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If it's not enough to live on for free then it's not an UBI. The B in UBI stands for basic, it means that it covers all the basic needs, such as housing, food, electricity. One might argue that things like entertainment or internet wouldn't be covered by UBI because it'd be really basic, but I assume few years of activism would change that with actions like "internet for everyone, let's tax the rich to pay for it".
I agree that it is presently such.

I disagree that it's ever been otherwise.
You must love Netflix then (you can turn autoplay off, but I'm sure you know that, right?)
Sure, and I have plenty of grievances myself. My expensive university calculus and physics courses were so bad (a rushed professor and TAs we couldn't understand) that we would meet up after the course to watch Youtube videos to learn the subject and do the homework. We'd joke after class, "yeah, that was definitely worth $X,XXX" with a tear in our eye.

Ended up taking a $120 summer course at a community college and mastered the subjects.

I spent a lot of time in uni wishing I was spending that time backpacking around Asia. But I also experienced the woes of standardized tests in high school and I'm reluctant to see them as a solution to anything.
> Why don't we build nice neighborhoods any more?

We might, we just dont know that we are building them. Assuming today's nice neighborhoods are the old ones, I would argue that they escaped a period of modernization. I think we look back at our recent creations and always think about how we can tear them down and rebuild. The neighborhoods that escape this cycle of "tear down and rebuild" and luckily slip into the status of "vintage charm" suddenly hold more caché and may even get protected status by their city or municipality.
Also kind of odd because messaging apps use a trivial amount of data unless you're doing video. But most people may not know that and then switch to them for "unlimited" and there you go.
The point of the satire, and the point of TFA, is that measuring 'merit' is difficult, if not impossible, and a focus on 'meritocracy' will lead to promoting those that perform best at the measurable proxies to merit, not actual merit.

It seemed worth pointing out that people are using a word conceived satirically to advocate for the very system that satire warned against. And it's an interesting bit of history.
Linux 5.9-Rc2 Released with EXT4 Updates, More POWER10 Bits
Oh, the optical disk filesystem! That would be a useful hack. I won’t have problems using it on a standard hdd or ssd?
A perverse thought pertaining to matrix square-root: [0] I see the notation of M^(1/2). Could the idea be meaningfully extended to define, say, M^(0.7), similar to the way this is meaningful with real numbers?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_symmetric_matrix#Squa...
This was confusing, the actual article is after a big 'quote' from Microsoft. The meat of the article is:

Linux Foundation lawyers are now literally recommending omitting copyright holders’ names and copyright dates from copyright notices in source code. Why would a lawyer recommend something so dumb? This is an obvious attempt to try to hinder GPL enforcement
Probably alluding to Eich, a competent executive with a technical background (because don't we have enough lawyers in executive positions?), having been pushed out for his private beliefs. 6 years later, rightly or wrongly, they are judged for this decision.

There is value in organizations staying politically neutral, especially if the are trying to build a broad coalition to further other goals (such as internet privacy and open-standards - as Mozilla is trying to do).
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The record was made in Nasser's Egypt however. All government jobs were shared with dozens or even hundreds of people. Some worked only few hours once a month and earned reasonable wages.
There is really no need to reinvent or start with a clean slate. You can just do the following:

1. Use HTML and vanilla JS or jquery without using the huge set of javascript libraries needed to render a simple page.. as an SPA. What was the problem with plain old HTML in the first place? and whats the problem with server side rendering?

2. Avoid Google Adwords and the rest of the nonsense.. including AMP.

3. Support search engines like DuckDuckGo

Now, none of this means your website will be visited often or find its content listed high on Google.

However, if you can live with that, why not?
Not opposed to server rendering or backend heavy sites, but a lot of people are able to get much better Lighthouse scores for fairly complex sites through a combination of webpack code splitting, service-worker based caching, and CDNs.

So, the problems here may have had more to do with the clojurescript stack (which I am not much familiar with), or author's lack of familiarity with javascript optimization strategies than react, SPA model or client side rendering.
Single sample estimation is never that good.

Even were the tests perfect, rich people and ones with additional free time can take more attempts with reduced cost to themselves and families.

Additionally, tests are extremely time boxed, while actual research work is much more lax. Tests also do not measure cooperation, a crucial thing in real life research and development.
Speed is not necessarily quality, and we don't know how correlated it is.
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I wish I could find that viral image passed around for decades demanding the ideal à la carte cable tv - just want a handful of good channels not 1000 channels of crap.

I guess we got what we wanted but not quite the way we expected.
Right? I think there was something architecturally wrong with the app that the refactor fixed. It doesn't sound like react was the problem here. I sincerely don't believe that this sort of change and therefore the decrying of react for it makes much sense at all without seeing this guy's code.
> dihydrogen monoxide

I always wanted to know why this name was picked over "hydrogen hydroxide".
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Can you explain the reasoning for this?
Listening to her talk, she seems a pretty standard run of the mill Libertarian with a blend of technocrat.
Do you have snapshots enabled by any chance, or any other btrfs features?
Not sure if you're a student or never had an income, but savings are not just for retirement. Savings, as opposed to a retirement plan, are for major life decisions like buying a car, getting married, supporting a family, upgrading your standard of living, taking care of emergencies, and affording expensive opportunities (like moving or traveling, for instance).

Also, no, the basics of supply and demand will not make cheap cars a thing. It's not the cost of a car that you can't afford, it's the cost of maintenance. Fuel, maintenance, and insurance (mandatory in the US btw) are all costs to use the car - the average being around $100/mth.

https://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/cost-to-own-a-vehicle/ -> 1.1k

And also no, new cars will not become cheaper over time in the US. There's already 19% of the US families who make under 24k a year (we roughly double UBI to account for 2 adult UBI incomes and one car per household rule). That's 24 million households already out of the 130m households in the US. The market for used cars is actually quite big (17.6 million transactions / yr) which is probably why there isn't an $8200 new US car offering (which, btw, requires savings in order to purchase).

Back to my original point, if you have a budget of 1k/month, you could spend ~$400 on rent, $300 on food, $100 on your car, $100 on personal needs, and $100 on misc / emergencies in a small suburban town (like the outskirts of Pittsburgh) -> I've done this in college before. But realistically you would need an extra ~$600-1000 a month to pay for things like - internet, health insurance, furniture, clothes, laptop, phone, heating / ac bill, eating out every so often, a social life, hobbies, travel, etc. So yes, you'd still want double of your UBI income.
Random selection is important to know if your system actually improves anything, or if the results are only good because the input was good to begin with.

For all we know, those universities that only pick the best and brightest may actually produce inferior results that are nevertheless still very good.

Thomas Sowell, when challenged on the success of charter schools in New York as being biased due to a "better selection" of students, was able to point out that this bias was limited by the fact that admission was based on a lottery.
> is more prone to data corruption.

I'd challenge that. The main reason for using btrfs in desktop use is precisely is that your data is less likely to be corrupted. Specifically because unlike lvm+ext4, btrfs does full data checksums and therefore is capable of detecting silent data corruption.
Come on, that is basic supply and demand. The only confusing part is that inflation is often considered to be it's own independent thing and it can be controlled exclusively through e.g. the central bank when that's really not the case.

Consumer inflation = price of consumer good increases

Consumer deflation = price of consumer good decreases

demand exceeds supply = price of consumer good increases

supply exceeds demand = price of consumer good decreases

Now use these four basic definitions to answer your comment.

>Do prices for consumer goods rise when there are more consumers?

more consumers = more demand

UBI = less people work = supply stays the same or goes down

In this scenario "demand exceeds supply" is true. Prices do rise and that rise is called inflation.

>Do things rise in price when the people who usually buy the things have more money?

Again. UBI = less people work = supply stays the same or goes down

more money = more demand

People may buy more than one product if they can afford it or they may buy a higher quality one.

In this scenario "demand exceeds supply" is true again. Prices do rise and that rise is called inflation.

If you were to introduce price controls and set a maximum price for TVs then it is possible that one person buys 3 TVs and two other people can't get a TV at all. The answer is to raise the prices until everyone who wants a TV can get one.

>Are things more expensive in more populated areas or less?

Well, it depends on what "things" you are talking about.

A UBI does not influence the amount of land available so the supply of land would be fixed but the amount of money being received through UBI grows with a greater number of people.

supply = stays the same

demand = increases as more people live in a community

Therefore we see inflation in land prices.

If you were talking about something like an iPhone that can be manufactured in China and then shipped to New York then no, it would not cause inflation because denser populations do not prevent the Chinese (or any other company that's operating outside your city) from building bigger factories and thereby increasing supply to match demand.

supply = increases with demand

demand = increases as more people live in a community
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Markdown isn't plain Unicode text. It mixes markup marks with plain text, and is intended to provide more layout than plain text. Plus, the question is rather broad, as there are so many non-alphabetic languages around the globe. I'm not knowledgeable enough to offer an answer.

You may want to read the work by W3C[0]. Some requirements mentioned exceed the needs of simple written communication, but not all in my experience. The problems usually arise when you mix different scripts.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/typography/

EDIT: clarifications.
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> BTRFS was developed largely concurrent with, and in direct competition to Sun's ZFS

ZFS started development in 2001, and released on Solaris 10 in 2006. Btrfs started development in 2007, and the disk format was stabilized in 2013. ZFS has continued to gain features over the years, but I would say btrfs was largely developed after ZFS and still hasn't reached feature parity with the original release of ZFS due to the RAID5 issue.
Looks like we've come full circle? First server side rendering, then client side, now server side again?
I think the issue is that I want a doctor who is competent, not just one who can get the best score on exams. More to the point, I want good effective fairly priced healthcare, not necessarily a doctor at all.

The current system is meritocracy with regards to a set of metrics very loosely associated with merit. It's insanity how much we read into meaningless differences in indicators of merit. We take an indicator that is very very loosely correlated with ability over the entire distribution, for typical applications, and assume that small differences at one end always matter. It's like reading tea leaves with regards to actual outcomes.

The problem with current inequity in society is that it's disproportionate and arbitrary. We frame these discussions as if it's meritocratic capitalism vs blind communism or something when what we have isn't actually meritocratic at all. If it were, we'd see much more diversity in society than we do, and many more options as consumers.

I'm not sure I agree with the proposal but at least it's honest. I'd rather have my child dealing with that than the current lie society tells itself. Then she wouldn't fall into a cycle of despair over a cruel fairy tale, and everyone would have a more accurate appraisal of what different outcomes mean.
> we’ve discovered that React also leads to some questionable practices. Like hovers in JS (rather than in CSS), drop-down menus in JS, not rendering hidden (under a hover) text (Google won’t be happy), weird complex logic (since it’s possible!), etc.

This is some strange reasoning that I have yet to seen myself. If you can do the hovers states/drop down menus in CSS, why not do them in CSS, even if you're using React? Seems to be blaming something on a library that the library has no care about in the first place (which to be frank, seems relatively common in web dev circles).

> In the worst case, we would serve you 2.5MB of minified (non-gzipped) JS

And holy guacamoly, how do you end up with this?! Seems that something was surely wrong in the compilation options, forgetting to mangle names or something, missing dead-tree elimination maybe?
They have. Legumes are an important way to fix nitrogen (while simultaneously growing food!).

Why haven't ALL plants evolved to fix nitrogen? It's abundant in the air... and also in the ground. You don't manufacture your own vitamin C, but you could. But there's no need. Humans specifically evolved the inability to do so, where almost all animals can and do.
> Using merit as a proxy for competence is where a lot of the trouble starts

These debates tend to get diluted absent a specific meritocratic measure.

With respect to college, I think the sole question to be answered by such a measure is probability of the admitee graduating. We are able, to some degree, to predict this.

Given such a measure, it doesn’t make sense to give a seat to someone who has a 5% chance of graduating over someone with a 90% chance.
Beating an index fund while also spending some of the money is vastly more difficult than just beating the index. The real question is do they beat inflation. And in that context you see:

Churn on that list is largely an illusion.

The wealth required to maintain a spot on Forbes list is growing significantly faster than inflation. Wealth that would have put you in first place in 1992 ($6.3 Billion) or 12.49 Billion in 2020 money, is less than 1/2 what it takes make the top 20 today. Don’t worry Bill Gated may have lost the #1 spot, but hey he’s got 7x as much money despite giving away billions.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hayleycuccinello/2020/04/07/the...
> - Oh-my-zsh has a lot of plugins for auto-completion

As does bash-completion, which is available in many (but not all :-/) Linux distros and via Homebrew on MacOS and [pre-dates](https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/tree/09b07d57a7031d9...) [oh-my-zsh](https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/tree/5da20b9dddb1f7a91106...) by about 6 years.

But, zsh users and oh-my-zsh fan-boys seem to be entirely ignorant of bash-completion.
This is the typical "we didn't spend any time thinking about our architecture therefore we're going to blame our framework" article.

React is a great choice for certain use-cases, but when low-quality developers are allowed to pick it up and apply it to everything you end up in a mess. The same thing happens with literally any tool.

If you want speedy initial interaction times and manageable codebases, (and requirement X) use the right tools for the job, and instil better, thoughtful, development culture.
Sure you can muck around with matrix exponentials and matrix logarithms to think about such things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_exponential
My point is more of: if even the UK can make coal less relevant than renewables, almost everyone can.

The exceptions are practically rounding errors, even though Siberia is one of those regions that is worse than the UK and has 33 million people in it.
This sounds very interesting but I'm a little confused by the problem they were trying to solve -- what were they trying to prove knowledge of?
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This is one of my primary dislikes of zsh ...
Firstly, great work on the your product. It already looks quite polished!

Could you point out what problems you faced with Flutter? I ask because I'm planning to use it to build an app.
I believe the quote/screenshot is from Linux Foundation. But yes, confusing. And no actual argument or discussion of the problem.

I honestly don't see what the harm is supposed to be. What is the purported effect of a broader attribution in the copyright header?
> we’ve discovered that React also leads to some questionable practices. Like hovers in JS (rather than in CSS), drop-down menus in JS, not rendering hidden (under a hover) text (Google won’t be happy), weird complex logic (since it’s possible!), etc. You can have a React app without those problems, but apparently, you have to have better self-control than we had (nobody’s perfect!).

idk if this is fair. OP was using some pretty niche tools (clojure) whereas best practice React metaframeworks like Nextjs may have addressed some of those pagespeed issues.

additionally, I highly doubt that the author has replicated this functionality by using his new turbolinky framework.

So the post is better titled "I improved webpage speed by throwing away React AND a bunch of UI requirements". which is fair dinkum, but less exciting.
I'm fairly certain you need to have an individual account with Facebook in order to setup a business. At least that's what the signup flow makes you believe, maybe there is some hidden options of skipping that. Just went through this a couple of weeks ago.
A classic example of bikeshedding.
Wow, I don't think I've ever been accused of Marxist propaganda before. Certainly not before lunchtime.

Okay, I'm going to try and be charitable. I agree that high IQ people create "real progress" and they come from the majority. A good example I expect we would agree on would be Steve Jobs: very smart, responsible for lots of progress.

The problem I see with meritocracy as it exists in the real world, for example, college admissions is that it doesn't reward Steve Jobs. It rewards the smart but boring, the clever but not too clever, the academically bright and socially conservative. When I quoted "minority", I didn't mean that there is some special cadre of people who are better; the quote refers to the fact that only a few people are responsible for human progress. There are plenty of high IQ people, but few Einsteins or Gates or Jobs.

And returning to TFA, it seems obvious that selecting an ever-smaller fraction based on quantifiable measurements doesn't measure merit. I'd argue "merit" is simply not accurately measurable, certainly not on a large enough scale for college admissions.

So the idea of selecting randomly from a fraction of "good enough" is likely to give as good a result, whilst also improving problems of social mobility and possible finding those diamonds in the rough who might have greater "merit" but not be good at standardised testing for whatever reason.
they were using handrolled SSR in clojurescript, I'm not sure they set up code splitting.
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I bet people won't. Ready-made docker solutions are based around nginx/apache and shared hosting stacks were in place long before php built-in webserver was available. There's no reasons and incentives to change all that.
I grew up in socialism and can tell you that things weren't half as bad as you describe them. Sure, everybody had a job (it was the state's responsibility to provide you with one) and people found themselves demotivated because there was little incentive to do a better job. There was a saying "They cannot pay me as little than the little work I can do" (I hope I translated this correctly :) ).

But, being killed for not working? Never. Start your own business? Sure, just pay the taxes and observe worker's rights. Growing your own food? Every rural household had a garden and some had decent sized fields.

I guess you meant communist Russia at some (signifacant but not large) window of history?
Getting enough teaching staff and laboratory space is expensive and exponentially harder to manage. Plus you will need support such as cheap mass housing. Then on top of that, big mass transport.

It's not insurmountable, and quite a lot a chicken and egg problem.

The most important part is, what do you do with drop outs? Or with people who try and cannot find fit?
How do you handle people who have to quit for personal or family reasons, who suddenly now are concentrated on one place near the university?
Carbon 14 from the air, so no.
False as in we don’t know the person ranked 1,001 has less academic potential than the person ranked 999.

We know, with a decent likelihood, that the person ranked 1 has more than the person ranked 750. But someone at 1,250 is quite likely to exceed the academic potential of someone at 900. Hence the “falseness” of the cut-off.
because many would quickly find themselves not satisfied with having less than they see others with and there would be more than enough politicians lining up to tell you how unfair it is to you furthering your discontent.

UBI at levels needed to sustain your existence would not necessarily mean living alone how you choose to live but pretty much may end up in group homes or similar accommodations where many facilities are shared to make it affordable. Even then some areas of the world or even city will be inaccessible to many.
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I'm spending time refining this, so would be genuinely interested in any feedback, or ways to improve.

It's absolutely not the finished article, and intended to be quick and deliver results.