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I think well before we consider universal basic income, we should consider universal basic services. Many services are already highly regulated and naturally somewhat difficult to exploit.

Healthcare is the obvious one. It's not like you can get a surgery and then resell it to exploit the system. (You could, of course, exploit things like pain medication, but overall healthcare is not expoitation-friendly.)

Some amount of water, electricity, Internet access, and some amount of food are other good candidates. (Shelter is a much harder problem to solve and one where I think going through money is probably a better approach.)

I'd much rather see every person be given a reasonable amount of food, water, electricity, Internet access, and good healtcare. That is almost enough to lift people out of poverty and give them enough safety and security to enable them to live healthy, successful lives.

Then maybe see if it makes sense to provide money too. But my hunch is that UBI itself isn't a great solution. You can think of it effectively as a negative tax rate for the poor. The UBI has to be paid for by other taxes, so at some income/wealth level you will be breaking even and above that you will be paying for the UBI for people under.

I think that structure is perfectly fine for moral reasons, but looking at it from that perspective, it's not clear to me how simply having a relatively minor negative tax rate will solve the systemic problems faced by the poor. Getting a check for a hundred bucks every month isn't going to fix everything if you break your back and need a million dollars in healthcare.

What people need to thrive is security the knowledge that if unfortunate events outside of their control happen, that they will be helped to the degree that society is able. If you know you can be made bankrupt if you get sick, or your access to water can be shut off if someone robs you, then you are "poor" in all of the ways that subjectively matter.
By really applying taxation to rich?
Do you think with 10+ million undocumented immigrants - a not insignificant portion of the population, but not citizenry - that people should not be concerned about ensuring only valid citizens can vote?
On the other hand, I have fond memories of watching TV with my family - all of us in the same room having conversations about what has happening on the screen. That is valuable family time and it gets lost a bit with current consumption patterns.

Netflix/streaming also encourages large stretches of being glued to the screen, which isn't always great.
Don't you have construction sites or slower cars?

I'm regularly driving 150 kilometers on the fabled Autobahn, with no speed limit for the most part (and some 120 km/h speed limit sections), and the difference between "I feel great, let's drive 180" and "Let's take it slow and drive 100 or 110" is surprisingly small, because that top speed is only attainable for short stretches of time.
Classifying research-articles relating to the Covid-19 outbreak
(I assume you were picking OR, HI, WA, and CO, not UT.)

EDIT: parent has been edited since I posted to say "Three of those four state are..." rather than "Four states that are..."

Half of Colorado's Congressional delegation is Republican and Clinton won the state in 2016 only by a bare plurality (48% to 43%).

(UT of course is quite solidly Republican.)
Even from a security point of view, that's only true if they actually use it effectively. From direct personal experience, this is not always the case: just because a camera is there, that doesn't necessarily mean anyone will bother to check it, even following the theft of a considerable sum of money.

I suppose in theory, if you blanketed the entire country with CCTV (just one town is no good, the crime can move to the next town over) then you might have a deterrent effect, but of course all the other concerns about mass surveillance would still apply.
You should be able to do that with the Tasker or Automate apps.
Indeed. This is where the discussion should be. The topic of whether we should have cameras everywhere is one conversation. But this one is about how to handle the unintended side effects of ethnic bias based on data and the analysis.

You make an excellent point about an algorithm being trained in the US being used in Prague. They might not be applicable since Czech Republic since training an algorithm in what is a few steps up from an apartheid state will of course be doped with the racial biases of that country.
I assume that was what the team that made the Fire Phone was doing.
The point is avoiding mass death. They care about their families lives too and not just economics.

It's not a 'political' choice or about 'optics'.

It's also not just 'old' people who are dying. It affects 50+ year olds in not insignificant numbers.

It depends whether you prioritise health or economics.

You can balance health and economics and choose to prioritise one _before_ the other.

It does however requires the political will to support the economy (and the poorest) whilst health care is prioritised to buy time during the exponential phase.
Does google have enhanced Bluetooth tech like Apples W1 chip?
It's not exactly a pretense, but rather it's playing to the audience, which is the country and the rest of the world. It's theatrics, not intended to sway the lawmakers themselves, who in general are not persuadable by their colleagues.

Meanwhile, behind closed doors, lawmakers are horse trading and calling in favors to get their pet projects passed.

This is pretty much how Congress has worked for the past 100 years or so.
"Not living as an eccentric hermit who never leaves their home," for the purposes of this discussion.
It's not a fun format to work in but ASN.1 is aimed at that and there's also protocol buffers, Avro, and messagePack, among others.
Picture an infinite ticker tape in your mind.

Write

0.9
+ 0.9
—————-
1.8

Now keep extending the 9’s. You have to carry a one, so fix the carry and then add more nines.

Where people keep getting tripped up is thinking you can stop when you get tired, or die, or when the universe ends in heat death. You don’t get to stop. You never get to stop. It’s nines all the way down.
I think Super Smash Bros records replays as a random seed and user input, then generates the video on the fly from that.
I thought some people might be interested in a pet project: predicting the next pitch (in baseball) using Keras.

tl;dr: I can't predict the next pitch perfectly, but I can give a really believable distribution of possible next pitches.
What exactly is the value of the number that ends in a 1 but has an infinite number of 9s before it?
Yes, it supports interfaces and unions. One thing not being stated enough in this thread also is that the docs are not just a regurgitated version of the prototypes -- there's actual hand-written text that tells you what the things return.
>So you're fine with your everyday movements logged and published online?

This comment will be downvoted, but this is hyperbole. Your everyday movements are more than just your activity in public spaces.

Likewise any website publishing your activity in public spaces is not entitled to linking it to your PII, because if they do deanonymize it, you now have means to take it down.
Who says pictorials have to be 2-dimensional? ;)
You mean when Michael Arrington used his popular meda outlet to assassinate Blaine Cook's job and reputation?

https://techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/amateur-hour-over-at-twitt...
I have a friend who recently managed to spend 6 months without writing a single line of code, just getting shuffled from team to team (within Amazon retail), going to meetings, being reassigned, but not ever really being asked to do anything
> "You can't afford to compete with them, because they are not _even trying_ to make a profit in your sector."

GIMP hasn't killed Photoshop. It's all about giving value for money, or at least the perception thereof.
We need a new law - call it the Unequal Protection act. Senators/Representatives can't have benefits that exceed that of the general population for certain categories like voting rights, healthcare, etc.

Can't even have private healthcare. Must use the same systems that the general population has access to.
there is no evidence for that whatsoever. You have absolutely no data on what takes place in India - it is a gigantic country with gigantic variation across. Plus the families are much larger, all confined together. When the train was shut down millions traveled back home for days on packed buses, it unlikely that any lockdown could have had such a pronounced effect so quickly.

The truth probably lies elsewhere, perhaps the population is overall a lot less susceptible, perhaps the genetics is such that adverse reactions are far less common, perhaps the weather conditions make the virus less virulent etc.

There is no way in hell that India was more locked down than Spain - yet Spain, with a population that is of a tiny fraction of India is still producing many more cases per day even today, more than a month after a full lockdown.

If anything Spain compared to say Sweden shows that brutal lockdowns don't work, the disease would have taken the same course had there been much less strict measures.
Same here - Fox news is on a whole new level. It is like the onion, except it stops being funny after about 30 seconds.

Also wasn't this the same channel that argued that they are allowed to present false news (or something similar)?
An interesting titbit-- John Carmack has contributed to it: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1254872368763277313.html
Me too. People forget that the technology they're supposedly replacing is something we use in public. So any replacement technology needs to not erase the context of being in public around other humans, and it also needs to be discrete. VR and AR are not particularly discrete, and they also erase a lot of context so they're non-starters outside of very specific technological environments like CAD.
The Systematic 1h Client Assessment
Does Byobu run best on Ubuntu?

Or is Byobu not (or not any longer) tied to any particular Linux distribution (I am an ubuntu user) ?
I love TypeScript, but have encountered a situation where I simply could not compile my code anymore because it started causing an internal error in the compiler itself.

Fortunately, I work as a team lead, and this was on an experimental branch, so I was able to hand off bits of code relating to architectural patterns I was evaluating to my team to continue work on those.

But I simply could not proceed with my code as is, a very frustrating experience to say the least. How is this even possible?
It completely fits in.

You wouldn't patronize your mom-and-pop restaurants if they burned your food or charged $30 for a box of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. You also say the word "patronize" which means you receive a service or good in return for your payment.
They are illustrating the problems intrinsic to your justification for your extremist and narrow minded position.
I’m starting to work on this too :)

Any reference material to share?
Allowing only Windows Store apps allows them to be installed by anyone
Is this similar to what vricon[1] does?

I was searching around and found something noting they won a contract to build the Army's One World Terrain 3d model. This OWT appears to be some kind of classification for applying sat imagery over terrain data sets, maybe?

[1] https://www.vricon.com
You should try to learn JS - it's really awesome. Asynchronous, incredibly stable, battle tested by billions of users every day, it has one of the best open source module ecosystems in the world, and it runs everywhere.
Conventional Comments
Very much inspired from Conventional Commits, this expands the idea to review comments.

At GitLab, we are a fully remote organization so we do a lot of written communication. This has been a great pattern for improving readability and the content of review comments. Plus, it's machine parseable which means we could easily query and aggregate these comments in the future!
I'm not the person you responded to, but current vote-by-mail procedures do make it impossible to ensure a secret ballot.
I follow a professor in Vietnam on twitter; he was pointing out last month that hydroxychloroquine is an over-the-counter drug there and is commonly used to treat malaria. They're probably not going to wait until you're most of the way dead before administering it the way the "We Must Have A Study" bureaucrats will here. I suspect this also apples to the rest of Indochina.
Governments that centrally plan all the basic necessities you outline are terrible at all of them. Democide tends to happen as government collects more power in the process.

Letting government give a basic income and the private sector filling supply is a much more reasonable solution.

Let’s a free market exist to satisfy demand while recognizing the end of jobs is about here.
“Can we please just get a state government to start installing charging stations in all public lots so these charging companies have to give up their dreams of being a monopoly?“

I’d settle for requiring charging station operators to use existing financial infrastructure (cash, card, contactless device, etc.). It doesn’t seem like an onerous burden to place on a business and the cost to consumers is not substantially different than what they’re accustomed to.
It's super clear you have come on here to be a partisan. Both sides are politicizing the issue (see McConnell wanting the state of New York to go bankrupt).

Take it back to Reddit.
> It was taken for granted by philosophers, that an "infinite regression" is a logical fallacy (e.g., used in a proof by Thomas Aquinas)...

Aquinas specifically objected to the notion of an essentially ordered infinite causal series. He had no objection to an accidentally ordered infinite causal series or other kinds of infinite series.

This distinction is extremely important for the purposes of understanding his proofs of God's existence, and people often unfairly reject his arguments because they conflate the two.

More reading here: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2010/08/edwards-on-infinite-...
> Sounds like they could have had the same things with a much easier language like Nim. Unless they are using a lot of Rust exclusive features?

I admit that I don't have more than a passing familiarity with Nim. Rust certainly isn't the only language targeting this niche nowadays, but it has done a lot of things right and we're not the only ones using it. There's no perfect language, they all have positives and negatives. Rust is still new enough that the ease of hiring developers can be a negative, so choosing an even younger language would further exacerbate that problem. Rust also has enough usage these days that we can get a lot of things from crates.io without having to write them ourselves. I don't know how Nim compares but it's pretty hard to get there without having enough adoption. Finally, Rust has had a bit of a trial by fire in terms of making it usable for integrating into existing codebases and shipping production code to users. I was at Mozilla and helped lead part of the Firefox Quantum work to integrate Rust into Firefox. We ran into a number of issues that we surfaced with the Rust team. Those issues generally were fixed in upstream Rust so everyone using Rust benefited from that work. I don't think that's too high of a bar for other languages to clear but it's a lot easier to recommend Rust knowing it has been through that already.

> How true is this?

I joined FullStory in December and some of my first changes to the codebase were large refactors, well before I understood how everything worked. None of them caused any major regressions that I'm aware of. My experience over 5 years of using Rust is that if you make the compiler happy you are pretty likely to have working code.
Pyrethoids are really used everywhere for everything

That is why bed bugs have become resistant to it
Breaking news: people are generally selfish.
Actually one of the biggest losses in Congress has been committees. The committee driven Congress was slowly pushed aside by the Republicans as part of their take over in the nineties and then nearly completely neutered by the Democrats when they took on the concept of party first politics.

At least with the old system the committees were far more important than their members and they drove policy across Congress as a whole, not all direction is from the party into Congress
I'm sure we could find the money for this by eliminating existing duplicative or particularly wasteful line items in the fountain of corporate pork, waste and fraud that is the federal budget.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/
This basically happens for a good reason. Basically, the potential scam is to sign up to a marketplace and list very popular products at lower prices than everyone else. Then ship empty packages or boxes full of rocks. The marketplace will pay you every few days, and if you are "shipping internationally" they won't figure it out for a few weeks. So trust is gained slowly.

The real takeaway here is that this guy pays $5,000 USD per month to get a support rep on a platform he sells a million dollars a month worth of goods on, of which it already takes a decent percent, and the support rep can't even talk to anyone with any power. This is the dark side of monopolies.
> a warning appears. In Flemish.

No, it will appear in two languages, top one being your current region/language, and bottom being your target region/language.
So in your case, it should show in nl-BE and fr-BE.

Here is a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ICwIgxH.png
Whatever base you use, it will only be useful for rationals. You can't use any base to significantly improve the representation of pi. In base 7, 3.1 would be a nice approximation, but you can't go beyond approximations.
I don't know how the numbers work. But I also don't think the plan is one page document that can be explained to a 5 year old.

Same holds true for universal health care, social housing, subsidies etc etc. They may sound absurd in beginning but governments do implement them.
I was typing out a really long response to you with many if...then statements, but then I realized there are too many powerful agencies and institutions that don't want to give up their ability to tax/spend. Medicaid/Medicare, Social Security, IRS, all 50 states etc have defined (and flawed processes) and probably will refuse to give up control over welfare spending or tax revenue generation.

So if you can't completely start from scratch, then ultimately the only source of revenue for UBI would be to cut spending somehow (good luck convincing the Pentagon of that), or to generate additional taxation on businesses (which resulted in them moving crucial facilities to Mexico, Eastern Europe, India, China, etc)

At some point, the USA might be better off if we all have a dividend for every citizen based on our country's profit, like Alaska has currently.

This way it is not a guarantee how much you will make, but it is something.
You talk nonsense just for the sake of it. I never said JSX is in the spec. If you know JavaScript basics (what an expression is), it takes a minute to understand JSX.
Write to jeff@amazon.com
Smooth Operator: Concurrent Mode in React
Not only do they take subscribers, they actively target the European market. When I open nytimes.com, a pop-up offers 0,50€/week digital access.
We're not talking to the same engineers. I hear about vast quantities of unmaintained code, still running, half-forgotten, across codebases in multiple languages, using ancient pre-AWS APIs
> Listen all day long.
> Get up to 5 hours with a single charge,

If quarantine has taught me anything, it's that 5 hours is not all day lol. I've switched to wired headphones because my wireless weren't working for me working/walkingaround/etc all day, unlike when I was working and I'd only wear them during the commute in, gym, and commute home.
I know that the actual text goes into a bit more detail about when this should be allowed, but it's kind of important to remember that strictly speaking, "During National Emergencies" is "all the time" due to the fact that there are, at the current moment, 34 active National Emergencies.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_i...
Consensus vs. Consent: How to make decisions in a fully remote team
This is in large part due to the difficulty with reasoning about infinite representations. You do have to add axioms to your system to be able to reason about 0.9999...

Stating that 0.9999... = 1 without exposing these new tools meant to grapple with concepts that physically cannot be grappled with is a huge mistake.
Definitely a "living in the future" moment: you can just ask the satellite owner and get a personal response immediately. (Also, the satellite owner then rolls out bug fixes to the satellite constellation.)
But open source existed long before 1998.
Has it been an actual problem in states that allow mail-in voting without also having voter ID laws? If it's a real issue, it ought to already be causing problems.
Stay relevant in the field of the PhD?
File Integrity 9: How error-correcting codes work
If you don’t control things at least a little, things like health care, education and rent will suck up all basic income very quickly. I think a good first step would be universal healthcare, then do something about affordable housing and education.
Amazon would have the sense to have a popup with measurement instructions as they would learn from the first 5 times that happened and take action to ensure it never happened again.

I used to work for a relatively large bank that for years didn't even track what customers were calling our mega call centre about. It took them a long time to realize that 25% of calls were password resets because the button was hard to see. They had recently expanded the call centre and all over a hard to see button.
> They sell products at a loss to gain income in other places.

A practice neither invented by nor exclusive to Amazon, but they tend to get called out on it often, anyway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader
After Yang ran out of money to campaign (sic) and joined CNN, Tulsi Gabbard vowed to continue the UBI efforts (which she had also previously championed) with a proposed bill on March 12th as Direct Coronavirus Pandemic Relief.

The DNC old guard, who mostly ignored Yang and ostracized and smeared Gabbard now seem to be slowly grasping some of these ideas and seeing how they could be tetrised into their status quo without disturbing too much...

https://gabbard.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-tulsi-gabb...
more people live in los angeles then in denmark. how that can be comparable to the us?

transmission is higher indoors, why would you put kids in schools?

do you have a source on german schools for little kids being open?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-german...
ES2020 – Optional chaining and nullish coalescing operators
Just as cigarette companies heavily railed against any anti-smoking effort; media companies will do the same.
CleanShot X for Mac
Are there any performance penalizations because of this? The code for the state machine looks very complex and I'm curious about what's the difference in terms of performance between the pyramid model or the flat model.
>This was resolved and funds were released. Sorry I got capped on how many posts I could make and then didn’t circle back to this. Thanks for stepping in and helping out Pax!
They did, their lawyer did and their support rep did.
Why then in other markets are there multiple premium brands? Say for example cars, Lamborghini, Ferrari, Porsche... There is no Apple in that market. Or take watches as another example, so much choice.

Apple is the only company that has nailed the premium computer. Why?
Not really. The article is about the potential for unintended bias in machine learning systems. That is just one small part of a much larger problem.