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3825··on India floats the idea of a universal basic income
> Adding children is pushing it - because the parent controls the child's money, so there is a conflict of interest.

I absolutely agree. I'd push it further though. Not just children but anyone who is not in a capacity to freely spend the money. To make a contrived example, someone may not simply kidnap a person and take their universal basic income.

I go farther to say that local/state/federal government may not take the money for people in their custody. There ought to be some way to protect it from being garnished as well.

I think we should not oversell this. There might be a lot of people who are perfectly content with being able to survive and get by. If they do not want to participate further in the economy, I think we should say that's fine. The ax I have to grind in this is that maybe if people are not scared of starving to death after leaving a job they don't like doing, maybe we will have more people doing jobs they do like doing and maybe just maybe me and others will have a better shot at doing what we love doing even if it is at a slightly lower (after taxes) pay than before.

3825··on Request for Startups: News, Jobs, and Democracy
> I agree. And some men want to be stay at home dads, and sometimes both parents want to work, and sometimes there's a single parent who's falling apart trying to do everything. I wish we could agree that all those choices are valid, and allow some social safety nets that make it possible.

I think it goes back to what you said first. We need to agree on some core values.

I don't want any more of my money going to people who mocked the MSNBC host[0] when she said "children belong to the collective". It seems pretty obvious to me. If we are all paying for your children, I better have a say in how we raise OUR children.

Clearly, a lot of people do not see it that way. Why should we have tax deductions for people to have children? Why should we have tax breaks for people to put money away for their children to go to college? I for one support an end to these tax breaks. Lets send a clear message: If your children are your own and do not belong to the society, then you can raise them by yourself. If you can't afford to do so, we'll simply put you in a debtor's prison.

[0] https://youtu.be/sjczwQOnMqg

3825··on Run for Office: Find all elected offices you are eligible to run for
> Where I went to school, becoming a student senator for a given club was a simple matter "Sure, I'll do it". It was fun.

Same here but getting anything done is tremendously difficult. Even something simple like extended hours for the cafeteria (it was a tiny school) takes multiple semesters with being bounced back and forth between administration and Sodexo. My understand is that they'll gladly (one time) throw money at you if you say the right words but they are very cautious about anything that sounds like a long term commitment.

3825··on Martin Shkreli launches website to shame pharma greed, sleaze
I think @nero is a piece of work as well but we have to agree that it is not OK to use violence like this.

I'm more sympathetic towards an armed uprising (indeed I say desertion and treason as we define them ought to be decriminalized) even if I don't like it. Throwing a shoe at someone or throwing poop at someone's face is not only stupid but a display of lack of strength. The weak usually throws the first punch.

3825··on ROBOTS.TXT is a suicide note
The code 508 that i currently see on the page is interesting and worth preserving. I think it validates their stance.

Archived at

https://archive.fo/http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?titl...

3825··on Finland launches trial program to pay unemployed citizens a basic monthly income
I for one would love this idea even if it means we can only give a fraction of what we give now. My rationale is that if everyone gets the same amount regardless of income or race or whatever then the phony dogwhistlers (which is all that Reagan ever was) would have less of a stranglehold on the people. I think it would bring people together and it would encourage compassion.
3825··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
This actually shows how awesome the web is because left-pad.io has no https support but BaaS does.

Let's Encrypt, everyone!

3825··on Court: Employers Must Allow Workers to Sit If They Prefer While on the Job
I find it easier to drink lots of water while at work. It is difficult to remember to drink water and if I drink more water, I will use the restroom at least once every hour.

Thankfully, I've yet to work at a place that prohibited employees from going to the restroom every hour. If they want to check if I am really using the restroom, they're free to do so I guess (although I would start looking for a new job if this were the case).

3825··on Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
> The only way to make the police comply is to make it in their self-interest (or at least in the interests of the city that would regularly have to pay out presumptive damages) to make sure they are working.

Part of the problem is that it becomes the cost of doing business for a city. What should happen is that the individual should have to pay those multi million dollar fines out of pocket. Of course, the people who are suing for money know that they'll get more money if they sue the city.

3825··on Trying to Hit the Brake on Texting While Driving
Property owners do not own the electromagnetic spectrum in their property. I'd go as far as to say that even the carriers do not own the spectrum. They merely rent it (in the US). I'd say they have certain implicit (and explicit) responsibilities when they assumed the spectrum slices.

Did we really go so far as to welcome intrusion where someone can just ping your phone to get a reply with our location? I for one was very concerned when BART shut down cellular connectivity in order to cover up its incompetence.

3825··on How to throttle the FCC to dial up modem speeds
Minimum wage for elected officials sounds good on paper. Michael Bloomberg would not mind. However, how does this work for corporate executives? When you say pay does this include stock grants and options or just salary?
3825··on The C10M problem (2013)
Here is a somewhat related question on stack overflow.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1718465/optimal-number-o...

> Is there a benefit to running a parallelizable process on more threads than cores? In other words, will my process finish faster, slower, or in about the same amount of time if I run it using 4000 threads rather than 4 threads?

> If your threads don't do I/O, synchronization, etc., and there's nothing else running, 1 thread per core will get you the best performance. However that very likely not the case. Adding more threads usually helps, but after some point, they cause some performance degradation.

> Not long ago, I was doing performance testing on a 2 quad-core machine running an ASP.NET application on Mono under a pretty decent load. We played with the minimum and maximum number of threads and in the end we found out that for that particular application in that particular configuration the best throughput was somewhere between 36 and 40 threads. Anything outside those boundaries performed worse. Lesson learned? If I were you, I would test with different number of threads until you find the right number for your application.

> One thing for sure: 4k threads will take longer. That's a lot of context switches.

3825··on Twitter Analytics
Thank you
3825··on Twitter Analytics
I cannot access this page.

>> Server not found >> Firefox can't find the server at analytics.twitter.com.

Down for everyone says it is up. I can't get to it. I can get to twitter.com just fine though. Anyone have an idea what I can try?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/analytics.twitter.com

3825··on Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs
From my bad experience, Git repositories (and I would go as far as to say any source code) does not belong on SkyDrive/OneDrive. This is OneDrive, not the newfangled Hailstorm by architecture astronauts[0].

I would recommend that everyone keep working copy of their source code outside of any form of syncing. If you must, create tape archives (or 7z or something) and sync them but never your working copy.

[0] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/05/01.html

3825··on Spoofing the Samsung Smart TV Internet Check
I believe Apple has an agreement with Akamai. Here are some data points for just one household with two macs, two iPhones, and two iPads

www.isg-apple.com.akadns.net 571 requests in the last day

us-courier.push-apple.com.akadns.net 558 requests in the last day

.akamai.net 709 requests in the last day

and

.akamaiedge.net 1967 requests in the last day

--

I believe Google just uses *.l.google.com (my open dns says 1202 requests in the last day)

3825··on The Collison brothers and $1.75B online payments startup Stripe
5% does seem a little high. I think Sam Altman called for a minimum of 10% (so the allocation is equal to x such that x us equal to or greater than 0.10) to go to the first ten hires. Perhaps, this would be a scenario where the first hire would get half of the allocation (so the allocation to the first employee is equal to x such that x is equal to or greater than 0.05).

However, I'd argue the first hire isn't "the least important junior assistant developer" no matter what label you put on them. Other than a first (or maybe second but that's stretching it) hire, I fail to see where someone would get five to ten percent.

3825··on How not to respond to Heartbleed – CBA, an Australian bank (read the comments)
Consider switching to a different bank.
3825··on Buffett Will Steer Investors to Airbnb to Avoid Price-Gouging by Omaha Hotels
Warren Buffett has said Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is a great businessman[0]. It is worth reiterating what Jeff Bezos thinks about price gouging: “There are two kinds of companies: those that try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”

Perhaps you will argue that increasing the storage cost for fulfillment by Amazon[1] is an example of price gouging. I will let smarter people answer why it is OK for Amazon.com to charge more during the holiday shopping season. I'd imagine the simple reason is greater volume of transactions. However, with the way Amazon.com does storage, a 33% hike looks strange.

[0] “He’s a great businessman and a good guy, too.” http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/09/20/offering-tip...

[1] Currently $0.48 per cubic foot per month Jan-Oct and $0.64 for Nov-Dec. http://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/pricing.htm

3825··on Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on their status page
On this note, what is the easiest way to transfer my free Google Apps account from a .co.cc domain to a real domain and keep my free status? Can I change domains within Google Apps itself?
3825··on Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
>> The whole bundling of IE - how else did you expect someone to browse the web?

Requiring IE to download Windows Update is never acceptable. Everybody likes to hate Windows Vista but here is one thing Microsoft got right in Vista (and beyond).

3825··on Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
Just for clarity, EEE refers to Embrace, extend, and extinguish -- a Microsoft strategy as discovered by the Department of Justice -- "for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors"[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish

3825··on Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler
Yup, part of the visual studio team. For others, watch him describe Visual Studio Online to Scott Hanselman on Channel 9.

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/azure-friday/erich-gamma-intr...

MP4 hotlink: http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/793e/d1b6ebda-d31b-413e-983e-1c698a8...

3825··on FireChat messaging app unites China and Taiwan in free speech
The promise of multipeer connectivity is that each additional node can potentially increase the network. So for Alice, who is in range of Bob but not Cathy, can talk to Cathy is Bob is in range of Cathy.
3825··on Microsoft sniffed blogger's Hotmail account to trace leak
Furthermore, a private company can just bill the government.

> In December 2012, for instance, Microsoft emailed DITU a PDF invoice for $145,100, broken down to $100 per request for information, the documents appear to show. In August 2013, Microsoft allegedly emailed a similar invoice, this time for $352,200, at a rate of $200 per request. The latest invoice provided, from November 2013, is for $281,000.

from http://www.dailydot.com/news/microsoft-compliance-emails-fbi...

3825··on Sources: Microsoft In Talks To Acquire Mobile App Development Startup Xamarin
The OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive) blog is on Azure and is built on WordPress. You can reach http://blog.onedrive.com/ through http://onedrive-wp.azurewebsites.net/

While this isn't much, it tells that not everyone is completely infected with not invented here (NIH) at Microsoft.

3825··on Cunningham's Law
The final version would belong at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law?setlang=r...

The first step is to read the article at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate/Page...

The complete list of steps is at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Preparing_a_page_...

Sorry, I didn't realize it was so complicated to do this.

3825··on Free Money for Everyone
In the most basic sense, land value tax would mean that the tax would be the same whether your land was just sitting there empty or you had a hundred-story skyscraper on it.

I don't know what that effects it would have. I assume the first and most direct effect would be budget shortfalls in local governments which would probably try to create more fines[0] and sin taxes (assuming they are still legal).

[0] LA has an almost $200 fine for jaywalking. I'd argue that fines and confiscated money from drugs should never go into general treasury much less directly used to fund the department collecting such fines and confiscations. Our government should run on taxes alone and not on fines and fees. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/26/us/in-a-car-culture-clash-...

3825··on Why is Atom closed source?
In an article aptly titled "Open source (almost) everything", GitHub co-founder and current president Tom Preston-Werner writes[0], "Don't open source anything that represents core business value."

He specifically mentions two examples of what not to open source:

Core GitHub Rails app (easier to sell when closed)

The Jobs Sinatra app (specially crafted integration with github.com)

Now, I'd find the argument really stretched thin if you were to tell me that a text editor is your core selling point. Where does a text editor fit into GitHub's overarching mission?

[0] http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...

3825··on U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel – report
Obama promised spying on Merkel would stop. Should Merkel have looked at the fine print when she talked to Obama? Even if you agree to this premise, the leaks show that NSA is not competent enough to carry out this task.

I agree with Mr Scheiner[0] that the NSA ought to be broken up.

[0] http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/opinion/schneier-nsa-too-big/

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