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> There are three ways to make it possible: 1) issue government debt to pay for it 2) increase taxes to cover it 3) print money to cover it.

There is another way to do it without issuing debt, but while still controlling monetary policy.

1. Provision "dividend.federalreserve.gov" CRUD app (or just dividend.gov for convenience). Create "Fed" accounts, very similar to what you get with a Social Security Administration account at https://ssa.gov. Accept routing and account numbers from citizens. Issue debit cards with no fees to the unbanked. Provide local service at Social Security offices.

2. The Fed slowly buys up income producing assets (equities, fixed income, etc), and distributes the gains monthly to everyone. Many central banks go on buying binges to support asset prices already (the Bank of Japan already owns a significant amount of the Nikkei [1]).

You will eventually arrive at a UBI supported by the economic productivity of your country. Alaska does something smaller with oil revenue already [2]. This also keeps with Fed mandates to maximize employment and keep inflation around their 2% target (inflation will never increase because of structural demographics, the shift to a service economy, the transition to EVs and renewables, etc).

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Bank-of-Japan-to-be...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund
I was under the impression that we had DOT bumper regulations that the bottom of the bumper couldn't exceed 24 inches. I was brought to this attention when a school bus decided to backup and went over my entire hood causing no damage. It's bumper was roughly at eye level for me!
What if he was simply an independent FOSS dev coding from say, Moscow? How is the flag fair for that? With no explainations? There are a lot of good “international” devs coding away from Russia because thats where they live (and many of them oppose their cretin leader). What are we doing here, random flagging them? Why not simply ban these countries so at least these people don’t waste their resources...

I am not sure if it is possible but (not FOSS) competition could use this flagging mechanism to prop their own business.

I’d say this type of brhaviour from GH is somewhat abusive. Had they given an explaination that such and such rule was violated I’d be a lot more forgiving... Just my 2c
All successful businesses provide value to succeed and survive, that's a given. The problem is that ever since the 80's junk bond era corrupt business people take over companies to load them with debt and extract financial assets.
> I mean, with all you know the man could have been to Crimea.

My god, not Crimea, where all the crime is produced and then shipped all over the world.

The whole process is still messed up, even if he had been to Crimea, Iran or, god forbid, Cuba. No explanation why, no ability to challenge the flagging (yes, a form exists, but apparently it goes to /dev/null) etc.
I still wish I didn’t see polygons instead of circles.
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What are the best board games you can play virtually while social distancing during COVID-19? Video games are a natural alternative but I'm curious specifically about board games.
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We force the DOT to update its archaic, counterproductive lighting standards, so that people aren't tempted to buy aftermarket snake oil to replace their crappy factory headlights.
It needs clearer messaging, but I think this looks great! Like a turbo CMS built for developers.

Integration with GCP/AWS is also great, I know plenty of people on my team that struggle with their UIs - this would really help them out
QE already is #3. The Fed is printing money to purchase bonds/treasures/bad mortgages. The printing of money definitely needs to be balanced in order to stabilize inflation, but the fed is doing that.

The only difference would be that instead of the Fed injecting the printed money through financial instrument purchases which benefit the top 5%, they would provide it to all citizens as a UBI.
PHP was evangelized by every website which mentioned it was built in it, including having URLs ending in ".php".

Similarly, C and shell were evangelized by every Unix installation, Javascript was evangelized by every website which used it, BASIC was evangelized by innumerable microcomputers which had a BASIC interpreter instead of an OS... the point is, the best evangelism is to tie the language to something useful. Make the language the way you get at the functionality of that thing. Python and R are both evangelized by tons of pre-written code which you can access most conveniently from those languages, for example.

Smalltalk is the language you use to get the value out of Smalltalk systems. The problem is that, for a lot of people, there's no next step: What do you use the Smalltalk system for? Very few have an answer.

The alternative is to make your language a better way to get value out of an existing system. Python spread in part by doing this to shell and Perl, and Perl spread in part by doing it to shell. Python isn't just a better Unix scripting language, because of its libraries, much like how Perl isn't just a better shell because of its libraries. However, it's one reason Python and Perl spread so effectively. Now, Go is trying to do it to Python and Rust is trying to do it to C++.

So tie your language to something big, or focus on displacing a language already tied to something big.
Hong Kong will distribute HKD 10,000 to every citizen (about USD 1300).

USD 1000 for every American (while low) strikes me as a sensible, effective, efficient, fast measure that helps the poor more than the rich. As such, unlikely it will come to pass in today’s USA.
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> government employees are considered to have a duty of care to the public they serve.

Which public? A building inspector serves the public but can make a new business owner’s life hell with arbitrary interpretations of the rules. That business owner is just as much “the public” as a random citizen. So if a business opening is delayed because some inspector drags his feet, loses paperwork, or goes on vacation, that isn’t “corruption,” but it does have a material impact on the business owner. So perhaps that building inspector should go to jail for not approving construction quickly enough? If a building permit office loses or misplaces paperwork (which happens all the time,) should that entire office be imprisoned? If not, why not? Surely causing significant construction delays for a small business has more impact that some random App Store decisions. It’s optional to deal with Apple, you don’t have a choice when dealing with government.
thanks a lot for dissecting this i was hoping for this ;) If i recall correctly the recording device could read those files without a hitch too. that's probably because it ignored the malformed name too or is it? i am a bit confused on how the device knew where to look at to find those files if not by the name of the parent directory.
Ryanair has been pretty profitable?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/756093/ryanair-net-profi...

Edit: As does EasyJet
People working many hourly jobs net less than $1,000 per month and cannot afford to take unpaid time off. So they go to work and spread the virus. Providing them and others with enough money to at least cover their most dire bills reduces that need to go to work sick. If money is not provided to these people, the odds that they are soon homeless if their work closes down is very real.

~40% of America cannot afford a $400 emergency, all of those people are at real risk of hunger and homelessness.

Giving everyone cash allows the country the freedom to implement programs that run a real chance of preventing the spread. It also goes a long way towards preventing societal chaos as people without savings and suddenly no income are now provided a way to continue living and feeding their families.
Keep code as simple as possible, shun abstractions until the refactor stage, adopt a language / toolchain that enforces a modular / functional discipline. EDIT: also, reading the comments here - absolutely shun DRY, be very explicit with code and don't try to couple anything until its absolutely clear that is the way to go. This in my opinion is the true mark of somebody experienced with codebases that grow unmanageable vs the less initiated -- the latter are always trying to reduce code by coupling things into abstractions, the former wait until it absolutely makes sense.
Look at the graphs on "our world in data": https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#trajectories-since-th...

Based on this, 3 days does indeed look like the doubling time. However, be careful when interpreting this data, as it conflates increases in testing coverage with actual viral spread. If you look at countries with excellent testing, such as South Korea, it was still in the 3 day range, though today they thankfully have transmission comparatively under control.
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I agree, although I think once it happens it stands a chance of being politically bulletproof--argue about it beforehand all you want, but once people have the 1k check in their hands, regardless of their means, it might be hard to take out. I believe the Alaska Permanent Fund is similar.

My objection to it is that it'll be too easy to go after social programs, which for some I assume is the point--"you have the money, you don't need SNAP/Medicare/Social Security/etc". This proposal seems too much like an opportunistic attempt to trial the UBI. It'll be moderately successful on some metric, I'm sure, and that'll be used to push a permanent UBI.
In the vacuum's defense, I wouldn't be either.
I mean my point was that it seemed to have worked. It's been awhile since I've seen RIIR posts or the dumb evangelism. More often I see comments like "this wouldn't have been a bug if you wrote it in Rust" which is usually accurate and engages compelling discussion.
That's above a rednecks reading level. You have to cut that down to the 6th grade at best.
It _is_ content marketing. Brave is in direct competition with Google for both browser eyeballs and ad revenue.

That doesn’t make it wrong but you are definitely seeing a marketing push.
Is there a framework for putting the issues and PR's in the repo?
Can you help me understand how you know the other companies are better?

There's no denying that Amazon is known for being not great to workers, especially warehouse staff who are hired as contractors. But long before Amazon existed I did temp factory and warehouse work for a couple of summers. I promise you that also varied from miserable to criminal. I have no reason to think a random vendor is better than Amazon here.

Reasonable people could differ, but my current thinking is I'm better off pressuring Amazon, who at least has a brand they care about, than to swap to whatever anonymous company is doing US fulfillment for a random Chinese manufacturer.
Not partially. It is entirely an ad (SEO content) for tailscale. The author is one of the founders.

I have to say, disappointed in the author's understanding of zero trust. Microsegmentation and ZT are at odds with each other; one is not a progression to the other. Of course, he has that POV because "his salary depends on it". I rather wish he had coined a new term here: nanosegmentation perhaps.

Regardless of accuracy/understanding, tailscale is certainly interesting and perhaps a better (more practical) solution than others -- at small scale. So don't take my criticism as poo-pooing their interesting approach. Rather, I am not pleased with their furthering the widespread differing understandings of zero trust, in service to their own needs. Then again, I'm not a principal in a "zero trust" company, so who am I to say what is fair in love and war.
No, under capitalism that spare capacity is seen as an investment. The US has more ICU beds per capita than any other country (https://www.statista.com/chart/21105/number-of-critical-care... - note that this is selected countries and I don't know the selection criteria so maybe someone has more that wasn't in this list for reasons). Smart investors know that spare capacity is worth a lot of profits when you need it.
In the US state that I grew up in, we had annual vehicle inspections. Among the test-points was verifying headlight alignment and function. Adding a photodiode to the test apparatus to ensure that lights are not too bright is certainly an option.
I don't think 1 month of safety is enough to convince people who need to work to not work. they'll simply say "what about next month."
Setting aside for a moment the probability of extreme government intervention to maintain the status quo, what would the free market do about this? Letting the airlines fall apart because of a 6-month drop in sales seems like a senseless destruction of value. Would investors band together to keep the planes and pilots around until ticket sales came back? Is debt the answer? Bankruptcy?
I think you misspelled matrix multiplication
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Writing code always involves starting with assumptions about how the code is going to be used. Extensible code is really just code that includes in its design assumptions that a part of it might need to be switched out or accommodate something more in the future.

Sometimes its easy to predict how your code may need to be extended if you give it a bit of thought. In those cases, it might make sense to allow for easy extensibility. This is pretty rare though. Most times, you can't really predict what will be required of the code in the future. In those cases I prefer to bake as few assumptions into the code as possible, so when someone else is extending it in the future, they spend as little time understanding your code.
I agree that high inflation is really bad, but during the last decade there has been several rounds of QE without causing particularly high inflation. The recent QE package from the FED is about 2000USD per person in the US, perhaps some of it could be dished out as a helicopter drop instead.
There was a $300/person tax rebate during the 2008 recession in the USA. So it's not that far fetched an idea.

I wonder how these kind of direct-to-consumer payments compare with traditional monetary policy (cutting interest rates, securities purchases) in terms of impacts.
Is there an authoritative source for this other than the French public health authorities? I haven't seen references to it at all in epi Twitter.
You can have all the ideas that you want but the levers of power and the ability to actually implement response efforts at the level of thousands to millions of people, nationally and internationally, is only in the hands of a "far smaller group of minds". Neoliberalism has sold you the bill of goods that you are free because your opinion can differ from the ruling class.

But the ruling class is nonetheless going to look after its own and leave you to the dogs. They have nothing but contempt for you. They don't give a shit what your opinion is or how this series of crises will disrupt your life, and the lives of those less fortunate and more precarious than yours.
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Good riddance. Cheap flying is utterly unsustainable and should never have become a thing.
Because you made the choice? You can’t just decide you don’t like feeling paying because the economy is bad.
There is 2 standard EU OTC Ibuprofen which is 400 mg and 2 South Korean Ibuprofen which is 2000 mg. Indian formulations also come extra strong.
Ralph Baric, an epidemiologist from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, had this to say on episode 591 of This Week in Virology[1] a couple of days ago:

"I heard recently that the Chinese aren't planning on doing serology on their population, which tells me that there's probably significantly more infections than the 80+ thousand that are reported and they don't want the actual number to be reported."[2]

also:

"The Chinese are primarily reporting cases in their quarantine zones, which involve a hundred million people and that the Chinese in rural communities are not being picked up by their surveillance systems."[3]

[1] - http://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-591/

[2] - about 12 minutes in to the program

[3] - about 19 minutes in to the program
Got a pain point in your work as web dev?
I am wondering what are the pain points or things that you wish it was an easy solution for it and my goal is to find out if AI by any chance can solve that.
I will share the result later on, here in this subreddit if I find proper answer.
Looking forward to hearing yours, nothing is out of the question here.
I predict that Americans hate their less wealthy fellow citizens way too much for this to ever turn into reality.
One simple reason is that there is no time to means test the solution.

It could take months if not years to do income and asset verification for every american and determine who would qualify
In brazil the government requires tall vehicles to have two bumpers, the normal OEM one, and an extra one intended to stop smaller vehicles crashing into the back of the tall one.

This was because eye-level bumpers tend to decapitate people during pile-ups... since they are, after all, eye level...
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I think this is key when you are working with code you don't touch every day.

On code you touch every day one can easily make changes since everything is fresh in one's mind.

When you are working with a code base that you touch once a week or even for a few hours/minutes every day having notes about what you did, why and perceived next steps at the time is crucial and VERY useful.

Another strategy I found useful is to try and be consistent with your choices even if they are not fantastic.

For example: all your tables are named like tbl_entityNam. Even if prefixing every table with 'tbl' is a bad idea, the consistency in keeping it will be useful later when you need to work with that code.
Just imagine - given the complete ineptitude at top levels - this may be just the beginning. That's the scary part. Our "just in time" economy getting destroyed by a supply chain disruption that doesn't respond to monetary policy changes.
The outage seemed to be limited only to SSL requests. Since all non-ssl requests to .heroku.com are forcefully redirected to ssl, all .heroku.com requests failed during the outage.

We were able to handle requests at our http://*.herokuapp.com endpoint, but all https endpoints were down during the outage.
Thanks for the comment - I wasn't aware of Catalyst, or that React Native is now actively integrating with it to support building native apps that run on iOS + macOS.

Here's the most prominent issue I found that's tracking progress:

https://github.com/react-native-community/discussions-and-pr...

It does require macOS 10.15, so I imagine it will take time for the late majority and laggards (I am one) to catch up to the latest goodness.

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As much flak as Electron gets, I think it serves/served a purpose by opening up cross-platform app development to a wider audience, lowering the bar for better or worse. Commonly raised complaints about CPU/memory usage, file size, non-native UI, seem unavoidable due to the need of bundling Chromium. (Unless someone figures out a standard way to use a single shared install of the runtime.)

With React Native, it's also paving the way for a huge audience of developers who otherwise might not have been able to build cross-platform mobile apps. I'm one of them, very excited for the opportunities.

> ..live reloading, hot code push, pleasant abstractions.. apps can use [native UI] controls..

> ..use the same development tools to ship polished software on desktop, mobile, and web.

> builds to macOS, iOS, Android, and web out of the same Typescript project

Indeed this sounds like a delightful way forward!

Edit: I wonder, what's the story with Linux native apps? Ah, mentioned in a sibling comment, React Native Desktop: https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop
The planes will be kept around, they won't vanish that quickly. They will be sold for cheap to the other/new airline, as it happened before with other collapses within the airline industry.
What are you hoping to get as a result of increased regulation? Not as in "more careful software," I mean, what software are you hoping will be made more carefully?
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> Alternative fuels for airplanes?

Synthetic jet fuel can be out of atmospheric carbon. (Chemically, it's jet fuel. Just synthesized instead of being pumped out of the ground.) It's more expensive than the out-of-the-ground stuff. But a lot of the price premium is currently due to a lack of economies of scale.

Airlines could go carbon neutral within a few years. Replacing the power plant is overkill.
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This. The problem with unused extensibility is that it tends to get into the way of the extension that you will actually need... It's easy to extends something simple in any way. It's hard to refactor something that's complex.
The OS could provide a whitelisting API and an "app picker" to the user. The password manager app itself need not know the destination app, the OS could manage the binding. The password manager could invoke an OS API to create each association, with user-OS input for app selection. This whitelist approach would be similar to SE Linux or other mandatory access control systems.

This kind of inter-app policy could also be useful for opening URLs, e.g. open all URLs from untrusted app A in Brave browser where Javascript can be easily whitelisted on a per-site basis.
I bought a new Subaru Impreza in 2018, and I was really irritated at how bad the factory headlights were in the late teens. There wasn't even an option to upgrade the headlights to projectors, the only headlight upgrade available was an LED headlight package that came on a premium trim line.

I replaced the weak halogens with LEDs that have an adequate cutoff pattern. I made sure to test it so it wasn't blinding oncoming traffic, but I doubt most drivers are even aware of the concept of headlight cutoff patterns, much less are aware they're adjustable.

The reason people buy bright LEDs is because the headlights that come in their car suck. If you want people to stop blinding other drivers, make projector headlights mandatory, and start incentivizing automakers to provide LEDs as an upgrade.
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