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  1. and retired people I have known who took part time jobs to relieve boredom and be with people.

    This is evidence against basic income: the vast majority of retired people don't work.

  2. Linux is the fun stuff. Talk to me when you get someone doing Peoplesoft templates for fun.

  3. Only if you leave out all the people who have given up searching for work.

    No, even U6 is really low right now.

  4. Most likely hitch-hike around the world.

  5. Re:work less on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You'd be happy with a subsistence level income? You sound like a fucking loser.

    Yeap. Fortunately, I'm also immune to peer pressure, so I can live with myself.

  6. Re:Here's a good reason for you on Finland's Universal Basic Income Called 'Useless' By Trade Union Economist (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not everyone will be Newton or King

    No, no one is going to be Newton or King. Your theory sucks, and your argument sucks as well: because you start with one point, give good, concrete examples supporting it, then fully admit that it is unrealistic to expect that people are going to live up to your examples. Then you follow up with a second example, for which you present not evidence whatsoever. You didn't even try!

  7. The inescapable fact, however, is that what you conceive of as "work", going to a building someone else owns and laboring for them, is going to decline as automation, AI and robots improve,,

    When? When is the magic decline in jobs going to start happening? Because unemployment rates are really low right now.

  8. Re:leaving Oracle's Java business in tatters on Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    MySQL spawned several forks and somehow hasn't been destroyed by Oracle (don't ask me how).

    I think because Oracle charges a lot of money for MySQL.

  9. Re:A bad sign for Oracle futures? on Oracle Refuses To Accept Android's 'Fair Use' Verdict, Files Appeal (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    FWIW with regards to patents:

    Each side brought thousands and thousands of patents, blaming the other for infringing. The judge said, "ok, each side choose your ~6 most important patents that are being infringed, and we'll compare." That part of the lawsuit finished with no clear victor (iirc), so the patent part of the fight ended. Now it's just the copyright portion going on.

    Why is Oracle appealing? Because it's billions of dollars, and they are going back to the 9th circuit court, a court that has already stated that they think Oracle should win here. The only reason the sent it back to the lower court is because they felt Google hadn't been given a chance to present all their arguments on the topic of fair use (particularly around the issue of interoperability).

    There is actually a good chance Oracle will win in the appeals court, but we'll see.

  10. Re:What brand of hammer? on GitHub Commits Reveal The Top 'Weekend Programming' Languages (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Programming languages do not matter. Any program can be written in any language. Programming languages are as interchangeable as hammers.

    And yet no self-respecting programmer writes things in BASIC.

  11. Re:Stonehenge, without the stones? on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Civilization is old. The cultures lasted for centuries, developing in complexity, myths and legends. There is evidence that humans were tracking the moon 30,000 years ago. It's hard to know for sure from those ancient artifacts, but certainly by the time writing was invented 5000 years ago, we can read that humans long before had begun tracking the moon and looked at the stars.

  12. Re:Only the earthworks are visible on Hundreds of Stonehenge-Like Monuments Found In The Amazon Rainforest (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Worth mentioning it's not just Stonehenge, they're all over the place.

  13. I haven't seen anyone come up with a good reason people wouldn't use basic income to work less and be lazy. I can tell you, if I had guaranteed income for life, I would probably not ever work again.

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

    That may be true, but I'd be more impressed if you'd said, "We had a codebase, we added a lot of bugs, then we fixed them all. It didn't get out of hand. So it is possible."

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

    if its #included then of course a recompilation is needed if any code has changed - its a fucking compiled language you clueless gimp!

    A compiled language? What does that have to do with it? Objective C can add private members in a library without recompiling everything that depends on it. Lots of compiled languages can, actually.

    tbh I'm surprised how little you know about languages. Might want to pick up a book on the topic or something.

  16. Re:They might but not as a gift. on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    most leaders of more than a couple of centuries ago were pretty close to Hitler. If they had movie cameras in Charlemagne's time, he would be grouped with Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler.

    So true.

  17. Re:both outcomes were hostile. on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2

    The checks and balances are not working. But how do we reform them?

    The American public has to care. If the public doesn't care, nothing can be done.

  18. Re:They might but not as a gift. on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Good call. Reminiscent of the time Germany let Lenin out of jail and sent him back to Russia, just to mess with the country. What could have gone wrong?

  19. Re:both outcomes were hostile. on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    He wasn't trying to go to Russia, he got stuck there. It was an accident.

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

    That's a possibility but I haven't seen it in practice. Usually a codebase like the one describe is on its way to becoming a mess.

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

    Judge them on bugs. If they are constantly trying to fix their code then you have a metric on when to seek a better one.

    I would add.....you can often judge the quality of a codebase by looking at the bug list. If it's an overflowing list and always increasing, then you have a bad codebase and bad developers.

  22. Summary: their older slides used to show around a summer 2016 launch for their 10nm process. Then it became a summer 2017 launch, then that became only a partial launch, and now it is looking like a spring 2018 launch. The words change, but the message is the same: "We aren't close to having 10nm be actually profitable, or possibly even all that functional".

    tbh I'll be happy if they get there by 2020.

  23. but no one in the commercial sector is interested in doing anything about it.

    Why not?

  24. Re:The republicans will... on eBay Founder Pledges $500,000 To Test Universal Basic Income Program In Kenya (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Meh. My grandma complains, "San Francisco used to be such a nice and beautiful town." She's talking about the 40s or 50s. Things are always changing.

    Really though, San Francisco doesn't need to change, we can largely keep San Francisco the same........as long as more housing is built in the region, like within public transportation of SF, that will bring down housing prices. Oakland, Richmond, San Bruno, San Mateo, or even San Jose.......surely in all that region you can find places to build housing.

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

    Sure, sure, insult all you want. But I am right.

    class A {
    public:
    int y;
    private:
    int z;
    }


    If you change that to this:

    class A{
    public:
    int y;
    private:
    int z;
    int r;
    }


    Any users of your library need to recompile.