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I don't use PopcornTime or otherwise pirate, but I completely understand the motivation of those that do. Personally, I just watch fewer movies because the value just isn't there. I subscribe to Netflix and Amazon Prime mostly because they're inexpensive and have a decent selection of kids shows. I occasionally watch a movie or TV series there, but not nearly as frequently as I did when our local grocery store offered DVD rentals for $1-2 with a large selection (much larger than RedBox offers).

These days, if there's nothing good on Netflix, I play video games or read a book because both of those offer far more value/dollar. If the movie industry offered $2 rentals for everything other than new releasees, I'd watch more movies. I'm only willing to pay $5 to watch a movie if it's a new release and I really want to watch it. I also rarely go to the theater as well because $10+ is too much for that experience unless it's opening weekend for a film I've been waiting for (we usually go on Tuesdays for the discounted rate for regular entertainment).

I wish the film industry would recognize the opportunity they have that's evidenced by projects like PopcornTime. If they make a movie platform with a nearly complete catalogue, people will use it. It's annoying to check multiple streaming platforms to see where something is available, and it's annoying to pay $5/movie to rent (that's about discounted theater prices, but without the theater experience).
Under "How long are my names good for?" at the FAQ[1]:

Handshake names are registered for one year at a time. Names can be renewed annually by paying a standard network fee.

1: https://handshake.org/faq/
Because the most likely destination of excess cash flow is into the hands of landlords, not salt miners and bakers.
In my case, I'm in the need of a new laptop this year, and I'm explicitly waiting for an AMD Ryzen.

I don't even care about the performance to be honest, I'm sure it will be adequate and I simply don't want Intel anymore.

With all the mitigations applied, I've lost the performance gain of the last two Intel laptop generations I had.

The integrated intel gpu is ok performance-wise, but being on linux I'm also tired of their development model: there's a fresh new driver/engine being developed every year, and it always buggy. It's true that intel always gets the latest kernel features first, but by the time is stable and it _works_, it gets deprecated in favor of a new buggy one. Way to go!

I've been using top-of-the-line lenovo laptops for a decade now. This has been the same every year, year after year, and I'm tired.
Except for GIMP, an engineer might easily use these products regularly.

and perhaps not coincidentally, GIMP is infurating trash from a UX perspective.
> Verizon Media-owned search engines have decreased from a market share of 4,10 % in February 2019 to 3,63 % in the United States in February 2020, according to StatCounter Global Stats. 3,63 % of the internet-connected population of the US is roughly 10,6 million people.

It's pretty safe to say the only people using those search engines are people who really like aol or yahoo properties for some reason.
Hello, I've built this bookmark tool for teams which shares a very handy "omnisearch" feature. It allows you to search directly on almost any website you want (like Duckduckgo !bangs). It's very handy to use it for customer support teams to search for an order ID on Gmail, or a doc on Google Drive, or an article on an internal wiki.
The official install docs have a TURN server option to help with VoIP and all of it worked without modification. What problems did you run into?
I've been working on an IDE and one challenge is to reverse all the compilation of modern frameworks in order to get WYSIWYG editing on the compiled app.
Savvy developers demand open source software. A lot of designers aren't that technical, so there's not a lot of demand.

Plus, designers aren't exactly positioned to just go make their own OSS design tool the same way developers are.
Is the opensource movement prevalent in design? I was under the impression nothing was free in the design world....
The actual title is:

"McDonald’s says it can’t estimate coronavirus impact to its business, it will consider rent deferrals for franchisees"
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Do you know what is involved in operating one? Would it be possible to write documentation a layman could understand, so the "operator" problem is solved?

If I had the choice between no ventilator and one operated by a non-doctor just reading a manual I'd still take the second one.
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+1 on the dynamic mic. It's personal preference and I sound way better on a dynamic mic, plus it doesn't pick up background noise
i didn't so far realized that npm was a company, and not a tool . wow.
Thanks, nice advice. I avoid TV and watch my usual Youtube feeds. And I benefit from free classical concerts and virtual museum visits.
I'm so glad this is still around. I used it a lot when you first launched, so I'm pleasantly surprised to still see it active.
He doesn't do it all with taxes. He cuts a lot of welfare programs, as those would now be covered by UBI. He cuts spending in Social Security, as 12000 dollars a year of that is covered by UBI. There were some more overlapping areas he laid out that I heard him mention in an interview. It wouldn't be, "Oh, you get this program AND this program" unchanged, but more of, "You already get $12000 in UBI, now what more of a subsidy do you need? Not as much." At least, that's the way he was laying it out. He was far more conservative with spending than a lot of people were getting by just looking at the headlines, but that's one of the failures of our media structure.
+1 for "World War Z", the book, which I literally read at the beginning of the current pandemic, by pure coincidence. It was an eye opener, at least the parts about how the [zombie] pandemic began and spread, how people and governments reacted and so on.

However, I enjoyed the movie too, and I think it's one of the best in the genre. Although, admittedly it has very little in common with the book.
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Please, no, just no. Write go the way it was intended. OOP is not the right frame of mind

How does the author make a blanket claim that this results in faster code, there are zero benchmarks presented

-1 TopTal for letting this get published
That debacle was an entirely different chain of management that is no longer at the company ;)
Your comment reminded me of Michael Pollans book: Second nature. Its a really interesting book that talks about gardening, and also starts by talking about lawn care and how we are all made to believe that a trimmed lawn is the American way.

https://www.amazon.com/Second-Nature-Gardeners-Michael-Polla...
> The cloud console was miserably slow as well.

I had the misfortune of using IBM's SoftLayer for managing 40-50 virtual machines in 2017 or so. It was unimaginably slow. Shutdowns would take 15-20 minutes. RAM/CPU re-allocations would hang without status.

Sometimes I thought these commands were printed out in a datacenter somewhere and executed by a real person. Maybe that would've been faster actually.
that is an absurd assertion. iTunes predates Kazaa by several months and iTunes never had any P2P capabilities.
Software does suffer from obvious defects. Though you may not get total agreement on what those obvious defects are, you would get some substantial agreement at the same time.

One of the major effects in software right now is that we pour such a staggering amount of effort into our current forms and patterns that it can create an overwhelming barrier to "better ideas", because there's just no way that even a much better idea can come out of the gate and compete against the behemoth of all the work done with the current paradigms. So we're stuck with patterns written into our systems from 40-50 years ago that can only very slowly change.

As a more concrete example, while my criticism of some things like "visual programming" as "the brand new paradigm that is going to revolutionize programming because nobody has thought of it before" has gotten down to the point I can virtually just copy & paste them to almost anyone who tries them (in the spirit of [1]), the flip side of my polished criticism is that comparing software platforms with literally billions of person-hours poured into them to some guy's hobby project, itself by necessity mostly built on the platform that embodies the wrong paradigm and tends to force itself on to the new project in various ways if it want to come out of the gate able to deal with real problems like "parsing XML" or whathaveyou, isn't necessarily a fair representation of what the project could be if it also had billions of hours poured into it. Unfortunately, as is the way of these things, if it's going to "revolutionize programming" it's got to actually be able to beat the current systems in some useful manner, fairly conclusively, right out of the gate.

As another example, no points for guessing that in a hundred years, computer CPUs aren't going to look much like a modern CPU. Perhaps there won't even be a "Central" processing unit anymore. But I promise you the current architecture will probably hang on longer than you'd guess (I wanted to say "50 years" and honestly got a bit gunshy about that... for all their orders of magnitude more transistors modern CPUs are clearly related to what we had 50 years ago today!). It's going to be hard for that new paradigm to compete with something with so much effort poured into it.

[1]: https://trog.qgl.org/20081217/the-why-your-anti-spam-idea-wo...
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Some billionaires may, but at least in the US this often isn't true. Off the top of my head, the Collison brothers or Sergey Brin don't need the US in any fundamental sense; they weren't born here, but came here because they thought the US was a great place to build a valuable business. If we decide that we don't like this as a matter of policy, maybe the existing crop of billionaires will be too enmeshed to leave, but the next set of foreign entrepreneurs with billion-dollar ideas won't show up in the first place.
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Ask HN: Any public companies that increased in value over the last week?
The Amazon has 50,000 species of beetles which is good for beetles I guess but what makes it wasteland or not is what it does for humans. There as well we can discuss whether cattle or biodiversity is a better improvement but that is a different topic.
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> There'd need to be an apocalypse before we had trouble stocking grocery shelves over any sustained period of time

I live in Chicago, which is one of the major nodes of the US food distribution network. I'd seen lots of photos of empty store shelves on Friday night as panic-buying set in.

I went to my local grocery store on Saturday morning and the shelves were full of everything but toilet paper. Workers were constantly bringing pallets of food out to restock as people were buying tons of food. Nobody was panicking, everyone was polite; I think the overwhelming availability of food was a calming effect.

Costco and Aldi manage their own distribution networks and may not be seeing the benefit of the hundreds of independent distributors that have this under control.

I'd like to hear about experiences in Houston - that's another huge node. My guess is that things are fine there too.
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If you think the mall won't survive anyway, then this calculation changes though and instead you look to recoup as much as you can in the short term. Ordinarily this is a good thing because it forces unviable businesses to cease trading and the people and resources can be redeployed into something more productive (and in many countries at an individual level the people will receive help from the government to do this without ruining their lives).

The idea here is to minimise the long term damage caused by people being forced into liquidation as a route to recoup losses and increase protection for individuals who are also temporarily affected.
> but AMD went ahead with dropping the embargo anyway.

Isn't it more like AMD dropped the embargo (partially) because Lenovo, ASUS and others wanted to get their devices out?
On the other hand, I assume you do not ride on a horseback to where you work.
> chloroquine-resistant malaria parasites

Yes, that and other reasons. Quinine used to be over-the-counter in the US; people took it for leg cramps. But they made it Rx-only in the 80s (or 90s; not certain) because it can have dangerous side-effects (including cardiac issues) in some people. It's kind of a nasty drug, but it's better than malaria. There are now better drugs for the conditions Quinine was used for.
Ff was best when it was called Phoenix, from there is was downhill. I stopped using it when it became too slow and reminded me of the late versions of Ns/Mz. But instead of improving their core product, Mozilla worked of bs like FfOS.

Now, thanks to Rust, Ff seem to get faster again. WebRender would be one example. But again, instead of focusing on their core product, Mozilla decided to become a sjw organization, removing core people for having "wrong opinions", etc. So again, I stopped using Ff.

Sad, but Mozilla just doesn't really seem to care about their browser.
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> Basically every society in the world does this, how is it immoral?

The difference is taxes should be paying for public goods, to which everyone is equally entitled and able to use. Taking money from one person to give directly to another person is stealing, how is that not immoral?

> considering that there is no way that any society can guarantee absolute equality of opportunity for all citizens.

It's impossible to guarantee that. Some people are born rich, some are born poor. What can be guaranteed is equal protection of your rights and your individual freedoms. There is no right to equality in the economic sense, because it requires infringing on the rights of others.
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Chrome needs to be split from Google.
Pretty sure you can already add local folders and save files in Chrome dev tools...

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/work...
Yesterday I bought the next to last loaf of any type of sliced bread at my local Lidl with the exception of the low carb bread which was fully stocked.
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Sure it is simplified, but for example on my current project, the customer does not require FF or Edge compliance, yet I take the effort to also test our application on them.
> materialize has to be able to keep all of its state in memory

For now. We have a pretty good idea of what needs to be done to shed state to disk, and have designed to be able to implement it. We expect it to "just" be a matter of putting in the engineering effort.
And English is terrible as a language! We’ve been making fun of how bad it is for centuries.

Compare languages like Turkish or Korean, which are still natural languages but got a well-thought-out tune-up in the not-so-distant past.

Why can’t my language have a pluralization rule (for example) that’s so simple and regular it takes 1 minute to teach, and 3 minutes to master? Or an alphabet that looks like how it is pronounced, so we don’t have to waste hours each week as children memorizing thousands of special cases? This is absurd.
I'm not an expert, but my local MUD board has made basically no improvements since the invention of plumbing. I happen to know how their systems work and they are designed to be the deadest-simple things that will work reliably forever. There's no such thing as a "high performance sewage system" unless you count a really big one as high performance. This attitude generalizes to civil engineers in general who prefer safety over experimentation.

Now, let's compare this to my state and local governments. They're slow, hate change, they're very careful about who to give money to because their main problem is avoiding corruption. A prominent local politician campaigned and won by promising to vote no on or veto everything. Every slow-down comes from a totally legitimate anti-corruption rule and you aren't going to speed the process up without creating Tammany Hall. My local politicians have only one way to make the news, and that's by messing something up. There is no carrot, only a stick.

Those two pictures align perfectly! As a result, my water service has never been interrupted, and I have never gone to the polls with a negative idea about anyone on the MUD board. It's a great system for everyone involved.

Now, my question is, how in the world does this work with internet service, an area in which there are changes at a rate greater than once per century?
It's just that bad
Thank you for articulating this. Outside a crisis, I don’t think we should have a standing policy like this in the United States. If you consider the issue from a first principles argument, each citizen of the United States is essentially an equity owner and the government are the managers. Power of the managers comes from its owners. We are unique in the world in this regard. There are other democracies sure but none that I know of who get their power from the people. It’s universally the other way around. Government is given all the power and whatever rights the people have come from the government. It is because of this, that in the US, an individual must be an independent self governing being. If the individual is not self governing then it is impossible for the individual to confer rights to the government. If the government becomes a source of universal income then the sovereign individual is potentially weakened and here’s how: ubi is not economically sustainable. At the beginning it may be available to everyone but eventually it will be curtailed. Means testing may be one way but social credit scores may be another. What stops of government from saying if you go to that protest your income eligibility score could drop and you might not receive an income next month or at all? Income without doing something to earn it is a form of coercion — a coerced people cannot be free. And while I have no problem with folks in Australia who want to try it, for myself, a citizen of the United Stares, I have grave concerns that ubi is but a gateway to less freedom rather than more.
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Sure. It is possible to be against theft and for compassion at the same time.

However I am not in CA and it seems “society” over there has decided its not interested in housing homeless moms.
I invite you to read https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/169716/38906
Can you recommend a good VPN for this use case?
A few typically means 2. Sure you can cherry pick one stock that didn't recover from 1989, but on average the market as a whole always recovers. Yes, there are outliers with some individual stocks.
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It's that bad.

But take heart: it's worse if you're an internal customer, and internal customers have to use it.
I'll preface my question by saying that I'm not a dev.

Why do this kind of work in the shell? Isn't it better to do this in a programming language that can run on all operating systems? What are Windows users supposed to do?
My comment didn't exactly imply that designers and programmers are the same, simply that web designers should be able to use the tools (and fully understand the constraints) of what constitutes the final output of their job, that is HTML and CSS. Writing CSS and server-side code are obviously two very different things. A designer could be a guy who types CSS in a text editor, among other things.
>However, that "WireGuard is faster than IPsec" is exactly what the authors are claiming without qualification

The same blog post also extensively discusses OpenVPN, then goes on to state "Is WireGuard faster than other VPN solutions? Simple answer: It isn't."

This question presented in the post wasn't "Is WireGuard faster than all other VPN solutions?"

>Yet we are in a rational discussion of the merits of the two protocols, in which outliers that introduce additional variables should be first discovered, then examined individually, rather than dismissing the first order effects out of hand on the supposition that outliers influenced by additional variables may exist.

Are we discussing protocols or the implementations? One of these seems far more practical to me.

I'd personally love to see this benchmark where a sane IPsec configuration running on regular commodity hardware beats WG throughput.
Preferably also some debt holders should be wiped out. Otherwise it becomes too cheap to leverage your company if you need to pay only risk-free rate on your debt.
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Amazon to hire 100k people to handle coronavirus-induced online shopping
Just a minor nitpick, but it's "hear hear", not "here here", as it refers to hearing what is said.
> why acyclic though?

What extra usefulness you'd get from using cyclic graphs? I don't see the point yet.

> like, if i want to "feel better"

I don't see "feel better" in the example graphs anywhere.

> and "lose weight", then "run a marathon" might contribute to both of those.

This is up to a person setting the goals. And the goals themselves are just the means for satisfaction of fundamental needs (which I found very helpful to outline explicitly in my personal DAG).

For one person, it might be of high importance to lose weight, it will be their long-term concern and they will try different approaches, including running marathons.

For another person, weight might be fine for their life and needs, but running a marathon may be important for them, say, it was their New Year resolution. They may have identified that if they could lose just a few kilograms, their marathon performance and experience would be much better, so they want to do it. In this case weight loss is an activity contributing to the higher level goal.

A third person may indeed be after feeling good about their body, and both weight loss and running marathons would be activities of the same rank, contributing to the satisfaction of their desire to feel good about their body.
South Korea managed to spin a system where they can test 20k people a day in just over two weeks[1]. What's stopping other countries from doing that?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-51836898
This has been done before: http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/jokes/european-commission.html.
Wait, are you saying that "gay" is a "disgusting sexual comment"?
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I worked for a well known cloud BigCo. We'd have "widget on the website is down because something expired" or "data propagation is delayed on X systems" type outages pretty frequently. These are the kind of outages that you'd think was your browser and you'd hit f5 and it'd work but we'd notice them internally because we had monitoring. We had outages that would be noticed more than a hundred people worldwide (e.g. major widget down, service degraded enough for us to get support tickets about it) every three quarters or so.

So either they did have a lot of outages or their definition of outage included every instance where something was wrong but only customers doing A/B testing would notice sort of way.
I made something similar - GamePlan [1] (not open source though

It's a visual task/planning tool. Does estimates, task grouping, resources, a bunch of different constraints, critical paths, and lots of other stuff.

I'm in the process of adding costing to it, and its a lot of fun to use.

I use it for all my pre-planning of projects, just to get a feel of feasibility

[1] - https://www.gameplan.global/