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> Nobody can ever answer the question of "What happens when someone blows their UBI and cant afford to eat?" Will we let them starve? You'd almost have to from the government side of things.

This seems to be a strawman to me. I've never seen it argued that UBI should come with any kind of requirement that it be spent in certain ways, or that further monitoring would be required to ensure that people didn't do stupid things with it.

Yeah, some people will do with UBI what they do with their wages now: spend it on booze, gambling, video games, whatever their addiction of choice is.

But...that's not a problem that should be solved with strings on UBI, or anything like that. It's a problem that should be solved by trying destigmatize addiction, treat it as a disease, not a personal moral failing, and address the root causes that lead to it. Those things aren't easy, but that doesn't really matter for whether we should enact a UBI, because they're out of its scope.

However, if you reason through to some logical conclusions, it seems likely that, over time, a UBI that genuinely provides enough for people to live on, not in luxury but not in squalor, will tend to lead to these people having more opportunity to get themselves out of the negative spirals of addiction. It can give them hope. It can prevent many others from ending up in that situation to begin with.
Destroying the value of rice, beans, potatoes, and broccoli would signal to producers that they should grow something more valuable.

The next inclination would naturally be to say "Well, you just force the growing of rice, beans, potatoes, and broccoli." You have now landed on a planned economy, which doesn't work very well.

So healthy staples can't actually be "free for all". I do think that providing the food directly for people who need it would be a better idea, but you get associated issues of government price-fixing and dumping of lower quality food-stuffs.

Federalism is all about experimentation. One of the features is to permit the autonomy for local governments to attempt local solutions to the specifics of the problem as it is faced locally. There may be something to be said for a central (federal) facilitation of local programs, but this almost always takes the form of funding.
I can't imagine one of those giant banks having this kind of outage.
It's a good time to be a Python developer :-D
Because I don't think UBI will help in the long term. It will lead to inflation of commodities (rent, food, cars, etc) and will lead to us having a bigger entitlement burden in the long run.
I liked this phrase form JFK: "There’s nothing wrong with CEOs making more than their employees, but that there’s something wrong when the head of a failing company is making hundreds of times as much money as their employees..."
In fact, the word Fedora comes from Al-Maʿarri's contemporary, the great tailor Al-Feyḍaou'rā.
Put it in an index fund like VTI and don't touch it or use one of the robo investor platforms like Wealthfront and Betterment.
Many, many years ago (~1995ish) I was tasked with putting in a small network for a factory. I settled on the newly released NetWare 4.0 for the server and ran Cat4 around the place and coax to link the hubs (yes hubs). PCs ran Win 3.11.

One of them had such a shit slow (RLL I think) hard disc, I decided to network boot it instead and saved quite a lot of money.
Controlling what people do with their devices protects their revenue stream.

Like on the ads they'll see on their devices.

Hey, what big change did Google make to Chrome with regard to Adblockers recently for Enterprise users?
Can’t is too strong, individual hackers have mixed the two. I’m sure Apple could make it work.
Once in my life, I had a moment of profound clarity where the beauty and utility of Lisp just clicked in my brain somehow.
Running a warehouse is also much cheaper than running a neat and pristine supermarket.
DevSelfie is currently trending on Twitter
Some towns in Japan and Taiwan started playing music over city loudspeakers at 6pm that basically means "it's go-home time now."
Except this isn't an area where there is toxicity related to gender roles. Women work as much as men do, and this CTO has an attitude that treats everyone equally. Where does the toxic masculinity enter this scenario?

"a male employee who leaves "early" v.s. a female employee who did the same"
Is there a real problem for men leaving the same time as women? I've never encountered this at any job ever.
> It's really a shame that most customers never learn and they keep accepting closed source/protocols.

I don’t care. I just want my tool to solve my problem so I can focus on creating business value at my job. I am sure we could all make our own hammers, but time spent making hammers is time lost from using them.
We are all about Slackops! Trying to build a company around it https://slack.com/apps/AAQ1WT8MD-rigd
Makes me think... I listen to a lot of avant-garde jazz from the 1960s/1970s, and watch documentaries about it, and this leads to listening to the speech patterns of some of the greatest players. Many of these musicians are outright geniuses, but grew up under Jim Crow, and didn't go to college - sometimes, didn't finish any school at all. They're brilliant thinkers, but they speak in such a different way, they'd be written off as fools by people who can't imagine thinking outside of the western college system.

Listen to Sun Ra, or Milford Graves, or Miles Davis. It's amazing.
I wouldn't imagine ships would use auto-pilot in a crowded area like this. The pilot would be at the helm and it would be pretty clear they were not where their GPS was indicating.

In open sea, however, I could see this being a problem for warships and territorial waters. But I think James Bond already had this one covered.
The way I see it renting will always be more expensive because you have all of the same costs but you add in one other person to pay: the landlord.

Maybe the landlord can hire less expensive maintenance staff than you can, but maybe they can't. Is it really that different to have the house plumber come down and fix something vs. hiring a plumber from the yellow pages?

The landlord has to pay the mortgage same as you would. Maybe he gets a better rate because he can get some 1%er special equity deal, but fixed loans are like 3.5% so his margin can't be huge. He doesn't get a break on the taxes for the primary residence (although this went away I think?).

Ultimately it's difficult for a landlord to be so much more efficient that he can offer the rents at a lower rate and still make money.
I don't belive this is actually semantically meaningless. The pause in 'uh' is clearly used to emphasize the significant lack of information such that scientists don't even know the purpose of these calls.

For brevity and that this is not a serious/academic article itself, the 'uh' is a suitable shorthand for a casual audience. I myself am not a fan but I do not claim it is semantically meaningless. I grasp the full meaning. I just don't agree with it.
Question. Why the cute-bunnies-reminiscent-of-80s-cartoon "mascots" for WinTun?
Removing the filler "uh" the sentence becomes "Like their purpose." Which could be semantically understood as "[I/He/They] Like (or enjoy) their (whale's song) purpose." A semantically ambiguous sentence is just that, ambiguous. This sentence can have multiple meanings.

Also, conflating dialects, verbal fillers, and languages is asinine and you know that is not what my original point was. Writing casually about an expert domain is like, uh, different than writing spoken word as written, ya know?
You're saying it's on porpoise?
What gets me is the absence of ballrooms. Yes, ballrooms.

In former times grand mansions would have a ballroom. There would be hundreds of people or even just modest gatherings of thirty people, which could be just a few families with a huge amount of kids each.

But the McMansions never seem to have a ballroom. There may be vast swimming pools and all kinds of huge extra bedrooms but they lack the fantasy aspect that goes with a grand ball.

The grand ball could be a wedding or a birthday or just a seasonal event. People would have to dress up for it in very impractical clothes. A certain level of class hierarchy goes with it though, not very American doing that.

I can't remember which one, but years ago the English king would not really use the grand palaces but stay in a regular house in the grounds. He just preferred everything on a practical scale. I think I would be the same had I been born with parents with one of these McMansions, for them to pass the behemoth on to me. The place would have to be in some storage mode and I would live in some small one room caravan out the back, to only use the big house when guests arrive.

How does the heating work out for these McMansions? I don't see a lot of doors. Do these people just have huge electricity and other bills to keep the lights and HVAC on the whole time?
I meant opening a link, not a blank tab. And closing any tab, not necessarily the focused tab.

I should have specified, but I assumed I implied it as this is what the existing browser middle click support achieves.
Letsee, 5 minutes of wasted time per impacted client (and that’s just to interpret and ignore the notice) * 2.9 million people = 28 years of life lost by one action.

Basically a murder in terms of aggregate impact.
What Is Decentium?
As somebody who worked quite a bit on various smaller film sets it always shocka me just how bad people in IT often are when it comes to communicating either within their teams, with their code or with non-IT people.

It certainly got better in some ways, but nowhere near the military precision of a well tuned and experienced film crew.
no plans.

(but then, what else should I say :D)
"Surprise Mechanics" sounds like when you find your car on cinder blocks. The disingenuous language doesn't remove the predatory nature of the practice.
Meaning is more important than means. Government by megacorp does sound horrific. Production by megacorp less so.
Ditto! For some reason I used to think the more tray icons the better.

But not as bad as when I tried to delete C:\Windows before it would try to stop you. (For science, of course.)
I've just fixed this bug! thanks
Original author of sorbet-rails here. I tried and it did take some work to integrate with Rails, because how dynamic Rails code can be.

But it's pretty useful once setup. It can know when an attribute is nullable or non-nullable, which is a big deal. We even use Sorbet to limit the usage of some dynamic Rails API so that it's more sane.
Because that's coooool
Jamaica's central bank is using reggae to promote inflation target
Getting a quantum speedup and doing quantum computing are different things. Also, your link refers to a quantum annealer not a universal quantum processor.
Could they not just have the user blink it furiously for a few seconds ? Or long press after on ?
I remember that my wife and I were late to Facebook, having been convinced by our daughter's babysitter that it made staying in touch with people easier. We built out a Friends list and were having a great time reconnecting with people from our childhood. When Google+ came on our radar the idea of trying to rebuild connections in another platform was not appealing.
This is true that they haven't actually confirmed that Threadripper is using the EPYC I/O die but I would be very surprised if it isn't. The entire idea behind Threadripper was to reuse as much EPYC tech as possible (in particular the physical socket) to keep NRE costs low because the HEDT market is so small.
Nobody paying attention was trying to get regular people to stop writing their passwords down. Threat models matter, there are no regular people for whom "Bad guys steal the book I wrote my passwords in" is a real threat. I bought my mother a nicer (but still inconspicous) Password Book for Xmas. Do I use one myself? Of course not, I have a password manager - but I run vi and flood-wired my home with Cat5 and my mother won't be doing either of those things either.

Regular people get done by credential stuffing, by phishing and straight up guessable passwords. Two out of three of those is fixed by having lots of separate passwords written in that old diary kept in the third desk drawer.

Phishing is hard, against online phishing (as opposed to lazier attacks that collect credentials offline to use later) the only really good defence is WebAuthn/ U2F and too many sites ordinary people care about don't offer that.
This $3-5K https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/speedx/speedx-unicorn-s... was a racing bike?
I learned a reasonable amount, although I suspect the course materials could be improved. Hard to improve on the prestige of a degree from Oxford though unless your backups are Stanford, Caltech, Harvard, Cambridge and MIT.
I liked the green parrot version more.
(Sarcastic comment about China here removed)
I started feeling burned out and asked for part time, just 3 days a week. Company refused - we don't do part time. Instead they tried to convince me to stay, give me perks, a raise, etc, because they really liked me. I told them I probably can find someone willing to hire a dev in this huge city.

By the end of the day I had a part time offer and a raise. The market is in our favour at least for now.

Interestingly, after 6 months I dialed back to 4 days a week. I felt too disconnected with the projects and the people, and procrastinated too much in the 4-day weekend. I found 4 days to be my personal sweet point.
As far as I can tell, jokes are an important method of communication. There are times where they are light-hearted, or just part of the culture, but there are other times (where there is, say, one person in a position of authority, making the same joke repeatedly) where it is meant to call out a behaviour and implicitly shame it.

It's like if you're on the bus and someone's sitting really close. Some people would say "Excuse me, you're too close", but others would jokingly say "Little close, aren't you?", but the meaning is the same - Move.
My employer-sponsored plan doesn't offer any ETFs.
I'm not sure millenials or Gen-Xers are any less materially obsessed, I think we just generally have less money to spend on the things Boomers did. It isn't like we aren't spending thousands on tech, clothing, etc. I hesitate to condemn Boomers too harshly for their lifestyle choices given the benefit of hindsight when I'm sure my generation will also be pilloried for the aspects of lifestyle we are living that will later be seen as moronic.
Really comes down to lifestyle - I love having a home. Want to run 220v for a basement milling machine? Easy. Want to knock out a wall to put in a big spa tub? Done. Want to put a spray booth in the garage to paint wooden kayaks? No problem. Much of what I want to do in my spare time wouldn't be feasible in an apartment. Then again, I don't mind doing some minor home repairs so my costs are minimal. You can always get a home warranty plan if repairs bother you that much.
We called those 2 terms "formal parameters", and "actual parameters" if I remember my programming language concepts class from college correctly.
> Besides, my phone as the ability to do a remote wipe. It is effectively a bricked door stop until they can log into the phone.

If they got your TOTP seeds you're in race seeing whether the person who {compromised,stole} your phone can disable your ability to do that first and since a remote wipe requires network access they can simply ignore it and reuse your credentials until you change them.

What all of these have in common is that multi-factor authentication is based on having separate factors. If you store your passwords in the same place as your TOTP seeds, you have one factor rather than two. You might decide the risk is acceptable but that should be a carefully reasoned decision, which was … not apparent … from the comment I was replying to.
Late 20's, installed it without knowing it was spyware, it looked cool. Dad was not pleased.
I've also thought about creating more samples by shifting prices up or down, since perhaps the general patterns would be the same.

This, like all synthetic data approaches, is fraught with ways to trip yourself up on generalization.
MongoDB intruduces on the fly encryption between server and client
Technical Architecture for Searching 300MM Creative Commons Images
Yes, it's fraught. Unix didn't evolve to the "right thing", if indeed there is a right thing to evolve to.

An important consideration here is that Unix, for much of its history, ran on machines with only a few kilobytes of memory -- a really big one might have 256k. So unnecessary complexity in the kernel translates to it being too big to be useful at all. Extra code in user programs wasn't great either, but couldn't make the whole system unusable, so it was less bad.

System calls that might return EINTR could have been wrapped in a standard library call that would take, say, an extra argument that says what to do -- maybe even a function pointer to call. But there also wasn't really a standard library, yet, and not everybody wanted that much junk going on around their system calls. You got less than a million instructions per second, and system calls burned often a millisecond or hundred. Anyway, what would a library pass to it? Something it got from its caller?

But if you want a loop, you know how to write one, and you can put in it exactly what you want. So the only problem is what happens in some library you use that does system calls. At the time it was considered good form to return to the caller if you got EINTR, and let the caller decide what to do, instead of looping in the library. Then your caller could have a loop calling you, instead.

Then BSD did their thing, and then library callers that might need to break out had to have a setjmp to break out to, and generally had to shut down immediately, afterward, because the library was probably left in a corrupt state.

So things are still not right, by any defensible definition.

But there's no evidence Richard Gabriel really understood these tradeoffs, or cared, really. It was really all a metaphor for LISP vs. C, where C was "worse" and drove out LISP, and Unix and PDP-11s drove out TOPS-10 and then the Lisp Machine, and then the PC came along with DOS, and the world went all to hell.

And here we all are!
This one? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19925859
Flexo – A Car Deployment Platform
CB Channel 6 is still an ongoing cultural phenomemon. Now that it's the summer, it's back alive with 10kW transmitters all over the place. Today not a single channel was empty, and there was a lot of lower sideband, and freeband operations going on above CH40.

I know a guy in my neighborhood who has a old beat up GMC suburban, with a CB radio, a 5kW "12 pill" amplifier, 3 alternators, and 2 heavy-duty CB antennas installed, and he goes by #1 on the air. Guys like him still participate in CB radio shootouts like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyAqzFXDMys

All the while the FCC doesn't bat an eye. This is because they typically don't cause that much harmful interference. Even though the transmitters are often overdriven and non-linear, typical spurious emissions are outside of critical communications bands and aren't the source of many RFI complaints which drive a majority of FCC investigations.
>bastion of religious freedom

Er, did I miss something in the article? What's that got to do with anything?
> although the U.S.'s position is concerning

It's certainly not surprising.

>especially as a bastion of religious freedom

I would not use the word bastion here. Maybe technically it has religious freedom in code, but in practice it tends to be quite poor.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments here? We ban accounts that do that repeatedly and you've unfortunately been doing it a lot.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
We're definitely the wealthiest. Our power is slipping thanks to awful foreign policy, and success is limited. We've been successful in generating massive amounts of wealth, but our standard of living isn't great compared with many other countries, and despite our wealth, our middle class is shrinking, and we have more homeless than ever, many of whom are veterans. And that's not even going into how a huge amount of our wealth can be directly traced to extremely exploitative attitudes and actions concerning other countries.

There's a lot to be proud of but there's also a lot to be ashamed of.
That's a fun study. Shame their protocol selects for people who are likely to get stuck working the front desk at a city office building.
> I assume you mean adjusted for inflation here? Even then that hasn't been true.

I used the numbers from here: https://economics.harvard.edu/files/economics/files/ms28533....

Specifically in section IIIA

"The stylized fact from the studies on long-run housing capital appreciation is that over long
horizons, house prices only grow a little faster than the consumer price index"

> The problem with renting is that you're still paying the mortgage, only in the renting case you're also paying the middleman who then pays the mortgage. This is why rent per month is higher than mortgage per month for the same house. So the returns from that downpayment you instead invested need to make up for the monthly loss in rent, plus the lack of an asset at the end of the process.

Right, but the down payment ends up compounding to greater than the value of the entire home at the end of the 30 years and the difference is significant enough to cover (rent - mortgage)

> This comparison isn't entirely fair because the rental unit also included maintenance and groundskeeping. In my house I have to do all that work myself or hire someone. However, in the rental unit I had to pay for the utilities. This is a problem because the landlord will never replace something like an AC unit or a refrigerator with anything but the absolute cheapest and most expensive to run model. In my house when I replace it I have the option of buying the high efficiency model and enjoying the cost savings over the life of the unit. Plus when something breaks in my home I just fix it or go out immediately and hire someone to fix it. In the apartment you have to contact the landlord who then sits on it for two weeks before contacting his maintenance guy who only comes by once every couple of weeks to look at it and then order the part so maybe he can fix it on his next visit. In the meantime I'm freezing my ass off with no heat for all of January. I don't miss renting at all.

I completely agree. The thing I actually really wanted to buy a house because I want a grand piano and to not have to worry about moving it. Sadly at least from my own calculations I just can't justify it.
In my experience, everyone talks the talk of encapsulating programs into well-defined pieces that don't leak implementation details, etc., but very few walk the walk as it turns out to be pretty hard.
To my knowledge, regrettably they haven't relaxed their restrictions.
Same article on IPFS: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRHaiCQF3USTXH8FrffCRaQUB9crUNXLkoXPBR...
I was about to say the same. I know someone in the Salt Lake City area who built his own home. His realtor told him "You can build what you want, but a house with 4 bedrooms will not sell well".

People have a lot of kids there.
This is helpful. I check linked-in just to see what exists fairly frequently and dress in random attire depending on what laundry is done (sometimes really nice, sometimes shorts).

I'd never really considered it as something that meant that I would be leaving.