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> You tax a couple dozen ultra rich billionaires and a couple dozen ultra profitable companies. There's plenty of money.

The federal deficit is 2.8T for 1 year.

If we confiscated the 100% assets of the top 10 US billionaires we don't even get close to half of 1 year of federal spending. It's not plausible that a massive increase in taxes would pay for UBI.

https://www.usdebtclock.org/

https://www.statista.com/statistics/201426/the-richest-peopl...

As is, people not participating in the workforce right now is implicated in large parts of the various shortages. It's not clear how UBI improves things.
Neolithic humans made constructions that took a staggering amount of manpower over a very prolonged time. The story of how such things come to be is complex and has many variations over place and time. There's no "first management theorists" just humans and human society learning and evolving as it has since before we were even human.

I find the concept of this article not just pointless but somewhat obnoxious in projecting a conceptual parallel between roman aristocratic slave holders and modern employment relations. Both have their pathologies but we shouldn't blend them into one category imo.
Intel Corporation Makes Deep Investment in RISC-V Community
Since TFA is quite long and has quite an annoying layout, I tried Reader View in Firefox, and it gave me a completely different article. Weird. Thanks for posting the tl;dr.
miniwad.wad (2019)
s/The world/The educated, english speaking westerners who post on reddit, generally found in Western Europe and North America/

I'm not sure Asia, Africa, and the Middle East are hugely fond of progressive politics.
Pretty Rust-centric, but I think: https://matklad.github.io has some good content
It is not even that sets would be universally bigger. You can buy middle sized, small and super small sets still. Lego sets literally start from small bag for 5e that builds something super small.
Me neither.

And I'm still not certain why not. You'll have a "hello world" in minutes. Even through something like Actix. Probably faster than your average "ruby on rails hello-world" or "react hello world". As those require a lot of up-front tooling to be set up.

I guess my reluctance is that Rust very early on requires knowledge of memory-management (borrower) and intricacies such as Result and Option.

While those are good to learn for a beginner at some point, that beginner probably wants to defer them to a moment that they have actual software deployed and dabble into multithreading, get runtime exceptions back and see the software crashing.

Still, I think languages that don't even allow you to think about such stuff, like Python, Ruby or JS, do the beginner a disservice: typing, shared-memory, runtime exceptions and undefined behaviour are a real thing, and a beginner should at least see that the libraries and examples all take these issues into consideration. Instead of waving it away with "we have tests to cover most of it. probably"

I'm Ruby dev, I deal with this daily; Learning Rust and using it in production has made me a much better Ruby dev.
Impressive. I have far more often encountered an interviewer also seeing the question for the first time.
I know I shouldnt comment on this reddit style comment, but it really made me laugh
Zig as well.
You should never trust any government. Open up a history book. Even our own (USA) current government is trending towards authoritarianism and total surveillance, both of which are very very bad things when the totalitarian types are knocking on the gates (Trumpers). If I were you I'd take a look around.
> Why does almost no Green Party win an outright majority in any European national election?

Because ecology is not the only thing people have in mind. That's a limit of direct democracy, as opposed to a system where people would vote for policies.

Also because some of these parties are trainwrecks.
We're 70+ years into an experiment to see if we can handle nuclear weapons
A far better slogan would have been "Demilitarize the Police". I do not know why so many people who want police reform want to stick to "Defund the Police" when it comes with so much baggage.
Both sides sour into toxicity if taken too far, which can happen if a corrective is applied too broadly:

If someone is saying they can't learn a skill they're manifestly capable of, then focusing on how they can likely do more than they think is the correct corrective to apply. However, everyone does have limits, and ignoring those limits and insisting that the same level of attainment is possible for everyone through effort is a toxic mindset which implicitly (or explicitly!) punishes people for being human as opposed to idealized automatons.

On the other hand, if someone is insisting that they can learn everything up to the highest levels and become a 21st Century Renaissance Genius, focusing the replies on how limited time is and how much there is to know is the proper corrective to apply. Apply that corrective too broadly and it's crab-bucket or tall-poppy mentality, and anti-intellectual bilge.

We do need to tear down the idea that people are inherently "good at" learned skills, however. That's never a proper corrective, it's always nonsense, and it devalues the hard work the successful people put in while demoralizing the people who wish to become successful in something.
I found no way to get to the article due to the obscene cookie window.
Not sure what you mean by "regardless of timezone".

I was lucky to be in a foreign country during an Olympics (Australia). They had no delusions of grandeur (except maybe in swimming). They interviewed winners regardless of country, they told stories regardless of country. They showed events live.

Dick Ebersol stubbornly kept the standard practice of tape-delaying major events to prime time in the US, long past viability in the Twitter/ESPN/Google ecosystem. In some cases (swimming), they have lobbied to change the schedule so live events can be live in the US prime time window. I believe Michael Phelps's 2008 Beijing races were at 7am local time. Surely other countries loved that.
Most people don't actually want to live at the UBI subsistence level so they'll work to live at a higher level. Some people need help for a while, and the infrastructure needed to dole out services to those in need creates waste and neglect.
I think that many yearn for an idealized life in a small, relatively isolated community, low tech and free of fiat currency. They try to imagine workarounds for the fact that it's not actually currently possible in reality.

UBI, anarchism, antiwork and other radical ideas are proposed patches to the cold and lonely reality of modern metropolitan life. They would probably not work, but they are not really the point. The point is to imagine some escape from the current crushing system.
> In all honesty I don't see UBI becoming a thing until we start automating ourselves into unemployment.

From a political stability perspective, I expect this would be wise to get in front of.
Valve is great until they have to make a 3rd of something.
As an Albanian myself I have yet to meet anyone who thinks Albania isn't European who also actually lives in a European country.
Link to the paper in Nature Energy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-021-00969-5
> On the other hand, maybe we're just so socioculturally fucked that it requires massive authoritarian investment to keep a crummy level of peace. I'm undecided.

This statement disturbs me. Please clarify.
>so the value these jobs provide doesn't seem to be reflected in the remuneration.

that's because remuneration isn't based on value, it's based on market conditions. value merely provides an upper bound. as an extreme example, clean water provides near infinite value to you (you need water to survive, so you're willing to pay infinite dollars for it), yet you can get it from your tap at less than a penny per gallon.

>What I don't understand is why many see it as acceptable for any business to pay less than a living wage under any circumstance, it's just a roundabout way of making taxpayers pay for a businesses labour force

But those people on welfare would receive welfare regardless of whether they're hired or not? I don't see how that's "making taxpayers pay for a businesses labour force".
Lucky, tricky problems get solved when there's a trillion dollars on the line. For the most part, this idea that taxing the rich is in-theory difficult is just an illusion created by them, to dissuade people from even thinking about it.

And yet I have 22% of my equity sold and sent straight to the IRS every year. This is behind the scenes a complex multi-step process, and yet it happens like clockwork, easy as pie.
> technological advancement and automation should enable greater freedom for individuals to spend their time how they choose

I work in ML. Antiwork seems like it takes its understanding of automation’s present capabilities from fiction, imagining that we could automate people’s basic needs today. We can’t. It’s as simple as that. People are working hard (the irony) on advancing the tech, but we can’t do that today.
Yes. It's reasonable to say that some people with 15 years of experience won't be qualified for some senior role and others will be. But unless there are really unusual circumstances, you're probably not hiring someone with just a couple years of experience for that role--however well their interview went.
How can you call the guy a CS major? He was a grad student in psychology, right?
This is a confused article.

> Most Romans ... thought cruelty to slaves was shocking

but also

> did not hesitate to punish their slaves, and to punish brutally. Floggings, crucifixions, torture by means of the rack and breaking the legs with iron bars would all be carried out in public to maximise the impact on the observers. Or a slave’s children might be sold off, never to be seen again.

... so, not that shocking?
Occam's razor. The parent comment is very likely right, it's probably just angry people posting on the internet.
there is multipl ways how to skin a cat . you can single clisk to cahnge color fill. selct object an chose color from pallet down or click on color in info bar that wil open fill and stroke panel
I don't think GP is suggesting there was some issue with the training. I think they are suggesting that it's very difficult to justify MCAS (as originally implemented) as WAI when it quite clearly brought down two airplanes full of people.

This seems a bit of a non sequitur from your first comment, but you did reply (here). I'm still not sure what your point is, though. What "narrative" are you referring to?
Oh, I wasn't talking about you. You were helpful.
> Yes, psychology is absolutely full of bad science and bad scientists. Lots of fields are, but particularly psychology.

Social sciences in general are probably harder than other fields for the simple reason that it requires other people's time and effort.

A psychologist friend of mine once dropped the line "we know a lot about how university students view the world" when discussing the replication crisis. I think that while simplifying things quite a bit, it is very apt.

Edited for coffee
Yeah and I don't see the comparison with Google either. Valve isn't known for killing profitable products. Steam Machines was just an experiment which came a few years too soon, the technology wasn't there yet, thus Proton and now the actual Steam Machines are a reality.
And Chinese?

They seem... certainly not more trustworthy than US companies.
more stats about bbbooks: https://ourworldindata.org/books
> This would be far more impactful IMO for a market where price discovery is weak and market access is challenging

We very much agree that the potential is even more significant for markets where opacity and price discovery is less efficient than US equities. We chose US equities as a beachhead given the mature regulatory framework and the extent of market fragmentation. Other asset classes and geographies are immediate next steps.
Not many in Moscow apart from a few elite suburbs.
Some of the late Ice Planet (dunno the real name) space stuff from that same series, and some of the underwater exploration sets from IIRC about then or a year or two later, are specifically what I think of when I think "where did lego start to go wrong?" I kept getting them for Christmas and kept building and playing with them but the 80s (through very early 90s) themed sets were peak for those, IMO. I never did as much combining and modifying/expanding with those later sets as I did with earlier ones. I was still playing with the earlier ones and changing them to other things and combining them when I had those later sets, but the later ones could only really fit in if they could do it whole and as-is, that is, the earlier sets had to change to fit them, they couldn't really do the reverse.

... I don't think that era was especially complex, though, and in fact when I think about the worst sets from that era they were ones that were built with like half a dozen huge pieces for the bulk of the structure (there was some kind of Ice Base from that same series you linked that stands out, in particular).

Complex is the modern sets. Fiddly, even. Look at the size of a finished largish modern set (for kids, not one of the adult stick-it-on-a-shelf models), and its part count, and look at similar-sized sets from the 80s through, I dunno, maybe '95, and see what their part count was. The modern sets have so many itty bitty pieces. 500-something piece sets used to be really big when assembled.
Good luck on whatever you do. You shouldn't feel the need to explain yourself but if it made you feel better then that's ok too.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Sometimes I walk into groups or wind up in forums after this level of distrust has occurred before, and it is an interesting and impossible exercise of proving a negative - proving that you’re not someone

On the internet it’s usually because someone banned has made sockpuppet accounts before that circumvent the ban
That's a decent reason to have Steam on Mac, which they do. But I don't see the incentive to build proton for Mac, which would just move them from one potential walled garden into another one.
Completely agree, the comment quality is generally low and has decreased over time. Ironically, sorting comments by "Controversial" often leads to the most insightful ones, it's still hit and miss and depends on the discussion topic.
Do so, no question about it! Once most children disappear down a YouTube rabbit hole of unboxing or gaming they're lost. It's scary to see how addictive our modern passive entertainment is. In my experience, the best thing to do is start limiting from early on. My kids are still under 10 and it's 1 to 1:15 hours of gaming + same of TV on each weekend day, never on a school day. They are hardly aware that YouTube exists, they only watch it with us.

This takes up a lot of our time, as we're their entertainment, but the times that I let go and let them watch more typically come back and bite me as they haven't had enough time to play & be creative and that leads to tantrums and bad bedtimes. We use Google Family to control their tablets and it's the timer on there that stops them playing, not us, which feels fairer to them.
The DoD is prioritizing open source software
then why are those with a STEM degree underpaid compared to e.g. sales or marketing people , lawyers, doctors,… ?
Yeah, I mean, I know it's easy to get the ROMs. Just wondered if any of the original manufacturers made them available for sale.
The public holds over $22 trillion of the national debt. Bonds.

Somehow we still get away with funding other welfare programs, even though we have a rising debt ceiling.

Anyways, this is why you increase taxes on the ultra-wealthy, in order to pay for UBI. It doesn't mean more debt.
I need to know more about touchscreens and disabling touch but not stylus operations. Where can I find out more about this? What does it mean, physically? Where is the distinction handled?
You don't get mouse axis movement though -- it emulates it through a Controller stick so it's not exactly an ergonomic and mouse-like experience, from what I have heard.
If you don't mind me asking what is your experience level?
Another good way to get lots of random pieces cheap is go to eBay and look for bulk lots. Most people sell by the pound and ultimately it’s just your imagination holding you back!
I still think that Shopify is such a huge org you can find so much opportunity that does not feel like ecommerce. If the author is morally opposed to ecommerce then good for them sticking to principles, but other than that I don't feel like they gave the job a fair shake. People are different though, but I'd love a job with as much time off as I like and I'd be willing to work in an industry I didn't love if the people, benefits, compensation, technology, and culture were all great fits. I mean, I switch off at 5pm so maybe I am different.
One way to think about it: we already have a basic income in the US.

Nobody starves to death in the US. Nobody is denied medical care in the emergency room. In many places (though not everywhere), there are shelters where a person can sleep inside. There are food stamps and a patchwork of welfare programs.

However meager they may seem, things like this amount to a form of universal basic income. Does it prevent people from working?

In some cases, you could say it does--there are populations in every city that survive off this safety net, though they don't live well.

But in most cases, it doesn't prevent people from working. The vast majority of people are willing to work for a better life than what the US "basic income" can provide.

What makes you think this would be any less true if the basic income was, say, $30k per year instead of whatever the equivalent is now to provide the meager safety net we have?

It's certainly possible to survive on a $30k basic income in many places in the US, but for most, it won't be an easy or especially pleasant life. Most people will want better.

With a basic income that's a bit more substantial (and has no strings or stigma attached), people will have more freedom to make choices that can truly improve their circumstances, rather than being stuck on a treadmill of barely making ends meet with no space to come up for air and consider education or career changes.
The thing is you never really know. I was pretty far into my career before I realized for instance that the concept of a 'mutual breakup' can apply to a work relationship as well. I describe one former employer as doing me the favor of laying me off. I was miserable and we both knew it. We had achieved a compromise in coding philosophy that left both of us frustrated and I should have left a year earlier.

There are places you will never fit in, no matter how much you learn or push them to 'improve'. I would say "I no longer treat a job as a 'project'" but I'm actively slipping into that right now because I finally found a wedge I could shove into our Gordion Knot. This will probably be my mic drop because it's definitely time for me to move on.
The music streaming market seems pretty competitive, Spotify is on top but they appear to only be in the 30% range.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/653926/music-streaming-s...
This really is the only way to make it work. Only problem is that once you eliminate poverty the no-longer-impoverished have a tendency to pull the ladder up behind them
This seems to be a particularly polarizing topic and I may have some insight into why.

There's a supreme value to the widely-held belief that 'the market' just 'works' and is 'fair' or 'free' or something. The only way features like liquidity were possible to offer in the early days of the emerging globalized financial markets was by appointing Market Makers, Authorized Participants, and other privileged positions that could self-regulate and influence the market. There were all kinds of (legitimate) limits to creating a truly 'free' or 'fair' system during the bootstrapping phase. So the system was justified, once upon a time at least...

So that's how we got here: What now?

Well... many of us still expecting a GME squeeze believe that Market Makers got greedy and instead of contenting themselves with the profit channels they were conceived to capture they used their central position to extract revenue from some less scrupulous places than the bid-ask spread. Once MMs realized the haul they could extract by selling shorts throughout the deaths of certain 'surely dead' companies, it doesn't take a stroke of genius to think about inciting these kinds of events themselves. Here's where the rub comes in: Because of the way things were bootstrapped, most of these Market Makers are self-regulating bodies that self-report a lot of critical positions if they even have to report it _at all_. Regardless of how we got here, the reality is that many privileged positions such as Market Makers do NOT need to report their short positions. Even if they were 'required' there are so many ways to 'hide' the position on a balance sheet that I honestly cannot imagine paperwork exists that would conclusively DISPROVE the possibility of a MOASS.

Many others hold the belief that 'the market' is 'working' just 'fine' whatever those words mean to the individual espousing that belief. Their belief is, in general, that the rules of the game are to be trusted. They don't just quote the SEC report citing Self-Regulating Organization short interested coming in at 0% right after Jan 2021, they actually BELIEVE it. They don't even question that these self reporting organizations may be lying. I mean, with their immaculate records how could you not believe them?

So there you have it: One group believes mostly on principle that markets are 'good' or 'functioning correctly' thus MOASS couldn't happen and anyone still awaiting MOASS is doing so because of ideological reasons more than a single piece of evidence.

Disclaimer: I hold some GME
So, the answer to the GP's question is basically: no?
It seems weird this theory’s backbone was just some random person who contacted someone and said something like “hey I have math that says you’re right” and it just takes off from there. Until some other rando checks it out of curiosity…
A good hack to getting lots of random legos cheap is buying bulk lots off of eBay. Most people sell by the pound and it’s always fun to see what you’ll get!