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Following up on some of the comments here, I thought the submitted article was implausible because I have lived in a country that has gone from a poor, subsistence-peasant economy to a post-industrial wealthy economy in the lifetime of my in-laws who still live there. Nobody wants to go back to a peasant's life. It's just dumb to suggest that that would be a good trade-off.

On the issue of health risk, people have really got to learn from statistics that were shared here on HN earlier. Life expectancy has been increasing at ALL ages all over the developed world,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

and correspondingly the risk of being seriously sick at any age has been steadily declining here in the United States and all over Europe and other developed places. Girls born since 2000 in the developed world are more likely than not to reach the age of 100, with boys likely to enjoy lifespans almost as long. The article "The Biodemography of Human Ageing" by James Vaupel,

http://www.demographic-challenge.com/files/downloads/2eb51e2...

originally published in the journal Nature in 2010, is a good current reference on the subject. We have no good reason to go back to peasant days, and no reason to take an article that is basically just made up as a basis for evaluating our current trade-offs of modern living.
C'mon, I somehow have to put a higher meaning into those barriers. I've to rationalize the pain, it's a coping mechanism. :)
My rig is a pretty modern Ford V10 based gasoline chassis. It gets 8-11 MPG, depending on how fast I'm driving, the weather, and whether I'm going over hills or not. Towing a vehicle behind will effect mileage. But, speed is the biggest determinant of mileage.

The big diesels tend to get about the same mileage. There are some little turbo diesels built on Sprinter chassis that get up to 17 MPG.

The old (ancient) diesel rigs I'm looking at to replace my current motorhome will get about 7-10 MPG, but can be converted to waste vegetable oil, or run biodiesel. So...maybe environmentally acceptable, as long as I don't put a lot of miles on it (I tend to like to travel for short distances at a stretch anyway, so I don't drive a huge amount of miles in any given month...much less than someone commuting 20-30 minutes to work every day would, for example).

I've talked to people doing it in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia. I've met people from dozens of countries travelling the US this way. Germans, in particular, seem to be very interested in RVing in the US.
I understand your concern but to answer it I think a necessity with a BI would be stricter regulation around credit. If you offer a BI and people can take the BI while simultaneously accepting predatory credit offers, the prices of things will go up, BI acceptors will get duped by banks and credit card companies and the BI money gets funneled back to those large institutions while BI-receivers pay for their financial mistakes.
The only difference I've noticed between service in North America and that in Australia is that I get iced water and the bill at the end really fast in North America. Everything else is more or less the same.
That `3` can be trivially replaced with a variable in a way that `(i, i, i)` cannot. But still, the refactoring of the iterator into a separate variable is the key step which reinforces that the same object is being passed 3 times
Thanks ... However now I drink to forget it!
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They did. They bought an RV and lived in it. :)
That's ok. The other animals in the zoo won't have to work either.
> you saying "better".

I didn't make the original comment.
Actually, that's what I meant.

It's as close as you get to socialism (redistribution of wealth is a form of common ownership of the country's GDP) without rendering money useless (having the government provide everything for everybody).
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Might be illegal, if there are height restrictions in the zoning code. Also a lot of cities now add in requirements to have street-level retail so that buildings are not featureless walls or concrete parking ramps at street level.
First, read http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1913/mar/x01.htm . It's only a few pages so it doesn't even count!

If you only want one book, that book is Capital I. I suggest David Harvey's lectures along with it, they'll help out quite a bit. If you have read Smith and Ricardo, that'll make it much easier, too. For bonus points, read the short "Wages, price, and profit" by Marx, it's a bit easier of an intro than the book's.

If you can fit in a second, I'd suggest "the State and Revolution" by Lenin.

Marx identifies a problem and a crude solution, and Lenin provides a good solution. Those two will give you the most of it. Wikipedia, especially on the historical/dialectical materialism stuff, is helpful.

A more full list is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/wisiw/basic_marxi...

Also, /r/communism101 is very good and there to answer questions, if you Reddit.
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> I seem to remember movies with all kinds of female characters.

I'd challenge you to provide an equal number of counterexamples, then.

> Downvotes for what?

Your last paragraph is blatant sexism, fyi.
No, if you decide you don't want to do business with that entity anymore then you have to get off that entity's land. Just like if you decide that you don't want to do business with a parking lot company anymore, you have to move your car out of their parking lot. The punishment isn't for deciding not to do business with the government, it's for taking government services without paying for them. You won't go to prison or be killed for leaving the country.
"She builds it as tall as the legal height limit for that zone too."
At risk of simplifying too much: they fulfill very different goals, acquiring public knowledge vs getting rich.

You might be forgiven :-) for thinking that an academic research project can be identified with its publications and declared outcomes, because that's what is usually presented.

At its best, an academic research project is an exploration of some narrow corner of the space of ideas, perhaps with no immediate application. Depending on the area, its publications represent both improvements and dead ends. (At its worst it's just a load of exaggerations and distortions of the truth designed to fool an already self-deceived funding body into providing salaries, a travel budget and equipment. Most projects strike a balance).

On the other hand, startup=growth [1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html
Cars ruin everything about urban life. Look at what happened to SF when the automobile came on the scene in the 30's:

http://www.oldsf.org
is it just me or did this article have absolutely zero interesting information
"You can’t make an xor instruction take, say, 0.6 cycles. But feel free to try."

'Easy': clockless CPUs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_circuit#Asynchrono...)
I was wondering the same thing. The office building I work in has the first four floors devoted to a parking garage, with floors 5 to 10 as office space. Why couldn't the same be done for housing?
You misread the article.

It's Uber's black car drivers that are annoyed because they don't get tips, while Uber's Taxi drivers get a built-in 20% tip. The black cars are Uber's flagship product, run the way they want it run (fair pay without tips). The Taxi system includes a tip because no taxi driver would accept a fare that didn't include a tip. But—the taxi drivers still earn less than the black car drivers.
> I don't see too many Americans chomping

You must not get out much. There are a lot of Americans chomping at the bit to "stick it to those ragheads." It doesn't matter which Middle Eastern country, as long as we go over there and "kick some ass" against people that are different than us, they are 100% on-board.
I appear to be an inferior version of you; you've described my job, I'm also familiar w/ MATLAB (loved the absolute pants off that language in class), python, and javascript, but I only have a B.S. in Physics. I also think that MUMPS is unfairly maligned.

Do you live in a place that rhymes with 'Radisson'?
somehow that ugly MUMPS code reminds me of regexes...
Ember and Angular are cars, Backbone are sneakers.
Actually, speaking of taxes and paperwork, try talking to an accountant who has worked in both the US and Australia - the US tax system is incredibly baroque. If you sell something above a local shop level, you have to account for several levels of tax, depending on where you sell it. City, county, state taxes, varying all across the nation.

The financial controller at the sleep medicine place (mentioned above) found the differences between the systems quite phenomenal - the cost of compliance to the US tax system is much higher because it's so crazily complex.
Not really, I was mostly just addressing this:

>> But that doesn't mean capitalism is good at all; let's abolish it, we can build a much better economic system from scratch.

You suggested "building" a "much better" "economic system".

I'm suggesting Capitalism is not much of an "economic system", assuming I'm right about it consisting of voluntary exchanges, and that the idea of building an economic system is flawed. There's Freedom, and then there's Coercion. The latter doesn't result in desired outcomes.

> Politics would be one (I sure hope the market for Congressional votes is inefficient), and basic scientific research another.

Well, political power is clearly up for sale, and eagerly bought all the time, all over the world. That's not really relevant to the economy though, nor is "basic scientific research". Research happens when scientists do what they love doing - some kind of economic incentive for doing that can be arranged somehow, when necessary.
Rather, great code doesn’t need comments.
-- Yeah, right.

I think the author is green and has gone from the extreme of commenting everything to the other extreme. Depends, depends, depends.
Yes, although I wasn't an employee of EMIS. I was working for a clinic with a MUMPS system supplied by them. It ran on some old [edit: not "old" at the time] Digital minicomputer IIRC.
This is basically what sjs said, but you're only allowed to build the building so tall (zoning rules often crazily restrictive about this). So if you put your parking above ground, you'd have to have fewer units.
I've said it before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5080096), I'll say it again: the "spiral rule" makes pretty pictures, but it's nonsense.
This could serve as a really nice method of securing consulting engagements without the typical formalities of prospecting consulting engagements. I think $99/mo and especially free fall way short of things like "copywriter help" (there are many better ways of phrasing this), and you could essentially sell a retainer-until-you-launch product where you do nothing but help startups launch and setup experiments to net more email opt-ins/presales (all the while charging significantly more.)
> As long as the basic income implemented is much less than per-capita GDP, there's still opportunity and incentive to work to earn more, especially if the basic income level is set at a realistic poverty level that doesn't allow for much in the way of luxuries.

I'm really trying to avoid arguments about whether BI would encourage or retard laziness, because I can't make an intelligent argument one way or the other. My concern is with the cost of funding, and the negative effects that would have on currently-productive parts of the market.

> if the basic income only provides a net income boost to a minority of voters, then there will be electoral pressure to keep it low, rather than to keep increasing it.

Can you elaborate on this point? It seems like this same argument could be used to argue that there would be electoral pressure to not implement BI in the first place, if I understand you correctly. What makes BI electorally viable at level X but not at level Y?

> Since the basic income would replace minimum wage, producers would be free to pay cheap labor much closer to fair market value, so the cost of the products of unskilled labor could drop significantly (offset by an increase in the price of luxuries due to higher income taxes).

I hadn't considered that at all. Interesting variable. This actually changes my view of the whole thing substantially, since the reduced cost of labor could be the variable that employers could tweak to keep prices approximately stable (I get less of each dollar earned, but it costs less to earn that dollar, so it's a wash). I was assuming that labor costs would remain fixed, but if BI permitted for them to be reduced, that might in fact address one of the biggest concerns.
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All angular basics pretty well explained
A friend of mine used to be an architect, and I asked him once if it was possible to build a mile-high building. He said that it was technically possible but economically unfeasible because it would be hard to rent all the space. The base of the building (X number of floors) would have to be huge, and most people want to rent suites (office or living space) with windows, leaving the deep interior bare of renters.

Perhaps a ring of stores, with the interior of the first floor or two as a parking garage, which are less desirable anyway?
It's a step toward the right solution to this problem. At least people won't be bumping into each other all the time... I'm pretty sure this phenomenon will get worse before it gets better, but eventually our online presences will be fully (and invisibly) woven into our real lives and we will adopt some new form of socialization that takes constant connection into account.
Nope, there are in fact MUMPS programmers overseas too - I'm in Australia.

Also, if it wasn't for the sheer number of libraries PHP ships with, I'd without a moment's hesitation say Caché + Caché ObjectScript >>> PHP + MySQL.
In a large motorhome, it's a lot like a bathroom/shower in a small apartment. It's not big enough to take a shower with a friend, but it's comfortable...I've visited friends apartments with less pleasant bathrooms than mine, particularly in high rent areas like SF and NYC.

I have had four different Internet solutions since moving into the motorhome:

Millenicom 3G was first. I got hit with a $1400 bill while on the border of Canada and the US (they apparently don't protect against the modem using foreign towers, and will then bill you international roaming rates).

Then switched to a Clear 3G/4G unlimited plan. Worked OK in most places. When the modem died and my Cradlepoint proved unreliable as hell with 4G connections, I switched to..

Virgin Mobile and a tiny little hotspot with a 2GB 3G/unlimited 4G plan. It's the cheapest ($35/month), and shares Sprint's network (as does Clear). Works OK. The hotspot overheats sometimes, but it reliable enough and fast enough.

I currently also have a cable modem. I've been parking in Austin, TX enough that I keep a spot permanently, paid monthly. So, I have cable internet there, which is vastly faster than any 4G service I've used. If Google fiber makes it there, I'll buy that, too. Obviously, Internet is a priority. I'm not in Austin at the moment, and so using the Virgin hotspot out in the sticks in New Mexico, and it's working OK.

There have also been times when I used my phone as a hotspot. It's on T-Mobile. They made it impossible to do on my plan about a year ago...so, I'm annoyed with T-Mobile (I'd used it as Internet backup for years; my plan didn't change, but they imposed new rules). Haven't changed yet, but may eventually change to a service like Virgin Mobile, Cricket, etc., since I rarely make phone calls. When I'm due for a new phone, I'll look into it.

Service maps are available for all of the carriers and are reasonably accurate. Sprint/Clear claims better service than they provide, T-Mobile claims less good service than they provide (but still have less coverage than Sprint). AT&T outright lies, but has broader coverage than T-Mobile. Verizon I've never had or used, but is reportedly very good...it's just outrageously expensive.

Many RV parks also have Internet, and I occasionally use lack of Internet as a motivator to get me to go out to coffee shops and be social.

It's been very rare that I couldn't get Internet somehow during my travels. I can count them on a couple of hands and I usually knew I was going off the grid for a while and could warn my company co-founder and our one employee.
More accurate to say "governments are more innovative than corporations."

Nonsense. If that were true, then government wouldn't contract so much of their "innovation" out to corporations. I used to work for a corporation that did a lot of this "government innovation", and the primary role of government was to figure out which corporation would do the innovating, make sure it got done, and then to pay them.

Our biggest competitors were other corporations. Yes, we had some competition from government labs, but not much. We and our corporate competitors could create whole new staffed divisions in a half-dozen promising areas in the time it took a government lab to argue over whether to use this year's budget on a new framatron or a pizza oven.

We also had some competition from research universities, but even there, the public universities were hardly more "innovative" than MIT, Caltech, Stanford...the private corporations.

Some of the things we came up with at taxpayer expense were worthless. What could taxpayers have come up with if their money hadn't been confiscated and given to us? Some of the things were valuable (I think), but nothing that we couldn't have produced if paid by companies (as we often were) instead of a government agency.

And all this stuff about how we owe the Internet to government is hooey. It's as if packet switching could only have been invented by someone paid with confiscated tax dollars. People who were paid by non-coerced customer revenues could never have thought of it, and if the government hadn't invented it, it wouldn't exist today.

Just because the government had its fingers in something doesn't mean it played a necessary role. It tends to stick its fingers into nearly everything, but that doesn't mean it plays a useful role in more than a few of them. Most of those innovations where the government was first to do something would have been done just as well not long after by someone else if the demand for it were real (people voluntarily spending their own money) and not just political.
The oldtimers in RVs are called Snow Birds here in the US. They are the predominant group living fulltime in RVs here. I've met a lot of retirees in my travels.
You realize most of us are in that zoo too? There's nothing inherently magical about being able to make CRUD web sites and apps that protects us forever.
Peter Neumann has collected extensive archives on squirrelcides resulting in power failures. Search the RISKS archive at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/RISKS for lots of reports.
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I think a big turning point in human history will be when computers will finally be capable of everything and more that a human can do.
Sounds like, in short, taxation to help the poor is socialism, while taxation to help the rich is not. Which I suppose is true, but not exactly a reason to avoid socialism.
I wonder what results you'd get if you separately polled, say, under-25s and over-25s on whether the increasing use of smartphones in public is a bad thing.

I also wonder if complaints about "people have their heads in books all the time, they don't talk to each other!" were a common thing when novels began to be broadly popular in the 18th century.
Oh yeah, and the name one really bugs me too... Nope I don't wish to change my name for the 400th time lol.
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