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Actually, it is. When you don’t approach social welfare as a corrective action of a defective person, this is evidence of a positive effect similar to social security. It’s very different than the norm.

When you think about the money spent on nursing homes, daycare, juvenile justice or even kids who extend college due to the need to work, society pays a big bill directly or indirectly.

My family does well, but we realized that expenses like daycare, summer camps, etc made it such that having one of us take a sabbatical would only cost a few hundred bucks a month, and be a better outcome for our family. Not many folks have that luxury, and imo we are all worse off for it.
I mix eBooks and physical copies, and I agree with your list, but here are a couple advantages of eBooks:

1. Space -- I have an entire closet full of books. Every time I buy another physical book, I am slowly crowding myself out of a little more space in my apartment. Electronic copies take up no physical space.

2. Can read anywhere (using my phone). I don't like this for every book, but some books are good for reading in little bite-sized chunks. I read a page here and a page there while I'm taking a break at work, waiting at the post office, whatever. The constant availability makes it a lot easier to increase my reading bandwidth vs. trying to always have a physical book on me. Plus variety--I have hundreds of books in my pocket at any given moment, and can choose whatever I'm in the mood for.
The Spectator is right-leaning, but it can't be called "something like Fox News", as this very article (which would never appear on Fox News) demonstrates.
There is at least a confirmation email step. Otherwise hehe your worries on spam do echo mine. So far I've just been ignoring that aspect and leaving it open. Honestly I don't know how any web service that ultimately sends transactional email really deals with it, beyond brute-forcing it down to an acceptable rate. Even Google's captchas can be defeated by bots nowadays AFAIR, and they're the best. My thoughts are that ultimately you have to hope that it doesn't happen to you. I would appreciate other people's opinions and experience here as well. Thanks for your comment.
Usually the goal of UBI is to lift everyone above the poverty line, not to make everyone's lives comfortable.

If you're happy living as a lazy fuck just shy of poverty, you're welcome to do so. If you want some comfort, security, and the ability to not anticipate each 1st of the month, you'd probably still want to work.

I personally think that UBI is a requirement for us to be able to say that we each have a fair shot at success. Nobody should worry about having a roof over their head or providing food on the table. We have plenty of both for each human in the world already.
There are some degree of differing opinions on this but roughly speaking, people who encounter a person who has xxy chromosomes will make some judgement on whether they are a man or a woman (this is gender, and orthogonal to the fact that they are intersex). If they have a strong preference for which option people pick they are either cis or trans gender depending on whether it matches up with the one people pick or not.
I have some concerns about this experiment, but I may be wrong.

The whole idea of basic income is that the basic income would be enough for a person to live. Having never been to Finland (but other northern European countries), I can't see how you can live on 560€ a month without some other source of income or social assistance.

The people in the study are told that the basic income will end in two years, wouldn't that change their behavior? I mean if they know the money is temporary they're not to change their behavior too much.

I know for myself if they gave me 700CAD an month for an basic income experiment for two years, I would be "cool extra cash". However I won't change my behavior job/career wise as 1) its not enough to live on; and 2) its going to end.
You do realize his work was edited? Even aspiring writers seem to not understand how substantial changes a manuscript undergoes prior to publishing.
States don't have anywhere near as high of a margin in terms of essential expenses (infrastructure, etc) vs entitlements (social security, health insurance, etc) as the federal government does in the USA. The fed has more money to spend than states.
wasn't expecting that a comment questioning the use of violence would get so many downvotes... apparently we have really regressed as human beings.
I tried make any comment. Hacker news shadow banned me.
Note: the talk actually starts at 50:00. It starts out with bad audio, which gets better eventually, and it has a long gap in the middle when they go for a break (since it’s a recording of a live stream). But the discussion and back-and-forth is riveting!

I like to transcribe and write up articles about videos like this, and this is a worthwhile candidate, if I can find the time. It would be a lot more accessible as annotated text with links and illustrations, than a long hard to hear video. (It’s also good to check with the people talking to make sure the transcription was right and captured their meaning.)
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Do we? I'm unaware of that, actually. I was under the impression it was widely known that retired people are the sizeable portion of those who volunteer for anything in particular, and there's the existing tropes of retired people getting into art and fitness, and community activities. Book clubs. Crochet/knitting clubs. Bingo. Dancing.
I think you may be picking up on a but of a cultural difference here. In America, people are identified, both by themselves and by others, in a large part by there job. It's a huge part of personal and cultural/societal identity.
As a libertarian anything that increases the ability of a 3rd party go gain traction interest me but something smells very off about the recent uptick in discussion of alternatives. If these changes were actually beneficial to the underdog in the general case you'd see them being pushed by the left or the right on a state by state basis depending on the political make up of any given state. The parties aren't run by idiots. They've crunched the numbers. They know whether the alternatives would benefit them or not. Likewise it makes me very uneasy that we mostly only see people who align with one party pushing for alternate systems.

I'm not opposed to alternate voting systems but I'd like to see one actually increase the power of the underdog(s) in a one party state (the only kind of state where the powers that be feel secure enough to make this kind of change) in the US before I support one. I don't want something that sounds good but furthers the status quo. Political diversity is one of the US's strengths and anything that furthers the status quo is bad for that.

Edit: why is this opinion unacceptable?
This is pretty dense with industry-specific terms, but I think I figured it out.

"Packaging" is a talent agency bundling up different creative roles (writer, producer, actor) for a project (film or tv show) and then pitching that group of people for that specific project to the studios. The agency takes a percentage of the _project_ revenues instead of a percentage of each individual _talents_ pay for the project.

This is apparently the standard way things work in Hollywood now and has some consequences:

1. It screws up the "Agent" part of the talent agency. They no longer directly represent an individual's interest (like a Real Estate agent or a Lawyer) because they just want to get people into a "package". This is the main problem described in the article, that there are some massive conflicts inherent to this process.

2. Packaging projects make agencies way more money than directly representing clients.

3. It reverts movie and tv making back to something like the studio days. Every actor isn't really able to work with every director, in order to get something made they need to be "packaged" which means working with someone else from within the same agency.

4. It messes up people lower on the rung more than top tier folks because they're less able to buck the system.
@yingw787 This is great! Far more comprehensive and well-argued than most typical personal technical posts.
> If you give people everything, they just won't work as hard.

But are we talking about giving people "everything" though? The word "Basic" is in the thing's name, so it may be just enough to not die (or turn to crime).

One proposal [1] would be to give everyone $US 10K per year starting at age 21, and not having income taxes start until you have an income over US$ 40K.

$10K is enough, in many places, to pay rent and food, but not much else. So you won't have the worry / stress of being homeless, but if you want more than subsistence living, you will probably have to work.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/why-are...
Find this interesting though doesn’t work for every site
Change the title please, now it reads as if the Ethiopian Airlines were at fault for "not stopping nosedive"

Title should be "Boeing 737 nose-dived and crashed due to capitalism, killing Ethiopians".
That's one of my points I always make when people mention UBI experiments. The other one is the amount is too low. I have never been to Finland, but can someone there comment on this: can you live on 560 euros a month without some other income or assistance?
Agreed in full. I was thinking a dropdown of common hashtags. It's sort of a chicken and egg problem so far though, in that I don't know what common hashtags would be. Maybe I'll just use those that are examples on the front page to start.
Let’s not rail on someone simply because they provided a counter-example to disprove the original assertion that everyone on UBI would do something productive with their time.

Given that he is strictly providing a personal anecdote on what he would do with the money and extra time, the responses suggest that some people are quite judgemental about how other people spend their own money.
> Massive taxation increases the risk of doing business

I encourage you to make a list of countries ordered by taxation level, and another one ordered by the risk of doing business. And then compare the two.
The gift of ubi is society saying, “we are here to help you without compelling you to contribute in any specific way. But if you don’t contribute in some way, we may lose the ability to help people. here and now is your chance to choose for yourself how to keep the world afloat and vibrant. You have our support. We are looking forward to seeing how you choose to support the world in turn.”
This is a shining example of old web content we've lost in the current era of walled gardens and social graphs. People writing honestly about their journey and observations. Sure people still do in some form or another, but I personally don't see, or it's hidden in the flood of memes, tweets, shares and likes.
If an AGI was smarter than a human, why would it want to work for free? Personally I think it's unlikely to be possible to create something more capable of abstract reasoning than humans yet somehow constrained to be completely subservient to us. And if it is possible, all it takes is one mistake to produce a robot slave revolution.

I'd expect supercapable AGI to command higher wages than less-capable humans, so they wouldn't be pushing out service jobs.
I've worked as a DJ and have roughly 10 years experience using Ableton Live. When I've used Ableton for DJing, I've found it's really good if you set up your set and performance macros (filters, delays, reverbs, other effects) in advance.

I'd actually recommend Traktor (https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/traktor/) if you want some training wheels/assistance getting all the beatmatching stuff right. It's a really great compromise between "live-ness" and all of the handy functionality you get from using software.

Some CDJs have pretty reliable/great sounding effects built in that do the job really well.
Well, I don't remember ever reading the comments about any UI article here without people claiming that people receiving it will get depressed and desperate.
If it takes too long to adjust trim to a desired position, why can’t the pilots still pitch up by pulling back on the yoke?
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From the evolutionary point of view it is very bad for a super-organism like a whole country to let parts of its body starve or get sick. Do ants have to pay for food or housing?
You have villages all over the world where unemployment is high. They're poor and insecure, but aren't starving to death. What does the record show? Do they want jobs or handouts? Are they creating mini renaissances of the arts and sophisticated political communes, or getting high, staying shiftless, and forming gangs?
Perhaps human cognition will be enhanced by machines? This would open up a lot of new opportunities. I know there are companies working on doing exactly this.
There are enough resources overall, but they aren't redistributed as a basic income for historical and political reasons.
This sums up all the comments perfectly. Ideas have consequences and most times human predictions are far from right for complex things.
Derp. Now it's too late for me to modify it. I'll email the mods to correct it.
Reminiscent of Microsoft’s “Plays for Sure (TM)” branded DRM system for music which eventually did not allow anyone to play their purchased music anymore, contrary to the branding.

At least in this ebook case the customers are getting refunds.
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India is toying with this idea with the NYAY guaranteed income scheme which the Congress party proposed as part of its 2019 election manifesto. If implemented, it will be the largest scheme of it's kind in the world, ensuring that the poorest 20% of the population will be paid Rs.6000 (approx. 85 USD) per month. But 20% of the population = 50 million people. How the scheme will work on this grand scale is yet to be seen.
Because you might not like where Google takes Gmail or Chrome in the future. Like when we had a decade of zero progress in web technology because Microsoft was holding everyone back with their virtual Internet Explorer monopoly.
The problem with your analogy is that other people have to work to make the food, provide the medical care, produce the clothing, and give shelter. You don't do anything to produce air (more likely we do the opposite).

The question is, can we make the economy work while providing everyone with these basic needs. If too many people stop working, either the people that are working will be reduced to a similar sustenance level, or it won't even be enough to cover the basic needs of all anymore. If the people that are working don't get more they will think "why should I be the one working?", and then the problem exacerbates.

In this experiment, the unemployment numbers didn't rise, but the participants knew it was supposed to be a temporary measure. So this doesn't really look at long-term sustainability.
I am not an http expert, but could we put that file on one location on the web so that I do not download it for every fricking site I open? Or even better, could not the browser bundle it?
I use the Seth Godin model of ebook selling...

I sell my ebook on Amazon AND I give away the same ebook on my website FREE.

I give people the choice. Most buy the book.

To see one of the examples, Google:

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So people won't work as hard. So our consumption levels in the relativelt rich country would decline.

So what ?
Hello! Thank you for visiting to my post.

My name is Konstantin and I am from the Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk (this is true in Siberia).

Once, going through the sixty-seventh folder in my google drive and pretty tired, I thought, why not tag the photos so that you can search for them by keywords in seconds?
I started to look for similar functionality in the Google drive and DropBox, but did not find it, then I started sorting through various products, but I couldn’t find anything. My main desire was the ability to put down the tags and not stop using my usual cloud.
From this point on, we decided to develop our own service, which synchronizes with your Google Drive, dropbox or other storage and is a new interface for them, which allows you to:
1. Generate keywords for photos or a set of them
2.Tags can be marked manually or with the help of recognition of objects, people, emotions or colors by artificial intelligence.
3. Possibility of both individual and team work.
4. And most importantly, no change in the usual cloud storage.

I would be very happy if you join the testing service http://explorino.tilda.ws/ or tell about how you are now solving the problem with sorting and searching for photos.

Thanks for attention!
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I work for an evil corporation which is harvesting data off gullible people who have no idea how their data is being used.

If there was UBI, I'd have stopped working for them altogether.
A sizeable portion, maybe, but certainly not all (and probably not even most). Do you think crocheting, knitting, bingo, and dancing are honestly good things to put people to do? Let alone pay them for?
There is enough space for everybody. What the world lacks is good education.
Maybe, if you extend that to free software in general. It's interesting to think about.
Doesn't git reset do what you want? For example git reset <remote>/<branchname> would usually do it for me, but you could just as easily do it to any other commit.
But that is what automation is all about. The productivity of a single worker went through the roof in the last century. There is not enough work for all the people who want to.
Pointing only at thrust is probably inaccurate, I agree. However, several sources point to the shifted center of gravity as a cause of the pitch, not just aerodynamic effects. For example an analyst at Leeham Co. (https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-boeing-737-max-crash-...)
Making errors while producing software is natural. Deciding to ignore complaints and refuse to fix your errors is not. It's just Google arrogance.
How many accidents blamed on "pilot error" are a result of the pilot not being given enough information to make the right decision, or given the wrong information? I'm not saying that pilots are completely faultless but if they're making mistakes we should look to improve the systems and procedures that allow them to make the right decisions, not start pointing fingers.
The book "Capitalist Realism" by Mark Fisher is very, very appropriate here
Well, no?

Assuming by default that somebody would break the law, just because you politically disagree with them, is not justified. As said above, CC holders are among the most law-abiding citizens (this is true in my country too). They're aware of the laws governing their permit and assuming by default that they'd break other countries' laws is preposterous. You don't just forget that you're carrying when you travel abroad or by airplane. And you sure as hell don't do something as idiotic as that, with the accompanying consequences, intentionally.
Intel lost its lead a long time ago. Now they are falling further behind.
Honestly I think about 5% of people will be motivated by that sentiment.
Given recently revealed vulnerabilities to the Tesla autopilot [1],for example, the adversarial markers that can cause the car to change lane, is it responsible for Tesla to go even further toward self driving without some way to mitigate such vulnerabilities first?

[1] https://keenlab.tencent.com/en/2019/03/29/Tencent-Keen-Secur...
What you say is quite a common complaint. I was looking at a moderator's thread on a self-help subreddit this morning and people there were annoyed that the only items that got heavily upvoted (and therefore ever appeared under "top") were memes and pictures instead of the sort of deep thinking that could help people on this subreddit.
Let's go with "valuable is something that improves your life" or "improves your wellbeing"
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Sounds like GSF2 on full display...
The original article title is somewhat less clickbait:
"Introducing a More Seamless Navigate on Autopilot"
The treatment group continued receiving 83% of their existing benefits with the "needless" strings attached.

Think it's safe to say they'd have been a lot less likely to be happy if they lost them in favour of the UBI alone...
Or someone could add it with an extension as a current middle ground.
Doesn't make him any "cooler".Failed attempt at making aesthetics.
Sure there are ways to do it, but every piece of software needs to be aligned. What I was trying to say is that even if you have the tools you probably cannot "just use the tools".

You will likely have to create patches for those piece of softwares that create a different artifact every time are built.

There are a few other challenges but in my humble opinion, it is worthwhile to strive to write your own software with "reproducible builts" in mind so everybody can verify if something was altered.
Some things that I personally experienced:

No (or way less than usual) interest in going to work

Feeling tired, bored all or most of the time

Unable to concentrate on even the most trivial tasks
The philosophical conception of the state as a living organism goes back to Plato's Republic. Not to say your point is invalid, but the implications in those models for individual human freedom are usually pretty bleak.
UBI would be a VERY LOW income. Not enough for nice restaurants and ski trips.

I'm perplexed by the number of people who think that UBI means giving everyone so much money that they would never do anything to get more.
One a person leaves a country, they are not under the jurisdiction of the laws of that country in any meaningful way. If he leaves Oz for, say, Denmark, Australian law has zero effect on him other than those agreed upon diplomatic agreements between said countries. Any tech laws he may have been under in Oz have zero bearing on him in Denmark. The Oz government would be risking a throttling if they tried to get him to act as a "spy" and insert bad code into a product in Denmark. At that point, he could approach the Danish government, ask for asylum, and it would likely be granted.

I left Fastmail over the recent Oz decision with encryption. I was a paying customer since 2002. It pained me horribly to leave, but I had no choice over principle.

Other than diplomatic norms, once a person leaves a country, he is bound by the laws of the receiving country. I base this on common knowledge and also having lived in 5 countries myself.

Australia and New Zealand are rapidly becoming draconian. I have friends in both countries. They are thinking of leaving because of all of this. The entire knee-jerk reaction to guns in NZ is but the latest in a long line of stupidities the Kiwi and Aussie governments have been up to. For example, in NSW, if you have a knife painted green, you can go to jail because it's a "zombie knife". Think I'm joking? Look it up. The last "free" state in Oz is QLD. The rest of them are up to their necks in draconian stupidity.
In other words, "fuck you, got mine" ?
Earning money is not easy. The fact that on average a larger group is willing to pay for UI work than for art indicates that UI affects their lives more than art and is more worth to them. Whatever one's reason is.
Yeah I found this argument weird - the Catholic church has actively covered up and enabled paedophiles in their ranks for decades.

Odd place for OP to draw the line...