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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. The former will be absolutely at the mercy of the latter.

One aspect of UBI is that poor people would be less at the mercy of the rich. If you're a poor person now you absolutely have to try to keep your horrible job else you'll lost the ability to pay rent and buy food. You have to take all the crap your employer gives you. With UBI, assuming it's enough to live on, you could walk away from that job and still survive. That shifts a lot of power from employers to employees. It's one of the most appealing aspects.
And maybe not so relevant these days because most pitches are standard size, but years ago football pitches could vary in size, 90-120m in length, and 45-90m in width, maybe in the past even more, I remember some quoting some pitches as long as 130m+

Teams who were on the boundaries of these often took advantage of it, my home team played in a larger than average pitch and you would clearly see teams that went in full pressure to lose a lot of gas by the second half, the best coaches knew how to make this count. On the other side of the spectrum, teams with shorter fields favoured playing long balls straight from goal kicks to the strikers.

Tbf I miss a little bit the days where these small inconsistencies would affect the game and require a little bit more studying on the coaches part.
Michael Osterholm talks a bit on this in March and how hand washing is somewhat pointless -

https://youtu.be/E3URhJx0NSw?t=2634

You can talk about hand washing stopping other diseases etc but by ignoring how C19 is about breathing why would you expect people to suddenly believe masks matter.

Even pushing outdoor dining and activities, if we are taught it's contact, once again people won't respond.
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Interesting, this suffers from the same issue I have with TeamViewer (and only with teamviewer; this Luckysheet is the first thing outside teamviewer I see this) on mac os x: if I scroll up in a document that has a vertical scrollbar, it will not only scroll up but also to the right. It happens on all the macs in the house, doesn't happen on Linux/Windows... Well, for Teamviewer; I did not test this one on all those machines yet.

The problem does not arise with VNC or any other remote tech or program. I have never figured why it is and it's been there for years across different macs and different OS X versions.
Oracle had those always (even back when only printed manual were available)
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No, I’m asking literally. “Does anyone believe Bezos?”

I sure don’t - a man with that much control and who is known for being that demanding doesn’t strike me as the type of person who could actually not know something like that (if he cared to find out). But, judging by the downvotes, the average person trusts him more than me. That’s very interesting...

Edit - I can’t fucking believe I have to use ‘literally’ to be taken literally.

Edit 2 - Fuck again. “I literally can’t fucking believe I have to use ‘literally’ to be taken literally. :)
You do have to be careful with 68010's from China... I have a couple hundred remarked 68000s that I bought as 68010s before I got good at spotting fakes and knowing who to deal with.

I just keep them in a box to take them out of circulation, it's not even worth the hassle of returning them...
If that's an accurate description of the delay, then I agree.

However, I've seen tweets suggesting that recent (since COVID lockdowns) delays of more than a week are currently not uncommon and I don't have any evidence that the USPS is shrinking their backlog right now. Given the current trajectory (eg. the current Postmaster General is denying overtime), I expect the possibility of many ballots missing delivery by Election Day unless USPS prioritizes those deliveries.
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Damn. That sucks. At least it isn't common, but I'd like some legal protection against it. Guess it's just a matter of minimising uncertainty for your employer & having the leverage to negotiate your contract.
Wait--the root of all evil is me trying to work hard to leave something for my kids so they can have a better life than I do and, with any luck, pass on the genes that I've given them?

When your policy proposals require extinguishing desires built into our minds and bodies by millions of years of evolution, you should go back to the drawing board.

The root of all evil is unqualified, absolute, extreme statements, and the people who fervently believe in them.
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What are the bottlenecks besides performance?
Yeah, I would prefer we fix them then deal with either UBI or fixing welfare programs, but with the current state of Congress, I have little hope that this is a probability.
> Or are you seeking Hong Kong's independence, and a nullification of the treaty that was agreed to?

> Because if you agree that the territory belongs to China, then we're just unhappy about it coming sooner than expected, right?

By not living out the terms of the treaty until 2047, it is _China_ that is already nullifying the treaty. The whole point of the treaty was that changes to the basic law would not occur until at earliest 2047 so being "unhappy about it coming sooner than expected" is the same as being "unhappy that China is breaking the treaty". To me it is crazy to expect Hong Kongers not to be protesting such duplicitous actions by China.

> It eventually would revert to China and have all the infringement of rights, which are now just being experienced sooner.

As arcticbull pointed out ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23992800 ), it is absolutely _not_ a foregone conclusion that they would lose their current rights in 2047. The CCP might not even be able to hold out in its current form until then (ignoring currently trade and military tensions in the area, China's aging workforce is basically a population bomb). If Hong Kongers' want to stay quasi-independent, holding to the terms of the treaty is actually quite crucial. My suspicion is that the CCP sees exactly the same thing and hence why they have chosen to break the terms of the treaty to avoid having Hong Kong causing them trouble if they were to enter rough times in the future.
Same applies to Swift (even worse than Linux) and Go (e.g. plugins package).

So while I agree with you, I still look forward to see support for Windows eventually landing.
Something no one ever talks about with UBI is how the effects will be eliminated in a few years. The very things poorer people would buy from it would get more expensive by the UBI proportion, it will just be inflated away.

When everyone has an extra $1000 do you really think landlords won’t increase rent? The price of food and clothing won’t increase? When literally an entire country is richer by this amount?

UBI does not create more wealth. It does not mean all the people receiving it will put more value into the economy. It just means everyone gets X+$1000 more tokens for the same wealth/goods. Poor people will still be in just as difficult a situation as they will be competing for the same goods against the same people as before.
Exactly. Thanks for taking me literally. You definitely don’t deserve the downvotes but it appears the average ‘hacker’ here trusts Bezos more than us. Interesting, hey??
I also wonder if player performance has measurably improved (or degraded), when playing regularly without an audience.
Cheapest option is to not buy a car and or go by public transport or a bike.

And the reason why gasoline cars are as affordable as they are now is that the carbon tax is not here and cars are heavily subsidized in general. Carbon tax isn't even really a tax, it's more akin to removing a subsidy (you cannot pollute for free anymore and make someone else pay the costs)
I recently had an interview where I was supposed to record the screen while I am solving the problem and share it with the interviewer. I couldn't do it. I am one of those people who's mind goes blank when someone is standing behind me and watching over the shoulders. The thought of recording my screen induced the same feelings.
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?).

If that happened regularly the charities would be started up again, except next time far more people would have a little extra money to give so they could be much better funded.
So the solution is to continue using suffering and historic injustice to force people into doing stuff they don’t want to do - “or else”? I don’t think so. In India, even middle class families can afford a part time house maid because the latter’s salaries are insanely low thanks to cruel supply/demand dynamics and poverty; the same family, after moving to a developed country, would just do the chores themselves. It leads to a more equitable society.
The problem here is marketing.....

"sponsor pools" "sponsorships" and "donations" are all words that imply optional, not required requests for money as a favor. i.e. begging.

The way to monetise open source is for payments to be required in some way. i.e. provide a core feature set that is valuable on its own and monetise by providing additional valuable features under a commercial license.
That's not really the point.

Who do you think would be more likely, and more in need, to raid their children's trust funds? This would be yet another program where the poor don't get what was promised to them and the rich do just fine. Rich kids would get their $250k, and poor kids would find out exactly how their parents were able to pay the rent the whole time they were growing up.

If you want to help poor kids you need to make sure nobody else can take the money you give them, even though everyone around them has a very strong incentive to take that money. Otherwise you aren’t actually helping who you intend to help.
Something no one ever talks about with UBI is how the effects will be eliminated in a few years. The very things poorer people would buy from it would get more expensive by the UBI proportion, it will just be inflated away.

Someone brings this up in literally every UBI discussion ever.
The bottom tax rate is highly negative in the US.

Think of an abstract poor family from New York State (outside New York City): two adults working for minimum wage (roughly $11), two kids.

Assuming 48 weeks in a year (allowing four weeks for vacations, seek days and such) total family salary will be about $41 000.

From that they will pay:

- $1700 of federal tax

- $1000 of state tax

- $4000 of sales and excise tax (assuming the rate for both is about 10%)

... while receiving back (all numbers are approximate)

- $5000 of federal earned income tax credit

- $4000 of federal child credit

- $1600 of state earned income credit

- $1300 of state child credit

Which gives a net credit of $5300.

That's not counting food stamps, free school meals and medical insurance subsidies.

If this is not a progressive tax system, then I don't know what is.
I totally agree.

When I write documentation. I'm often at a point where I ask myself: do I document this small inconsistency/inconvenience, or do I just remove/fix it?

Often enough it's easier to make things more consistent than both documenting the inconsistency and getting people to read the docs and stop asking about it.
I doubt it is personal. I live outside of my state's major city (Sydney) and feel no personal dislike to anyone in Sydney. It is just difficult to understand why someone would want to live there. And I think people outside major urban centres often feel ignored by politicians and this leads to resentment.
Purpose of UBI isn't to improve your finance/risk management, that's an issue of education. Let's be real, there won't ever be a system that's perfect and has no minority of population that suffers.
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That's a typical fallacy: that governments are always "good guys" and never have any bad intentions. UBI will be a step towards totalitarism, that's a given.
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I have sold apps on the App Store for a decade now, and I have to admit I did believe the original tweet. I was going to go through the financial reports during the weekend to verify, but the initial reaction was “of course they would do this, it’s Apple”.
I expected Youtube Red to work like this. Each person has its own pool. Channels should have been weighed by watch time with a minimum weight so that small channels get something as well. If I watch one channel then that channel should get the whole $10 (minus youtube cut).

Instead we got a stupid global pool based on global popularity that primarily benefits PewDiePie even if I don't watch him. The compensation was barely enough to cover the lost ad revenue so it failed to actually provide a viable funding alternative for channels that aren't getting millions of views.

I hope the same thing doesn't happen with this model. If 100 people sign up at $10/month to only support CatacylsmDDA and minetest then these two projects should get $500 each (minus transaction fees). That money should not be diverted to Angular, React, Vue, ... and then when its time for the two mentioned projects they only get a pittance like $5 per month.
Fixing housing policy is not exclusive with UBI.

And in most states there are minimum square footage requirements that, when too high for the incomes of the population to sustain them in housing, are going to be ignored by said population.
Thank you. It all makes sense. Did you end up using Stripe Radar to check for fraudulent payments? It is working well?
All of those seem like valid criticisms against UBI, but is it an argument not to do it? Are those issues non-existant without UBI? Take your third point - what do we do with people who spend all their UBI on drugs and gambling? Even though the “you’ve had your UBI the rest is on you” approach seems morally wrong the current situation is that they get even less or zero help anyway so UBI would only be an improvement for those people.
Your comment assumes that UBI is financed through printing more money.

If UBI was financed through taxes, UBI would not have the inflationary effects that you describe.
There's no material that you could make the box or shell out of that could withstand the gravitational forces near the black hole. Even the gravity differential (tidal forces) is strong enough to rip anything apart (the so-called spaghettification). And if you made the shell large enough (planet-diameter), it would collapse into a spherical body just from its self-gravity, never mind the additional gravity of the PBH.
> they already lost everyone's trust

Love the completely unfounded assertion. Based on what? "Top voted comments on HN say they've lost trust in Amazon, so everyone in the world must be the same"?

Let's look at actual data shall we? Turns out surveys indicate that "Amazon is the second most trusted institution in the United States, behind the military" (https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/10/25/18022956/amazon-tru...). Many other surveys indicate something similar.

If you have data that indicates otherwise, please do share.
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This would be awesome since companies were suddenly incentivised to keep personal data to a minimum. Instead of having idiots in government that complain about what plebs post online and want to hold companies responsible for it, this would actually be sensible legislation.

I would only apply it to business models that directly monetize consumer data though, because there are no technological means to guarantee complete security. A fact more people calling themselves computer scientists should make more clear in my opinion. But if you want to monetize data, you have the responsibility to keep it safe.

Would have severe consequences for funding of some sites, but I think it would seriously be worth it.
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If this was true, this would be extremely fortunate for our civilization if we can figure out not to kill ourselves in next couple hundred years.

Black holes offer about the most effective process to extract energy from matter, orders of magnitude more efficient than fusion and it is not picky about what kind of matter you put in.

You can put a Dyson sphere/swarm around small black hole and extract something on the order of up to 40% of mass-energy equivalent of the falling matter. With BH of the mass of Earth the sphere would be pretty small and easy to make.
This is probably meant to be a feature request aimed at the Github team. They introduced a sponsorship program and now that it's gaining traction people want a more streamlined and optimized product.
There are kits on Aliexpress/Taobao (I'm guessing Amazon as well) where you can convert any 5600/5610 to a metal bracelet. It has the casio and g-shock branding, so you have to be OK with a bit of light piracy. =) I did it last year and the version I got was really high quality. The buttons are a bit small on 5600/5610 though, so they are a bit harder to press.
If producers are able to totally game a commodity market and control prices so completely than you have bigger problems than just poverty.

And yea, we do. If we had UBI tomorrow and people wanted more apples because they could afford more fresh fruit the apple cartels of today would collude prices up and use regulatory capture to block competition from entering the market to supply the elevated demand for apples.

But thats basically saying "hey, you want a government in your interest, you should probably get to a democracy first". If businesses control the legislature you don't have a democracy to begin with and should probably get that first before talking about... pretty much anything else. Because any other conversation is eminently pointless if you aren't influential upon your government.
Also, something I just remembered, in vedic rituals there is actually a priest present who checks if the ritual and the sanskrit recitation is correct. This is also a reason we still have access to vedic sanskrit and we can be confident in its transmission accuracy afaik.
Assuming its location can be determined, what experiments would you like to try in its vicinity?
This is amazing and I have a gut feeling that it will revolutionize OSS.
I usually want to give say $30/month to OSS (personal use) and as a professional, I would have the authority to donate $300/month.

This would be great to not worry about individual donations, and just based on one-click or even just divide up the funds equally amongst all of my starred projects.
I termed this model "microsubscriptions" when I was pursuing it in the context of website funding.
There are difficulties.

Gaming the system

Folks will absolutely distort their software, buy fake github stars, spam out bazillions of typosquatting packages etc. We know this because there is already a weak financial incentive to subvert: supply chain attacks for cryptominers. Direct cash will be a much stronger incentive for fuckery.
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That clearly can't be true, as it would mean that Visa and Mastercard would be working for free for domestic transactions.

Scheme fees are much lower for domestic transactions as far as I'm aware, though.
it will also impact salary negotiations, as company tend to give you the absolute minimum for any job where's the slightest competition among employees.

I still think some form of UBI is worth considering, especially to remove bullshit jobs and help the poorer to come by, but should be complemented from other more positive initiatives (free tuition, free healthcare, free transit) and it will be extremely important to pin down where the money for it exactly comes from, as putting the burden primarily on the middle class would do more damage than not on the economy.
I'm sorry but this is simply not true.

Look at a basic case, a single farmer is able to produce enough food for 100 people.

There is no need for 99 people to work for there food in this simplistic case.

Yes, these people may want iPhones, and maybe they need to work for them, but the basic income component is covered by a single farmer.

I'm not saying there is some static pool of work available.

I am saying there is a static pool of life sustaining work available.

This is why ubi works mathematically, and people not working are not a problem, for the maths.

> Whether or not people are given what they need to survive is irrelevant to UBI. Welfare does that.

What are you talking about, this is the point. And no, welfare does not do that adequately. Welfare is an incredibly inefficient means of wealth distribution.

> What makes UBI worse is that it provides no incentive to work and create value, and that's a tremendous waste of human capital

I have zero concerns about the incentive to work, that is a fud argument that doesn't hold up when looking at the studies we've seen. Work is meaningful in and of itself, you don't need to be paid to receive reward from it.

> and it worsens inequality.

This is what I'm afraid of too and have not heard any ubi proponents address this in any meaningful manner.

Ubi would quite likely create a proletarian class.

On the flip side, I'm not really sure how this is very different from what we have with capitalism right now.

At least with ubi welfare is adequately taken care of.
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Your argument is easily shown to be silly if we replace $1000 with $1 mil.

Now everybody is a millionaire. Does this mean that prices will increase? Of course.

But will people be just as poor as before? No! People that were millionaires before are nothing special after this measure. That's what UBI does, it reduces wealth inequality between lower and upper class.

Now this argument does not and will not apply to the billionaire class. For that inequality we need a different solution, starting with unavoidable progressive taxes.
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But given that it's so small, what would the gravitational forces be if you made a shell with a 100km radius? Or pick a number - surely at some point it might be practical to build something.
t's not normal to go on HN propagating fascism, so why is it OK to propagate communism?

Edit - reaction to your edit:

In practice communism is an ideology that led to the death of 60 million people, to the imprisonment of millions, and destruction of uncountable lives - consistently, all around the world, within different cultures, jurisdictions, legal systems, cultures. While I see your point and agree that the current state of things is not okay, to conclude that communism is the solution is IMHO incredibly naive, sad, outraging and vulgar.
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