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>>>> "When the US fines foreign banks, VW group and others for incredibly higher amounts of money, it's fair-game"

Who said this is 'fair game'?

>>>>> "France was one of the top markets for Apple and had 20 years ago a vibrant network "

A) '20 years ago' Apple was a completely different company, they were 1/20th the size. They are a completely different company, in every way.

B) 'France was one of the top markets'? Apple sales in France have dramatically increased during this time - so I don't understand this point.

C) Apple can distribute generally how they please as long as they're not breaking the law.

>>>> "The "Autorité de la Concurrence" probably has the best grasp compared to anyone on HN regarding what is "normal business practices"

So your argument is 'trust the authority of the French government because their logic is infallible' - while in the very same comment expressing that the US is engaged in 'arbitrary fining of foreign banks'?

No, we should not trust them at all, we should demand transparency.

>>>> As far as the specific points of law:

1) "Agreeing not to compete with one another". Really? Or is it that Apple required them to sell at specific prices - which is a very common practice.

If you are Apple, why would you engage in price collusion, which is illegal everywhere, when you can dictate end prices? You can 'force' the wholesalers 'not to compete' - this happens in every industry, all the time, and it's not illegal.

2) "premium distributors were forced to keep prices high"

This is not generally illegal and it's common practice!

3) "Apple has “abused the economic dependence” " - this is merely a claim, there's no substance behind it.

>>>>>>>>>>> "It was a known fact at the time that independent Apple retailers were not getting stock from Apple for certain products"

Having an amazingly hot product that is selling out everywhere is not illegal, and favoring some channels over others is not either.

But all of this is missing the point:

- Governments, US or French, applying regulatory law is important, obviously, it's important that actions are applied broadly, judiciously and with merit.

Swiss banks have been hiding tax cheaters, so it's pretty reasonable that the US would go after them. As far as other Trump-era fines, well it depends, obviously, he's engaged in some nasty stuff, but it doesn't justify the other way around.

- France is using their political and legal apparatuses as a means to grab revenue. Their economy is weak, they see this 'big American firns' making tons of cash, and they want some money. This is partly the motivation and its sad.

- There's a number of laws they could change that would more fairly derive revenue derived from Apple, FB, Google, for example, local taxes on ads, and of course, fixing the massive EU tax loopholes. This would be more consistent with 'good governance'.

- All of this is the loser's strategy. What they need is their own champions, which should be the primary focus. This will entail a whole set of reforms, and the willing effort and participation of the public at large as well.
Tangent: plainlanguage.gov has been around since at least 1998 [0], and had the same design from 2005 [1] until late 2017. Hadn't checked the site for years (until seeing this today), so great to see it with a fresh look along with good content.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/19981111185743/https://plainlang...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20051113011109/http://www.plainl...
Microsoft owns so may day-to-day tools and platforms. LinkedIn, GitHub, NPM.
This was my first thought as well. OP, your symptoms sound very similar to an app I recently updated to support SCA - it was just dropping a portion of the payments.
How do you apply such reasoning to, say, traffic counters on highways?

Nobody has a right to know whether the highway is congested because your car may have been one of the counted datapoints?
Great idea. Thank you!
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> > By the same token I shouldn’t hold accountable Google or FB engineers who are just trying to make a living.

> No you shouldn't - they need to put food on their families' tables just like you do.

I disagree. They have any option who to work for, as you and I, and they chose to work for unethical companies. They don't need to put food on their families' table. I am not judging as everyone makes their own choices, but it's good to hold them responsible. Maybe I would have done the same or do so in the future. But I wouldn't expect people to feel empathy for me when shit hit the fan.
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The only people pushing these theories are people like Rush Limbaugh (who doesn't believe second hand smoke is dangerous) and Tom Cotton (who said about trump wanting to buy greenland "It's obviously the right decision for the United States, and anyone who can't see that is blinded by Trump derangement.").

If you want to throw your hat in with these intellectual titans, be my guest.

But there is a more scientifically rigorous take if you are interested: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/4/21156607/how-did-the-coronaviru...
Maybe. But until someone comes up with a competitive alternative, that is a mood point.
I definitely saw Microsoft-of-the-90s as corrupt and harmful, and I definitely see Google-of-today as corrupt and harmful. I am not wholly opposed to the idea that both are bigger than companies should be allowed to be.

But apart from the fact that they followed the unfortunate modern trend to add telemetry to things, I can't really say Microsoft has done anything particularly offensive to me in the past... nearly a decade?

Just because you've been a developer for 25 years doesn't mean you should evaluate a company based on 25 year old events.
FWIW, the project is open source, so you could build a modified agent for your purposes and inject it via cloud-init or your favorite config management tool: https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent
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> Surgical high-proof mask doctors and nurses use are pretty good against viruses, combined with googles of course.

Maybe my country is outlier, but doctors in non surgical situation use mask (not respirator) and no googles. It is not airtight either.

I don't think they do it because it would be useless.
One of my favorite Stephensons.
Three weeks is very long to lock down 6.7 million people. I assume that enforcement will be assisted by someone like the National Guard. Wonder if there will be a large fleeing out of the area (since people are not forbidden from leaving).
Can still go to groceries and stuff no? Will shipping be affected?
The only thing that covers is electricians and plumbers, and that in the context of utility providers; it's not clear whether it also covers them if they don't work for a utility company.

[Edited for clarity.]

Edit2, from the FAQ that was just posted: "plumbers, electricians, exterminators, and other service providers who provide services that are necessary to maintaining the safety and sanitation" are exempt from the order.
That's obviously the point -- while everyone else stays safely at home, people in those jobs must come to the site and get up close to germs, other people, and possibly the virus itself. Who do you think is going to do all this "deep cleaning and disinfecting"? The CEO?
Ask and you shall receive: The Trump admin just released a statement "urging" the elderly and at risk to stay home and not have gatherings with more than 10 people.
They could probably save tons just by deduping the npm and github homepages of every package!
> They have any option who to work for

Many people don't. Tech interviews are unforgiving. Some people have to take the opportunities they get offered to them. Even if you can pass an elite Google interview one time that doesn't mean you'd get past the interview anywhere else.

> They don't need to put food on their families' table.

Their families can starve?

> I wouldn't expect people to feel empathy for me when shit hit the fan

Hows about we all practice empathy with everyone, no matter what good or bad choices they've had to make to survive in the past?
Stripe is starting to inject themselves into the transaction, turning more into Apple Pay by saying the charges API is deprecated

I think OP is just looking for something similar to Stripe. I’ve found Pin Payments to be pretty good. If they’d support ‘connect’ I’d migrate everything over to them
it was always funny that people with a prepper mentality touted bitcoin as some sort of rock stable currency in times of crisis when government money was going to be worthless despite the fact that it basically takes an electricity source the size of the country to keep the whole thing running.

What are you going to do in the post apocalypse, get a team of people with an abacus to calculate hash functions?
This won't help a recession one bit as it doesn't incentivize any economic activity.

An average 1000$-worth of government-backed loan risk subsidy might be worth considering.

With fed interest rates near-zero people with good credit should already be able to get pretty good short term loans and this will help those without a credit score or with a poor one to be able to meet their obligations.
I find the "avoid gobbledygook" instruction a little odd. It's really about adopting a less formal register, which is fine, but words like "additional" and "purchase" aren't really obscure.

From the examples, it seems to be more about avoiding French- and Latin-derived words, and using Germanic-derived ones instead. We do tend to use our Norman root words in legal and other formal registers, and Anglo-Saxon roots do have a more active feel to them. And some of the examples are best left to legal documents ("pursuant", "concur"). It's probably decent advice to a novice writer, especially one who has been learning from academic or government writing and picked up an unnecessary sense of formality.

But they're hardly "gobbledygook". They're perfectly cromulent words, with shades of meaning different from their "synonyms", and can be used to enhance writing rather than obscure it.
Let me try to explain but I think it may be futile. I just mentioned a conversation as part of the bigger discussion. Sure i could put it differently but it does not make my point invalid.

When we talk of the 1 percenters, when we talk of 0.1%, we are talking about wealth being unequally distributed. When we look at S&P or nasdaq, we see the pumping up of market in select names only. Forget the past month, and go look back at the past 3 years and compare the growths of tech companies with the non tech and see the difference. And the topic of this thread is market crash, not the dystopian or utopian world so my perspective is pretty much based on that.

Also, I am not saying the country is not at the standstill, but our whole supply chain, our whole messaging(WhatsApp and what not), a lot of our healthcare runs on software being managed by teams of 5-15, in many cases run from the same building. Not everywhere but in so many companies. I am not laying out a conspiracy theory just laying down the facts, as I understand them. If having a second data center is essential to modern DR, why is the same need of redundancy not relevant for people.
> Insane that this is happening without federal coordination

Not surprising, because the feds are providing zero leadership right now. Just today, Trump told the governors on a conference call that they should "get their own ventilators". We should not expect competent and engaged leadership from this administration any time soon.
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https://jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/
They also have docker containers: https://github.com/jitsi/docker-jitsi-meet
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All the restaurants and bars of California and New York are closing or are closed and all the people that work there are hourly wage. How how long do you think they will still have homes? Not trying to be alarmist but I also don’t see how people making an hourly wage are going to continue living in their very expensive states without income.
According to some figures I found with an extremely cursory search, leisure flights account for over half of air travel. So even before we start asking how many business meetings and conferences really require physical presence, there's a vast amount of personal air travel that is largely optional.

If this pandemic leads people to realise that so much flying really isn't necessary, and actually changes long-term behavior, that could be at least one silver lining.
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Your plans are probably in tatters at this stage.

How are you feeling RU OK?
Microsoft is arguably working on it: They offered up exFAT support to Linux, and it's been added to the kernel. SQL Server being supported on Linux is huge. Probably the absolute biggest selling point to Windows-based infrastructure remains Active Directory, and if you're cool with being cloud-based (I'm not, FWIW), they offer that through Azure now.

Windows is like three decades of legacy systems, but I would argue many of Microsoft's recent decisions have been at the cost of their Windows division.
It's not clear anyone avoids a second wave. Nor do we know how significant it could be.

We don't know about natural immunity duration, or if and when there's a vaccine, and for how long it will be effective. We don't know about mutations.

I think a lot of the questions are only answered 2 years from now.
Also, residents of Point Roberts, WA who must drive through Canada to access the rest of Washington state.
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That is not correct for some days now. Many other countries in EU have entered a state of emergency with various levels of quarantine at national level: Italy (but that's old news), Spain, France, Belgium, Estonia etc. None as extreme as China, but measures are intensifying gradually.

In Czech Republic, only essential businesses are allowed to function, although the measures are not as extreme as they were in China. Restaurants are closed, or serve food only for takeaway, shopping centers are pretty much deserted, gatherings in large numbers are banned. Although, the quarantine is far from total: people still go outside, and parks are very crowded (some look like superspreaders congresses - that is, lots of kids playing), and surprisingly we are allowed to go to work, regardless of the type of business. In my opinion, this is allowed because doing otherwise would have significant economic costs, and so far it's hard to justify it: there are just 300+ confirmed cases in CZ. Of course, there will be plenty more unidentified cases, and the sh*t will hit the fan. It's just a matter of time.
The problem is that we have way more tall profile vehicles out there than we do cargo being carried. It's not really a necessity, lots of people are just buying these things because they like the aesthetic moreso than having any practical need for them.

Plus I'm not even sure the general statement is really that true. The El Camino was a regular car profile. If you're just buying a pick up to haul furniture around rather than, say, bales of hay you don't need it to be that tall.
> The text of the order itself is not available.

Apparently a TV station broke the embargo early, the announcement wasn't to happen until 1pm local time (in 10 minutes, as I write this).

Edit: now available here: https://sf.gov/stay-home-except-essential-needs
> Sounds like there should be a new law to prevent this kind of thing. As the other poster pointed out, Japanese companies that have been around for eons don't seem to have this problem, so it's quite likely they keep lots of cash in savings to weather major downturns in business.

Japanese companies that have lasted a long time are family companies that don't have obligations to the public. The government mandates that public company boards act in best interest of the public shareholders, which means distributing their profits or using them to make money.
I wonder why doctors and nurses use them then. They usw them in most situations. I wonder why they complain about lack of them. Since they are useless.

Sure, they are not as good as respirators. And we as general public should not bulk buy them now.
Too vague of a question, given the different ways a PSP can be regarded as “good”. Some have nicer docs, some have cheaper prices. It’s all in what you need and your volume, margins, return rate, etc.

I’d take a look at something like https://www.spreedly.com/ or https://www.verygoodsecurity.com/ if you want to avoid lock in with Adyen, etc. Something like VGS can work where you don’t store credit card data but also don’t rely on a single PSP for everything.
(I'm not sure if you're from the US or not, but let's just assume you are) -- how responsible do you feel for the vast amount of war crimes commited by US soldiers in the middle east over the last few decades? Shouldn't Americans share some collective responsibility for their government actions?
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One party wants to fix the economy and promote jobs and enterprise. The other wants to destroy the economy so we are all dependent on government handouts and keep voting for more handouts.

See how I can easily spin it the other way?

I hate to say it--and I hope this doesn't sound too flippant--but I think you're doing exactly what I described.

If you started out thinking that your ideology is clearly correct and the opposition has nefarious motives, then rather than this disaster leading anyone to question their beliefs, it will stand to reinforce them.
Aaaaaand it's down again.
No! Not another UI toolkit from Microsoft!

This is like yet another messaging app from Google.
I was at a conference last week that got partially converted to video-conferencing because NASA people were not allowed to attend. And as much as flying to conferences sucks I can say with 100% certainty: web-interaction is hilariously far away from being a useful replacement.
Bytewise access is always possible and won't violate the strict aliasing/effective typing rules. The worst that could happen when messing with IEEE floating point values that way is creating a signalling NaN (if they are available).
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>Similar measures are currently in place in parts of Northern Italy.

Actually WHOLE Italy, only for the record.
This was me a few years ago. My end goal was to build up savings in the 3-5 year time frame.

My off-ramp was to:

1) Take on consulting clients

This allowed for a shift in day to day/finding an alternate source of income asap. Depending on opportunities available, you might want to skip this step.

2) Identify interesting startups in the area + get a software dev job.

This allowed me to hone up my rustier coding skills and make good money without needing to worry about clients/big picture deliverables.

3) After 1 year, move to FANG.

I needed a year to get back into the IC mindset and skillset at a level where I could be hired as a senior/principle level at FANG.
Please read the article. It lists the types of businesses which will remain open, which include grocery stores.
I would refer you to my other comment, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22593932
Fair but you just completely ignored the second half of my comment. Instead of handing out money, don't take it in the first place?
Can they just sack people instead of projects?
Article says grocery stores and pharmacies will stay open for those needing essentials.
I didn't: I assumed that[1] was sufficient. But (I assume, knowing little about C++) you're right that it's actually not an infinite loop, it's signed integer underflow. Given that, I'll file a bug.

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28728
> Insane that this is happening without federal coordination.

Um... it's good. States have more powers than the federal government, being the primary sovereign entities in the united states of america.

Also, most of the united states (and most states of the united states) are not affected the way the west coast and new england are.
You naive idiots. You just sold the keys to the JavaScript kingdom to Microsoft.
>> charities, welfare, churches, synagogues, etc.

> All of those things have displayed discrimination against groups they don't like in the past, or have an overt or covert missionary agenda.

The welfare office discriminates against groups they don't like? It has an overt missionary agenda? This is news to me.
The article says shopping is still allowed:

> People in the six counties will still be able to go shopping for items such as food and household supplies, and seek medical care. They will be able to go outside for walks or exercise as long as they keep six feet away from anyone they don’t already live with.
Braintree is probably the closest to stripe. I only implemented the sandbox version though.

If stripe says it's the bank's fault though, it probably is. We had issues with a lot of payments failing with "no not honor". It was the same with other providers and did turn out to be the banks
> Unfortunately whenever a president starts talking about this, he has a tendency to be shot.

So, refresh my memory: Was Reagan talking about this? Ford? (People attempted to shoot him twice, but not hit.) Kennedy?

For that matter, has a president ever seriously proposed this?

You sound like you're just making stuff up.
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Important caveat:

Grocery stores and pharmacies will remain open, and restaurants may stay open to provide takeout food only. Also staying open: veterinary services, gas stations and auto repair shops, hardware and other home supply stores, banks and laundry services.

Daycare centers may stay open, but children must be kept in groups no larger than 12, and they must stay with the same group of children every day.
Yeah I've seen that. Going down doesn't mean too low though.
Not sure where you are based but have you considered getting in touch with your local environmental groups or speaking to native plant enthusiasts at plant nurseries, botanical gardens or gardening events? Typically there is a lot of local knowledge with respect to both exotic (eg. classic food producing) and local species and propagation techniques and people are very happy to share experiences. In Australia we have many cross-pollinating communities in this space including growers associations, gardening societies, permaculture, bush care, native plant groups, national parks associations, etc.

Also, check out http://inaturalist.org/ - challenge yourself to spot one new local species of plant, animal or fungi every day. AI and people will help you identify them. It's an awesomely gamified natural nerd-out.
Please read the article. Shelter in place is not lockdown, as it is not enforced for residents.
Nonsense. There is hardly a local government in Australia not hopelessly corrupted by local real estate interests. In many nations local corruption is endemic right down to every neighbourhood police station. Size isn't the question: money's corruption of power operates at all scales.
Authorize.net was my go-to before Stripe. PayPal if you like pain.
It's utterly confusing. What is the recommended upgrade path for classic WPF .NET Framework apps?
She is not native in any of them. But, she learned English from 18 months on, via cartoons and apps (at the beginning), so she is close to native in English. Than she learned German basically from Duolingo (for English speakers), and DieMaus App.
There is the adage about freedom ending at the point my fist meets your face. In this case, I guess it's more about where my face meets your windshield.
What's the best way to get consulting clients? I want to start building a pipeline now in case I end up in a similar situation.
Maven Central is no hosted by Apache for example.
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