would need to live and a little more. The extra could likely be spent on a budgeting class for those who need it.

Keep in mind, that libertarians are fundamentally against governments telling people how to spend their money. This includes the rich and the poor. The rich should not be told how to spend their money and the poor ought to be given everything they need to survive and not be told how to spend it either. Thus everyone is treated equally in the eyes of the law.
What confuses me about most discussions on this is the automatic assumption that taxes need to be raised to get UBI. Both sides seem to implicitly take this for granted, whereas it's fairly trivial to rework income tax to introduce UBI without anyone having a net difference in earnings.

Of course the real question is whether doing this would allow you to actually simplify anything, or if it's possible to simplify taxes with only minor (or desired) changes in net income.
I'm enjoying the contrast between the title of this article and the first sentence of the article that it links to:

> California lost a very small but statistically significant percentage of high-income residents after voters approved Proposition 30

I wish it was possible to talk about important and interesting issues like optimal tax levels without everything being an ideological battle. I don't care if you think taxes are too high on high income earners. You might be right. But you should be curious about the possibility that you're wrong.
It's not like America needs wealthy people. We really just need basic resources (e.g. arable land, metal) and technology, and it's only a matter of time until people needn't work.
The USA crossed that bridge a long time ago. This just adds a bit more.
Please do tell- it's the only think keeping me from moving from git
The problem of offering solutions when what is wanted is emotional support is especially easy for engineers and other problem-solvers to fall into.
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It's still a small group in control, so still an oligarchy. But the fact that there is a constant rotation of oligarchs makes it a little different, like maybe you could be the next oligarch.
Libertarians believe that government is necessary as the only means of justifiable force, but that the government ought to be only as large as necessary to provide the force necessary to protect individual rights.

Anarchists believe there ought to be no government at all.

If you can't see the difference still, I would recommend picking up a book. Hacker news is not the place to learn about various political philosophies.
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> Americans are no longer the world’s top consumers of ice cream — that crown goes to China

That is insane to me. I lived in Beijing 20 years ago, and Chinese food had shockingly few sweet things ("dessert" was not a concept at all) and no dairy whatsoever. A few stores had Snickers bars by the counters next to sweetened bean paste, that was pretty much it.

The fact that the country now consumes more sweetened dairy than the US is... completely unimaginable to me.

Anyone from China here who can describe what happened and how it was adopted?
My frustration with Basic Income is that it’s a legislative solution to a productivity problem. Instead of redistributing wealth, a practice that can be overturned any time, I advocate for the intentional construction of productive machinery owned by the people. If all people owned shares in machines that produced the goods we need for survival, we could receive the benefit of that productivity directly. With a UBI, the idea is to continue letting a small group of people control all the wealth, and then ask them to give us some. It’s laughable to me that people believe you can let one group have all the power and then force them to give some of that power to everyone else. Why would they do that? The solution in my mind is to arrange things so that everyone has a share of the wealth in the first place. I write a bit about that here:
http://tlalexander.com/machine/
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Remembers me what happens when I have patience to talk a minute with a beggar. Ask where he comes from, this kind of chit-chat. The initial money request is often forgotten. People really want to be noted, acknowledged they exist, and heard. Food for the soul is almost more important than physical food.
financial responsibility cannot be bought with UBI. ignoring how incredibly unlikely it is we would ever cancel social programs on a mass scale, let’s say we did. your example of people starving is good.

in that world you get to eat only if you are financially responsible. in the current world everyone gets to eat (or we try to feed the hungry)

i think the current model is way more humane. and we will never cancel social programs to have a less humane society
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It's all in how you define your terms. Cutting off the head of a poor man with no job, an 80 IQ and 100k in debt is technically setting them free, in one specific sense.
Some people prefer to sleep outside and spend their money on booze and drugs instead of food. If that's their choice, who are we to say they're misguided?

A basic income can eliminate many wasteful bureaucratic policies, leaving more money to spend on what folks want.
Redistribution income unconditionally, rather than according to a popular notion of deservingness, is as libertarian as it gets.
> Not to mention that a lot of people don’t understand what a container is.

That's part of the appeal, the abstraction away of all those pesky, irrelevant details. Developers just want their app to run, as has been mentioned elsewhere in the thread. That desire is understandable.

So long as the abstraction isn't too leaky and nothing underneath breaks, there's no downside. It's all upside in terms of human productivity and time to market.

Even introduced inefficiency (if any) is unimportant if VC money is fueling the auto-scaling. There's a popular aphorism about premature optimization. Humans are also, in general, far more expensive than machines, especially at scale, and even a mature/traditional company would ignore this at their peril.

If problems do eventually crop up with containers or the toolsets around them, chances are, by then, their sheer popularity will ensure the availability of a cadre of experts who can troubleshoot. They may even understand what a container is, even if it's terribly unfashionable to admit, as is the case with operating systems today.

Every new technology/tool has some growing pains and is subject to what some consider misuse (due to ignorance). That doesn't necessarily mean it's best to reject it outright.
please do my email is in my profile.
I have to be physically threatened to be stabbed by / watch them threaten to shoot other people / watch them destroy property / watch them break down their stolen bikes.

Ironically, you're the one being judgemental here.

I agree they need help, but this goes way beyond the deep sadness of seeing really sick people and wishing you could help them.
Three women accuse influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist of groping them
That has always been a possibility. Nothing new with this administration.
Training artificial intelligence with artificial X-rays
What’s the breakdown of your current TC? And also when you started? I got 40% increase by job hopping in 3 years.
If you really believe this, do you lock your car? Your house? Do you let people just walk into where you live and eat your food and use your stuff?

Isn't it just arbitrary that you're excluding others from enjoying these things? What right do you have to have exclusive use of anything?
Left SF. Not willing to be a tax donkey any more. Not only because of this, but also housing cost vs value and Trump tax plan limit on limiting state tax.

Washington has been great! At least a 13% raise!
How did you make the transition? I don't like frontend but enjoy SysAdmin type of tasks and do it for fun on my own. I don't feel like I know enough to apply for SRE positions but DevOps or SysAdmin would be doable.
Nah, it was just idiots that were marketing "let me show you how to get rich with bitcoin" courses, etc. I always wonder how much HN hates crypto just because it's important to have a good story for sleeping on crypto.
Same thing with welfare, despite the availability of various government program, some people still end up fuck up.

If someone fuck up and use up all their UBI then they must seek private entity such as church or charity.
> Folks be like, hey a team of consultants just finished building out our new kubernetes cluster, now we want to run our mission critical oracle/mssql servers on it. They said it should work "fine". Too bad they all got jobs at insert mega capacity company here right after we cut the invoice.

mmm!

http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/131118350394/army...

http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/169578560497/rhel...

http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/153774064947/frid...

http://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/post/142748219994/serv...
A negative income tax is a much better idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM
Both LPRs and even naturalized citizens are being targeted; notably, for the first time since this was done during the second Red Scare, the Administration is actively seeking out naturalized citizens to denaturalize.

https://www.npr.org/2018/07/04/625980910/white-house-launche...
Celebrating a ten year anniversary with my wife next week. I’m happy to report I have learned to change my behavior in this respect over the years. I listen now rather than do what I did before: receive input, analyze, identify issues, formulate potential solutions and offer options and resolutions. It’s actually so much more relaxing for me too.
> there’s a happy path

The problem is that (if there really is such a happy path) it’s different for every person, dependent on that person’s previous experience, and impossible to determine until you know all the other stuff. You don’t know what you don’t know, and somebody who’s advising you ALSO doesn’t know what you don’t know.

I’ve tried, over and over again, to “just do it” instead of taking things slowly and deliberately (especially because I always have a boss breathing down my neck to “get it done already”) and I always run into completely inexplicable stack traces that Google and StackOverflow can’t help me with. (Or is it just me?). However, when I finally bite the bullet and take the “hit” for the lost productivity spent reading the documentation, working through smaller, simpler examples before building up to the “real” production application, everything is clear, the stack traces make sense, and the application works like it should. The only problem is having to account to the merciless time tracking system for the week or two that I “wasted” on something as trivial as “learning”.
this is one of the big ideas of dialectical behavior therapy. if anyone wants to dig more into this school of thought i recommend googling DBT.
If I was a scummy business, sure but you're omitting the other side of the coin: making it easier for customers to do reservations. I still think that businesses would welcome robocall reservations (if they're reliable and efficient) just as they have the internet.
So why UBI then? People getting jobs should preclude the need for food programs, but it doesn’t in practice so you want UBI.

UBI should preclude the need for food programs and it also won’t in practice. What’s changed?

Why do you care that jobs don’t work for everyone, but don’t care that UBI won’t work for everyone?

If you’re a ‘people should just be smarter’ person why do you want to help people using UBI in the first place?
But... I thought taking English classes and reading literature was supposed to provide one with critical thinking skills? How many years of "critical thinking" does one need to take before realizing that $200K on 6% variable interest is a whole lot of loans to take for no job prospects? How poignant and vivid should one's description of poverty be (parents crying over a yearbook purchase) before actually thinking about their own responsibilities?
mithril should be the default choice for everyone. no compiler, no file format, no commandline tools, comes with its own router and request functions, and is 8kb.
This "problem" goes both ways - many people get very stressed and depressed when listening to someone just "needing to vent" and who does not want/need solutions.