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A big thing not really detailed, but briefly mentioned here, is presumably a lot of social services like CalFresh and CalWORKS would presumably be scrapped in exchange. Instead of having a bunch of different support systems for poor people with all of the administrative overhead that comes with it, you'd just issue people money, and get a lot of it back in taxes.

Note that Amazon has to charge state sales tax these days too, as do many other online retailers. So "buying out of state" is going to be pretty hard. People's eBay or Craigslist game might get interesting though with the new margins.

As much as California is one of the few states that might be progressive enough to attempt this, it'd be far better if a less populated (and smaller) state attempted UBI first. If Montana torches it's economy, it's probably a lot easier to reassemble than California's.
Uranium is for fission, not fusion. Fuel for this fusion reactor would be some compound of hydrogen and the most common boron isotope. There's plenty of that in a regular box of Borax.
Pretty disingenuous study.

If you move to a Medicare for All policy it would shift employer health care costs to the government. Which they would never be able to financially support especially with the challenges of an ageing population and excessive debt. And so when they say it saves $450b it's not taxpayers. It's mostly employers.

There is a reason that countries that started with M4A e.g. Australia, UK have all transitioned to a public-private mix because it's simply not sustainable otherwise.
> I am a nobody in front of people like Matthew Flatt, but this feels like Seconds Systems Effect taken to its extreme definition:

I think you are mistaking working time for bloat; they can be inversely related; it's easier to add lots of ideas, it's harder to pare things down.

> Plus as a former Perl programmer having watched Perl 5 lost almost everything, chasing a never to have come to reality Perl 6. I can say, given all this, the future of Racket as a language, for its core uses and users is pretty much dead in the years to come. Like dead totally.

This isn't Perl 6.

> Many people prefer a perfectly working tool improved over time, than a pie-in-the-sky idea that will never come to see the light of the day.

Pretty much everyone does, but Racket remains the former. Neither the schedule nor the ambition of new Racket development has been scaled back for Rhombus. It's not even clear that they would once Rhombus was generally available and hosting Racket, though there would also be a place for improvements that didn't fit in Racket.
IRC's protocol actually makes that challenging; it's chatty and wants a persistent network connection. Mobile devices minimize battery life by minimizing messages per second and only keeping network connections live when necessary.
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I am first to admit that I don't follow CA legislature that closely. How likely is it to pass? If I remember correctly Ds have control over both chambers?

I take it is really fresh news since I can't find a reference to governor addressing the bill yet.
just to add to your overall point:

> Governments are not good at actually competing in a space where there is a market and private competition.

they are also good at serving markets that are too unprofitable for private companies to serve (such as public transportation or housing for extremely poor people, cheap postal services, fuel subsidies etc)
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Value-added tax means it's baked into the purchase price.

Buy a $5.50 cup of coffee? You get charged $5.98 (after the existing 8.75% sales tax) and the merchant gets $5 (because 10% of the advertised price is VAT).
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VAT includes B2B purchases. Presumably that means that 10% of every Facebook/Google/Netflix ad impression ends up going toward funding this program, as well as 10% of the profit of every iPhone. That's a lot of billions.
This is cool, though for lowering the barrier of entry downloading a single jar is great. If ppl is first coming to Clojure w/o too much knowledge of java, having to install Ant first, clone a repo and build it manually could be a bit daunting.
The fundamental challenge of any universal health care system is that to cut our spending on health care to the level of other western industrialized countries will take $1 Trillion of annual revenue out of the existing system. There's going to be a lot of disruption and people who need new jobs when that revenue goes to other things in our economy.
Yes. The summary explicitly references the "Medicare for All Act", which is technically Pramila Jayapal's bill in the house[1]. That is the specific legislation Bernie is campaigning for when he says "our plan". It checks all four of those boxes in your linked tweet. The study also directly cites Sanders twice (to explain where they get their parameters).

[1] - https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1384
Will never use it. Read what Google did with JS websites and recommendation to implement hashbang and escaped fragment to provide prerendered version.

You wont. Because it didnt work and killed SEO. Than after years they silently removed documentation about it. Not providing any way to transition to other ways without damaging SEO ever more and moreover, it was impossible to do anything about it because server does not receive data after hash.

And now Google tries to force new standard that is technically broken. Dont use it. It is a trap. It will hurt your SEO sooner or later!
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> the user has full access to ntuser.dat file

How so? It's always open and locked when you're logged in, isn't it?
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> "Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring health-care access for all Americans"

From many anecdotes I've read about medicine in socialized countries, it's unwise to assume that having insurance is the same as access. Many procedures are made unavailable due to being considered cost effective by The Single Payer, and the wait time for specialists can often be long.

Further, what counts as "costs" in US health industry is kind of funny - health care providers have a book-price that is often inflated, so that insurance companies can claim to their customers (mostly employers) what a good job they do in reducing costs.

For the opposite perspective, some of these points are discussed in much more detail in these two recent EconTalk episodes:

* https://www.econtalk.org/marty-makary-on-the-price-we-pay/

* https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...
Imagine a unit of housing, presently empty because it's undesirable, because there are no good job available nearby. There are some pretty good jobs, but none available that pay quite enough that competing for housing elsewhere isn't more attractive to the marginal consumer.

A UBI makes the pay matter a little less, and so makes places like that more attractive.

It doesn't, first order, cause more units to be built. But that is not the only way to increase supply.

Longer term, that kind of calculation about potential units, in places where it's easy to build, might lead to more units built. But that gets more complicated.
what "other party"? State Republicans don't have the votes to stop anything, they are virtually extinct. If a bill dies in Sacramento, it dies because (and only because) Democrats wanted it to die.
I'm assuming the napping and Lego playing isn't mandatory. you could always just not do it and mind your own business.
The normal recommendation is 2 "servings (beer, shot, glass of wine) per day, without any roll over. That's the important part. You can't really measure it on a weekly basis as you can't have all of those beers in just a few days.
No, it's because big interests have paid them to decrease taxation on the top earners.

There is a reason the income gap between different classes of the population is growing larger. That income gap is what should be funding these.

Policies of austerity are a direct result of the rich getting richer, not that it's not sustainable.
Do you have any plans for a mobile app?
I'm skeptical of that. Scrapping those programs means scrapping the jobs of the state employees that run them. I don't think the state politicans want responsibility for that.
Although both things are very difficult, the knowledge needed to create a commercial fusion reactor is very different to educating a whole populous not to be so afraid of radiation (which is natural and found everywhere all the time).
That's why the Medicare for all will still be funded, in part, through a business tax. The difference being you've removed the for-profit middlemen, so the healthcare costs are less for businesses than the privatized hybrid version we have now.
> you should leverage low-fidelity prototyping methods like wireframes and paper prototypes to make the product easy to use and understand.

I advocate for high-fidelity tools for this too, such as Figma, Sketch, Marvel, etc., quick web tools such as Svelte, Vue, React, etc. that can be hooked up to fake data sources suitable for user testing.
I don't believe sales tax or income tax rates have changed substantially in the 20 years I've lived in CA.

Perhaps 1 percentage point increase in sales tax in that time. The top income tax rate for "normal" folks has been, I believe, 9.3%, although there was an additional 1% tax on incomes over $1M added sometimes in the past few years.

A quick search didn't turn up much in the way of useful historical charts, but it sounds like your post is more politics-based than economics-based. I'd welcome better data, I might well be wrong here.
I don't do any manual overclocking, but "core performance boost" is enabled which allows the CPU to ramp up about 500 MHz during heavy load instead of staying fixed at base frequency. I'm guessing this is the same setting you're referring to?

Add.: OK, I finally found a couple of "Precision Boost Overdrive" menus deep down in the overclocking settings of this board's BIOS, and I've disabled everything PBO I can find while letting the "core performance boost" remain in auto mode. Without doing any extended testing this seems to have solved the problem, as I can now let Prime95 run through the AVX2 code path with 6 workers without any crashes. Thanks for the hint!
Exactly right. The best alternative I've seen implemented at companies is 9/80 where employees get every other Friday or Monday off, and half the employees get one week while half get the next. That way you still get an extra 2 useful days a month to get stuff done at home, but companies themselves are able to continue working 5 days a week.
> HN always seems to have an overwhelming amount of anti-Google content

It always feels that way, but nearly always when people say this, it indicates how they feel on a topic (e.g. that in this case you feel pro-Google). People with the opposite feeling are guaranteed to have the opposite perception. In both cases it's a function of (a) the HN dataset is large and has a wide distribution, therefore (b) a lot of content appears here that strikes your feelings negatively, but (c) we remember those instances much more strongly, so (d) they accrue into an overall impression of the site.

I say 'you' but I don't mean you personally. We're all like this. Unfortunately it leads to a community in which people on all sides of every charged issue end up feeling like the community is hostile to them. I don't really know what to do about that other than post about it a lot.

Edit: the same bias affects how people feel about the mods, again in proportion to how intensely they feel about a topic.

Edit 2: I've taken to calling this the notice-dislike bias, mainly because I can't think of a better name for it. There are many other explanations at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Also related is the Hostile Media Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_media_effect.
I believe they say $100 billion will come from the lower average reimbursement rates, something that is also pretty unrealistic to think will continue.
The argument against tone policing in a social justice sense is that people who are being wronged by society are allowed to be angry.

This person isn't being wronged. They just don't like the software other people chose to use in their projects which have nothing to do with the author of the blog post!

If someone tells you they're suffering racism you should listen no matter how it sounds to you. If someone tells you they don't like that you're using Slack and that you should not use it, you're right to tell them to sod off until they can be polite.
I have a huge problem with the 5x9 expectation. 9-5 means 9-5 including a lunch. I promise any employer that demanding my presence from 8-5 (or any other 9 hours) will not result in greater productivity, and furthermore will leave me disgruntled.

There's only so much development that can be done in a day before I'm in a haze from all the abstract thought, and that productivity asymptote comes well under 8 hours.
What I don't get is how do 37 million Americans not have health insurance when the ACA was suppose to fix that issue? All of the plans are adjusted based on your income level and you get a tax credit if you are low income. If you are very poor then you get free healthcare....
Why not just pop it into neutral?
Well, presumably as many people as you needed to administrate this program could be taken from the old programs you'd scrap. But worst case, any state employee jobs you lost are still getting $1,000 a month.
Many of us appreciate these benefits, just we think that they would not come to fruition.
Did you read the bill? It says right in there that it's funded by a 10% VAT.

I can't tell if you're hypothesizing about future taxes or just didn't read the bill.
Money to be made by people who are already homeowners rather than the government.
Why don't they just pay people to leave so they don't have to build any housing?
Note that a land value tax implies a tax on ground rent, not on improvements: http://www.landvaluetax.org/what-is-lvt/

That said, most areas have overly draconian zoning and regulatory costs (driven in no small part by existing homeowners wanting to protect/inflate their own investment); it's a complex issue, and Ricardian rent-seeking is only one factor.
The BEST way to ensure what your work-life looks like is to start your own company... not whine to an existing company that has already proven willing to exploit you.
Saw your comment on the Posthog post yesterday. Sounds like you felt the pain of scaling at Heap, which bodes well for FP.

Freshpaint looks super useful for two reasons:

1. Heap-style "collect it all" and "define events in the UI" features. Loved these on Heap and it should be the default collector for taking dev out of the "tracking usage metrics" equation

2. More Segment competition. Segment's great, but super expensive for business models where the # of your tracked users doesn't scale with pricing.

I could imagine using this with PostHog for a nice product usage stack.
>My first thought: can this possibly be solvent? There are apx. 32 million adults in California. Are there $32 billion spent per month in-state on things that aren't those common categories?

I'd be curious to see a way of doing this that didn't depend on the arbitrary "X dollars per month" stipulation and was instead just "we're putting in this tax, whatever we pull in each month will be evenly split among the citizens". If nothing else, it would allow us to get our feet wet with UBI without people worrying about it not being financially feasible.
I pay money for the WSJ, in my opinion it's the best newspaper available today. Washington Post is a distant second.
This creates the perverse incentive to forgo health coverage, putting a burden on the healthcare system when an uninsured person has an emergency.

Then, when providers can't collect on the medical debt, they'll sell it to debt collectors and write off the difference at tax time, which the proposed VAT will have to make up for.
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Yeah, looks like I read it too quickly.

But wow, what an absurd amount of work to almost find something out when you already have access to the entire network, and apparently the WiFi is not secured at all or your targets are all plugged in and on your switch. This is like complaining about a weak combination on a padlock used to secure your screen door.
Your yawn is way too dismissive, since what you're dismissing includes many of the settings themselves.

If none of those policies were supposed to be enforced in the first place, then that's a notable failing on Microsoft's end. Not the bypass being boring.
Hi, this is cool. I didn't know about your project and wish you continue to work on it as, personally, don't know any popular application except Anki.
>Many procedures are made unavailable due to being considered cost effective by The Single Payer

whether the insurance is coming from a single payer or a private company, access to health care does not mean unrestricted access to any medical procedure you want. Private insurers also deny treatments that aren't considered to be cost effective.
That would be fine with me. It would definitely be a net gain in my case.
However, how will they document/track monthly expenditures? Will I have to submit a verified expense report? Will the state collect data on every purchase by every citizen? What about cash?
I worked in the EMR software industry and have certifications that involve hospital & lab billing, among others. I've been on site with healthcare providers, and there are entire buildings full of people whose job it is just to code and scrub claims, and cover disputes/negotiations with private insurance providers.

Consumers do not see it because it's typically off-site from the main hospital care facilities, but believe me, the administrative savings potential is real.
> but the primary datastore used at both Google and FB is MySQL

I'm almost certain this isn't true, BigTable and Spanner are much more widely used at Google because.... well, MySql doesn't really scale.
I have a feeling Montana would be less keen to torch its economy than we are to have them be our petri dish.

One nice thing about California's economy is that it's robust. There's probably enough economic activity that this wouldn't totally fuck us, but the ramifications are surely much stronger than the legislator who threw this together has considered.
> The x86 ISA really is a mess!

No, it's not. I've written the compilers for both x86 and x64. One should not look for too much idealistic "symmetry" but look at it as a domain specific encoding language. Behind that encoding is anyway huge machinery that significantly speeds up that what is written in the language, and it's even proven that, when there is enough silicon, it is of advantage that some optimizations are actually done during the execution. Some execution statistics are simply dependent on the information which dynamically depends on execution and can't be pre-coded by a compiler.

Since long ago, even those processors that started as RISC got more and more instructions and started to worry about having them encoded with less bits.

And that all doesn't mean that the compilers shouldn't be as smart as possible to use the hardware the best it can be used.
i'm not american, so excuse me for the lack of knowledge, but i've heard that bernie plans to ban private insurance.

is that right? i mean, that seems like a really bad idea -- if you have money, why wouldn't you get better health care?

edit:

btw i live in a country with the largest public health care system in the world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistema_%C3%9Anico_de_Sa%C3%BA... and we never banned private health care because... well, even with the best public health care system, you will still have to wait a lot to get any procedure done. so if you can afford, you can pay for private health care and get stuff done faster.

it doesn't mean that public health doesn't work -- it works quite well, it's just that you have to wait a lot sometimes for some procedures.
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> Has anyone seen any studies on the potential impact it would have on insurance and medical administration industries? i.e. lost revenue, jobs, etc.?

I wonder about this in the same way I wonder about a world where we have professional window breakers, and what effects it would have on the window repair industry if we stopped having people go around breaking windows.
So did I. If I remember correctly, Einstein was interested in De Broglie's ideas that Bohm later expanded on. It would be an easy association to make.
Indeed. I regularly burn around $1k/mo when living simply in a cabin on my rural California property, with property taxes under $500/yr.

There's a lot of rural California. The combination of modern tech enabling comfortable and connected off-grid living and UBI opens up pretty much all of it for residence, as long as there's a grocery store accessible.
Fundamentally, it is disgusting we are forced by government to buy insurance products (e.g., car, health) provided by for-profit companies; however, I do not support universal healthcare either. The government has zero ability to control its expenditure, because the electorate vote themselves benefits.

The long-term financial incentives to maintain a functioning society are all broken because of the misaligned short-term (vote for me, get free stuff) and long-term incentives (debt reduction, financial management, business planning and other investments.) Voters are simply looting the treasury at this point. It is a shame. I cannot believe anyone actually buys into the notion that government will fix problems, or somehow do a better job than what already exists.

The candidates are just handing you money from your own pockets, and skimming off the top.

It's so damn dumb.
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Or you can search (/) and type stream:slack-archive topic:jobs
I don't know if this is what you're asking, but X,Y find change of distance between these two points per unit of time?
I think it's notable that the most damning thing anti-tobacco advocates can say about it is that it's addictive, and I think it's notable that the English Public Health agency was confident enough to declare it to be at least 95% less harmful than cigarettes
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I don't believe alcohol is 95% less harmful than cigs.
Careful about calling something a dumb justification. It's often the simplistic-seeming features that expose unforseen privacy issues, in large part because today's internet is such a complex place. In the end, it may turn out that privacy concerns are unjustified. But dismissing them out-of-hand isn't wise.
Not according to this website: https://www.usdebtclock.org/
IDK about virtual machines and why this isnt allowed. But related is how this app works that is a c compiler for iOS and is in the app store: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/dr5bxi/app_...

It basically does the same thing Swift Playgrounds does where is compiles to LLVM machine code and runs it will LLVM compiled for iOS. And it is on the app store so IDK the rules at all apparently and why QEMU wouldnt be allowed.
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Lower administrative costs? In the US, doctors need at least one or two full-time admin staff to negotiate with a variety of insurance providers, argue for approval of every line item, etc. Here in Canada, I spend about 5-10 minutes per week dealing with all aspects of billing for my wife's medical practice.