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Agree that free proxies aren't free. But how many people would know about proxies. For most of the people if a content is country blocked, a google search and first or second link click solution will end up with hola installed, no more question asked. I think we should do better than "Don't use if you don't know" argument.
I am interested in this idea. As I understand it, it's a long-held idea with some support from the center, left, and right.

Having said that, last week I read through an analysis piece -- 6-8 page pdf -- that I found on a financial site. I found out some interesting things that supporters don't emphasize.

The problem, as I understand it, is that UBI is fine in theory and as a high-level idea. Once you start actually thinking about applying it? The words could mean dang near anything. Is it across the board? Are there exceptions? Would you use a reverse income tax, direct payments, or other mechanism to deliver it? What sorts of incentives does it provide to the working poor? If you really wanted to eventually replace hourly occupation, wouldn't it make more sense to begin providing it to those who have worked their entire lives? Begin direct payments to retirees and then slowly decrease the retirement age as the years pass?

Those are just questions I made up after reading the article. Apologies if I botched it. But I was impressed with the fact that there is a ginormous gap between the slogan of UBI and whatever it actually might end up becoming. A big enough gap that politicians could say they support it and actually give you pretty much anything. There's also not a huge amount of real-world data here.

So my position is "cautiously optimistic". Let's do some limited experiments with this to see how the real-world politics play out and what the difference between the PR package and the actual deliverable is. In the U.S., the states have traditionally been the "laboratories of democracy", but if folks don't like that, there has to be other ways to do a bunch of limited trials.

What I am not in support of is some huge national movement built around a slogan where I'm forced to make a yes-no decision for the rest of the citizenry. Here's hoping it doesn't play out like that.
As every other basic income supporter you seem to pay attention only to good things that might happen. Complete disregard for the bad things that might happen. Basically you believe in unicorns and utopias. This is extremely vain. Vanity is the Devil's most favorite sin, as you might have heard from Al Pacino.
"Society should place an initial emphasis on abundance," Mr. Buffett argued, but "then should continuously strive" to redistribute the abundance more equitably.

This is both succinct and extraordinarily perspicacious. I believe an ability to reconcile these two would solve so many problems in our current society. As it is now, we have a right wing focusing on wealth creation and inadvertently widening the gap between rich and poor, and a left wing focusing on wealth redistribution and inadvertently causing wealth destruction.
There's nothing stopping a compiler from implementing Option<T> as a possibly-null reference when T is a pointer type, which would give you the same efficiency as having nulls in the language while making unchecked usage easy to catch at compile time.

I talked about this in my earlier comment, saying that we could solve the efficiency problem with "a super-clever compiler and a built-in optional type." (To respond to adwn's comment, I would view built-in support for sum datatypes as "built-in support for optional.")

And it's not clear that variables should have values before assignment, beyond "undefined"/"error to use this" -- explicitly initialising a variable to some sentinel value is clearer and safer than relying on the default value being something in particular.

null IS a type which means "undefined/error to use this."

In the particular context of Java, null solves some of the problems of the language, like what happens when a constructor invokes a derived method which reaches up and accesses a not-yet-initialized variable in the superclass. I do think some of these problems could be solved in a different way, but it's not completely straightforward.

I am curious about how Rust solves some of these problems. I'll have to take a look.
Not trying to be glib, but you can probably find lots of papers over the past few decades that try to tackle those questions

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=basic+income&btnG...
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I'd like to know if this increases intelligence, the article states it does not decrease intelligence, and this article: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/sep/28/research.health states that the important brain growth occurs during early childhood. Some of the brain cases in the pictures look 50% larger.
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Would you? Have we reached a saturation point for bootcamp graduates? Has the bootcamp experiment failed, or succeeded?

About two years ago, the concept of a dev bootcamp was still relatively uncommon, with a competitive admissions process and a good reputation. Now, it seems like there's more than I can keep track of. I also want to know if graduates who don't have much luck finding work after their program just decide to do something else?
One simplistic definition of 'debit' and 'credit' that my accounting teacher taught me:

'debit' means 'left', 'credit' means 'right'

Then, you just make sure that SUM('left') == SUM('right').
Or perhaps you read a bunch of pretty words that seem to make sense? They got citations and proper syllogisms and all that jazz. Communist rhetoric always makes sense. It makes sense to your feelings, at least.
The more of you who take this deal, the better I and everyone else is. You're so uninvested in what you do for a living you'd stop for $1K/mo? Good riddance. You're a drag on anyone who's actually trying to get shit done. The rest of us will be more productive, and happier, not fucking with you. We'll happily pay higher taxes to get you out of our way.
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There are basically just two important sides to this: In an expansive welfare state (say a Nordic country) there are large transfers tax money between people. Some of these transfers are unconditional, for example every child (parent) is given around $150/month, regardless of family income.
These transfers are pretty expensive. The reasoning behind giving it to every child is that it is supposed to be directed to the child, and there shouldn't be any stigma associated with it. You could argue that if this money was directed only to parents below a certain income , the same amount of money could do a lot more good

This is the core of this issue: unconditional basic income is a very expensive kind of transfer. Even the vast bureaucracy required to ensure money goes to those who need it in a regular welfare state is a lot less expensive than a basic income reform.
I agree with you, but how do you propose going about giving this underclass the leverage they need to make this happen? Short of encouraging them to kill rich people of course, which anyway would get you killed or neutralized long before you had any hope of success. Our system is simply not set up to reliably make changes for the benefit of people with no leverage over it in the first place.
There's no way to answer these questions through thought experiments, you have to look at the available data. There have been several direct basic income experiments, and many other situations that provide relevant data (Native American casino profit distributions for example).

Obviously we need more experiments, but the data we have shows that unemployment tends to go down not up.

>Take away all those 'entry level jobs' and this will decrease GDP no?

Most of the entry level jobs your talking about are being automated away regardless of whether we have a basic income.
But lets remove automation from the equation and assume no increased automation over the next few decades.

You're ignoring the second order effects of a basic income. People who make less than $12,000 a year will definitely make more money, and people who make less than $50,000 or so (whatever the break even point is) who keep working the same amount will also make more money. People in lower income brackets tend to spend their money directly on consumption--this will directly increase GDP.

The data shows that the increase in GDP due to increased spending among the lower income people who make more money each month will likely offset any decreased spending from people who are making less money each month as a result of a basic income plan (either as a result of working less, or paying higher taxes).
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The economy is more dynamic than that. Sure, there will be short-term effects as the policy is rolled out, but new producers will enter the market to meet the increase the quantity demanded in the medium term.

Also for pure commodities, producers are all price-takers. That means that price doesn't necessarily get driven upwards.
> 3. The Fitbit HR (I wear it on my other wrist) is way better for telling time. I can hit the button and see the time faster than the 360 -- this has to change in some way for the 360 to be a smartWATCH.

This I find weird with both Moto 360 and Apple Watch - how can those be even considered as a useful watch if they don't show the time all the time? As a regular watch wearer I find it absolutely mandatory that the time can be seen always, even from small angles, without needing to touch the watch or do any wrist movements.

Any normal watch of course does this. Pebble, LG G Watch R and some other Android Wear watches do this.
Don't equate communism with a minimum wage, that's just intellectually dishonest.
You should not need a citation for anything here. Look at what unions do in general when they get powerful enough in a specific company - they enforce high salaries, protect jobs and protest against any reduction of personnel, making it very expensive for the management to keep the current staff, and very hesitant to hire more (increased costs vs fixed returns, and lack of flexibility to adjust the workforce vs the ups and downs of the company's economic activity).

There's enough case studies out there about the pernicious effects of such policies - they should serve as a warning that you don't solve ANY economic issue with a single bullet.
In long term for normal users, when they use public WIFI for example, its safer because they have to trust one party instead of all users of public WIFI.
If people are willing to use Google Chrome bandwidth savers, this could work.
But you are right, all traffic is routed through mobileadblock servers.
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I thought it was actually relatively cheap intervention as there is only a minor admin overhead. Do you have links to more detailed analysis? Am interested in learning more.
This coming from a guy whose website hadn't been made responsive.
(2014) ?
What open-source projects do you contribute to or develop for?
I was compiling a list of open-source repositories, in order to learn from their development. I am evaluating contributing to at least one of them, in order to gain more experience.

The list of open-source projects need not be projects used for work, e.g. AFNetworking, but important academic developments too.

The list that I have right now is:

01.org - the list of Intel's open-source repositories

https://github.com/Itseez/opencv - opencv on github

https://github.com/pandegroup/openmm - molecular dynamics simulation, on github

https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking - A networking project for iOS devices, on github

http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/open-source/ - open-source tools from AMD.

https://developer.apple.com/opensource/

I have not had the chance to read through most of them. Because the list already contains a lot of materials, I would get the chance to learn only about a small fraction of them. Nevertheless, the list is far from complete.
You connect to VPN, which sets a system wide proxy, which filters ads and gzips traffic (compressing images as well)
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What about a situation where fewer people are working more productively?
> it's very likely this will result in raising prices for all commodities.

Why is that? There wouldn't be any more money in circulation. It's not like a state would print money to supply basic income. It would have to be tax funded, so most likely other public spending would have to be reduced, and taxes would be increased.

If the basic income represents a progressive transfer from high-income to low-income (most likely) then you will see an income in spending simply due to the fact that high-income earners would probably save/invest the last $1000 rather than spending it on essentials such as food, but if the same money was distributed it is more likely to be spent. This is normally considered a good thing, (one of the most positive aspects of a progressive tax system).
There was also the Locker Project (http://lockerproject.org/), which I was keen to use and contribute to, but it stalled years ago.
There's some discussion here:

http://www.reddit.com/r/basicincome/wiki/index#wiki_wouldn.27t_basic_income_just_cause_inflation.3F

I have no idea, but I could imagine in your scenario: when people living in mobile home parks have more buying power, the market for serving them becomes more attractive leading to more competition. So maybe Joe opens up a competing park next door and undercuts Bob. Also tenants of all sorts would presumably have more mobility with the extra income.
Adding a database that is new to GitHub would not be a pragmatic move.
I've always understood it using the 'source' and 'destination' analogy that many unix tools follow.

Credit is the source while debit is the destination.

Using the source and destination keywords has the advantage of not implying the actual operation to be performed. For eg. credit results in an 'add' operation on an expense account while a 'subtract' operation on an asset account.
On the flip side, there is lots of dirty work carried out that is not recognised by the current economy today.
> how can those be even considered as a useful watch if they don't show the time all the time?

The simple answer for me is that before I started wearing a watch again, I never really wanted a watch. So the reason I gravitated to a 360 is that I wanted the "smart" more than the "watch."

Of course, having a watch on my wrist made me want fast, instantly visible time/date...
> From a mathematical perspective, abnormal balances are essentially negative balances, though in accounting negative numbers should never be used or allowed.

This seems like a bad legacy passed down unwittingly. I am not trained in accounting, but been keeping my books for several years now. I have written a ledger-cli clone and have been using it for the last three years for both personal and company accounts. Using signed numbers works perfectly fine during book keeping. I use the Debit/Credit lingo only when I need to show reports to the pesky accountants. (Fortunately, my main accountant doesn't bother me with formalities).
"The game was also built for a fraction of the usual cost. ... would typically take years and millions of dollars for a studio of Bossa’s size to build, but they did it in roughly a year and with just a core team of front-end developers."

vs

"In their ground floor office on a bland-looking block in Farringdon, a team of about 60 engineers from MIT, Goldman Sachs and Google sit at $40 desks writing code..."

Typical in gamedev :) (e.g. Unity Technologies):

"“Eventually we realized the tech we were working on was bigger than the game,” says Whitehead."
I think there needs to be a balance between the two extremes. Wealth concentrated at the top serves some purpose, provides investment capital for new technologies and increases growth, but at the same time there needs to be less inequality. The issue is not black and white and I don't think society should shuffle back every few decades between high taxes and low taxes, but reconfigure the system for highest wealth creation as well as an appropriate amount of redistribution, perhaps through a yet untried way such as basic income.
No. This is an internal implementation detail, not to be used on the Web.

As to draconian error handling, that’s what XHTML is about and why it failed. Just define a somewhat sensible behavior for every input, no matter how ugly.
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How odd, I see things completely differently.

The Right focus on widening the gap between rich and poor and inadvertantly causing wealth destruction.

The Left... there is no Left. But generally, when governments have focused on reducing inequalities and providing for everyone (in the US, this was the postwar era through to the late 70's, similarly in Europe), growth was strong - far stronger than it is now.
If there's $2.98 trillion per year to spend, put it into space travel. We should be colonizing other worlds. With more resources available, there's more work available. More work means more demand for jobs - and life is infinitely better when you are being paid for the value you provide to society than what is really quasi-welfare.
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The unelected bureaucrats who hoard political power instead of wealth have happily destroyed people in many societies as well.
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null IS a type which means "undefined/error to use this."

It causes runtime errors, rather than compile time ones. It also can move the place an error is detected to elsewhere (since passing null around and sticking it places works fine, right up until you try and use the value you expect), which can be a bit of a pain to trace back.

In the particular context of Java, null solves some of the problems of the language, like what happens when a constructor invokes a derived method which reaches up and accesses a not-yet-initialized variable in the superclass. I do think some of these problems could be solved in a different way, but it's not completely straightforward.

Disallowing method calls before all variables have been initialised in the constructor seems like a relatively simple mostly-fix. For any non-final values, it'd work fine to just set them to some explicit dummy value, and final variables should probably be explicitly assigned anyway. (I can't think of many cases where having computation implicitly operate on undefined values is a good thing...)

Also, to adwn: thanks -- I figured Rust probably did something like that, but haven't really played with it much and hadn't bothered to go check.
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> Why is that?

Because the market adjust prices based on an equilibrium between what people usually earn and how much they are willing to spend. If you increase the money supply (not talking about nation-wide, but individual base) then there is nothing preventing manufacturers from raising their prices up and take advantage of it, while still being fair ("after all, everyone has minimum income now so they should be able to afford it anyway").

Unless, you know, you have to fix the prices of commodities. And then, penuries and shortages occur. History likes to rhyme.
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I have no idea. Systems of oppression do tend to do whatever it takes to maintain the status quo.
Ah I went to River Country! Was there in '94 when I was about 14, loved it. But damn the water was cold, went in December - we hadn't been in the water yet and jumped on the main slide, feck it was freezing, and we knew when we got dumped into the lake at the bottom it was going to be worse...it was. But awesome place, sad to see it in ruin
> I really wish there was a resource that would collect pieces like this

There was the The Memory Hole (web site) [0].

I remember an article by the Scottish Nationalist Party saying they would model an independent Scotland's economy on the then very successful Icelandic and Irish economies. That was in 2007. Then I read another article a couple of years later saying they would model it on the Norwegian economy. I tried to find the original article, but I suspect it may have disappeared down the memory hole.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memory_Hole_(web_site)
Not if the app converts USD into Bitcoins on the fly.
Wouldn't that be orthogonal to basic income? i.e. You'd get that anyways so it would cancel out?
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Just because something is true does not make it useful or good to say, depending on how it is presented. If you said "most people with chest pain don't have heart trouble, they should just lay down and get the hell over it" that is probably not something useful and promotes people ignoring problems. If you, on the other hand, say something like "chest pain isn't always bad, and most chest pains won't be a heart attack, but you should always treat something that potentially serious seriously" that is not bad.

My concern is not that you are saying something not true, my concern is that what you're saying is dismissing what is potentially a serious concern, and that people with these problems should not have more obstacles insofar as other people saying they probably don't have problems.

There is a huge stigma around this already - throwing up more information telling people to ignore their problems is not helping anymore than telling people with chest pain to "man up" helps them. It took me a lot of time to get over the fact that everyone around me told me I didn't have a problem, and a lot of things in my life that were really bad could have been avoided if I had not had people saying exactly what you're saying.
I think the incentive to keep the income would greatly reduce minor crimes. Just imagine what positive effect would that have on the society
They are selling good investor-oriented marketing. Reminds me of Palantir.
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That’s roughly how UTF-8 works, with some tweaks to make it self-synchronizing. (That is, you can jump to the middle of a stream and find the next code point by looking at no more than 4 bytes.)

As to running out of code points, we’re limited by UTF-16 (up to U+10FFFF). Both UTF-32 and UTF-8 unchanged could go up to 32 bits.
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Same rhetoric used by the same people. liberty, equality, fraternity and all that jazz. You just don't know human nature. Especially the low part of its spectrum.
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Out of interest: Do other vpns work the same way? Even if it's clearly stated in the FAQ, not everybody reads them.
Are you a troll? Besides the sentence "you should not neer a citation" should never be uttered, you deflect criticism on an unfounded argument with another unfounded argument. Tour first comment was unduly down voted but this one is just blabber.