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> People studied the UBI idea and recognized the costs of giving money to everyone are so enormous that it's unworkable

This is simply false. Please provide sources for this claim.

Most implementations of UBI are comparable to the existing taxation.

Re:Less is exponentially more (2012) on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @12:08PM (#23155616)
> if you have a rotating team of engineers

That's the problem: burning out engineers.

Google has been developing a language to make it easier to change cogs in the machine.

The quotes from Pike are pretty clear:

http://nomad.uk.net/articles/why-gos-design-is-a-disservice-...

Re:Kickstarter employees vote to unionize on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:49AM (#22364757)
You need to define meritocracy.

There's plenty of excellent software engineers paid pennies to work on difficult problems because they live in countries with very low wages.

And plenty of people in silicon valley being wildly overpaid to copy paste javascript from stack overflow.

Re:Kickstarter employees vote to unionize on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:42AM (#22364729)
Not at all.
Re:Kickstarter employees vote to unionize on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:41AM (#22364724)
> anti-White racists

Please spare the alt-right dog whistle.

Re:Kickstarter employees vote to unionize on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:35AM (#22364697)
Plenty of companies provide mostly unhealthy snacks.

Also, encouraging workers not to spend time out of the building is not so healthy, physically and mentally.

And it's not meant to be a perk. It's mean to keep people glued to the chair.

Re:Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @06:09AM (#22364568)
The article makes a good point about the dumpster fires named ansible and docker.
Re:ADS-B Exchange – Co-op of unfiltered flight data on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @05:27AM (#22364385)
Not at all.
Re:Ask HN: Any anarchist/communist/socialist hackers here? on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:53PM (#22358232)
> non-standard hacker in the US

non-standard hacker? Most hackerspaces and hackers communities are strongly aligned with Anarchism (and therefore socialism), at least outside of the US.

Re:Ask HN: Any anarchist/communist/socialist hackers here? on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @12:50PM (#22358195)
Excellent project! I hope it gains traction.

Can you please clarify on the docs why it uses a blockchain and how it is mined or otherwise generated?

Jenkins? .bat? That's some masochism.
Re:Why do incompetent managers get promoted? on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:44AM (#22327972)
> How many times do people who are good at their jobs get promoted just because there isnt anywhere else to go?

Sometimes, yes. I also saw terrible developers being promoted into management to get them out of the technical work.

Re:Linux Namespaces and Go Don't Mix on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:26PM (#14473034)
> the problem with languages like Nim is lack of support and maturity

It was the same for Linux, Python, Ruby. Being community-driven can be a bug or a feature.

> Go is more versatile

Nim has macros, templates, overloading and compiles to C, JS, Objective-C. Runs on more architectures than Go including arduino microcontrollers.

> mature than anything out there

Go is not more mature than C, C++, Java, Python, Perl...

> You need a solid financial backing

See Linux, Python, Ruby... many projects had no big company or funding behind them.

Re:The c2 wiki was down on Friday October 14, 2016 @10:30AM (#12708290)
> What do you say touching the disks is? Like physical touch, or logging in and looking at the logs?

There is a reason why foresics data capture devices are so expensive and certified never to touch a bit.

> I don't think both of those can be attributed to tampering of evidence, like criminal tampering since you use the word 'accused'

There has been various cases of people accused of destruction of evidence for wiping (allegedly) compromised hosts.