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> Guaranteed basic income. It's the only way... at least if we want a future that is actually good for more than ~10% of the human race.

Basic income is one of two ways of realizing a future that is good for everyone (and those ~10% won't be happy without it because the zombies will be at their door). The other way is to make everything free (either forcefully, or through price reductions via technology and automation).

Basic income is known to work [1]. "Making everything free" forcefully is a no-go because it disrespects the realities of market dynamics (as we've learned from Communism).

It is important also to realize that there are many ways of implementing BI, and some of them are better than others. This is a debate and discussion we should be all having.

The primary ethical decision I see is whether BI is implemented in a coercive manner (i.e. taxation) or a voluntary manner. Both approaches are possible and each can be done in various different ways. I worked on something called http://groupcurrency.org [2], a voluntary cryptocurrency approach to basic income, and there are many other approaches as well, the simplest of which is simply for a "company-tribe" to guarantee its members a minimum income (backed by the fruits of their collective labor).

For those interested in Basic Income, I strongly recommend perusing the subreddit r/basicincome and related subreddits (r/CryptoUBI, etc.).

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/basicincome/wiki/index#wiki_that.27...

[2] HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9501059
With a projected lifespan of 150 years [1], that seems pretty reasonable.

[1] http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/eastspans/
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> A viewer's ability to distinguish between native ads and regular articles is small and quickly vanishing.

Thankfully, the FTC is helping in that regard.
http://adexchanger.com/publishers/ftc-publishers-will-be-hel...
We are indeed a rotten place but its not because of CCTV and surveillance. This is just a symptom of deeper problems in society.
While income equality is kept steady, demand for labor won't ever be a problem.

Factories that churn out millions of consumer items with just a few workers naturally creates demand for more highly refined, labor intensive artisanal products. Agricultural farming drives demand for labor intensive organic produce. This process of more wealth driving demand for higher quality goods and services, in turn driving demand for more labor is just as inevitable as automation.

If it weren't, automating the agricultural sector would have resulted in 95% unemployment in the early 20th century. It didn't.

Unless you artificially repress demand by stripping wealth from people (a process that requires corruption), demand for labor won't dry up.

But, the government and our financial sector is doing that. So demand has dried up.
I am sympathetic to content creators making money, but I don't think the trade offs in privacy are worth it. For example, a recent Wired article about Apple's WWDC[0] pleas with the user to "do us a solid" and whitelist their site in their adblocker. Sadly, whitelisting that site in uBlock actually does 28 sites a solid[1]. What's worse, their site doesn't even use HTTPS, so how can I trust the code I get from them?

[0] http://www.wired.com/2015/06/same-plans-tech/

[1] https://imgur.com/nqUQsML
If you pack a lot of people in to smaller/denser living spaces like rats, they will still live like rats, regardless of of whether the bus shelter is able to wish them a happy birthday.
If they don't track you they have no way to serve you relevant ads, and I would much rather want relevant ads than ads which promote useless products to me.
> I dream of a day when I can pay Google a decent sum of money each month in return for their service

The wait over https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
So the worst case scenario is that somebody gets (part of?) their education for free and the government pays the school its exorbitant rate.

Maybe that's a good thing. Maybe it will force "taxpayers" to investigate why school had such exorbitant rate in the first place. Maybe there is some restitution to be paid to taxpayers by the school and if they are not paid maybe the school should be excluded from getting taxpayer money in the future.
This article is similar to what you would have read in the late 19th century when looms were being mechanized. Hopefully the future will continue to match the historical precedents of mass mechanization (i.e. Industrial Revolution, 20th century manufacturing, ...). Yes there will be disruption, workers will lose their jobs, and there may even be riots. However in the end we still had progress and we still created jobs; the old jobs were gone but there's always a new need.
> First, you can't invert a binary tree (as in flip upside down). If you did, you'd end up with multiple roots and since all binary trees are rooted, you'd no longer have a binary tree. It'd be a tree, just not a binary tree

Just because someone wrote on Twitter with limited number of characters that the problem was to "invert a binary tree", does not mean there were no clarification from the recruiter.

> And if they actually meant for you to recurse down and swap left and right on everything, it would dramatically lower my opinion of them because it would make me wonder if they knew the difference between how a binary tree is drawn on a whiteboard vs. how it is laid out in memory.

If you're thinking about making a real structure, I believe you should recurse down and swap. If you don't do this, rotating, joining etc, could be a real pain.
Not really. The population is large enough that you're treating each potential hire as a random variable. Given the amount of possible good new hires the effect of passing on one actual good hire has negligible effect on the next potential hire.

The theory behind the "raise the bar" argument is that obviously good hires are easy to spot (this is the part most people reasonably take issue with), so people who do not pass that bar of "obviously good" aren't worth taking a risk on. The conclusion is statistically reasonable if you accept the premise (which, again, you probably shouldn't).
You can pay Google monthly https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
Nobody in this thread has even been able to define what inverting a tree means. (Reversing or mirroring? Sure.) My search for how to invert a tree led to a bunch of fairly hairy academic papers.

If you have a definition, please elucidate.
While I'm not a fan of coercive taxation, it's better than The Hunger Games. It's also important to note that populist revolutions also often result in totalitarianism. So without basic income I think we have a choice between a totalitarian state of the 1% and a totalitarian state of the 99% (or at least one that claims to be -- we saw what the USSR turned into).

It's likely the best way to preserve the most freedom and openness, at least given the political tools at our disposal. I'm a fan of the idea of eliminating coercive taxation but I do not see it as something politically achievable in the foreseeable future.

... and yes, there will be some percentage of people who get basic income and just sit around and get high and eat chips. I do not believe that is avoidable. I suppose today a lot of those people are working in bullshit jobs that are on their way out, or are on an existing welfare system.

It's dumb to sacrifice our freedom or quality of life just because it offends us to see a few people dicking around. Ultimately it's their loss -- they are the ones wasting their lives on unfulfilling time-wasting "entertainment," and they'll probably regret it later. We need not subject ourselves to totalitarianism or poverty in order to "punish" people for laziness -- a life wasted is punishment enough.
Pretty sure all road work in my state is done by private companies.
i have been using this for a while!
The bolts in question were made by an american company. The same issue happened with another bridge before.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9695276
Thank you for the AMA and the replies.

I have couple of questions.

1. Among the companies which have announced plans for space-based internet like SpaceX, OneWeb, LeoSat, Yalini etc which do you think can deliver good quality internet at the lowest costs.

2. What according to you is the most likely terrestrial delivery model to succeed. Partnering with local mobile operators/ISP's (like OneWeb) or creating an altogether new infrastructure/gateways/ground stations (like Yalini).

3. I couldn't find details of SpaceX's plans (like throughput, speed, latency, costs, delivery model etc.). Can you refer me to any publicly available information on this.
Could you illustrate? I can find plenty of examples of mirroring/reversing a tree (below the root node) but none that really invert it. I haven't even found a definition of what inverting a tree means (aside from some academic papers I haven't been able to read yet), despite quite a bit of googling.
> I'm a fan of the idea of eliminating coercive taxation but I do not see it as something politically achievable in the foreseeable future.

It is also questionable whether basic income itself is politically achievable.

The beauty of the non-coercive voluntary approaches to basic income is that it can be implemented right now by any group without requiring or waiting on any political gesticulation.
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What amazes me most about all this is just how badly Rosetta Stone missed the boat. I used one of their (rather expensive) lessons years ago, but the lack of a mobile version meant I could only use it at home and not on the go, when I actually had time to spare. It seemed like such a no-brainier to me at the time. In a time where people were paying £300 for their retail software, they could easily have sold loads on the App Store.

Now I use Duolingo multiple times per week on my phone and I wouldn't even think about paying for Rosetta Stone anymore.
Wouldn't it make more sense to bring back the jobs, if they're being done by robots anyway ? Is this because of a lack of "manufacturing environment" ? Environmental regulations ?

I think the issue with taking China upto task for said alleged manipulation, is that in this case you'll end up with a full fledged currency war.

China starts dumping US bonds and USD will crash. I'm not sure how big a pyrrhic victory this'd be.
aka, "Try not to worry your pretty little head with it if you can avoid it". This post has a high condescension density.
The biggest problem is not even that it looks unfamiliar, but that the majority of “westerners” have insufficient ankle flexibility to squat, due to a lifetime of sitting in chairs and no experience squatting.

You might be able to build a squat toilet where the feet rested on a ramp (i.e. raised at the heel side), though I suspect most Americans would still refuse to use it.
Some of the people who purged Yarvin are Stalinists, so I'm going to go with "no."
Ok with your first paragraph and free TV with ads predates the Internet, ok. But free newspapers with ads are a 2000's invention, at least in my part of the world. Newspapers used to be protected by a paywall, currently some hundreds of Euro per year. Problem is: people usually read only one physical newspaper so even one Euro per day would be ok, but they read articles on random websites linked by Google News. Either you micro-pay each article (0.01?) or you won't afford news anymore, unless you read them on only one website again.

Maybe that kind of world would be great for aggregators. Think Flipboard. They could buy content from newspapers and resell it with a subscription. That would work for Blogger and Wordpress.com too: pay for access to all the blogs on the site. Maybe this is the first step of an Apple's strategy to become a news/blog aggregator. Damage the competition and take over.
I went to the Moog store in Asheville a few months ago. The employees were really, really friendly. I'm glad to know they're being taken care of.
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I'm not sure if Bernie Sanders will be able to change things either, given that many of the things you're talking about require approval of the Congress.

It even appears unlikely that he'll be nominated!
I see people posting that link over and over, as it it made some kind of valuable point. Do you realize that for this to work, you need to be permanently tracked by Google?
I'm curious about this. Any references?

The problem I see is that you already have this huge taxation burden which soaks up surplus wealth that might power such things. Implementing basic income at the government level would redirect this firehose, but I don't see how decentralized voluntarist approaches would achieve that.
Would a multiply-rooted tree still be a tree? I thought a single root was part of the definition of a tree. Would it instead be a graph?

Sorry for the elementary questions. I'm bad at algorithms and just trying to get a grasp here.
"Relevant ads" my arse.

They don't want to show me ads for things I'm already interested in, they want to make me interested in things I didn't know about, or more interested in things I knew about but wasn't going to buy.

They don't care about relevant, they want successfully manipulative ads.
That's not true. TV, radio, printed newspapers, ... has done it for decades. It's content based. They are tracking because they can make more money out of the tracked data.
In Chrome on android this is an option in the dropdown menu "request desktop site"
hackers have grown quite powerful in recent years. I they get their hands on your data then only God can save you. Prevention is always better than cure. therefore it is suggested that one should always use a VPN, Ivacy for instance, inorder to protect one's identity and data.
There is also the sourceforge example. Since they can not make enough money with ads on the site to survive, they put them in the archives. They will die also at the end, but a lot of projects with them.
Thanks for the link. My personal favorite http://rajeshanbiah.blogspot.com/2009/01/how-to-interview-ca...
>I'm all for non-intrusive advertisements.

I'm pretty sure that the ad companies measure what kind of ads work, and which doesn't and what you're asking is that they leave the ineffective ads in place and remove the ones you can't ignore.

Honestly I don't believe that online ads work very well, they are a waste of money, but it's pretty hard to prove, so companies keeps buying them, just to be sure.
Sounds like you need to laugh at his jokes and follow his orders. Ignore anything relating to others, its not your business and not something to stress about. Think about the adage "keep your friends close and your enemies closer". Flatter him, make him feel good about himself, then down the road when you start biting back a bit it will hurt.
You might want to try using an argument of some sort next time.
It so perfectly fits the point topynate was making in another thread, though, that it's easy to imagine it's merely a sockpuppet! Because of attitudes like pep888's, it's easy to imagine a conference like Strange Loop banning speakers for being Zionists, especially in Europe rather than the US, and Al3x's decision has moved us a big step closer to that.
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Do you actually believe that there's much difference between the republicans and democrats (that's a serious question)? My cynical take is that both parties are bank-rolled by the same set of people :) If I had my billions, then I'd pay both sides to ensure that my voice were heard whatever the outcome.
May I ask what the "888" in your name refers to?
If you have so many homeless people, maybe you should solve that problem first?

Solving homelessness isn't an on/off switch; people are still going to need a toilet while homelessness is being "fixed".

(It's a problem with saying why not solve X instead? You end up with neither fixed, and everybody loses. I mean, why solve homelessness when there are hungry kids that need feeding? And so the cycle continues.)

As an aside, I'm not convinced that it's homeless people per se that are the problem; it's people with issues that abuse public toilets, whether through drugs, alcohol or being a general malcontent, and "the homeless" get blamed as convenient name.

It's not like corporate headquarters are invulnerably to toilet abuse, least of all from the execs.
Are there any good introductory taxonomies or categorisations of threats and potentially appropriate responses?

The obvious distinctions that spring to my (uninformed) mind are: active (mitm, injection) vs passive (snooping, traffic analysis), targeted/opportunistic (maybe insider/outsider too?), and perhaps level of available resources (on the s'kiddie - lone hacker - collective - governmental spectrum, or something)

I guess the biggest problem with not having a coherent threat model is that you can end up putting too much effort into the wrong things and have a false confidence in your security. Weakest links, and all that.
i would still not ever visit the site, and i would do everything in my power to rip the content and distribute it freely.

I keep adblock on all the time now, only adding a few exceptions which i deem worthy. My problem is that i can not stand to have so much BS ads added to the text of the page. Sometimes i even use adblock to remove part of the webpages so i only get the content, when the author has made the page to messy.

However, its not that hard to make a page acceptable, just don't add 10 ad boxes around and inside you article. Also don't add ads inside the text I'm reading, that is going to get blocked in seconds. Flash and image ads (especially ones that try to imitate page functions) are atrocities that a lot of times makes me leave a page and not visit it until months later when i forget why i was not visiting it.

The only ads i approve are small, text based ads that are clearly marked as such and that don't interrupt the flow of information from the page. The moment i have to halt and reason if something is and ad or not, you get automatically blacklisted, and heavily so.

On my home network i redirect several abusive ad networks DNS entries to an internal server that hijacks the ads and replaces them with jolly rogers :P

Its really fun to see some pages with 8 jolly rogers smiling back at you giving me a evil grin thinking of the cents the page is loosing.

[Edit: fixed spelling]
Absolutely, I've been saying this for years. The line between advertisement and content is one that's been around for decades longer than the Web, and for good reason. And yet for some reason, those who defend ad-blockers as 'good for the web' are either too ignorant or too apathetic to understand that if increasing adblocker usage makes it intractable to provide free content when ads are easily distinguishable from content, then the majority of content that survives will break down that barrier. The collateral damage of rendering adblockers useless is skewing every webpage towards the content that the interested party with the deepest pockets wants.

It's particularly ridiculous when you consider that there's easy analogies to this that even the most clueless of adblocker users should be able to understand: if Google stopped distinguishing between ads and organic results, there would (rightly) be a huge outcry. One would have to be a fool not to understand that pushing the entire Web in that direction would be correspondingly more devastating.
How is that even possible? The link?
This is the worst possible advice you could have given.

Attempting to ignore the behaviour is both stressful and damaging.
And? The question is not "how fringe is Yarvin's politics," the question is "does the fact that he has fringe politics mean he should be kicked out of a conference where he would not be speaking about politics."
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And again, you're just doing it wrong. DSLs are perfect for exploratory programming, since backtracking and refactoring are so much easier.
I would even pay double this if I had the assurance Google stopped recording my every move.

The stuff they make is fantastic, their services are great and I'd be happy to pay for them. But not on top of them selling my data.
Purely for the record:
http://ape3000.com/ipv6/ - a site that tracks IPv6 deployment in Finland was updated and the "will deploy native for launch" has disappeared next to Sonera and now it says "A schedule for native deployment is not known".
So yeah, one of the largest ISPs decided not to give the slightest f. and will just stick to a half-arsed 6rd deployment, it seems.
On the topic of that first link, the 'boob-er' story was most likely fabricated. There is no evidence of an interview nor a transcript.
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> The most effective advertising for me is when an author I like to read recommends a product by directly writing about it because they were paid to do so and they like to use the product.

You're very careful to specify that the author must genuinely like the product. How do you know that they like to use the product? There's a reason that the responsible disclosure and the distinction between content and advertising has existed as an ethical guideline for decades longer than the Web has, and that's because "content creators should get paid by the subject of their content but be uninfluenced by the money" is a horrendously childish view of the world.
Well, it may look beautiful from the outside, but if you've ever been inside, most of the rooms are way too cramped, and the ceilings are low. Not as bad as his Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, though; I don't have claustrophobia, and I still wanted to run screaming from the freakish no-right-angles-anywhere offices. (The locals say that Phillips Petroleum bought it to be their headquarters, but never moved in because it was so anti-functional.)
In mobile? I've shut so many sites down in the last two weeks because I couldn't read on my iphone over the ad. It happens less to me in this period on android devices I notice.
Cute, but not the point. It ended with lots of people losing homes and a massive disruption to the global economy.
> I'm curious about this. Any references?

Yes, see my post above for links about one possible cryptocurrency approach called Group Currency (disclaimer: I am one of the contributors to that idea).

Group currencies can be thought of as "company-tribes" where relationships are familial instead of exchange-based. We'll post a simplified version of this scheme to https://blog.okturtles.com soon.

The TLDR of the simple method is: (1) members of the company-tribe all accept payment for their products and services to the group's account. (2) Funds are divided evenly until a basic income has been reached for each member (say, for the month), after which all additional funds go to the member who is generating them.

> The problem I see is that you already have this huge taxation burden which soaks up surplus wealth that might power such things. Implementing basic income at the government level would redirect this firehose, but I don't see how decentralized voluntarist approaches would achieve that.

This is a great point, and one that needs to be considered and discussed.

It is possible for a group to both pay taxes and provide its members with a basic income (and campaign for an end to mandatory income taxes ;).
You could configure the js to use another domain name to talk to, ( the same as the original site), that would be just an alias to the ad network.
Ad blockers work on the http level, not on the dns one, so there's no way for them to know the redirection did happen.

Or you could make it all happen on the server side. Just have the ad network provide a server side plug in that would analyse incoming http request for user blueprinting, and ask the ad server what ad to display. Then you'd just have to include that content in your response.