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TL;DR: basic income might be a pipe dream in developed nations but in development countries it could be a huge social changer

I'm not arguing this would work or not in Switzerland with that huge basic income (to my Brazilian standards) but basic income might be an interesting concept for developing countries where hunger is still a problem. Well, exactly like in Brazil.

I don't believe we'd have the Australian problem -- that someone else mentioned in here -- of rents going up and the basic income of people being diluted in the economy making general prices higher. It has been proposed before a basic income of between 50-75 USD per month and I believe currently there's only a single city in the whole country where it's effectively in use; that's never been approved in country-level, that's why.

That may seem an extremely low income but when you're starving that's a LOT of money, specially in the country side, and it's enough to make a huge impact in the economy and the development of the country in the long term. I don't think anyone who makes 20x more money than that monthly would worry about it, so no evil landlords to mess with the plan... in theory. Also, because that would apply for ANYONE who lives in the country (even foreigners), there wouldn't be this "they get it, I don't" feeling that could generate hatred between classes. And honestly, to the middle-class 50-75 bucks is nearly nothing.

PS: there's a country-level law in Brazil that institutes some social security for poor families (the so called "Bolsa-Família"), but it's not treated nor seen as a basic income law by all means

PPS: sorry for the lack of supportive links, but Google is your friend as this subject is pretty popular in the Brazilian media. Search for news mentioning the former senator Eduardo Suplicy, the first to propose all that
I bought one early in the bitcoin era when 1BTC was ~$1, probably spent over $3,000 at least in today's BTC or something.
Swiss people, who have all law-making authority here

Law making is done by the two chambers of parliament, National- and Ständerat. General constitutional amendments as well as particular laws can make their way to the electorate but that does not happen automatically.

Edit: If by "introducing his or her idea to the public voting" you mean constitutional amendments.. they require 100k signatures, not 20k. Why don't you look these things up, patriot?

> because Swiss people have basic understanding..
> Many journalists don't understand how Swiss political system works..
> this otherwise excellent system..

Right.. swiss people are so smart. Like that one time where they didn't have any problems with institutional child-slavery for decades.. and the other time where they started to trample on rights of religious minorities.. I could go on.
Fortunately "side projects" are an easy requirement to game.

On a less snarky note, I think the objection is the power dynamic of employers essentially wanting employees to train off the job rather than subsidizing continuing education, but pretending that it's a utopian "we're all in this together" situation, but where equity is not usually shared.
What are the ethics of alien contact?
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Learning another language as I learned my first would mean hiring two native speakers to act as my parents, some more native/fluent speakers to act as my primary school teachers and a bunch of non-natives learning the language at the same time as me to act as my friends. Together, they would need to surround me for the majority of my waking hours and after 10 years, I would still be incapable of reading anything more complex than Harry Potter.

Of course, we do study grammar in our own language. We do it at school.
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Price discrimination? Denying credit? Sure, but there are far worse things to worry about.

How many people have escaped genocides with fake passports, or fake laissez-passer?

Worry that biometric will make it harder to escape being sent to the gulag, not that Walmart will deny you store credit.
See `Symbol.hasInstance` and `Symbol.iterator`; take them as examples. Mapping an object to its iterator is going to be part of the spec and will be required at the language level (`for...of`). Before, if you looked at all of an objects' properties in SpiderMonkey, you will have noticed an `@@iterator` property. The spec could achieve the same thing as it's trying for with `Symbol.iterator` by just using a string-valued `@@iterator` property, but you still get the collision with anybody who would have used that name for something else or anyone looping over all the properties.

The gist is this: symbols are just a way to have non-strings that you can use for properties. There are also facilities to generate them in such a way that the symbol will never, ever collide with those generated by somebody else, but that's not their only purpose.
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Here is a side-view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWTK9phKoaE
But this is old video.
Look at the YOY change - if the trend continues Postgresql will be right up there in 3-4 years
Swiss cantons are a lot smaller than even Rhode Island (by area) or Wyoming (by population). From memory Switzerland has 5 million people and 32 cantons. Municipalities are also free to secede and form their own canton or join a neighbouring canton. Referenda aren't just a national thing either, they have them at every level of government. This all probably contributes to how well it works, that and the extremely strong political culture of consensus, and the way the federal government is organised. The Premiers of each canton sitting in forum are the Swiss federal government, and all decisions are made unanimously. It's a very conservative system.

The only country I've ever visited that gave the same impression of having the same level of organisation and competence as Switzerland was Singapore.
um, what SQL being whatever you think it is has to do with what this project is?

this is a way of encoding SQL in Rust's syntax, which gives you compile-time verification of your queries, query composition, etc. in exchange for the fact that you're not writing queries as strings. of course it's missing features, that doesn't stop it from being useful. look at python's sqlalchemy for a great example of a DSL that's arguably better than SQL at being SQL.
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If you pegged it to the Euro, it'd be pointless.
I love the idea, our company has recently been having work life balance discussions so this would be a great tool if:

1. The sliders are just bad. Make it a clickable 1-10 list of faces or just about anything else, really.

2. The descriptions are too specifically emotional. I'm stressed but not nervous, I didn't enjoy the week but it certainly wasn't tedious. Not a big deal but kind of jarring since that's the only info the slider provides.

3. Allow me to share with a limited team (on hipchat :-) and chart my team's progress. I'm not tweeting this info to my clients or facebooking to my friends and family ...
The real problem is going from tutorial to something you would use in production. Throw in logging, security and service discovery and you can have a few engineers hacking away for months.

So I want to plug a project I've been contributing to: https://github.com/CiscoCloud/microservices-infrastructure

We're trying to make it super easy to deploy these tools. For example every time you launch a docker container, it will register with consul and be added to haproxy. The nice thing about using Mesos is we can support data like workloads Cassandra, HDFS, and Kafka on the same cluster your run Docker images on.

We use terraform to deploy to multiple clouds so you don't get locked in to something like cloudformation.
This reeks of sad desperation, but represents a higher risk for risk junkies. Whatever next? Womb portfolios?!
I'd rather we all be intentionally snooty and arrogant and keep the unsuited at bay instead of succumbing. We can easily be silenced with a few keystrokes, at pg's command.
Yes! Would highly recommend that one or 'How the Mind Works' by Pinker. I'm constantly blown away by how few people are aware of modern cognitive science and just how much we DO understand about the operation of the mind. It's also super useful if you do any kind design, UX, marketing or interact with other humans.
Well, you could read the source of course, to see whether the photo data is sent to the server or whether the cert is generated client-side. And then there is this: https://github.com/bloombergmedia/whatiscode/
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Salesforce.com runs on Oracle DBs, is in fact the largest customer. Benioff was a SVP at Oracle before he founded SFDC.
this approach doesn't allow you to easily compose queries; you've got a SQL world and an application world which are mostly incompatible. here, you can easily stitch together the query you want while being free of worrying about SQL syntax correctness.
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To be honest, I still have yet to see one of these systems that beats simply using Bash. They're all trying to make a scripting problem into a configuration problem. That's sometimes a reasonable idea, when what you're doing is common enough that only a few things here and there need to diverge from the defaults. But every image I've ever had to create contained far more edge cases than default cases, and half of those edge cases are things nobody thought of and therefore their system doesn't handle it. Rather than trying to fight with one of these systems to get them to do something I could easily do with a few Bash commands, I find it easier to just script the setup in Bash to begin with.

Obviously that doesn't work for Windows systems.
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> Urgh really? That is so disingenuous I actually feel a bit dirty after reading it.

Just walk away. Because you won't win any argument with that type. A very convinced yet insecure type.
You can, of course, worry about both.
This was actually a main selling point of Communism. Like a perpetuum mobile, it is really attractive to most people, but can't be implemented.

But people dreaming of free energy are mostly harmless, the only problem being the grant money spent on cold fusion and the like. People dreaming of free money have created worst bloodbaths in history.
Right, my assumption is that someone smart enough to set up a whole nicely-designed website is probably too smart to not have done the simple division I did to get the numbers in my post.
That's an excellent point. Private companies that create markets for buying and selling your information are going to lose exclusivity over that information--perhaps routinely.
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Thanks for your feedback. I must admit we did not experiment too much with different UI controls here. The continuous scale input with discretely triggered descriptors may be a bit odd to some - on reflection it is to me too!
Very nice what you made. Where do you get your inspiration for the shapes?
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What simulators do you recommend?
When I went in 2008 it was 100 yen to a dollar almost exactly, made the conversation rate dead easy. 100 yen is now worth 80¢. That change was entirely US based?
That's already the case for the US penny.
> It is also possible that this is just the way companies in our industry work today.

Yeah, I think that's true.
Where in the world has the straightest roads?
> an ID that can be stolen, copied, and sold on the black market thus ruining their financial livelihood for the rest of their lives

Not the first time I read this. It seems that in USA the identity theft issue is a very big one... even someone knowing your bank account number is hugely risky, from what I read. This not need be like this, there are other countries where this is adequately protected by law.

In Europe is normal for small businesses to publish their bank account so people can send them the money of a purchase, and that does not put them in risk. Also, for me it is unheard of that someone had a problem because his/her ID got stolen. Credit cards? Ok. But ID?

Is it a law issue? A financial industry one? (Another poignant thing for me is the degree to which US, France and other countries still use the cheque, or the problems to pay with international cards - visa / mastercard / amex - in Germany).
There are so many games in my Steam library that don't work on Linux at all though.

I could use Wine I suppose but it's not ideal.
To "reinvent the notion of privacy" so that it's socially acceptable all we need to do is agree to one rule -
If you are going to financially benefit in anyway directly/indirectly from my biometric data, you pay me each time you do so. Privacy maybe dead, but wealth doesn't need to accumulate in the hands of Mr. Zuckerberg because of it.
$34 Billion zuck tax that the world has contributed to is more than enough.

I am picking on poor Zuck here but we all know whatever wealth gets generated from biometrics is going to land up in the hands of the few who already own all our data.
No, but we need to keep ahead of this technology, and fight it whenever we can--for those that care? I'm beginning to think most people just don't care? What I find ironic is any criminal with any forethought is going to become a master of disguise--without going to that much trouble.
What we need is more pervasive control of discrimination, then, and of other things that could use biometric information.

Simply "hiding" your biometrics or banning biometric identification altogether would be moving backwards in the bigger picture, which I'd compare to forbidding evolution research because it's against religious teaching.
Here's the other thing that neither of the other commenters mentioned:

You can't go around peppering your code with use of this new syntax if you want it to continue working on older runtimes. With `Symbol`, you can at least create a polyfill that approximates what it's shooting for.

> declaring a Symbol

Don't think of it as "declaring a symbol" (because it isn't). Think of it as generating a symbol (because it is).
I really like the site! Please provide an API or at least an export functionality in the long run. I'd hate to see another service I use disappear.
A great read, I actually laughed out loud in places with some of the descriptions, and I think I've met half the bridge engineering team in a past life.
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The range of options that the slider offers is not equivalent to the options offered by just displaying the 5 variants - with the slider you can select a lot of values in-between variants.

Having said that, I'd prefer a keyboard-only way to do it too.
If they can't take something like this, they should not depend on public packet-switched networks. In many ways, "the internet" is a victim of it's own success - it works so well most of the time that people come to expect too much of it.
> This type of thing can generate freeloaders who deliberately choose not to work; something no economy wants.

That's actually an explicit goal of many basic income proposals. The fear of high unemployment as we automate industries faster than workers can retrain is a driving force behind the growing popularity of BI.
I don't know much about lua or LuaJit, but I know a lot about Inferno and the Dis VM. Dis is a really, really nice VM design (and pretty fast too!). It's a pleasure to generate dis code (say, from a compiler). I'd like to see more languages ported to dis.
+1 to all of these. I was thinking the same points.

Additionally, speaking of work/life balance, it may make sense to have a question in there about having enough time to enjoy life or something along those lines. But maybe it overlaps enough with one or more of the other questions (i.e. stress).
It should have a floating exchange rate to the Euro. Not pegged, but floating.
The interesting thing about the increasing correlation between something scientifically measurable (age in this case) and autism, is that means something physical is changing. If something physical is changing from parents to children, then that means autism is at least partly genetic (it's been shown before[0]) and it might be able to be measured and predicted before birth and development, which further means that it can be treated earlier, and prevented more.

I have a friend that was diagnosed with autism early, and through years of help with an awesome therapist it would be hard to tell that they're autistic. That said though, many people don't have access to that kind of help or stability, and therefore suffer significantly more throughout their life.

I like making these connections because if people realize that things like autism are physical ailments contracted at birth, and not something that fucking vaccines give you, then perhaps the stigma around them will disappear and we can bring a higher quality of life to all.

[0] http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/new_autis...
It could just be the programmers who made whatever you've tried don't know very much about texturing. Most of the AAA games I've tried in VR have not had text that was even remotely readable, and it was all because it was rendered too small.

The Gear VR has a fairly decent GPU. The move to mobile was more about discarding legacy fixed-function pipeline techniques and more directly optimizing for shaders. The main factor limiting texture-fill is GPU RAM. But most devices have more than enough RAM to be able to render text well.

VR is a realism multiplier. Traditional 3D graphics techniques are realism fakers. You shouldn't apply many traditional graphics techniques, because they have perspective-dependent artifacts that are subtle to impossible to notice in mono still images but glaring in stereo motion. So I think it's folly to apply too much effort on things like displacement shaders or stereo textures. These sort of things both A) cost a lot of time, and B) look terrible in an unrestricted stereo view. There's even new research to suggest one's general hormonal balance can have a huge impact in whether or not these miscues are going to cause simulator sickness in a user. You could literally be alienating half of your potential users along gender lines.

In the face of that, I think it makes more sense to stick to simpler techniques that respect the Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm. We've been able to write some 3D games that run at 150fps for over a decade now. But there is no 150hz display to pair it with. V-sync is probably the most important issue, followed closely by running at native resolution (so for a given GPU, a lower resolution screen might actually be better, because it will be easier to hit the full refresh rate at the native resolution) and clean, consistent antialiasing. It wouldn't be a problem if both eyes were rendered identically, but having the dual eyes highlights any visual artifacts that appear. Match those three issues and the realism of the content doesn't matter, it could be flat-color, Phong-shaded cubes and you'll have a great VR experience. Miss any of them and even high-end games like Elite: Dangerous that are gorgeous on 2D will look like complete garbage.

VR has completely inverted the priorities of graphics programmers. Because of this, I think the primary VR innovation is going to come from indie developers, because most established companies can't switch their focus away from their 2D-display oriented consumer base. The Call of Duty series has sold over 175 million units. Assume nearly $40 a pop, that makes over $7 billion. You're not going to see VR getting anywhere near that for a few years still, and companies like Activision and EA aren't going to chase after such small potatoes in anyway other than just PR.
>The direct consequence of this otherwise excellent system is that basically anyone can collect 20,000 signatures and introduce his or her idea to the public voting, no matter how crazy it looks like. This is one of such cases.

You realize that this is a good thing? Power is unjustly concentrated among the rich in a representative democracy. This occurs because only the rich have enough money to campaign and advertise the "representative."
Aggregate sites like Hacker News and Reddit make distribution of news and ideas very quick and viral compared to more organic growth such as word of mouth and google.
The Beer Hall Putsch (the first attempted coup by the Nazis) was in 1923.
Just to clarify, my earlier comment is a direct quote from the article. I am not the author, just thought it was an apt anticipation of some of criticisms in this thread.
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Yeah, that's in series.
In most posts about autism here, a reader is unaware of the early signs. Early intervention is a key in treatment.

For the benefit of those who don't know some potential clues: not pointing, no/low eye contact, non-verbal/no babbling, rote behaviors, toe walking, no facial expressions, lack of response to outside stimuli.

Further reading with milestones by age here http://www.autismsciencefoundation.org/autism-early-signs
Communism was about forcing individuals to do things for the common good. It obviously didn't work. Unconditional basic income is about freeing people from the constant stress of worrying about their survival and the survival of those depending on them.
The site name immediately made me think of retrospectives [1]. Then I wondered about an online service for facilitating them along the lines of the American Arbitration Association's online mediation service [2] as an alternative monetization strategy to SEO/ads.

[1]: http://www.se-radio.net/2008/07/episode-105-retrospectives-w...

[2]: https://www.adr.org/aaa/faces/services/disputeresolutionserv...
I'm pretty sure that happened a long time ago. But the latent value of the materials is hard to recover--you could recycle the paper, but that requires a lot of expensive equipment, and there are many accessible sources of pulp which are easier to collect. Such an endeavor would inevitably fail because it lacks the efficiencies of scale.

As an interesting aside, US pennies minted before 1982 contain $0.018 worth of copper. It's not nearly the problem that Zimbabwe has, because pennies makes up so little of the US currency in circulation. But one might think an enterprising entrepreneur could profit from this. But again the problem falls to inefficiencies of scale: you simply can't harvest and sort enough pennies quickly enough to make the effort worthwhile (machinery even exists for this purpose).
The title already says it all. After “everyone must learn to code”, people start returning to more sensible ideas.
I agree with your comment. Yet tangentially those things can be taken away! At one point in several African countries they used finger prints for the ATM's. People suddenly started getting their fingers cut off by thieves. I would much rather give them a card then a part of my body.

Update: So I have been doing much Googling and can't find an accurate account of that happening. It appears there are some reports of it happening in Maylasia but that was for vehicles. Better yet is that in South Africa they are just blowing up the ATM's or ripping them outhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1198626/South-Africa..., which honestly makes more sense.

I did see that Poland is pushing out some new ATM's, that are also used in Japan, that use the pattern of veins instead of finger prints. The state this means the finger has to be attached to the person
How easily we forget that people change, and sometimes not for the better. It's easy to start well; ending well -- that's the trick.
Yeah, it seems like kind of an odd choice to introduce a whole new type and extend the kind of values that can index an object, when extending object indexing alone would do everything symbols do anyway.
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