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Actions have consequences. Your income and your future pension are going to pay for this in one way or another.
I was 10 and got my first phone around that time. As far as I know Americans were behind in mobile phones up until the iPhone.
It is impossible to know from demographic information alone exactly how people will spend a windfall. If we're doing helicopter money, we should do it for everyone equally. Maybe instead of food I buy a bunch of video games or beer or some other good. Still keeping the economic engine running.
I mostly agree; the only caveat I'd give is that it's tough to say how much longer any of us are going to be yuppies right now; I work for one of the many big megacorporations whose stock is tanking right now. If the stock doesn't pick up soonish, there's a non-zero probability of me being laid off.

While I'm not that worried (I've been able to find work in bad economies in the past), I also do feel a bit of paranoia about this.
What a terrible title. What happened to Forbes?
I have never seen a proposal for UBI that is not limited to citizens. You obviously have to draw a line somewhere and obviously you would not give money to tourists. Maybe long term residents could be included though, e.g. those who live 5+
or 10+ years in the country.
Where can I read more about these kernel / driver related regressions of each revision?
Masks are effective at preventing spread to others, but they're fairly ineffective at preventing spread to the wearer since the virus can get on any exposed skin and make it's way to your mouth (e.g. touching after washing hands) within the 3 hours or so it can survive.

Since we don't know who is contagious, and we don't have enough masks for everyone, they're essentially "useless". They're quite useful for medical professionals because they're more likely to use sufficient caution than the average person, so it makes sense to reduce panic buying for something that likely won't help the average person so more are available for those that really need it.
Ah bummer! :(
The hardware on the first one was very good compared to others at the time, but some software features I'd like to have was missing. So I tested a friend's one, but never ended up buying one myself.
But from the looks of it they have added and worked on much of that software the last years. Looks very compelling now.
> The App is almost done

I assume you've learned the importance of discussing these things up front. :) At this point, you should do your best to drive for clarity and written contracts before you continue your efforts. Your cofounder doesn't sound necessarily unreasonable, but just in case: Make sure you get everything in writing. Don't allow for infinite delays or vague future promises.

Most important question right now: What, if any, agreements do you two have in place? Did you make any agreements, written or otherwise, before you started building the app? I assume you used some of the assets he provided (wireframe designs, branding, logo) in the process, so it's too late to completely separate your app from his reach. Unless you're geared up for potentially years of legal challenges, ignore any advice to cut and run with the source code.

Second: What are your expected roles in the company going forward? Will he be running the company by himself and acting as President/CEO? I know you put a lot of work into the app, but an app alone is usually not sufficient to be a functioning business. If most of your work is done and his is just ramping up, then a 70%/30% split doesn't seem unreasonable.

I suggest you clearly define roles and expectations for both of you going forward. This will clear up a lot of the split.

> I believe a fair split is where I have at least 50% of the company

Greater than 50% means you're in charge of the company, effectively. Are you interested in running the company yourself? If not, pursuing greater than 50% ownership is not for you. Even in situations where cofounders agree to be equals, it's still often recommended to have one founder at 51% and the other at 49% to make it clear who gets the final vote. Do you want that to be you? Would he still be onboard if that was you?
I mean, one of the answers to your question is in fact: "accept that you do not get to consume that media".

I'm not advocating for or against what you are choosing to do, but the position of "it's my only choice" is not really accurate. You have no inherent right to that media.

Popcorn Time and other P2P file sharing tools are convenient, but let's not be hypocrites about it, they enable illegal behaviour and allow you to go against the wishes of content creators, denying them both revenue from and control of their creations.
Since the article is unviewable without throwing away your privacy, here is a primary source instead:

https://remarkable.com/
A small bug that downloads enormous amounts of data?
The simple example is that we can't go around breaking windows to stimulate the economy. Sure, the window manufacturer and the window replacement companies might benefit, however that money which went towards the window could have gone elsewhere.

You misunderstand. The window is already broken. Everyone would be better off if the windows was fixed, but if the government doesn't help pay for it the window will never get fixed, the glass company goes out of business, the store with the broken windows goes out of business, and everyone gets addicted to meth.

keeping it in their mattress

Apple has $16bn under various mattresses overseas.
People use their homes as part of their retirement plan - this is doubly so for those of us that expect Social Security to be gone by the time we retire.
Thanks for doing your part :)

Now, if only someone could stop Firefox managers from killing off the only good part of Firefox (it's diverse addon system).
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If your state has expanded unemployment to cover COVID-19, and your unemployment would be more than what Amazon would pay (or even the same or less, if you don't want to subject yourself to Amazon Fulfillment working conditions), it makes more sense to collect the unemployment for as long as the government will provide it (state unemployment coffers are somewhat solid at the moment, and the federal government is going to backstop them similar to the 2008 GFC if Congress can get the emergency bill passed).

I don't have a comprehensive list at the moment, but I do know Washington state, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Maryland, and California have expanded benefits. If you or someone you know is impacted, check with your local state's governor's office and the Dept of Unemployment and file as soon as you're eligible, including food stamps and Medicaid if also eligible for those programs.
Given they are based on a fork of Mozilla's Gecko engine I think the real reason behind this post is that their inability to cherry-pick Web Components from Gecko.

It's likely the compatibility cost is making the browser unusable on many websites which is rendering their browser useless over time.
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-programmable_analog_arra....

There are sort of a lot of papers going back decades that describe various analog implementations of neural networks.

Some of the challenges:

1. dynamic range.

2. randomness. neural networks implemented digitally may have injected noise, but it is chosen and can be removed or controlled so that e.g. repeated inferences use the same noise.

3. multipliers.

4. digital-to-analog and back. the inputs and outputs will almost certainly go to and come from digital systems.

5. training with 'real' nonlinearities. The nonlinearities used in digital neural networks are perfect, in an analog implementation they would be imperfect and demonstrate PVT variation.

6. flexibility. need to have circuits that are parameterized, and some way to program (and therefore store) the weights.
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Giving logistics line-workers priority just behind healthcare workers in testing and PPE would make sense.

We need logistics infrastructure to stay up, and we need the general populace to trust it.
Why the divide? The middle class already pays most of the taxes and not getting the benefit as much as the lower income earner and now they are not getting help as well? If you want to make the divide why not just the really high upper income earner vs the rest of the population, since most people in middle class, though they have savings more than $15k are just regular people like you and me, with families and responsibilities.

I personally don't like it, and I think a lot of middle class won't like it. If you want to do something like this then do it like Andrew Yang, no questions asked to all.

I'm not a lower income earner, but I don't have big ticket items as well (not even a car or house).
Just a while ago weren’t you arguing that social needs trump individual rights. (I.e. the right to property.) If society through its chosen spokesmen decides homeless moms don’t need to be provided housing (they are still free to find it in some legal way.) why can it not compel their obedience?
I don't understand the fascination with super-thin devices. Can you hold it for any extended period of time without much strain? Will it slip and shatter when the palms get slightly moist?
They would need some sort of registered paperwork to guarantee that some aren’t being double paid. On Wikipedia it mentions legal residents so my guess is it would extend to work visas too possibly
Yes, because they need food and shelter.
Without an economy there is no tax money and without tax money there is no way for the government to help people in need. So then the government prints money which drives up inflation. Eventually society effectively collapses and no one is helped. It's happened before.

So by your own logic of greater good trumps all the economy trumps helping people.
Ha, yes. I haven't had a roomba for a few years, but it was always an adventure finding it on those days when it hadn't made it back to the dock.

More than once I found it under my bed, a sock half swallowed in its intake.

Poor little guy didn't survive the container voyage from Australia to the UK.
I agree that zoning is a big part of this and would be an easy release valve for people who want to own homes. I'm betting with everyone going work remote as well, cities can be more diffuse when commutes become less important.
> "The new tablet is just 4.7 mm (0.19 in) thick, thinner than the iPad Pro and Sony’s competing Digital Paper tablets, both of which are 5.9 mm."

At that thickness, I'd be worried about sturdiness and, in particular, bending, à la the problems with the iPhone 6.

I can stick an iPad Mini or similar tablet into a jacket pocket or backpack and jog a couple of miles to a bus stop daily without concern. Will we be able to do the same with this, I wonder?
That certainly seems like something the Japanese government would do. Just look at the Fukushima nuclear issue for evidence of them hiding information to save face. I personally do not trust the Japanese government to be transparent about such things.
If you were wearing gloves you wouldn't need to change every five minutes. Alcohol-sanitizer fixation is not the route to public health.
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I am worried about this: Long hours means stress and stress means susceptibility to illness. And besides the first-order problem of these workers getting sick, I really don't think we want to take down an increasingly important part of the supply chain for tons of people.
This is a substantially different scenario.
Andrew Yang’s proposal was targeting UBI at American adults[1] which means citizens.

[1] https://www.yang2020.com/what-is-freedom-dividend-faq/
You have to account for the "I got mine so screw the next guy down on the ladder" mentality. One of the _real_ cross-party political issues is just how selfish and anti-community most Americans have become.
I had the exact same thought. It obviously helps during a cash starved time like now, but just seems to delay the inevitable. I suppose the assumption is that, by that point, there's hopefully other financial support in place?
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You'll have to forgive me. I keyed in on your line about servers and glossed over your "I get what you're seeing" agreement with OP.

The comments this elicited below harkened back to some great memories of spinning up Half Life and then Counterstrike servers in the pre-Steam days.

Then even more memories from the Steam/Ventrillo/CS days.

Good memories in bad times. Thanks for that and best of luck with midgame!
> almost zero profit

Almost zero revenue. Negative profit.
> I'm curious, would a UBI be limited to citizens only? I'm guessing not, given the "universal" nature of it

That's the conclusion you came to because of the word "universal"? Have you watched fear mongering entertainment news lately? You assume that everyone who happens to be in the country gets money? So this will cause the others to invade our perfect utopia that we can't defend without a magical wall. Do tourists who happen to be in the country get money too? I'm curious if illegal immigration has affected you personally in some way.
Hello,

At https://jogl-covid-19.slack.com people is proposing and developing FOSS to help
> suspend debt payments and interest growth?

You could do this with the major banks and associations, but poorer Americans are already unbanked and have no available credit.

In addition, where a major component of our economy is housing and that's a major concern; there are many private landlords that depend on that income; targeting just landlords with a credit would require an entire amdministration.

One of the goals of UBI is it cuts the bureaucracy. Instead of a person or group of people deciding who benefits how, it goes to everybody indiscriminately.
Waste as used in e.g. the Domesday Book literally means “land not under [human] cultivation.”
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The problems with the phone is that it's often carried in pants pockets. I don't think something of this size will have the same kind of forces applied to it.
Any details on whether they've fixed search? Zoom? Or made it a mountable USB drive so it doesn't require their app or similar janky solutions? The first one really looked nice, but all the reviews were full of practical usability issues and this promo doesn't touch on the topic.
I'm not sure what you're getting at. First, when I had cable it was more like $100/mo, which included internet access. I also didn't get films still in the cinema with my package.
according to the article, it's been around for months.
I agree giving poor people money (possibly just everyone money right away rather than sorting out who is poor first) is the right thing to do now, but I think about it slightly differently:

I don't think "economic stimulus" is the right goal. The public health officials are doing their absolute best to bring the economy to a near-halt, at least any part of it involving non-essential physical interaction. I don't want to second-guess or undermine them.

I think the right goal is to make sure people have money to survive, including paying for food, medicine, and housing, paying off their debts, and building their savings, so they can make it through until we're ready to restart the economy. I wouldn't consider the measure to have failed if it's not all spent right away or if the stock market doesn't rise.
out of curiosity, why not just tax people less rather than offer UBI?

either lower the tax or start offering monthly tax refunds?

would that work as an alternative or equivalent to UBI or am I thinking of something very different?
To the author (if you're reading this): please image those disks ASAP and take scans of the manuals, and upload the whole thing to Internet Archive Software Collections, C64 and C128 sections. IA is literally an archive, so they are expressly allowed to store this content for the benefit of allowed users, even when copyright law would prevent most people from doing this on their own.
> Hold it with your left hand and write with your right. Sorry, lefties.

Well this sucks if it is not leftie friendly as the price and features had me sold.
I was discussing this with a friend last night. We were curious as major US cities start to “recommend” shelter-in-place and the like, will carriers be able to support all the netflixing and zooming.
EmberConf 2020 goes virtual and free to attend due to COVID-19
I wouldn't bet on "solid" evidence for a while. Hang around the /r/covid19 subreddit for the latest data. There have been very few reported cases of someone getting it again and of those a lot of evidence points to relapse rather than reinfection.

Given the large # of cases and their high concentrations in specific places, it seems likely that we would see many cases of reinfection if previous patients weren't immune.
Apparently Google did not at the time of the press conference, but started afterwards.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/us/politics/trump-google-...
I can’t speak for actions but you seem extremely biased for some reason. It would take you less time than it took to write this post than to learn circleci. Much less than 20-30 mins.

https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/hello-world/
>A yuppie like me would just park it in my savings account until I feel we hit bottom, then invest it.

That sounds like stimulus to me.
Testing randomly gets us a better picture of how widespread it is then testing to confirm severe cases. I'd much rather know that X% of the population has it with an error of Y than Z% of severe cases are due to this virus.
I think that we can assume that for people worth low income, savings rates will be much lower than for richer people.

Sure, we can't "exactly" know from demographic information, but the fact that if you have a higher income you have a higher savings rate is pretty basic.
> "repo markets don't help corporate debt at all"

I'm not sure I agree with this statement. The repo market may not help or hinder corp debt directly, but I think it very much so effects corporate debt.

Corporations presumably get their loans from banks. What facilitates banks to make these loans? The Repo market. What happens if the repo market collapses / shrinks / endures instability? Banks most likely, would not be able to make as many loans and the rate for future loans would increase due to lower supply and higher demand.

On top of future loans, this could have a negative impact to current outstanding loans held by corps. I'm not 100% sure the terms of corporate loans, but if they have variable rate loans with banks, this shrinking of loan supply coupled with increased demand for liquidity would surely hurt some of these corporations.
> Why would people want more of their net worth tied up in their home?

Because people have been told over and over that a house is an investment so they way overspend on it.
Amazon is a key part of the general system of logistics of getting stuff to people now.

So yeah it would make sense that OT is going to be a thing.

The article is sort of wishy washy on exactly what is going on though, it talks about voluntary and "condition of employment" OT.

I've worked in industries where OT was celebrated by employees and a lack of it was actually seen as a huge problem. I'm not 100% sure everyone's response to OT will be identical.
You have to have a lot of money and a track record of success before McDonald's will consider taking you on as a franchisee. McDonald's franchisees are wealthy before they open their first restaurant.
UK cell networks: EE, O2, Vodafone and Tesco mobile down
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Sure people in the top 10% are not likely to need this money, but giving it to everyone is a lot easier and faster than figuring out who needs it the most.

Even in that top 10% there are still people that live paycheck-to-paycheck. I was there not long ago. It's a lot better to give everyone the money and be wrong about ~10% of the people needing it then delay it for people who have bill past due right now.
Firm wielding Theranos patents asks judge to block coronavirus test
The speed improvements are impressive. Wonder though if there is any physical change in the display? It seems to be identical, was hoping they could bring something with a whiter background.
Chinese scientists destroyed proof of virus in December?
Like hoarding toiletpaper.
Voluntary overtime in a well unionized job that pays adequately for the extra effort seems a long way to me from being forced to work more at an exploitative amazon warehouse.
I so badly wanted the first one. This one looks even better. However, with twins on the way probably still not in the cards, but damn I can dream.
For those interested in Wireguard on Ubiquiti devices, be aware that the Lochnair repo is basically dead (see issue #140).

You might be interested in https://github.com/FossoresLP/vyatta-wireguard (no associaton, just a repo that I've found has the newer releases).
Yet you can't rent TV shows, only buy. And to buy a show episode is the same price as to rent a movie, which is 2x longer. Make it possible to rent tv show episodes, and then I would be able to rent them

BTW, I also tried to buy Harlots in Canada, in physical format. It wasn't available in Blu-Ray
The payroll tax holiday is the opposite of good policy. The problem is people furloughed or laid off. If you have no paycheck, you have no payroll tax. It is alarming that this is part of the stimulus package because it indicates people are not taking this seriously.
Free money is an oxymoron, though: we will all eventually dig holes by day and fill holes by night, if free is still the stigma at wartime.
wondering if that's just an assumption by the author -- can you not just rotate it 180°?
> If you believe nobody credible opposes the UK government, you've been fed a narrative.

That's a complete strawman. You gave a letter signed by a massively padded out list of "academics" (probably intended to scare your average layman) and when pointed out that astronomers and students probably don't have much to offer right now
It's roughly 10 US$/inch, and is not that there that many uses for the smaller 4.2" model, the US$ 70 for the 7" model is IMHO more than "not cheap", "rather expensive".

I guess that for the "this week recipe" a more traditional printed paper remains cheaper and more practical.

For "daily" or more frequent need of refresh, maybe it may become a valid choice.
Amazon suspends all shipments except medical supplies and high-demand’ products
The workers at these establishments, especially those whose income is tied to tips, will certainly need this extra money for rent, food, etc.
Honestly, I use a pi 3b as a router/firewall and it works pretty well for up to ~90 Mbs of traffic. That is just enough for me right now.

Its an unexpected use case, but it is much more stable and flexible than a lot of "better" solutions.
Can you test negative and still be contagious? That would obviously make the potential ratio much larger.
Wow, this looks wonderful! It reminds me of my old solar-powered Casio calculator. I have a Boogie Board already, but I can see how computer access can change the game (accurate drawings, NFC to save, etc.). Hope to see these guys around more!
It's not that they want it to be such a fraction of their NW, it's that it already is, because they were doing that which is popular and makes them higher-status. Given that it already is, I can see how they might be fine with some kind of grand compromise whereby they lose the potential NW gain from the home, and get something in return without the malicious incentives, but that would probably be too expensive to get majority support.
Where I live, our major cinema chain will refund your ticket if you leave in the first 20(?) minutes of a movie.
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