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You can't "walk" in this 1.6G. You'd experience it while floating freely in space. And the stress on your body would be tension instead of compression. I guess it would feel like hanging upside down, except that your blood rushes to both your feet and your head.
I think what I see is the following:

Side A: 1000+ voted story, with Apple’s recent App Store sentiments, emotionally engaging. This is the mob.

Side B: A lone fact checker. The comment posted by this fact checker was not ambiguous. It literally said that this whole thread is false. That kind of gravity in a comment is different from your usual discourse.

Side B is overrun by Side A. I am seeing this in our society, not just on this forum.

I feel like it’s different than you and I discussing whether tabs or spaces are better. It’s being overrun by emotions. We need to allow criticisms to surface and counterpoints to be heard when they’re devoid of attacks/trolling. Downvoting is creating a rather reinforcing mechanism for the mob the feel good about their stance. Further fueling it.

I am spooked by the current atmosphere on the internet. And I’m spooked by many instances of mob mentality in our society. Note: I am not talking about US protests.
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Those in a free market where prices aren't set by the government.
I'm aware it's not perfect. I just don't think you realize you want to take exactly the thing that is wrong about our current situation and make it the core feature of society.
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Raise it to 2000. But the parent was talking about how now with UBI, people don't need to work to pay that.

With food stamps, and other welfare programs that already exist to cover your other costs you don't have to work to be able to afford living anymore. Sure you can't go anywhere or have a fancy new phone or car but your income from work could pay for those things instead of just barely being able to stay alive.
Not really. Only after your comment i realized that it stands for any key at all. I never actually thought what it means before.
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"Everyone" doesn't make x more, some people make less. There's no more money overall. Money is just shifted around. Demand will increase on housing (particularly in the low end), but so will supply.
Interesting to note that cloud storage and realtime collaboration isn’t 100% tied to a browser-based interface though. Even though many existing apps work like that, there are desktop clients for a bunch of cloud-native SaaS (and even though some of those are Electron).
If it’s so obvious, why do all supporters of UBI ignore the issue? If you really care about the well being of the worlds population then address the underlying problems.

Provide them access to the education you received (starting with primary school, not college).

Prevent their exploitation by the companies. Especially those that we often work for!

I would bet a better effect can be realized by investing in public education at the primary-high school levels. Make teacher salaries competitive with engineers. Enable all schools to have the equipment and teacher qualities they need.
You’re articulating clearly why even solving all underlying causes of homelessness wouldn’t actually cure homelessness. Why don’t you believe your own argument?

In any case, while that is the obvious conclusion (as you’ve stated), I never took the position that we merely need to fix mental health etc. I am not saying UBI will work but will make prices go up so I don’t like it.

I am saying that UBI won’t work, it will in fact make inequality worse, AND there’s a solution that will work. It’s the LVT. Once we have LVT, then we could do UBI and the upside would not get absorbed by landlords.

It’s odd to me that you’re claiming that I’m being dismissive of poor folks but you’re literally advocating moving to an igloo in Alaska as a solution?
The parent comment said "spend it all on an addiction or just make a bad investment". What do we do with the person that gets e.g. their 1000€, spends it on a night with champagne and then has nothing to eat or pay their rent? Too outlandish for you? How about if they spend it on a new TV instead of rent, a new smartphone or a couch?

There's a reason why some people get into debt because of consumption: they don't plan reasonably. What do we do? Do we not pay them UBI but give them pocket money and keep the programs in place to cover their rent etc because they can't be trusted to take care of that with money we give them? Do we just ignore their fate and watch them go hungry and eventually homeless? Do we keep the programs in place, give them UBI and then pay their rent when they spend the UBI but didn't include the rent?
Yes. We know from eg the Nordic countries that bulk redistribution works.
I've been downvoted for stating a simple sourced fact last week. It happens all the time, when there are echo chamber or when the truth hurt some fanatics feelings they downvote in order to hide the truth, truth which hurt their ridiculously high sensitivity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23977461&goto=item%3Fi...

Such people should be accountable and loose their ability to downvote (and to a lesser extent to upvote)
As they actively hurt the epistomological quality of HN comments

So here's the idea: we should be able to call a moderator/contributor, explain to him why you think the downvoting is unfair and he will give retroactions.
I guess this is just the foundation. A way to check types before runtime. I can see a lot gems making this experience better so I'm not too worried about that. It will become better, and it is optional.

For the time being I think this kind of type checking is only worthwhile in big projects, for smaller projects I have found Sorbet never finds an error, so it's just extra work to generate the files on a big change.
There was hype for NoSQL/MongoDB on HN ages ago, but it has long since passed. The only people bringing it up now just seem out of touch.
Raising rent ... and building more houses. Raising rent skews incentive significantly towards renting. Eventually the market becomes efficient as supply outstrips demand and rent sinks again.

With an ability to command higher rent, renting becomes profitable on properties that were previously not profitable to build on. In the long run, I expect rent to fall relative to the current state of affairs as housing is overprovisioned (using the added income from more rent) and moves more towards a buyer's market. Furthermore, with UBI workers are in a stronger negotiating position so we'll see more work from home which also lowers rent by reducing competition in the cities.
What if every landlord but one raised the price by 1000 a month, and that one realized he could get more business by raising only 900 a month, so in response to that one landlord others lowered to only +800 so the one countered with +700... Etc. Etc.
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What makes side B a "fact checker"? How can you identify them as such?

The real problem is that for pretty much any claim I can find you a tweet saying it was false. That doesn't help. We're into relative assessments of credibility by origin here. It looks like the original tweet author has retracted, which is pretty convincing.
Using UBI as a band aid on the societal wounds caused by Capitalism, is in my opinion, ignoring a bigger issue. That's not to say UBI isn't a good idea, though.

We're in the midst of an ecological catastrophe, where our very existence as a species is at risk. We're driving towards a cliff edge and the discussion here largely focuses on a strategy to get more fuel in the car. We need to change our fuel, rethink our metrics of progress and change our course.
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> Land is in fixed supply and everyone needs land to work, sleep, and exist upon.

For those who are convinced supply&demand doesn't work for dwellings, buy a rental and charge 10x the market rate. See how that goes. This applies to any business. For example, try selling something on Amazon/Ebay/Etsy/Craigslist. You can charge whatever you like for it. Whether someone will buy it is another thing entirely.

Everyone needs food, too, but ironically it's the unneeded food (like Starbucks) that's expensive.
Yeah, for me when I was learning it was not-obvious, but wikipedia has an article on "Carat notation" I found by searching something like "what does carat mean in a terminal" on google.

Unfortunately, for me when I googled that exact phrase just now it gives a "Featured Snippet" saying it means "the beginning of a line", which is about regexen and and also only sort of right in that context. The wikipedia page is the first real result though.

Edit: I was spelling caret wrong. oops.
I'm not sure how this works in the US, but in other countries there are laws against such increases in rent - especially 'social' rent for those with low income.
You mean the ones with high LVT on natural resources like oil?
Uh, source for that? Because it's complete news to me as something "we know", and I think to pretty much most of the world's biologists and mainstream scientists of all kinds.
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If a city in the US existed where everyone magically got their problems fixed, I imaging it would be seen as a desirable place to live, so no wonder the rents go up.

Rent is an auction, so there is a dynamic/negation about living in a place. It's not true that rents go up if "everyone is able to pay" - only if "everyone is able willing to pay"; where are competing cities with lower rents in this example?
Ubuntu is nowhere near the only major distro. Maybe on the desktop, but most likely not on the server.

Edit: Also there are a lot of stories of "this old system that is central to our operation that nobody except that one guy 10 years ago knew how to set up" in companies.
> People do not casually write open source to make money (unless sponsored by a company). They do it for the recognition and for vanity.

1. I would like to make a little bit of money from my open source projects. I like money. But if no money comes ... that's okay too. It won't stop me coding for fun.

2. I write open source code because I enjoy the freedom to work on what interests me, and I can devote some time to it. I expect many developers would like to contribute to open source but can't; they have to put their time and effort into other areas of their life.

People are weird. They often do stuff without the need for an incentive to do it. Code up a pet project, write poetry or stories in their diaries, build an entire constructed world that nobody else will ever be interested in - all just for the fun of it.
What mechanism is proposed for determining eligibility? I have multiple citizenships but have not lived in any of the countries I'm a citizen of for quite some time, meanwhile I have lived in more than 20 other countries.

Is UBI proposed to be given to:

* every citizen of a country that implements it? (then, can I get more than one?)

* every resident of a country that implements it? (right now I have legal residence in three countries, but I know people who have zero.)

* something else?
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When someone says:

> Apple takes back from the developer exactly what they gave the developer. This has been verified by a number of people, and this submission is just farcically wrong.
How is this nonsense front page on HN? Is this community this clueless?

This is a pretty harsh opposition. Not a small thing to gloss over. Why was it downvoted?
Probably because it's harsh opposition.

Yes, downvotes are unexplained, and we're reduced to mind-reading, but what I reckon is that the following would have done much better:

"Apple takes back from the developer exactly what they gave the developer. This has been verified by a number of people"

.. especially with a link to said verification and the bona fides of the verifiers.

The gold standard would be a link to a statement by Apple. Of course, simply being said by an official source doesn't make it true either!
> Even the most hardcore anti-capitalists have to give respect to how the combination of capitalism and technology has worked to lift most of the world out poverty and provided us with the security and comfort only kings enjoyed just a few century’s ago.

The article starts with a fallacy.. It should be: only technology has improved our lives, not capitalism. And there are still insane amounts of people suffering and living in poverty because they do not have access to even the most basic resources, let alone the latest technology.

In fact "the combination of capitalism and technology" has opened the door to horrific new ways to suppress and exterminate people.
Culture does contribute to management style and you're being really weirdly politically correct in not accepting it.
I indeed missed "some percentage" when replying. Sorry about that. You can view my response as an elaboration of my original complaint above, which is basically what it became anyway.

Regarding UBI, I currently can't understand its potential effectiveness when more comprehensive reforms seem to be also missing. People are not being educated, employed, fed, given healthcare, etc., and I almost feel that UBI is going to blossom into this excuse to forget about those problems and thus the people facing those problems while minimally giving them chips to still play and lose at the table.
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Alternatively: Help your co-workers and friends by normalising getting paid for real work outside of what is contracted.
The economic problem is that advertising and capturing a bigger chunk of the market is more effective then lower prices.
This is good in one way because markets are getting bigger. But players are not incentivised to lower prices.
I still see this as a redistribution of wealth, tax the rich and give to the poor which is socialist in nature, not saying that's bad thing just that it's nothing new. In Poland this sort of thing is already happening, e.g. parents get 500 PLN/month per child, it's not called UBI here though.
> Not only upvoting the story but also downvoting posters to minus-12

You've misunderstood how downvotes work. That person's account has multiple downvoted and flagged comments in other threads. (You can see these if you have "showdead" set to "on" in your profile.) I don't think an account gets to -12 on one downvoted comment, I don't think that's currently possible.
Primarily anecdotal, but my experience (as a Dane married to an American) is that Americans are more likely to both give to charitable organizations and volunteer their time, whereas Danes are less likely to do so. Seems to be slightly backed up by this article (at least the volunteering part): https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/sep/08/charit...

Also, I will add that when people on cash assistance in Denmark (kontanthjælp) do stupid things like spend all their money on alcohol, the general response seems not to be an offer of support but a "pull yourself together, you've got the means to do so". It definitely might just be the the circle I'm in, but thought I'd offer up my experience.

I think point 3 will be a real problem with UBI.
> Untyped languages allow for rapid development

Citation needed. In my experience this is a fallacy; types take no time at all to write and significantly reduces bugs (Typescript).
You got to follow the protocol

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Short answer: let's say shipping a single person costs 100$ to an airline, and the airline sells the ticket 120$; but then you require that the airline pay 20$ in taxes per ticket they sell: at this point the airline will sell its tickets 140$.

There's some wiggle room (eg maybe some airlines get too much profits and with the right incentives you can get them closer to the market price), but generally speaking, taxes to corporation trickle down directly to consumers.

That's something people don't understand, because they visualize giant mega-corporations as extracting immense amounts of wealth from the poor and giving it to their rich CEOs, but in practice these corporations benefit from economies of scale, and their margins are fairly tight.
> Speaking of SecureBoot and how practically no Linux distribution actually makes use of its potential (in terms of increasing security)

In Ubuntu and Fedora you can’t load unsigned kernel-modules when using secure boot.

How does that not increase security?
The author started off by relexifying Toki Pona (substituting the vocabulary) and then modified the grammar to make it less ambiguous, ending up with a new language, which is given the ungooglable name "Mini". The relexification makes the phonology rather more complex: 19 instead of 14 phonemes.

I feel that if you're going to have a minimal vocabulary of about 125 words then it's good to have a minimal phonology, too, and I rather like Toki Pona's simple phonology. In any case, that's rather subjective and independent of the more interesting question of the grammar. Something like Toki Pona but with manageable syntactic ambiguity sounds like an interesting idea.

I feel that ideally all syntactic ambiguity would be explicit and obvious: stuff like where a prepositional phrase is attached rather than words whose part of speech may vary. I've not looked at "Mini" hard enough to see if that has been achieved. A list of what kinds of ambiguity remain in the language would be interesting.

(It's amazing how slow the world of invented languages moves compared with programming languages, say. It seems to have taken about 19 years for this arguably fairly natural further development of Toki Pona to appear. Rust appeared 5 years after Toki Pona and is now one of the most popular programming languages. That's not a criticism or even a sensible comparison; perhaps the more interesting observation is that there is a kind of progress in the world of invented languages: people aren't just reinventing the wheel.)
If the backstage team didn’t miss the M&M detail, does that give you any information about the overall attention to detail of the promoter?

(If it does, then it seems like the lack of that information is itself information.)
The idea that HN is well informed is incorrect. The top comments to many posts are completely incorrect.

Social media caters way too much to feelings and biases.
There is no such thing as a trusted source, and there never has been. Before you act on information, always double- and triple-check, if at all possible. Treating Twitter, of all things, as a trusted source seems especially risky.
Here is another fallacy:
"This led to massive accumulations of wealth and the biggest wealth gap in history.
This in itself isn’t a bad thing. After all, we’ve all become wealthier in the last few centuries even if some have become unimaginably wealthy."
ok when I said he was correct I meant his main point was correct, which I did not see as the cancel culture thing but rather that Apple does not keep the 30% commission. The cancel culture thing I saw as more of the rudeness.

on edit: clarified what I meant by correct better
The fundamental difference is that UBI would be subject to democratic processes. The private economy is not. Not that democracy is working all that well right now...

I don't want UBI; I want people to have some assurance they will be able to eat tomorrow.
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"therefore landlords take that x% and call it cost of living" is even less convincing
I love the intent behind UBI, but second-order consequences seem seldom to be considered.

For example:

If we give everyone $X, where is the money going to come from? Taxes from people making > $X dollars. But, how would those people have utilized that money, if they _weren't_ taxed? Perhaps in ways much better than its utilization for UBI, which leads to a net loss on balance for most.

If we give everyone $X, what is that going to do to low-income work? Say a person, previously could only get a job _making_ $X / month. Their incentive to work is now diminished. We may _think_ that they will will be spend time learning / etc, but this is an ideal, not reality. The person would most likely _choose_ not to work. This would deprive both them and society of the value they would have produced

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> The first core component of capitalism is the understanding that when everyone performs the work they are best at, then trades with each other, everyone wins.

^ This is not quite true. Capitalism works through evolution: It simply rewards people for doing work that _other people want_, not necessarily work they are best at.

When you look at capitalism through the lens of: this is an opaque, higher-order process that allocates capital through evolution, you end up wanting to change some if it's core components less.
I'm the guy that posted that excerpt from the agreement. I was actually shocked that no one else had, as there are millions of copies of it out there.

But I do appreciate the anecdotal stories from folks that actually processed refunds.

Apple is entitled to yank the extra 30%, but it seems that they don't do it. That's not uncommon. Lawyers will often add stuff to contracts that they don't intend to enforce, to give them leverage and cover, in unique situations.

I have never had to process a refund, so I don't know.
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Yeah, that is a fair point. Nonetheless, at this point we are not providing them a general income and instead society will just be subsidizing rent.

I don’t like this solution because it is a pretend-solution. What are the causes of poverty? Prevent them. What are the barriers to mobility in the job market? Alleviate them.

UBI helps but in my opinion it is just sweeping the problem under the rug.
When I'm armpits deep in prometheus these days I occasionally pine for nagios.

Only ocassionally.
A totally subjective answer here, but I think it's because of the speed the game is played at.

It's very easy to trip when sprinting at full speed while concentrating on a single object. The slightest external force will put you on the ground very quickly.

Rugby, Gridiron and Ice Hockey players will also know that, but frequent falls under pressure are expected by the rules. In soccer, it's a lot more subtle (shirt pulling, various rules around obstruction, the height at which you keep your hands... all sorts). There's plenty of opportunity fool a referee, so you will instinctively try to do so. Especially if your style of play generally draws opposing players into fouling you regularly already.

I'd say that the introduction of video referees (VAR) are probably more effective in stopping that kind of behaviour, than empty stadiums. But you'd never know.
> east of the iron curtain

I only don't understand why "east of the iron curtain" when the country is on the west of the countries behind the iron curtain, as per Wikipedia link I've given?
Aside from all this I would think a commission on a charge that was then refunded would be illegal in a lot of jurisdictions.