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Eliminating taxation and implementing a basic income payed for by new money created out of thin air, pegged to the GDP for the year, is how the world will deal with machines creating more wealth than we know what to do with, without people.

It's a direct form of wealth transfer that requires zero force, no "putting people in cages because they can't/don't pay" nonsense.

For social spending, you do the same: print new money that's a percentage of GDP, and let citizens allocate their share to various social causes (police, fire, education, natural disaster relief, etc.).

As a concrete example, if the USA produces 15 trillion in GDP for the year, you could print 3.75 trillion for basic income, and 3.75 trillion for social income. The 3.75 trillion for basic income would be split evenly among the 330 million people, amounting to $11,364 annually per person. Each person would also have $11,364 to allocate ("appropriate") for various social causes.

Taxation is eliminated. Everyone is fed and sheltered. Growth in wealth is shared equally. Anarchists still get to keep all of the money they earn (remember: no taxation). IRS is gone. All of the tax-funded welfare programs are gone, but we've got plenty of money annually to dedicate to social welfare programs. People don't have to give money to the police if they care more about education. There's no need for a minimum wage, or tracking people's incomes. There's no downside (in terms of extra taxation and lost benefits) to working more. And on and on.

This is entirely doable today, at a purely technical/administrative level. Once robots are doing the work of the labor class, and 40% of the country literally has no jobs, and won't, ever—then it'll become a social necessity.

That's why the problems in this article don't keep me up at night: not only is the solution easy, it's far preferable and way more democratic and fair than what we have today.

For extra humanity, create a global currency, peg new money creation to the world's annual GDP, and do a basic and social income for everyone in the world equally, full stop.
A reasonable number of social-democratic countries have basically an overly bureaucratic, somewhat perversely-incentivized version of a basic income already, and it works ok. For example, the last-line social welfare system in Denmark, which you qualify for if you have no assets and don't qualify for a "better" system (like jobseeking assistance), known as kontanthjælp ("cash assistance"), is about $24k/yr. If you're a citizen there is basically no way you can be disqualified for this system, so it functions as an income floor.

This isn't properly a basic income, because you don't get it if you work, and in addition you need to exhaust all your assets first. This provides some perverse incentives, along with some bureaucracy to keep it all organized. But when it comes down to it, once you exhaust your savings and unemployment benefits, there's an income floor of $24k/yr, which is like a basic income except you lose it if you save money or find a job... which if anything worsens the disincentive problem. I'm not sure just extending it to a proper basic income would be worse for finances, and suspect it could be better.
TempleOS is a C64, not a mainframe. This shit is for 1970's mainframes.

I have done 150 applcations and demos, that span the set of what it's for.

Hymns are the main thing.

God says...
lifes_like_chocolates merry_christmas biggot joking praying
yeah na_na go_ahead_make_my_day you_hoser I'm_gonna_smack_someone
super_computer Dad joyful hello theft HolySpirit King_Midas
Is_that_your_final_answer soap_opera do_not_disturb gosh
mine jealousy programming are_you_feeling_lucky how's_the_weather
wanna_bet gluttony don't_mention_it sports nasty homo
Enough hold_on_a_minute wont_you_be_my_neighbor eh ridiculous
as_a_matter_of_fact humility awesome charity et_tu do_you_have_a_problem
You_get_what_you_pray_for break_some_woopass_on_you how_goes_it
Venus pet employer repeat_after_me hang_in_there good
not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer dude_such_a_scoffer
manufacturing grumble well_obviously do_over you_think_I'm_joking
patience class__class__shutup
What is that suppose to mean? NULL pointer bugs are the realm of idiots?

Is there a more troubling reference in here that I just don't get?
If you asked permission then it was fine. But some groups do it without asking, and if everyone came every day, we'd be out of space.
Firefox and Firefox OS are very different things.

Also, considering that desktop programs are usually optimized for speed and not for memory consumption, I don't see the issue with 176MB?
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This is not a dev stack.
Sorry but little tricks and magic bullets like this do nothing in the long term to alleviate the issue. Primarily because you won't stick to the habit.

OP you will have to decide whether doing work and being productive is something you want for yourself, you will not be able to fein an answer for any substantial amount of time. Your answer is also subject to change.

My guess is if you completely gave in to your de-motivated mentality you would quickly realize how bankrupt it is and be driven back to working.
All bought (or they tried) by Facebook. That's the one data point.
They have, and guess what? The same shit happened. Its almost like everywhere they go Comcast ends up doing this, kind of like they are specifically targeting Netflix.
That's Lennart Poettering (pulseaudio/systemd creator)'s personal domain.
Inferring too much (2011)
Making MongoMapper 9x faster
Why is 90% power the magic number? What's wrong with 89.99%? Or 99.99%?
It's Lennart Poettering's website.
Because their customers are paying for it.
What does dignity have to do with altruism?
It's all posturing.

This is a common problem that people have; they read what's easy, rather than what's relevant. If you really want to learn about the BSDs, you have to read through the source code. If you go by what people write in blogs, all you're getting is someone's opinion, not what will actually run on your machine.

Finally, an OpenBSD tutorial using strcmp? I believe they spell it strlcmp.
I use FreeBSD for our Samba / home directory server (ZFS), but use OpenBSD for mail, dns, and the router.
"You can get your body almost completely destroyed and it will still be the same you"

Actually, it won't be the same "you". Your feelings and likely actions can provably be affected by whether you are standing or sitting, or holding a pencil in your teeth or balancing it on your upper lip.

Obviously your self is more sensitive to brain changes (at least in some parts of your brain) than body changes, but that's just a matter of degree rather than some kind of imaginary hard line between mind and body or between "me" and "my meat suit".

Looking at it a different way I'm saying that there are more useful concepts than this distinction, that lead to more successful outcomes.
It might be a good thing for everyone involved to watch this TV show about international NGOs in Africa: http://africasacountry.com/kenyas-first-mockumentary-takes-o...

Funny (if not relevant) quote from the show's creator

"What’s the craziest story you’ve heard about an NGO?

I heard from someone in the US that an organization was having a charity auction to raise money for endangered rhinos and the prize for this charity auction was to go hunt a rhino in Namibia. [AIAC note: Yes people, this happened. You can even see it on the Colbert Report and CNN]."
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Facebook weren't the only company trying to acquire those companies though. Google reportedly offered as much, maybe more than Facebook for WhatsApp.
37Signals rewrote Basecamp from scratch and as far as I know it's been very successful.
0pointer.net is the website oft Lennart Poettering of pulseaudio and systemd fame.
ManPages and Node Modules
<strike>No</strike> Only <strike>1</strike> 2 remote root holes in the default install.
I feel the same way whenever I have to do work remotely on my phone. It's so precise and focused that I can get away with a few keypresses.

I think neovim could be a great project and a major change for vim, but it could just as easily never reach a viable state. I won't suggest they give up, but I'm also not putting a lot of hope into it. Bram's vim is amazing, and even vi is stellar. I don't really see a downside whether they succeed or fail.
Remind me of Snow Crash.

"Hiro has an account with The Rest Stop. To live at the U-Stor-It, you sort of have to have an account. So he gets to bypass the front office where the attendant waits by the cash register. He shoves his membership card into a slot, and a computer screen lights up with three choices: M F UNISEX

He has to override a well-worn reflex to stop himself from automatically punching SPECIAL LIMITED FACILITIES, which is what he and all the other U-Stor-It residents always use. Almost impossible to go in there and not come in contact with someone else's bodily fluids. Not a pretty sight. Not at all gracious. Instead - what the fuck, Juanita's going to hire him, right? - he slams the button for LAVATORY GRANDE ROYALE."

On another note, it's nice that they mention that the bathrooms won't be overflowing with homeless, but I feel like there should be some solution that would let them have access to basic sanitary utilities without turning them into make-shift campouts and drug dens.
Means-testing is a wash on average, though: you keep the taxes of higher-income people lower, but then don't give them the cash payment. This works out better for very wealthy people (since tax rates are typically percentage-based, while the payout is a fixed number), but worse for lower-middle-class people, who get means-tested out of the payout but don't make enough to get much tax savings. There's some cross-over point where it's exactly a wash. Under the basic income system the idea is not to means-test it, because means-testing disincentivizes working (you lose your benefit once you make "too much" in other income), and instead just net it out with tax rates above a certain level. So at the crossover point you get a $10k BI but you pay $10k more taxes; below that you come out ahead, and above that you're behind. The current welfare system has the same general properties, but is much more bureaucratic and has more of a "cliff" where you lose the benefit, instead of it just slowly being eaten away by marginal tax rates.
I stand corrected--I had understood the original comment as something that contradicted mneary's reply, and I knew the specific etymology of "to bid farewell" just didn't look at the full derivation.
Well, when the owner of 0pointer.net steamrolls across the land with a new init system that takes over every aspect of the userland, and is Linux exclusive, I wouldn't be surprised to find OpenBSD developers a bit upset.
There's even the likes of these: www.fblikejacker.in (I just found about it)
It's all fun and games with the citizens basic income until the government hits hard times and has to think about what to cut. Having the vast majority dependent on income from a single, fallible organization is a recipe for disaster.
Yes, exactly the kind of thing I think would be made more difficult if you think this way. Thanks for the clear example I didn't manage to find.
Don't forget Nest.
> The code if fill of typedefs for AMIGA and OS/2. Useful to a small number of people certainly, but making progression harder too.

Sounds like the code of pretty much every non-trivial C program that is meant to run of many platforms, not just the five or ten most popular ones.

I'm not saying that this is a good thing, just that I don't know any good alternatives that don't sacrifice compatibility with lots of platforms.
I can't wait till someone gets to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_corretto
I love the concept of A/A testing here, illustrating that you get apparent results even when you compare something to itself.

I can't imagine how A/B tests are a productive use of time for any site with less than a million users.

There are so many more useful things you could be doing to create value. If you're running a startup you should rather have some confidence in your own decisions.
Why is it every time I read a post by you tptacek, my troll detector goes off.

Kind of makes me want to investigate what work you and your company has done for the NSA.
Netflix now receives preferential network treatment from Comcast
Oh, I'm sure this will go over well with people who possess any measure of self-respect, or who have an IQ above 70, or both -- regardless of gender.
I imagine they would have a kernel driver that receives requests from the unprivileged X.org, sanitizes them, and sends safe requests to the hardware.
Presumably there's still some portion of the graphics driver that has to live in the kernel, or otherwise use privileged operations to talk to the hardware. But that driver is a lot smaller of a surface to secure than Xorg, which is a much larger codebase with many complicated moving parts.

Users of a video card should be able to do so securely: Look at something like WebGL, where many of a graphics card's features are exposed to the web, which is very much untrusted code.
I don't see much analysis of the obvious underlying motive: destroying the bargaining power (SMS) of the phone carriers, who are currently extracting vast sums of money from (mobile) Facebook users.
Interesting article as always. No problem with the title. I just made a mistake.

I like to have more articles with a technical discussion of the mining process. Most people just listen to the "lottery" part of mining and don't hear the chaining and transaction recording part. So they soon propose a new mining algorithm that is more "usefull" or doesn't require so much energy.
My wife wants to know if Yamaha makes this for humans. She thinks me and my side of the family talk too loud.
Back me up
They wrote a whole new Basecamp. There is no migration path from Basecamp Classic to current and the feature set is not necessarily the same.
An interesting technique for optimizing, in particular, matrix operations in C++ (or even C, with the usual increase in verbosity). Also used in the Eigen math library (http://eigen.tuxfamily.org).

I hadn't considered the issue that type inference presented here until reading this article (and some of the comments - the issue is also present with template type inference).
The only conventional wisdom is to be contrarian, and even that doesn't work half the time.
I'm not sure if you read the original proposal - but it's not a rewrite. It has specific targeted goals in mind to refactor the code to make it easier to develop with (and better abstracted, isolated, and so it can handle async comms for the interface and plugins).

It will drop support for lots of legacy systems. That will allow simplification of the code - at the cost of those on amigas.

I love vim. I use it for all my development. I've only been using it for a couple of years though and I can see the warts that are being addressed. They were fairly evident upon joining the ecosystem and I don't think "it's too hard to change" is a viable long term strategy.

I would absolutely love neovim to succeed - and I think that something like it is essential if vim is to have any place in the future.
What were the features they submitted? Stuff that's mentioned on the github page or something else?
Jsut one tihgn:

1. Teh iopmtrnace fo godo gammrar.

See, it's not that important.
Requirements could help make the math work. For example, only adult citizens with no income may participate in the program.
You're right. There are no actual costs, and shame on me for adopting Comcast's language.

ISPs have the option of making content providers(Netflix), or content consumers(you and me) pay more. They're choosing content providers because they don't want to make net neutrality more salient for their customers.
That was a really good article, thanks for sharing!
Pretty much you've failed this on an intelligence level.

Give current society and the normal constraints on these popular games the answer to all the above are incredibly obvious, the answers you ask can be deducted. (No prisoner can die, if they could it would have been hinted at)

It's like claiming you can't do cryptic crosswords because the questions are not clear or don't follow proper English.

Although I imagine you are just trying to be difficult :)
The problem is that both Yandex and Baidu are rather poorly behaved - they hit your website way too fast, downloading large bandwidth files in quick succession. That's actually what led me to the bad-bot-blocker project in the first place. Baidu has also been accused of not respecting robots.txt though I have not personally observed that.

This is the reason they're blocked, not because they're new or non-English.
This is true if you have some antiquated definition of broadband that includes a competitor offering "up to" 896kbps while Comcast offers everything from 1 to 20+ mbps, but false for everybody else.
Inedibly?
Apple's customer support has gone to shit
I actually linked to that in a comment just before you posted this. Synchronicity :)
Nature is awe-some!
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What would you call going from vi to vim? Regardless, anything that fixes the mess that is vimscript gets a thumbs up from me.
The fact is if you have health insurance you are likely to engage in preventative care activities (eg regular primary care visits) that you would otherwise avoid without insurance, however you look at it, this is a good thing.

The fact that people may run to the ER unnecessarily even with insurance is perhaps a reflection of other problems (maybe too many hypochondriacs Googling :)? ), but that isn't a reason to not make healthcare accessible.

If the choice is between people over say 60 desperately holding on to jobs because they can't afford health insurance on their own, versus young people getting opportunities to start their own lives then the choice for me a rather simple one.

PS: I have no ideological axe to grind in this matter. If we are going to live in a modern society, these are problems that have to be dealt with somehow.

I grew up in a place and a time where people died in gutters (no exaggeration) from hunger and disease, that is the difference between a modern civilized society and one that isn't so. It is a choice that has to be made. The dignity that is afforded to people by social programs is a dignity consequently bestowed upon all of us.
The Voyager Mission and the Golden Record
Coming from a poker background, where sample size trumps everything, I've LOL'ed at every person that has ever whipped out an A/B test on me.
He's right. With every project, there's a tradeoff between achieving the goals of the project and maintaining compatibility with existing systems.

As a Go programmer, I feel a bit sad/ashamed to be saying this, but look at Plan 9 - it failed to usurp Unix (and its descendants) as the dominant OS, because the latter was "good enough", and was already more widely supported and used.

Plan 9 vs. Unix is a very different comparison than Vim vs. Neovim, and there are a lot of other factors at play, but the same principle actually holds. Improving or extending an existing system in a compatible way is a lot easier than trying to establish mindshare with a completely new tool.

The tradeoff is that extending existing systems leads to cruft and bloat. So if you can establish mindshare with a new tool, you have an opportunity to make a much more elegant one. But that's a big "if".

EDIT: I think a better analogy may be an attempt to refactor the Linux kernel into a microkernel. I'd certainly love it if this magically happened - microkernels are much easier to work with, and much more elegant. But it'd be hard to make the case that that'd be a worthwhile endeavor at this point, given the costs of doing so.
I didn't say the methods used by the new cartels had to be identical to those used by the old. I also never said anything about criminals. You can have a perfectly law-abiding, non-violent cartel that is, nonetheless, bad for society.
> When there are conflicts between people we need to somehow resolve them, and a systematized way of doing that is called government.

Certain governments seem to making, not resolving conflicts between people. And they purposefully make these said conflicts in order to generate profit for tiny segments of the population. Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Venezuela, [...Iran?].

I get your initial point, but the past century has shown that democracy needs to be direct and NOT delegated. Algorithms and distributed blockchains could very well facilitate the dawn of a more decentralized and democratic world.
Another stab at using 'Trusted proxies' huh? I thought we had learnt that lesson a while ago.. Can we move on please, internet?
I haven't noticed any change. We've always hoped people would at least make some sort of prototype. That's how one explores ideas, or at least ideas about software.
> We know that that, occasionally, a test will generate a
> false positive due to random chance - we can’t avoid that.
> By convention we normally fix this probability at 5%. You
> might have heard this called the significance probability
> or p-value.

> If we use a p-value cutoff of 5% we also expect to see 5
> false positives.

Am I reading this incorrectly, or is the author describing p-values incorrectly?

A p-value is the chance a result at least as strong as the observed result would occur if the null hypothesis is true. You can't "fix" this probability at 5%. You can say "results with a p-value below 5% are good candidates for further testing". The fact that p-values of 0.05 and below are often considered significant in academia tells you nothing about the probability of a false positive occurring in an arbitrary test.
Calling BSD irrelevant probably didn't sit well with many of them. I do wonder what darklajid would think an appropriate response would be? Seems rejecting his e-mail after he called you and yours "irrelevant" isn't that hard to believe.

also, as others have pointed out, not ad hominem

So, we get one more post where the first comment is basically a negative comment with not one word about the submitted story.
That's a lot of "mind reading" you've accomplished there -- complete with imagined quotes. Quite an accomplishment.
> The only conventional wisdom is to be contrarian, and even that doesn't work half the time.

True, but if (a) the choices are binary ones, and if (b) they only work half the time, then (c) it's not wisdom, conventional or otherwise.

But now it occurs to me that your post was meant in fun.
High prices for broadband, contestability, and Google Fiber
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Google and LG smartwatch may now be a possibility
Money is a lot tighter in most other deals. It's nothing like the wild west of the dotcom era where companies were formed with little more than a mission statement and they'd get pumped up.

These types of financial articles are the worst because they are unable to accurately predict the future of new markets. They're the types of articles that you read a decade later and kind of pat on their head.

Skepticism of an industry is one thing, but most of the time that skepticism is not coming from any type of informed or even historically accurate perspective. It's just not understanding what the current market price of things is. Which is pretty dangerous for a newspaper article writer.
Visibility on this is set to "Private" is is really supposed to be linked publically on HN? I was about to Tweet a link to it and then I felt dirty, like maybe the author wanted to send the link to just a select group.
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> Obvious exception of the Eastern European countries.

Why?