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I find it peculiar that Americans even discuss UBI prior to having universal healthcare. The whole idea of universality in this context is to eliminate the requirement to work in order to live a reasonable healthy life. If you implement UBI without healthcare then you maintain a form of economic slavery which more or less states that employment is required to have medical coverage.
The market and production gaming UBI will inevitably happen. It's just people's money.

Actually, in Alaska's UBI program, alcohol and drug abuse go up by 15% after all check day (but crime also goes down significantly as well).

So yes, the payouts of it will create some sort of twisted marketing schedules. I think it would be really cool if the payout was daily (if they can make that happen). It would likely encourage the immediate spend of it into small items (like food)... but also probably drugs.
UBI is not bad. But without a better housing infrastructure in cities, UBI will be mostly a voucher for landlords, who will disproportionately end up quickly receiving a large fraction of this cashflow. Affordable housing, education, and healthcare need to be addressed. UBI will just kick these cans down the road. That being said, if we are committed to not solving those more fundamental problems, as we seem to be in the US, I welcome UBI as a great alternative to doing absolutely nothing.
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I mean it can get overly ridiculous. Stress over schedule adherence was considered a major factor in a Japanese train crash that killed 100+, and injured 500+: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amagasaki_derailment
This is not how a market economy works. There's no preordained pool of work that you can run out of. It's practically nonsense to say there's not enough work to go around.

People always want more, and you can always find work fulfilling those wants. There's always demand for stuff. Can you honestly look around you right now and think "there isn't much room for improvement"? Well, people need to work to improve stuff, that's useful and valuable work. Do you really think "welp, my life doesn't have any more problems to solve". Well, people need to work to solve those problems, that's useful and valuable work.

Whether or not people are given what they need to survive is irrelevant to UBI. Welfare does that. What makes UBI worse is that it provides no incentive to work and create value, and that's a tremendous waste of human capital and it worsens inequality.
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The Manifold JSON compiler plugin[1] pairs nicely with IntelliJ's JSON support. It's the only type-safe, truly schema-first framework I've encountered (that's also fully integrated into an IDE).

[1] https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold/tree/master/man...
So why not a revenue neutral carbon tax rather than UBI + carbon tax?
To me the problem with stackoverflow is the same. It's a useful place to find examples and simple answers to almost-documentation kind of thing, but all the hard questions without a clear possibile answer is not allowed. This made the website less and less useful over time.
Healthcare is one of the most talked about topics in the US. UBI in comparison is still a fringe topic.

You can talk about multiple issues at once, we have that capability.
From that perspective, everything is a lottery. Sorry, you worked your ass off doing good things for your fellow humans, here's a tree branch falling on your head.

The standard of living has improved massively. I agree wholeheartedly that there are issues (e.g. people are giving more free time, but they don't know what to do with it and engage in unhealthy habits to kill the free time they've been given), but generally, it's not even close.
FLANN was developed at UBC. You meant FAISS.
What happens when your landlord realizes that you have extra $1K to spend every month? What would their incentive be to not jack up your rent? I fail to see any. The prices on most things would just shoot up overnight.
I worked on a USPS integration for years. I have mixed feelings about the USPS but one thing is clear. They price incorrectly. It should have never been less expensive to ship a parcel from Beijing to Washington, then from Detroit to Washington.

Many of USPS' problems could be solved simply by raising prices. The USPS clearly wins business on the last mile service level, and it would open up new opportunity for others to deliver Amazon packages if prices went up.

One other little known fact about the USPS is they cut lucrative deals for big customers. Negotiated Rates (NSA) can allows companies such as Amazon to buy postage at a significant discount. These deals should be eliminated. Why should a poor person pay more for postage than Jeff Bezos to ship the same thing?

From left field this is one of my ideas: Post offices could be replaced by adopting a NinjaVan model. Why can't every corner store in San Francisco be a post office? It would be amazing.
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Triclosan > Policy describes the policy situation in regards to consumer antimicrobial agents like triclosan:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan#Policy

We generally credit Lister with saving many lives by inventing sterile surgical procedures; so, how do germs in open wounds and germs on the skin differ in their effects on survival, health, and appearance?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister
> Please refrain from inflammatory language

I thought you might be just here for baiting purposes, but this definitely confirms it
The price increases would be offset by the UBI. It's zero sum at an aggregate level.
Two-thirds of projects on GitHub have 1-2 maintainers, as of 2015.[1][2] I’m sure many of those people are in other areas or occupations, or in other countries, where these high-paying jobs may not exist. Some people simply don’t wish to work at a company, and those folks still may produce value to those other than themselves.

Let’s not appeal to productivity too hard; learners and those of lesser coding capability also create value in the form of skills and knowledge.

It’s hard to identify and quantify those whose contributions helped most, but I feel all contributions are worthwhile. Not all code may be tip-worthy, but I don’t feel chagrin toward those collecting, however they do so.

> Only three projects—less than 3 percent of the study’s sample—had more than 50 contributors.[1]

[1] https://increment.com/open-source/the-rise-of-few-maintainer...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308894462
> The highest paid jobs (eg. CEO) inflate very little and the lowest page jobs inflate quite a lot.

The issue is that you have few of the highest paid jobs and many of the lowest paid jobs. The labor cost of a giant factory isn't so much the director, it's the thousands of workers. If you double their wages, you double the cost. If you double the director's salary, you'll hardly notice in the balance sheet.
Our desire to have awesome stuff and amazing experiences expands to fit the space available. People compete for social status, and they don't want to miss out on whatever's new and exciting. There's an unlimited amount of resources that we could spend on medical research (curing every medical condition, including shortness, cognitive impairments and ageing, plus enhancements/transhumanism), climate engineering/geoengineering/megastructures, space exploration/tourism/real estate and other areas of scientific research, and most of this is going to happen as a result of private-sector employees exercising their consumer purchasing power. We're curious and productive creatures; I don't think a large proportion of us are ever going to just stop and make do with whatever the state of the art was at the time.
"Create more jobs" the whole reason why Andrew Yang is a proponent of ubi is because he tried doing this for 8 years and realized that the Economy just doesn't work like that.
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This was an interesting, fun story. The I was pleased that it took place in Beep. I visited Beep last time I was in Tokyo and was just amazed. It’s tiny, but packed with Japanese PCs, many of them running games you can play, along with software, and more. Well worth a visit.
I think we're just interpreting how the hypothetical choice works differently. You're right, I wouldn't want to live in the 18th or 19th century at all. But I'd prefer to not be able to vote (in isolation of other factors) to being a coal miner (in isolation of other factors).
It’s just weird to say that you don’t support a policy if there a lot of people that don’t support it. Surely that’s true of every taxation and welfare system in every government, for instance.
I don’t know if the hearing is going to go anywhere. All the CEOs are basically saying “hey we did everything legally in an open market, the power of tech has brought more choice and wealth to everyone, we aren’t monopolies, anyone had a fair shot at bearing us if they have better tech”

I’m interested in hearing the other side. Big tech is so big they can afford to take big losses and capture huge markets like maps, android, chrome etc fueled by profits from one part of the business and undercutting the small players until they’re dead.

The other bit that surprised me is why Microsoft isn’t part of this. Have they made themselves so diverse that they’re not in the radar anymore? Isn’t what Microsoft doing with bundling a bazillion things in Office 365 fair competition? E.g Teams vs Slack.
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Doesn't it strike you as odd that you must perform the appearance of working all those 50 hours (even though, as you've just mentioned, you spend the majority of your day listening to music and watching YouTube)? And what about those of us who don't have that luxury - say, due to increasingly invasive corporate tools preventing "time theft"?

Why don't we just drop the act?
Only about 30-40 million people would likely net extra income with a UBI. i.e. If you increase my income taxes by $1000 but then give me a $1000 UBI check, its a wash. For some reason folks struggle to wrap their head around that part. Which is why I think a negative income tax is better mechanism.
Do you have some sort of paper/article/book explaining the idea in detail? I don't think it would be fair to analyze it based on an HN comment.
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Strong typing generally does not mean much and everyone seems to be using a different definition. Would you consider Javascript weakly typed? What about Python?
Looks like there's a lot of vendored code in src/expendPlugins/chart—maybe that's the source of some of that?
> I have mixed feelings about the USPS but one thing is clear. They price incorrectly. It should have never been less expensive to ship a parcel from Beijing to Washington, then from say, Detroit to Washington.

Well, that actually worked really well for a long long time since the USPS was netting a lot of money through that because the USPS was the one taking advantage of other countries on this. It was only in the last five years that it started playing against the US.
It's closer to 90k lines of JS if you exclude data and external libs, those directories: data locale demoData expendPlugins/chart plugins
I completed a user component for my application, with email password reset. Before I go live linking everything up with a SaaS people can purchase, I want to iron out any security bugs in the user and profile flow.

The code is here: https://github.com/cris691/servedata

I've switched Stripe to test mode just now.

It uses NodeJS with helmet, running on GCP.
Say Grandma bought that house in 1960 for $100,000 (it's a really nice house). With inflation, that $100,000 is $870,935 today. Maybe that's still a return on investment, but not really that much. If Grandma had put even 1/10th of that into Apple stock, she'd be a billionaire today. I don't know where I'm going with this.
It's a bit more nuanced. UBI just gives people more options.

The narrative is that people who live paycheck to paycheck are forced into undesirable jobs because they are under time pressure to make money and can't be choosy. UBI will reduce the time pressure and make them be able to be a bit more choosy in what kind of job they get. UBI will also allow them time to invest in themselves to be able to land higher skilled jobs.

It will also allow people to more willingly enter low pay, higher calling jobs (teachers, etc) if they enjoy it because it has been bumped up from "too little" to "just enough" with UBI.
I trust Amazon to send me a branded SD card or Apple charing cable on time.

I don’t trust Amazon to ship genuine to specification SD cards or original Apple power cables due to the commingling stock issue.
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This may not be the most concise possible code base, but there's no way to build something like this with a thin layer of code on top of a browser. I can't imagine any similar level of functionality with a size that's a lower order of magnitude than this.
FYI I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to put a recurring amount of money into open source software. It isn't that it's hard. I just don't want to do it.
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*automatically move abroad to complacent countries where emission can be whatever you want them to be
If this kind of thing interests you, look into the field of zero-shot learning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-shot_learning

Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System

https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/11/zero-shot-translation-with...

Zero-Shot Learning—A Comprehensive Evaluation of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8413121

also available at:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.04394

mbsariyildiz / zsl_eval

> Python implementation of zero-shot/generalized zero-shot evaluation framework proposed by Xian et al in Zero-Shot Learning - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.

https://github.com/mbsariyildiz/zsl_eval
The more rates for Chinese packages is an artifact of an international postal treaty that China was abusing to prop up their manufacturing sector.

The US now has the power to redetermine rates for China-sourced packages.
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True, but these are still small potatoes compared with the losses they realize shipping last mile parcels.
Wait, so my taxes would only double? Not being sarcastic at all: this makes UBI sound possible even without a carbon tax. The top bracket would still be lower than what it was in 1960.
Nice try, they already made Capitalism 2 back in 2001

https://store.steampowered.com/app/638200/Capitalism_2/
Drugs and alcohol.

They'd probably do it regardless of UBI, but without UBI they do it and are slightly more angry or frustrated at their own situation.
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It looks like to be a pretty cool tool. My follow up question is: after using it to create a new project, if you add features to the boilerplate, can you easily add them too to the project or do you do it by hand?
Isn’t eating farm to table vastly less carbon efficient? It seems like everyone is presuming the opposite.
Modern cars are a heluva lot safer.

Expected lifespan is quite a bit higher.

You can't expect it to increase at the same rate as productivity, because it asymptotically approaches a limit.

Whether you're happy or not is up to you, not society. People, regardless of their status, tend to be at about the same level of happiness.
This balloons administrative costs and leaves rooms for loopholes - never underestimate the cost of having to patch policy loopholes. It also creates mini games around the UBI system, making it central in people's minds. Ideally you want UBI to be an afterthought, simple and clear, and let people focus on what they really want to focus on - their own work or life.
In the UK they would have to put the person on “gardening leave”.

Firing in this way when someone’s done nothing wrong would be constructive dismissal and prohibited by law.

The fact that Amazon treats their resigning employees in this way doesn’t increase my trust in them.

It actually just makes them look viscous and petty.
> A carbon tax in an ideal situation is just a consumption tax.

Maybe a stupid question: But why is it given that a carbon tax is a consumption tax? Why don’t we tax the producers?

Like why not tax the airline companies, as opposed to the air tickets? The gas stations, as opposed to the drivers? etc.
I don't know what UBI is, but as long as you are not allowed to print your own money, you must be allowed to participate in the (unique) economy, so yeah, somebody must give you a job no matter what. Or, if they don't have one, they can give you UBI.
I don't think they did. The OP merely conjectured that there were none in poverty in the U.S.A. according to a study from the Brookings Institute, promoted by Forbes.

They didn't connect it at all to what this might then imply for America. It's a strange injection to the subject. America would likely need its own study and that's probably the most that can be said.
That's only true for black holes created from the collapse of stars. Primordial black holes would have been created in the early universe and be much much smaller.
What do you not understand about UNIVERSAL? This is not a need based income, everyone gets it, rich or poor, needy or wealthy.
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It was the very first thing I wondered when I read the title.
UBI has never seemed like a good idea to me. If the current system is being exploited (corporations like walmart paying below a living wage to workers because they know foodstamps/gov't assistance will cover the rest) it just never made sense to me that the current class conflict gets solved by the losing side (workers) gets free money to pay to the winning side (capital holders). I also haven't heard any convincing arguments for the basic counterpoint that UBI won't lead to just an increase in prices across the board for everything and inflationary pressure (free market competition is a myth in a lot of current-day markets, regulators are asleep at the wheel).

You could argue that we already have forms of UBI in practice right now, but the UBI that gets referred to in tech circles with no significant tax structure changes just uses the government to guarantee more wealth accumulation for those already at the top. As the gulf between the workers and the capital class widens, it gets harder and harder for anyone to make the leap, and then we get the societies we see in Sci-Fi (ex. Elysium). It seems so absurd that people are pushing for UBI in a world where the US doesn't even have nationalized healthcare and a reasonable healthcare system. Talk about putting the cart before the horse.

I think the right-ish solution in the US can be oversimplified to:

- Reduce ludicrous defense spending in peace time
- Increase corporate and top end taxes to what they have been historically
- Resurrect unions
- Fix job displacement with investment in education and job retraining programs with extra support linked to enrollment

Unfortunately, getting any of these things done requires an insane amount of political know-how, political will, coordination, and effort, and someone to lay out a plan and lead the effort, not even including all the problems with today's hyper-partisan political climate.
Yeah I like everything about that comment except for the line about PMs.
Flow supports importing type definitions for third party untyped libs. And in fact did a better job at being integrated in current projects.

Flow lost because the compiler was in really bad shape, slow and frequently crashing. Also their equivalent repository to DefinitelyTyped would ignore PRs for months and years and afaik still does.

It's like it was somebody's toy project and its author eventually lost interest.

It's a pitty because TypeScript still has unsound generics. But Microsoft know how to make dev tools and maintain them.
In my state of Louisiana, there is a homestead exemption where if the property is your primary residence, you are exempt from a good chunk of property taxes. It doesn't always make it zero and it doesn't stop taxes from rising at a somewhat reasonable rate (though some would disagree), but it keeps it from having the California problem of taxes being essentially fixed at the purchase price while still protecting owner occupants. There are lots of other variations on this that work just fine.
This is along the lines of what I’ve been wondering as well. Secure boot is really the only line of defense here and it seems to be highly underutilized, to the point of making this grub issue look less worthy of press releases. And even if we did have a nice UI or workflow to get more people using secure boot, securely, there will certainly be bugs in the EFI implementations to compromise the boot chain there as well.
Singapore is ethnically Chinese and historically there have been some cracks. There are some University affiliations with China and Chinese employers in Singapore.

Death of Shane Todd is popular conspiracy theory. You can look it up. There is a very startling difference in the behavior of the suicide note if you look at it carefully.

At the end of the day, if the data doesn't need to be in Singapore, it shouldn't go there. If it does, you know they are up to no good, but don't necessarily understand what they are upto.
Every few years or so people pick on Al Gore because of the size of his carbon footprint, basically rich people use more resources and resources in our world get very much linked to energy usage - a good non Al Gore bashing look at it https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/the-truth-about...
Hasn't Congress continually set them up for failure?
Being the target of racism and being over-represented are two orthogonal things. Being the target of racism has no impact on your demographics in a population.
UBI is not a replacement for work - we do have to work under UBI. It just lessens the imminent need of working, affording a lot of people the ability to take more breaks from working to relax and recharge.

I agree that a permanent state of non-work is bad for society, but UBI is not advocating for that at all.
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If we're going to have an academic debate, then we should have an academic debate. One academic economist doesn't make a debate. I mean no disrespect to you either but I was friends with a Ph.D at Intel who said the economics were all in favor of general-purpose computing, and therefore, realtime raytracing was the way to go. Embarrassment was on me. I parroted his lines for quite a while. None of us are infallible. Having a Ph.D merely means you know how to do research, in a narrow, focused area.

If we are going to have an academic argument – and we really should, if we aren't to just be blabbering off here – we need to see some numbers. We need to know how they are calculated. What's the carbon footprint of these Mexican laborers getting to work 3 to a small-cab truck, or on bicycle, or on BART in the wee morning? And have that compared to the guy in Hamptons with his giant 22-room house here, and other houses elsewhere.

Maybe the Mexican guy's taxes will be close to mine. More than is comfortable. That is fine. Carbon taxes don't have to be the only source of income for the government. But until we can see the actual curves, and the total output per segment, etc., we can't actually crunch out what an effective policy is, and we're writing off what's arguably necessary if we're to fix the problem, because we're probably going to have a hard time cutting back emissions until we associate an economic cost to them.