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Please take a look at the FAQ[1] on reddit and perhaps at this article[2] about calculating whether USA can afford BI.

[1]: http://en.reddit.com/r/basicincome/wiki/index

[2]: http://www.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2014/01/13/could-we-af...
Good, Cheap, Fast - pick two.

Our present information delivery systems incentivise speed of delivery and click-bait titles and this was setup to exploit both.

Good still exists as an option but I see no evidence that the masses are willing to wait (or pay) for it as they scroll through their feeds.
I expect prices for everything could be reduced with enough effort, but I think that all businesses have an incentive to reduce internal costs. They apparently publish roughly 1000 articles per year[0] so that suggests internal costs in the range of 30-40 million.

> The work that counts, ie. the research and the peer-review, are free and not compensated at all by the publisher.

The peer review is done for free, yes. I don't think I'd class the research as free though, unless you mean free to the publisher, the scientists are still generally paid.

Again, I'm not arguing for paid journals, just pointing out that they do have costs to run.

[0] http://lib.hzau.edu.cn/xxfw/SCIzx/Document/249/Image/2010101...
good read it is.
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Depends on how that income gets taxed. At a certain level of income, the gains of basic income are lost to extra taxation. However you always know that if you get fired you have a safety net, so it provides value to you even if you get 0$ net effect.
I agree with most of what you said. When you're downloading proxy/vpn software like this, it's either P2P (and you're sharing your own resources) or it's centralized. They could make this clearer in the blurb to download the software, but they don't hide this fact and in fact make it clear from their FAQs and pricing pages.

But the Luminati angle is nothing different. It would make abusing the proxy network easier (from a technical perspective) but it's nothing you couldn't do with Hola alone. Luminati is just API access to Hola along with expensive pricing and a screening interview with sales staff. You could hack your own API out of only Hola if you really wanted.

The real story is that last time I checked, all their US exit nodes come from Digital Ocean, which is hardly worth $20/GB (should be more like $5/TB). I guess they don't have a lot of US users.
It was on the front page for about 5 minutes before it got flagged.
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Swift has a very fortunate position here. Specifically, the interaction surface is very low (mainly user app<->Swift and Glance<->Swift) and the interface is very restricted. It's just an object store.

It may be a great project for migration, just like Glance (although that one doesn't need that much performance).

The projects I don't think will ever be able to move are Neutron and Nova. Even parts of Nova are so tightly connected that it would need a major redesign before rpc can really split scheduler and other pieces into different projects. Also Keystone probably has too many integration layers / plugins by now to migrate to anything.

(I'm glad that this happened BTW, the more languages in OpenStack, the better isolated and simpler the interfaces will become)
I always found the idea interesting, at the condition that we suppress all other forms of benefits. It is a simple and elegant way to solve the welfare trap and it also would be easier and cheaper to manage than the layers of benefits from various gvt agencies.

To me there are only two real risks. First the idea that this will lead more people to stop working instead of less, which would be counterproductive. And I find it worrying that the counter-argument is "people are working too hard anyway". It is impossible to guess what would happen but as all former communist countries know, it is not fun to have grand economic ideas experimented on a live population.

The second risk is that this could work in a closed society like Japan. But most western countries have mass immigration and such a system wouldn't survive very long the abuse it would inevitably trigger in an open society.
>I am from Perth, Australia and people voluntarily driving for upwards of 30 minutes each way is extremely common with 1 hour not being all that unusual

That's common in the US too... The average commute to work in the US is 25 minutes each way. And 1 in 12 people spend 1 hour or more each way.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/05/c...
The question is whether the money comes out of existing spending or is in addition to it. There's no reason that it couldn't be entirely sourced from existing spending (~36%+ of GDP in US, $6.2T).
Startup idea: Create a bank with accounting tools built in. Also make it easy to receive payments via credit cards.
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That is a rather trivial analysis that assumes a system where everyone, regardless of income, got $12k more than they would otherwise.

It would be easy to set a tax system such that people got $12k as a minimum, but those who earned (say) $20k received $6k and by $50k there was no increase. I'm not suggesting a curve with those figures, that is purely for an example.
I see all the arguments for it, but I always find this to be the argument against it which I believe would be the issue myself.

If one had basic income why would they need to work? The incentives favour against the need to work. That income could be saved up and used in countries where the PPP value is much higher. Or just live and not work (which would decrease tax revenues forth).

If people started to work less the basic income scheme would not have a source from tax and it spirals down GDP.

I keep bringing this up, but no one here likes to give a decent explanation as to why this will not be the case.
First of all, you're only going to pay the adults. That eliminates about a quarter of the population. Second of all, you're still going to collect taxes, so many people will just have the income taxed back. Say, only people below median income end up keeping the money. This cuts the figure down to 1.44 trillion. This is still a lot (we currently spend about $850 billion on social security, which would presumably be replaced by basic income), but it's not unmanageable.
Money laundering is a recent invention as a crime. None of the actions involved are actually criminal in themselves, it's just that they (supposedly) make it harder for the authorities to detect something they might want to be obvious, to assist in the War on Drugs, or tax avoidance, or (more recently) terrorism.

As to "fraud", I actually referred to "wire fraud conspiracy", which is, more or less, once having had some sort of agreement (tacit or otherwise) to do something with a dishonest intention where a telephone was involved in some way or other. Note that you don't actually have to have followed through on that intention for the "crime" to have been committed.

These defendants plead guilty, so the convictions are no doubt correct. And no doubt many millions of bribes were paid. But I think a degree of skepticism about prosecutorial conduct is appropriate no matter what the supposed target of the prosecution.
I don't think we can claim that distributing money amongst people would definitely decrease spending on goods and services.
If you'd actually bothered to read the article you'd see that in the pilot project productivity went up.

Unemployment dropped as well, from 60% to 45%, and there was a 29% increase in average earned income, excluding the basic income grant.

Also from the wiki link posted by OP:

As published in a recent report, "All those dollars low-wage workers spend create an economic ripple effec. Every extra dollar going into the pockets of low-wage workers, standard economic multiplier models tell us, adds about $1.21 to the national economy. Every extra dollar going into the pockets of a high-income American, by contrast, only adds about 39 cents to the GDP."

There could be statistics that support the argument that you are making as well but I don't think that:

> "I'd have to imagine..."

without any references to support your statement contribute anything meaningful to the discussion.
One of the better article on subject. It's affordable, though it implies new huge tax. Like tax on land.

Though not sure if people would support that, once they saw the bill for their land. Changing status quo is hard.

Though I would suggest that universal free healthcare is some form of basic income. Maybe let's do it first?

Another less hardcore version is to expand http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earned_income_tax_credit

E.g. Tax rate is negative on initial amount. E.g. You earn $2k and get additional $200 tax refund.
Weather conditions like this make a difference and lower the dynamics of the war. Strategically, there are more factors like supply lines, wrong strategic decisions, and an industrial complex that us sufficient enough to regenerate the losses [1].

[1] http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Ar...
There's a delicate art to these negotiations if you want to end up going someplace good.

You can't just come out and say where you want to go, because it will get swatted down by everybody else who wants the Barbeque Joint or Sushi House or Rubio's Fish Tacos or Thai Garden. You have to let them wear each other down for a while until all the good options are off the table and everybody is resigning themselves to compromise on that lame soup place or Applebees or whatever.

Then you strike with Mama's Mexican Kitchen. Everybody will be so relieved that they don't have to eat another f'ng TGI Friday's meatloaf that they'll jump on the idea, even if they weren't in much of a Mexican mood 45 minutes ago when this stupid negotiation started.
Why do people work at non entry-level jobs now?
When in doubt, we used this.

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Otherwise we talked to one another.
THe incentives work against crappy jobs and low paid work, otherwise working is extra money: that's a pretty big incentive. EVeryone that makes more than 1k dollars a month now would keep working to not see their income substantially diminish. Those that get abuse from work, and minimum wage might consider doing something else. Which is a step forward.
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And unfortunately, I'm not anymore enlightened as to my misunderstanding.

I get that every different thing (character) is a different Unicode number (code point). To store / transmit these you need some standard (encoding) for writing them down as a sequence of bytes (code units, well depending on the encoding each code unit is made up of different numbers of bytes).

How is any of that in conflict with my original points? Or is some of my above understanding incorrect.

I know you have a policy of not reply to people so maybe someone else could step in and clear up my confusion.
To connect a request/response system to a log-oriented system such as presented here,
an option is to use the request/reply server as a proxy for the log-oriented one :

- producing the requests to the log-oriented system,

- consuming the responses at some endpoint/topic of the dataflow,

- linking responses to requests using some id propagated along the whole dataflow,

- dealing with a cache of pending requests, asynchronous responses and timeout

In practice, to keep things manageable - latency and count of pending connections,
we can't always wait for the very end of the request processing dataflow;
but we can at least choose an intermediate log/topic where progress is sufficient
to forge a response or to reply with 202 accepted request.
I'm not looking at it from that point of view, people need to obviously get good jobs. Take away all those 'entry level jobs' and this will decrease GDP no? If the GDP decreases this will decrease tax revenue? And will this not decrease resources available for next years BI? If they have less BI next year there's less spending & less GDP next year too.. and it continues spiralling down.

This is far from the claim that BI will have no chance of decreasing GDP

It's all well and good to make lives better, what about the long run? This would solve it for a year or two what then?
You couldn't actually not work in former socialist countries though. At least in the Soviet Union this was actively persecuted. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_%28social_offense%2...)

But I do think think that countries which offer a great deal of socialized benefits (such as Finland, Sweden etc.) have a significant problem with a unemployment in the youngest generation of the labor force.
Another tactic is to suggest McDonalds, which causes everyone to think of better ideas. This can be applied to other things as well.

https://medium.com/@ienjoy/mcdonalds-theory-9216e1c9da7d
> If one had basic income why would they need to work?

Because people want more than $12k/year can buy? Many people here do contract work, how many of them stop once they've earned $12k/year?

Did you read the article? There is a section on this. You may disagree with the analysis, but we should really start from what's actually being argued.
I prefer the hassle-free variant: a large canteen/lunchroom with a good variation of food to choose from. They usually have a menu-plan on their websites.
Call me old fashion but a system that relies on coercion to get people to work isn't viable in my mind.
As I said, it's also a credit card, so we can go out with it as well, most restaurants in the city accept that card (it has a credit of about $12 a day payed for by the company, and if you use more than that it gets billed to your personal credit card. Most restaurants price their lunches to fit into this budget). Sadly there's only one restaurant within walking distance, and it's inside the same building.

But I do take walks outside regardless, often right after lunch, or sometimes I like to have walking meetings. Although to be honest, if I'm in the zone, I just code all day and forget about the outside world.
I'm not going to pretend to know the complexities of this type of issue, so don't infer too much from my following comment..

With that said, specifically replying to your comment: I would work, because the income levels i've seen in this thread ($1k/m) would barely be enough to live on.

Hell, my existing debt alone (car), and current housing cost, keep me working. The idea of having to sell nearly everything to survive on the base income is not something i enjoy.

Furthermore, even if i did end up at the base income after selling most of my more expensive cost-laden possessions, most people enjoy having money to purchase technology, entertainment, etc.

With that said, i still love the idea of a base income. Knowing that if you fell out of work, ill, or whatever - you could still live? That you wouldn't go homeless? That really feels like a .. positive, proud of my country sort of thing.

Again, i'm not claiming that any of this would work, or that i know anything. I'm simply replying to your question, from a personal standpoint. :)
Very cool!
Any thoughts about making it two-way at some point?
For example, make sure that every network is updated if you change your name or email address.
The idea of Basic Income goes hand in hand with the process of automation. There are millions of jobs that will go away due to automation. The counter-argument to "will basic income lead more people to stop working" is not "people are working too hard anyway" but rather "most people won't have a job...coming soon". What are all those people going to do once this happens? Find another job? Yeah right. Here [1] is an article discussing this very problem.

Also, I don't think the second risk you mention is really applicable. What's to stop a nation implementing BI from capping the number of immigrants it admits? Or am I misunderstanding you.

[1]: https://medium.com/basic-income/should-we-be-afraid-very-afr...
I use this in one of my games. The API could be slightly simpler/better though. But having abstractions like this available makes me so much more productive.

Now I'm just waiting for a library/API for hexagon map's ;)
Who would do those jobs? And who would pay for the tax revenue lost when the production those jobs create disappears to fund the BI going forward?

Also, because you'll say people will work on better jobs and make more production how do you know they'll do this: If they have the income they need why would someone work and say not save it and spend it in a 3rd world country where everything is cheaper? Its so likely it creates a cycle of poverty.
Kept reading the article, waiting for Venice to come up - this strange weird place... And some words on Abbott Kinney, the canals, mother's beach...
The post basically read like a summary of the first class in my accounting degree. I would be very surprised if the average software engineer has less tolerance for abstraction than the average accountant.

Debits and credits are the foundation on which all of accounting is built. I don't see why you would start anywhere else.
> I wonder what the deal was with bribes and kickbacks over the selection of the host country for the 2010 World Cup (i.e. South Africa)?

Answering my own question, having now skimmed the indictment, it seems to be the usual suspect taking money paid by the South African federation to the CFU for its support in the bid process - something which seems to be entirely legitimate - for himself (which isn't).
I guess if your side project betrays a distinct lack of knowledge of basic programming then it could hurt you.

My suggestion would be to use your project as a springboard during any potential interviews to detail the areas in which you have grown as a programmer since the project's creation.
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In Berlin we have a small startup based on this idea. You can subscribe to our newsletter and we send you the daily menu of the restaurants in your area every day. With forwarding this e-mail to your colleagues, all of you can select the favourites using the up-vote buttons in the email. You can track the votes on the website, but you will receive a summary about the results as well. Give a try if you in Berlin: https://www.halb1.de/
gnucash is great. i use it for my freelancing business and it's UI is not great, but packed with functionality.
If one had basic income why would they need to work?

Why do you want people to work? Is there a stack of widgets going unmade that desperately needs to be made? Are we fighting a two-ocean war and I missed it?

Right now half of the country is trying to work and there aren't enough jobs for them. It's 2015. What the hell was the point of the past century of technological improvement if we all still have to have jobs our whole adult lives?
Disclaimer I am the CEO of Eris Industries.

Firstly, we are not doing centralized blockchains, we're doing permissioned blockchains which work most efficiently when actors within the system have been identified. These blockchains are simply one element of the Eris Blockchain Application platform we are developing.

Comparing a smart contract enabled blockchain to a distributed messaging broker is a difficult proposition as they are very much apples and oranges in their capabilities, usage, and goals.

That said let me give it a go.

## Similarities

* Kafka and eris:db both work on a distributed model
* Kafka and eris:db both are inherently scalable and persist their data
* Kafka and eris:db both include a distributed messaging layer optimized for their system which is not http

## Differences

* eris:db persists using merkle-ized encoding schemes with all data having been digitally signed via a node using an ECC-PKI and verified by a logic gateway (known commonly as a smart contract) prior to being persisted -- eris:db further builds logs into blocks and chains those together using traditional blockchain techniques; kafka uses a relatively sophisticated, but not inherently as verifiable "traditional" logging mechanism
* eris:db, as with any blockchain, includes a [fork choice rule](https://eng.erisindustries.com/blockchain/2015/04/30/on-bloc...) for resolving differences within the nodes on the network as to prior history as well as adding a layer of byzantine fault tolerance; from my (admittedly cursory) overview of kafka while it is distributed it is not byzantine fault tolerant
* kafka is fast and meant as a near real time message broker; eris:db is not built for speed and sacrifices some availability for consistency

## Overall

Message brokers are great complements to blockchains actually as they can provide an additional speed layer for messages which blockchains are not particularly good at.
The only risk in my opinion is if to little people still pick up a job to satisfy the need for all. Also the basic income should need to be basic, so there is some insensitive to work (at least a little). Can be adjusted of course to compensate. IMPORTANT: legal and medical support has to be free for this to not cause epic issues. (And maybe some others I forgot.)
"It is a bit verbose but I'm ok with it."

Did you have a look into Java 8 features? The Lambda notation brings nice functional features to java and is also able to remove a lot of boilerplate code. Streams help to make threading easier to handle. Its worth an in depths look.
I would like basic income too! It is awesome I'd have more money in my pocket.

$1000 a month is lots of money to live off elsewhere. It's easy to save by living a bit shabbily for a while. Not everyone will see it that way they should work more. I'm content with very little.

I don't want to be homeless or stuck when I'm sick. But I also don't want to be living in poverty in 20-30 years time which is potentially a big problem with BI due to the vicious cycle it would create with decreasing tax revenues.
I don't follow this too much, so might be talking nonsense, however I don't understand where all this fuss is coming from.

From the start of this I interpreted situation this way - Java's goal was "run everywhere" (wherever it succeeded or not is for everyone to decide, but its irrelevant here). Java JDK follows this goal with main license requirement - you can implement your own SDK, but you should take all APIs, not part of it - all or nothing deal. Goal being that programs from main JDK should run on your new SDK.

This principle was violated by Google and I just don't see why anyone would support Google side from rational point of view (not talking about morality, innovation or whatever).
Give me $1000 a month and I'd be able to retire. I wouldn't be rich but with savings and so on I'd be able to manage. So it would cost perhaps $30000 more than that in lost income taxes too as well as lost productivity. I imagine very many people would do this.

The whole whole idea is stupid.
>(such as Finland, Norway, Sweden etc.)

Norway has an unemployment rate of 3.9%... that's lower than the US (much lower if you use U6 as a metric) or UK. In fact, it's one of the lowest in the world.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_unemployme...