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Whoa whoa okay, let's put it in some savings account that is divided to all children equally once they're 18. They are then free to spend it as they want.

This is to avoid inheritance problem: One- or two-kids families usually can conjure more help for grown-up children than big families, while big families receive more financial help but tend to eat thru it saving nothing.
We need to defer some of that financial help till children grow up.
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A proposal in this direction has been pushed in Switzerland that will be subject to a referendum.

The idea : hand out 2500CHF a month (about $2700) to each citizen without anything in return or any condition. Plus around $1100 a month for each child you have to support.

Now this has not been confirmed yed (the referendum is to be held in 2015). The goal is to put an end to the degrading controls forced upon people depending on welfare, and to balance the relationship between employers and employees - if you don't HAVE to work, you don't have to put up with abusive employers, low-paying slavery and the like
> In the 2011 DHS document, the CBP says it can conduct a "brief physical inspection," such as switching a device on, to demonstrate that it is not a container for illegal substances, but it has the right to "search [...] the device's contents." A device can also be detained, which can result in a copy of the data contained on the device being stored for latest forensic searches. And a copy of the data can be used for "evidence of continued or future admissibility." Device detentions can are often returned within seven days, but can be extended up to 14 days, the document says.

This means: If you don't want to give random people your data, you can simply not travel with any devices such as a phone, laptop, tablet, USB stick, SD card.

I'm speechless.
We might get to the point someday where we want to encourage a higher birthdate, like say much of Europe, Japan, Korea, Singapore. This could be a decent way of doing that.
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And the programs work: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3997.
>single moms who don't get anything for their children.

Which is good, because then there's no incentive to produce many children just to cash in their basic income. Being a single mom in Western nations is mostly a business model anyway (either the father or state has to pay and considering that more than 70% of break-offs are initiated by the woman), and it usually results in children who are more prone to become criminals and dropouts.
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a) France does just that.

Since 1988.

It was called for years RMI for "Revenu Minimum d'Insertion" which translates to something like minimum revenue for social integration.

Our previous government changed the name to RSA or "Revenu de Solidarité Active", which translates to revenue of active solidarity. They reduced the revenue by a few percent at that occasion.

The RSA provides now enough to live (about 500€ for a single person per month) if not in a major city center. It becomes about 1200€ month for a family with two children. Again, just the minimum to live.

Also take in account that education and health are free* in France.

(*) YMMV, not all MDs, but most schools, etc.
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Tangentially, but I'm always thrown by the Indian counting system for large numbers (lakh, crore, etc). Does anyone else use separators at other than the 10^3 used in the Arabic system? I know in Japanese/Chinese it is 10^4 in native language, but when they write numbers in Arabic form it tends to be in the 10^3 format.
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Except your granddaughter isn't providing services to society. She's providing one service to her grandmother, as a family member (which could almost be seen as repaying a debt). The other service she's providing is the equivalent of a hobby: if it was valuable enough to other people to be considered a "service to society," then she could be getting paid for it.
I am libertarian and pro market. I like the idea of BI.

The problem with our modern "capitalist" society is that you are forced to play the game with no exit options. Earlier it was possible to "just move West" and start farming some land. Today you don't have this option and I think it is indeed a fundamental problem.

Milton Friedman, not your typical socialist, was actually one of the inventors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income
Although lots of work still needs to be done.

http://github.com/stefanpenner/ember-app-kit aims to prevent and mitigate the tooling pain, by having the community bear the burden.
I always thought the reason iterators are used in preference to lists was due to the memory advantages, not the performance.
Yes, I agree 100%. Someone is getting fired, but I seriously doubt they would let the whole team go.

That's not how firing usually works. You cut the head off the snake, and put on a new head - not throw away the whole snake.
but you don't have the bug either, right? because it doesn't take only the first byte. so what's the problem? (genuine question - have never used _Bool and am trying to get a handle on this thread).
Don't think anyone has mentioned this:

bool is also subject to integer promotion so when you pass a bool to a function or do some integer arithmetic it can become an int.

From the text K&R, C Programming Language, 2nd Ed. p. 174

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A character, a short integer, or an integer bit-field, all either signed or not, or an object of enumeration type, may be used in an expression wherever an integer may be used. If an int can represent all the values of the original type, then the value is converted to int; otherwise the value is converted to unsigned int. This process is called integral promotion.
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I wonder how many of the people who argue against a basic income because of parasitic behavior also argue against paying people for work for the same reason. Paid labor has unbelievable amounts of abuse, yet we go on.

Edit: man, typos galore. How embarrassing.
I think the crux of the issue is, entrepreneurs (us!) just don't want to build companies that rely on "unscalable" low-cost human labor any more. We want to build our empires on the backs of machines. There are no new jobs being created at the margin. All the jobs we want people to do are hard, and all the unemployed people we have are unqualified to do them.

My wild-and-crazy suggestion: a Basic Training Guarantee--a law requiring companies to hire capable-but-unskilled laborers, and convert them into skilled labor. No more "15 years' Node.js experience required", or its equivalent in any industry. Work with what we've got!
We can disincentivize having each next children so our family converges on "mom, dad and 2-4 children", which would be pretty nice actually won't it?
While building some savings for those children, larger when there's a lot of them.

Western nations sponsor single moms and get a surplus of single moms, that's what BIG ends.
In reality I think you'd see people moving from collecting social security/SSDI/etc. and getting paid in cash under the table to collecting BI and working in licit jobs and paying some taxes/having some employment protections.

You might also lose some people who "can't work" for economic reasons of UI/SSDI/etc. and volunteer instead to the paid workforce.
You grew personally attached - don't do that. Your co-workers are not your friends and you don't have a stake in that company. It is normal to change your job.
By leave, I suspect people mean get a new job then leave. Getting fired means a possible period of unemployment, and that may well be a problem.
The army and military industries are huge employment and research organizations. Not efficient ones in the latter case, but there you go. You'd have to re-target all that employment and spending somewhere to make up for the hole, like, say, health and energy. Unfortunately other countries around the world may not make the same decision as you and the US would fall behind in certain capabilities, which may be important to have at some point.
> Dixon was charged after he helped undercover agents learn to cheat the test after they told him specifically that they intended to lie as they applied for federal jobs.

I think that might just be the reason why they are going after this guy and not the rest.

It's one thing to talk about bank robberies, it's another thing to provide bank-robbery consultation services to bank robbers.
Age discrimination is a real problem in our industry. It is definitely harder to fund a job when older, given equal candidates at different ages.
As a side point - am I incorrect in believing that it is, in fact, Illegal to give a bad reference? I was under the impression that your only recourse was, instead, to decline to provide a reference at all.
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1) You can run UG which starts at 1 EUR (+ 100-200 Euro for bureaucracy).

2) It is your money to spend. You never give it to anybody else. So "you don't get that money back" is completely incorrect.
> With a basic guarantee many people who are marginally employed would stop working. You'd have two classes of citizens: the workers and those who are effectively parasites off of the workers.

We already have this, it's just horribly mislabeled. http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
But in most trades you can just start.
The vast majority of innovation comes from the private sector, but those innovations usually go unnoticed because they aren't ground-breaking or flashy, but are, instead, incremental. The 'dipshit innovations' you're referring to are all related to consumer products, but incremental innovations in private industry are what has driven the massive global increase in economic efficiency over the last half-century, which in turn is what has allowed us the standard of living that we enjoy today. Of course government innovations played a role in this process, but if necessity is the mother of all invention, then it seems obvious that had government not funded the creation of technology A, B, or C, and if there was truly a need for it, then they would have been invented anyways.

Furthermore, had the dollars that have been spent on government innovations been instead allowed to remain in circulation in the economy, how many more innovations would private industry had come up with? Put more succinctly, what is the opportunity cost of government innovation?
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> A basic income without work makes sense after technology makes human labor obsolete, but we are nowhere near that point yet.

I would argue we are slowly moving to that point. The fact that there is just not enough work do to anymore to keep the entire population employed clearly points in that direction. And that is not factoring in a lot of "kinda useless" work or work where humans could be replaced by machines but have not been yet because labor is so dirty cheap.

A few decades down, we might only need a fraction of the population to effectively produce all we need, all we want, and all we neither need nor want but still produce anyway.
What's going on at Slate? First the public school article and then this?
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Does this apply to immigrants ? If so why are there such large tensions around the issues of immigrant unemployment ?
> by the spec

by the implementation you mean.

See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094961/is-there-a-python...
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"although I'd never force people do only have a choice of an armed force."

One of my cousins took a different path than myself and signed up for the Peace Corps in a township in South Africa in about late 80s/early 90s.

Going back a couple generations there was the CCC in the 1930s. Seeing as the 00s and 10s are turning into an echo of the 30s, a new CCC might be a good idea.

There is a pretty substantial difference between one weekend a month/two weeks per summer in the reserves and basically a full time jobs program, but with a couple regulation changes that could be fixed rather quickly. So rather than one year deployments in the PC and CCC we'd do weekend or half month deployments. I suppose the transportation industries would enjoy being selected as the winner in that situation.

This is a classic macro / micro problem from economics where some people just won't look macro. WRT "game student loan recipients" or rent/land anywhere in the nation, all it would do is drip an extra $10K/yr $20K/yr whatever worth of blood in the water for the piranhas to attack. If you think they wouldn't raise prices out of the goodness of their heart, well... And every industry is run by sociopaths because if they were not, they'd out compete and destroy the non-sociopaths.

If you want to change the existing power structures or change demographic trends, merely making rich wolves richer by giving them fatter sheep to shear isn't going to help.
Well bully for you.
Or Microsoft could issue a hotfix to remove the license check.
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but this - and other examples here - seem unfair, in that they are blaming _Bool for working correctly (consistently, logically) in cases where people were previously doing dumb things.

if you rely on something called "bool" being 0x02 you're going to have a bad time. that's hardly C99's fault.

your last line of code is what i would write, effectively, if i needed to compare booleans. it seems to me that _Bool is an improvement because, pre-C99, if i forgot the !! dance somewhere, i likely had a bug. with _Bool things just work.

(disclaimer, as with other reply here - still trying to get a grasp on this, so may be saying something stupid myself).
He doesn't need to "take him on". He needs to gather information to decide whether or not he needs to leave. If one jumps to conclusions and passive aggressively resigns every time one encounters dysfunction in an organization then one will never be able to work on a team larger than 3 or 4 people.
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There are plenty of job openings being created at the margin. I want my house cleaned for less than $80 (note: 2 hour job). Farmers want their crops harvested for minimum wage.

There are no jobs being created because the unemployed are unwilling to do these jobs.

To identify all the job openings that go unfilled, go live in India or China. Most upper class families have a maid, a cook and a driver (if they are wealthy enough to own a car). This is quite uncommon in the US - instead, we have people who are paid not to work.
One thing I like about this policy is it removes all kinds of perverse incentives which currently exist.

Some (true) personal examples: a friend of mine is moderately disabled and lives with his elderly parents. He wants (and they desperately want for him) to be able to live independently in a small apartment so that he can develop coping skills which will serve him when they are no longer around. His parents have the means to help him buy an apartment, but doing so would disqualify him from receiving any disability pension (including free health care).

A colleague of mine once employed a young woman as a secretary/admin assistant. One day her family advised him that they had arranged a marriage for her and as she was no longer living with them she and her new husband would both qualify for unemployment benefits. If my colleague refused to pay her the equivalent of two unemployment benefits (after tax) she would resign. The next week she did.

I used to know a guy who was what I would term chronically unemployable. He had no obvious disability but was seemingly unable to accomplish anything without having his hand held (it was a severe issue, not a joke). As an example, I actually couldn't trust him to fetch a plate from the kitchen. He was unsuited for either technical or menial work because he needed to be instructed down to the barest minutiae. Nice chap otherwise.

He naturally ended up on unemployment benefits and attended fortnightly reporting sessions. He was required to apply for 5 jobs each fortnight which he would be duly rejected from, then report back on his results. I'm convinced that the sheer brutal pointlessness of the process crushed him to the point where he took his own life.

Perhaps a basic income would create other perverse incentives, but it is clear to me that the current system is beyond broken.
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Chomsky has been making this case for years. It's no fallacy. Every grant application I have submitted has a provision for transferring research products to business. Just fill out the appropriate entry. It is understood that you don't talk about how the government takes the risk out of business by funding R&D efforts through taxpayer-funded grant allocations to research institutions, subsidies to business, generous patent monopoly grants and other measures. The taxpayer funds business innovation but receives no equity. Downvote me libertarians: I will have a mathematical treat for you non-mathematical political pundits, in good time.
"Sure, your car manufacturer can raise their car prices, but their competitors won't."

LOL see housing prices 2000-2007-ish

Or education price and medical prices in the USA for a couple generations. "Oh, you say your health/kids education is priceless, well guess what we're about to charge"
> incremental innovations in private industry are what has driven the massive global increase in economic efficiency over the last half-century, which in turn is what has allowed us the standard of living that we enjoy today

I agree. But this would not be possible without government investment at a loss to develop the very things the private sector incrementally innovates upon.

> Of course government innovations played a role in this process, but if necessity is the mother of all invention, then it seems obvious that had government not funded the creation of technology A, B, or C, and if there was truly a need for it

Now here is where we diverge. Companies will not seek these type of innovations because those that do die before they can reap any profit.

> Furthermore, had the dollars that have been spent on government innovations been instead allowed to remain in circulation in the economy, how many more innovations would private industry had come up with? Put more succinctly, what is the opportunity cost of government innovation?

Conversely, what is the opportunity cost of dipshit innovation? The answer is clear: lack of break through innovation. Hence why I advocate a split (40 long term government - 60 short term free market) in my above hypothesis. It's the best of both worlds; you don't short sell the future, whilst neither ignoring the present.
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Of course Google is hiring. So, why I posting this? Every time I tell someone I'm working at Google in Madison, they're shocked that there's an office in Madison, and I often hear people complaining about the lack of interesting technical work in Madison. There's fun technical work in Madison, I promise.

I'm working on a hardware/software co-design project that's attacking a fundamentally hard problem, which started as a 20%-time project. There are a couple other hardware projects in the office; most hardware projects start as prototypes of crazy ideas, and go from there. The majority of people here are doing low-level systems programming, usually networking related, and a handful of people are doing data analysis (call it big data, if you like) to figure out how to optimize Google's next generation hardware and software platforms. I'm sorry I can't describe projects in much more detail -- Google is pretty secretive about what goes into datacenters.

The office is small (just under 30 people), and manages to avoid any bureaucracy you might expect from a big company. The work is interesting enough that in the five year history of the office, only one person has left (and he retired to a ranch in Nebraska). Feel free to email me (see profile) if you have any questions.

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Haven't we learned a fair amount since the days of XP-specific software? I've never seen an enterprise XP application that was "done." Only shipped. Don't we have better platforms now that make it easier to write responsive and stable software?
There's damming with faint praise, or the non-commital 'yeah, he worked here between these dates'. Neither one of those says anything bad per se, but they can signal the unwillingness to provide a good reference.
To put it more bluntly, the DHS is a jobs program. We already have BI; you just have to hold a gun and let the government tell you what to do.
>> we are slowly moving to that point.

It would be better to rapidly move to that point, that way the transition period(with the suffering it will cause) will shorten.

As part of doing that, and from the understanding the lack of jobs in the future, we need to strongly work at reducing costs of basic needs. Partially, it's happening now , with solar, online education.But mostly , with regards to healthcare, housing, transportation and some parts of education(K-12) - we see lack of investment and large regulatory barriers in regards to cost reducing innovation.
This is true in practice if not in law.

Many large companies will not give a reference at all merely confirming dates worked from and too.

I think it was because someone once sued (successfully) over a bad reference.