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  1. Yeah, usually whatever you do becomes a habit. Occasionally you'll find an older guy who just gives up, but usually after a bad life experience: breaking up with a wife or something. I live in California.

  2. ok, so you confirm my point: you would also work less under basic income.

  3. Re:Programming the Windows Driver Model on Developer Explains Why All Windows Drivers Are Dated June 21, 2006 (microsoft.com) · · Score: 1

    Static or dynamic makes no difference in this case. It's a question of who allocates, the caller or the callee.

  4. Not going to happen. One man's greed is another man's necessity. Some people consider air conditioning and TV to be necessities.

  5. All ages, mostly over 30, though. Once you get in the habit, it's hard to break.

  6. Re:In my experience on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Know a Developer is Doing a Good Job? · · Score: 1

    Nice. Keep up the good work!

  7. Re:You have to make someone ask? on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Further, switch from the binary of employed or not to inflation adjusted pay.

    That's a bad statistic, you'd be better looking at 'total compensation per hour.'

  8. "Need for work" is kind of a flexible concept.......do we really need people to cut our toenails? And yet plenty of people pay for pedicures.

  9. Re:Not plagarism on Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    The headers were released under the GPL. All of it was (strictly speaking, Java doesn't have headers, so we are talking about method and class definitions here).

  10. To be fair, someone had to do it.

  11. They still do sometimes. It's risky to name your competitor in an advertisement, because you might accidentally advertise for the other company instead of for yourself.

  12. Re:Give us dumb pipes! on Shamed In Super Bowl Ads, Verizon Introduces Unlimited Data Plans (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Verizon does absolutely everything within their power to keep from becoming a dumb pipe. Sprint would be happy to do nothing but be a dumb pipe, which is why they have such lousy customer service (maybe their new CEO changed things, I don't know).

  13. Re:You have to make someone ask? on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Here you go. We recently outgrew the dip caused by the Bush recession.

  14. Wait, Finland is expensive to you? Where is cheaper? What part of Germany?

  15. That would definitely be a better way to structure the program.

  16. I know a lot of people who literally find homelessness preferable to going to work.

  17. The real tipping point will be self driving cars. Say goodbye to hundreds of thousands of taxi driver and delivery jobs once they've proven that technology is efficient and safe.

    You're lucky Level 5 autonomy won't be here in the next few decades, then. Level 4 probably won't be here, either.

  18. Less work gets done.

  19. The current level of underemployment is unprecedented

    No it's not, even U6 is low these days.

  20. If anything the graphs you cite actually support Waffle Iron's point: Output grew faster than Compensation in the last couple of years. Increased automation is likely the reason.

    The last few years aren't outside natural variability.

  21. I'm willing to accept that there are alternate ways to measure work. How would you measure work?

  22. In a society where there is not enough work for everyone where most tasks is automated you could

    That's a hypothetical society, we don't live there.

  23. Re:You have to make someone ask? on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    There's always more work, there are more jobs now than ever before.

  24. Re:earn: Not synonymous with productivity on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Someone else asked that in this thread, and I suggested I would hitchhike around the world.

  25. Re:Not plagarism on Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Oracle would still claim that Google copied their APIs so how could GPL help?

    GPL helps because Oracle (actually Sun) released Java under the GPL. Anyone can make a copy or close, as long as they use the GPL.

    Since the lawsuit, Google has switched to a GPL version of Java, so they won't have any problems anymore.