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I have an unpopular opinion on the types of people who keep harping on about sexism in tech.

And I'm not in a position to say it doesn't exist- (being a white guy and full of privilege), however it does seem that a lot of girls in tech are making a career of painting all other engineers as being inherently misogynistic, vacuous or malicious.

I mean, I don't believe we should put barriers up for women who want to be in tech, I have a few female colleagues who work in this field and they're brilliant.. but making an entire career out of getting more diversity into the technology is strange to me. If I saw people being exclusionary then this would have merit.. but the females I know are embraced (not especially more than men, admittedly, usually the same).

We're at a strange time where 90% of occasions I find a new engineer/hacker/programmer to follow on twitter, I have to check that they're not total social justice people, and it's overwhelmingly female techs that simply stop posting anything interesting technologically and start posting news articles about how we're all women hating or suppressing feminist views for not turning all characters in games into women immune from taking damage.
(shitty example, I'm ranting, sorry)

I think it's very popular to be a social justice kind of person, who can say no to equality! but maybe people are using it to identify themselves too much.

--- in regards to the author of this piece, I would surmise that India is inherently more sexist than the US (given what my Indian friend says about the crime rate against women in India), therefore the expectations to be treated better than men in STEM fields doesn't exist? Not sure. And I don't really have enough knowledge to explain any disparity between the two.
> raising prices for all commodities

If one takes a look at prices in each century, prices for each type of commodity vary a lot. For example, in the 1960 you could rent a house where I live for the same price you paid buying 5L milk. Since then the cheapest rents has gone up by factor of thousands, but milk has only gone up by factor of 8. During that time period, many reforms has happen including minimum wages, the strong middle class, and many efforts to reduces poverty.
The underclass can't. The system's default state as it functions now is to eliminate the "extra" people with depravation. Soon technology will make nearly everyone extra. So the best case scenario for the current system is that these extra people are quietly starved out while a very very few prosper beyond current imagination. History does not suggest it will play out this way. Far more likely is a revolution that will make the French revolution of recent history seem like a mild heckling.

Many of the rich are worthless rent-seekers who probably deserve no less but some of those rich will be the people who bring the technology in the first place. If a revolution happens it will wipe out most of human progress. Enlightened self interest by the people on top is probably our best chance.

I'm with Joe on this one. We're in the tough spot of discovering that our present economic system is becoming unsustainable and all the other ones we've tried so far have been much worse. UBI is the best idea I've heard so far.
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Yet the best that have came up with are Go and Dart....

While Apple and Microsoft have come up with Swift, F#, F*, C#, TypeScript....

I wonder what those so called PL researchers are doing at Google.
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What's to stop them? Generally the same thing that stops people from price gouging elsewhere - competitors offering better service and / or price.

Unless someone is being forced to pay, getting greedy isn't a great way to stay in business. Indeed, it's a pretty reliable way of getting driven out of business. After all, nothing attracts competition faster than fat and easy profits.
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Completely not obvious to me. Now that you've given me the clue it seems a reasonable game, although not my sort of thing.
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In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,

By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;

But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
If you want to preserve unpaired surrogates that are hex-encoded in JSON strings, WTF-8 could help. But it’s unclear to me that you should: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-8.2
Some other good things I like about them are that they do not enable logging for shortened links by default (which means less wastage of resources) and they clearly show the destination a shortened link points to.
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Would the basic income only apply to high income countries or worldwide? Because I feel that it would be extremely unfair and maybe even unethical to give every US citizen a basic income for life, while people elsewhere die from hunger.
> in the 1960 you could rent a house where I live for the same price you paid buying 5L milk.

Really? Then your 5L milk must have been seriously overpriced, or nobody wanted to live wherever that was.
My worry about this would be that in order to prevent mass fraud of the system, we would have to have a national ID card system, which is something I've always instinctively opposed.
Yes, but in USA it wouldn't be possible.

E.g. Total welfare spending in 2015 is $454.3 bln / 318 mln population ~= 1428 $/person/year. That's equivalent of basic income 119 $/month. Want to get to 1000 $/month? Need to increase welfare spending 10 fold.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_welfare_spending_40.h...

People who get larger number use also pension or health care money. Though I don't think it is a good idea or other people would support that.
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No the alternative is to make people to work by incentives. It is the stick vs the carrot.
This is simply wrong & it is not government policy moreover UK is the most densely populated country in Europe after Malta. There is a benefit payment given in respect of all children under 16 who have parents earning less than around 60K pounds pa.
Check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Accounting
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.

In the end you'll still be filling the deep pockets.

Perhaps instead of providing minimum income or in addition to minimum income government should just compete in basic needs market. I.e. government provided low income housing with capped rent.
I am amazed at seeing that the limit is defined by continuity. It is interesting.
This is super cool. I never encountered something like this before, but seeing the comments, it seems there are a bunch of them out there. Will surely build mine.
Debit is Yin and Credit is Yang. When you receive salary as cash, you record it as a tuple:

Yin: Cash Account
Yang: Salary Account
(amount: $salary)

When you spend from that cash, you record it as this tuple:

Yin: Dinner Expense
Yang: Cash Account
(amount: $bill_amount)

If you get your salary through cheque, it looks like this:

Yin: The Bank Account
Yang: Salary Account

When you borrow:

Yin: Cash Account
Yang: The Creditor Friend

And vice versa when you pay it back.

Now replace Yin with Debit and Yang with Credit, and that's mostly it.
"cellulose nanofibril" ... "The researchers coated the CNF with epoxy"

So it's not actually wood then. It's cellulose with epoxy.

This is not in the slightest "greener".

"Fungi and moisture that exist in the wild are needed for the chips to begin to decompose"

The chips are encapsulated in a plastic package, they are not going to have fungi or moisture near them.

And the silicon in a normal chip is not really a recycling problem - the planet is basically made of the stuff.

This is a solution looking for a problem, and I'm quite certain this is the last we'll ever hear of it.
Yeah, the "should" is editorializing. The avoidance of negatives is pretty easy to explain as a simple mistake. From the article:

> Luca Pacioli, often referred to as "The Father of Accounting," wrote, printed and distributed the first complete description of double-entry accounting in 1494.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_number#History :

> In 1545, Cardano in his Ars Magna did not allow negative numbers in his consideration of cubic equations, so he had to treat, for example, x^3 + ax = b separately from x^3 = ax + b (with a,b > 0 in both cases). In all, Cardano was driven to the study of thirteen different types of cubic equations, each expressed purely in terms of positive numbers.

> In A.D. 1759, Francis Maseres, an English mathematician, wrote that negative numbers "darken the very whole doctrines of the equations and make dark of the things which are in their nature excessively obvious and simple".
Well the language has just got stable only recently so it's only natural any real world projects were not that eager to adopt it.

Another thing is that a compiler has to be yet optimized as the performance is not that great compared to other "mature" solutions.
Species is a useful construct inside one era: This group is not reproductively compatible enough with this other group that they blend together when the two populations come into contact.

It's not a particularly useful construct over time - I can't say how far back I would have been reproductively compatible with my ancestors, and all internally-compatible population groups drift in phenotype over time and geography. We would need many orders of magnitude more fossil evidence to begin to form useful natural categories by clustering primary phenotypical characteristics, this far back. The picture is a lot clearer for the Holocene extinctions, particularly Arctic and cave-dwelling species, where we don't have to rely on the rare long-lived fossil... but even with present-day extant populations, a lot of the predictions taxonomists made about relationships before genetics offered extra objective data, have proved incorrect.

The hypotheses put forth for the human family tree, given how little evidence we have, are barely science - untestable guesses that simply try to connect the dots between all presently-available fossil fragments.

The pre-avian dinosaurs were around for ~165 million years and we only have a few thousand complete skeletons to cover that entire span. Not only is it basically impossible to divine species there using statistically valid distinctions, genus is right out too - most complete skeletons will be the only complete representative for the whole family, and the error rate on classifying small numbers of bone fragments is such that low-completeness specimens are statistically useless for drawing lines. It's like performing clustering analysis at n=1 or n=3 or n= (2 + 0.02 + 0.01 + 0.13)

Paleontology draws lines anyway, but it's largely an academic exercise in guesswork: How do you tell which species in the ~hundred-species family this thighbone came from? If it's not exactly the same size or found at the same site-stratum as the type specimen for the family, or there are any notable shape differences, just make up a new name for it, the second known genus in the family.
http://www.firstpost.com/living/india-a-civilisation-of-rapi...
Sadly I think that UBI supporters tend to the false impression that everybody would be:

1) Frugal.
2) Responsible.

I just don't have that much faith in (roughly) half the population. What happens when people have too many kids and are still too impoverished? Is there going to be a "reasonable limit" to the number of kids you can have? Women could have as many as 20 kids or more. Is that really going to work? What happens when they are drug addicts (or worse free-to-play video games addicts) who cannot control their spending?

For me personally I love the idea of UBI, but I just don't think that it can work on a practical level. The examples that explain how to generate the required money to pay for it don't seem very feasible to me. You cannot add VAT. That is borderline "perpetual motion machine" logic right there. At the most basic level you will just have to tax the wealthy more one way or another. That is it. The only option. The question is: are they ok with that?
What are good tools for getting started with accounting? Simple needs (just my private affairs)?
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I wish it was the other way around, mass-spread sharing of internet access leading to it becoming the norm and people finally getting some privacy from mixing their connections.
The reason trailer park owners can keep raising prices is because cities won't allow new trailer parks to be built. This artificially restricts demand. Local governments artificially restricting the supply of affordable housing isn't necessarily going to be fixed by a basic income.

However, if people have an extra $1000 a month, many of them can afford other types of housing. Increased demand for this newly affordable housing will drive up the price, and developers will move in to build more housing. The increase in supply would then drive down prices until they reach an equilibrium.
If anyone's interested in Luca Pacioli and the history of accounting, I enjoyed this book:

http://davids-book-reviews.blogspot.it/2012/12/double-entry-...
99. Expository notes

Common practice in calculus books is to define continuity using limits. I define limits using continuity; continuity is a simpler concept.
>India's emigrants for whatever reason didn't have the same kind of informal structure, but cleverly the government formalized the mechanism which is actually more powerful. Let's see if they can really make use of it.

You are wrong about this.

I was brought up in precisely such a culture in Africa and see it everywhere that Indians migrate to in reasonable numbers.
I was curious to see the rate of spread so I made this gif from the images in your first link:

http://paste.click/DyTMLM
Pricing is decided mostly by supply and demand not by will. Your rent doesnt increase when you get a payraise and your landlord finds out about it.

Food is a very competitive industry, and unless you are suggesting that to keep it balanced we need some people to not eat, its unlikely that people spending more money on food will raise food prices to a point where it is unattainable.

I dont get this "prices go up" argument at all, is there a name to it? (dont say its inflation because that is related to money supply, not market supply/demand)
Maybe the "dirty" work should be better paid. It is convenient to have a large supply of workers that have to take any work to survive, so the "dirty" work gets done cheaply, but that doesn't make it right.
Impressive.

A CSV download of the whole table would've been very nice.
The fact is a quiet baby gets no suck. If you are going to ask for a rise you've got to be prepared for it. First search for similar jobs in different companies. Try to learn the salary. When you've figured out an average price write down the pros and cons of changing the job. Because sometimes a little percentage of rise won't worth changing the job for career. If there is not much difference but a small amount of rise will change your living standards then go to your boss and talk like this: I need a rise, my cost of living is increased bec of child, home etc... and I am really happy working here. I think this is why i am productive, bla bla bla.. But currently i can't afford living. I think I've proven myself. On the other hand I'vent been searching for another job tho. Instead I prefered asking for a rise. I think it would really motivate me so that I can provide more."
What’s not on the slide, but which I say during the talk, is that I’m making an analogy here between ‘Don’t use passive voice’ (English) and ‘use noun phrases for class names’ (object-oriented programming). Both are kinds of grammatical guidelines.

What I also say in the talk is that this analogy is a stretch, but at least advice from writers about writing can inspire us to think about how we write code.
I don't know if you read the (sarcasm) at the end.

I find it ironic that while you shower self-pity when it comes to the US but paint India black anyway.

India infact has a lower crime rate against women than the US (even after accounting for differences in reporting rates).

Delhi comes out being "safer" than D.C; South India is apparently much safer (author appears to be from Chennai?). I'm given to believe that things are nowhere near as egregious as the Katy Levinson case.

I read of this hilarious fact about insurance murders in NYC apparently being more in number than all the "Dowry"/Harassment cases which are so widely promulgated.

http://www.amazon.com/Dowry-Murder-Imperial-Origins-Cultural...

Go figure. Don't believe the self-hating hindu.
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Google Forms worked great for the last startup I worked at.

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Lies < Damn lies < Statistics < Bookkeeping.
there is nothing preventing manufacturers from raising their prices up and take advantage of it, while still being fair

Yes, there is: Competition.

Bread is now $1 a loaf. If everyone starts selling bread at $2 a loaf, and I can keep it at $1, I'll be making bank.

Sure, for $0.01 to $0.02, that doesn't count. But UBI is not a lot of money; $1k / month, without any other welfare programs. It's not like everyone wins the lottery.
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No way to know without looking at the data, but I can see a few methods where a basic income would increase productivity.

One talked about in the article is that workers who choose to work, tend to work harder/more productively than workers who are forced.

The whole point is almost moot though because the data in basic income experiments show that employment rates tend to go up not down.
By good i read between your lines "cheap".
Use cheap for early testing, prototyping. Use AWS,Azure,Heroku for production.
Simple as that.
The "not going homeless" already exists in European welfare states, you do not need Basic Income for that. The main difference with basic income is that it would be paid to people who could work, but choose not to. This might not make a difference in most cases, but the edge cases could be really expensive: If you are 63 and can retire at 65, wouldn't basic income give you an incentive to travel the world for 2 years? Same for a high school student delaying college for 1 or 2 or 3 years...
Good luck with that in China mate!
Definitely stashing this away in my time machine for when I travel back to the 17th century. Make both Leibniz and Newton cry...
Are they equivalent? Or both systems work smoothly?
> An important rule is missing here: variables should be named with their scope in mind

True, but I have plenty of slides in my presentation without adding more :)

The 'small scope rule' is more of a situation when you can get away with names that are less good, because of the small scope. When I get into discussions about that, everyone agrees with each other, and it distracts from the issue of coming up with good names when the scope isn't tiny.

Also, 'i' for a loop control variable is a trick example: why aren't you using a language that loops over collections without using a loop index?
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On some products, there may be increased demand, but the idea is that the basic income should be small enough that those products are very essential (basic food, housing, ...). We would have to assume that people eat both before and after BI reform.

From my perspective (inside an expansive welfare state) the idea of basic income is a simplification rather than an expansion of the welfare state. The de-facto minimum income in Sweden today is probably higher than the would-be unconditional basic income. Today, the "minimum income" in Sweden is earned by people on minimum pensions, or those who have been unemployed longer than the unemployment benefits last. The income they actually receive is a very complicated combination of at least four or five different programs (social assistance, minimum pensions, disability, unemployment benefits, housing support, government child support, ...). The total for a single parent is around what a full time US (federal) minimum wage job pays, and I don't even want to think about what the administration overhead cost is on that.
What was the unfortunate personal image?

Edit: Googled it, was a dick pic shown live on stream from his phone. Story developing under hashtag: #dickgate.
What's wrong with gamergate is that they pissed off the media. Officially, it's because they're trying to harass women out of gaming, but (a) they're not, and (b) almost everyone opposed to them is quite happy to side with people who are just because gamergate is against them. Like, there's one guy who sent a massive number of specific, actionable death threats against Leigh Alexander and other women in tech, and pretty much everyone has sided with him because gamergate tried to get the police to take action against his threats and portrayed this as proof gg is evil, even though that's exactly what they're supposedly calling for the police to do.

The most ricidulous thing is, there are actually boards on 8chan that actually do the things gamergate is accused of, like swatting, doxing and so on, but they usually get a free pass because no-one cares about those things anymore except as a way to attack gamergate.