Any discussion of a basic income on HN probably needs a captcha to prove authors have read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

maybe by entering the annual individual payout in 2012 was (fill in the blank) 878 or $878 or $878.00 or whatever.

Most posts against it usually have a tinge of "keep the government out of my medicare" about them.

"Somebody should try this" or "Its too dangerous to try" and all the like almost intentionally seem to ignore this actual implementation.