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The best argument for UBI is that we already have it in some form. Most modern nations have lots of issues but the poor starving is not one of them. In fact, obesity due to over consumption seems to be correlated with (relative) poverty in many countries. The reason for this is that we have all sorts of safety nets that collectively mean that you are taken care of one way or another. Food, shelter, and to some extent health care are pretty much taken care off in most countries. It's almost universal with some notable exceptions.

Introducing UBI properly is basically just simplifying the status quo and has useful side effects in the form of it being overall cheaper, simpler, more effective, and fairer.

More importantly, it can act as an economic stimulus as well. Yes, there's a cost but it's not different than any other economic stimulus. The current corona crisis is basically a good example of governments printing a little extra cash to help out businesses and people. We're talking trillions here. Economies are not closed/circular systems and increasing the supply of money is routine. The role of central banks is to control the rate at which we print new money to keep inflation in line with economic growth. So people waiving the cost argument without considering the benefits are being disingenuous. Bailing out a bank is no different than bailing out an unemployed person. If we can do one, we can do the other. And we routinely bail out banks and other industries to the extend of trillions.

From an economics point of view, more people with disposable income is actually great because it increases spending. It's a particularly effective form of economic stimulus. Perhaps more effective than bailing out a few wealthy individuals could ever be. The current model of all the wealth accumulating with a small group of people is actually bad because while they spend some of it, a lot of the wealth just disappears abroad via off shore accounts, spending in other nations economies, travel, etc. Increasing incomes at the bottom by a few percent on the other hand basically feeds almost entirely in the local economy. People spend it and they mostly spend it locally benefiting local businesses. You could argue that our current system of sucking the lower classes dry so we can provide tax benefits to the rich is actually killing our economy and is actively harmful. This form of reverse robin hood style handouts is not new either. It's basically how feudalism used to work. Capitalism is reverting to feudalism.

The argument of stimulating the economy also can be used to motivate raising minimum wages; which of course become redundant with a UBI. This is another advantage because it reduces the cost and risk of employing people for employers. They can pay market prices instead of having to overpay a minimum wage for someone that they have to commit to keeping employed long term. It's a big reason why outsourcing to low wage countries is popular. So, UBI can potentially fix this too.

But again, we already have it. All we're talking about here is how to do it better and get more economic effects out of it.
This is basically how it works in Saudi Arabia. Citizens are guaranteed a job where they can get away with doing nothing. If they happen to be fired, they get a monthly stipend until the government finds them another job. As a result, most of the real work is done by immigrants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_workers_in_Saudi_Arabi...
"It was a software problem, highly complex, no one's fault."
Wouldn't negative tax mean that social programs would still be needed almost in the current scale to account for people with no income?
You’re right, that is the technical terminology (because the government does not directly collect the sales tax from the consumer, the stores do).

Still, from the point of view of the consumer it’s “direct” (in ordinary language, not economese). As in: “concretely and transparently makes product X more expensive for me”.

With an upstream carbon tax, it’s unclear how it affects the prices of consumer goods since it has to filter through the entire supply chain first. It’s not like “this pack of gum produced 3.14 pounds of C02, so you—dear consumer—will be taxed an additional $0.42”. That would be a nightmare to administer.
Slightly OT: Do people like learning/teaching with scratch? To me it looks like they identified using the keyboard as the hard part of programming and removed that obstacle. It makes programs very tall and skinny so I find them harder to understand.
Everyone complaining about how this is impractical clearly hasn't seen a Roomba try to clean a floor.
Servers were where the money was to reboot a CPU linage.
You could find the answer to this question with a 20 second web search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere_of_Jupiter
Carbon tax isn’t a sustainable source of revenue. The whole point of a carbon tax is to reach carbon neutral, at which point there’s no carbon tax revenue.
That's by design. You can't know whether a product legitimately came from the original manufacturer or was sent to an amazon warehouse by a third party seller. Therefore AmazonBasics is the only "trust worthy" brand on Amazon and the only reason it is trust worthy is that there is targeted campaign (by letting fraud happen) against every other brand that isn't AmazonBasicsbrand.
I should have included in my previous post that I'm not a mental health professional. I'm also just an interested individual looking to make the most of the hand I've been dealt, and I too have very large blindspots. I don't mean to provide you specific advice for your situation but simply offer something else to explore.

To be perfectly honest, my own fascination with personality disorders has formed as a result of rumination, spending energy obsessing over perceived symptoms and the their implications to the detriment of taking action toward solving the problems. I think this is one of the dangers of trying to go about making sense of your mental wellbeing alone.

If you're not already working with a mental health professional, and it is at all possible, I would very strongly recommend finding a therapist with a PsyD licensed in your jurisdiction. When you find a good one, they will have the depth to talk with you at a high level and the breadth and experience to help you consider possibilities you wouldn't have known about on your own. I understand if that's out of reach for you given your circumstances, but it can be a huge help.

Ultimately you are right, personality disorders are not discrete, nor are they mutually exclusive categories. They're really just patterns of traits as observed by folks who spend their time studying this kind of thing, and none of them seem have as simple a pathology as something like Wilson's disease where a vast array of symptoms can all be caused simply by an inability to excrete enough copper.

That aside, specifically to your request for more information, I can offer the following:

I was recently introduced to the relation between identity disturbance and the schizophrenia spectrum via this paper[0]. I realized that I had a very narrow view of schizophrenia and started to learn about the concept of schizotypy, the difference between negative/positive schizophrenia symptoms, and how dissociation + depression can start to look a lot like it fits on the schizophrenia spectrum. Here's another paper[1] that goes a bit more into the ways that the two spectrums overlap and contrast. Finally, sometimes the personality disorder subreddits can be useful for both finding a community and exploring what folks are saying about their own diagnoses and experience there.

[0]: https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/45/1/...
[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216848/

Feel free to reach out via the email on my website (in HN bio), if you have any other questions.
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I am really concerned about November with the current administration pushing a narrative of voter fraud. Now they've appointed a partisan postmaster general which I haven't heard of being done before.
For many, the tangibility of a real physical thing that interacts with the world and the constructivist learn-by-play approach is worth the $129.
Maybe. I receive several packages a week, and this is the first time I've seen a weird delay since the pandemic started. That's why I found it unusual.
This might help: https://www.holistics.io/features/scheduled-email-reporting/

It can generate a PDF with some data and charts. You can also schedule emails to share these PDFs with customers. Adding a customer filter and you'll get something like Mail Merge / Crystal Reports.

p/s: I work here.
"In addition, a UBI takes pressure and saves costs of other social programs. "

I would go as far and say that in the optimal case UBI would replace other social programs.
If robots did everything, then prices would fall. The effort required to obtain goods would be less.

CB money printing and UBI would prevent this prosperity.
Right, so you’ve just admitted your argument is flawed, it won’t work in the long run, and “it’s complicated”.

But yeah, sounds absolutely perfect, carbon tax plus ubi. Problem is that’s it, it sounds great.
It'll eventually be tantamount to asking why people should learn how to read.
Amazon has always been the more expensive online shop in my experience. You should expect to get overcharged by up to 20%.
as a WordPress dev, bless you
The central point is that the rich can also afford to pay for their supposed “orders of magnitude more carbon”.
How employers would reason when their employees start getting UBI? "Hmm, I was paying my employees say $1000/mo that was barely enough to survive. Now government gives them $500/mo. That means that I can can subtract $500/mo from their salary".
Honestly only way to address this is more intrusive data collection, so like the first X no of essentials you purchase will not have carbon tax (based on sustainable lifestyle calculations) while everything thereafter will be have it. It could be something like a tax deduction i presume ?
The basic problem is that efficient producer types make terrible consumers. From my industrious friends to Warren Buffet, they don't care to spend the wealth they accumulate. The dollars move more slowly, often to the hands of rent-seeking institutions. When they do consume on a large scale, it funds innovative of extravagance. Its fundamentally ineffective and inefficient relative to other models.

Given resources, consumers are remarkably efficient at consuming. My neighborhood is alive with home improvement projects, enabled by direct cash payments. The money isn't going idle. These dollars are flowing throughout communities into places that large money cannot reach. The velocity of these dollars is at least an order of degrees faster than sitting in an individual's offshore account. This invigorates production, adaptation, and research in ways a grant or tax discount cannot.

I often hear we live in a consumer-driven economy. If that is the case, its only prudent to empower consumption across the broadest possible base to grow the economy. The more I think about it, the more it seems like excluding people from being able to earn and spend money is actually sacrificing macroeconomic growth in exchange for social control.
It’s wrong because it’s inefficient and leaves the UBI recipient no better off. In San Francisco, as an example, rental rates track remarkably close to the after-tax first paycheck of the month for the median tech worker. Every year rents and salaries go up in lock step. At the end of the day only the landlords are wealthier.

If UBI were X per month, we would see rents go up by X very very quickly. This is just what happens when a real estate market is inefficient and supply constrained.

Land value tax punishes the underutilization of land, creating a reason for property owners to redevelop underutilized land and add more supply. It also creates an incentive for the average homeowner to be more amenable to extra housing, as that homeowner doesn’t want their taxes going up due to increased land value.

You can see this in practice in Texas vs California. Texas has very high properly taxes (2.5-3%) and reassesses annually. California taxes are closer to 1% and essentially locked at the purchase price of your home no matter how much if appreciates.

As a result, homeowners in Texas are a lot more supportive of new housing compared to those in California who almost universally oppose it.
That was all aviation, not just air cargo.
> Disagree totally on UBI. A rational UBI plan would recover 25%-50% of the UBI somehow.

Fine. UBI of $1000/mo for 200 million people (2/3 of US population) costs over $2 trillion per year. Recover half of it and that’s still net $1 trillion per year. That’s more than 1/3 of the current federal budget. And there is no possible way that it replaces that much in existing spending.
> The lack of real world experience on a HackerNews UBI discussion is infuriating. Western society's white collar elite are completely unaware of truly how many "sucky" jobs there are in the world that all enable our (currently) superior standard of living.

Your comment makes it complete clear you have a severe lack of real world experience.

Go to a wealthy country. I mean an actual wealthy one where even lower class people are paid well enough to buy a house, have a project car, get at least 6 weeks vacation a year, get generous maternity leave etc. etc.

Now look around and notice that all those sucky jobs you talks about are getting done.

Also notice that in those wealthy countries people can quite readily choose to get welfare to the tune of a few grand a month. They could perfectly sit around and do nothing and get enough money to live, if they wanted to.

But they don't.

Why do you think that is? It's because they're paid well to do those jobs. As long as jobs (even sucky ones) pay well, there will always be a line of people willing to do them.

If there are no people willing to do them, pay more.

As a real-world example I used to live in one such country and I worked in a factory stacking boxes. All day, every day. Pick up box, turn around, put down box. Starting hourly rate was $45/hr. Time and half on Sundays. Double time on a holiday. No union, those were just the pay rates.
The company I worked for still made a healthy profit, and so did the end company the boxes were being stacked for (Safeway, actually)
That's a rather emotional and wishful take on the matter. There are real benefits to staying competitive in the global economy. Countries with weak economies have less resources to invest in the health and happiness of their citizens. They are less resilient to crises. They are easily exploited by others and more susceptible to corruption. They lack the geopolitical strength to achieve long term goals that would benefit their citizens.

Building the #1 best economy obviously shouldn't be one's sole purpose in life. But if you really think it doesn't matter at all, why not leave the developed nation you probably live in and find happiness in the third world. Or just ask one of the many people who seek a better life in the first world every year.

There's a troubling number of people in this thread who seem think that wealth creation and strong economies is some pointless goal that we've been tricked into caring about. Let's not forget that we work to build wealth for ourselves and our children. We've already worked so hard to build wealth into our buildings and streets and health and technology and culture. Apparently that's why you can dismiss the value of a strong economy from the comfort of your laptop/desk in the first place.
So, is it kind of like a cryptographic hash function?
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The British government is investing in a sex party startup
There is a third type: structural home field advantage. Examples of these include Boise State's bright blue turf, Colorado teams playing home games at higher altitudes than most other teams, and hockey boards that bounce the puck certain ways.
Disagree strongly that you should combine UBI and carbon tax to same policy framework.

Carbon tax needs to function globally. An UBI scheme will be - for the foreseeable future - a local policy enacted within the borders of a sovereign political entity.

The economic actions of every human being must somehow be encompassed in the carbon tax scheme.

UBI on the other hand, is about how local governments wish to split and spread the dole.

Were you to combine these two into one, it would mean massive capital flows from the rich countries to the poor. It did not work well in the scope of development aid. You could say development aid has only made third world poorer.

If you could give this "global UBI" to people personally it might work better - stimulating local markets and entrepreneurs. Because everybody likes to get rich, and once you have UBI-loaded consumers everywhere, suddenly it makes more sense to offer services and products that were economically untenable before.

So if you could in some non-dystopian scifi future give direct UBI payments to people personally, then maybe this would make sense. But while we are seemingly moving towards a world with unconstrained financial services for everyone, we are not there yet! And we need carbon tax yesterday!

How are we not there yet? Well, according to the Economist, for example only half of the people in Latin America have a bank account. We can imagine that we can leapfrog to a future where everyone has a bank account through mobile banking services, but - not there yet!
> If no one knows about your thing

And if nobody knows that software exists, then it's not helping anybody. My phrasing sounds cruel, but I can't think of a better way to express it
Which is precisely why we have minimum wage laws, and why people are free to choose where they work.
I find it interesting that an article celebrating UBI as a panacea goes to the top of the queue, while articles critical of UBI are flagged and removed. Is this what intellectual curiosity looks like?
I think in general we underestimate the power of the B-tree, and this is but another example.
It doesn't seem to support complex numbers. It might be good enough for lower-level algebra, calculus, and real-number math, but it's highly crippled for DSP which uses complex exponentials heavily.
”Large programs get unwieldy, no matter what language you write it in, and a large body of evidence suggests that having static types for both safety and documentation is a big win“

I am beginning to think that cutting your large untyped program into pieces and typing it only at the boundaries will get you all the benefits. That probably means most, if not all, types inside those pieces can be inferred.
I don’t think this is a US thing, it’s just a google thing. The normal thing to expect is what you’ve explained.
It means more than doubling the federal budget, which already exceeds tax revenue considerably. UBI of $1000/mo might be doable in Zimbabwe as long as you don’t care what 1000 Zimbabwe dollars actually buys you....
Im not super knowledgeable on it but from what I understand it is a combination of solar winds, Jupiter's magnetosphere, and and Io's volcanoes blowing tons of shit into space, all intersecting together and blasting protons out.
Seeing projects like this from time to time always brings renewed interest to the TI graphic calculators. A while back I wrote a Forth-based operating system for the TI-84+[0] which uses the TiLem emulator[1]. I didn't want the software to bit-rot as well, so having a Nix build file would ensure the OS and emulator stay working into the future.

[0] http://github.com/siraben/zkeme80

[1] http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_tilem/
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It looks really nice! But...

The main reason I tend to avoid Google Sheets is that they're slow. Slow to open, slow to update more complex sheets, slow if you have more of them open. In general, much worse overall experience than a desktop spreadsheet, especially if you're using Firefox.

So I was really hoping for something with the snappiness of EtherCalc (which is blazing fast!), just more elegant. I realize it's difficult to have both functionality and speed, so a maybe a system of plugins could be useful. Most of online business sheets I saw use just a few arithmetic functions, many people would be happy with just that.
I live in Vietnam and get to see the rubbish truck go past my house every day exactly as the person above you described. It's summer time here, 35-40 degrees and high humidity every day. One person drives the truck, the other two go through people bins and sort their rubbish, extracting the recycling since nobody here has the habit of separating their waste. I don't know the exact wage of these guys, but judging from other government jobs it's probably around 3 million VND/month (~$130), slightly less than $1600 a year, and it's likely they work 6 days a week.

Food and rent is cheap here, but not that cheap. You can barely survive on that wage, especially if you have a family. You will be eating mostly rice and probably scrounging for other work on the grey market.

In Iceland, you'll get at least minimum wage, $2500 a month, ~$30,000 a year. Of course, the economies are different. However, using PPP (purchasing power parity) [1], Iceland minimum wage would be equivalent to around $13,000 a year in Vietnam, or 8 times a garbage collector's pay here, for significantly easier work and less hours.

I'm not trying to say that you had it easy, or that it was OK to pay you that amount for such long shifts and to stiff you on overtime. However, by objective comparison people working equivalent jobs in developing countries have it much, much, worse.

[1] https://partnersontheroad.com/salary-comparison-city-country...
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It's not just mail in voting, their goal is to destroy the post office so the only option is privatization.
If only. But no, that's not the reason.
Biologists might lose their shit over seeing new forms of life. Of course it would be decades at a minimum before anything useful came out of it.
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I'm cable guy. If you are working on data center, there is chance we already met.

I've crimped so many RJ45. Can't count.

Before CAT6 it was simple. After CAT6, all vendors starting produce their own.

This is my best manual all time. I love Penduit manual.

http://www1.panduit.com/heiler/InstallInstructions/N-COPN295...
> But who knows how much faster OSS would be growing if it was solved?

Not just how much faster it would grow, but how much existing projects would improve. Maintainer burnout is real, and I think that OSS would benefit a lot from long-term maintenance being encouraged by even a few dollars a year.

Even $3/year would make OSS maintenance a lot more fulfilling for me personally, because that $3 shows that I'm actually helping people.
What's the loan situation down there? :-)
Compare the licenses and think again :)