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I've always liked the idea of a base salary for all citizens. However, this plan appears to set the base level far too high -- it needs to be barely enough to fund the most basic of life's essentials, and indexed to an inflation rate of essential commodities. Life on this salary needs to be difficult and unsatisfying.

The model I imagine would also:

* Be paid to all citizens from age zero. Which means it can replace many existing systems, from child support payments and old age pensions.

* Child salaries from ~3 onwards could come in the form of vouchers with limited scope, e.g. accredited education providers, accredited child care services.

And you need to combine it with some further reforms, e.g:

* No minimum wage.

* Pretty much all existing welfare scrapped.

* Reduced work rights (e.g. less onerous unfair dismissal rules)

The underlying goal of such a system would be to dramatically simplify the role of the welfare state, and put the responsibility back on the individual to manage their own welfare.
For those in the EU, there is currently an official (run by the European Comission) on-line petition in which EU citizens can vote for encouraging the application of the Basic Income idea at https://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/REQ-ECI-2012-000028... .

This is not a "let's apply this now!" thing, but a petition to study the ways and means of how it could be applied.
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This is worth noting. The fire did not stop and kept reignighting. The FD had to flip the car on its side and physically gain access by cutting the car up, to put the fire out. Under this scenario, it seems dubious that compartmentalization would be sufficient. Thermal conductivity at some stage would overcome the situation.

Also, you are right to highlight that petrol fuel systems are a cause only on a tiny minority of real-life auto accident related fires (~2%). The safety of petrol engines is actually quite high in this regards (counter-intuitive, perhaps). Plastic has the ability to deform rather than crack (flexibil vs brittle) and also the position of the fuel cells is much more protected. Think about the debris from front-tires -- much more likely to hit the undercarriage (where the Tesla battery is) than behind the rear axel (where many tanks are). Debris hit by the rear tires of course exits behidnd the car in either scenario. This setup is obviously not by chance. The Li Ion battery is probably low for COG reasons and fore-aft weight distribution. Li ION is much heavier than petrol.
Speaking of income tax, can we get a discount for the days that the federal government is shut down?

For example, if the government is offline for 18 days (5% of the year), I suggest that downtime should be applied as a 5% federal income tax discount.
The existence of controls doesn't necessarily equate to effectiveness.

Pair ineffective cost controls with a massive, complex, bloated, ineffective framework, and it doesn't seem to follow that the result is by inspection necessarily better than the status quo. Nor was my conclusion on costs, therefore, a complete non-squitur.

And since when is marginally bettering a fairly lousy status quo somehow laudable? That's a remarkably disappointing outlook.

Many Republicans hate it because their team lost, which is a poor reason to hate a bill, but just as poor–and perhaps more insidious–is that many Democrats cheer its passage, while knowing very little about it. Because their team won.

We've seen that story played out time and time again, in both parties, on myriad issues.

We really, really can do better than that, on all sides.
What's awful is that someone is going to get in big trouble over this message... even though it is a bunch of politicians who created this giant mess.
Minard's famous chart is commonly regarded as the earliest example of a flow map.
A corollary from basic ecology: artificially adding prey to an area that cannot support more predators is tantamount to reducing competition amongst those predators, worsening the problem of motivation; or because of breeding, adding predators, worsening the problem of scarcity.
2'500 CHF is about the budget for a student life-style in Zurich. I expect a lot of young Swiss going on long holidays to cheaper places like south-east asia or eastern europe.
This refers to another constitution change:
By strengthening the control of shareholders over payout for executives, they want to stop these extremely high bonuses.
So this was a much less radical law change, that the 1:12 article would be.
> One problem I find with most jobs is that it's much easier to get more pay than less hours, even if I really want the latter. There is a large drop-off between full-time and part-time work.

I wonder how much of that is due to habits and regulations that are necessary in the absence of basic income. When most people are full-time workers, and when most people need to be in order to survive, it's not surprising that the entire economic system gets optimized for full-time work.

Lots of government regulations are also designed with full-time workers in mind, with the assumption that most part-time workers want to "upgrade" to full-time a.s.a.p. For example, in some jurisdictions it is illegal for an employer to employ a part-time worker for more than X hours a week (nearly full-time) without giving them benefits equivalent to what full-time workers get. This makes it very difficult for an employer to maintain an ongoing relationship with someone who prefers to work 20 hours a week. Not enough hours to justify full-time employment but too many hours to keep on the part-time payroll.

Policies like that are necessary to protect workers in a world without basic income. In the long term, I imagine that a guaranteed basic income would make a lot of current employment-related regulations unnecessary, leading to more flexible terms of employment. But it will probably take a decade or more for Switzerland's economic system to adjust to basic income, and I really hope that the pain of the transition period doesn't make them call it a failure too soon. (I can already see the FOX News headline: 3 years after Switzerland implements basic income, their unemployment rate is up 20%! See what happens when Commies take over your country! etc. etc.)
I'm not saying you should, ;-) but if you did a simple automation of 'submit URL and title on creation'

This way you do it once, and since you don't have to revisit it every time it posts, you can remove the element of self control.
Roundabouts are extremely common in the UK and work very well - but (a) they are well understood, and (b) my experience is that drivers here are probably more polite than average.
> this works out to $2800/month or $33600/year.

Switzerland's per capita GDP is about USD 79000/year, so assuming 80% of the Swiss population are adults and citizens, this would cost about 34% of GDP, which may be unaffordable.
The Rust code that ML thread is discussing: http://github.com/huonw/card-trace
a simple fact that you get defensive and personal reveals that you are not happy with your confidence level. but that's ok, as you get more mature, and acquire a certain perception depth (and I wish you do), you'll prefer being constructive vs. angry.

I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. Hazelcast solves similar problem that all of the valuations in the list: "storing and retrieving data". By the way, "file system" does it too (let's valuate it as well @ $3.6B).

As far as "enterprise support" in case of Mongo, it's like running a political campaign: nobody really knows "who" is inside, until "he" gets elected, and when "he" does, the "support" needs to make sure reality stays hidden, by white (and not so white) lies. And yes, MongoDB is great at "support", most OSS aren't.
Wrong. Young people are paying quite higher premiums for care under Obamacare.

http://americanactionforum.org/research/premium-increases-fo...
Yeah, the basic income is tough because it doesn't address all of the elements that discourage self-improvement, but it does address some.

I'd be curious to see what the net decrease/increase in costs would be if the US wiped out the vast majority of assistance programs and switched over to a basic income. After that, someone would need to take a stab at seeing what the net increase/decrease is from the change in incentives and general societal structure.
the flying versions of these things are already killing. Or do you mean a robot/drone killing at their own will?
Yes, I'm sure that's what every single employee does, including the software engineers, HR people, managers, receptionists, and janitors.
Land is simply not a particularly scarce commodity somewhere within a few hundred kilometers of your house

"Got rice?" Not here in Asia, where most people live.

Even so, an average-sized residential roof will generate quite a lot of power relative to what the inhabitants use on all but apartment towers - and those are usually surrounded by enough parking, on which we can build sunshades with solar panels, to compensate.

The developing world is rapidly urbanizing and moving in to - you guessed it - apartment towers. The world at large is also moving away from cars.

What is your idea of an 'average sized' residential roof, anyway? Perhaps you are aware that US houses have the largest floorspace per capita of anywhere in the world, except Australia?

No offence but it looks like you have a very North American (chiefly US) perspective.
I think that there is something similar in Scandinavia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
The "rotaries" I knew of in Massachusetts were all actually roundabouts in terms of their physical layout and traffic rules governing them.
I too would enjoy the franchise wars and have every restaurant called Taco Bell.
My theory: here we drive on the right. In countries where roundabouts are succesful they drive on the left. The anti-clockwise flow of cars on right side drive might be more difficult for the brain to comprehend, leading to confusion and panic.
Anyone that has ever used US currency is responsible for that then, right? What with supporting the economy that supports the US military?
On the Internet there is much misleading information about 'lateral thinking'
Gloucestershire in the UK have a habit of putting traffic lights on roundabouts which as you can imagine completely defeats the point of one. A round about automatically prioritises traffic based on demand. This combination of two contradictory solutions is the work of the devil.
I wouldn't say it's too much harder than reddit. The key is long form content.

Legitimate commentary will take longer to flow in, and allow for knee jerk / blind influence to last longer from original submission time.

IMO the beet would be a clickbait title for a long article that starts contrarion, but ends on a neutral note.

Rational/logical people will take less offense b/c they're more likely to read the neutral perspectives and others will blind vote/comment based on title and first couple of sentences of the article.
...but you voted up the good content, right?
Yes, but it's more of an extended vacation for lawmakers than a real government closure. Maple syrup farms and Hockey Night in Canada are unaffected, thankfully.
That a story is about one political topic doesn't really seem to justify bringing up a fairly tangential political topic, and certainly not in that fashion.
While I don't disagree that my country has had (and in some aspects still has) a backwards mentality, I fail to see how your comment has anything to do with the conversation.
> I feel this statement is accurate. MRI is stagnating around the GIL

That seems a bit over the top.

Ignoring the steady stream of improvements/features in MRI in the 1.9-2.1 timeframe, even from the thread-based-concurrency side there have been improvements (e.g. thread safe/async IO libraries replacing older ones).

If rails lost some of it's edge compared to an Erlang based platform, it's because people have awaken from the hype dream they were living in, as they should have never have used it for that job anyway.
A separate proposal to limit monthly executive pay to no more than what the company's lowest-paid staff earn in a year, the so-called 1:12 initiative, faces a popular vote on November 24.

This is a peculiar initiative. Surely, a plot by the commies, or is it not?
"Having something specific to hide leads to questions of why? To what end? Should we be worried?"

Why do you close the doors when you go to the bathroom? What are you hiding? Should we be worried?
It's most obvious with titles that have multiple discrete interpretations based on word choice.

You'll see early comments disagree/agree with something wholly unrelated to the topic, and not realizing it.
> It's just you. The Bangladesh government is still up!

Our government is expected to fall within the next 4 months. Should keep an eye on this site. Helpful.
I doubt that will be a problem. There is no incentive to get more children. Because the children will only get their own money once they become adults. And so they can't be forced to give up any of the money. So basically, if you are 18 and get the money, and your parent want you to pay money to stay at their house, you can just leave and rent your own place...
This is pretty cool, but does it have some feature to select the sources? or at least what type of news you are interested in? That would make things so much better!
I haven't (yet) had the need to rely on government benefits, but I grew up in a rural town with a "gilded" quality of class division. The most poor people I knew would honestly save up two weeks to eat out at Subway. It gave me a lot of perspective to see that what was my staple lunch-break food could actually be a luxury to another family.

Obviously, anecdotes don't prove the point, but of the families I've known in that situation, you are completely right. They were far more focused on getting their kids to school with full stomachs than fancy electronics or other status symbols.
One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income.

The people who already do them: immigrants, which make up more than 20% of the population of Switzerland.
"The thinking goes, why let bad Internet or cellphone connections ruin an otherwise good presentation? But Jobs insisted on live presentations. It was one of the things that made them so captivating. Part of his legend was that noticeable product-demo glitches almost never happened."

What is interesting is that product-demo glitches happened all the time. We went to one presentation in which Steve had to ask for people not to use the Internet because they had not enough bandwidth.

But mistakes were so "naturally handled" that people just did not care.

I think Edison said, you will not be remembered by your mistakes, but from your successes.
New England Rotaries are closer to roundabouts than traffic circles, but not generally considered the same.

"Most common in the New England region of the United States, a rotary is primarily a mid 20th century roadway design defined as a circular, one way, often multi-lane roadway, similar to a traffic circle or a roundabout, but with key differences. They are often found as overpasses or underpasses to highways. Usually traffic already in the rotary has the right-of-way as in a modern roundabout and opposite of a traffic circle, although there are exceptions. The difference in design of a rotary versus a roundabout or a traffic circle, is such that rotaries tend to be quite large and there is little deflection around the central circle (meaning traffic coming on or off does so primarily in a straight line, not a curve). These two factors mean that rotary traffic often travels at speeds in excess of 30 miles per hour, leading to confusion and accidents, and the resulting unpopularity, that the modern roundabout does not suffer from. Although this is a traffic engineering definition, many rotaries are called traffic circles or simply circles, such as the Portsmouth Traffic Circle, in naming."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout
Words matter. source: George Carlin
Jesus, speaking of narcissism...

America likes tech, but really doesn't care that much about Silicon Valley. Does anyone leave this place and not immediately see that?

(even the original article is flawed, somehow thinking that distance between the New York financial sector and the press lets them fare better. The meme these days is that the tech sector is after your private data to advertise at you, but Americans by and large put the financial sector at about the same level as they put Congress. The idea that Americans even care enough about Silicon Valley to be able to loathe the place is a joke)
What kind of apps will be suitable for JotForm? Any suggestions on what I should create? Do you have a payment option like Wix?
But what about caterpillar? They can go literally on any terrain. Even on Mars :)
Also, how many Tesla drivers are driving around in 10-year-old cars? There are plenty of avenues to explore in debunking that statistical hand-waving.
Let's not get too patriotic there,

Apple introduced flops as well, see apple TV
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Yeah, I've noticed this. It doesn't work.
I was looking at the Rust-dev mailing list before going to sleep :)

I would argue that it is not cheating "anymore" as both the Go and C++ version are now equal. In fact, I wanna compare how Rust performs in this exact same test with all optimizations applied. Studying those optimizations will be fun itself.

I have also explained why optimizations are perfectly fine (IMHO) here:

https://github.com/kid0m4n/rays#why-optimize-the-base-algori...
Define "unaffordable".

It's really annoying that people say "it's unaffordable" to mean "we don't want to pay", when the phrase is supposed to mean "we can't pay, we don't have enough money". I understand why people don't want to part with money, but at least let's be honest.

If you sort everyone from poorest to richest, and plot their incomes on a graph, basic income just means that the slope is flatter than before [1]. As long as the area under the graph (GDP) remains the same, it's technically affordable.

The flattening is accomplished by (a) taxing the rich more, and (b) a gradual reduction of salaries and/or working hours as the market finds a new equilibrium.

What matters is political will, and it seems that Switzerland has more of it than most of the other developed countries.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/IGkHoma.png (Sorry, it looks like crap because I just drew it in MS Paint.)

Edit: Fixed graph. The red line is now curved properly.
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Hey I'm flying over from London too. Let's swap details and perhaps meet up over there - you can get me on simon AT staffsquared.com
However, you have to keep some perspective.

How would a one day stop compare to a large winter storm's effect on aviation? How would it compare to the days after 9/11, or the early August 1981 air traffic controller strike?

It's difficult to gauge the effect of a one day cessation of air traffic in comparison to, a week (or two?) of the services that are being shut down now, and say it is necessarily worse.

How would it compare to the economic fallout of putting off progress in health care yet another decade or two?

Furthermore, maintaining focus on keeping perspective, even a single day delay in payments on US securities could be the economic equivalent of the apocalypse, and yet that seems to be on the table for the craziest of the crazy legislators.

There's a lot of discussion about what would make the issue more concrete, and people talk tough about how Congress shouldn't be paid. If they really wanted to inspire them to find a quick solution, maybe all general aviation across the country could be shut down. The economic fallout would be much less, but people who get a direct line to congressmen would tell them to get to work.
How big is the difference when you put them all behind varnish?
If they did that in America 50% of the population would quit working and prices would quickly shoot up to MARS!

Less workers, higher wages, more money in circulation... What an inflationary mess that would be.
How many 9s does the US government have for its existence?
Have you discounted the 20-25% of immigrants who are counted in the GDP per capita, but who almost certainly won't receive this income?
How so I get on the list of most interesting persons so I can setup my honeypots? do I have to be jacob appelbaum or assange?

what freaked me out is that they deliver sensible exploits for techie people. go damnit.
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Hey, possible to optimize the code and send over a PR? I would love to rerun the benchmarks with a optimized Rust version and my rust is totally rusty (pun intended :P)
Roundabouts rule! I live in France and can drive from here to the store without ever stopping. Single lane roundabouts are common, multi lane roundabouts are more rare. The 5-lane roundabout at the Arc de Triomphe is a white-knuckler.

They work simply: each car entering the roundabout must yield. I've never had a problem.

I have had issues in the roundabouts in Seattle. Partly because they inexplicably put a left turn lane in them. The other reason is most Americans are not familiar with the concept and balk when using them.
This is a good point, but consider: mules can also go places horses cannot. In order to take advandage of the properties of this level of terrain, you will need articulating ankles/"feet". Note that these robots lack this critical element of sophistication. It is the footwork of the mule which seperates it from the horse.
Why? It seems blatantly obvious that Samsung are guilty of breaking laws in this case. This is incontrovertible fact. Yet you seem to be trying to switch focus to it being "us vs them". Are other parties guilty of similar? Possibly, likely in fact. Is there any tangible evidence? Not at the moment.
Interesting how they use a petrol engine.
There's also the phenomenon that every industry thinks it is special. There are very few people who think "I wish I was a programmer but I'm just not talented enough".
The only problem with roundabouts (especially around Paris) is when you have a lot of traffic and half the people forget to blink.
1989 (Appenzell Ausserrhoden) and 1990 (Appenzell Innerrhoden) where the last two cantons that allowed a woman to vote. Most already allowed it in the 1970s. However 1970s is still way to late and shameful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage_in_Switzerland
I like this idea and think it's something that's going to become more common. As more and more jobs are automated it makes sense that governments would eventually generate money through automating societies least popular jobs and use the money generated through that to pay citizens a basic salary.
> In particular, congress shouldn't be paid.

The problem isn't that congress is being paid, it is that so much of congress does not need to be paid because they are independently wealthy. Excluding non-revenue generating property like cars, houses, artwork, etc - nearly half are millionaires. Their circumstances find them disconnected from the reality of the majority of this country's citizens.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/11/congress-enjoys-rob...
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Why mediocrities hate cleverness? Because of inevitable cognitive dissonance they must experience in order to fool themselves back to the delusion of their own cleverness.)

Why common people hate hipsters is another question worth asking.) This is because everyone could see, except hipsters themselves, that their playacting of being smart/sophisticated instead of actually being smart is an offence even to that very basic intelligence common folks have.

True smartness doesn't require any special behavior or a dressing style, the same way that wearing a robe is optional for a true seer and flawlessness of a posture is of second importance to the goal of so-called meditation.)