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The same problem applies though. It's not just services disappearing, it's the complete lack of support for services.

I'm in the process of moving everything off of my gmail email as I have a friend that recently lost access to their gmail account. There was no way for them to get it back – no human to speak with, no steps that they could follow to recover their account. They were supposed to be able to "sign in with an old device", but that didn't work either. Just gone. And apparently this has happened to a lot of people.
Known values. The ratios aerosol, airborne, surface contact are estimated at 90% - 5% - 5% likelyhood, plus other minor transmissions.

Remember that normal face masks have an efficiency of about 5%, but still had measurable impact in large numbers.
> That's fine: you move to another town that's cheaper

This is a pretty privileged perspective to have and shows that you may not fully grasp what it's like to be poor.

Do you understand the costs of moving (both monetary and time spent)? Do you understand the cost of most likely having to quit and find a new job (if they are available)? do you understand the costs (socially and mentally) of having to leave your community/family of support?

The opportunity cost of what you are suggesting makes it much less feasible than you make it seem
Do I have to think everyone needs to learn to code in order to want to teach _more_ people to code or to want to advance the state of the art in coding pedagogy?

I don't think EVERYONE needs these skills. Most people will never need them. But:

- I think getting underprivileged kids excited about coding/making games/robots/etc may be an excellent way to provide more kids with a good future.

- I _really_ wish more legislators had backgrounds in software. I think concepts like technical debt, KISS, code reuse, etc as well as the general method of translating business requirements to code are more applicable to that domain than generally appreciated.
Most of my work is motivated by the desire to become financially independent. If someone just hands me financial independence, why should I work? If most people are as lazy as I, where does the money for UBI come from?
The PDF of the paper is on the arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04628

And ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343041685_Plato%27s...

Previous postings which didn't get much attention:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23922393

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23975716
> I see this a lot -- personifying a company that is.

Corporations are people, my friend - Mitt Romney.
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It's the kind of thing that would only make sense in the workstation market where customers were willing to pay higher cost.
I can't imagine rent prices in SF are determined by service worker wages at all at the moment.
Private ownership of land does take it away from the community. The problem is that we've gotten so used to everything being privately owned, that we've grown blind to the possibility of land not being owned by anyone and belonging to everybody.
Would that include phones with locked bootloaders? That would be awesome for reviving old phones.
I think there are challenges with how to make money from open source projects, but that is very different than “ Existing open source funding models don't work for small projects.”

I think the fundamental funding model seems to work well based on the number and rate of growth in small projects- philanthropy. The vast majority of small projects don’t require funding because their authors donate their time and code produced.

This seems to work really well based on how many people do it.

Perhaps more would do it if there was funding, perhaps less. We do have a large commercial software industry and they have a pretty figured out model.
Because housing is inelastic and in short supply -- everybody needs it and if the price increases they will still pay for it.

If you increase the housing supply, the price falls. Increase it to a point where there are some vacancies and suddenly landlords don't have as much bargaining power to take your entire UBI. At some point a landlord is going to say
"well better to fill it for $900/month rather than let it sit empty".

I think a huge part of UBI is making the economics of the essential things in life work out so normal people have the power when it comes to basic needs.
But humans rarely need to parse URL's into components but often need to read them aloud or type them. The extra characters make this slower and more error prone.

For most user interaction purposes the URL is just an opaque string. Only the browser need to actually parse the URL.
I'm bootstrapping my startup. Sometimes there's a conflict between your "north star" - your main metric - to your need to generate income now.
I'd consider JavaScript to be more toward the weak typing end of things, because it does lots of automatic conversions with surprising results. (see, for example, Gary Bernhardt's "Wat?" lightning talk.) I don't think I'd consider it as weak as C, which has things like unions and pointers that let you just sort of fall out of the type system entirely.

I'd consider Python to be more strongly typed than JavaScript. It doesn't do quite so many automatic conversions. For example, in Python, `1 + "foo"` is a TypeError. In JavaScript, it's "1foo". Sadly, `1 == True` in Python, so it certainly doesn't get full marks.
This is the gateway, not the destination. It's a low-cost piece of kit that removes a potential barrier to entry.

I can't tell most of my mates to build a robot for their kid to learn with. I can't support one I built myself. I CAN tell them to pick one of these up to help get their little monsters on their way to happily building SkyNet.

A lot of parents aren't going to DIY a robot for their kids. They don't have the skillset and aren't going to learn it for something their kid might not even enjoy dealing with.

They might recognize the Root rt0 as the spiritual successor to the Roamer and Turtle they grew up with in school though, if they were in the UK at least.

I enjoyed using a Turtle, which is basically an ancient massive tethered version of this, with the Logo programming language.

You can slap that Not-Lego plate on and grab a some Lego Technics, and suddenly you've fitted a rocket launcher and you're programming a tank.

They can then graduate to Lego Mindstorms or an Arduino or micro:bit or some Pi robotics kit afterwards.

And the Root rt0 will likely keep a good chunk of its value on resale.

The idea is to buy it and have your kids love it and outgrow it. It's the push that makes them move, if you will.
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Kindle definitely became the most popular ereader through a type of market power. The difference is that Amazon didn't win that market power, they were gifted it by publishers that insisted on DRM that would lock users into the Amazon ecosystem.
I've been waiting for Marissa Mayer to launch a remote working technology startup, since March.
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There is no perfect solution, but requiring access to both the data and full methodology for experimental sciences should help.

Even problem sof cherry picked data would be partially exposed eventually; and eventual exposure is still a very effective deterrent in science. My 2c.
If you're working on hard problems, 30-45 minutes isn't even enough time to fully context shift and get into flow, let alone in an interview where you are a) stressed, b) trying to impress, c) unfamiliar with the specifics of the organization, d) potentially unfamiliar with the industry entirely. This simply isn't enough time to get a sense for how someone thinks or approaches things that are going to be impactful to a large organization except at the most superficial levels. However, if they have a couple hours at their leisure to approach a problem, it's very easy for them to go over how they approached it and where they got stuck in just a few minutes.

The compromise here is to talk about the employee's past projects. The downside is now the interviewer needs to get up to speed quickly, and won't have all the necessary context of the organization and (potentially) industry. Not to mention the fact that candidates lie a lot about how much of a role they actually had in projects.
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Hi, I'm one of the Snowdrift.coop cofounders.

We actually planned on a wallet approach early on, and still consider it the superior option in many ways Not all), but we're launching with a monthly charge model because holding money is more complicated legally. To avoid higher fees for microtransactions, we're delaying donations until they total high enough to keep fees below 10%, then doing one charge for several months (ie, charging in arrears).

You don't need a wallet approach to do one-click, though. Just the ability to do many:many charges, which several payment platforms support (usually under "services for ecommerce platforms", like Stripe connect, if I'm remembering the name correctly). That lets you send one bill to each patron that totals their donations to projects, and one paycheck to each project, that totals all the individual donations from various patrons, avoiding a fee per patron-project-month combination.

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Broadly, we don't agree that friction is the core barrier to donations (although lower friction certainly helps!). Instead, we think the barrier is people's reluctance to be the first to donate. Colloquially: people would pitch in if they knew it would lead to enough funding to be useful (ie, actually pay full time developer salaries), but nobody wants to be the chump wasting their money on 2 minutes of developer time per month (which will really be 0 minutes per month, because you can't hire 0.01% of a developer). That's why crowdmatching donations start small and grow as more people support the same project as you.

Coming back to the article, I'd argue that both big and small projects alike have trouble soliciting donations from individuals (for the reason above). The difference is, large infrastructure projects can solicit funding from large companies that depend on them. These companies can donate enough money to single-handedly make a difference, so there's no coordination problem. Consider LibreOffice: they're a large project, and their potential audience is even larger. But, their primary benefactors are end users, and they struggle to make ends meet.

Snowdrift.coop won't address the small-project funding issue right away, since in order to actually get launched some time this decade we're restricting our initial scope to large projects with the potential to really change the software landscape if they were well funded -- but we do want to expand our focus later, both to smaller projects and areas outside of software, like journalism, music, and research, which suffer from similar coordination problems.
> This is something UBI allows, but I'm skeptical whether people will actually do that

I am a supporter of the UBI theory but I have to say I am skeptical of the implementation. People are usually incentivized to move towards the places that provide opportunity - jobs, education, etc. UBI might dampen that incentive.

Given that most leadership systems are strongly influenced by the rich I have to wonder whether a system like UBI will be implemented in such a way that people are less dependent on the rich rather than actually becoming even more dependent.
1. You didn't provide any actual evidence or deeper claims than (putting something in parenthesis). I don't really believe the coal mine claim, as in reality we don't see that happening. Mining towns are still among the cheapest and poorest towns in America.

2. That's a really naive sense of economic productivity. Here is a thought experiment.

A) Let's shut down all of Amazon HQ1.

B) Let's shut down the dams that provide 86% of Seattle greater area's electricity.

Which one of these entities is ACTUALLY responsible for that "productivity" then? And I bet you rents in Seattle without electricity would drop far greater proportionally than they do out by the dams. Rent follows incomes, not productivity.
Hand washing is not really pointless at all. It prevents the surface - eye transmission, which has a likelyhood of about 5% of all such infections. Even with only once confirmed case so far, the one in Singapore.

What is pointless is excessive surface cleaning, which could be prevented by simply hand washing, or not touching your eyes.
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This makes alot of sense. I would be surprised if it didn't happen at some point considering how impactful patreon style funding has been for other small projects.

I do worry some that this might create an incentive for businesspeople to agressively and unnecessarily fork popular projects in hopes of skimming money from the actual developers. So far app spam hasn't been a big problem because there hasn't been any money in it.
So, I just calculated the orbital speed at 50 km. It came out to 282,378 km/s. The speed of light is 299,792.5 km/s, so we're way into relativistic territory.

Good luck having enough energy to build a structure around it! ha
That sounds so strange. I wonder if that is because I am used to the www. or because ending urls in .org or .com sounds better (pre-invention)
This is a poor argument. Just because they get punished sometimes, doesn't mean it's the norm. Even if Jeff Bezos was a perfectly decent, well-meaning guy, intention is not enough.

If a person keeps stealing from other people, do we just slap them with a fine each time they get caught and let them continue operating in society? No! They go to jail! We make sure they can't continue the crime! Because otherwise, the crime can become highly profitable; allowing any entity to profit from crime is simply incompatible with being a participant in a civilized society - If you let one entity get away with it repeatedly, soon enough, it becomes a viable business model and everyone will be doing it and society will implode.

If he and his shareholders are unwilling or unable to personally take responsibility for every single transgression committed by Amazon, then this company is unfit to exist within our society.

I think that corporate personhood is the biggest problem of our time and is a misnomer because not only do corporations have all the rights that people have, they actually have more rights! I don't have the right to influence politicians in Washington! I don't have the right to consistently get away with crimes with only a fine! I don't have the right to evade taxes by claiming that I live in a different country than where I actually live!
We? No the standard Apple haters did what they do and rage as soon as you hear the word Apple but this is not the entirety of HN acting this way.
I don’t think there are any laws that say a brewery can only sell to on-premise accounts but not off-premise.

There are often laws regarding how many locations a brewery can own themselves for on-premise sales that is usually tied to some production cap.

These laws vary from state to state.
Well, currently the repo rate is extremely low historically, so you could get a mortgage at between 8-10%, if you have good credit history.
Academic networks in the UK[0] actually got this the right way round from the start, but DNS won the battle in the mid 90s.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET_NRS
I still don't understand how that would give the right result.
I will keep saying this every single time some one gets this wrong (which is at least 49 times out of 50): the only way to handle scrolling properly on the web is for your scroll events to fall onto a real scrollable area, and to observe the effect it has (e.g. apply the scroll position to what you’re rendering with). This can be tricky to achieve well when you have dynamic content that the mouse needs to be able to interact with within that area, but it is possible to do well, with careful application of `position: sticky` and/or `position: fixed`.

As it stands, scrolling is nigh unusable on my Surface Book: vertical scrolling goes at a million times the speed it should, and horizontal scrolling goes a million times as fast as it should in the wrong direction.

Don’t do scrolljacking. It’s bad, every single time. With the tools the web gives you it’s not possible to get it completely right that way.
Can you highlight what differences make you choose vi over vim?
I find it interesting that obviously smart people (the guy who illustrated this) are unwilling to question whether science in and of itself is a noble and positive endeavour for humanity. It's always an argument like: if the scientific process was followed, or if academia was structured correctly, or if the gov didn't sponsor bad research, etc...

Most of the current world population is totally oblivious to scientific advancement, every civilization before 200 years ago probably had less than percent of the scientific knowledge we have now and what do we have to show for it. We live a bit longer and die less, that's about it. There's no other impacts science has had on the human experience that's an undebatable good, so why do people insist on this grandiose idea that if we just keep following science we'll eventually be an enlightened people.

But I guess that goes against most peoples preconceptions too much so just throw a panel at the beginning and end of your comic saying science is good.
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It’s true the semantic web was a far bigger mistake, although he doesn’t seem to be sorry for that yet.
It’s not a deal breaker because there are many underwater HVDC cables in operation across the world that have been reliability operating for years or decades.

If sharks (or other active water hazards) are a concern, you bury the cable with water jets below the sea floor.
For me, one route I went was simply to go up and down the stack. So:

machine code --> x86-64 --> C --> virtual machines --> JVM --> Java

I've never gone into the JVM itself, but I followed a course computer systems which gave me an idea how a VM works.

Another one:

machine code --> x86-64 --> C --> browser --> JavaScript --> ES6 --> EmberJS (it uses a vm as its rendering engine)

I've noticed that companies don't care though. They simply care about whether I have enough JavaScript experience. For me, personally though, it made me a lot calmer when solving bugs since lower level bugs are (usually for me) much more of a pain than bugs in JavaScript.

If you want to figure this path out, I'd recommend https://www.nand2tetris.org/
What would happen if UBI was instead Guaranteed Work and Wage?

I'm thinking if tax dollars were shared in the form of education, training and entry level exposure to trade skills, and jobs that may not typically pay above a minimum threshold for poverty but are subsidized to make them comfortable.
The Xserve existed at a time when most servers were expensive and high margin. Today they are not so "ballpark of competing" would mean low margin or subsidized pricing for Apple.
Citing an article arguing that KylinOS is "bad" because it would be harder for the US to hack seems like an ... odd ... choice of reference?
The power of community multi-agent simulations lie in participatory environments. Every geospatially dispersed team shares their collected data and eventually this is how the world gets solved.

I wish I had more time to participate! I noticed an interesting Human-in-the-Loop Learning (HILL) challenge running BattleSnake with AWS SageMaker. It's a well-known, time-tested result. Agents + Humans consistently outperform either humans or agents alone ;)

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.10504
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>Sure, a web application will never be as snappier as a native application, but it can be built, deployed and maintained by a much smaller team than what would be required for supporting desktop applications for multiple environments.

A webapp has a wide range of operational costs that a native app doesn't. I can't see why a modern webapp would be cheaper to develop as well with similar programming languages. Their advantage comes mainly from the lack of the need to install software, and for the data to be accessible by every device.
But the rich don't pay those carbon taxes. That simply gets rolled into the price of whatever they produce. It's the people buying the end product that pay for it.

A wealthy person could also simply not invest in these businesses. They could invest in nothing at all.
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Australia has 150GW of renewables projects in their development pipeline, versus the 15GW of fossil generation on the continent. You can work on transmission and generation in parallel.
Well it's definitely in your interest to retract rather than to be called out publicly be another person.
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Of course it is a fact, it is one of the most basic laws of nature. It can be observed in interactions of other biological species not only ours. It would still hold if there were no humans. Claiming otherwise is like denying gravity.
>I worry about three things with UBI though and they're more social than economic.

I worry about one specific economic factor - where is this $12K/year for every American adult and $6K/year for every American child going to come from? If you take per capita GDP ($65K), subtract out the government expenditures that aren't going away like the military, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, interest on the debt, running the government, etc. (~$13K), subtract out non-residential fixed investment which is basically business capex to keep their operations running ($9K), that leaves $43K remaining per capita. Now assume 210M adults and 120M children and you need to take ~$10K of that $43K to fund it. So an ADDITIONAL tax of ~23% across the board.
Note: I'm not criticizing the theory of UBI, which I think is sound, I'm asking how we fund the specific amounts that often get thrown around.
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