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Try not to rely on appeals to authority, it’s not about where information comes from, it’s about the logical validity of that information. If you’re taking everything you read at face value that’s okay! Keep in mind that many people here are taking it into deep consideration and evaluating what is said based on its logical merit, who the author is does not play a role in that consideration. Regardless of whether the author is a scholar of economics or a homeless person, the content of the writing is all that matters. If it helps you can just pretend that it has no author
> oh, I could spare 500$ a month by moving in the middle of nowhere, let's do it

For $500/mo sure. But if it's like people say and landlords try to raise rent $2k/mo like people are saying, then yes people would definitely move.

Also you could easily save $500/mo right now by moving from a big city to somewhere small. Right now, without UBI being a thing. The rent difference under a hypothetical UBI rent increase would be far more than $500/mo.
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In Brazil they would vary wildly so that's where my nostalgia comes from, after the WC in 2014 pretty much all of them were standardised to 105x68
The UBI must be indexed on the cost of life and updated every year.
> Now 'nano' is not nano anymore.

Nothing beats plain old 'vi' (NOT vim!).
Thanks to nano team for great work. It’s my favorite terminal editor for last 10 years. Too bad many systems has vi as default editor

Most liked features: kut lines, page up/down, easy search, syntax highlighting, editing long lines
This is something I've thought about a lot, and I haven't found a satisfactory answer to it. My hypothesis is that those employees who can exert that leverage probably do win, but they keep it under their hat, and so do the companies.
I understand that Ubuntu may not be the /most/ popular distro. (tho everyone I know who runs Linux in AWS/GCE/Azure seems to run Ubuntu except me, I'm on Amazon Linux 2)

But the person I replied to said 'all' which is incorrect. If he said 'most' or something I wouldn't have replied :)
Nobody is getting paid $500k+ to directly build things that are net negatives to the world.

You can claim that a very senior Facebook employee is contributing to a _platform_ or _product_ that is a net negative to society. But at the same time, the work they're doing directly from an engineering perspective is probably technically on the cutting edge, and they're likely mentoring and growing a large number of other engineers at the same time.

Contributing to technical excellence and growing younger engineers is a positive, which is why they do their job. Don't dehumanize the people working at large corporations. They're not the ones steering the products in democracy-breaking directions.
You also have that option to move to another town even before the UBI...
Most low-paying jobs can't be done from home. They require the person to show up at McDonald's or Walmart, etc., so I don't see how this applies.
Yes, indeed I have experienced that as well sometimes...
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I usually write an email in the order that I am thinking on it. First comes a paragraph or two of the details of the problem, then concluding with a sentence saying what I would like the recipient to do.

Every time, I then go back and move that concluding sentence to the top. That way, the email starts with what I would like to happen, and if the recipient doesn't have any objections, the remainder of the email can be skipped entirely.
The person's name in the patch file is Madhavan T. Venkataraman. Try again next time.
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It's a long list, hard to pick the worst. A few things come to mind like how they read your email and used it for ads (but then said sorry and stopped), log you into google on chrome if you login to any google service, shadow tracking, recording conversations and keeping it long term, location history tracking without user consent, secretly turning on wifi to track users, collecting payment and form history and exposing it acrosss devices, so much more. Those are just crimes against individuals, the things they do with theit work with governments!

Be warned, you didn't care now when they abuse their power against others ,don't expect anyone left to carr when they use it against you.
The government is a monopolist land owner that hands out new land at prices designed to please existing private land owners and lobbyists. This is as far removed from a free market as an absolutist monarchy.
I like that the original tweeter is the one loudly yelling that he was wrong. Too often, people are too proud and ashamed of being wrong to do that.

So kudos to that guy for doing the right thing.
In what way does it save time?
> There's no way he could make that guarantee.

But you can put various things in place. E.g. limited access, (external) audits, etc. Such things are entirely standard and expected for any big company.

Saying "cannot guarantee" is too much nitpicking. Such needs (limit the access, etc) happens all the time. Say you want to takeover another (competitor) company. During that process you'll need to figure out a lot of information. However, you're competitors and you aren't allowed to do that. The common solution is to "ring fence" that team. Such "ring fencing" is a normal occurrence.

Similarly, you can also educate what is allowed and what not on a regular basis.

The company I work for has annual repeating courses for various basis things. Meaning, GDPR, competition law, fraud, etc. They're highly annoying and enough people try to ignore the course and go straight to the questions. It'll be difficult to pass if you didn't do it. Not doing those course will get you an email

After doing all that you'll still have enough cases where people were found to have committed fraud, etc. But that's entirely different than 'cannot guarantee'.

I know you went into things I said above. However, immediately saying "cannot guarantee" is too much of a technical answer. Yeah, there might be cases. But your whole response is a lot of proactive things. You also need to check after the fact, plus do more than just a policy. There is more than enough possible. Further, the question that was asked is entirely normal.
I think you mean Bill \\\\ Gates.
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
He knows you when you're sleeping,
He knows when you're awake,
He knows when you've been bad or good,
So be good for goodness sake.

Is it then a surprise that folks don't care about surveillance's consequences? Maybe Christopher Hitchens was on to something real with "Religion poisons everything".
I didn't know about bitbar. I myself use textbar: http://richsomerfield.com/apps/textbar

I wish I knew about this as I paid for textbar.
> [...] how practically no Linux distribution actually makes use of its potential (in terms of increasing security) [...]

FWIW, I double-checked with a Fedora developer; the above statement is incorrect. Fedora uses it (Secure Boot) to enforce lock-down on the kernel and then require code signing, etc.
This is a very good observation. The "news" that intel was moving to TSMC was also on the front page the other day.
If we accept that a feature of cities is people want to live in them, and will compete for that, therefore UBI won't help people live in cities.

How does LVT help poorer people live in cities? The competition for clustered housing continues, that's a fundamental cause.

Richer people still have an advantage over poorer people in economic competition. Instead of people renting and landlords scooping up all the UBI, with LVT you have people competing to buy housing and LVT scooping up all that people can obtain (whether it's UBI, earnings or something else).

Poorer people don't have much luck buying housing in the first place, because of mortgage gatekeeping, even when the actual cost of purchase (mortgage payments) is significantly lower then renting. Even when they do, they pay more for the same level of housing in the end (mortgage interest).

So a switch to a city economy where housing is primarily based around purchases would seem to be not so good for poorer people trying to live there, unless something can be done about access to long-term credit.
“a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”
Already at $130k, at this rate it will get bluetooth and NFC as well.
As I've heard the history, Microsoft tried to use a forward slash for directories in DOS 2.0, but IBM insisted it be a backslash so that it didn't conflict with the parameter switch.
Makes me think - and ignore for a fact that this would never get over the line in the USA - what if it was only paid to a government debit card and funds on that card could only be spent directly, not withdrawn as cash. Further, they could only be spent on subscriptions - rent, utility, vehicle lease with built in mechanical support, health insurance. Try to remove a lot of the financial unpredictability that wrecks people (car breaking down, for example). Provide a clear monthly or live (digital) report of where the money was going. Of your $1k, $200 is x, $150 is y, $20 is z, etc. Build in budgeting/awareness to encourage people in the right direction.
I recollect something similar. I used to have an email id that was: at . 80 @ atdot . at

Fun times reading it out!
We are not trying particularly hard to find life elsewhere either.
On the other hand, now people don't trust them and their stock is below where it was in 2007, compared to the market index which is at more than double that.
Using HTMl & CSS for your GUI is orthogonal with collaboration. It's just a hack that people accept
Maybe ships will need laser power . It remains to be seen if near-C travel is at all feasible, due to radiation/erosion from impacting interstellar material. If not, a ship can easily carry its own fuel, it will just be a generation/hibernation ship.

Or, perhaps our extropian descendants won't care about travel time. ;-)

OR, maybe the black hole could power a hyperspace portal or something equally exotic...

Regardless, having a compact object nearby to play with would be fun!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23996125
Most other companies have easier case constructions though...
It's amazing to me how many people and companies who have been forced to work remotely for the first time in their lives are suddenly the experts on it.
I have a feeling Bezos would not have gotten that far without her. I know nothing about her, but I suspect she is had a lot of influence on his success. She seems to have a strong character.
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There's no hype today, which is because the hype died out. 5-6 years ago it was all "SQL is dead", before those people got burned.

I wasn't giving an example of a current hype -- just of a hype.
I apologize if using hyperboles makes my point less clear. I'm not literally advocating Alaska, I'm trying to make the point that cities as we currently know them only exist because they are the most efficient solution when the population mostly has to work in the same location. Once you remove this constraint, it's much more viable to have smaller and more distributed population centers, without necessarily resorting to living alone in Alaska. This would still significantly reduce rents, and even better allows competition between distant locations which wouldn't otherwise be competing on prices.

For the other point, UBI as I know it must be financed by some sort of increased taxation of the rich, it is not the government blindly printing money and distributing it. I don't know whether that taxation should be LVT or something else, I'm simply talking about why the argument that UBI doesn't work due to rent is, in my opinion, incorrect.
Vain and selfish people probably aren’t going to sit around and live on the basic level. It’s more about providing for the ignored, the sick, and enabling people to take risks in the market without putting their family’s lives at stake.
When vi or vim opens for the first time, it should simply state 2 things:

- New to vi(m)? Close the editor by typing :q!

- Learn vi(m) by running the following program: vimtutor
> [..] base pay that gives you the option to live life at a minimum however you're not de-incentivized to work like in the welfare system where you have to chose between either working and losing all your welfare benefits

Exactly! I think there was an Article in the NYT a few months back about some Scandinavian experiments with UBI - they gave a bunch of people UBI to see what happens. If I remember correctly, there was a story about one guy who was previously on welfare, and creating some sort of hand drums was his hobby and he was occasionally asked by others if they could buy some from him, however he wasn't allowed to sell them because otherwise he would lose his welfare benefits. But risking to start a business wasn't really an option either, because it wasn't making enough/as much/as reliably as welfare did so he was really kind of in a crappy situation where he could have improved his life conditions on his own but sort of wasn't allowed to for legal reasons. UBI totally took this kind of pressure from him.

Of course, there were also those who essentially took a year off to essentially do nothing. And if UBI is introduced, there will certainly be a percent of people that decide that they'll just stop working (will be interesting how many come back, once they get bored). But I believe that those kind of people always have and always will exist - thanks to progress and automation, we're in a spot where society doesn't really need everyone to work anymore and still be able to function.
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In Belgium a lot of stuff (salaries, rents, social welfare) is tied to inflation, and sometimes we do 'Index Jumps', where we simply don't index for a year.
The people involved in this are great, I don't have an interest in that kind of tech but I sent over a small amount.

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Ask HN: Someone trademarked the name of my product – should I be worried?
Hey fellow makers, I have the following case: I've been running SaaSHub (https://www.saashub.com) since 2014; however, I just noticed that someone had trademarked the term "SaaS Hub". Should I be worried?

I read (on the Internet :)) that if I have been using a top-level domain before a trademark had been filled, they shouldn't be able to claim the domain name. It would be nice if someone with similar experience or just knowledge in this field sheds some light.

Thanks!
If disagree with it. High income areas are high rent areas. Is a coal mine in West Virginia really "less productive" than a tech firm in SanFran?
Is it Warnock's dilemma [1]? Or are we just speechless?
I'd really love to get GPT-3 on HN to participate in some of the discussion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma
If headlines could be longer:

Public officials tried to build a profile with ranting against CEOs of notorious "tech" companies and then left before the whole thing was concluded because they didn't care much about things they don't understand anyway.
You have land and are choosing not to utilize it (rent it out or sell it) in the belief that you will get a higher price for that same land tomorrow.

Today, your tax liability is tiny when you do this. This incentivizes landlords in hot markets to keep their land off the market, thus making the market hotter, this further incentivizing speculation, etc.

This is why you see empty storefronts or empty lots in incredibly expensive areas. The owner can sustain the cash flow loss today in exchange for higher prices tomorrow.

LVT would mean your tax burden is the same (moderate to high) whether you rent it out or do not rent it out, thus making it infeasible to sit and wait for a higher price tomorrow. This would bring more units onto the market and more efficient uses, thus bringing prices down.

Since LVT is often proposed as replacing other forms of taxation (or at least dramatically reducing them), the cost of actually building a dwelling or storefront also goes down — thus further incentivizing non-speculative behavior.
Call me crazy but I would really like a ncurses spreadsheet.
What's the difference between this and gardening leave?
Does Amazon not pay for those two weeks or what?
For details: https://nano-editor.org/news.php

Leaves GNU in 2016 June 17, rejoins GNU in 2016 September 1

Some past HN insight (Misleading information in my HN thread? It's more likely than you think): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953044

Blog post by Chris: https://www.asty.org/whats-up-with-nano

"Request to move nano from gnu to nongnu" https://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?109076

"[Nano-devel] nano to remain in GNU" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/nano-devel/2016-08/msg000...
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If it runs on aws, it must be decrypted at some point. If it's not, then you're using it as a storage only. There are studies on "decryptionless" data computation but nowhere near practical stage yet
hmm, yes the \\\\ does make a nice Gate icon.
Arxiv, github, and a self-publishing style platform that supports reproducible digital artifacts, i.e., the published paper. IIRC, many flawed papers were the result of data errors saved in a spreadsheet.
This paper has been on Arxiv since nearly a year ago; surprisingly it apparently didn't make HN at the time, even though it did get a bit of publicity then, including the MIT technology review[0]. Despite the sense of humor evident in the included to-scale "picture" of a black hole, the paper is quite serious... it may be speculative, but it's science. Also, the authors are not the first to speculate that the OGLE microlensing events could be best explained by a population of primordal black holes[1]. However, Planet 9 could still just easily just be an ordinary planet.. the final point of the paper is that we should look for both, the two requiring different search strategies.

Anyway, no matter how plausible or implausible, this post made my day. A mini black hole, close enough that we could send a probe there? How cool is that?!

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/09/30/410/is-planet-9-...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.07120
UBI makes things slightly more expensive for the people who are comfortable and comparatively rich. So, sorry poors, you’re on your own!!
All that is coming is vanity.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart do you good in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and by the sight of your eyes, and know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. Put away anger from your heart, and put away evil from your body, for youth and lack of understanding are vanity.

Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years arrive in which you will say, “I have no wish for them.” Before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain; in the day when the guards of the house shake and the strong men are twisted, and the women who grind ceased working, because they are few, and those who look through the windows will be dimmed, and they will lock the doors in the market, because of the weakness of the sound of the woman who grinds, and one will rise up at the sound of the sparrow, and all the daughters of song will be brought low.

Indeed, they will see from heights, and terrors will be in the road; when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper becomes fat, and the caper-berry is scattered, because mortals went to their eternal home, and the mourners circled in the market; before the cord of money is ruined and the blossom of gold is crushed and the pitcher is broken at the fountain and the wheel at the cistern races together and the dust returns to the earth as it was and the spirit returns to the God who gave it.

Vanity of vanities, said the Ecclesiast; all is vanity.

Beyond the fact that the Ecclesiast was wise, he also taught the people knowledge, and an ear will track out an arrangement of parables.

The Ecclesiast sought many ways to find the words he wanted, even something written of straight forwardness, words of truth.

The words of the wise are like ox-goads and like nails firmly planted; those from the collections were given from one shepherd and a surplus of them. My son, beware of making many books; there is no end, and much study is a wearying of the flesh.

The end of the message; all is heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is every person. For God will bring every work in judgment, in everything overlooked, whether good or whether evil.
Null is in there because it exists in the real world (unfortunately). There's no putting the genie back in the bottle (although there's an admonition against using it in the spec). Pretending it doesn't exist would cause more trouble in the real world than letting it be.

The string-type prefixing is there so that you don't actually need a schema for 80% of use cases (schemaless data is usually enough). A schema can be added later if desired, and I've been thinking of what that might look like, but it's at a different level than the encoding format and can be developed independently.

The primary purpose of this format is to serve the 80% use case (general purpose, ad-hoc, hierarchical, schemaless data with fundamental type support - or something that easily fits within this paradigm). For the remaining more complicated 20%, there are custom types and at some point in the future, schemas.
With the quotes I like the read that Sorry as Not Sorry at all, stop bothering me.
He said that vi is present in all distros, which is correct as far as I know. Not that it's the default.
I look at it as building software on top of an extremely complex system. It's just not going to move as fast as anybody likes it to, and often the best course of action after considering a new feature will be to leave it alone because it's not business critical and worth the risk.
And better citations. I want to be able to link to a particular sentence of a particular version of a paper.

Also pull requests.
Not parent but yes. In addition people would also be incentivized to work part-time (or project-based) jobs without fear of losing their welfare benefits.

Edit: Or like parent just wrote, it can allow you to bootstrap a small business.
And the thing here is that this tweet contained a single fact that could be disproven with a little additional information. Now try to imagine how many false yet popular beliefs there are in areas like politics or economics where you can spend your entire day counter-counter-argumenting in circles.
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In the UK at least there are indications that several major companies are preparing to cancel leases and reduce their total office footprint.

Both Barclays and Lloyds for example have flagged that they expect to reduce the size and number of offices, with Barclays' CEO saying "putting 7,000 people in a building may be a thing of the past".

I don't think it will be a quick process, not least because there are a lot of long term leases in place, but odds are a lot of businesses will use e.g. expansion or leases expiring as an opportunity to experiment with more working from home to see how it works before making new long term commitments, and assuming it works there is every chance there will be increasing pressure from shareholders etc. if people see competitors slashing office costs dramatically.