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> What happens when businesses in Tourism and restaurants run out of their runway and have to layoff people? What happens to hourly workers who get sick?

Well they should have accounted for this! They should work hard to get through this, not expect handouts! /s

As sad as the outcome might be death-wise, I hope this pandemic ripping through the US makes us realize how broken our systems are and how instead of spending trillions on military we should be spending money on our collective wellbeing.
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The issue is that we still treat prisons as a medieval revenge tool instead of a reinsertion phase for the prisoners.

American prisons are a shame and there is absolutely no way that convicts come out of it ready to participate to society.

This youtube channel gives a good perspective on how inhumane life is in American prisons:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzmkeda2XiYpETOP5MjotrQ
Amazfit Bip. $60 for GPS, heart rate monitor, step counter, notifications, 25 days of real battery life, more than 20,000 user-created watch faces, multiple third-party software that runs on the paired phone, and work moving forward on a third-party OS (BipOS).
If you'd like further confirmation:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/anthony-fauci-donald...

> According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, nearly everything the president has said about the coronavirus is wrong.

/shrug

Why do you think that would happen? Why would the president just contradict his subject experts with literally multiple decades of experience in this field? Why would he literally impede the state agencies from doing the testing necessary to monitor and oversee the status of the disease?

Why would he say the hurricane is going to curve into an entirely different state from where the NWS says it's going to go? Why would he then threaten to fire anyone who refuses to cook the forecasts to comply with his incorrect claims?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/climate/hurricane-dorian-...

Dude is an actual literal child who can't stand to not be the smartest guy in the room, and if anyone corrects him they're fired. He's a nightmare boss and the only reason anyone tolerates him is because he's "on their team" Anyone who does is going to end up like Romney: "not physically safe in our presence anymore".

Can't wait for the reversal in a couple years: "nobody ever supported this guy, everyone knew he was a crazy from day 1". But that's only going to be once he's out of office.
No cleaning. Beating.
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Who gets options? The vast majority of public (tech) firm comp like this is done via RSUs for the last 20 years. Which, SURPRISE, is literally taxed as income at vesting at the vested value. It even shows up on the same W2 as regular paychecks.

So 1) isn’t this how it works already 2) why are RSU/options the equity you want to tax anyways?
Because when I work I produce a product for my employer. My employer sells that product at the same price regardless of where it was produced.
I don't quite see it that way - it reads to me as a very careful choice of words explaining that he shot the person intentionally, but did not intend for him to die. As I understand, this would be the difference between voluntary manslaughter and murder.
That assumes that all money is of equal value. Which on one level it is, but on another level, the relative purchasing power in different geographic areas is a real thing. Normalising based on that means that in effect you're paying people for the same relative quality of life, rather than same absolute value, which can be very different relatively.
Yep. My small company bought us all second hand aerons for less than £300 each. Perfect condition (except for one which needed a wheel, which we replaced for < £10). When we were acquired and moved offices, a full new set of brand new Aerons were bought, even if you specifically asked to keep your old one.

Oh well, at least someone got a cheap desk chair out of mine.
Ever been to LA? Skid row?
So, does that mean that you can fly to London first and then on to the USA?
Just like the Fremen, but instead of sandworms it's ML powered surveillance apparatus.
This is an amazing response.

It's not true for every industry (e.g. Games), but definitely true for most.

In Gitlab's case it's 100% true.
Failing that, a door with one edge rested on a radiator and the other a stack of cardboard boxes.

I work from a proper ergonomic office desk now but it beat many other alternatives including a dining table and various purpose-made 'home office' desks.

(Accepting I got lucky with the height of the radiator).
That's a shame, I quite liked reamde and was excited there was a followup
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The recession has begun.

This usually isn't good for politicians' re-election chances.
I'm a recovering information addict, food addict, sex addict, and love addict.

Doing the same behaviors in a mindful way instead of out of a desire to mask/numb/avoid matters.

Also, I stopped counting my various abstinence stretches because it's not actionable information. I don't assess my recovery that way. I take a look at my needs and identify how I'm doing meeting them.
Post right in time for quarantine.
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The regional coefficients they use to set salary are a real turn off. https://about.gitlab.com/salary/data.json
Stopped has not been proven anywhere. Maybe my conviction was a little too strongly worded, but we shall learn in a few years via serological testing regardless. My guess is that when final numbers come out we will find that about 50-70% of the global people are seropositive (meaning they have been exposed). That's about what we get for most endemic viruses. Check back in a few years and we shall see.
I agree it may not have many consumer use cases, but there are a fair number of industrial ones. Boeing has been experimenting with AR for decades [1], and they're still working on it: https://www.boeing.com/features/2018/01/augmented-reality-01...

And I think that points at some consumer uses, too. Basically anything where people are already using their hands has AR potential. When I still owned a car, I would have loved to have the repair manual info overlaid on whatever I was looking at. But so far I don't think anybody's found much compelling enough to pay what AR systems cost.

[1] See "Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality" ch 14.
With async communication it’s hard to know if everyone got it. If you’re in some kind of synchronous meeting, everyone knows what everyone knows, and it’s usually more clear if people are confused or come from very different POVs, or don’t have the time, attention or other resources they need to get things done. Async communication often feels like shouting into a void, hoping that the right people saw it in time and prioritized it appropriately.
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> Rather it's the emergent manifestation of the aggregate behavior and preferences of investors, savers, and foreign traders across the entire economy.

I'm no expert in Danish monetary policies; but I'm 80% confident their interest rates are set by these people:

https://www.nationalbanken.dk/en/marketinfo/official_interes...

It isn't an emergent phenomenon if a 25 person committee declares what the phenomenon will emerge to.

> A low interest rate is the direct result of indifference to inter-temporal substitution.

It is a direct response to government removing anyone who cares about the future from the market by buying them out.

> Chinese and Russian exporters have very high faith in the Danish Krona, and will sell goods today for the promise of Danish goods in the distant future.

I mean sure, but Denmark is maintaining a currency peg. None of this is reassuring free market singalling; this is all the largely the government declaring that the numbers must not look bad.
It's not clear the US does have fewer proportions of actual cases, just fewer tested ones.

Saying the virus cannot be stopped seems defeatist. China seems to have managed it locally, albeit with some very aggressive measures.
Most aren't too big to fail, but it will be feasting time for vulture investors to buy up brands and IP.
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Why would it be fair for someone of equal skill to be able to afford less food, less healthcare, less living space and fewer gadgets for themselves just because they have a bigger family and more kids to support? ;)

Generally what you do with your money should not be a business of your employer.

> Should everybody be incentivized to relocate to a developing country or tax haven because of the internet and your equality rule?

You're silently assuming the quality of life in developing countries is the same as in other countries and the only thing they differ with is the level of prices or taxes. This is generally not true.
> AR has no use case. None. Feel free to name one.

Automatic translation of signage as you walk through a foreign-language environment.
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Project fear
A bloody revolution has the momentum to cure a good amount of the corruption and redistribute what the aristocratic class stole.
How is this different (or better?) than existing products that offer the same service, such as Codacy.

Have been a paying customer of Codacy’s for ~2 years and they support most languages out of the box at this point, with Git integration similar to your own.

Curious on your thoughts.
> I know that some remote-first companies tend to group related work by timezone, so that teams can be both distributed and low latency. I take it Gitlab isn't one of those?

Probably depends on the team, individuals being able to self-organize and their experience. While some companies may see timezone distributed teams as disadvantage, I believe it is an opportunity to have a continuity of work and getting things done faster than if you had a single 6-8h time slot.
"Riots" is an ignorant, dismissive term. Expect revolution.
Elastic is marked as "Remote First? No, but heavily remote" - I work at Elastic, and would say Elastic is very much remote-first, though our preferred term is "distributed": https://www.elastic.co/about/distributed

Edit: Also, we're bigger than GitLab! ;)
Note that technically the UK does not require passports for entry from the EU - identity cards are also fine.

Having travelled back to the UK from a Schengen country in the past few days, I can also confirm that there wasn’t so much as a poster in the airport, let alone any actual screening.
What's interesting is it's the fear of this that makes companies reluctant to let people WFH. I've noticed whenever I talk to people about it they say things like, but why would anyone work if their manager can't see their screen? It seems like the world is full of people who don't believe their managers are actually monitoring their real output, just hours at desk.

I've been WFH/cafés for the last six years. I have occasional off days but I'm way more productive at home over the long run, than at the office. At the office I often find that I seem to have had a full day but can't actually identify concrete outcomes. It was just a long series of meetings, chitchats, catch-ups, interruptions, and so on.
> I can't even begin to imagine the conditions and lengths of time in this article.

How about 27 years and counting? [1] That Guardian article was written in 2003 and he's still in there. I can't help thinking there is more that could have been done for him.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/apr/27/ukcrime
That's a bit of an oversimplification. Google's failures often garner more marketplace traction than other companies' wildest success stories.

But at the end of the day they are an advertising company. Any product that doesn't help them sell advertising -- and lots of it -- will eventually impede the progress of the careers of the managers and employees who work on it. That's when the axe falls... not when a product "fails," necessarily, but when it's no longer "sexy."
Its not just prison, it's the entire perception of crime and punishment in the US.

Its why convicts cannot vote in elections even when they get released.

Its why they still have the death penalty. And why victims families can watch them being executed. Its eye for an eye, punishment and not forgiveness and rehabilitation. Its much deeper than the quality of life behind bars.
Which timezone?
This won't be sorted by August.
Salaries are in large part determined by local factors: cost of rent, food, gas/public transport, tax rates, etc. There is no "universal" salary for a particular position. Developers in San Francisco are not paid 3x of those in Des Moines because their skills are 3x better. Their salaries are higher because living in SF is more expensive. If the cost of living in SF were lower, the salaries would be lower, too.

If anything, pushing for a worldwide universal salary would likely lower earnings of the top X%, simply because most of the world isn't as expensive as SF/NYC/London.
The Diocese of San Jose gave a dispensation from attending Mass to people in the various risk categories[1]. That means they don't have to attend Mass on Sunday.

> don't need to receive Communion for now

Regardless of the virus you only need to receive Communion once per year, not at every Mass[2].

[1] https://www.dsj.org/decree-of-special-dispensation-coronavir...

[2] https://forums.catholic.com/t/receive-holy-communion-at-leas...
Airport screening doesn't work.
Here is a link to the video: https://youtu.be/lTPH_Xa9yCk
with short Lidar description.
What kind of details do you want to know?

Why did you write "they are using"?
Thre was no team, it's my own project.
> It is just one of the things many Europeans just don't get why you think it's acceptable.

I definitely agree with your comment. But for the sake of the discussion, I would like to point out that Europe also has prison problems, but at a way lower scale:

- UK's Belmarsh prison has been criticized extensively and regularly compared to Guantanamo: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3714864.stm. As an aside, Julian Assange spent the past 1 year there.

- France and Norway prisons have very high suicide rate: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6066090/. Though no country is even close with the USA. Citations from the article: "We excluded the USA in one analysis (for incarceration rates) because it was an outlier, with an incarceration rate of more than eight times higher than the majority of other countries." and "Rates of prison suicide compared with rates of incarceration - Data are for men and women combined. USA was not included in this analysis because it is an outlier (appendix p 17)."
In countries where you can call an ambulance like a taxi, won't that lead to ambulances not being available to people who actually need them?
>it's hard to define Europe if you don't use either Schengen or EU

The mass of land resting North of the Mediterranean sea and West of the Ural mountains from which there is no land route to America.
The idiocracy has landed. Welcome to Stupidville, population (we can't count higher than 5).
This is very cool. I wish there was something like this for the various web serials I read. Keeping track of them all can be...cumbersome.
The rechargable battery for one of these is literally $10 on eBay, and I can't believe there wasn't anyone around you willing to fit it. I can believe larger chains refusing it, but come on, a small jeweler or watch repair shop would have done it I'm sure.

Anecdotally - I've had my solar powered Edifice watch for 10 years now and the battery still works fine.
Would it even made a sense to hire you then? When local employee costs the same? One of reasons to hire remotely is to optimize cost of conducting business. Without it a lot of these positions wouldn't exist in the first place.
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Coming from a fairly small EU country, one way I've alleviated the issue before is the equivalent of an LLC. The company makes a long term contract to buy services from me through my company, I pay myself through that legal entity and handle the taxes on the local level. It means the legal interaction is slightly different, as are the benefits and downsides, but it's a good option when it fits both sides. I'm not sure how it compares to the situation you've outlined above, and hopefully I won't have to ever find out, but offering my two cents.
I wonder if the internet "experts" here (and on other forums) who declared two weeks ago that "this is just overblown media hysteria and no more dangerous than the flu" will retract their claims now that the WHO has declared a pandemic? Or will they continue to bury their heads in the sand because denial is easier than acknowledging the seriousness of the situation?
> How do you figure that? RocksDB is not a programming language.

I'm comparing to the code you showed. You're using the file system to dump static rows of data. All your data munging is on memory-sized blocks at program-level. Key-value stores are the comparable database for that.

> You're mistaken. This is no problem in q. All of the data is mmap'd as soon as I access it (if it isn't mmap'd already).

Yes, because you're working on the tail end of small, immutable data tables, rather than an actually sizable database with elements of heterogeneous sizes.

> In q I can backup the checkpoints and the logs independently. It is trivial to get whatever level of resilience I want out of q just by copying regular files around.

Yes, because you don't want much resilience.

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What you're doing here is incredibly simplistic. It's not proper resiliency, it's not scalable to more complex problems, and it's not scalable to larger workloads. An mmap'ed table and an actual database are different things.

It works fine for you, but for many other people it's not.
> and something like this will reoccur every year (is that right?!).

No. Once you are one of those 60% you either die or get immunity.
True. I experienced both ends of the scale, having lived in a very poor country and currently in a very rich country.
It's clearly Google. You can't develop software at Google on anything other than their own Linux distribution on their own hardware. You can do screen remoting to that hardware though. Also Google uses the term "corp" all the time.
POTUS has to have someplace to golf, brag about his being impeached, and make the Queen visibly uncomfortable.
By the way, it's not a secret in the electronics circles here that Apple is still working on its own version of Magicleapy VR goggles.

For example, they made an entire new semiconductor unit just to make microled displays for it.

They also been hiring, and buying companies in light field imaging field for years now, and they may add a light field imaging/display into the mix.

I think Magicleap knows now that Apple is miles ahead of them, and tries to sell while they still can
This is really interesting data !

I for once would like to know why they refuse to hire contractors from Western Europe (is it a legal thing ?) :

{"country":"*","contractor_factor":1.17,"entity":"GitLab BV"}],
"countryNoHire": ["Iran","North Korea","Crimea","Syria","Sudan","Cuba","France","Italy","Brazil","Spain","Romania","United Arab Emirates","Sweden","Argentina","Philippines","Austria"],
And how well does that work do you think? Given how many are misdiagnosed or undiagnosed before death, how much money and effort do you think is spent on the cause of death for some random, (literally) poor corpse?

Of course "some" reason will be logged.
These services charge up to 30% of the amount laundered. Bt they take all the risk, sounds reasonable.
at least they're dog fooding.
Sorry, was thinking about https://labs.fedoraproject.org/

There also used to be things like that for ubuntu (like https://ubuntustudio.org/).
To be clear I admit I am in that camp, but at the very least I oppose circumventing paywalls.
Old people in nursing homes don't get out much, and yet they're the ones that are dying. The fact is that the virus spreads because people don't always die from it, and so they go around spreading it to people who will. Most people probably won't know that they have it until they've spread it to 3 more people.

Your strategy will probably keep you alive, but the same is not guaranteed for many millions of people that are old or with immune system complications.
Is it worth trying to do spread spectrum with this? Or do you need a different amplifier setup?
The average global relative purchasing power is already reflected in the currency exchange rates.

But generally there is no such thing as a "single" purchasing power. Some local goods may be cheaper in developing countries, but some others can be more expensive. If you don't know exactly what an employee is spending their money on, you can't really tell the purchasing power of their money. A big family with more kids may spend more money on local goods, transportation and housing, but a single person may want to just save-up 80% of their salary for a new Tesla, which costs just the same everywhere. Therefore adjusting the payouts to the local prices level will always be unfair to someone.

If one could get a Tesla at a 70% discount just because they live in a developing country, then the story would be different. But they can't.
> People expecting a half life gaming experience have been disappointed

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2020/02/25/its-the-simple-a...
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The death rate for everyone under 50 is 0.1%, or 1 in 1000.

The death rate for those over 80 is 12% or higher.

Now, if everyone shuts down their life and somehow society can survive for 3 weeks with nobody allowed to move anywhere, maybe this virus goes away.

But, I think the economic consequences of that will be a lot worse than just continuing on with normal life and making sure people over 80 and people with chronic diseases are cloistered away and cared for.
"They" can be singular.
I do suspect Coreboot is a less solid option on desktop. Aside from pretty much no desktop Zen support today, desktops tend to have more flexibility for the end user, and the minimal nature of coreboot could perhaps backfire there.
As it was answered, you could read about safety here: https://github.com/iliasam/OpenTOFLidar/wiki/Laser-Safety

Measuring through translucent or transparent surfaces is theoretically possible (TDC is supporting multiple measurements), but received pulse width is too high now - it could be > 30ns after amplifier.
What you're describing is forcing people to meditate.

The way I understand what you describe:
"We will torture you, you can either have it better by doing this meditation thing _we teach you_ or you can suffer"

The issue here is the torture itself, not the fact that the torture is difficult to deal with.
>The real takeaway is sugar is fine in moderation

It's like saying cocaine is fine in moderation. Only few people can self moderate addictive substances.
Sorry, wrong... you're making a big leap of assumption rather than understanding what grades mean. If it's not food / cosmetics grade, you have no idea what toxic impurities are left in it... that's why the fuel-kind is cheap and for burning, not placing on your hands. Unless you have a decent mass spectrometer, you can feel free to gamble with your and your own family's health and/or lives.