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>Easy answer: because expenses are higher for poor people

As a person who mentors poor people, it's not always this..

Don't get me wrong, there are some poor people who are poor by choice. They usually don't feel like victim and aren't stressed about them being poor. They are pleasant to deal with as they understand the trade off they are making. They are very small % of poor people.

Here is the difference I see:

1. Reasonable well off people (many of HN crowds are this) are usually willing to listen and discuss the ways some project or work can be done better.

2. I've gone to offer same suggestions to poor people, a lot of them listen to me absent minded. They complain "I am too tired", "I am losing hope" while a few of them go back to doing drugs and drinking.

3. Poor people don't want to lose their "immediate" freedom. While well off people understand it's a temporary scarifice they are making, later situation will change.

4. Optimism, all the guys who came up with ideas and plans are now doing well.

6. Ability to form relationships and acquire new friends. I consistently saw the poor people who I was mentoring would abuse their friends (without realising), they'd call them "dumb, stupid" while having all evidence like "success, wealth, education qualification" which clearly showed the person giving them advise they are asking for is just trying to help them.

7. Coming from poor household, I used to think rich people are evil and all but I really figured out that a high proportion of rich people were just more attentive and good are forging connections which often continued life long and the benefits compound when you are connected to so many good people for so long this is what most poor people do not realize.
That would help a bit, but you could probably still get the hash of the password and infinitely try. I honestly think them capping password at 10 characters is more egregious.
> And because the salary is high, it's also heavily automated

That isn't really obvious to me as having a cause/effect relationship. Could you please expound? Why would high salaries cause heavy automation in a given field?
Automation reduces costs, which are proportional to salaries in most service industries.
I really doubt Pluto is a black hole.
Did you read the link you posted? Here’s a direct quote from the section discussing the factors contributing to the prevalence of alcoholism is Native American communities:

“The overall economic disadvantage of Native Americans, characterized by poor education, poverty, and limited resources, likely contributes to the prevalent abuse of alcohol among this ethnic group.”

Elsewhere on the page it cites the specifics such as lack of access to education, lack of access to health care, underemployment. Let’s not forget centuries of getting fucked over by the federal government.

Do you have source which lists UBI as another factor?
I'd love to learn more specific details about your leveraging strategy. Keep in mind even someone like Torvalds only serves at the pleasure of big corporations. Let's keep gift economies in alignment with public interest folks. It's difficult to imagine a competent developer needing to squeeze people, for cash money to pay rent, considering how much coders get paid.
If she's living on a prime plot, yes. "I was here first!" only sounds fair to toddlers. She'll be able to live in comfort (probably with more comfort) elsewhere with the proceeds from the sale.
If true, would this be the smoothest planet in the solar system?
Honestly, even if we find microbial life on other planets/moons, it wouldn't make the news that much as we already know some forms of life actually came to Earth by meteors.
Exactly. They opensourced GPT-2, but GPT-3 will not be opensourced even after GPT-4 is released, apparently.
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The wealth transfer mechanism can be designed to account for that. For example, a negative income tax would work.

Another thing to consider, the tax is on the producers of the fossil fuels, not the consumers. And those producers are increasingly competing in markets with non-carbon alternatives. So it is unlikely that they can pass the full cost onto consumers, more likely the tax will be eating into their profits. And what does show up on the consumer side will likely show up as mild inflation. In an economy with an effective UBI, wages are more likely to track inflation as the labor market will have more negotiating power.

FWIW, I have no idea if a carbon tax alone is enough to fund UBI (or negative income tax). But it is certainly one source of revenue that I would fully support tapping into.
Cool, and absolutely terrifying.

Sibling comments are questioning this.

But ...

what if the black hole's orbit around the sun isn't something approximately circular?

What if the orbit resembles a long-period comet? Highly elliptical? What if it puts in an appearance near the sun every 100,000 years? How would we know? What in the historical record could we study?
So you'd force her out of her home? You realize granny and all the other homeowners would never vote for that or the politicians that support it?
> Moving on, Dr. Fauci said the pre-enrollment for Moderna’s final clinical trial for a possible COVID-19 vaccine includes 19% black and 19% hispanic participants across 89 sites throughout the country.

> "Now we want to get that and even more” because of how the virus has disproportionately affected minority communities with worse outcomes and higher death rates, Dr. Fauci said.

> So now clinical trials are potentially being delayed so scientists can pander to the equality warriors: because shouldn't these vaccines work the same regardless of race?

What's the charitable reading of this? The author fundamentally doesn't understand the purpose of a vaccine trial? Because he thinks the vaccine will work equivalently for all races they should just skip testing that part? That selecting the population is any remotely significant portion of the vaccine trial time?

The testing of the vaccine should be similar to the overall population impacted from the virus. The virus is impacting X population breakdown, so make sure they are represented in the vaccine trial.

If instead they selected only people who attended a near by Historically Black College or University, and the test population was 100% Black, that he'd have no issue with that? It's beyond absurd.

It seems like some people are so wrapped up in their views, than anything that looks like equitable treatment and has something to do with race they get upset over.

It's really hard to take anything else he writes seriously, if he has issues having a sampled test population reflect the overall impacted population.
With version 1.0 of TOML it is JSON compatible AFAIK, so it should be possible to check it against json schemas as well.
Quite bold statements there without linking to any sources. "I won’t pretend to be an expert" Yeah, you definitely shouldn't.

Also, you are missing the target on the parent comments argument. The carbon tax wouldn't affect the poor as much because the UBI is there to compensate for it, that's kind of the whole point. There's nothing about being poor that forces you to emit more carbon when compared to other people, as far as I know.
There are grandmas around me in the bay area who own houses worth $1mm they bought for $100k. That means they made $900k. They can afford to pay the $10k in property taxes for 90 years, as long as we give them the option to defer paying until they sell the property and cash in.

If it’s a $10k land value tax, they can construct an ADU on the property and not have their taxes go up. Seems like a good incentive structure to help the housing shortage.
OP may have mixed the idea of carbon dividend into UBI which the poor would get more of than they’d pay in carbon taxes.
That doesn't fill me with confidence. Communism has not been successful, so it's not clear why or how it inexplicably works out well for Star Trek society.
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Wow, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
You started by claiming that Azul is more advanced. You got snark.

Maybe it’s more advanced at collecting garbage or supporting threads, but it is not comparable in the field of type inference, because Azul’s VM and other JVMs do not do any of the kind of type inference described in this post. And no, invokedynamic is nothing like inline caching for JS - not even close. Most of this post is about what type inference for dynamic languages really looks like when you invest HotSpot-like efforts to that specific problem. Saying that Azul is more advanced at type inference is far off from the truth at a very fundamental level.

So I gave you snark. Being snarky is fun sometimes!
UBI feels like Communism with extra steps. With UBI, we're saying "You still have a choice on where you apply your skills and labour," and contrast it with systems where the choice is removed; or people are filtered via school and tests to things to 'the best of their abilities'

But who exactly will do the farm work? There are things we may never be able to automate, like picking green chili peppers. You may say,'Well those jobs will higher salaries,' but then the end product has a higher cost. I feel like you end up in the Animal Farm situation where, when you begging to stretch out all the cascading changes, someone will always find a way to either game that system, or just work insanely hard within that system, and end up on top.

This also doesn't address people with extreme wealth (Gates, Bezos, Zuckerberg) who don't really care about the money, but only the insane power it wields them. Their wealth can't be pure luck. How much was merit? Is the merit worth the power they've acquired?

What about undocumented workers? Do non-residents of a nation get UBI? Do we create a new lower class, similar to the ones who rose up in Libya (a nation that now has a slave trade due to US bombings). Prior to the bombings, their citizens had dividends paid from oil wealth (similar to Alaska), and the government subsidized power, houses and education.

You will always end up with a group without UBI, unless you find a way to apply it to the planet. Otherwise your peripheral nations, and workers within your own nation, will rise up, and history repeats itself.
1 salary to engage.

Once the person leaves - 2 salaries to fix and keep the crap running.

Then hire consultancy for premium support of above.

"But it's free!"
The argument doesn’t seem very solid to me (e.g. I don’t see sharply increasing marketing budgets in the graph indicating more businesses are demand constrained), but the conclusion still seems likely to be correct. I’ve had similar thoughts for a long time now.
I've been using TTS for years by now, and IMO it's really good by now for original digital epub editions. The biggest remaining issue is some words can be mispronounced (wrong part of speech, foreign or rare words). Even "text in quotes" is accentuated now in Google TTS, although it'd be nice to also highlight italicized text.
Someone did complain, the ARRL:

http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Drone%20Video%20Tr...
Fired as in not paid for the two weeks? That’s very unusual but being shown the door when you give notice and having your desk effects delivered to you is not at all uncommon.
Personally, I think you should keep using YARD, because people are bound to be using Ruby <3.0 for a while. As an aside, thanks for solargraph! I can't recommend it enough.
I mean, that anecdote doesn't make me think that staying at home is "not overboard", it makes me think that it's entirely pointless.
Thank you. These are necessary functions of society that require hard work that although maybe rewarding To some people in some capacity is mostly not desirable labor if other alternatives are available such as spending more time with family and reading whimsical books. How do you convince enough people to clean poo or raise and maintain livestock or climb inside a fuel cell in order to fulfill necessary the needs of society? We know how communism and capitalism traditionally have coerced people to do so. The reality is not pretty from either angle, but are we really even close to that alternative yet? It’s a noble premise but we have a long ways to go.
This. There is compelling evidence that UBI, over the short term, really is effective at distributing money to a lot of people in need without a cumbersome burden of proof placed on assessing that need. That's why the treasury department used it for stimulus checks in the US. But long term, we don't understand if UBI is an effective tool for dealing with poverty. In effect, UBI would be like arbitrarily adding $15,000 to every persons annual salary. Over the short term this would be great. You'd be able to cover the costs of your bills with that additional money and live a little more securely. But in time, the market would absorb this expansion of the money supply as inflation. More surplus money in some people's pockets would lead to increased demand for goods and services. Increased demand would lead producers and retailers to charge more for goods. Renters would get charged more for desirable property. Gas stations would charge more for gas. And over time, your UBI check would need to get bigger and bigger to carry the same purchasing power that it did when UBI first started. There are examples of what this runaway inflation looks like in countries that pump free money for extended periods of time into their economies. Venezuela comes to mind.

To be effective, UBI might work better if it's distribution were random. And the duration of payments were irregular. Something that a market couldn't set it's watch by and producers couldn't game. If this sounds a ridiculous long term solution to poverty, it's because it is.
This is a red herring that keeps being brought up with respect to UBI way too often.

"Carbon taxes unquestionably fall hardest on the poor, as do consumption taxes generally."

Yes, but rich people consume and release carbon at a much higher rate than poor people. As a result, rich people would pay into consumption taxes/carbon taxes much more than they would get back in a flat cash payment funded by such means.
We dont have toilets. So pissing less to the pool is basically best we can do.
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Python.

It will start making it's way deep into hardware
Hi, I read once somewhere about it that, if (big if), if we make large transaction to make digital and tax of digital transaction like transaction fees/banking fees, for every transaction we make there is x% of tax is taken by government.

It may cause people to not go digital but encourage black money, but if government i.e basically us make a decision that's(non digital translation) are not legal in country. What do you think about it?

I see black money, barter system creeping in but in bigger picture what do you think about it

This form of tax will take people with more spending to tax more, so people who live beyond their means will be taxed more and poor people will be taxed less.
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Do we actually have a theory that predicts a theoretical minimum size of a Planck length?

Black holes are an artifact of gravity and the theory of relativity. The planck unit comes up as a result of quantum mechanics. Without a working theory of quantum gravity, we do not have a description of what happens in scenerios where both theories are relevent.
An odd side effect of trying to monetise an open source project is another repo popping up just outright copying it with no attribution. Amazingly, some people expect that if you make an open source project on GitHub therefore every single feature related to that project should also be open sourced. It's very disheartening.
so... how do you tax at the top when the top happens outside your administrative zone?
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Crossing into the event horizon of a black hole has a very profound poetry to it in that you will never be able to communicate back your findings. I find the romance of the destruction of knowledge very intriguing - falling into a black hole is similar to shooting a mathematician in the head in that regard.

Great way to go, all things considered.
UBI, at least Andrew Yang's UBI, is not going to remove those jobs - they will still be around and still be in demand because UBI isn't an income, it's a basic income, or around 1/3 of what an income should be for most people.

If anything, the wages of those jobs will go up because the demand of it from laborers will go down.
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>> In Europe and Australia, all those jobs get done and the people doing them get fairly compensated for it. For example, the pay for a garbage truck driver is actually quite high, because it's an unpleasant job and they need to attract people to do it. And because the salary is high, it's also heavily automated, with pickers that grab bins and empty them into the truck.

This is true in America as well, FYI. It's a large source of union jobs.
I think it would expose 2 camps of people. Like masks have. Some would react with anger and disbelief. And for others, it would be Tuesday.
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Original complaint here:
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Regulatory/Drone%20Video%20Tr...

They were selling units that operate in the aircraft navigation and traffic avoidance bands, as well as in the GLONASS band.
Hold on. Wouldn't UBI actually be Socialism 2.0? I mean, who would pay for UBI? It has to be tax money, no?
previously discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737338
Yeah, that would be interesting.

Basically there is statistics: https://www.statista.com/statistics/217837/average-duration-...
But what these people do after the unemployment period is unknown. Or maybe some of them starts productive work before one find a job.
I’ve noticed this when shopping for certain things and I don’t like it. But honestly they were a store first and they still own the entire consumer experience. Whenever a third party seller from Amazon contacts me, I am usually surprised because in my mind, I’m buying from Amazon and not from them.

Third party sellers who use FBA in particular are more like suppliers to whom Amazon can outsource part of their job to. In that case I’d say Amazon is a store, with infinite shelf space, and a very permissive policy about letting suppliers stock some of that infinite shelf space themselves sometimes.
1000 USD / mo / pp for the US is 12k/yr * 300m

ie., c. 4 Trillion USD / yr or c. 20% of GDP (20 T)

The total amount taxed in the US is already at that level (4T).

For the carbon tax to raise 20% of GDP, it would need to raise as much as all present taxes do (income, sales, etc.). Levying that much on consumption (ie., obtaining the present total amount of tax merely from products people buy) would raise prices catastrophically.
No, but a massive, disproportional share of your population caring for the elderly is a real weakness. A market economy would weigh and value "caring for the elderly" in balance with other priorities, whilst UBI volunteers are free to care for the elderly too much, sacrificing limited resources that are needed to keep a society competitive in other areas.
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Electric bikes are less safe. That might not fit the risk profile of many, justifiably.
Or be like the Hey app.

Pretend to be the victim, whip up a whole lot of free PR sympathy and then make the minor change to the app and resubmit whilst no one is paying attention.
I can’t find the code yet. If anyone finds it, please link it.

Related:

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I think you'd be surprised and how meaningful work can be if it is actually meaningful. The definition of work has been taken over by the current economy as maintaining some rich corporation's systems of printing money. Work instead should be defined as adding value to society.
> Those plumbers etc will be paid bonus money

Yes, nominally they will be paid more money. However, the same amount of goods and services will be produced in this economy, so an increase in the money supply will In reality be worthless.
Why teach kids how to do anything? Why teach them math, swimming, writing, eating healthy, etc? You can find people who didn’t learn any of this stuff until they were 27 and “turned out fine.”
> Beyond the critical mass, they simply evaporate in a matter of seconds.

For a sense of scale, a black hole with a mass of 2.2 * 10^5 kg will evaporate in roughly 1 second. A 1 kg black hole would evaporate in roughly 100 attoseconds.
True but that is not a FAULT of steam that is simply the developer / publisher deciding for themselves that is the best place to put it. When I think exclusivity with platforms I only have fault when it's the platform buying that exclusivity ... free choice is free choice.
Also, what if the cash sink in Intel's fab continue to become a drag for cash on hand and unable to produce any returns on those huge new fab process investments?

3-5 years from now, still 14nm CPU only without any volume productions on 7nm, 10nm? How much can those 14nm 300 Watts CPU can be sold for and who will buy them at that time?

Actually from the past 3-5 process development history of Intel, it is not hard to see what is likely to happen.
Back of the napkin calculation is not a source. Economy is a bit more complex.

edit: Imagine being downvoted for asking for a legitimate source on HN. Because rejecting UBI by making a simple multiplication is a sufficient explanation instead of researching all the secondary effects that a UBI would bring. Yeah, we've solved it there, I guess! Economists should go find some real jobs /s
Yes, that’s it.

I’m still of an opinion that it’s important to demonstrate performance on more complex queries with joins, subqueries, subselects, and clustered data movements. The count(*), group by query is a very very simple case.
Much less terrifying than a 5-Earth-mass planet. Such a planet would be quite easy for a spacecraft to crash into. But if all that mass is the size of a tennis ball, it would be very easy to miss. Unless your aim was perfect you'd just slingshot around it.
The upper end of the housing market frees up, causing everyone, except the rich, to move upmarket.

You can see the same effect when luxury housing goes up in a town. Rents go down for everyone.
Yeah I recently sent something overnight to NYC. It didn’t even leave San Francisco for four days. Tried to contact the post office but no response.
That's just offering a good product that people want to use... I find negative views on exclusivity only really come into play when the platform "buys" that exclusivity rather than it being a choice of the creator.
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so basically, the grandma can't rely on the property to pass it down to their kids, or support their living?

If they sell it won't that just mean they have to pay 800k in taxes on their 1m house and then have to find another house for $1m?

Some things don't really add up.
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