skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Owning stock is not investing in economic terms. Companies are going to maximize profits independent on how much individuals pay in capital gains because nothing about capital gains changes the companies costs or profits.

Buying existing properties is the same thing. If no assets are created then it's not an economically useful investment.

VC money is often thought of as rich people investments, and it is an investment in economic terms. However, Pension funds, endowments, charitable foundations, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and large corporations are more often than not the source of these funds.

Generally rich people are rich because they have invested their money they don't simply sit on piles of un-allocated resources.
> Forgive and forget?

I have a 10yo Acer laptop that at the time cost me about 500$ which up to this day required no fix or trip to the repair shop.

If I had spent 4x the cash and still was forced to take the laptop to the shop 5 times to fix a myriad of design and production problems for a product that is marketed as high-end and professional-grade, I can assure you I wouldn't forgive, much less forget.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Twilio gets into this soon as well, since Apple is opening up the iMessage platform.

https://www.apple.com/ios/business-chat/
I had a similar experience with a Huawei Mate 2 a few years ago. I used it for a year or two, then gifted it to someone who needed a new smartphone but couldn't afford one.

Their devices seem to be incredible values compared to the US domestic market.
The additional complication is problematic, as is the additional control / disempowerment.

Such as:
- Who decides the list of goods?
- Who provides them?
- Who delivers them?

Ex: Pizza as a vegetable.

Sure, you'll have people make shit decisions - but part of the point (IMHO) of UBI is that a shit decision this month doesn't have to screw you next month.

My brother also always points out that "shrinkage" (from retail) is a really good concept to apply to welfare programs: The cost to 100% anything far outweighs the benefit to 100% that.
I'm far from being a developer, but I do work on the internet so I always appreciate productivity tips. I like Cold Turkey's UI over some of the other "distraction blockers" I've tried. Might have to add that to my ever-growing struggle not to get sucked into the black hole that is the internet. (Like is happening right now...)
As a side note, Caucher Birkar's medal was stolen less than half an hour after the award[1] (link in Portuguese)

1: https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2018/08/01/ir...
The reference chain for the Namibia experiment is an Huffington post article[1] and a report by Bignam[2].

It looks like "Otjivero-Omitara was selected for its manageable size, accessibility, and poverty situation" (p.19). Ask yourself, could any of those characteristics impact the reduction in crime regardless of UBI?

Also, I wasn't able to find a control (or comparison) group for those results. The time series that they provide seem to indicate that there are positive economic trends (see the reduction in poverty reported at page 49) in Namibia during the study's time frame (2007-2009). If these trends are not accounted for (e.g., using a difference-in-differences approach), you risk to conflate outside factors with UBI.

Another issue is attrition in the study. Their 40% result only takes in consideration the people who were present in the village for the 2-year study. Now, we could imagine that unemployed people might have migrated out of the village, mechanically pushing crime down thus biasing the UBI results. (see page 56 and 71)

The moral of the story is that social research is hard, especially research that wants to be causal. I would be skeptic of all click-baity results unless backed up by strong evidence.

[1]: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-santens/universal-basic...
[2]: http://www.bignam.org/Publications/BIG_Assessment_report_08b...
"About 118 P2P lenders have failed in July, the most since 2016" -- 200+ funds failed in Aug. 2016.

"Shakeout’s impact on the financial system has been limited" -- because bond holders are individual investors; it will depress future demand, but no systemic risk.
It's practically incoherent
But if they disallow this then their precious charter schools will have lower test scores and be revealed as the horrible practice they are.
My counter argument would be that with a good shell line editor like zsh in vi mode command transformations are as cheap as modular grammar; however I know there's limits to that argument (Java is only writeable in Java IDEs) so I'll grant you that :-)
One problem with this is that the corporate users who would fund a bounty competitive with the grey market don't really care about the grey market. Some of the bigger companies are even clients of the grey market, either through threat intelligence feeds or even though exploit acquisition (for red teaming).

Another issue is that for the vast majority of applications, the bounty pools you seem to be considering are way, way too big. The $3000 Google & friends will pay you through the IBB for serverside bugs is mostly a gift from them. You should read things like the Zerodium payouts as "we might pay AS MUCH AS...", and also know that when they say they'll pay "up to" $10k for RCE on Roundcube, they mean literally: RCE, and has to be Roundcube. They won't pay you for XSS and they won't pay you for an RCE in something _like_ Roundcube.

Your demo page shows a funding goal of $50,000... for BountyGraph. Not 1 HackerOne program in 10 is funded even to the tune of $20k, and those people all run actual businesses.
Stephen Levy covers it heavily in "In The Plex".

If my memory serves, they censored Google.cn, but did not block users in China from the un-censored Google.com. The PRC alternated between blocking and unblocking .com.

My understanding of the final straw was the hacking of gmail to steal the communications and network info of Chinese dissidents and activists.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China#Giving_up_Google_...
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This post contains most of what I would want to say about it.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/economics/intellectual_property/
If the goal is to convert these artifacts to liquid wealth, the smash-and-grab and getaway are probably the easiest parts.
The problem here is that uranium extraction and other elements of nuclear power production (e.g. concrete manufacturing) is itself carbon intensive process and takes a while to pay off.
>In other news, we hired our very first Head of Security

wow...
I'm anxiously awaiting reports of their laptops' Linux compatibilities.
Are you ok with disrupting harassment planning at all, or are you advocating for waiting for the worst to happen and just mopping up the blood after the fact?

Edit: note we're not necessarily taking about the state mandating the censorship, which potentially gets into first amendment territory. We're including service providers and ToS.
Not necessarily. Some services allow you to reset your forgotten password with a 2FA token. If your 2FA token comes by SMS, your account security relies solely on SMS. Yes, this bad practice. Yes, you should not do that. Yes, you actually only have a single factor then. But some do it that way, so don't use SMS.
>"Can you txt me the old mysql root pw to the reddit DB? Need to check something, thanks - Alexis."
You don't think they've tried to "legislate" it so people can't avoid it? It involves guns and prisons.
I guess AWS will be next. Would be great to have as an SNS destination.
People in expensive cities shouldn't get any more basic income money than people anywhere else; that'll just make more people want to move there. If the nationwide amount isn't enough, the answer is simple: move someplace cheaper. When you have a guaranteed basic income, this should now be possible. This will have two effects: 1) keeping the cost-of-living from continuing to spiral up so much in those cities, and 2) forcing employers in those cities to pay better, since their workforce can more easily move away to someplace very cheap.
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No, charter schools are a way to fuck over the 99% and ignore it while praising the 1%.
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> Now the police dreams that one look at the gigantic map on the office wall should suffice at any given moment to establish who is related to whom and in what degree of intimacy; and, theoretically, this dream is not unrealizable although its technical execution is bound to be somewhat difficult. If this map really did exist, not even memory would stand in the way of the totalitarian claim to domination; such a map might make it possible to obliterate people without any traces, as if they had never existed at all.

-- Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"

When people get into re-education camps and are never heard from again.. well, Hannah Arendt again:

> The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

And ALL that is required on behalf of the population is to look the other way, to just deny the people who get disappeared is to have blood on one's hands. The excuses people made in the last century are on record, and the excuses we hear today are no better.

It's one thing to feel helpless or be scared, it's one thing to want to, but to not know how -- but to simply look away, and to pat oneself on the back for it! There are a bunch of circles in hell, then there's few hundred circles for nobody, which Dante mistakenly thought to lead nowhere, and then there's a final circle for that.
I am wondering often with UBI: if everybody gets a certain amount of money. Wouldn't prices just adapt and everything gets more expensive, and there would be the same divide as before? Similar to Scandinavia where prices are very high. What mechanism could prevent this from happening?
Maybe that's a solved problem so that was outside the scope/focus? https://isocpp.org/wiki/faq/compiler-dependencies#convert-to...
A time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone
I didn't say Russia isn't paying some people to post on /pol/ and other places, just that /pol/ in general is very likely more self-propelling rather than firmly in the control of any one group, including Russian intelligence/trolls.

>These days Russians largely run the American conspiracy theorist scene, including people like Alex Jones and networks of similar influencers and their affiliates

Do you have proof?
I invested low five figures with Prosper, a US P2P lending platform, for several years about a decade ago. The returns are abysmal (and when the Global Financial Crisis hit, I had a bunch of notes go bad because of bankruptcies). Why? Because P2P lending is lending of last resort. It's one step above payday lending. I highly recommend not lending on P2P platforms.

As a borrower, it might not be a bad deal if you can't get a loan secured by real estate, or a personal loan, to refinance high interest debt. Depending on your circumstances (debt to income ratio, outstanding debt, available credit, income), you might consider using balance transfer offers that get you credit at 3-5% to make headway on high interest debt.

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Strange like the government in China is subsidizing it?
> With money comes mobility, so people are free to move somewhere cheaper.

I'm skeptical that most people who are currently trapped in poverty would receive enough UBI to make that practical.

Money doesn't stretch as far in a strange place with no network to fall back on, even if nominally the cost of living is lower.
Him, Tao, Emerton, Kisin, Coates, Calegari Bros... all Australian. Must be something in the water.
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I think that was ZTE, but may be mistaken

Edit: I went and looked it up, as far as the DoD is concerned, they're both verboten from usage in official DoD capacities it seems, and from being sold on military bases.

https://www.cnet.com/news/pentagon-reportedly-bans-sale-of-h...
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> Or a program to prevent the parents from having 5+ kids when they don't have the resources?

Out of curiosity, what have the sociologists concluded from China’s one-child policy?
No, that was ZTE.
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It is not clear to me.
> I do not anywhere near fully believe in inevitable doom.

“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”

Unfortunately every single aspect of modern life is based on the assumption of exponential growth. This just isn't gonna work.
I wish we would just take away 149 billion or so.

Neither are going to happen. He might toss around a bit of money to try and buy a better reputation, but he's still the worlds richest man by standing on the backs of the very people who's kids need better education.
Why not just get a VOIP OTT app so you have a stable phone number to be reached at?
Nah, we already had it on the COM/CORBA world.
It doesn't even consider that the military is made up of, you know, Americans, who generally love their country and the values it represents.

I’m sure the people of Germany never thought their fellow citizens would turn against them either.

There have been plenty of examples throughout recent history where citizens turn against each other because they believed in the cause of a charismatic leader.

Yeah, that's why the US completely killed it in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Mission Accomplished!

And they were all funded by another superpower. Who is going to fund these rebels? The people in Waco thought they were fighting against a tyrannical government. How did that work out for them?

EDIT:

It doesn't even consider that the military is made up of, you know, Americans, who generally love their country and the values it represents.

Plenty of people in rural Tenessee don’t see those “god hating west coast liberals who are part of the war on Christmas” as “sharing their values”.

It’s only been since the early 80s that the South had to get rid of laws making non heterosexual sex illegal.

How easy was it to get a bunch of people thinking that their government was being taken over by a Muslim who wanted to impose Sharia Law and get Chuck Norrus all riled up thinking that the federal government was trying to take over Texas?
The scary part of this is probably for people that had accounts on reddit in 2007 but later deleted them, or just completely forgot they existed. Reddit's not going to be able to contact the owners of those accounts.

Did you have an account 11 years ago? Did you vote on anything embarrassing, or send any compromising messages? How sure are you?

I don't even know the answer to those questions for myself.
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I think no, I also tried to look for a complete translation.
The leadership's motivations are neither here nor there to my argument. My point is that you shouldn't waste time making arguments from final consequences without any empirical methods. There are many tasks which are beyond reason. Predicting the future is among them. I feel like this should be obvious but I'll give an example because I feel like my point isn't coming across.

During the time between WWI and WWII, governments around the world were contemplating the use of the aircraft in warfare. Particularly the consequences of aerial bombing. Some people opposed it because it was dishonorable to kill from the air. Some people doubted its effectiveness, especially after the way WWI entrenchments withstood massive artillery bombardments. And some people made exactly the argument in this article. That the bomber would save lives because it would shorten wars.

By 1945, dozens of cities had been flattened by aerial bombing and hundreds of thousands of civilians had perished from it. What people got wrong was that they reasoned about aerial bombing in the context of past conflict. The notion of "justifiable" ubiquitous total war mostly was not anticipated. Essentially, they were reasoning in a world of past conflict and had not anticipated a conflict that would shift the window of what is moral or even logical.

Now, who was right? Clearly those insisting on bombing as a humane measure were wrong. But at the same time, if England, France and the US had divested themselves of aerial bombing on moral grounds, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan would've had a major advantage that might've tipped the war in their favor. I personally think I'm probably happier in the world we have rather than living "The Man in the High Castle". So who was right?

It's my contention that no one was right. There's no reason to believe that a sizable portion of any group considering the issue could anticipate what happened in WWII. It's my contention, that reason alone is not enough to predict the specific future consequences of our daily actions. I'm not just rebuking this writing but nearly any writing of its kind.
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Are you sure you're not actually saying "poor parents shouldn't be allowed to raise their children"?
This is excellent. Thank you for taking the time to write it.

I don't know what is it about math -- especially when it involves manipulation of symbols as opposed to pictures or lay language -- that turns off so many people.

The fact that so many software developers "don't like math" is ironic, because they're perfectly happy to manipulate symbols such as "x", "file", or "user_id" that stand in for other things every day. The entirety of mathematical knowledge is very much like a gigantic computer language (a formal system) in which every object is and must be precisely defined in terms of other objects, using and reusing symbols like "x", "y", "+", etc. that stand in for other things.

Perhaps the issue is motivation? Many wonder, "why do I need to learn this hard stuff?" If so, the approach taken by Rachel Thomas and Jeremy Howard at fast.ai seems to be a good one: build things, and then fill the theoretical holes as needed, motivated by a genuine desire to understand.