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So what if some people decide to use their money to watch TV all day? Its a trade off, in return for some people being able to do things improving society they couldn't have done otherwise, or being able to spend time with their kids rather than work a bullshit job which mostly pays for childcare so they can do their job, we have to put up with a few people having more reality TV to bore us about in the pub. Sounds good to me.
I am sure the author is correct the dies are the same, but it is not particularly evil or genius, it is just making you pay for costs associated with software they included. Effectively they are charging different amount for different software packages, which is not shocking since each of the stacks included the appropriate patent and license fees for the technologies, and those are different for each.

That is not at all shocking, at this part of the value pipeline the manufacturer passes prices on to the purchaser pretty directly. In fact, a far larger difference in price than the type of software they load is the type of packaging them come in. The author is comparing prices for chips sent to him on cut tape. He quotes:

CC2630F128RGZT: $11.87
CC2650F128RGZT: $15.03

But if you buy them on reels (which are the exact same part):

CC2630F128RGZR: $7.55
CC2650F128RGZR: $9.77

IOW there is a $2-$3 variation based on what software they give you and patents/sublicenses they have have to pay for. There is $4-$5 difference based on what kind of boxes they ship them in*

* Yes, the reels only come in larger quantities, but since these are raw chips and not modules you are going to need to go through FCC certification for any device you build with them which is going to end up being a minimum of $5000 if you ship them off to a test lab in china, and closer to $10000-$15000 if you do it in the US or Europe. Nobody is going to pay that sort of NRE for a product they are going to make less than a few thousand of, so for a product like this you are not going to buy it in low quantity packaging unless you are prototyping before you are ready to through regulatory certification.
It doesn't have to be a full stack solution.

From meteor's article about the DDP protocol [1]:

"...a mobile client written in pure Objective C, with no Meteor code, can connect to a Meteor server (say, by using the ObjectiveDDP library), and the server doesn't see it as different from any other client."

[1] https://www.meteor.com/ddp
I take it's easier in your environment to get code reviews than it is in mine.
I'm yet to land somewhere where code reviews are a casual thing.

But have you considered that it may be the opposite than your claim? That
good developers want code reviews because they're good, not that they're good
because they learned most from code reviews?

Because despite that I don't know many people with much experience with
reviews, I do know some good developers. Where did they come if code review is
the only way to learn much?
The huge 'problem' with most European benefit systems that I am aware of that as soon as you take the money, your time is no longer your own. You cannot go to to school or take courses, start a company, do odd freelance work, do certain types of charity work, travel freely or a whole host of other potentially self improving things, without losing your benefits. Living on benefits is also living in constant fear that your benefits can be removed at any time for any (or no) reason. Remove all those barriers and requirements and remove the need to keep jumping through time consuming and seemingly arbitrary hoops to get your money and perhaps people will react differently.

Personally I come down on the skeptical side of the fence, but would really love to be proven wrong.

Also Benefit Street is not a documentary interested in facts, but reality TV at its finest, interested in entertaining, and should be judged as such.
We talk sometimes about having an additional reader to support another syntax ... but so far, it isn't something where someone's actually volunteered to step up and help. It'd be interesting to play with some ideas from David Moon's PLOT as well ...
When I see that discussion about basic income I am always wandering, who is going to pay for that?

I assume the money will not be printed (this would not help, as inflation would make that income very small).

So the country that applies such policy must have some way of finding money. Some countries have natural resources that they can sell, so the problem is solved. But how about the rest?

I guess this will be financed by those, who are earning more money.

Let's forget about the question if this is moral or not to take away money from people who are working hard just to give away these money to those, who are not working at all.

However the taxation will make costs of work higher and higher. Country economy would become less competitive.

In addition avoiding taxes would start to be really profitable - people would start opening fake companies abroad, create fake costs, etc. it happens now as well, but the scale could be much bigger.

As usually, big players would be able to avoid taxes, so the one who would be hurt most are the "middle class". Taxes will eat their profits and the gap between the best earning people and the rest would be growing and growing.

For me it looks a bit as if we were trying to solve the problems caused by goods redistribution by applying more goods redistribution.
There are different if course. I think other people are saying they have very similar flaws, not that they are the same.
Basic income usually assumes money comes from nowhere, from "the state"... This experience is fun, but to be correct, those who find a job should in turn pay 1300/m... because the money cannot come from anywhere else than people.

Or you'll get VERY biased results.

Think of it: they could have tested the financing instead. 300 workers get to pay 1300€/m to the city. Who wants to be first?
>It’s designed expressly to make workers get and feel lost, because, as neuroscience shows, disorientation keeps people alert and expecting the unexpected.

Oh my. Good luck with that, gentlemen.

>According to research in neuroscience, this kind of visual chaos can help workers stay more alert, by asking them to constantly reengage with their environment.

Alert != attentive.
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You don't need autotools, but autotools is the consistent way to do it; the "installed base" is large enough that any sysadmin knows how to deal with autotools (and will have to for many years). Writing your own custom check, even if that check is much more concise in and of itself, makes it harder for a sysadmin to understand your project build than just doing the same thing as every other project.
Yes, but the state will take more than it gives from the billionaire. This is actually more bureaucratically efficient than manually means testing every possible recipient.
This cable might actually have quite a bit of metal armour on it to protect the cable from damage. Here's a picture that came up earlier today, showing rigid metal "caterpillar" armour that goes on the outside of the cable to protect it near shorelines:
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Sure.

But my company has literally paid me over $1,000 in the past year to look up, awkwardly make eye contact, look around a moment, blink a few times, and look back at my screen because it draws my attention when people cross in front of my desk, and we have an open office design. (That cost is literally just the 15 seconds of looking around, the number of times I did so today, and my pay rate.)

I hope they're getting their money's worth for my time, but I'm not sure they are -- or that they're not taking it out on me through externals, such as expecting me to make up that lost time in "crunch time" or extra hours or something.

I feel like a lot of these plans are feel good pop science that just externalize the costs of what the executive wanted to do for pet reasons.
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He's calling the higher authority argument (Obama) by using the fact Obama didn't act on this so he's right. That's funny because he dismisses that same authority figure in the next sentence.
Most successful North European countries can implement basic income in cost neutral way. For example, in Finland 560 EUR basic income would not increase overall taxation.
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Thanks! Where were you thinking about doing the project and digitalizing for what purpose?

It's been quite an interesting ride - I used to live in SF and now am seeing see firsthand such an interesting contrast. There are so many emerging market-specific tech challenges, both as things a startup can address (like us) and as part of the design process in building tech that works for a radically different consumer.
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No it isn't. That isn't their personal project. That's all they have the choice of doing. Most people do those things because they're tired after working hard all day for a wage that doesn't give them enough money to do anything but sit in front of the television. If people had the opportunity to work a bit less in their job so they could do something worthwhile and fulfilling in their spare time, most people would take that choice.

Just look at people who inherit or win large sums of money - a few of them end up just enjoying themselves, but most use the money to follow a cause that they think is something worthwhile. There's no reason to believe the same wouldn't be true (on a smaller scale) for a minimum income.
Couldn't it still be the case, though, that we have too much data, but it's also the wrong sort for actionable insights? As a scientist I find the most actionable data are often in the smallest, custom-made datasets, driven by some question, not trawling through masses of data collected without a goal, hoping that they'll have collected the right thing.
I don't know whether you can, but it would be asking for trouble. Let's say you call function f in library L and get back a std::list, and then pass it to function g in library M, which linked to a different implementation of std:list. At best, that would lead to a crash.
Why does everything have to be an extreme at each end of the spectrum? Either starting companies or doing nothing?

I'd like to believe, possibly naively, that for a lot of people there would be a middle ground. Spending their time on personal growth, creative pursuits, general fitness and well being. In essence, living well.

Just because you're not attempting to start the next social media, it doesn't automatically mean that you have no other interests or internal framework for living.
C++ is not, technically, a 100% superset of C, there are some really cool features in C that are missing from C++. If it was not the case, and if you take the runtime library overhead out of consideration, then yes, C++ would have been superior in terms of expressive power, since it could be doing everything that C can, plus a bit more (and even a tiny bit counts).
If you're exposing __cplusplus=199711L then you really ought to continue to support #include <tr1/memory> (i.e. C++03 style). As long as you do that there's no problem and the suggested thing should work.
It would be also nice to have title-tooltips to show the product name, in case you don't know one of them
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You're not going to build a business selling to janitors making minimum wage.
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It's less socially destructive than many of the jobs I know.
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What is merit?

“What then! Do you think the old practice, that ‘they should take who have the power, and they should keep who can,’ is less iniquitous, when the power has become power of brains instead of fist?” - John Ruskin.

Practically, I believe you have an argument (though it may not be correct). But I think it's worth reassessing your moral framework: if there's any correlation between wealth and moral worth I expect that's purely a consequence of an increased ability of those with greater resources to act morally; a lifestyle choice.
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How would they take more from the billionaire? Means test them? What if they're asset rich, cash poor... or if they have no income?
The whole idea is unworkable. It's like it's been dreamed up by a 5 year old.
Basic income is a nice theory, but completely ignores the financing part. The money has to come from somewhere.

I would be really fine with receiving a basic income. From the social side I would support it. People can do what they like, like artists, developers, and creative people. May be there will be the next business opportunity, startup from that work. Yes, may be other people are lazy, that is like today.

There is a big BUT. Where does the money comes from to support this basic income? All those experiments, which are regarded as successful had the wonderful position, that the money came from outside. From the outside there was money put into the experiment, including the so successful experiment in Canada, where 75% of the money came from Ottawa, people, which where not part of the experiment.

I have not seen any experiment, the people taking part in the basic income have supported them-selfs, meaning the money for the basic income came from within this community. Only if the money can come from within the community them-self I would regard that experiment as successful.
ok, it's already in place...! however in mobile browsers you can't see them
Nice move, but I already moved to Pocket.
Who says it has to be a company? How about that guy that wants make music but doesn't have the time to practice due to work. The girl that wants to paint, but is to tired after work.

Why does everything have to be about companies and money? Can't you really imagine any useful social, artistic, or other things these "dumb, lazy" people might want to invest their time into? How about just being a stay at home parent and investing more time in their kids? Do you really think society would not improve from any of these things?
Uber drivers: employees or independent contractors?
246 employees with a swanky office is not a startup.
Most civilized countries already have something very similar - social security. Everyone who works pays into the system that distributes that money among those who are unemployed.

It's a type of insurance if you will. If I participate in the system, I can be reasonably sure that were I to lose my job, I wouldn't end up on the streets.

A spectacular example of why this is a good thing is J.K Rowling who was able to write Harry Potter because the British welfare system kept her in reasonably good shape after she lost her job -> http://imgur.com/gallery/FIQYq

I've never understood the exact differences between basic income and social security, but it fundamentally feels like such a safety net should exist.
> who is going to pay for that?

The same people who are paying for the other welfare, unemployment and disability payments, the lower tax brackets for lower incomes, etc. Those are all things that basic income could eventually replace.

It's not like there's free money coming out of nowhere, it's simply a smarter and more efficient way to distribute the money that's already there.

The big advantage of basic income, though, is that it rewards working more than what we currently have. It's currently possible for someone on welfare who gets a part-time minimum wage job, to end up worse off. With basic income, you always get ahead when you work more.
They are, as this link seem to indicate: https://wordpress.org/plugins/add/

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I am always wandering, who is going to pay for that?

Most countries contemplating this already spend a lot of money a whole host of welfare and various support and safety net systems, as well as the massive bureaucracy needed to administer these systems. By replacing the massive patchwork of existing systems with one simplified and unified system, you can save a lot of money through reduced bureaucracy and increased efficiency.

Basically this system won't be added to what is currently there but replacing an already expensive and highly inefficient system. So while it may end up being slightly more expensive it won't simply be a completely new cost added to the budget. There may even be secondary savings from things like reduced crime rates and increased health.
when it comes to utopian ideas i would prefer the right to work, to get a job to handing out cash to everybody.

my reason: handing out cash destroys the incentives to do better and improve...and not all necessary jobs are actual fun to do and others would surely completely vanish...
> Isn't terrorism the use or threat of violence and destruction to achieve a political goal?

No, it isn't. It is the act of instilling terror. It seems like a small nuance, but it's different. Sadly, the the ambiguity in the definition lends itself to politicians, and modern use seems to be shifting to be more in-line with your definition of it, as you can see in the link I provided.

Interestingly, the first use of it was in context to a government terrorizing citizens during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution.[0]

[0]:http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/terrorism
So, the article is demonizing companies that never become publicly traded? Thats rather disgusting in of itself.
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Until people start going to bed based on UTC that's not a realistic thing.

People are OK with modifying bedtime from suntime, for an hour, and probably even a few hours - but not much more than that.
With just basic income, how will the majority afford buying a TV or ice cream? Neither of those two products are basic necessities, and ice cream specifically is kind of expensive and would require a job in order to be afforded.
I initially misread that, and assumed your almost-infinitely-cool 5 year old was playing this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQvcJ7d93Zs
The irony that you chose American Idol as the TV show is delightful. It's a prime example of people often from impoverished background trying to better them selves rather than sitting around doing nothing :)
We wouldn't need money for most benefits any more (pensions, income support, etc) so that's about £120bn of the £240bn found immediately. You mention the NHS - we'd be able to spend a lot less on that if people didn't have poverty-induced health problems, so there's another £35bn (assuming a 30% reduction of the £110bn). It's not unreasonable to assume that the difference of £85bn would essentially pay for itself by increasing the tax revenue from people spending their basic income. over time the country's GDP and tax revenue would increase due to people being better off (they go hand-in-hand).

This could well be cost neutral for the UK.
So you want to spend £240 billion pounds, twice the NHS budget in the UK, on helping struggling artists?
> Communism (Which is what this is), has failed. Why this generation seems determined to try it again is beyond me.

A bit of a stretch there and i should know i was born in a communist country. The reason Communism has failed is because of the lack of checks and balances on power compounded with corruption not because of concepts like this.

> This is about stealing money from the successful, and giving it to everyone, regardless of merit.

Be realistic most rich people are not rich because they are extraordinarily successful it's because they are born rich and there's entire companies with the sole goal of taking advantage of the system (in some cases doing morally wrong things that are technically legal) in order to make rich people get richer. Over the past 5 - 10 years the middle class has been getting poorer while the rich have been getting richer even with the economy collapsing. If you start off rich a lot of doors that are closed for regular people are wide open to you so you don't have to be successful just don't be a fool.

I see basic income as more of a equalizer so people who can't afford billion dollar companies and robotics to replace the workers get to eat as well.
> I've never understood the exact differences between basic income and social security,

The difference is that everybody gets basic income, and not just the unemployed. You don't get a sharp division between the employed and the unemployed, your welfare won't get cut when you start earning money. Work is always rewarded, and it's easier to get out of the poverty trap.
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> It's not like there's free money coming out of nowhere, it's simply a smarter and more efficient way to distribute the money that's already there.

I highly doubt that.

In my opinion the current european social system destroys incentives to work and take responsibility for ones own live.
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