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Valid concerns.

> whether this could ever practically roll out while simultaneously shutting down the existing welfare/disability/etc systems

Yang's plan was for UBI to be opt-in, in exchange for waiving access to many existing programs (food stamps, etc). If he had gotten traction beyond 5%, we could've expected major pushback from the left on this; similar to M4A, in many ways it's more helpful to the lower middle class than the working class. But I suspect many would still vastly prefer check in hand, both due to the complex bureaucracy (and anxiety) of the existing system, and the elimination of poverty traps.

I think this is a reasonable way to shrink spending on existing "entitlements" without cutting them altogether; and would not only offset the cost, but grease the wheels of political viability (in a case of strange bedfellows, it aligns with the Paul Ryan / Steve Bannon "deconstruct the administrative state" playbook).

> The whole "we'll just tax the 1%" hand-wavy stuff is not a good enough answer here.

True: we'd have to raise more in tax revenue, full stop. I'd like to see a lot more enforcement and closing of loopholes within our existing tax code (Apple parking its cash in Ireland, etc). Easier said than done, I know. That aside, I think a micro-tax on high-frequency stock trades, and/or Yang's VAT, are both reasonable approaches.

My favorite strategy for raising public revenue, and wealth redistribution in particular, is the Pigovian Tax [0], which has an ancillary (primary?) benefit of setting a price on a negative externality. This is the proposed solution from "The Largest Public Statement of Economists in History" [1] on climate change; a sufficient carbon dividend could likely pay for a massive portion of UBI, though it would have to be ramped up gradually. I think there's a strong case for applying the concept in other domains as well (single-use plastics, for instance).

Finally, it's worth considering that all the hand-wavy trickle-down logic of "supply-side economics" might actually work when pointed in the other direction [2], like a stimulus package that never stops. In addition to reducing silent inefficiencies of economic struggle (addiction, short-term thinking, anxiety-induced low executive function), most of those receiving the dividend would spend it, increasing economic activity and therefore tax revenue. (There are potential problems with this model, the biggest being the risk of the lion's share going to landlords; but that opens up a whole other rabbit hole of Land Value Tax, Henry George, etc.; we arguably have a rent-seeking problem in that domain already, inducing a hidden tax on the working class with or without UBI.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax

[1] https://clcouncil.org/economists-statement/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand-side_economics
This is great but how many tablets do I really need to get rid of paper? At least two, because typically I will be reading and taking notes simultaneously, and often times more than two, because I may need to check multiple sources.
One think which should not be forgotten when interpreting this article is, that while Chine is often displayed as this large united country. The different regions in China still have quite a bit of independent governance, all below the central governance but not always acting in the best wiches of it. So you should not conclude "china tried to hide it" but a "sub-goverment in china tried to hide it even _even from china central government". Maybe even mainly from china central government.

But what makes me worried is how china tends to always shift blame of their mess-ups on western countries and tends to display them (especial the USA) as that "evil" states which constantly wants to harm them. This, weather intentionally or accidentally, is setting the ground work for a far reaching economical and military escalation: I.e. for a war with strong racist tendencies. This can long term be far more dangerous then the SARS-Cov-2 virus or climate change as it could me a fully escalated third world war.

EDIT: Be aware that some other comments imply that the context is quite different then show in the article and china might have acted very responsible.
I think the federal government should be calling every manufacturer of respirators, ICU beds, ventilators, etc. and making it clear they will pay for every item they can possibly produce at absolutely maximum output.
Those things cost more relative to other things. Inflation is everything costs more, specifically including wages, because dollars aren't worth as much.

The reason e.g. rents are high is that there is high demand for housing in cities and zoning restricts new construction. That's not inflation.
I've used it for 6 months on the async branch and the master branch and master was incredibly stable. Async is less so because it's a large scale effort to try and convert over the entire API with minimal breakage(apart from fairings/middlewares). You can pin to a specific stable nightly if you're needing extra sanity, although CI makes this hard with the nightly docker images. There's a tracking issue for proc_macro_hygine here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/54727

Looks like the last feature is almost stable!
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Lost interest when you claimed medical jobs have extremely shitty pay.
If the following calamity will not fix USA healthcare I don't know what will.
I use `cargo init` because I'm used to creating project folders myself.
And what exactly is the alternative in this very specific example?
Facebook is not the government.

They are doing something positive in their locus of control. And of course people are upset about it because... reasons.
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The trouble with SIGUSR1 is that the default action is terminate, so you can only send it to processes you know will take it well.

It's safe to send SIGINFO to processes that don't know about it; the default action is to ignore it. You can send it to an entire process group, and maybe some of them will answer it. But even if they don't, they won't just get killed for it.

This makes it so much more useful and discoverable, since you can almost always ^T with little risk. Usually you'll get at least a bit of information about how long the current command (more or less) has been running. If the running program happens to handle it, so much the better.
It agrees with what I said. Calling states sovereign means they answer to no higher authority. The constitution clearly states that the federal government is a higher authority than state governments. The 10th amendment basically means that powers the federal government has not claimed belong to the states - but federal law is still supreme, and the federal government can always claim more powers through amendments.
Same here in Minnesota.
By definition, don't all contractors have to generally not work from an office? Otherwise it's very easy to deem them full-time employees and they are entitled to benefits. Not sure of Facebook's specific situation or what roles they are contracting, but I'd imagine most of them aren't at HQ.
Meh. An actual leader would clearly articulate what is going on—he hasn’t done that. An actual leader would tell people not to panic—hasn’t done that. An actual leader would take strong, very visible action against people hoarding supplies or worse reselling them for profit—toilet paper memes are funny until you run out.

And quite frankly a real smart leader would have started testing the fuck out every person with a pulse. More understanding of how many people have it is important.
Bonuses just got issued at most if not all SV companies, I work at Uber and ours checked in 3/13, so more money is the last thing SV techies need at this time. The funds should have been directed to orgs supporting freelancers etc
pleasing cynics is like pissing outside on a windy day when you have to go - damned if you do and damned if you don't.

read the article - they're giving out 1k to each of the 45k employees. i'm sorry for the contractors (i don't know if it includes them) but that's still a small city's worth of people. they're also guaranteeing bonuses for the next two quarters for all of those people. i don't care about fb but the move definitely clears the bar for nice gesture even if it's not nobel peace prize worthy.

like how about we just rejoice in one small nice thing instead of taking meaningless cynical potshots?
Wow I hope he has to reveal his assets. He must own various cryptocurrencies, possibly influencing his decisions in his new role.

Very unusual move.
I work with some of them in Greece. They have monthly contract extensions and are paid by day, no sick leave. Most offices have skeleton crew now. Technically it is not fb, but agency who employs them.
Not sure about the Bay Area but a lot of restaurants are switching to delivery only (inc. the kind of places that never did delivery in the first place) so this money could go to them. Money can also be spent buying things in advance - for example concert tickets for late in the year. This will help performers/venues remain afloat in the meantime. Also - for local businesses that weather the storm, these people now have an extra $1k + extra bonus that they can spend to help get them back to black sooner.
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The same people shaming Amazon and Fedex are probably the same people buying a ton of goods online for delivery and getting upset about the delays.
I'm not sure they could, even if they wanted to. The security problems with those technologies aren't due to implementation goofs. They're fundamental issues with the design of those platforms, all of which were designed back in the '90s, when we didn't appreciate just how dangerous an environment the Internet could become.

There's no way to fix issues that run that deep without breaking backwards compatibility with all the existing code written for those platforms, which would negate the entire point of the exercise.
One can argue modern definition of racism has expanded much beyond race. Though I also didn't want to start a pedantic argument on the definition of racism with the original OP. Rather to point out how distastefully the Chinese Gov have acted in response to Trump and Pompeo.
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This has already been denied by the firm itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22596826
Gold is fairly illiquid when you need cash in an emergency. There’s also some volatility to it. Those are two things you really don’t want in a store of value.
Nobody says you have to buy the house right now, but in the meantime you have the choice between keeping it as cash in a bank account or stock in a brokerage account. A disincentive to hoard currency in the midst of turmoil is not a bad thing.
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> Not sure why there are so many negative comments

It’s seen as rearranging deck chairs on the titanic. the median compensation for a Facebook employee is $228,651 That’s not a group facing huge financial issues which 1k is going to do much about.

I am not saying it is a poor use of 45 million dollars, but I can see people viewing this as meaningless.
Well, it's an opinion, however I'd like to know what exactly "structured concurrency" is supposed to mean.
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It’s literally survivorship bias.
I don’t know much about finance and I find this a bit terrifying. Are they hoping banks will buy lots of stocks or what is the rationale?
Or they may have higher margins. Hand sanitizer isn't exactly expensive.
Deleting a comment after perpetuating a flamewar does nothing to unburn this place. However, we'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that the deletions mean you intend not to do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
WOW, how the interest rate can be higher than the base rate is somewhat interesting. Meanwhile in the UK and many other places the saving interest rate is way closer to the base rate and usually less than that.

It's almost as if you could borrow cheap and get interest higher than the interest on the loan, alas an avenue that for many is not as easily accessible, but if you have money, you can make money.
Thought the same thing, and came to a conclusion it was intended so it shows angry red first on smaller screens, the very punchline it was meant to show.

The page is obviously not responsive optimized (vertical table for narrow layouts maybe?) but the importance of the data makes me overlook hastiness in which it was put together.
Clickbait be clickbait.

Can’t we stop this bs panic inducing clickbait in times like this?

Edit: looks like they’ve updated the title
I don't know why there would be any reason to believe that would be the case. Generally viruses become less deadly over time, not more. The Spanish flu was an outlier.
Wait, they did brake work at the same time as the inspection and missed a brake fluid leak? That's sheer incompetence.

This kind of thing is why I never like letting other people do car work for me, and try to do everything myself. You just can't trust mechanics in this country to be honest and competent.
Siting at a table with your family that is wiped down just before you sit seems to me like an incredibly low risk activity.

As in, less risky than picking up food from a grocery store where infected people are shopping and touching things on a daily basis.
Does anyone know if this tablet is programmable? If so I would probably want one!
Discussion re: if techcrunch should be banned from hn https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22539255
(fb employee here) fwiw I've heard of a ton of people continuing to pay housekeepers, nannies, etc. - I was going to pay our house cleaner to stay home anyway, but this removes any hesitation/excuse not to. I agree it's unnecessary, but it's a nice gesture and these FANG companies have the cash in the bank to help the Bay Area weather the storm safely.
I downloaded the 64bit Linux build and it has a strange executable called "payload". I moved it out of precautio and still launched the app, and it seems to work fine without this executable. What is this "payload"? Anyone know? A quick search didn't find anything relevant.
In my state it's over 70%

All the drive-throughs only had 1-2 cars in them today at lunch, instead of the line being wrapped around the building like usual.
Are they giving their content moderation contractors $1k? I’m guessing not.
It's absolutely possible for group X and group Y to both be discriminatory against each other, and the solution is not to well "Group X is right" - the solution is to treat discrimination, from whomever, as the bad thing.
I have a family. Lots of people have families.
Facebook is giving $1k to every employee

And $100 million in cash grants and ad credits to small businesses in 30 countries.

https://www.facebook.com/business/boost/grants

#idontspeakforfb
If this is the case than china acted fully responsible. _And any western country would have acted the same_.

Especially it wouldn't mean any research result was destroyed just strands of the virus kept in places where it's not safe to keep them.

This would be really sad that a media outed completely turned around the facts to put blame on China... I mean let's be honest if it would have started in the USA (like ironically the Spanish flue did, even through it had Spanish in it's name) then I'm pretty sure the results would have been far worse then they are now.
To fix the overly long lines:

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you can see very clearly in the demo video that there is still a very noticeable lag
Maybe they're from an Arabic speaking country :P
For net transaction accounts, i.e. “demand deposits, automatic transfer service (ATS) accounts, NOW accounts, share draft accounts, telephone or preauthorized transfer accounts, ineligible bankers acceptances, and obligations issued by affiliates maturing in seven days or less”.

This isn’t a wholesale elimination of reserve requirements.
Trickle down of course. Those Facebook employees are expected to donate their bonuses to the others in society that aren't getting any help. Isn't that what other companies are asking? People to donate their sick days?
Looks like a construction crane arm to me. Filename is `Infrastructure-3-1440x305px-light.png` so most likely a stock or free image, just ran through ascii-art filter.

Hint, open the file directly, zoom out a bit, and squint.
Yes, the time-and-a-half overtime paid worker.
Do you write code in that color scheme? (Dark green everything on a black background)
Means testing is a strategy but not really expected of a private corporation, e.g. you're just asking the company to do more work to accomplish less.
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> Technically it is not fb, but agency who employs them.

And that's part of the problem, IMO. It enables Facebook to say "we're giving these protections to all our employees" which is technically correct but leaves out many people who labor for Facebook.
AES GCM should take insignificant amounts of power compared to eink panel refresh and make this secure enough (unless there's no way to reprogram the mcus in there?).
Races only exist in the minds of racists to begin with.
I was confused when I initially went through the patent and got caught up on one specific part. If you bothered to even open the patent they're incredibly cryptic and IANAL.

Here is part of the claims section, starting around "pgs 47/48", and all of it looks like this.

"A two-way communication system for detecting an ana lyte in a bodily fluid from a subject, comprising:

a) a reader assembly comprising a programmable proces Sor that is operably linked to a communication assem bly:

b) an external device configured to transmit a protocol to the communication assembly; detection assembly for detecting said signal which is transmitted via said communication assembly to said external device.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the reader assembly further comprises a controller having computer-executable commands for performing the reaction at a designated point of-care location.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the external device fur ther comprises a means for receiving and aggregating a plu 45

c) a test device configured to be inserted into the reader assembly, said test device comprising:

i) a sample collection unit configured for collecting a sample of bodily fluid Suspected to contain an analyte;

ii) an assay assembly containing reactants that react with said sample of bodily fluid based on the protocol transmitted from said external device to yield a detect able signal indicative of the presence and/or concen tration of said analyte; and iii) an identifier that is configured to provide the identity of said test device and is also configured to trigger the transmission of said protocol that is selected"

So yeah, super generic.
I noticed that the global line and the US line are pretty much within 1% of each other the entire time.

So really this is US data, since it looks like almost all of their restaurants are in the US. I wouldn't put much stock in the other countries.

That being said, this data certainly shows a devastating trend for the restaurant industry.
Technically, the hospitalization rates and ICU rates would also be greatly overestimated due to the number of unidentified asymptomatic cases.

But from a perspective of absolute numbers of patients hospitalized and admitted to ICU, your point stands.
I lived in the Tampa Bay area for 7 years. Twice a year (despite the fact that TB has been very much sparred from impact) hurricane panic ramps up and the region is CLEARED out of wood, petro, water, and canned goods. Hurricane Irma results in a complete wipeout of supplies 2 weeks before landfall. The initial landfall target was Miami and all hell broke loose anyway.
Very interesting writeup. Did you consider using formal verification tools such as the TLA family to ensure that your sync protocol is well-specified and consistent?
You're comparing a virus that early on was reported as 3-4% to one that early on was reported as 0.4%.

The cruise ship and South Korea are probably closest to the true death rate of this virus. CFR in South Korea is currently around 0.8%. A common "educated guess" I see from people that work on this is its probably around 0.5%-1% assuming you can get the care needed for it.