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I agree, for this to work, everyone would have to receive that amount of money. Or at least say, everyone receiving under $100,000 a year in salary. Otherwise, you might feel cheated if you replace your $12,000 free money for a $20,000 job. You'd still have to receive the free money, so you'd then earn $32,000 a year.
120 million people at, say, -$1000 in net worth == big negative number. Anyone with $1 of net worth is wealthier than them.
> "In the current system, you can go stay at home and get income support, which should provide you with the basics i.e. a home, food, electricity etc."

That is assuming you know which benefits you are entitled for and how to claim them. Most of those benefits you can't apply retroactively. And you can't have someone else claim them on your behalf (for obvious reasons). There is a lot of useless and intrusive bureaucracy saved when you just pay everyone £X.
Oh gosh, it's "The Bell Curve" debate all over again.
The idea is nice, but if it causes widespread increases in costs / consumer goods / rent due to the reasons I mentioned, then the only places you may be able to just stay at home and work may not be the place you want to be.

For example, I live in London and enjoy this city. I would love to be able to stay at home and work on my side projects in hope of making extra money, but given the outcome I believe from this, everyone who was to only accept the basic income amount would no longer be able to afford to live in London and would have to relocate to less desirable places in the country.

Yes, you would now be free to work on your projects from your own home, but you would now not live where you want, with the people you are friends with, in an area which would be full of people who also are only taking the basic wage and probably a pretty horrible place.

The on paper calculations of the affect of this is like a snapshot of some code, before you press run. In the first state it is in, it would be fine, but the economic effects from this over the long term both in social and financial terms would be profound.
Do you agree that everyone deserves a fair share of the natural resources of the earth?
> Now that is a clean, friendly design.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that the header wasn't fixed. I can't wait until that fad dies out.
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http://www.overpopulation.org/immigration.html

Your first sentence is a logical error, since overpopulation is measured worldwide.
Doesn't that just make you a browser+web fan, and not a JS fan?
>and so does almost anyone with a positive net worth.

A recently graduated MD with $120K in debt is still massively more wealthy than a hobo on the streets who is technically in the green. In this knowledge economy a well respected degree is a valuable asset to hold.
The problem here though is that they were shipping off their spicier models to review, while the shrink wrapped version you would buy was off-spec.
> The spending power of the basic income will ultimately reflect the value its recipients produced in order to obtain it - zero in this case.

What do you think the purchasing power of welfare money is? Furthermore, can you really separate the purchasing power of the money utilized in the minimum income and the income from working?
For a long time, cars were a symbol of freedom and independence

I actually never saw cars as a symbol of freedom and independence, rather of the opposite. Both the ownership as well as the use of those vehicles is spun in so many laws that any semblance of 'freedom' and 'independence' they give is no more than imagination.
Does a lack of knowledge of physics really matter in the real world for most people?

I was recently wondering if our terrible road safety problem in South Africa can partly be explained due to a lack of understanding of physics. After all, intuitively Newton's First Law explains why seatbelts are necessary. Concepts like momentum and kinetic energy explain why heavy trucks, speeding down steep inclines are dangerous - authorities don't seem to grasp that very often, and tragedies involving runaway trucks on poorly engineered roads are not infrequent.

But I then realised that two of the most reckless drivers I know are my uncle, an Engineering dropout, and my friend who is a practicing engineer. Being good at physics hasn't saved them from being in multiple car crashes.

Are there any cases where an understanding of physics helps the average person in everyday life?
Fascinating, I was so confused at first because I first misunderstood the fact who was right and who was wrong in this philosophy class.

I will ask this question on parties, this will be funny :D
>In the current system, you can go stay at home and get income support, which should provide you with the basics i.e. a home, food, electricity etc.

Really? How that explains millions of homeless, poors eating in soul kitchens and/or with coupons, etc?
1. I address this somewhere else. I agree this is broken, but this is not a problem with the benefit system - it's something to do with wages not rising accordingly with everything else.

2. Perhaps, although if they do something stupid with that money, they still need supporting - so you either let people go homeless / starve or help them (which creates a new layer of welfare)

3. I'm not saying twice the food would be consumed, I'm saying prices would rise accordingly which would mean consuming the same amount of food costs more than it does now. The goal posts will just be moved and the poverty line will be above the basic minimum everyone gets paid.
Fully agreed. The website delivers Bitcoin as a average-consumer-frienldy. If bitcoin becomes mainstream, it will soon collapse under the weight of careless users.

I would rather see a site solving some of the critical concerns raised by average-user's ignorance.
We're already giving money to people with no job, this would effectively take money off people who administer welfare systems and give it to low paid workers who would then get benefits and wages.
SQL injection is caused by exactly the confusion between human- and machine- readable text that the author is warning against.
Renault to customers: All your cars are belong to us!

I wonder what the customers will tell them in turn...
It's already worse than that. There are many products which have a smaller size of that's more expensive than the larger size because the smaller one is WIC-approved. There's targeted price-gouging for people who are forced by the government to buy specific products. There are also ridiculous loopholes. People buy soda and milk with returnable bottles, walk outside, pour it out, return the bottles for cash, and buy a beer. This happens consistently at grocery stores.
Search is always a hairy problem, you would probably store a normalized version of your searchable text and match a normalized input on that. What should actually match will be different depending on what you're doing, so I wouldn't rely on something like string.equals for it.
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The difference is that when we say that the Earth revolves around the Sun, it's implied that we are using an inertial reference frame. Yes, you can take whichever reference point you want, but it's not the default assumption.
i would recommend also using bip0038 to encrypt those private keys with a memory intensive hash.
A long while back, I read a scifi book (really a kids scifi book) about a kid that finds a red pebble which cancels gravity for anything it's in contact with (except kids, obviously), causing those objects to be pulled strongly up into the sky. Why? Because they were attracted by the moon's gravity. They even got it to spin round and suggested using that for free energy. Can't for the life of me remember the title or author, but I remember it really grated against my sensibilities, and I never read anything by the same author again.
Every adult citizen receives basic income, no matter their "means."

That's what makes it equitable.
This sounds as the industrialist's problem. Maybe it's a good idea to give the wage and let small groups of people produce crafted beer. i'm sure the price will not be the problem.
Perhaps both (manual and machine learning).

It would just have to crawl something like IMDB to get to know all Indian Actresses, their age, if they are still alive, their sex, etc. For more involved stuff, yes, it would need manual assistance to build a db.

But people also asking for the same actress will help it learn, if it doesn't know about her already. E.g at the point it gives up and ask you the name, you have already provided the system with 10-15 answers about the person.
Your last paragraph really takes away all the impartiality your comment seemed to have.

Anyway, it would have been great to know which models you were exactly comparing, because I don't believe what you say about the PC being that bad.

Also, there are some features in the MBP that don't make sense in a PC. For instance, retina display. GOOD LUCK with that resolution in a 15" display using anything other than OSX. Or the battery life. Of course a MacBook is going to have a longer battery life. They have iron-fisted control over everything, from the software to the hardware. It would be hilarious if with such dictatorial control they didn't have good battery life.
You said that both things ('importing new people and replacement breeding') contribute to overpopulation. Importing new people can only contribute to overpopulation if you consider it locally. If you consider it globally moving X people from A to B cannot possibly directly affect the total amount of people in A and B. I considered overpopulation only in Europe and not globally because neither did you.
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I'm thinking on an rsync storage+nginx static file serving with dedicated disk space and bandwidth, all pseudonymous. Any idea/comment ? Thanks!
Here's a quick how-to:

1. Go to bitaddress.org and save the page to hard drive.

2. Take computer offline and generate keypairs.

3. Send coins to generated address(es) and print out private keys.

4. Etch keys onto metal (I used a Dremel though other methods may be better). Two copies stored in separate places might be wise.

5. Burn paper copy of keys.

6. Wait 10 years, buy Aruba.
> it will cost you 1 BTC to produce, market, and sell a single widget, and that it is only worth your effort if you can sell each widget for 2 BTC, a handsome 100% margin.

That's a 50% profit margin, not 100%.

profit margin = 1 - cost/revenue = 1 - 1/2 = 0.5
Why would the bitcoins be lost with the hard drive? I don't know much about wallets but could he not retrieve them on another machine?
Well, the point I was getting to is how to approach such an effect through a thought experiment. I agree that my scenario is very different, but it's about the short and long term effects. You're right, my example would probably devalue the currency and create inflation, but what would happen as a result. Would prices go up within days, weeks year. What about wages and tax. How long would the rate of increase last.
Don't know if I'd trust MtGox not to evolve it into an advertising platform in the future when it starts pulling in nice traffic.
So everyone that wants to live in London will need to have a job, just like they have today. It's a decent trade-off.
Why so bitter? For me it's the most fascinating area in technology at the moment.
I am not separating anything. I am saying that inflation will rise, because that's what happens when a country isn't producing anything more, but the country increases the amount of its currency in circulation. It's like a stock split - absent a rise in the actual value of the company, doubling the number of shares makes each share half as valuable.

In this case, over time inflation will adjust to the point that the spending power of the basic income will approach zero. It won't actually hit zero, because markets are not 100% efficient. But it will be close.
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>Cause the creators of the language decided to

Which is an no-op answer. That can be the answer for any kind of engineering decision, including the most idiotic ones.

We're concerned with what's best here, not merely with what has been decided.

>Don't like it, feel free to fork it

Another BS non answer.
Under "protection":

"The nature of Bitcoin means that, compared to credit cards or other financial tools, your identity is safer from theft. Your level of privacy is up to you, and in the online world privacy and protection are an asset."

This is hilarious. Right now basically every week we have news of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins being stolen from sites. In contrast, with a credit card every client has full protection including fraud, charge-backs, returns, etc.
It says you need to provide it with hydrogen. Doesn't extracting hydrogen from water require energy? How much hydrogen and nickel are required for how much output? (If it works at all)
> 1. Software that he uses actually encrypts wallets (BitcoinQT by default does not!).

Are you sure about that? Can you point to a discussion where it says BitcoinQT doesn't encrypt by default. Googling found me nothing.
The appropriate response would be, "OK - all your cars are belong to you, much good may they do you. I won't have one."
I said this back when bitcoin was $6 a pop. My face is well and truely egged up and my bank account is thin around the hairline
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Actually, wages are increasing enormously, and faster than costs, for the vast majority of workers of those corporations. It's just that most of them are not American or European.

In any case, that assessment, valid or not, doesn't provide a solution.
Might not be the right place to post this, but the twitter notification for this article says "300m", I think they made them a bit smaller than that.
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> Right now basically every week we have news of millions of dollars worth of bitcoins being stolen from sites.

Rule 1: If you store your bitcoins with someone else, they'll most likely get stolen. People need to learn how to store their own bitcoins or they'll end up not having any.
You have to turn it on. If you create yet another wallet, it's easy to forget that.
I'm always shocked how otherwise very rational and logical people tend to be "communists". It is one of the things that lets me down when reading comments on HN. So sophisticated as far as hard science goes, so naive and just - plain dumb - in terms of humanities.

Ever heard of inflation? If you give basic income to everyone what happens to the prices of everything? So the ROI on this is extremely limited and the price inflation will kill any benefit.

But still for some people rising prices with real unemployment at 15% is a good thing!
For the Earth-Sun system, the center of mass is only shifted a few 100 km towards the earth, but the radius of the sun is 695500 km. So the offset is less than 1/1000 of the radius of the sun.
Obviously, anyone who answers a question incorrectly is ignorant of the correct answer, but the point is that in many cases the wrong answer seems to be logically based on a wrong mental model of how gravity works. Just like Aristotelian physics. And Newtonian physics as well. Would you call Aristotle and Newton ignorant?

The interesting part is the discussion of what these wrong mental models look like and how you can teach a correct one.
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Out of curiosity, what is the best way to store bitcoins? Have your wallet synchronized with a third-party backup provider?
That is incorrect, London is not like that today.
London is an extremely multi cultural city, with both rich and poor living side by side in the same boroughs. A lot of people argue that most of London's unique culture in places like Brixton came from the poor and that's what made London in a lot of ways great.

If you say, everyone in London will need a job, then you are then moving the poor / unemployed on mass out of the city. On paper this may look great, but for social-economic reasons this is a disaster.

You would end up with a 'walled garden' of elite living in London and the poor / unemployed living outside. The city would lose it's unique cultures, become even more gentrified / elite than it currently is and social unrest could start to occur.
Why would the strings match? Aren't they completely different? (What language are we talking about, anyway?)
Progressives?

Did you know that Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman supported the idea?
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A rule setting a maximum of one or two months/year paid abroad would suffice.
> The system is broken, but the equality of pay and living standards is not to blame with the government, it's to blame with greedy corporations, share holders insisting they need to do anything for profit and wages being pinned down to the minimum they can be that the work force will stand for (to maximise profits).

Let me ask you something... If you start a new business, and let's say you take out a huge loan to pay your startup expenses, and you have a huge pool of qualified workers fighting to work for you for 10 dollars per hour, are you going to pay them any more? Knowing full well that that's a shitty wage, but that if you pay them any more you might go out of business and have a huge debt burden... Or do you pay them 20 dollars per hour out of generosity, and risk going bankrupt, with repercussions that could follow you for years?

It's easy to blame corporations, but remember, there's more players in the job market, including many struggling small businesses... Furthermore, large corporations have gone out of business, and when they fail entire towns and cities can become destitute (look at Detroit).

Corporations pay market value for wages, to increase wages you need to either increase the number of jobs, or decrease the number of workers.
I think a lot of people who are skeptical of this story just don't realize that they appended to be surrounded by people who have developed unusually accurate physical models.

I recommend browsing Amazon reviews of (non heat pump) electric heaters for statements about which ones are more efficient. (The less efficient one produce more waste heat?)

Because there are few consumer products that exercise people's understanding of gravity, basic thermodynamics might be a good proxy. However the real point of the article isn't all the misconceptions that must be "plucked out" one by one, but the struggle of trying to figure out how to encourage students to form more comprehensive models.

I'd also add that an important goal in teaching is students' facility in applying principles, and confidence to question intuition and consensus.
Thank-you, guys, but I was kidding. I've been using Linux and other Unixes since 1998. I just got impressed in how this post became busy with everything, but Linux programming.
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From Apptricity's site, this seems bold:

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Here's my method, further down the comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6814692
On its own yes, but if combined with the previous statement that a pen would float away, it just exhibits a piecemeal and inconsistent understanding of physics.
I think the biggest benefit of a universal income is to remove the perception that unemployment is a bad thing. Now to reduce unemployment there's a fair amount of menial labor and policies encouraging it. If countries didn't have to worry about their employment levels I suspect they'd be a lot more willing to embrace new approaches.
Saying CC's have robust fraud protection is equally misleading, imo. They require you trust every merchant, website, waiter, etc to not abuse your information. Chargebacks just shift the cost of the merchant, most of the time, and as best I can tell PCI exists mostly to shift liability around.
Being introduced to gravity with an equation is not nearly enough to figure out how things will behave. It takes calculus to describe the motion of falling things even without air resistance. Even if someone straight-up tells the students that gravity accelerates things at the same rate regardless of mass, they're probably not going to believe it without some experiments.

Edit: a quiz to maybe prove my point :) On the moon, if you throw a rock, what shape would its arc describe?

Edit2: not a straight line when you drop it, silly!
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In the context of the comment I replied to, no, it's not.

Haskell gives you some constructs that makes this easier but there exists no program whose Haskell implementations will run faster because of this, only programs that are easier to make fast.
Is 'page size' alone enough to worry about this sort of thing? We don't download all the assets used every time we load a page.

Just a thought, but the total size of assets on the page ignores the use of caches and CDNs for common assets - if I visit 100 websites that all use Google's CDN to deliver jQuery I'll download a few hundred kbs and do 99 HTTP requests that return just a "nothing changed" header. The fact that those 100 websites are all a few hundred kb bigger than they were a few years ago means very little.

If I visit the same website every day for 100 days straight I'll probably only download jQuery once even if it's hosting the file itself because of my browser cache.

Obviously it's preferable if a site optimises things where it can, but I don't think a 150% increase in total page size equates directly to a 150% increase in data usage. It might for archive.org, but they're pretty atypical web users.

tl;dr Overall page size is less important than setting caching headers properly.
If I were a military organization, I'd pay for the device in an escrow account with funds to be released upon validation that the device worked properly.
I would hate to be the person who earns just over that arbitrary 100k line.
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But, to be pedantic, 1000 times zero is still zero, so you are saying that any income will be worth zero.
Wonder how they found out. Does military software report back to the author corporation? Would of thought that'd be something the military would insist against.
That's because they use a broken string type.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6807524

(Sorry)
If you had a way to cancel gravity, you could use that to get free energy because the no-curl condition for energy conserving fields would no longer hold. You could create a closed path in space where gravity is always pulling you along the path.