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Hey, thanks for the feedback. I just picked a random Wordpress.com theme to get started fast (I started blogging 3 days ago). I'll do more effort to pick (or even gasp make) a better theme!
Somehow this idea always comes from libertarian quarters, too(please, no 'no true scotsmen responses' replies about how nobody but a single mute hermit living on a mountaintop in South Dakota is a _real_ libertarian).

This seems like an incredibly market distorting policy. Social welfare programs provide hard floors on quality of life: you don't have food? food stamps. you don't have medical care? medicaid. Some people live longer than they financially planned? universal old-age poverty insurance (social security).

This has all the feel of letting the more financially/business-sophisticated citizens go hunting on one of those hunting ranches with borderline tame 'game'.
For example, you can trade at bitstamp.net using SEPA transfers.
That's entirely understandable, but what about businesses where they have huge surpluses of cash and risk of bankruptcy is nominal?
I don't usually like to host my JavaScript elsewhere such as on the Google CDN. Are there any web standards in the works where you can specify a hash of a file to be cached regardless where it is?
Join the club. My software is pirated by everyone: grandma, military, little mikey, and santa claus too.
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If you are in the US, http://coinbase.com

In Canada, http://cavirtex.com or https://vaultofsatoshi.com/

If you are in Europe, http://bitcoin.de , http://bitcoin-central.net , https://www.bitstamp.net/

If you are anywhere, check out your local Bitcoin meetup group.
God is a Ouija board.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

ndows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were
after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they
went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before
them.

40:23 And the gate of the inner court was over against the gate toward
the north, and toward the east; and he measured from gate to gate an
hundred cubits.

40:24 After that he brought me toward the south, and behold a gate
toward the south: and he measured the posts thereof and the arches
thereof according to thes

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God says...
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Hmm, London still needs the services of those poor that you speak of. If people are willing to pay the exorbitant prices for having a home there, I don't see why they can't be prepared to pay more to get the basic services running.

The further London moves away from the UK, the more are cities like Brighton, Cambridge etc. looking more attractive. More attractive to people willing to live in a more mixed area too.
Sounds like you want to use Go. Feels like Python, but technically correct implementations of concepts.
Friedman supported a negative income tax. While somewhat similar, it is not the same thing.
And that's my basic problem with talking with other people: It's hard for me to understand how one can not know or comprehend what I know and classify as "basic knowledge"...

Of course I understand that and can for instance explain it to them, but it often still remains surprising for me.
Great overview..

from direct work experience in building complex systems in clojure....I agree with all the statements made in this document...

I am a better developer because of it and will look at things differently if I need to pick up java or scala again..

and I will also make sure to always "get in the hammock" before writing a line of code..
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I was the same. I tried to use BTC-e, Canadian one, and coinbase. None worked and took too long. So... I got a forex account and bought a position on BTC. It's the fastest way in.

Let me know if you want a referral.

Also it's more liquid than buying actual BTC and then selling them I think. Just be careful about using leverage.

I left finance in 2009. I never thought I'd get back into trading...
Have you not heard of cash? It's probably the easiest way to get BTC as well.
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I understand the confusion, but its mostly there thanks to misconception about how things works now,

> If you would like more than this, you can go and get a job and hopefully earn more (have a better lifestyle) than staying at home not working.

Staying home and not working today is not actually an option in most places in the world. The reason is why this new model is called unconditional basic income. The current system called income support is conditional.

And market forces love the fact that its conditional, since it allows exploitation. If income support is for example conditional on the unemployed not having received a job offering, then the market can exploit this fact and offer people jobs for below income support (or what ever is minimum). Unemployed people can not say no, or they loose the government income support, and thus become forced to accept a slave job or loose all income.

unconditional basic income would eliminate this issue from the board, and increase wages for unattractive jobs.

Inflation should also not be effected by much. The total amount of money in society is still the same finite amount as before. There is no "extra money available", only a different form of distribution. There is a larger group with money to spend on products, which drives prices both up (more demand), but also down (more incentives for large scale production). It also makes money change hands more often, and is often attributed as the reason why a income support system do not actually drive prices or wages down.
localbitcoins.com is good....just look for a reputable seller
You're describing effectively a Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. A much softer version than most regressive states offer, but nevertheless a similar thing. I think you'll run into a lot of the standard problems relating to good intentions and unanticipated results.
> What they didn't say on the package WITH CAPITAL LETTERS was that it was a RAID0/JBOD of SSDs with zero redundancy

This really shouldn't matter to the consumer - there are lots of ways to couple components in a black box to increase the rate of failure. They don't disclose to you how the controller is built, or how they go about marking bad blocks, so why would they say in bold letters that under the covers they're striping across two disks?
I don't think this is a good idea. It could do a lot of harm to future generations. If we pay for this through debt, we're slapping a bill on our children.

I also don't like this idea because it increases personal dependence on the state. If the goal is to make people independent and self-confident, how does this help (on the whole, excluding edge cases)? And as the top commenter said, I think this will move the goal posts and surely cause inflation. I also think this will enable some peoples' destructive habits (how does the song go? "It's the first of the month... Get up, wake up!").
> Blockchain.info is a great service, but only when you enable 2-factor authentication (otherwise your encrypted wallet can be bruteforced offline) and make sure you get backups by email.

2-factor auth does not and cannot protect against offline bruteforcing, quite the contrary, it's only relevant for online authentication with a service provider.

In your example it would be for authenticating with blockchain.info so they could perform an action on your behalf. Assuming they use your actual password as a master key to unlock a wallet they store on your behalf, the 2-factor piece is just extra security they are providing for actions performed through their site. 2-factor auth does nothing to prevent someone from trying to brute force the private key or pass phrase for your wallet.

I'm all for using 2-factor auth (I personally have it enabled on every site/service that supports it) but it's only for securing online access to an external service.
> over time inflation will adjust to the point that the spending power of the basic income will approach zero.

Through what mechanism exactly? Please also explain why this hasn't happened with other, existing forms of social subsidies.

It seems like it is your understanding of money that is laughably over-simplified.
That's also a Forth way of looking at optimization.

Also reminds me of Kent Beck's quip when he was asked to optimize Chrysler's C3 system. He asked for validated sets of input and output. The programmers on site said the the system wasn't producing correct results yet. His response: In that case, I can make this real fast!
This isn't a lack of physics knowledge, it's a lack of basic reasoning. If they'd said "the astronauts had magnetic boots", for example, that would be wrong, very wrong, but it would have made sense - at least, it's not outright contradicted by their previous answer.
Image size could include things for retina displays, higher standard resolutions, CSS sprites and so on. Again though, a lot of images in sites are standard reusable assets that are held in the browser cache between visits - it's just editorial and user-contributed content that won't get much benefit from a well configured http server.

Sidenote: I found out about kraken.io on HN a while ago. I use it for all my images now. Usually gets at least 5% reduction on a well created picture, and 50%+ on a bad one. (No affiliate, just like it)
The problem with this is how do you prevent people from creating multiple identities and gain more than their fair share? Bitcoin solves this problem by tying money generation with something that can't be faked, computational power.
BS alert...
This is the best timing for this. When the cost of things are driven down anymore, universal income makes more sense than ever.

After all, there's no truth in "having" to work. I think there should be the freedom to choose if you'd like to work or not.

I've always pondered why people think you "need" to work. You "need" a job.

I like working, and have a job, but I know many people are fine getting by, and it stresses them out for having to work everyday, which I think is perfectly fine.
> I enjoyed the presentation very much, until
> "Engineers 3-10x more productive"
> Citation needed.

Oh, it's a perfectly plausible number. It increases the productivity of each developer by a factor of 3 to 10 and also increases the maintenance costs by 3^n_engineers or 10^n_engineers. This seems to be the tradeoff that startups make.
The article says no contract was signed.
> the main differences being that you have to look for work

This is a bad idea in the long term. The whole reason basic income is being seriously looked at is because we know automation is eliminating the need for labor and that trend will continue until work simply isn't available for a large percentage of the population. People need to get over the idea that work will be necessary to live or the idea that work is how one contributes to society.
Julia is a really cool language; I came to it from a python background and in a lot if ways it feels like "python done right"
In my experience, design/UX needs will always trump dev/ops. I don't see this changing in the near future. I think we need to figure out ways to make browsers and/or delivery improve instead.
In 2009 it would be an investment. Now, it solely is speculation.

Nobody is going to be surprised, if next day the Bitcoin will evaluate at $100 a unit.

Though I am just as you excited on what is going to happen. Sadly, my ignorance and scepticism were a result of not invseting into Bitcoin in 2010, moreover I feel it is being too late to invest now.
> It's not just a question of switching from imperative language X to clojure and seeing a huge productivity boost.

It depends on who you are. I recently used Clojure on a skunkworks feature for our product for which I had three days to complete. I am absolutely convinced that it was at least 3x smaller (LOC) and took me at least 1/3 of the time it would have taken in Java. I am an expert Java programmer and not a newbie to Clojure, but I still have to look up a lot of things.

The killer productivity feature of Clojure (LISPS and other languages) is the REPL. Trying things out, analyzing data structures, etc. is where I would have spent a ton of time in Java. Even if you're not an expert Clojure programmer, just using the REPL can save you tons of time.

So not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I also think that a non-expert in Clojure can still run circles around an expert Java programmer when considering productivity.
I'll take my chances on a major currency (Euro/USD/GBP) over BTC in terms of volatility any day. You could find out that your BTC savings have become nearly worthless in six months. Or if you are unlucky enough to have a debt in BTC you could find out your debt has skyrocketed because of more BTC speculation (imagine you had a 1000BTC loan back when it was $10 a coin).
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They will have to print this money, because there is nowhere else to get it. What happens when you print money but there is no additional demand for it? You guessed it...the value drops. Markets are surprisingly efficient at pricing things like this in.

Are you seriously trying to make the argument that their economy will absorb this with no effect on the value of their currency?
I'm pretty ambivalent about basic income, although I think it's probably worth a try. Not a version that replaces earned income though, there are too many obvious perverse incentives for such a system, it must be supplementary. On the one hand I can see a lot of positive effects from it. On the other hand one of the biggest downsides is that now you have a very strong divide in terms of citizenship, which could potentially drastically change the dynamics of immigration. Personally I'm very much pro immigration and I think the fact that people from all circumstances have the opportunity to earn substantial benefits from their work by moving to the US (or the developed world in general) is one of the most positive aspects of this country and part of its life blood and character.
I imagine the disclosure of the agreement details would itself be part of the agreement.
I haven't seen one, but that would be very beneficial, it would not only make everything faster, but also avoid the privacy concerns and remove the additional point of failure that external CDN creates.
I have yet to see an example about net pay decreasing with marginal tax rate increase. When you earn 120k, only those 20k over 100k will be taxed with the higher rate, not the amount below 100k, so every increase in gross salary leads to increase to net salary.
>> How to actually get bitcoins?

There are lot of services that allow you to buy Bitcoin and people have already listed a few, but here's another option:

Start charging for Bitcoin. It's funny how few people think about this.

"How to get USD?" You do some work that another person is willing to give you USD for.
The title is very misleading, I'd argue that it's link-bait.

The average is for only the top 1,000 sites.

I expected a large scale study of the Web. The top 1,000 sites are a very poor representation for the wider Web.
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Capitalism is powered by money and greed. At it's heart, the point is to maximise profit and efficiency. This drives innovation and growth across the world... this is no bad thing.

However, as a side of effect of this, it also means businesses want to become more efficient, reduce costs and maximise profitability - your share holders are expecting good returns and that's just the way the world works!

However, according to this http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-ratio-average-worker/ The CEO is currently getting around 241 times the average salary!

Let's say the CEO takes $9.6 million and the average worker gets $40,000...

This income divide is causing the problem, as the prices will move up in line with the wealth the CEO has just got (along with the workers obviously), but to the average worker, they're not really being paid much more (or any more at all) to counter act the inflation.

If you go back to that graph in 1980 where the CEO only made 35 times the amount of the average worker and redistributed more of the profit to the employees, let's say average employee now gets $55,000 and the CEO gets $2,000,000 then the prices remain more affordable relative to the money in the market and the wealth has been distributed more evenly.

Note this is with the assumption the corporation still made the same profit whichever way it was divided.

The top 1% of wealth is greater than the other 80% of wealth combined in the USA and it's this greed that is causing the divide, rise in prices and rise in poverty line compared to the 'average salary'.
The idea of using Bitcoin at this point in time to physically purchase goods and services is ridiculous given the speed of speculation. Hypothetically, why should I pay someone 0.5 BTC at $1000/BTC if in a couple of days I know it's going to rise to $1000+/BTC? Obviously the seller is betting on their value going up, but at this point, there's no reason to do anything except hold onto your BTC until the market actually stabilizes or even crashes.
I disagree. That's exactly what happens when you sit on money: because productivity increases, the same amount of money will buy more in the future.

Again, if the saver is not the appropriate recipient of the added purchasing power that an increase in productivity leads to, who is?
I think you have your own answer. Nobody will do jobs like that.

Because why would they?
As illustrated by the regular failures of large IT government projects, regardless of the country: not necessarily.
Sprockets come's as standard with rails. In development the files are served separately, for easy debugging, but then they're minified/concatenated automatically for production.
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This reminds me of my reaction to the evolution/creationism debate- Does it really matter which one people believe? It has pretty much zero practical impact on their lives, and there aren't a lot of decisions they can make for others that depend on the information.

Now, I'm not in favor of teaching creationism in schools. Schools should teach what we as a civilization understand to be true. But as far as what individuals choose to believe? I don't really much care. I think it's an odd thing to get emotional over, but both sides certainly do (this is me preempting emotional replies :-) )

Of course, even when evolution is taught, it's almost always taught wrong. Even a large percentage of graduate biology students have deep misconceptions about what evolution is and how it works.

It just occurred to me that machine learning students would probably have the best understanding of evolution of any group of students. Ha!
Sure. There are some places where some kind of basic income are experimented (Alaska (very low), Norway IIRC). A big scale experiment in a more "normal" country like Switzerland would be welcome.

In any case, the problem is that we're on the verge of having roboticized (and computerized) everything. Already, most of the jobs are useless jobs. And for the remaining productive jobs, they could also me automatized a lot more than they are if the organizations performing them hadn't wrong incentives that make them perform them in silly and inefficient ways.
I'm guessing this is due to the current trend towards "infinite" scrolling pages with lots of images instead of the old "everything above the fold" school of design.

Much of this is being driven by mobile devices forcing users to become used to scrolling anyways, may as well take advantage of that.

For mobile surfing, I'm much happier with one large slow page than trying to navigate a bunch of smaller sub pages, each of which is also slow and hard to get to.
Haskell does this somewhat nicely by shunning the built-in String type and having ByteString and Text types. All there (and others) can be created using string literals, though that can be dangerous, but Text is a UTF-16 encoded, ICU-backed human-text monster type which handles upcasing ligatures and even more complex collation send the sort (which is, btw, how you solve the phone book issue, and it's just one C library away).

ByteString is a series if bytes that just may happen to be ok to print as human text for
debugging. The system makes it hard for you to treat it otherwise by moving the "Char8-assuming" functions to different modules and packages which must be explicitly imported and carry warnings.

You convert between them using functions in the Text.Encoding module which may fail like "decodeUtf8'" and "encodeLatin1". There's also a slew of normalizing functions.

I really encourage anyone interested in this problem to peruse the Text and Text.ICU documentation.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-0.11.3.1/docs/Data-T...

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-icu

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-icu-0.6.3.7/docs/Dat...

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-icu-0.6.3.7/docs/Dat...
I'm always shocked how otherwise very rational and logical people tend think every socialist idea is communist and don't seem to know what communist actually means.

> Ever heard of inflation?

Yes, have you?

> If you give basic income to everyone what happens to the prices of everything?

I don't think you know how inflation works. Basic income doesn't increase the money supply, it's income redistribution, not money printing. Wealth is taken from those with excessive amounts and given to the rest.

It's also not communism.
I'm a conservative. One would probably assume I'd be against a universal basic income. In theory I am, but I actually think I find the basic income much more palatable than the current welfare state.

At least with the basic income, there is never an incentive to not work. It makes it possible to not work, but it doesn't incentivize it. The current welfare systems make it such that if you start working you lose the welfare. If you don't have the skills to make significantly above the welfare level, you are actively incentivized to not work.

For those suggesting we'd have massive inflation making this completely worthless, I think you underestimate the level of money we currently give away. While there would be some inflation, we already give huge amounts of money in the form of welfare, food stamps, social security, etc. A basic income would replace all of those things.
Please drop by the racket world sometime. The documentation is fantastic :)

Can you recommend a good picolisp resource?
> I personally hate the opening { stuck on the end of the line in C/Java.

It's an abomination.
It's also riskier and a lot more expensive. Bitcoin holders are scattered across the globe. Finding a seller nearby is hard.
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I don't think that CSS sprites should be bigger, given that css is improving, I don't know about the sample analysed, but usually the editorial and user-contributed content images (as well as ads) take much more bandwidth than style related images, unless the site has exotic design.
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You're not being serious, are you?
The author discussed the project and a fair amount of internals in the JS Jabber podcast a couple months ago. Very recommended: http://javascriptjabber.com/077-jsj-monocle-with-alex-maccaw...
So they opted to handle the easy problem.

Also the problem with the lowest cost/benefit for them. Also the problem with the highest benefit. One calls this a "no-brainer."
My question regarding this is how do you prevent gaming the system causing overpopulation? What will stop currently poor individuals from having 10 kids to collect their income? Is it just not awarded until you reach age of majority?
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since like something worth trying