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Half of that wealth is in property, you can’t draw an income from it if you need somewhere to live.

It isn’t evenly speed either, most of it is concentrated in the SE and amongst the older generations.

Interestingly many of those people do get UBI, it’s called a pension.
It's not a UBI study if it only studies whether people like getting money they don't have to do anything for.

I'm repeating it every time: these kinds of studies are the same as measuring the output of "free energy machines" that supposedly work by breaking physics... while ignoring that they are plugged into a wall-socket. To prove that they work, you'd have to unplug them, otherwise you don't need the sophisticated machine and the fancy theory, an extension cord will do the same much cheaper and more efficiently.
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^^This

This is the only argument I present to people that talk to me about UBI in a positive way, ie they want UBI.

If people are given enough money to live on for free I would wager there is zero incentive for them to be productive within society. Zero.

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>the participants are usually aware/suspect that this bonus income probably won't last forever

If a country fully implemented permanent UBI today, all of this would still be true. Controversial political decisions are likely to face constant challenge, and this especially applies to those decision which do not benefit the most powerful.

Being critical of this as an imperfect experiment is an odd take to me. This is what reality looks like. Having a real-world test like this is an important stage of the process of implementing UBI.
C programmers:

> here’s how simple it is: (two lines of arcane gcc invocation)

I just don’t see how you can call that simple.
This is cool but this is from the source code...

- License is GPL2

- If you want to be able to distribute binaries in binary only form, then please send $1,000 to Justine Tunney jtunney@gmail.com on PayPal, for a license lasting 1 year.

If the goal of this project is to have something similar to cross platform web development this is the wrong way to go about it imo.
Not an anti-article sentiment, but I dislike the trend of big companies pretending they care about the nerds just because they realize they need them for one particular objective.

It's an anti-marketing sentiment.
Definition of socialism: Worker owned means of production.

That's it. You're feeding on 100 years of western propaganda and neoliberal ideas.

China is state capitalist, UdSSR was state capitalist.

If you want to see a working socialist state, even though it's suppressed by the US government for 70 years now, which explains most of its problems btw, look to Cuba.
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How do you define "wealthy"?
Yeah the millionaire thing feels off to me, but the idea behind it.... Do prices for consumer goods rise when there are more consumers?

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

Are things more expensive in more populated areas or less?
Very good points! I would add that we don't yet have a complete model of the computational properties of even a non-neural cell, even though we know that all cells exhibit simplistic perception and decision-making.

This is not to say that we should expect some non-turing weirdness or anything 'mystical' like that, but that we just haven't taken the time to analyze the exact mechanisms and to model cells at this level well enough to be able to say that they are similar to any particular computational structure. Thus, to claim that the brain in its entirety is similar to any particular computational structure such as an NN is either wrong or trivial - the only level at which 'similarity' can be claimed is that they are both useful in computation, and likely turing complete. Anything more specific is fanciful thinking.
> Not really, because under UBI, literally everyone would get money from the government, hence the "U". If you remove that feature of the system it wouldn't be UBI anymore, it would just be yet another means-tested system.

The idea of UBI is that everybody gets it, but many/most of us will pay higher taxes that send it right back. It'll just add a little bit of overhead by moving the money around, but you don't get to keep it.
> Wouldn't nationwide UBI just make everything more expensive? Most people who work will continue to work, most people who don't, won't. More money in circulation = higher prices.

UBI would have to be funded by a corresponding increase in high tax brackets.

> If you care about poor people, why not just try to fix welfare with e.g. Negative Income Tax proposed by Milton Friedman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax)?

That's like UBI for people who can hold down a minimum wage job, but it does less to help the very worst off. Why do you prefer it over UBI?
Nothing really. However, to get that really good TV screen, impress would be partners or just make yourself more content, you might want to get a good job.

Even if some people opt to just do nothing and get money for that, it's no big deal. I'd much rather see people spend time with their kids and get UBI than them having to work bullshit jobs that benefit no one (telemarketer or whatever).
It's odd - one of the selling points of my plan with Three in the UK is "Go Binge!" which doesn't count any data used for Netflix et al ... but I'm on an unlimited plan, so it seems rather pointless.
Why is the C++ code labelled to be coming from some file .c?
Having watched a bunch of videos of people who bought NeXT computers recently, I can confirm that the shell they saw when running Terminal.app was csh. It would be a hell of a coincindence if all of them had happened to change from the default to csh.
Have you, for the past several years, earned much more than minimum salary (and UBI would presumably be less than that)?

If so, what has prevented you from saving all the excess money beyond minimum salary and retiring (or taking several years off), living on minimum expenses while playing videogames?
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A much better article covering the same experiment here:

https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN...).
That already does happen in some countries with the state financial aids to people. They just quit working and do whatever they want meanwhile the working people fund their lives with taxes.
> What under UBI is preventing me from quitting my job and spending the rest of my life playing videogames?

You wouldn't quit your job. You would continue working. Like most people would. Why? Because if you didn't work, someone else would, and they would get way ahead of you. From my point of view, UBI would do nothing but cause inflation (at least for now anyway, story will change once lots of people have no skills that are needed in the job market).
> What under UBI is preventing me from quitting my job and spending the rest of my life playing videogames?

Nothing, except that UBI is a basic income, so you don't have the money for the latest and greatest gaming PC. You have enough money to not go homeless, but not a whole lot more. If you want that PC, you have to still work for it.

If you look around, most people aren't exactly living the most basic life possible with the least work possible, they quite like their luxury goods in exchange for work.
Time to change that, then. She insisted on using both surnames and strongly emphasized her Polish roots throughout her life. Erasing her Polish maiden name clashes with her wishes and is only possible, because due to historical circumstances Poland had very limited impact on global popular culture.
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Please point me to some of this discussion. I'm very interested, especially if it relates to technology development and the requisite supply chains involved.
Niantic (The Company behind Pokemon Go and Ingress) would do something similar for events in Ingress:
They had a "measurement window", in which they would look at the state of the gameboard in a certain city and count stats (details irrelevant for the story here). The measurement window was 10 minutes long, but they would look randomly at one specific second and count the state at that second. Before each measurement window they would post a SHA hash on their twitter account, and release the string that lead to it afterwards (which was a bunch of garbage and a time like this: "52o5dfeis(})5eidfjsdkdbn 10:03:20 huner54652&e") Worked great for that proof :)
Yes. This is a fantastic idea that would reduce stress for thousands of students, elegantly address questions of unfairness, and take wind out of the sails of people who think their admission to $PoshUni proves them to be a better calibre of person.

For all these reasons, I cannot possibly imagine the ruling class would allow this to happen.
My point isn’t that planes are racist, as I suspect you know. All I’m saying is the reason most pilots on UK airlines sound the same is because they are the same. Whenever there’s an occupation where we might have a clear cut image of what those people look or sound like (lawyers, doctors, journalists) that’s some small indication that there’s probably a diversity issue at play. You can argue it doesn’t matter, and look, I even said “sub-optimal” up there, I wasn’t trying to call anyone evil. And while race and gender are issues I was also just as much thinking about working class kids’ access to these career paths because of the enormous debts they might have to run up. I share this viewpoint with such radical leftist organisations as the British Airline Pilots’ Association.
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Perhaps it depends what you mean by 'productive'.

There is less incentive for people to survive financially by doing unethical work on behalf of powerful and wealthy people, OK, we can agree on that.

But, is (for example) cooking and cleaning and caring for others 'productive'? We don't see that in macroeconomic figures, so it doesn't count - but most people do a huge amount of that without being motivated by pay.

My understanding of the world is that most people are even more motivated to do things for others that don't bring a financial reward.
If lockdowns only occur in highly developed countries, then by their own logic they are nearly worthless, since the thing they're trying to avoid will spread just as much in the majority part of the world that isn't highly developed. Thus, there have been strong pushes for lockdowns globally, regardless of development level. In some developing countries, they have been applied (in others no).

In these cases or many others where a developing country shied away from heavy-handed lockdown, government support of the type you mention is nearly nonexistent. That you take its existence for granted suggests to me that you yourself live in a place where there is support and simply assume it should be the case anywhere (it's not).

The same for the taxes you mention for social support. Sure, the taxes some developer pays in California, or the UK, or New York or X developed place might be used to help social benefits programs in that place. In many if not most other places in the world though, any collected taxes for social programs are mismanaged, often stolen or simply don't exist in the first place. Again, that's how much of the world actually is, most of its people very definitely don't have much access to government support or public healthcare.

I speak from experience here by the way, living in a large developing country with a famously corrupt government at all levels, and 60% of its 130 million person population living day to day, hand-to mouth. I can't even begin to image the social and even humanitarian catastrophe of full lockdown here had it been applied (fortunately it wasn't despite the pressures of COVID deaths). Even partial quarantine has been damaging enough.

I don't even understand the meaning of your last sentence. This isn't about "weakly collapsing" at the first sign of trouble, it's about the hard math of what inevitably happens if you force-stop daily outdoor economic activity in any country with a majority population that must engage in exactly such activity in order to keep from literally going hungry.
It's very clearly a lot more than just commented code. They are examples/snippets of common patterns.
But the fact that it 'lives' in a world of text is much more fundamental. There is simply not enough information in text to draw a working model of the world. We presuppose such a model in our words and in our communication, so fundamentally any algorithm that is solely trained on text can't learn a model of the world from it.
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If there is anything boring about HN, it must be the UBI articles.

Reading the comments I see no new arguments. It feels like Groundhog Day.
It is quite complex subject, but defiantly needs faster progressing and bigger trials.
With AI advances on the way destructing jobs, it is our role to reinvent and find our own place in the future society, question who has rights to have resources, should we invent meaningless jobs, should we accept economical model and maximizing our output, or maybe Scandinavian model where we place people in the center and try to maximize creative potential, well being and happiness?
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Exactly the same way ReadyNAS solves it...
I've quickly skimmed the discussion on fedora-devel regarding btrfs. I wondered mainly how they'd handle the various cases where btrfs does not work well, e.g. files that change often inline (databases, VMs, etc). Apparently an application can tell to treat those files differently. So it's basically a matter of fixing various software to work nicely with btrfs as well as any similar filesystem.
As mentioned in the thread, openSUSE already uses btrfs for loads of years. I do wonder why it isn't more supported by upstream software (postgres, VM things, etc).

I was also surprised how good the discussion was on fedora-devel. It seems that people didn't break into camps of "over my dead body", and "if we do not do this I'll leave", etc. It seemed more like a "this is my really thought out proposal, but is it actually feasible or did I forget anything". Then people raised problems, sometimes the proposer(s) already had a solution, sometimes it was something they didn't think of. What's nice is that despite seeing various problems everyone seemed to understand that people are trying to improve things.

I didn't read fedora-devel for many years so that was a welcome change over the past.
College should be a meritocracy, it's just that we want people to be able to be able to afford it and not be shit out of luck if they can't go to it. This would also reduce stress as you don't have to worry about not getting into a college if you know your life is going to turn out fine either way.

Why has this goal been malformed and twisted around to the point where people are coming up with any solution that doesn't involve tackling the cost and the career issue?
Isn't this experiment widely considered unsuccessful?

https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/nordic-welfare-news/heikki-h...

https://www.businessinsider.com/finland-basic-income-experim...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/08/finland-free-c...

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/12/basic-income-finland-expe...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-08/finland-f...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/finland-univ...
> That's like UBI for people who can hold down a minimum wage job, but it does less to help the very worst off.

Actually, it is exactly like UBI, under NIT you also get money if you don't have a job.
Network coding is very interesting but the maximum gains from the network coding itself are fairly limited... a small constant factor. In attempting to apply network coding I've found that vulnerability to (maliciously) corrupt data significantly limits the utility.

If this is an area that interests you, you might also be interested in efficient set reconciliation-- where a party can communicate to another party a set using only exactly the size of the set-difference to the other parties set without having any idea of what the other parties set has.

This can result in fairly large bandwidth savings in P2P gossip applications without reducing robustness-- and could be combined with network coding in places where network coding is applicable.

I worked on an efficient implementation of setrecon https://github.com/sipa/minisketch/ and an application of it to Bitcoin ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.10518 ).
Oh, absolutely, as a foreigner in a Book Off I love the no-shrinkwrap policy and also the way it's a large and well-populated space that's much less intimidating to walk into than the kind of second hand bookshop that's practically empty and you feel like you're being observed by the old dude behind the counter... And they are indeed great too for buying "text-only" books -- I'm just not sure the business model would work anywhere near so well if the text-only section had to carry the whole thing without that 50% manga area.
That's 100% at Epic's fault.
First of all, they willingly put their customers at risk.
Second of all, they could've put the engine business in a different entity, keeping it safe from their games business
Cuba is a "working socialist state"? Have you been to Cuba lately?!
I cannot locate anything about the person you refer to, but that doesn’t matter. “Not wholly unrelated” is a very weak justification for an abduction of a foreign citizen (especially where “not unrelated” means “wrote about some country’s politics”), and unilaterally declaring international consular relations “suspended”. “What about Y” does not mean X should be tolerated.
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It’s true, HN does enjoy the occasional dispassionate argument against diversity.
> On the one hand, Merkel gets constant praise for being a scientist, on the other hand she's a conservative (questionable by any standards) that is technophobic.

Merkel herself is a scientist, but her cabinets? They are a whole different lot, and not in a good way. "Internetausdrucker" is a good way to describe most of Merkel's cabinets.

> Additionally, Merkel never ruled alone, it's been either a coalition with the SPD or the FDP, neither are conservatives.

Yeah, but the responsible ministry has always been in the hands of the CSU (1982-1991, 2009-now) and the CDU (1991-1998). As you know the Chancellor and the Ministers they appoint set the political direction.

I'm too young for the first generation of Conservatives under Kohl, but I can fairly well judge especially Dobrindt and Scheuer to be utterly incompetent, with Merkel doing nothing to keep them in check (and to be fair, neither did Seehofer and Söder, to whose party they belong).

> Please don't spread misinformation and if you actually believe "Conservatives are a plague", go see a mental health professional, because you're dangerously radicalized.

yawn
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1. Wikipedia states: "according to a notice in Nature at the time, it was named in honour of Pierre Curie, but was considered at least by some to be in honour of Marie Curie as well."

2. The Curie isn't an SI unit, the Becquerel (Bq) is.
it's all about education and sozialisation. people want to be recognized for their achievements. they don't want to be recognized as a couch potato. if what you say were true, then why would anyone work more than what they need to cover their expenses now?

yes, people say they don't want to work. but what they really mean is that they don't want to work bad jobs just because they have to.

why do people do volunteer work? again, what incentive to do volunteers work do people have now? lots of work without much reward. yet people still do it. UBI won't change that, but it will give more people the opportunity to do volunteer work, or do more of it.

many jobs today are not actually producutive for society. people do them because they pay. and they will continue doing them because UBI won't enable you to have expensive vacations or other luxuries that you might enjoy.

on the other hand, people stuck in bad jobs may be enabled to quit them, because it won't cost them their home or their insurance. pay will rise because people don't need to accept hard labor for minimum wage anymore.
When you've made all other optimizations and your performance is bottlenecked by that last bit of efficiency, then perhaps it is interesting! 2x is nothing to sneeze at.

If your application is costing users two million dollars a year in bandwidth ... then halving it would potentially save a million dollars a year-- and could well be worth an impressive engineering effort.
I configured BTRFS for my data a couple of years ago on my Debian machine. It's using RAID10 - and the RAID 5/6 issue was widely known back then so I did not dare to touch that.

I must say that (fingers crossed) until now I haven't had any issues with it. There have been a couple of unclean shutdowns that haven't led to any corruptions. Scrub runs every couple of weeks and on top of that the data has an offline (external disk) and off-site (rsync.net through borgbackup) backup. I'm not expecting BTRFS to let me down, but if it does I have recovery options. I tend to be very careful with my 17+ years of photo archives, especially since I'm generating hundreds of megabytes of new content every week since my daughter was born.

It definitely doesn't look good that RAID 5/6 is broken, but I feel very safe using the other stable RAID modes.

Sometimes I'm dreaming of setting up ZFS - however the downside of that is that it doesn't live in the kernel and you're forced to work with kernel modules. It's certainly doable, but since I had a kernel module issue with Wireguard a few months ago I'll be "looking the cat out of the tree" for a bit more before I decide if I actually want to make the move. For now BTRFS feels stable for me, so until that changes - or the benefits of ZFS increase by a fair amount - I'll probably stay on this.
Is btrfs still super slow at deleting large files?

It can take multiple seconds (like 5-10) on my fileserver to delete just one ~10GB file.
Cool! It's nice to see there is something similar to to Kowloon Walled city still in existence.

Last year we visited the Anata no Warehouse arcade in Kawasski, which had parts modeled after it. Unfortunatelly it closed at the end of November 2019:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/anata-no-warehouse
I really don't trust Synology anymore, had so many destroyed Raid's in the past mainly with RS407.

I buy a old Workstation slap FreeBSD with ZFS (RaidZ1 or 2) on it, and i am much happier.
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It's clearly associated with obesity, heart disease, etc.

Keeping animals too close together, like it's done in industrial-scale meat production, provides the right conditions for diseases to mutate to something very dangerous. The swine flu and Covid are good examples. The overuse of antibiotics might lead to a catastrophic spread of resistant bacteria in the future. Not all meat is produced this way, but most is.