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This might actually be the right question to ask, thanks for poking. :)

From a customer's perspective, fraudulent transactions are handled in the best way possible. Here's Stripes docs on it [1]:

> Customers can dispute a payment through their bank on a “no questions asked” basis up to eight weeks after their account is debited. Any disputes within this period are automatically honored.

> After eight weeks and up to 13 months, a customer can only dispute a payment with their bank if the debit is considered unauthorized. If this occurs, we automatically provide the bank with the mandate that the customer approved. This does not guarantee cancellation of the dispute; the bank can still decide that the debit was unauthorized and the customer is entitled to a refund.

> Unlike credit card disputes, SEPA Direct Debit disputes are final and there is no process for appeal. If a customer successfully disputes a payment, you must contact them if you want to resolve the situation.

So for a small company I can see how this process would be stressful. Although I'm not sure what the rate of fraud by the customers would be. After all, the customer still signed a contract. But that would likely need litigation then.

So, I haven't been on the vendor side of that. Not sure how much more stressful it is than CC, and if it's worth a few % of your revenue...

[1]: https://stripe.com/docs/payments/sepa-debit#disputed-payment...
> There's no preordained pool of work that you can run out of.

But this is a point the article somewhat addresses - the graph for marketing-budgets shows that pretty nicely in my opinion.

At some points, its just easier to make more money/profits by trying to increase demand for your product than by improving it (or reducing costs of its production). And I think that's what we're seeing more and more on an ever increasing scale right now: "Actually productive" jobs (e.g. manufacturing) are already outsourced, and the gains from the cost-savings are spent on e.g. marketing.

This might make sense economically (in terms of profits, emplyoment), but arguably less from a "benefit-for-society" point of view.

I think David Graeber adresses this quite nicely (but rather aggressively) with his 'Bullshit Job'-theory.
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The numbers you quoted are still the standard although international pitches are constrained to 64-75m wide, 100-110m long. That probably means top teams are likely to use the international standard or at least have the option to mark the pitch thusly when things like the World Cup or Euros need stadiums.
Because you never use the same desktop, I myself can use up to 10 different devices, it is always easier to access stuff from a webbrowser.

I do agree that the snappiness of Gnumeric is wonderful, and it's easier to do on desktop, nevertheless many desktop apps are worse than web apps.
> They could spend it all on an addiction or just make a bad investment.

In countries with a tradition to have full government care for all citizens, those cases are solved by having the payments managed for you (usually by the city). So you would have weekly smaller payments rather than a monthly payment, and you may even have the city pay your rent for you rather than giving you cash in hand. And if you still mess up and are in a temporary urgent need for money, you can apply for an additional extraordinary amount to cover your critical expenses.

I'm aware that such a "nanny state" is not attractive to a lot of Americans, however this is an approach that solves most of the potential problems and it also relieves other citizens from being concerned about having to give out charities.
Honestly curious what you mean by anti-Soviet.

I don't feel being anti-Soviet is bad, unless it means misleading people to serve your goals (as the comparison to Voice of America and by extension to propaganda implies).

I guess you mean some aspects of Soviet Union were mischaracterized, or presented in a more negative way then they should have been.

Did you feel that's what the book did? I'm curious what part?
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Yes, but if you argue a policy, even status quo, you're responsible for it's externalities. Wealth accumulation over generations creates real harm too.
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Hysteresis[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis
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I wish people wouldn't copy Excel (or Google apps for that matter). Those spreadsheets are terrible. It still baffles me that none of them can do sideways scrolling correctly, they are all incredibly awkward to edit, the formulae are fundamental to how they work yet hidden and obscure, they do weird "magical" stuff to strings like turning them into numbers or dates when you didn't ask, etc.

I'd really like to see people explore new paradigms. Something that has the functionality of a spreadsheet but looks nothing like current spreadsheets.
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More options is good for rapid evolution of a new domain. Eventually though, we need collaborative effort to take established ideas to a mature state.

For example, there are a number of fledgling open-source nonlinear video editors (NLEs) -- to name a few in no particular order Kdenlive, Openshot, Olive, OpenMovieEditor, Blender Video Sequence Editor, Shotcut, Cinelerra, and Flowblade. I say this with full respect to the authors and contributors to those projects, we just need ONE open-source NLE that is on par with Final Cut or Premiere Pro.
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> There are a ton of American companies operating in China

There are huge restrictions by China in American corporations.

You should look this up, if you are unfamiliar.

It is well accepted that there are many more restrictions, in comparison to say if an American corporation wanted to enter the EU market or something.

This is common knowledge, and it is easy to look this stuff up.

> are allowed to take protectionist measures.

And America is allowed to retaliate against them.

China can do what they want, but if they come crying to everyone else when other countries retaliate, nobody should expect others to take such complaints seriously.
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No, they're watching to see if you're worried about whether they're watching to see if you're engaged in hollow virtue-signalling. :P
There is a difference between guaranteeing that employees have never used sales data from individual third-party sellers, and guaranteeing that you have all the policies, access controls and punishments. It seems that Bezoz couldn't guarantee the former, while he probably can guarantee the later.
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What did he do? Oh and congratulations, you won. You literally terrorized people into silence.
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This is England, where all of the grounds are in driving distance of each other and an "away" game might well be in the same city.

It would be interesting to control for distance travelled, and see if a third factor emerges where teams play worse even if they can stay at home and don't have a significant train/plane/bus journey to make. The third factor could be very minor differences between the grounds, or a pure placebo effect, or a tactical reaction to the placebo effect (teams often set up more conservatively away from home because they expect to be at a disadvantage).

(I haven't read the article yet - I've used up all my free Economist articles - so maybe it touches on this, but it's neglected in your post).
> Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

That makes sense. I worked for a big mobile games company and refunds happened all the time.

It was a classic that people will buy in-game items and ask, int our case, Facebook for a refund. They will keep the items and get the refund, until we created a tool to manage refunds and that cheat saw its due end.

As to generate in-game items has zero cost, it was not a loss per se. But it was a lose in potential earnings if it becomes common place. If Facebook has make us pay for their % that would have been a disgrace from the beginning.
You're missing the point here. The point is not to find ways to sell/rent out software (these already exist) but to monetize open source projects in a non-forced, non-compulsory way.

So, instead of selling your songs on a CD for a fixed price, that approach would be more like busking or having your music streamed on music services (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, etc.). It's unlike begging in that you do provide valuable goods with the expectation that the community is paying, and that providing better value (more catchy songs) will get you more revenue.

Non-required payments already work ok in a number of shapes for music and video creators, and we've seen some success in terms of feature bounties and direct sponsorship in software.

Given that enough people are willing to support the software they use, there are two things missing in the equation

- an entity collecting, pooling, and distributing money in a transparent (enough) fashion - the prime candidate would be GitHub because it already has sponsorships and the necessary bits of information

- an attribution model; and this is a bit harder for software than for music or videos where you can simply use watchtime as an attribution metric. Software has a more complex dependency graph, and arguably open source software is the silver bullet that allows us to stand on the shoulders of a herd of giants instead of implementing our bloom filters, routers etc. ourselves. This is a hard problem, and arguably one in danger of not being solved "correctly" in that an entity collecting money could do something intransparent and unfair and people might still sign up because it's the only game in town and they want the warm fuzzy feels and the convenience of not having to write 0.50$ checks to a gazillion small-project maintainers.
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UBI is just to prevent poor people from starving while rewarding working your way up out of poverty

I don’t think most people in poverty will work their way out of it. It’s a mindset and a lifestyle, in addition to a reality. UBI probably won’t change that.

It’s an interesting thought experiment: can you have a society without impoverished people?

Not starving, though, is something that can be directly impacted with UBI.
In response to this earlier post for those that missed it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987584
> after a bit of an ear bashing

you actually helped them? Hang up, charge your emergency hour consultant rates, and tell them you're available once they sign the agreement.
Surely is better than emacs !
In my opinion this seems like a low valuation for what they do and the customers (Costco, Uber). If it would be based in San Francisco it would be several billions.
That's the difference between doing it professionally and doing it on a hobby budget.
> One aspect of UBI is that poor people would be less at the mercy of the rich.

That is a very strong statement that I don't think can be claimed at this point.

In my opinion, I feel things will simply shift under UBI. People will receive UBI, but then other things, like rent, food, etc. will all just magically get more expensive.

I cannot see any implementation of UBI working any better than things now unless the predatory nature of those in power is put in check.
I don't think the article made the argument that you should be paid unconditionally. It only suggested that it should become easier to donate to multiple projects with a single click.

I'm not convinced that a funding model doesn't work because it pays nothing to a project nobody (not even its own creator) has heard of.
IntelliJ's own checking has had its issues (e.g. this bug https://github.com/intellij-rust/intellij-rust/issues/5807).

However, my experience with rls/rust-analyzer with VSCode hasn't been great either. Red squiggly lines that persist even if the syntax is correct - I have to erase and type the same thing to trigger refreshed checking which is very annoying and counter-productive. Though it is possible that this is more of an integration issue considering I haven't had similar problems with Typescript on VSCode - the checking was flawless (I think typescript checking also uses a language server).
> Policing this is expensive, which is why it almost only happens under regulatory pressure.

I completely agree. Before GDPR, many companies did not knew who was accessing the data, what was the reason to store it and if there was any value to that data. Now, I have seen an increase in understanding of which data the companies have.

I have worked adapting services to the GDPR. The reality is that it is very cheap to design systems with 100% data accountability. The main problem is to adapt old systems full of technical debt where nobody knows if the data is used or not, or even how up to date it is.
More dangerous and less comfy jobs were paid much more and/or given extra benefits.

Apartments queues were much shorter in small purpose-built industrial towns in the middle of nowhere

Dangerous jobs in bumfucknowhere (far north etc) were paid $$$$$

One couldn't be a writer or artist without attending university. And spots at university were limited. State needs X writers or artists in 5 years so that's how many spots are available this year. On top of that, being jobless was a crime. So you couldn't just pursue artsy stuff and leech off society either.

Same for the rest of the labour market. Central planning wants to kickstart XYZ factory in 5 years? Suddenly related universities get spots in XYZ next fall. You want to do ABC instead? Tough luck. Either study XYZ or do some unskilled job for years till few spots in ABC become available.
That seems reasonable for a full-featured spreadsheet. If you think it can be done in 10k with all the features, go for it.
Agreed. I also think that in a lot of cases having a stable income will help people the help they need to properly address these mental health issues.
"Small" Dyson sphere is relative. The tidal forces at 50km from an earth-mass black hole would still be pretty significant, so it probably couldn't be smaller than that.

E.g. to pick something on the scale of a human, the difference in gravitational acceleration (being GM/(r^2)) between two points at 50000 and 50002 meters from such a black hole would be about 1.6 G.
Like what? Doesnt seem fundamentally different to Annoy which has existed for a while now.
But it's not standard. Ed is the standard editor.
The "nanny state" is only part of what would make this unattractive. I'm pretty sure that a lot of other Americans would see this not as UBI but as the government funding landlords and making them richer.
Not VR but it was reported the English rugby team were training in front of giant speakers to prepare for matches against Wales [0], who have a famously loud crowd and a stadium that amplifies it, especially if the roof is closed.

I'd be surprised if gridiron teams don't do something similar since crowd noise is genuinely a tactical issue there (it's more disruptive to the offense) in addition to a psychological one.

[0] https://www.skysports.com/rugby-union/news/12333/9699222/six...
> owning house without tenants is extremely cheap

Maybe higher property tax would work then? You need more revenue for UBI anyway.
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> They should depend on real assets that help them live more self sufficiently outside of their employment.

That is simply an impossibility for the majority of people.
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Prices did exist in USSR all the way till it eventually failed. But prices, just like currency exchange rate or salaries, had little connection to actual costs. Black markets meanwhile...
More than 1000 upvotes on a piece of false information[1], on a website where people are well educated and informed. HN fell to fake news. I don't mean this in a judgmental way, when I saw this posted I thought "that doesn't sound right, but I guess if it has so many upvotes on HN it must be true".

It's kind of fascinating on many levels, I guess many of us put more trust on the community rather than our gut feeling. We are in the post-truth era indeed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987584
His whole shtick is to drum up violence against people on the left. Turnabout is fair play. And thank you, it is unironically really satisfying.
Gently reminder that Amazon uses to astroturf social sites. If this post sees a unfair amount of pro-Amazon statements is possible that is part of Amazon's PR strategy.

- "Amazon workers are being paid to defend the company on Twitter": https://mashable.com/article/amazon-warehouse-twitter-defens...

But do not call on people just for siding with Amazon most people are just expressing their own opinion freely and deserve respect. Just adjust how you read the threads to account for biased results on voting and side representation.
Yeah, something must be amiss to get a $1 billion SaaS valuation at $710m revenue. This is not the whole story.
Zip the git repo and upload to telegram as an attachment. Network admins won't be able to tell what you did, just make sure the filename is cat_memes or teambuilding_photos.

Fuck companies.
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This is quite strange, having organized a large music festival this kind of document were split among different teams. Meaning that people in charge of the backstage are managing their part (getting food, M&Ms, specific brand of beer, and other non nonsensical request, etc) and the people in charge of the stage and technical stuff are taking care of technical requirements (and aligning them between different bands sharing the same stage).
So if someone from the backstage team messed up the M&Ms, it will bring absolutely no information about how the situation was handled by the guys in charge of the stage...
So this canary will be quite ineffective in reality
> The area that needs to be covered with solar panels and windmills is another one.

I don't really see that as a huge problem. There's loads of free area for solar panels on rooftops. Sure, it's more expensive to build solar there. But that's not even an engineering problem, it's simply a matter of allocating funds to it. And most of the cost is labour. Which is arguably a bit of a bonus in a world where we're constantly worrying about there not being enough jobs.
What is a pseudo-degree?
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Apparently it's still in the developer agreement you have to sign in order to be allowed onto the App Store [1]. Apple can't really blame people for spreading misinformation if the only reason this isn't true is that they usually decide not to enforce the clause.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23992510
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I must admit that I hadn't considered vegans, so you might well need to take that into account.
I find it unlikely that genuine UBI will be implemented in any country in the near future, although, to be fair, history of mankind has brought surprising changes in the past such as e.g. the complete downfall of Feudalism.

I just wanted to make clear that it's possible to implement UBI. There are many reasons against UBI, but not the ones you gave.

Personally, I'm against UBI for two reasons. First, it does not solve the fundamental problem, which is capital accumulation an ever increasing gap between the rich and the poor. The more money you have, the more money flows to you, and the gap has grown insane. Unless this trend is addressed and reversed, even UBI cannot prevent massive social unrest in the long run. Second, UBI makes it mentally and morally easier for employers to fire people and to lower wages even further. In the end, it will lead to a grossly impoverished class of UBI recipients who will work 6 days a week for $3.25 an hour to supplement their meagre UBI.

In my opinion a classical welfare state, maybe with a negative income tax, strong worker protections, tax-funded education and health care, and strong means to prevent wealth accumulation are the only ways to tackle the problem in the long run. Reforming hereditary laws and stopping almost all "financial products" would be a good start. Right now, once you have reached a certain threshold you can just live off by speculating on Wall Street and juggling around virtual money without ever producing anything of (non-monetary) value. That shouldn't be possible at all.

A deeper problem is that the whole model of existing economy is flawed, because it's based on permanent expansion, which leads to fast exhaustion of natural resources. It is simply not maintainable on Earth for more than 200 years from now.
I do not believe in UBI, but I am willing to change my mind if it works in practice, as long as my country doesn't take part in the experiment.
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Kind of scary how a random person on twitter can say something and that gets turned into a fact.
> but then other things, like rent, food, etc. will all just magically get more expensive.

Why?
> Because it simply isn't from a western country

That's a false projection. For example, products from Korea and Japan are very popular in the US. App from those countries would have no problem. China is qualitatively different.

> must be bought out at some crappy valuation

Nobody is forcing the sale, they also have the option to stop operating -- like Google chose to do re: China when they refused PRC demands.

> WhatsApp for example should be forced to sell its Indian operations to Reliance Industries

You mean like how US companies are forced to vest technology with local partners to operate in China?

https://money.cnn.com/2018/04/05/news/economy/china-foreign-...

For example, non-Chinese companies cannot sell electric cars in China without handing over their trade secrets.

Is that fair?
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