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Not exactly. A web browser has to be installed before they start the process. Java has to be installed either at the beginning of the process or during the process.

I.e. the installation point of java is inside of my conversion funnel for some x > 0% of people I am targeting.
They mention income support, so I take that as the UK, where hundreds of thousands of people rely on foodbanks each year.
If you're successful at it you will then pay much higher taxes which will in turn fund higher basic income... More likely to happen is that your competitor will not also raise prices to $6 and you will soon yourself be relying on the basic income to live.
I'm trying to contribute to the Chromium project and believe me, when you're waiting over an hour to compile 1 day's worth of patches, you begin to dream of faster compile speeds :-)

But that is mostly a problem because incremental compiling in C++ is difficult for well-known reasons. Incremental compiling is well-supported in many other languages (e.g. Java) and is usually very fast. So, the issue of compilation time is IMO overstated by Go proponents.

Besides that, e.g. JRebel and DCEVM provide true hotswapping. So, generally, developing e.g. a web service in Java does not have a visible compile and deploy cycle at all.

I think having some sort of optional 'really fast compile' vs. 'optimal performance' build is the ideal

Why not have really fast compiles and JIT compilation when needed to make it fast (Java, C#, F#) or just JIT compilation (JavaScript). Of course, the trade-off is that you have to carry around a VM, but the JVMs and JS VMS are ubiquitous.
This is not welfare. This is giving money to every single person, and you cannot do that without negatively impacting the value of the currency. Reality sucks, but we still have to live in it.
People like to bring these things up to as thought experiments about how they'd fly in other countries, but one thing to keep in mind is that Switzerland is a really, really different place. Particularly compared to the US, it has fairly stable demographics, and obtaining citizenship is absurdly difficult.

While the Reuter's article doesn't mention that as a prerequisite for income benefits, one can reasonably infer that they're not gonna start handing out money to anyone who wanders in.

Contrast that with the US, where you get healthcare and free public education just for making it across the border from Mexico.
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To be clear (from an undergraduate microbiologist), my thought process behind the claim that IBM's polymer is less likely to promote resistance:
Faster-acting agents that cause immediate destruction are much harder to develop resistance to because normal minor variation from mutations is much less likely to produce anything that will save a cell from death.
So even if a cell produces a minor variation in its membrane protein it will likely still be killed and the "resistance" gets no chance to develop.

For something like penicillin, the bacteria gets quite some time to die (it inhibits synthesis!) and there are many different places in the peptidoglycan synthesis pathway for the cell to develop a resistance.

Does that make sense?
Fair enough - I've changed the wording a bit. Personally, though, I thought that the follow-on discussion didn't add much beyond what was mentioned in the original heavyboots article.
Nonetheless, that's what Wolfram is trying to do with his "programming" language. At least it's at the same level. Provide human level rules and knowledge embodied in a computer programming language.
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Here's[1] a detailet scenario for basic income in Finland.

Key points: cost neutral, basic income would be 440€/month (although the study is a bit dated, and would be higher these day due to inflation) and the tax rate would be 36% (low in Finland).

1. http://www.vihreat.fi/files/liitto/TheBasicIncomeModel.doc‎
One point of confusion for me, that I hope someone with a sounder economics background than myself can address, is:

Would the national unconditional basic income render the national minimum wage effectively 0 (or much lower than it currently is)?

For example, corporations could be taxed more heavily if they could offer their lowest paid positions a wage of £2 per hour. This extra taxation would then help fund a national basic wage (equivalent to say £5) which would leave a low-skilled worker earning £7 (roughly what they were before). I had assumed that any such 'basic income' scheme would be so prohibitively expensive as to require such drastic means, just to find the money, however I haven't seen any such changes mentioned in many of the articles discussing the relative merits of the Swiss proposal.

As an aside - for those saying: "What if people don't spend the money responsibly?" - Isn't that, somewhat idealistically, a large part of the point of the scheme?

The scheme would encourage responsibility, rather than treating people like children? Yes things like addiction (to Gambling, Drugs etc...) throws a spanner in the works of this - but charities and support groups exist to tackle this kind of issue already - they could continue to do so, with one critical difference. Charities could do a lot more with less if their workers were earning a basic income from elsewhere, and could afford to give their time for less ££.
Good point, well made :)
I don't think energy efficiency is really so critical as the control system: how much steady-state error is there, and how quickly can it initially heat the room? Overheating the room is obviously a bit of a waste of power, but it's also uncomfortable.
Do one thing and do it well.

Nice work :)
>In a country with it's own currency, wouldn't this just raise prices until finally the effect would be being back to step 1 but with huge inflation

Yes.
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It's an okay idea, but a pull request to suggest a coffee place is a pain in the arse, a drop pin and form would be much nicer, even for us who use the command line a lot.
But we don't live in an Earth-Sun system. The point around which planets revolve in our solar system is often outside of the sun as can be seen here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_system_barycenter.sv...
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Drinking bleach won't cure your staph infection though.
The 'law' doesn't concern itself with hypotheticals, but rather actual news articles.
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Not at all. It gives money to everyone regardless of income. Welfare makes up a small percentage of GDP (unless you include all entitlement programs which this wouldn't). A basic income would be a huge percentage of GDP. IIRC in Switzerland's case this is about 25% of GDP. That's a massive increase in government spending.
Step 2: convince landlord to accept this new currency instead of USD (or whatever local currency). ;)
A few people do not want to work, and have no intention of ever working.

Do these people currently get incapacity benefit, income support, employment and support allowance, etc, coupled with housing benefit and council tax benefit?

Some of those benefits require people to go to an office and demonstrate willingness to work. So, these people who have no intention of getting a job sap the time and energy of advisors who could be helping people who do want to work.

> What's worse is that assuming the people who are unemployed are given the choice on how that money is spent, they may in fact not spend the money sensibly (i.e. on their housing) and end up homeless instead.

Currently, people can become "intentionally homeless". Didn't pay your rent and got evicted? Tough, you don't get social housing. If you're lucky (or you have unlucky children) you may get some emergency accommodation.

It's very tough to get council / housing association housing in the UK. Some places have a waiting list of 26 years. (twenty six years, so you know this isn't a typo.) And that's of the people who are eligible to go on the list - including everyone who thinks they're eligible makes the wait even worse.
> because there is nowhere else to get it.

Why that? Nobody's talking about abolishing taxes. Note also that the basic income would replace many other forms of social subsidies that already exist and have harmful side effects.
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I respect your view. But i am just confused about whether i should study ahead gain good knowledge and then jump into world of startup or start the startup directly.

I will not remain in confusion for life time. I just need proper guidance from the experienced Startupreneurs.
Nice work and the most adorable part is 16 year old did this. 1+.

I guess, you should next learn typography, using white color text will make everything more readable.

All the best!
You would likely have to increase taxes. Taxes are extracted from us involuntarily through coercion. I don't think re-arranging this model in any format will change that.

Our best option is to spend less, shrink the state and get rid of income tax, especially on those say, living under this proposed living wage.
I have been following this for a while and have taken the time to understand it in a little detail. While it does not provide the 'answers', it does frame the question of 'what is an intelligent machine?' in a very precise manner. It's interesting work, what it needs is for someone to now work out how to build much better models and plug them into the framework provided by AIXI.
Some people buy cars, some people lease them. Why should batteries be different?
No, but I guess this affects the public image of the company.

My understanding is that any serious company with issues of this magnitude would solely focus on sorting that out first and doing nothing else than that.
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Socialism was a good idea, maybe an unrealistic one in many respects.

Whereas Communism via "Vanguard-party" was always a bad idea. Pretty much all of communist countries never got past the Vanguard transitional stage and ended up with a brutal dictatorship.
How is it not welfare in your estimations? It's nearly the dictionary definition of welfare.

Why would it negatively impact the value of the currency and how is that any different than the current state of welfare (where only some people receive it)?
If there is a reasonable need for content editors to be able to update content in web site allowing them to do so in a quick and easy manner is a good idea.

Seeing this as easy, and building a custom application to handle it, will quickly become a bad idea, and an artifact of
"not build by me, I can build better" mentality.

Being able to leverage a tool that is both proven and easily available to solve this problem makes sense.

Expecting the cms to solve every problem and be the only tool used is also a big problem.

As to whether to provide the users with a means to define new pricing models and change current models, depends on how frequently it needs to get done, how much dev resources are needed to keep up with demand, and what the release process is like.

If you are in an enterprisy place. First an issue must be created to update the pricing model or create a new one.
This probably goes under change control, and it will be addressed in the next meeting of the governance committee.

If all is approved there it will be passed on to the project manager who will create a backlog item for it.

Then once the current sprint is completed, a new prioritized list of tasks are distributed and in the best scenario the issue is handed off to a developer with a high priority.

The developer will analyze what changes are needed, design the new pricing model, implement it, create and run unit tests, ensure it goes through CI. Then he will write the test cases for the new functionality and move on to the next issue in the back loc.

In 2-4 weeks when the sprint is over the worst case is that the dev branch is promoted and the test team is assigned an issue to test and regression test everything.

Once their sprint is done, it will be promoted to Staging
and more tests and sign offs and then after a month or two the new pricing model will hit the shelfs and the executive who requested it might already have forgotten why it was an issue to begin with, or the client he created it for has long gone with a different company

All of that to say sometimes it makes very good sense to create a decent way for the end users to be allowed to modify and create new pricing models.

Just like its easier to allow the end users to edit the content of web pages.

It would in my opinion be absurd to create an ecommerce system where the pricing and products require code to be updated. Much better to leverage an existing product or worse case write the logic to allow the users to make changes on their own.
Thanks, you caught me in my incompetency.
The standard gravity on Moon it supposed to be.
I always wonder why more languages don't have this, which I call repl at point, or repl with context. Not sure if there is a more standard name. Even clojure with its generally awesome repl support doesn't have it.

I created a library a while ago that does something very similar to what you did, for the groovy language. http://aaronbabcock.blogspot.com/2011/11/groovy-debugging.ht...

It avoided having to pass in variables explicitly by using groovy's AST transform ability (macros) to examine the code for which variables would be in scope and pass those into the repl automatically. I wonder if something similar would be possible in scala?
> Would you call Aristotle and Newton ignorant?

By modern standards, absolutely.
Do what your hearts says. Rest of the pecies will automatically fall in place.

Best of luck for your future endeouvers.
And? No one is suggesting that money would be printed.
Yes, this is kind of the point I'm making, poorly.

Some things like anti biotics are misused and that's caused resistance.

But handwashing with certain microbicides doesn't create colonies of resistant bacteria on our wrists (where the microbicide is diluted) because these microbicides have a different action.

Thus, putting this polymer in all sorts of places is less likely to lead to resistance problems.
Am I the only one that gets a bit of a chill watching an UFAI play a game where it runs from its pursuers collecting resources until it gains the power to kill them?
You're making a lot of completely unsupported predictions there...
Because welfare, being given to only a small percentage of the population, can be funded out of taxes from the much larger pool of people not receiving welfare. But if everyone were suddenly on welfare, the system would quickly run out of money. We would then have to print more money.
Thanks a lot. But the problem is at the time of confusion even heart fails to say something.
Let me still try out in peace.
I like the idea, a lot. The obsessive attachment to what Friedman said and did not said - like if it's a universal truth - is kinda pathetic.
It's only turned out badly when countries tried to leap from agricultural to communism without the capitalist/industrial intermediary stage.
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Preferably open source/python.
Good work. Question: Is it not the 'done thing' to use data attributes to hook in js functionality nowadays instead of using class attributes? This isn't a dig, more of an intrigued to see what peoples' thoughts are on this.
Come to brighton! We have a nice little tech hub style arrangement going on, it just lacks a fancy silicon-related name because it isn't built on billions in government funding.

BTW,

>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.

This is already happening/has already happened, unfortunately.
Web gl is a small part of the rich internet applications currently being built. I agree that the web is still too early for advanced games.

On the point of older browsers:
1) the trend of % of people using older browsers is going down. Whereas the number of people using modern browsers without flash and/or java is going up (ie iOS mobile).

2) someone with an older browser expects certain parts of the web to be broken. Being broken in IE6 somewhat says "were more modern than you, try again after you upgrade.". I think people who see this are likely to come back at a future date, whereas someone who can't use it bc of flash is unlikely to think their problem will go away in the future.
The US AMT can have that punitive effect, because AMT is an alternative calculation, not a marginal calculation. Yeah, not marginal, but it is a common tax system.

And there are some programs that don't have marginal phaseouts. Each one is trifilingly small, but they may add up.
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Which is precisely my point. What incentive is there for the buyer to spend their BTC if the future value will dwarf the present value of the good they are spending it on?
well, that would not work well with backwards compatibility, also it adds extra protocol to implement to browser vendors (extra bugs, here they come :)
Now we have someone thinking. Economics 101: people respond to incentives. If you incentivize them to do nothing they will do nothing. If you incentivize positive behavior you'll get positive behavior.

Of course this is an over simplification because it's easy to overlook the real incentives and impact of such actions. Still, incentivizing positive actions is far better than incentivizing idleness.
I live in the Netherlands. I use Bitstamp with a bank transfer to their bank, wait for the funds to clear, buy the BTC. Usually takes 1-2 days for the whole process.
Because people will get bored?

People won't accept full-time low-wage shitty-manager jobs, because they won't accept their lives being poisoned by shitty managers, and they will have the choice.

But most shitty managers are shitty because they have power over their low-education personal (which can be easily replaced, and job market is not good these day). Those workers will take part-time ok-manager jobs, mostly because they want to contribute to society, also because they might get bored.

Also, in most of Europe, University cost is quite low (like, less than 1k€ / year, instead a life-long debt like 'some' country can pull out), so universal income could bring interesting trends in education.
Not everyone would go back to school, maybe almost no one at first, but I would expect views to change rather quickly on that subject.
> "Piracy is theft, clean and simple," remarked vice-president Joe Biden at the time.

Can we expect Joe Biden to server some jail time for his role as responsible leader when the army commits acts of piracy? Or maybe Obama?
Well, no what? You gave me a link and nothing more. That's not a rebuttal. It's very nearly as bad as saying "nuh uh!!" as if we're children on a playground.
This question comes up frequently. The best thing to do if you want to buy something for $500, is buy $500 in bitcoin and then pay with bitcoin. This way your 'stash' isn't eroded and you contribute to the bitcoin economy.
Well I'm a bit sad as I was a Lababit customer and this was the first time I heard about it. I'm also happy of course that they succeeded!
Okay, but you're talking as if this is the default behavior while it may very well not be. I'd like to see some numbers to back-up these claims as general behavior rather than "a friend of mine, saw a guy who's uncle was once in a grocery where a guy..."
...or selling a shortcoming as a feature. What if someone picks up pcc[1] and claims it is better than the competition because it makes C compilation lightning-fast?

Of course, Go is a language that is more amendable for quick compilations. But it would be more interesting to see a solution that provides good optimizations and improves programmer productivity. Go doesn't really have an answer to that (except: use gcc-go), while the competition has (e.g. JIT compilers).

[1] http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/pcc_history/
We don't know what the full impact of technology would be, so a basic income is premature at best.

When you say "People need to get over the idea that work will be necessary to live" you are just insulting people's intelligence. Of course I am aware that if you got paid for doing nothing, then work would no longer be necessary for (an individual) to live.

Also, the theory of technological unemployment is that technology will render labor less productive. Basic income might be a kinder and more efficient way to deliver money to people without jobs, but it won't magically make them more productive.
I think the key is this sentence: "Many students thought the pen would float away. One year, she asked them instead about a crescent wrench instead of the “apocryphal pen.” They all answered that question correctly!"

People just DO NOT think.

Everybody has SEEN (on TV, where they spend more time in front of, than in school or reading books) astronauts in orbit demonstrate they're weighless, by showing a pen float in front of them.

So space = floating pens, in their visual memory.

Moon is in space, therefore pens float.

What about a wrench? Oops, no visual memory to answer, bummer, they'll have to think! And of course, some of the little teaching they had pegged, and they can answer correctly.

That's all. People DO NO think.

Why do you think, IBM had to put up "THINK!" panels in its offices?
Why, pray tell? Isn't the Google CDN:

- faster for people in different geographic areas

- at least as reliable as your infrastructure

- already cached (this would be nullified by your proposal)

I ask because normally I wouldn't think twice about using the Google CDN libraries.
rsync requires a lot of communication back and forth which is precisely what you're trying to avoid. You want to fire off a single diff in a single roundtrip.
I used to live in Brighton, Hove actually. Lovely.
It's "lose", not "loose". I'll delete this comment in a few hours.
Why that? Because you can't tax enough to fund a basic income for every single person.
I think a chart of average load times would be a lot more interesting.

If they are getting slower than us web developers are doing it wrong.
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so did the parent, and everyone else in this thread.
That would probably be the case if any of us were stupid enough to put our retirement savings or anything that we critically need into BitCoin. The smart money is on putting an early investment in, waiting till it doubles or triples then pulling the initial investment out. That way you literally can't lose - at the very worst you break even. Most people have put a quite expendable amount of money into BitCoin. Even without pulling it out, I could stand to lose my initial investment completely right now and not break a drop of sweat.
Wally? Is that you?