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When you raise the minimum wage, you don't change any of the other aspects of the business affected by it. So, say you have 15 employees making $10 an hour to keep your company afloat. (Just to keep things simple ,this is about the logic of it.) Now the minimum wage goes up to $15. What are you going to do? You would be losing money with a %50 increase in your costs. Most likely what you will do is lay off 5 employees (The weakest 5) and keep the remaining 10-- but now they have to do the work of 15. Remember the alternative is closing the business and they all lose their jobs. Plus if some don't like the workload there are many people who just got laid off (you laid off 5) who would happily take their jobs.

When you set a minimum wage- or engage in any kind of price fixing- you distort the market and historically that has always hurt the poorest people the most.

Looked at another way, minimum wage is the wage below which you will be unemployed rather than allowed to work.

A minimum wage is a penalty that keeps workers unemployed if they don't have sufficient marketable skills to overcome it.

Imagine if the minimum wage was $100 an hour. How many of us would be unemployed?

People seem to imagine that there's just a lot of money out there and the only reason that anyone might not have enough is that people are being greedy. This is zero sum theory, and it is not true in economics. It's nice to imagine that you're "foreign the rich people to give up the money they are hoarding"... but you're hitting businesses that are on the margins. What's the average margin for a business? IT's not the %50 that intel enjoys-- a grocery store maybe makes %3.

What do you think a business that is clearing %3 net is going to do when you increase labor costs by %50? (in this example.)

Edit: You can disagree with my position, or even find an error in my argument, but I'm tired of spending time explaining things and giving examples like this only to be downvoted for ideological reasons... constantly. Is a circle jerk what you really want HN to be? I don't think any rational person can say that my comment wasn't a quality explanation for the position.
Essential knowledge, so when your average clueless buisness major tryies to get you to come up with new metrics and wont buy into other previous useless metrics (codelines checked in etc.) you can invent something funny, that allows you to go back to "real" work. Success never had trouble getting Alimoney-suits.
The lack of competition that allowed the trailer park owners to do that was caused by local government restrictions on building new trailer parks. Local governments artificially restricting the supply of affordable housing isn't necessarily going to be fixed by a basic income.

However, in a normal market increased demand will drive up the price, and developers will move in to build more housing. The increase in supply will then drive down prices until they reach an equilibrium.
Your approach seems to be simpler than the blog post. Can't you just note that the pth derivative of exp ax is a^p exp ax and then just extend via a fourier series? Maybe the non-uniqueness is too unsatisfying.
Dedicated port/VLAN is must have for servers with own network infrastructure. But if you use dedicated hosting service with network infrastructure provided by hosting provider exposing IPMI IP to public Internet usually is only option (besides disabling IPMI and leaving server unmanageable).
> the advice either has little value or doesn't really apply to programming

When I give this talk, I make this clear. I agree. The point is that there's a lot more good advice from writers over the fine details of prose than there is from coders about fine details of code, such as naming. In the talk, I conclude that the advice from writers is entertaining, but not really relevant, but that it can inspire us to try to come up with our own guidelines for naming.

> We have these rules in programming for how to write variable names

Not enough. Also, they tend to be badly written and lack humour. But please share your favourites.

> when writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature

This is a digression from coding to functional design, in which 'personas' can be a useful refinement of the concept of an anonymous 'user'.
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I supported guaranteed basic income as well, but then I read this article and it suggested to tax me more. I'm firmly in tax less, not more camp.
I'm not American. Actually, my experience with crime rates is that where crime is common it goes unreported.

I come from a city in Britain which has a very strong crime culture, but it's never reported. I imagine if you get raped by your uncle, and so does your friend, and your friend has reported it before and nothing happened- you'd be dissuaded from reporting it too.

but I digress.

I don't have a particularly objective opinion on India honestly, I have a sum total of 3 friends who openly talk about culture their (and only 1 who still lives there), while on the other hand I'm bathed in American culture- I read their books, stories, blogs, consume their movies. Not to mention the countless friends I have who still live there and openly talk about society.

I can only talk about the US, I'm not qualified to understand everything about India unfortunately. Please take everything I said on the last line with a pinch of salt.
I'm also interested in this question, not because of the issue of saturation, but more because I am skeptical that a bootcamp that lasts ~12 weeks could teach someone enough to be a professional software developer.
> my worst habit it just trying to use words with the same number of characters for different variables so they align

Yes, you have worse problems than ambiguous abbreviations :) That doesn't make the abbreviations okay, though.
Nitpick: the act of taking derivatives is not "derivation", it is "differentiation"
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Continuity in the topological sense implies continuity by limits. For topological spaces with a countable (local) basis, the converse is also true.

So, in general it's not equivalent. For the reals etc., it is.
Yes, it's called demand. And inflation is an example of it, you increase the money supply, then there are more dollars chasing a given commodity-- more demand for that commodity per dollar, or looked at the other way, more supply of dollars relate to that commodity.

If we paid for this basic income via inflation -- increasing the money supply-- the result is that, for instance, food would go up. Not so much that it is "unattainable" as you point out, but it will go up a bit more than the net effect of the basic income, wiping it out, plus a bit more due to inefficiencies that always happen when you try to distort the market.
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Holvi?

https://about.holvi.com/en/
> They will simply increase rent to what their clientele can afford

I may be crazy but wouldn't one of the ideas of basic income be that, for example, more people would afford to not live in freaking trailer parks? Depending on how it was funded, there should be less demand for large houses and more demand for small houses and apartments, meaning more such housing should be built (thereby reducing the demand for trailer parks).
Press on edit, which opens the google doc backing this. Then download in whatever format.
I suppose it would teach them the bare minimum to where they'd be at a teachable state on the job and potentially contributing soon thereafter, but yeah, it has to be pretty rough for both parties.
> "text_correction_by_editor" might convey a lot more info then "edit"

In the talk I explain that this is a real example, from software for a publishing company in the Netherlands. The 'editor' is the person who edits the text. The problem was that the subject matter experts used two different Dutch words for two different kinds of text correction, depending on whether the original author or the editor made the correction.

This example is about the tradeoff between making the difference explicit (text_correction_by_author vs text_correction_by_editor), or agreeing on consistent translations for the two Dutch words (e.g. 'edit' and 'revision').
I think people in tech circles in India are compartively liberal and progressive. That said, sexism does exist. And people aren't even remotely as vocal as folks in the US are.

India is complicated and not as individualistic as the West is. It is also corrupted and racist. The thing is, even the victim doesn't realise s/he is a victim of racism or sexism and so on. Ignorance is bliss...

Like the author said... You're reading viewpoint of exactly one woman in tech in India.
The competition will not need to undercut to make bank... there is increased demand relative to supply, causing prices to rise, and the competition will like the higher prices as well.

If premium breadco sells for $2.10 a loaf now and generic bread for $1.89, then possibly the new equilibrium will result in prices of $3.10 and $2.89. There's competition... but the new price has gone up.

If generic bread kept its old price the demand would be so high that they couldn't supply it--- AND their costs are going to go up as well so they wouldn't be able to keep their old price anyway.

We've seen this over and over as the government has inflated the dollar over the years.

In fact, I think the argument could be made that the entire lack of recovery in the past 8 years is due to the level of inflation wiping out and gains from winding down the housing bubble.
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You're forgetting about competition.

Let's say that every low wage worker becomes suddenly 10% more productive so they start making 10% more money. Would prices all suddenly rise 10% so that none of the workers would see any benefit?

This isn't the same as inflation, and will be handled by competitive forces in the market.
I doubt it. Intellect is not --only-- determined by the brain size, but by the interconnectivity of the neurons in the brain and maybe several dozen other parameters we don't understand (like: individual neurochemistry; the rate by wich new connections are established etc.).

Also, the article states:

> subsequent research has led experts to believe that cranial modification has no impact on cognitive function, nor is there a difference in cranial capacity.

So, these heads only look big. The volume of the cranial cavity doen't seem to change. Where normal heads are small but volouminous, these heads are big but narrow.
I come from a city in Britain

Britain has a higher rate than the US. My argument still holds.

Actually, my experience with crime rates is that where crime is common it goes unreported.

Given nominal reporting rates of 50% for D.C (which is being far too kind), and 10% (which is far too harsh) for Delhi, still leaves it twice as safe (and thrice as safe as London). It takes an hour to dig up the data online.

> I can only talk about the US, I'm not qualified to understand everything about India unfortunately. Please take everything I said on the last line with a pinch of salt.

... precisely my point. The propaganda has worked very well I can see. Again, don't trust the self-hating hindu unless they give you numbers.
I agree. Post Soviet countries had really good education.
My Hungarian Bsc level maths/cs degree was way more difficult than my UK masters or my second masters in Belgium.
You needed to learn and you had to think, not only buff back the knowledge. Also the competition was quite high. Still, the universities of my masters' are in the top 200 and the Hungarian university is not in the top 500.
Well, that's life. But I still was not able to get a visa (to be ontopic).
It depends on how you look at it I guess - a large supply of low skilled workers is what allows you to have access to many things you take for granted and removing that means that a lot of products and services aren't going to be accessible to general population.

Overall it would lower the standard of living for anyone not at the bottom of income bracket and not change much for the top.
We have a joke in the PL research community that most of them are working on...ads. But really, there is a lot of PL work that you don't see that doesn't exactly involve new languages (e.g. adding asynch to JavaScript, compiler work, building frameworks, MapReduce, etc...).

Now Apple is the mysterious company that doesn't interact with the research community.
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> Why do I even have to answer that question.

There is an excellent Chomsky snippet that agrees with you and gives more context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWZltIXZ2WY
I would agree, and I would say that there are way too many products on the page daily; it should really be curbed at 10 or perhaps even less. I also feel like there are too many books/guides posted.
"Although I really like the idea of minimum income, elkanjos point has to be addressed. Just yesterday there was an article about trailer parks ownership. They will simply increase rent to what their clientele can afford."

Actually, I think that's one of the arguments for a basic income. It will lift some of those people out of the class that is subject to the whims of slumlords and trailer park owners, decreasing demand for the lowest tier of housing.

And, there are many other reasons for the trailer park situation being what it is (I lived in a trailer park for a little over a year in my motorhome before moving back into a fixed house; I'm actually more familiar with that world than most folks, certainly moreso than most folks on HN). The article you've mentioned even covered a lot of them. There is a poverty trap in the US, and once you're in it, there are a lot of factors that work to keep you in it. A basic income would lift a large number of working class people out of it.

I do think there needs to be conversations, both nationally and at the municipal level, about real property and the rent economy, particularly in major cities. Things are currently highly skewed (possibly dangerously skewed) in favor of capital owners, such that in many major cities, even people who still have decent jobs may have trouble affording home ownership or event renting.
You probably are already aware, but your twitter counts are off. TechCrunch has followers in the millions, but indicated as non-million units. You might want to check your counts. Also, allow this to be sortable in this list view (understand that there is a Google doc on the back of this).
>If we paid for this basic income via inflation -- increasing the money supply

No one here is arguing that a basic income should be paid for through inflation.

There is a difference between inflation and income redistribution.

>but it will go up a bit more than the net effect of the basic income, wiping it out

Yes, if we paid for it by inflation, but the argument is to pay for through some kind of income/wealth redistribution. Food should have basically the same effect, and you'll note that they haven't driven up the price of food a bit more than their net effect.
What did the parent comment originally say?

For the record, Brennan has admitted that 8chan has boards for sexualizing minors (which is legal) though he doesn't support them.

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Unfortunately, yes. I don’t support the content on the boards you mentioned, but it is simply the cost of free speech and being the only active site to not impose more 'laws' than those that were passed in Washington, D.C.

...if you want /doll/ shut down you should instead focus on the studios who are producing this content. Some of them are even legally based in the USA. That’s the real story here, not some perverts posting them online after the fact.
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https://medium.com/@infinitechan/what-i-actually-said-to-pat...

Edit: Better source
I am unable to add more links even on opening in google docs
You make an interesting point but:

Let's say Germany 'secedes' from FIFA. I know for a fact that if Holland (I'm Dutch, but same thing goes for England) were to win the next World Cup in the absence of Germany, it wouldn't be taken seriously. I'd say most Dutch football fans would rather not win it at all in the absence of Germany. If they didn't qualify, well that's a whole different story, then they obviously weren't good enough to start with.
They are logically equivalent for the reals. Search the web for [limits "in terms of continuity"].
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What are you suggesting, store strings in UTF8 and then "normalize" them into this bizarre format whenever you load/save them purely so that offsets correspond to grapheme clusters? Doesn't seem worth the overhead to my eyes.
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> I come from a city in Britain which has a very strong crime culture, but it's never reported.

Britain uses two types of crime statistics. There are officially reported crime statistics and there is the "crime survey" which polls people to find out whether they've been a victim of crime.
A very good book - a solid, down-to-earth approach to designing and implementing programs.
I did accounting (actually bookkeeping) in high school, as did almost all my school-mates, and it is a very useful skill to have. From understanding debit and credit on a bank statement, to being able to read a balance sheet, accounting is a powerful tool in day-to-day life. South Africa has a bit of an accounting fetish (Chartered Accountants are the gods of the business world here), but it certainly is useful to know the rudiments.

We hear about coding being the "new literacy". I am sceptical, but if coding is the "new literacy" then basic accounting knowledge is equally important, in my opinion.
I felt that in my CS degree program I didn't really learn a lot that set me up to be a professional software developer either. It made me do some coding and learn some algorithms, and gave very basic familiarity with how computers work, but that's about it.

The coding projects were, in hindsight, pretty pathetic compared to what I can do now. I wish the program had forced us (or tricked us) into becoming more mature programmers, just by doing a lot of coding and holding our code to higher standards. Come graduation, the best engineers had gotten the experience to mature in this way entirely outside of our classes. I didn't get that at all so I was very behind.

I don't see a reason one couldn't learn the useful skills in 12 weeks. Except, possibly, for the sorts of mathematical intuition that you get from studying CS theory.
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I think it probably depends massively on the skills and experience of the person attending the bootcamp. If the extent of their technical skills is being able to make a good-looking Powerpoint, then I'd be astonished if 12 weeks were enough to make them even minimally employable (unless they really are some kind of eidetic wunderkind); if, however, they had a hobbyist's knowledge of - let's say - a few web technologies, or perhaps had previous informal development experience, then a 12 week crash course on a carefully curated set of the absolute fundamentals to make someone a junior developer might result in someone worth giving a job to.

That said, I'm suspicious of this too. You can certainly teach someone git, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and Rails in 12 weeks - but you can't go very deep with any of them.
Notice the inflation-adjusted deaths in the American slave trade.
Bookkeeping uses a different reasoning system than you are accustom. I think of it as vectors in a 2-dimensional space (asset/liability, income/expense) -- where each vector has a magnitude and a direction (debit/credit). You can think of "debit" being the head of the vector (where value is going), and the "credit" as being the tail (where it comes from). Transactions are paired, complementary movements in this space -- not plus/minus movement along a single line.

Visually, it's much easier to distinguish between a debit and a credit if they are in different columns. A tiny little minus sign won't do it. Of course, you could use color, but, that's not always printable. Parenthesis are OK, but, it makes sanity checks in your head difficult. Of course you could do this transformation a report if you wanted, but really, how often does that happen?

Logically, these are actually very different activities. When you debit an asset account, it's representing a kind-of-activity that happens (retained value accumulating). Once you view credit/debit as just plus/minus, you're tempted to neglect the other dimensions of the interaction. To a beginner, debit/credit affect on asset/liability/expense/income accounts seem like an unnecessary distiction, however, the interactions are inverted in their affect. Is minus good or bad? It completely depends upon your perspective.

Redundancy is a feature not a defect; it's a checksum. There's always a tendency to simplify the model and elminate the balancing interaction and check. This is possible, of course, and it does simplify the recordkeeping. However, it means that logical classification errors are harder to discover. When (perhaps big) money is at stake, why take the risk? By having 2 complementary transitions in a more complex space, you cause the person making the entry to think... and that's very useful (even if it's tedious or exhausting).

Pratically, you have convention/tradition. You're making a choice to use plus/minus for credit/debit is one of the distinctions, you could just have easily use it for asset/liability or income/expense. Why favor credit/debit? While this may not be the best way to solve these concerns, the approach is the incumbant -- most financial people expect this kind of problem to be this way, regardless of the extra complexity involved. Tradition here reduces communication overhead.

Even so, the rules arn't passed down unwittingly, they form an approach known to work. I think each generation is welcome to challenge (and they often do challenge) tradition, however, new approaches need significant justification.
If anything it would increase the demand for trailer parks. The average rent of a trailer now if I read that article right is $400-$500, that's already half of your basic income. The income of someone who lives there is also around $1000/mo, so the only thing that would change is that there'd be more of them, so demand would increase and the rent would go up.

I can't tell you why trailer parks are a thing in the U.S. In The Netherlands poor people simply live in apartment complexes. Though those are equally depressing. I can't remember ever seeing a serious apartment complex in the U.S. though. Only downtown with rich people in them. Perhaps I'm biased and have only seen richer parts.
Breed lots of self-hating hindus and that's what you get.

And it is Hindus.

I don't see pedophilia and Nun-rapes in the Indian church being so loudly talked about by the Indian Christian community.

Perhaps Hindus should just convert to Chritianity en masse and join the global brotherhood already. Their desperation to please us folk in the West is very endearing.