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> - A successful life often feels like day-to-day failure.

So do unsuccessful lives. And moderately successful lives. This is just a characteristic of most lives, unless measures are taken to overcome the tendency to experience life this way.
Capitalism has lifted billions of people out of poverty.
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In South Africa, we often have huge data breaches. It is interesting how little coverage in the news this can have, and almost no accountability. Sad state of affairs. Level of corruption in this country is extreme.
I suppose in order to learn how to love, it would be begging the question to scatter that word throughout the article. I wish it would have been mentioned at least once, though.
That is how a decent chuck of macroeconomics works. There are some things that exist at such a scale that you can't accurately experiment with them. You can only theorize, run models or simulations, and observe real world results after implementation.
I could never understand the point of a gym. Just a pair of running shoes. Some dumbbells. I picked up slacklining and bosu ball training during the lockdown. Why does one need a "gym" ??
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> based on how most jobs will be automated ...

Look into the luddites.
It turns out that the answer to this question is known for all sizes of grid[1], though it was found fairly recently (2011) and the answer for small grids is quite complicated.

For the 9x4 grid, the optimal number is indeed 10.

For large n×m grids, with n and m ≥ 16, the minimum number is:

floor((n + 2)(m + 2) / 5) - 4.

The linked paper has a full-page table giving the formulae for small grids.

Thanks to Schoolmeister for mentioning the name of this problem, which gave me the right terms to search for.

1. https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.5206
What does everyone think about the idea of market cap providing UBI?

I've been following AAPL since it was about $12 (as I recall) after the dot bomb:

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/chart?p=AAPL

If I scroll way out, I can see that low corresponds to about 1.04 on 12/10/2000. It's current high as of 8/19/2020 is 466.60, so that's roughly a 450 times return on investment in the time I've been paying attention. Had I invested $1000, I'd have $450,000 today. I could have retired on a cool $4.5 million had I invested $10,000.

The problem is, I had no disposable income at that time, having just graduated with about $25,000 in student loans. I only paid them off at the age of 40, almost 20 years later. I spent 6 years of that working extremely hard moving furniture and working in a Mac repair shop for 3 years each. The other 14 years were divided between good high-paying jobs like 1 year at hp as a contractor, and many as an entrepreneur attending the school of hard knocks. I had to settle many debts along the way. I learned a bit, but for the most part consider the last 20 years to be 2 lost decades. I feel that applies to all of Gen X, Millennials and younger, but that's still up for debate.

Now, we hear that there is no money for UBI from the government. But that doesn't really sound right to me. My feeling is that we actually have 2 economies in the US now. One for the working poor (the bottom half of the US population, ~200 million people who have no net worth and no savings), and one for the capitalists who have any money at all to invest and ride the waves of prosperity.

The real heart of what I'm asking is whether other qualities in life like potential, enthusiasm, work ethic, etc should be equivalent/convertible to capital. What is it about me and my life choices that excluded me from enjoying the gains that many readers on here enjoy? Was it my choice to attend college? To be an entrepreneur? To choose computers instead of say, sales? What was it?

And when we answer that, we get to the $64,000 question, which is:

A) Is there any way to structure our economy so that the whole population could have $1000 to invest early on? Or B) is that a fallacy, would the $1000 just create inflation, a leveling out of everyone's wealth so that Apple's market cap of $2 trillion wouldn't represent anything especially high per capita?

If the answer is A), then why didn't we do that? Why don't we do it now? Why couldn't the returns of the stock market provide UBI?

If the answer is B), then why are we excited about this? How is this different from rubbing the bottom half of the country's faces in the elite's prosperity?
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Nobody particularly cares about people doing high-contagion activities like going to a gym, for the people in the gym themselves, the ethical problem is that they're very few degrees of separation away from people who can't afford to be exposed. Even if you drive by and mind your own business, that gym almost certainly has a blast radius of unnecessary infections and deaths.
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unsafe { $($tt)* }
}
}

Yeah, not pretty, but it works :P
They harm the bottom line of people using the Economist to suggest public policy...
In France, there is basically UBI, you just need to ask for it. Just having the French passport and no job qualifies you to RSA [1] which gives you about 550 euros a month (according to [1], but nets to ~490 according to a friend finishing law school that had to sign up for it since cov19 is making it very hard for him to find a job right now). I believe you've don't have to have ever worked to get RSA, just being over some age (~26?) and being a French citizen. So you don't have to give UBI to everyone, just the people that need it while they figure it out. Now whether you, as a society, want it is an entirely different story; I've met some peeps that absolutely despise RSA in France.

I think there's also a bunch of programs financing unemployed people so they can go back to school and pick up a more current job once their unemployment benefits end.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_de_solidarit%C3%A9_acti...
So, no Plausible scenario Of new evidence for you to change your mind then ?
Not "possible depression". Depression. The economy crashed. It's over. The government's been buying the stock market to prop everything up. All the numbers you see are fabricated. The market never recovered from the initial crash.

Last I checked a 3rd of Americans aren't paying rent now? It's going to explode dude.
I don't know why this comment is downvoted when the income/wealth data supports it.

So much of the US economic engine after WW2 up to 2000 was driven by the fact that people were having lots of kids, and the taxpayers back then were borrowing from future taxpayers. That works if you continue to have lots of kids, but now that that has slowed down, plus the increase in labor supply via women in workforce, and outsourcing to other up and coming countries, plus decrease in demand of labor due to automation, makes for a bleak future outlook for many (as opposed to a growth outlook in the decades after WW2).

This is ignoring climate change and its effects. Which can only be remediated with reduced consumption. Which would also cause a reduction in demand for labor.
(can't read the article, but I've read and thought a lot about it)

I'm on the fence about the net cost/benefit of localized minimum wages. I think that a federal minimum wage (or at least, a high one), and to some extent, state minimum wages, are a bad idea. The Fight for $15 movement came from expensive cities, and it might be the right policy for those places. But it would severely distort and crush lower-cost cities and states. The right policy for San Francisco isn't necessarily right for Birmingham. It's one thing to have uniform national laws for human rights. But the nominal value of $15 means something very different in different parts of the country.

It seems to me that the right policy to increased pay for low wage jobs would be to set the minimum wage so a full time job at that rate puts you at some multiple of the metropolitan/micropolitan area poverty line. Wages would automatically increase with costs in a predictable way, and local economic conditions determine the rate. State or federal minimum wages could set a floor but acknowledge that regional differences matter in economics.
But you know that you can be a carrier and infect less healthy people right?
I get that your comments are advocating for a contrarian opinion, and that's a frustrating position to be in, but would you please stop doing it with snark, flamebait, and gratuitous provocation? It isn't just that it breaks the site guidelines. The problem is also that it discredits whatever truth there is in your minority view, because posts like this give people an extraneous reason to reject it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

This comment would be fine without the provocations at the end.
Lol, no. Just no. The capitalism experiment is everything that has happened from the industrial revolution (really, earlier) forward. Compare with the 19th, 18th, or 17th century, and you’ll find today’s wealth gap is smaller, people live more prosperous lives, happiness indices improved, etc. Not to mention the literally billions of lives that wouldn’t otherwise exist at all.
I would like to see a source for that if you could provide one :)

If I was working full-time and could live comfortably off that plus extra UBI, I think the majority of people would spend it on more luxurious goods (phones, laptops, drugs, etc.) which are mostly ran by/on outside/blackmarket economies...

We're not sure of the magic number/ratio between
"person will use UBI for basic, locally-sourced needs" vs.
"person will use UBI for 'wants', sourced elsewhere" and I think there's so many factors that it will be hard (almost impossible) to come up with a palpable answer.
I sincerely doubt technological "progress" is driven by filling needs in peoples lives. Rather, it creates the appearance of needs the technology can then fill. The "killer app" of a smartphone is still gps + mobile calling.... shit hasn't changed since the 80s.
The only politically feasible alternative is increased welfare spending, which means a low minimum wage is just a way to have taxpayers cover employers’ labor costs.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/02/13/ron_unz_h...
Nothing you listed has a competent GUI. For a mass market product that is everything.
What if the strong empirical data were against the interests of the rich and powerful?

They couldn't afford to base policy on those then!
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I want to limit my child's screen time explicitly because my screen time was limitless, and I blew it doing dumb things and feeling more and more isolated rather than more heavily pursuing real life interests and interpersonal relationships. Excess screen time lost me a decade of guitar playing that I can never get back. I don't want my child to suffer the same crushing self realization at 25 years old.
Do you have any practical suggestions for how to accomplish that?

I'm not rich, but I'm thinking that anything a billionaire can do with $1 billion can also be done by ten thousand households who have $100k each. So the middle class could perhaps get richer if they only knew the secret?
Sure in a perfect world you decide to sell 1 share to Apple. The share price increases to account to for the lost share and market cap stays same.

In reality, enormous swaths of shares are held by index tracking funds and everyday investors who don’t sell their shares into buybacks. In this case the market price based off supply/demand must rise in order to find someone who will let go of a share so Apple can buy it.
Mozilla's uses a combination of https://github.com/eqrion/cbindgen and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen depending on the direction of interop. These tools don't provide the safety guarantees of https://github.com/dtolnay/cxx but the also both predate cxx and C++ doesn't have much in terms of safety guarantees to begin with so the bar is pretty low.
>if I could, at any time, turn to my coworker and ask about something, I'd be more efficient

Haha, I remember when I was in the office before this all started, I had multiple coworkers who would do exactly that. I can't tell you how jarring it is to have headphones in and be in a focus state implementing something, just to have someone imagine they are able to trample on that time for their own efficiency and ask me questions. Doubly worse was they wouldn't even think thru their questions properly

Now, we're all remote, and I just hit back at their impromptu questions with "can you give me more context?" and half the time they solve it themselves. Imagine that
Schools are closed. We have a sky high unemployment rate. A raging pandemic across the world with no end in sight. We want things to be normal. The Fed is doing its best at pumping money to keep the market afloat. So we have some weird things in the market like Apple reaching 2T within 3 years, Tesla going 5x within a year.

These things are normal given actions from central banks. The market is rational. We're not rational for wanting things to be normal.
Given this as the reason, does that mean valuations will plummet once that supply slows down? If the best bet now is "things will keep growing while money is being pumped in", how does that balance out in the future?
i find ogres attractive, maybe don't shame people for having different preferences from you?
Or even at least a source would be nice.
Best data I've seen is 6x (.63% IFR). And due to lack of existing immunity from the Flu which keeps the flu at less than 10% of the population/yr, we're looking at a dramatic death toll.

That people don't want to believe it, without evidence to the contrary, just makes them solidly into the wishful thinking category - and likely spreaders that will inevitably get someone killed.
Why has no one just created a VR punching bag tracker that gets tracked in physical space, with trackable VR punching gloves?
> It seems on HN, that a lot of people are in favor of municipal owned last mile fiber as opposed to ISPs.

Yes, and this is really quite silly when an independent fiber co-op would serve the same function with a very similar governing structure and responsibility toward its members without the obvious conflict of interest that comes with having the municipal government as your ISP. The only "advantages" a government-run ISP has over a co-op have to do with abusing their monopoly over the local right-of-way and powers of taxation to favor their own service over any potential competition.
Looks way too complicated. I think the reason is rust is not good at OOP. Compare with my C# to C++ interop library, it can easily pass arbitrary complicated types both ways: https://github.com/Const-me/ComLightInterop
Can we ban sugary breakfasts too? Captain Crunch, Froot Loops & their ilk should be illegal.
In regards to how dangerous it is, there are two other important factors - the number of people that don't get terribly ill, but suffer long term effects - and the fact that if any local/regional health system is overwhelmed - all those survivors who needed intubation would have been casualties. I'm not sure how that would affect the effective mortality rate.
I like to refer to Parkinson’s law as Boyle’s law for our behavior, too
> that means relying on good will of the developer that he will have motivation to maintain the app regularly or relying on some bug foundations

As opposed to paying for it which guarantees you'll get the service you want - except it doesn't.
At least FLOSS would give you and others the opportunity to fix bugs /maintain the app themselves.

> But many of them are hesitant to pay for it

Depends what it is. There's a difference paying for a non free app, and tipping for a free app.
Two robotic hands that can work in co-ordination just as human hands do.

Rethink Robotics, a Rod Brooks startup, tried that, with "Baxter". Company went bust.

There's good, simple commercial hardware for high-volume vegetable chopping and dishwashing, and it can be found in most large commercial kitchens.

There's a huge amount of special purpose machinery in the world. Most of it is pretty dumb. Newer machinery tends to have more sensors and a bit of self-adjustment. Vision systems have become parts of much industrial machinery - they're cheap now. Mostly they're looking for things aligning or looking like a known good object.
The head of the strategy of Sweden, keep repeating that he is not sure masks are working, how you can be so sure that he is wrong, and decides that's others who are not listening ?

Of course it is clear that if someone has covid and wear a mask, the probability to transmit covid will decrease (I was actually encourage people to wear a mask 6 months ago), but will it stop ? no. people can still transmit it by touching you. So yeah this is decreasing the risk, but is it decreasing the risk high enough that it will prevent the virus to spread ? Nobody has answered the question yet.

In France the mask is mandatory almost everywhere and still the number of cases keep increasing
A mortgage is not the only cost of owning a property. Taxes are a third of my mortgage payment every month. Other than the IRS delaying tax day by 3 months, I haven't seen any delay or waivers of taxes due.

In addition, there's basic upkeep and maintenance that you're required to perform to keep a building insured, let alone to make it re-openable at some point.
> Based on how most jobs will get automated some form of an UBI will be required sooner or later.
> Now the only question is: ...

"Most jobs will get automated" is actually very questionable. It's called "Lump of labour fallacy", although (I suppose) either not everybody subscribes to it, or it's something that tends to go unnoticed.
How do we create laws for these contingencies? Should we list all the possible manners in which consumers shouldn't be screwed? Should we provide flexible guidelines?

It risks becoming a regulatory hell too for small developers to navigate. If regulation is weak, it risks becoming some pointless step in the way (a minor point in an EULA, or cookies-like popup) that people would ignore anyways. One way or the other, it's easy to spin as a feature: "Our VR set has a social focus (eg. we post your daily usage). For this, login in to you account is necessity". There. Now not only you need to log in, you are also publicly shamed for your usage just for them to save face.

Sadly, it boils down to human decency to make a human product.
Another thing they did lately BTW is these "show the rest of the discussion" links, which seem to randomly pop up in a thread, hiding relevant replies. And they are not even JS-based always it seems, they often reload the whole page! And when they do, they hide the other parts of the same thread that were visible on the previous page. What in God's holy name is that??? That is a worse UX in every single way, than what you could have had by simply printing all the replies like you did before. WTF is the point of that? Are you actively trying to get me off your website and go somewhere else? That's a hostile UI for no reason...
Inflation is wealth inequality. It benefits disproportionally the rich, and when done as part of QE it goes straight into assets like AAPL.
It's also useful to auto-redirect to old.reddit without having to log in.
There's a difference between allowing adults and children to consume things. Children have limited agency and we consider it a social duty to protect them from some of life's extremes until they're better capable of understanding the consequences of their actions.

You don't have to ban things not be authoritarian. Smart governments just price in externalities, which is why you slap tobacco and alcohol with extra taxes to offset the increased costs of health care and reduced adult lifetimes.
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Absolutely spot on David Shayer…
This project was real w/o a doubt.
There was whole surreal drama & interesting story about how this project was kicked off & then kept secret.

The Case of the Top Secret iPod

https://twitter.com/tfadell/status/1295727727606104064
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A permanent study would allow you to observe behavioral changes among that group of people, but it won't provide insight into the societal changes. For example, what is UBI's impact on inflation and would it result in inflation that negates some or all the benefit of UBI? Or will a society with UBI still be able to fill that society's less desirable jobs in a financially sustainable way?
I can rep 450lbs, but pistol squats still kick my ass.
>Apple succeeded because they managed to do something that was previously unimaginable in business theory - create a mass-market luxury good.

How's that different from all kinds of clothing brands?
Doesn't that stat just mean that >99.9% of population has not been murdered. It says nothing to the number of people doing the murdering. It could be a single individual on a massive serial spree, or an individual murder per killing which I find just as unlikely. The point is, your stat isn't stating what you think it is
Also, do textbooks actually say that? Because it seems trivially false: if a worker is actually paid that, then there's no money left for investors.
That original source was on HN a couple of days ago with
comments too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188791

Side note: lots of people in the UK are boycotting the BBC today, one day only, as a protest against their use of the N-word on their TV news and subsequent refusal to apologise (until they then backed down after a prominent black presenter publicly resigned).

So yes, please everyone click the original story not the BBC version, at least until tomorrow :)
Of course they are! They have a core belief system shared by millions of followers; they also have organized priesthood to oversee the whole process, and even are entitled to tax exemptions!!!

They also happen to be right. Your unbelief in karma did not prevent that another sarcastic, smartypants jerk would come and bite you in the ass, did it?
Weird, I tried to google it and found almost nothing. I was sure many cultures had this tradition when they call their child a fake name, while keeping real name a secret. It is thought that evil forces cannot harm child if they don't know their real name.

All I could find was a paragraph on wikipedia:

All previously mentioned names fall into domestic category were used in family circle. However, when a person entered a broader social group (changing his occupation or place of residence), his name was replaced or supplemented by another. This sort of nickname exceeds family names in number - an adult has more distinct characteristics that can be used as a basis for a nickname than a child.
Now you're on the right track. Imagine how a daily churchgoer feels.