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Isn't it price inflation which created the necessity for many families to have two or more incomes?

UBI will naturally create more of that same price inflation, especially for the goods and services which those who would benefit the most from it consume.
If supply drops far below demand, prices rise and producers come back into the market. The process will not be smooth and the feedback mechanism is lagged but hyperinflation should not happen unless some severe structural issues interrupt the process. Note that a decrease in real GDP is not the same as inflation.
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That's because FB has to pay higher to attract the same talent. Many many people join G at lower offers as well.
Another critical question: Why hasn't this been properly researched, yet? There were indications before, that Vitamin D insufficiency increases risk of respiratory diseases.
why you chose to build product, if you knew you could have the same thing with no code. It would practically cost the same
> because of a point release

The second set of digits represents major releases. The third set represents point releases.

macOS has been out, using this versioning scheme for a little over 20 years. Don't belittle the work between major releases just because the first set of digits hasn't changed.

Windows Vista through Windows 8.1 are all 6.x, but nobody would claim that Vista and its service packs, 7 and its service pack, and the 8 family are minor upgrades — there were some colossal technical changes under the hood between each, especially regarding security and device drivers.

Same thing for major releases of macOS, even if the user-facing stuff doesn't appear to be all that different.

Also, if your machine supports 10.14, it supports 10.15. The last MacBook Pro that dropped support for anything more recent came out in 2011. Nobody's asking you to buy a new laptop.
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Humans are not resources. Coronavirus shows why we must democratise work
Except that it won't be fiscally neutral, because you've also got to pay for all the people who don't work enough to pay [non-trivial amounts of] income tax but also don't receive any form of benefit under the existing system.
The usual unemployment rate hovers around the 4% mark. The usual working age economic inactivity rate hovers around the 25% mark. At least some people are going to have to be worse off to subsidise those people who are neither employed nor looking for employment.
Basic Income is Utopianism. Every generation thinks they can solve the ills of society with this “one simple trick.” Like the failed Utopias of the 20th century, it would fail when confronted with the reality of human nature.
I honestly think the way to go is UBI plus a job offer program - that doesn't take away the UBI, but actually pays on top of the UBI like a regular job would.

Of course, I also think thatwe should give folks with a certified disability more than the basic UBI: Disability should not be a sentence to poverty.
You mean slaves and a master? 90% of hackernews readers are as invested in social justice as gavin fucking belson.
> Those notions cannot survive because infinite growth is not possible. Think about climate change. The earth is finite.

We are absolutely nowhere near running out of resources on earth, and every time we dig deeper we find more. By the time resources begin to run out, we'll be mining asteroids. This is so far into the future that worrying about it now is just completely stupid. Like cavemen worrying that if they light too many campfires they might eventually run out of trees.

> Also, the notion that work is a necessary evil, in the modern world, is a flawed notion. Work should not be mandatory.

The purpose of trade is to improve ones (or one's nation's) standard of living. The standard of living can only improve if people are producing goods and services which go to that end. Nobody can produce everything they need, so at some point they must purchase some of it - and in order to make those purchases they need to offer something in exchange - else the other party who has laboured to produce the good being sold will have done so for nothing in return.

The default state of humanity is the same as any other primate - poverty, survival from the land. It is only through labour that we are able to improve our standard of living so that we are not spending most of our time on basic survival.

At some point, somebody must produce goods, farm land, build robots, program the robots and maintain them. They aren't going to do it for nothing - certainly not if their neighbours are receiving the same compensation for idling and watching Netflix all day.

If you aren't working, you're scrounging from the work of others. We give allowances for people who are unfit to work or are temporarily cast out of work beyond their control, and probably only because we'd appreciate the same privilege if we were on the receiving end. The main motivation people have to work is to better the lives of themselves and their families. The lives of others who they don't know are lower priority - bottom of the list.

This is really the flaw of UBI, or Statism in general. It assumes that we want everybody to benefit uniformly, but this is just not the case. We're hard-wired for survival of the fittest - to ensure our genetic lineage is preserved - meaning people closer to us are higher priority. If we can help others along the way, we do, as a social species - but we rarely do so at the cost of the well-being of ourselves and families. Self-interest is not going away.
Also we can take this idea even further: what if only 1% of the entries in the guestbook don’t show? Does the code work? What if it’s so badly written it take someone with a really good experience to be able to prove that bug exists at all?

How do you go about proving this? In the real world people are going to dismiss it. If you are playing against a politician you will be told that you simply have a bad memory thinking that some things exist that really don’t.
Your questions aren't hard.

1) People will exit the labor market, especially in cheaper jobs, since some folks currently only need to work in order to make up a small income disparity and will gladly quit their part-time jobs. Labor might get more expensive, but given how long minimum wage has been depressed, I wouldn't count on it.

2) No, UBI is as expensive to administer as the existing tax code. Also, the fuck are you talking about? Social Security has gotten cheaper to administer over time [0].

3) Who cares? Literally, it doesn't matter how many people "couch potato" or otherwise decide not to work when they already weren't in the labor market. Think about it for a bit.

4) Hopefully less wage slavery, less food insecurity, less homelessness, less wealth inequality. That is, UBI is hoped to do what it is marketed as doing.

5) In e.g. Sweden, the constant availability of funds from the government has enabled people to be more fully actualized, as they choose whether they want to go into secondary education, start a small business, buy a farm, or open an art studio. All of these are also subsidized in the USA, but poorly. UBI acts as an ideal prototype system for this sort of funding, without having to commit to a particular usage of funds.

6) Uh, we've had a global economy for centuries. All that has happened is that places with UBI and similar social programs have become well-known and globally visible. But UBI in Alaska exists [1] and does not draw people to move to Alaska, so I can easily conclude that it doesn't matter that much to the global economy.

More generally, I think that you are afraid of nothing.

[0] https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/STATS/admin.html

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund#Permanen...
They work everywhere Firefox can run.
IBM's Kitura was never as popular as Vapor or Perfect. Plus, once Apple released SwiftNIO, much of the things people did use Kitura for were made redundant.
I hope they find a way to implement the Right click -> block element feature in mobile. It would be magical.
Large welfare states are very basic income like. Have you checked the numbers on how many people get some form of government support in France? Many European countries' have their 30%+ budget for welfare
Source of the article is at https://democratizingwork.org/ which has full list of signatures - https://democratizingwork.org/signatures
Welfare state and UBI are completely different things.
also its website: http://www.cosmicwatch.lns.mit.edu

In terms of difficulty to build and operate it, I would rate the discussed projects such:
cloud chamber < DIY particle detector (electron-detector variant) < DIY particle detector (alpha-spectrometer variant) < desktop muon detector

Even DIY cloud chambers can be a bit tricky to get running for the first time (especially with too high humidity like in summer). Just don't give up! ;-)
A few tips can be found in this manual: https://scoollab.web.cern.ch/cloud-chamber
because big pharma wont get rich.... err richer from vitamin d.
> It becomes a tax on everyone else who is holding cash when we assume that the money supply will be inflated, which is the default scenario. Otherwise actual taxes will have to be levied to fund UBI.

Of course taxes would need to be levied to fund it, as with any other government expense. And setting the tax curve right is nontrivial. But a complex tax system and a simple disbursement system is still an improvement over a complex tax system and a complex disbursement system which is what we currently have. (Eliminating almost all tax deductions would also be a good programme to follow).

> If we accept that society has witnessed massive increases in productivity over the last hundred years, what happened to the 5 cent hamburgers? How does this price inflation help the impoverished?

So what you're saying is that in a non-UBI world, increases in productivity have not helped the poorest. How is that an argument against UBI?

> When we create a monetary spigot and allocate resources via gov. intervention, those who specialize in currying favor with gov. will always benefit disproportionately.

That's true in proportion to how complex the rules are. E.g. most TARP funding went to New York 1%ers, because those were the people who knew how to meet the TARP requirements. The whole point of UBI is to reverse that by having the simplest, most transparent rules possible for who gets what money.
>The app is somewhat controversial for breaking existing extensions

Have Mozilla broken the extension landscape _again_ or am I misunderstanding?
Measuring employment this way, (the u-3) is pretty misleading. All that it tells you is how many people have been looking for a job in the last year. A better measurement is labor force participation rate, which hasn't been this low, before the virus, since the 1970s.

So, I don't agree that you can conclude lack of jobs isn't the issue.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
They took that into consideration:

> People from Asian and black groups are at markedly increased risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19, and contrary to some prior speculation this is only partially attributable to pre-existing clinical risk factors or deprivation;
Can you please provide an update if you see this.
Very often corporate wants to keep the application code private.
Not everyone thinks or feels the same way you do. Now that really is hard for people to understand; no passive aggressive snark required.
Dithering adds texture and makes surfaces look rough. It's fine when applied to a rock or patch of dirt, but it's an amateur mistake to use it everywhere.

Anti-aliasing is used a fair bit in pixel art, but less so in artwork designed to look 8-bit. There weren't enough colors and palette space to anti-alias in older games, so it looks out of place when replicating the look.
There are absences and then there are absences :D

Absence of evidence because you haven't tried much/ there's no data yet is not the meaningful kind.
This is JavaScript done right and worth keeping enabled.
The whole argument for UBI is that "the last failure didn't do socialism right".
Honest question: how will PeerTube deal with moderation and the whole cesspit of hate problem that inflicts most user generated content sites?

It’s a hard problem that even YouTube & Facebook with all their resources struggles to manage.

Or are they planning to side step the issue, with a ‘it’s open so it’s not really our problem’ approach?
Tame Impala is current, all of my friends love his music
You are right that vitamin D is relatively safe compared to other potential treatments that were bandied about like hydroxychloroquine. But while there are fewer health risks from taking it, there are still the same behavioral issues that were present with hydroxychloroquine. The first is causing a run on vitamin D that prevents other people from acquiring if for their proven treatments. However the main issue that I think we want to prevent is luring people into a false sense of security that causes them to decrease the proven preventive measures. We don't need large groups of people gathering on beaches because they think the sun will be a miracle cure and they don't have to worry about getting sick. So if you want to personally start taking it without changing your behavior, be my guest. But any advice to take it needs to be clear that the evidence it helps is still very suspect at this point.
I think you're going to need a unique name for the app. Google and Google Drive are protected trademarks, so they wont let you use those. You're allowed to list the compatibility, but you have to make it crystal clear that this is an unofficial client.
Infrastructure maintenance is a never-ending task (although we might hope to clear the current backlog). With the backing of a large government agency, people would be able to be confident that their jobs weren't going to vanish overnight.
I do believe that at some point the customer is the one actually that is at fault.
If you buy from amazon, it means that you are accepting what is happening in their warehouses.
Why everyone is looking to save one penny to buy an other yet product that will remain on a shelf after a month?
Be reasonable, buy to a company close by even if it cost a bit more; at least that person will make profits and will come to eat at your restaurant!
There are 2 issues with JS. First is simply as a language. Some people hate it's weirdnesses, which I do understand, but the easy way is to deal with it is just be very explicit.

The more interesting one is JS as a web tool. The reason I'm so against it (and I am making a point and do not want to start an argument) is that it exposes a turing complete language directly to the web, said language having very substantial access to the browser, which stores and ultimately can expose an awful lot of personal information to the world. Where else do we allow this to happen?

JS per se isn't an issue, just the dangerously privileged position it's been given. Any other lang doing the same thing would be distrusted by me equally.
if you reinvest every penny you do not make a profit, but you still grows your business...

that still should not stop you to pay a livable wage and provide fair conditions to your employees

amazon is far to close a monopoly anyway :/
This goes so well against the “free market hypothesis”.

There are industries where lying is simply a stable equilibrium.

You need law to keep those businesses going and fair. Otherwise the lemons spoil it for everyone.
Renters markets suck but it's not like markets just cease to function as soon as consumers get more income. I'm sure there would be some rent seeking, but I doubt most renters markets are so uncompetitive that they could gobble up 1k or whatever.
Right now, there is no real news to read, just grim statistics, anger, and blame.

Best thing you can do for your mental health is limit your intake of it.
If country X introduces UBI, the prices WILL go up (it's not a question of "if" - it's guaranteed). UBI will nullify itself quickly. And if everyone gets UBI, then we are at the starting point. Anyone can start new businesses even today.

Government spending goes through the roof (due to money printing) OR they have to raise taxes ridiculously high. This will make working even less appealing and people start to downshift - until they quickly realize that they can't. If you raise taxes, many companies simply move their operations to some other country -> loss of jobs.

What's worse is that due to prices going up, the businesses become non-competitive in the global market. Why would you buy product Y from country X if the price is a lot higher than in any other country?

When the export business dies, companies start to die and people are out of jobs. It's a ripple effect that goes through the entire economy.

Then it doesn't matter how much money the government is giving you because prices are high and as jobless you are quickly dead broke.

If due to introducing UBI all other social welfare support is removed, sick and disabled people start getting homeless and dying left and right because UBI simply isn't enough for them.

The final nail to the coffin is that other nations tell country X: "We don't accept your currency anymore. Pay with something else or you don't get the goods."

Frankly I'm surprised that this hasn't already happened on larger scale - UBI or not.
I dont care about cookies is working on standard firefox app available on google play. I dont know about the ff preview app.
It seems a fundamental nature of the universe that there is a tension between continuum and discrete. You see it everywhere:

Wave vs particle, gradual heating vs phase change, but also soup with little chunks of meat (themselves smaller continuum), gas clouds coalescing into planets. It goes on and on.

In this case model was built for the continuum and in came a big discrete shock. Something it wasn't built for. Shocks require a different modality of thought. More reasoning, logic-y than regression.
> Electron ends up being the technology of choice for so many desktop apps.

probably because of the large number of JS only developers.
> most of their users are on Android

To me, Android PushBullet killer feature is notification sync (though I moved to KDE Connect once it came out), so I never had any reason to install their iOS app. For iOS, only Bluetooth devices can access notifications - BTW I made a script for Linux for that: https://github.com/pzmarzly/ancs4linux

Rest of the features seem to be possible to replicate with Firefox or Chrome for iOS, plus iCloud, plus pushover.net.
I loved the no-code product which we made using coda.io but after a point, you wanna be able to build things and the flexibility is not there.

We wanted teams to be able to take feedback from others on phone or email and then upvote on people's behalf.
I’m fundamentally a descriptivist when it comes to language: words mean what people use them to mean, not what they “should” mean based on etymological history. Negating the validity of the actor’s reasoning is generally what people who call things unethical intend to do, and I see no evidence that usage has changed significantly in recent years. As their intentions are clear, I see no benefit in claiming the concept is nonexistent.

In fact, deigning to judge an act as either ethical or unethical is implicitly admitting that the actor has agency and therefore reasoning powers: someone’s reasoning cannot be invalid unless it exists.
>When will aggregations of individuals making $24k per year get together and build a hydroelectric dam or nuclear power plant, or assemble themselves to form a genomics research institute or space agency?

When their reward is a real stake in the profits generated by the project.
> RSI inducing tap to click [...]

How does tap to click induce RSI? Surely it's easier on your wrist and hand than having to press a button with force.

> [...] tap to click barely works

That experience doesn't seem to square with most peoples' experience.

> [...] and you have to enable a horribly implemented accessibility options just to drag with a gesture

I'm guessing you mean that it's annoying that dragging with three fingers is hidden inside the Accessibility preference pane rather than more sensibly placed in Trackpad preferences.

It's true, that's a dumb place to put it — but that doesn't impact whether or not the MacBook trackpad itself is good, which is what you were asserting.

> the reflective screens they put on those things also cause eye damage

Okay, now you're just ranting.
Couple of problems with your calculation . Not everyone of the 328 million will be covered by UBI , definitely not children for example .

UBI is not meant to be full replacement of a minimum wage salary , like you said we don’t yet live in a resource rich utopia were people only work when they want to, not because they need to.

sensible UBI proposals posit that it is efficient to directly disburse money without all the bureaucracy in programs for the economically affected , it also means trusting the recipients to make better judgements on how to spend that money than the government.

They could be wrong , while early studies have shown positive indicators, they are small and long term impact is not really well understood.

Personally I don’t think it is a good idea for a country. From what I have seen in the Middle East when you don’t have to work a shitty job because everyone gets minimum money every month, nobody does those jobs. This has been solved in ME by bringing in immigrants as effectively slave labour. Either you end up with nobody doing that work or you have to import labour who don’t enjoy the same benefits creating a classist society.
I would imagine that the sun is hotter and shows itself more often in India and Pakistan - hence the darker complexion.
Even for desktop, I prefer the new design. It still makes it easier to click and improves how quickly one can gain an overview
> I honestly think the way to go is UBI plus a job offer program - that doesn't take away the UBI, but actually pays on top of the UBI like a regular job would.

That's supposed to be how UBI worked: a basic income that complemented other sources of income.

To put it differently, UBI is an income baseline.
Not necessarily. It usually means more transistors were fit onto the board in order to increase computation, which usually increases power consumption. But improvements can come from several means, such as a new type of transistor, fabrication method, material, etc that could reduce power consumption.
Having UBI won't make jobs go away, though. It won't make government infrastructure projects go away. I really don't understand folks think that one thing completely decimates the other.

It will mean that people won't be wage slaves if they don't want to, and can quit a shitty job or a shitty manager. It means that folks can miss work if the are sick. Or not go broke while getting education, both formal and informal. Folks might not work at a job they hate just to get food on the table and be slightly-over-broke. People can demand vacation time. But it'll still be worth it to go to work to have more money than UBI gives, even if some folks don't participate.
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Consumers suffer because they won't buy that 50in tv? Really, any business that exploits workers should not exist. If some goods are just too expensive then people should really learn to live without them. I don't mind "suffering" as a consumer if what I pay reflects the real costs of production. It's called honesty.

The problem is that any company as big as Amazon is a billion pound train moving at high speed, it can't make turns that fast. So while I would like for them to try harder I don't expect it to happen.