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> I'm financially independent of all jobs for every monetary goal

He's living "frugally" as described in his article. I don't think that what's people expect from UBI when they talk about it.
No, mine is anecdata too, just more of it. And neither wins because there's actual data out there about the size and velocity of the mainframe market. I just don't much care to look it up every time someone makes an unfounded declaration that mainframes are dead. And, since we're keeping score, zero content snark is bottom of the heap.
Funny, just saw your post on r/programming moments ago. Indeed, code reviews will definitely have a huge return on investment but only if you do it right.
This is sort of evergreen though.

It's like "last year at Burning Man was the last good year."
Here’s something cool: the source code to Snyder’s compiler: https://github.com/PDP-10/Snyder-C-compiler
1. yeah these are super expensive. Even the cheaper ones are close to a grand a liscense
2. definately got to have a front-end. Writing netlist by hand is suffering.
3. Interestingly (to me) the components are more or less portable between them. With only a little manual writing i have translated components from ORCAd p-spice, to ISpice, to LTSpice. No idea on the liscensing for that. (I suspect the IC manufacturers produce these)

I think speed is very much a question of what kind of thing you are doing.
I agree it often doesn't matter.
and without your 3 points, it certainly doesn't matter
Select insiders can now run Geforce Now cloud gaming in the Edge browser on Xbox
Yes, perhaps it should be a different term. How about "No thanks" money?
Dictionary.com adds hundreds of new entries for 2021, including “cromulent”
Association of state mask mandates and allowing on-premises dining with Covid-19
Holy shit, Aardwolf is still around? I think I remember playing that somewhere around 2001 -- incredible that it's still around.
If you use a discount code, say the Boeing discount code when you rent at Seattle Airport, Hertz will cancel any insurance off the price because Boeing covers those risks itself for its employees. But, if you’re not a Boeing employee and you crash, you’re not insured by Boeing and you’re not insured by Hertz.
My experience is strongly aligned with the author's. There is a substantial real-world overhead associated with open sourcing code, all other things being equal. This overhead is imposed on you whether you want it or not. If you are operating in a resource constrained environment, like the author, then not open sourcing is a sensible cost containment measure. Open sourcing code is a luxury for those with ample time or money.

I have code I could open source (e.g. some very useful Postgres extensions created for a company) but I value my time more, and I know many others that view the calculus similarly. There is value in open sourcing code but we should be honest about the associated costs and not pretend they don't exist.
Why France in particular? Sweden is consistently rated one of the top countries to start a business and they have universal healthcare
I don't think the person you were responding to argued that removing those hurdles would create the most active business creation in the world. Enabling successful business creation is a worthy goal, one I think you'd agree France does accomplish. Not being the superlative isn't the same as failure.
This is pure attitude. I used to say I had "fuck you bus fare," which admittedly depends on a robust regional public transit system, but the principle is the same.

Sure, it's good to do things like getting your finances in order, clean your room, etc., but there is a choice you can make about how you relate to the world where your happiness is not conditional or contingent on other things. Choose it, and keep choosing it, and when you notice you don't, choose it again.

The OPs part II of the article is about that kind of stoic view, and where I disagree with him is he frames it as there being something standing between you and "serenity." However, it could be just a device, as who would listen to someone that told them there was nothing external standing in their way. Surely, what kind of asshole would say that to someones face?

A boy with a skateboard and a bus pass doesn't have to take shit from anybody.
but with UBI you'd not be forced to live in NYC just to get any job.
Took some convincing, but compliance is a pretty high-leverage angle. :)
For some people, I imagine, enough to live on IS fu money. Not everyone needs the profligacy of a car, house, travel, etc., a large amount of personal space.

Enough for mental health without the great of losing everything and being homeless.
What is this shady code being loaded from YouTube website?
When inspecting YouTube network activity I came across this[1] weird asset being loaded, it show just a single white dash on black. It seems to me like some sort of dicey fingerprinting behavior to see how the image loads.

I've found something similar in the form of a GIF being loaded q.stripe.com on sites that have Stripe enabled, does anyone know the purpose of these and/or why Google uses it only YouTube but not on any of their other services?

I can't even figure out what filetype this is, it's definitely an image of sorts but Windows keeps blocking the download.

[1] https://www.google.com/pagead/lvz?evtid=<RANDOM STRING HERE>

EDIT: This is what gets loaded from stripe: https://q.stripe.com/?event=<random string>event_count=<etc>
There is UBI in France? How one is protected from loosing the income there? Let's say I give nice warm and fuzzy F-U to my boss and quit. Where do I get money then?
Digital Ocean has spaces with unlimited uploads, 250gB + (0.02/gb), 1TB of outbound transfer all at $5/mo.

That seems way cheaper than this.

For backups and large, long term storage, AWS has Glacier, that's really really cheap.
Thanks for sharing these resources. Can I ask you what was your initial context or environment that made you learn SQL first? I mean what did encourage you to go and look for a solution?
Your specific examples don't work because those projects are super well known. Switching to them would make the thread more generic, which is the wrong direction (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...), so we'd never do that. Indeed, a new search engine or internet archive would be interesting just by not being Google or archive.org.

But sure, we often change URLs to ones that are likely to support more interesting or better-quality discussion. That's part of curating the site. For an example of a common pattern, we often change corporate press releases to the best third-party discussion we can find about the story (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

In this case the signal was that the first two (presumably independent) subthreads said the same thing about the other site being more interesting, and that site had never been posted to HN before. That's a really unusual state and a strong community signal, one that seemed worth rolling the dice on. Listening to community signals is a big part of our job, maybe the biggest. In the end, this one didn't work out particularly well, but moderation is guesswork.

I agree with you that it was a weird decision. Another part of our job is to keep HN weird. It's not likely to become a common pattern, because that signal is a rare one to begin with (I'm not sure I've ever seen it come up before), and getting predictable about such things would be at odds with the global goal of maximizing interestingness. Curiosity withers under repetition (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...), a bit like how a joke gets less funny as it gets repeated.
I don’t get it. That sounds miserable, not like freedom at all. Sure you don’t have to work, but can you really do much else?

Same reason I never understood FIRE. Yeah I can live off a minimal amount of money, but then I can’t afford to do the things I wanted to do if I wasn’t working.
> I did say—in a different thread—that to a worker, the stock market offers nothing of value.

The ship-hands of the hypothetical 16th century Treasure Ship, what job would they have if investors didn't give them a ship to work on?

> I would want to ask how much are the farmers growing and drying the spice making from this?

Well, without Europeans to consume those spices, I presume they'd also be out of the job. Because they were growing those spices hoping that someone would come by and trade with them. That's why India was exporting spices: because they had far more / excesses of spices, while Europeans were importing spices (they couldn't grow those spices in Europe).

The trade, and Treasure Ship, in fact benefited everyone.

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> Maybe we should standardize shipping such that distributors could rely on a global trade network, say by buying a container at a freight that departs from Bangkok and heads towards Rotterdam every 2 weeks.

Those ships and trading networks cost money. How will you build those networks?

Answer: raise money, then with that money, buy ships. You can't just magically assume ships appear from nothingness. Someone has to make those, someone has to be the risk-taker to assume the risk when disasters (ex: hurricane sinks treasure ship) happens.

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Lets take another example: Solar Panels. How do you expect for solar panels to be deployed? The Stock Market is really good at that: tons of solar panel companies got literal billions of dollars so that Solar Panels could be bought, and they hope for a slow-and-steady profit over the next 20 years (or whatever the lifespan of solar panels is).

This is true for solar panel manufacturers, utility solar panel deployers, as well as solar-panel installers. All of them got large investments from the modern stock market. Sure, the US Government put down a few incentives, but the stock market created the possibility.

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How about this. Try to build a 20MW Solar Panel array. Maybe not "really build it", but really try to think through the steps of how you'd raise money and actually build the darn thing.

And no magic thinking. You can't just imagine that money / resources pop out of no where. If you get money, tell me where you get the money from, and why they'd give it to you. If you say the government will do it, explain how easy it will be to make a law to increase taxes so that the government has the funds to take on the project. (Maybe you have some special legal scheme that you think everyone would agree too. I dunno, I can't think of anything on that front. I'd probably have the government tap into the Bond market honestly...)
A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco
A recent book on the topic for those interested: Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data by Carissa Véliz

https://www.amazon.com/Privacy-Power-Should-Take-Control/dp/...
In my field (database automation) I do not ignore bug reports, ever. Critical bugs can mean data loss and severe reputational harm.

YMMV. We can agree to disagree.
Right. I'm surprised at how little thought people seem to have put into that idea.

You can hear echoes of that when Musk talks about all the Neuralink stuff and just communicating with "pure thoughts" or whatever. What these pure thoughts and ideas, disconnected from language, are supposed to be, is left as an exercise to the listener.
This is brutal, and potent. Nicely done.
Right, because for it to be true that fear of losing health insurance is a barrier to starting one's own business, it must be true that it's the only factor at play here.
I'm impressed he can live on 10k/year. Thats not even enough for rent in a small city in the US unless you're knee-deep in roommates or a heroin squat.
I think the generous reading, and the one I agree with, is that it is on the scale of "FU money". Any reliable source of income that can satisfy needs means that you have more freedom to refuse to do X, Y, or Z.

This is the key to FU Money, an increase in freedom since your base needs are met and secure; agreed that in common parlance it usually is applied to people that have so much money they can live like a king and say no to whatever they want.
You're missing the Vickrey auction part. It would be hard for the squatters to outbid you, as they wouldn't even know your bid in the first place. You could bid $100, but you'd only pay the second price (which could as well be $0). The squatters would either have to do either $100 per domain.
FU money means you have more than what you need. Relying on UBI means you become slave to a system that does not depend on you (external) for your survival, which is the opposite of actually having FU money. It's a big old trap.
Peoria, Illinois has one too and claims the "world's most complete large-scale model of the Solar System. The scale factor is 99,000,000:1, covering 6,000 square miles of Central Illinois."[0] and you can "become a part of the world's most complete large scale model of the Solar System by purchasing an Unnamed Comet Plaque in the Peoria Riverfront Museum Store. Unnamed comet plaques are located on all seven continents, stretching as far north as Barrow, Alaska, and as far south as South Pole Station, Antarctica."[1]

[0] https://www.peoriariverfrontmuseum.org/dome-planetarium/comm...

[1] https://www.peoriariverfrontmuseum.org/dome-planetarium/comm...
Spot on. Can anyone explain why the majority of grown-up intelligent people believe in it besides the hard facts, akin to religious fanaticism? The so-called democratic countries have some degree of liberty and rule of law, which is great. But democracy as such is an illusion. Even in ancient Athens only ~15% of the population had the right to vote. The rest were slaves (workers).
Pakistan bans TikTok over ‘immoral and objectionable’ videos
What the article fails to mention is that you can use as a disk backed in memory database/cluster.
In a replicaset you can have e.g. 2 in memory nodes and 3 disk backed nodes.
Postgres doesn't have that. I wish it did. Mysql has in memory tables. Postgres doesn't.

If I'm wrong please correct me.
Not only that, but maybe people closer to retirement would take it earlier and not wait for Medicare to turn on. Opening up positions for the next wave of folks.
To be honest, I think they've gotten so used to not using the switches they don't realise they're not working. Will be inconvenient if the internet goes down...
also r/chubbyFIRE, and plain old r/financialindependence

The regionals: r/fican, r/europeFIRE, etc

The subsets of population: r/FIREyFemmes, etc

The niche ideas that aren't big enough for their own subs: BaristaFI.

etc etc
A Year of the Pandemic, by the Numbers
Low risk is not the same as zero risk. I have not and would not claim zero risk. Here's what the WHO says on the issue.

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/coronavirus-disease...

>To date, few outbreaks involving children or schools have been reported. However, the small number of outbreaks reported among teaching or associated staff to date suggests that spread of COVID-19 within educational settings may be limited.

>...Some modelling studies suggest that school re-opening might have a small effect on wider transmission in the community
Tell that to the farming industry.

(Yeah, I know it’s not central to your point.)
Burning bridges is always a bad idea. You never know when your fortunes might shift. There is no such thing as a risk-free investment. If actual risk doesn't get you, inflation will.
always good, and always some things to take away.
Love it. It's a lifestyle I actively subscribe to.

I'm climbing the FIRE treadmill like this guy talks about. I live frugally, and I save like a madman. I'm on track to have stable, passive income for myself, and my family, for the rest of my life, by the time I hit 45. And I'm certainly not living like a monk along the way.

And you know what? I've got a huge war chest that I can pull from if I ever need to tell someone "Fuck you". I may not be financially independent yet, but I have more than enough money to tell a boss who wants me to do boring, shitty work to fuck off if I ever need to.

Thankfully, I don't have to right now. But things can change in the blink of an eye. Fuck you money is a condensed store of options for when things get rough.
The most serious proposal for UBI in the United States (serious in that people talked about it for a few minutes) was from Andrew Yang, who proposed $1000 a month for all adults. It would be difficult for most people to live on that without getting a lot of other free stuff to go with it.
In older text-based gaming: MUCKs tended to be more oriented towards creation and social interaction than MUDs. Many MUCKs would allow players to create their own areas, with a limited degree of scriptability.

In modern gaming: Second Life, VRChat, Roblox, et al.
I agree about jargon and such but PG writes without any literary devices at all. Don’t you think that’s going too far?

“That dude is sneaky”
“That dude is sneakier than a fox”

Why cut out fox?
It’s something we’ll definitely look at we just haven’t gotten to it yet. We thought of doing periodic resets, but that tends not to provide the best experience. We’re thinking of having per-user instances, forcing users to create an account, but then delete the accounts on a periodic basis. This way, rather than having a single shared account we believe would work better. It’s just there’s a lot of things on our roadmap and we didn’t think this one being so important. Clearly we were wrong.
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Complaining of the downsides of having too much money is pretty rich.
Idea is that actually building a house isn’t a big deal. It’s mostly the prep work for the land.

So prefab only gets you so much.
> idea that mass manufacturing wouldn't lower the price of something seems kinda ridiculous

The "something" to be manufactured isn't nuclear power plants.

If we made a few 5 MW plants at a certain price but then decided to scale that up and produce huge amounts of 5 MW plants then we could obviously produce those plants at a significantly lower per-unit cost. Everyone agrees. But our goal with electricity isn't to make plants, it's to make watt-hours of electricity.

So what is cheaper? Manufacturing, setting up, operating, and securing 1000 5 MW plants or one 5 GW plant? It seems like the 5 GW one might be cheaper.
A lot of things have to go wrong in a person's life for them to see a "vaccines are microchipped" post and decide to believe it. Qanon and Flat-Earth started as jokes, people posting absurd conspiracies in front of their clique -- should the government make a determination that satire has gone too far now that the common clay of the west take it seriously?

To engage with your point tho, who is to blame for the spread? the person who posts the disinfo or the programmers who decide the disinfo is good for engagement?
Have you ever had to make that choice?

If I don't do whatever shitty thing my manager asks me to, I won't eat next week. My family won't eat next week. The water will be shut off. (etc.)

I mean you could still have the attitude of "f-it!" but you wouldn't have the resources you need to be sure you don't starve.
They aren’t unlimited, there are 5. Profiles are defined as being in the same household. The reasons are easy to understand, if you think about it. Netflix is providing separate queues and ratings for people who have to share, and household sharing is unavoidable in some cases, such as when using shared devices like ipads or game consoles.

Or, you could just visit Netflix.com, where they explain the reasons behind profiles. “Profiles allow different members of your household to have their own personalized Netflix experience. You can have up to 5 profiles on a single Netflix account.” https://help.netflix.com/en/node/10421

Sharing accounts outside of a household is stealing. I fail to see a big difference between that and any other form of illegal downloads where one person pays and someone else copies. I got some downvotes but nobody bothered to answer the question: how is using someone’s account who doesn’t live with you different in practice from torrenting, from a legal perspective?
I will add my anecdote to the pile. It seems like there are a good number of positions out there, but it also seems like most of them are asking for senior level folks. Then, the ones I interview stall out because I either have too much experience, or not enough experience - I'm square in the middle ground where it seems nothing is quite right for me.
What would be even more useful would be a full Feature Matrix - ideally including the feature list of the comparable(s).

And perhaps even more useful may be a quick way to see how the data is organized.
It might be helpful to have a clear definition of "clone" on the site. This seems to be mixing a variety of different projects from straight clones of existing services into a new language to new front ends to existing services to completely new and independent apps that fall more into an "inspired by" category.
It would probably be nice to have a “Filter all sites with paywalls” checkbox that might get some sites reconsidering their walls.
I'm not sure where the logic is here, you are making an assertion without any supporting evidence. What sort of logic can you provide to back up your assertion? Any such reasoning must also include actual numbers and costs.
This is so wrong - like the suggestion of giving it all away (even if I quickly considered that).

Money is not the problem, even if it contributes to it. Money is just an enabler. Money reveal your deepest tendancies. Remove it and you are back to square one.

In the past, when I was as naive, I gave some money to people: most people focus about tiny problems (the dishwasher broke!) that are easily solved with a few hundred or thousands.

Then I saw first hand how money is just an amplifier of human beings, and how it can help some people with bad tendencies destroy themselves - starting by teaching them effort is not necessary.

I don't give anything to anyone anymore. I learned before I did too much damage. I moved and broke contact.
To me, the definition of "Fuck-You Money" is being so affluent that you can make a frivolous change/purchase/investment that will not put a dent in you financially.

If I had Fuck-You Money, I'd buy a manual transmission sports car without knowing how to drive stick. In the event that I messed up the clutch, I'd buy a new car.
Because preventing unlicensed people from using the fire department is impossible without hurting the people who do use it.
There are quite a few checking accounts or equivalent in the US that subpartition into multiple sweep accounts for >>$1m of FDIC coverage.

Fidelity for example covers you up to $1.25m
Not sure why people downvote you. I’m not in your situation, but I often wonder if I’d have a lot of FU money if I would experience a lot of ennui. I think people really don’t understand how lonely it can be at the top. Even Musk keeps saying, “you don’t want to be me.”
I was talking to my neighbors 10 year old son one day and the subject of computers came up. He told me they were started using Scratch at school but he's since moved on to Python because he "felt he was more of a Python guy." He enjoyed Scratch because he could do something and get results quickly. Once he got the hang of it, be got tired of the user interface and the teacher introduced him to python. I'll have to see what he thinks these days.
Tabloids has the same issue with transparency and scale. The media industry took a liking to pushing governments to war, whereas so far Facebook has proven to just hunger for money.
Dex: A research language for typed, functional array processing
If you literally mean in a checking account, I'm curious what your reasoning is for keeping seven figures in liquid assets. Aren't you just losing money to inflation?
Yes. People are desperate to keep their health insurance through their job, and this is also an impediment.