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People respond to incentives. People don’t like to pay taxes and if they can save money by spending $10 to save $15 in taxes, they will. That’s the point.

Let’s say I own a power plant and I sell electricity to the power company for $X/kilowatt-hour. It turns out the best way for me to make a profit is to burn natural gas in my power plant because I make enough money per kilowatt-hour to afford fuel, and the economics of natural gas outperform nuclear and renewables. I can use renewables during the day well enough, but I’m not gonna buy a ton of batteries to store solar power to sell overnight when I can just burn natural gas instead.

As soon as I have to pay a carbon tax for burning natural gas, my incentives change. Do I build a nuclear plant? Batteries? A carbon capture system to plug into my existing natural gas plant? Or do I keep paying the carbon tax? If the carbon tax is high enough, I will absolutely change my system to save money. The same is true if I own a trucking company: I might buy more fuel efficient trucks, which helps a little, or maybe I become an early adopter of electric trucks, which helps a lot.

Most importantly, those grandstanding nincompoops in DC don’t have to figure out how to reduce carbon emissions. They just put a price on it, and all of a sudden every cold-blooded, cost-cutting bean counter in the country starts doing it for them.

There are lots of ways to do things carbon-neutral these days. The technology exists, or is very close to existing, to maintain our exact standard of living except carbon neutral. There’s just no reason to do so in terms of cost-efficacy because the downsides of carbon emissions aren’t priced in. A carbon tax changes that and provides a very real return on investment for change.
Of all the things on my make the world right shopping list, I absolutely do not see UBI.

Renters need help. My priority would be housing rights. What I want is for the government to stop tiptoeing around and implement real regulation.

Minimum square footage per person. Minimum building standards to guarantee peace at home. Guaranteed rights, as a tenant, to remain in the property until you decide to leave. No more annual renewal fee stress when the estate agent threatens to replace you with someone (plucked from the free market) who will pay 3% more.

Regulation to prevent dense tenant battery farms. No more conversion of three bedroom homes (with two large living spaces) into six bedroom slums for common-licensed tenants. Oftentimes the kitchen is the only common living space and your bedroom has a lock on it. This is a horrible way to live.

It also drives down wages with a race to the bottom for lowest possible housing quality at the maximum possible price.

I’ve lived in — and seen my friends live in — various slums in the US and England over the years. In the very crowded rental markets of major cities and popular towns, tenants are treated like cattle, but without the animal rights.
Telegram files EU antitrust complaint against Apple’s App Store
The basic idea of product quantization is 10 years old now and there are many examples out there [0][1][2][etc]. This looks like a high quality library though.

[0] https://github.com/yahoo/lopq

[1] https://github.com/cgtuebingen/Product-Quantization-Tree

[2] https://github.com/technicolor-research/pq-fast-scan

[3] https://github.com/matsui528/rii
So what kind of support do you think Microsoft provides for these offline systems? Using downloads on their website?
Crystal is nice since they added a decent concurrency model, but it doesn't support one of the major platforms (windows)
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Fair point, but I happen to have a few thousand ATF16V8BQLs in stock, so I'm not worried for the time being :) Originally (on breadboard) the project didn't use any programmable logic, but board space dictated that I switch to them when I did the first PCB.
UBI means that the empathetic people subsidize the vain and the selfish.
The Italian league games I've seen played in empty stadiums have been great. I think adding the sense of hearing back into the game due to lack of crowd noise does a lot for a team's coordination and thus quality of play. Maybe this is just my opinion based on a few matches, but there is a palpable difference in play.

Also a lot less flopping on the ground in fake agony. With no crowd to play to, players fall over and then get back up again. It's very refreshing to watch.
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> Power Divide - society will be easily divided into two groups: those who depend on the UBI to live and those who don't

Already happens, with welfare.

> Predators - individuals and companies will find a way to take your UBI check from you as fast as possible

Already happens, with welfare.

> Charity - let's say we actually give every person enough money for food, housing, and utilities. Some people will mess up.

Already happens, with welfare.

Notice a pattern? People who are likely to mess up with their finances / welfare, etc. will likely mess up with UBI. UBI covers a way larger group of people and gives them opportunities and flexibility, I only see that as win.
Tl;dr from my memory. Numbers are estimates.

Van Halen, at the time, were doing the largest stadium stage show ever. Most tours were 2 semi-trucks of speakers and lighting, VH were ~10+. Due to the never before done scale of the show rigging weight limits are critical. Not following it could lead to a stage collapse.

VH put the brown M&M’s in the middle of the weight requirement rider. This way the production crew could easily see if the local producer actually read the rider by seeing a bowl of brown M&M’s.
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That's a common practice in the British military. Normally abbreviated to BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front.)

Start with the actions the reader needs to take (be at point x at time y wearing z) and then go in to specifics and reasoning.
When those people move from high rent areas to the presently dilapidated small towns that UBI would revive the renters in the cities won't be able to price gouge their units like they are used to.

Right now housing is totally out of wack because there is an extremely scarce resource (urban housing) that everyone wants and cartel like control of supply to prevent expansion thus making the price grow uncontrollably to consume as much of the maximum incomes earnable in the area as possible.

If suddenly people had a choice between slave for subsistence wages in an extremely high CoL area or move somewhere incredibly cheap and live off government cheese those that make that choice will deflate the demand until a more equitable equilibrium is reached.

So while your landlord could try charging you more for your UBI adjusted you will have the bargaining position that they almost certainly won't be able to replace you with someone willing to pay such outlandish rents.

> Easier way is to think UBI as "free meal" tickets and free housing. Which doesn't sound all that appealing.

For the 20% of food insecure families or ten million+ homeless people in the US it would probably be very appreciated.

And it isn't just the outright homeless, its those currently in abusive households that have no out too.

And it might surprise you, but the working poor - the 80% of paycheck to paycheckers - aren't going to luxury sporting events or buying luxury goods right now anyway. They are paid too little to afford it when the cost of subsistence is so high.
> some governments give poor people vouchers for rent ... targeted by slumlords who find a way to give you as little as possible for them

This seems to be a problem because the vouchers are only redeemable by government-granted monopolies, and thus neither tenant nor landlord are participating an open market. If the tenant could go anywhere else with their money a la UBI nobody would choose those terrible living quarters / they would be priced appropriately.
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Brah if u think BG is arpg u can gtfo.
Long-lost relic may reveal origins of Stonehenge
How does this compare to TLA+?
I guess that technically the IAU definition of planethood would not exclude a primordial black hole, but I doubt that's the intended interpretation.
I have been playing with GPT-2 (while I wait for GPT-3 access) to generate quotes, and I was surprised how many keep the symmetry, wordplay and plot twist effect at the end. I would not be surprised to see that the riddles generated with it are very good.
incredibly hard to conceive 15 Earths shrunk down to the size of a grapefruit! fascinating
Saying as 90% of my packages are delivered by USPS, yes I care about mail speed. Letters aren’t the only thing handled by the post office. Also when I need to get my credit card replaced for some reason you better believe I care about speed of delivery. I’m sure I could list more examples.
Using the email to trigger a password recovery is a good solution. But in the end, you are just outsourcing your "self-care" problem to the email provider.
Your fellow citizens are not employing you or else the desolate ghettos would be overflowing with capital growth.

Traditionally it takes a capitalist to start a business that can feed and house a population and that capitalist is in it to extract value from their labor. The job does not exist to serve the community, it exists to make the business owner richer. All the demand in the world will not build a sandwich shop lest a capitalist has the funds to build the building. Even if that capitalist is a local who can get a bank loan to do it, etc.
The impact of a tax is measured as a share of your income - if a tax represents a growing share of your income as you grow richer, it’s called progressive, otherwise it’s regressive (ie falls harder on the poor).

This is the case for consumption taxes in general and carbon taxation in particular. This is not contradictory with the fact that the top income decile emits more per capita in absolute than the lowest one.

This is especially manifest for gasoline consumption: richer households consume significantly more of it, but it represents less than 2-3% of their income, while it can reach more than 10% for poorer households.

Indeed, this can and should be offset with a full redistribution of the tax proceeds - either flat or targeted at lower income households - to compensate the inherent regressivity of carbon taxation.

Source: my PhD was on the distributional consequences of carbon pricing.
You're right that's how most boards handle having ROM low for the first four cycles, and that's how mine does it. I use a 74LS174 hooked up just like you say.

Early in the project I did a DTACK generator similar to what you describe, but now it's handled by a GAL which allows it to be zero-wait-state in certain address spaces while supporting external DTACK for IO devices. This also allows me to easily tri-state the signal do expansion boards can generate their own DTACK.

Your side-project sounds interesting, I'd love to take a look :) is it online anywhere?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle
As a computing teacher, for many kids, the difference is huge. Doesn't have to be a robot - the bbc micro:bit is similarly useful in taking computing into the real world. Kids are definitely more motivated by the tangible.

Though recently I've been exploring Minecraft Education Edition, and am wondering if that has similar benefits, even though it's not in the real world; is Minecraft 'real' enough?
until you hit requirements that data must really be gone from the system

at least you need something like DELETE FROM foo WHERE deleted < NOW() - '30 days'::timedelta (or whatever the correct syntax is)
> For example nordic countries already have UBI in all but name due to all the support the society gives to those in need. We just don't call it UBI because it's split to several parts.

that's basic "social welfare". it's not really universal, it's more for those who qualify. in certain countries you can even opt out of this safety net.

you mentioned "nordic countries", in reality only Finland tried a small UBI experiment that failed.
The sad part about capitalism is that it’s working so well because we exploit and (ab)use the earth in such an efficient way. There has to be some more balance to this aspect for the human race to be truly sustainable.
I really curious how many of the jobs no one wants to do would still get done. I get that the B in UBI is "basic" but still, so many necessary jobs are jobs no one really wants to do but they do because they need money. If they didn't need money would those jobs still get done. Trash collection? Construction work? Hotel cleaners? Janitors? Farmers, Grocery Store stockers, truckers, nurses, sales clerks, .... Sure they'd get more than "Basic" but if they knew they were housed and feed and got medical service until death if they did absolutely nothing how many would choose to do absolutely nothing? Would it be enough the world would be a much worse place to live? Would it be enough that the price of all those services would double, triple, quadruple raising the prices of all the related services and the amount needed for UBI?

I don't like the idea of people suffering jobs they hate but I'm really glad and privileged they choose to do them.
But... give an example. When is shared-memory concurrency (with locks) faster?
SPARQL is nicer than SQL in a few cases:
* Federation is better than ETL+Datawarehousing
* Data is to be integrated on demand by the user

A practical example of mine is the UniProt database in the life sciences and the European Patent Office SPARQL endpoints.

These two datasets have some intersection of data. Combining these two in a classical datawarehouse with ETL pipelines would cost a few million in start up costs (Full data fidelity, small team 1 year work, optimisitic). The same with non federated RDF/SPARQL is 3 days work. This with federated querying is 2 minutes work.

SQL has a richer ecosystem with many more people confident in it's usage. More deployment options. etc.
Which is why often you will see tools like StarDog Virtual Graphs which will turn existing SQL DB's into SPARQL ones (via translating SPARQL->SQL) for in organization federated knowledge graphs. i.e. no to minimal ETL pipelines, direct querying on (standby, copies) of primary datasources.

In some domains the "business" analysts know SQL, even rarer but possible they know SPARQL. Letting them ask any query they can think of not bounded by what is one specific database can be extremely valuable. For organizations that can extract that value the lower market penetration of SPARQL is sad but not a real issue. This works in practice for SPARQL but not for SQL as what can be done with a user stated SERVICE clause in SPARQL requires a DBA to setup a foreign table connection in the SQL world.

Another example is when a few (N) hospitals need to exchange data. They have a few more relational databases (N+2) for this data in house for their patient groups. Upon project commencement they notice that all are SQL, but non are similar from vendor differences, but more problematic modelling issues.
Transforming their data to RDF is as complicated as to standardize on one new schema. But the RDF gives immediate integration with SnoMedCT, ICD10 and LOINC which allows easy queries taking into account hierarchical knowledge in those medical standards. Those queries would be possible two write by hand in SQL but are easier in RDF/SPARQL when attaching a minimal OWL reasoner. Then integrating with GeoSpatial data is again easier because in this country that is provided in RDF as well.

NOTE: A full fidelity UniProt Schema (including all subdata sets e.g. UniParc) would be a 150-200 tables depending on some modelling choices. EPO I assume to be in the same order.

NOTE2: While federated querying is a standard SPARQL feature this can of course be limited/turned off depending on the security/legal context.
It is also explained in the article. The whole point of it mentioning brown M&Ms is because of this.
That's a great point. Do you believe that the regularity of significant breaches has cheapened the reputational cost of having experienced such a breach? (Which, in turn, makes it less likely that "a robust secure software development life-cycle" will ever be built.)
given the surface temperature obviously some large corporations could run all its server farms there to keep them cooled. I nominate Facebook.
This is simplistic.

Anyone, currently can participate in"capitalism 1.0" by buying the stock market.

Most people prefer to watch sports, buy big TVs and not start saving.

Giving those people money will enable entitled feelings, and create perverse, non productive incentives.
After rereading, I agree with you.
Hi! I got started pretty much the same way, I used the 68k family a lot many years ago, but then a couple of years ago I randomly decided to order a 68010 that popped up on eBay and, well, here we are!

I love seeing other boards, and don't think of it as competition - I think the more of us there are keeping this stuff alive, the better!

I really like your project, I'll be keeping an eye out for updates :)
Already happens, why not make it even worse, right? Just for the alreadist heck of it.
I especially buy into your third concern.

Where I live, if the introduction of a UBI was followed by a drastic reduction (or complete elimination) of the means-tested system we know today, hunger would potentially become a problem for people blowing their money early in the month (or getting robbed?).

This tells me the utopian ideas of replacing the entire complex system with a simple UBI isn't feasible. You'll end up in dreadful ethical choices and moral hazard. This is indeed already happening, but the bureaucracy of it makes abuse less attractive.
Because they don't know that they care. They only will when they find their credit has been stolen, or their identity. Having security upfront is doing the right thing so that the industry doesn't become overly regulated.
> excluding people from being able to earn and spend money is actually sacrificing macroeconomic growth in exchange for social control

That's an interesting way to put it
I agree but preventing parents from providing security for their children is a form of harm. One could then argue that if all wealth were recycled, the state would be so strong that parents would feel even safer for their children in such a system - but then you're back to state vs. individual, socialism vs. freedom, etc., etc.
Data does not fit in Ram so i guess in the end its about file formats and minimizing disk access, thats why some of the competition benchmarksbare terrible no?
Schwarzschild radius and the Compton wavelength both combine to say that in theory, the minimum mass required for a quantum black hole is the Planck mass(ish). They might not be possible or they might require more energy than what we can produce today.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-54...

This article looks interesting and will probably go into more detail if you are wanting to know more. I will read it tomorrow. Great question!
If your tax burden is overwhelming to your finances you are going to get more out of UBI than you get taxed into it lest its failed in its primary goal of wealth redistribution.
I hear you. It occurred to me that Ruby could have chosen to innovate with something like a Semantic TomDoc. To choose a separate file based approach seems like a step backward. At the very least it could have been module based. But Matz is a C coder -- not a Ruby coder. So it doesn't necessarily surprise me.

It's sad though. Since poor design of Refinements, C transpiling for 3x project, and now this, I am less and less inclined to continue using Ruby. I miss some of the dynamics but I find myself using Crystal instead.

(Honestly, if any one figured out a way to supplement Crystal with dynamic behavior for those features that a static language can't offer, Ruby would be done.)
They would do better contributing to Crystal, but what do I know.
Agree with this. From a political perspective, tying a carbon tax to any other progressive or conservative policy makes it less likely to succeed.

Ideally the carbon tax should fund...nothing! A pure dividend, all monies repaid to everyone. Climate change requires long term thinking, which means it requires an enduring institution, like Social Security. It must not be entangled with the vagaries of the political moment.
You dont need UBI for this though (not throwing my support for either side, I am sitting on the fence).

My govt doesnt restrict people to only rent from certain approved places.

If you have a rental agreement, and abiding by the rental agreement policies, then u can rent from anyone under govt assistance.

I had rented my basement out to a family under rental assistance.

The govt wrote the checks with my name on it that the renter would provide to me.
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I teach coding to high schoolers, and often wonder the same thing. One reason is it helps with problem solving skills - to code, you need to first be able to decompose problems, and structure your thinking. So in that sense, it's a proxy rather than a necessary outcome in itself; kind of like maths (very few people need the level of maths taught in schools), but more modern and sexier. What I've been wondering is, with the likes of Siri and Google Now being able to be 'programmed' with natural language, how much longer we will need to code, compared to talking to a computer/AI to achieve the required outcome.