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> You and I have much different takes on what feels good.

I think virtue is good for us and thus "feels good", because that has been my experience.

I think following laws that aren't inherently unjust is virtuous. The only question is if these laws are unjust or not. (In this case I guess we're just talking about the laws of paying for goods.)

> regressive companies trying to put the Internet back in the bottle, destroy net neutrality, push us into proprietary platforms, divide online communities based on geographic location, surveil our behavior, etc

This is too vague to be compelling. At the end of the day, you are paying for content that was created by human beings. Is there a middle man? Yes. Would it be better without the middle man? Also yes. Is there an alternative? Only if we are okay with not paying the creators that put in the work to make the content. I am no longer okay with that.

For me, at the end of the day, your argument is at best pointing out a less than ideal economic system and at worst it is justifying viscous behavior that, taken to its limit, can be used to justify virtually any kind of illegal behavior.

Less than ideal != unjust.
I tend to agree, but if the Pale Moon developers agreed they would have shut the project down long ago. The legacy APIs they're clinging to are loaded with security risks -- that's part of why Mozilla ditched them in the first place. And there's not much evidence that Pale Moon et al. are doing anything substantial to remove or mitigate them.
Yes sounds like they should just cut their losses. They gave it a try and discovered you can't maintain a fork of a browser that easily.
Based on inventory levels at my area supermarkets, is MORE consumption really needed right now? I could see a mortgage/rent holiday for a month or two. Just don’t want folks going out buying a thousand dollars worth of toilet paper.
You are wrong. TRADEMARKS have to be defended or you lose them. Patent lawsuits can be targeted
I'm going to give my old one to a friend and get the new one :) It's such a jank piece of hardware but I love it.
It’s a long-winded article stating that it was downsized and consolidated due to “bloat.” Arguably not exactly disproved.
I'm quite sure I see Google products and services on top of Google search.
Let's call it "Westerners blaming China to feel better, while they all get the virus anyway". Seems to be Western-style policy in a nutshell right now.

If you call saving millions of Chinese people despicable, it sounds like you're to be despised.

The cake isn't cooked yet, but Western governments are already eager to play the blame game, while China got on with getting results. Nearly zero new cases. Contained to Hebei.

You've been reading fake news... and worse, believing it. They're not pushing a conspiracy theory. They're taking a victory lap.

The comments about it being a bio weapon are from the FM, who is just volleying back Pompeo's comment about it being the "China virus". That's all it is. Tit for tat. If you believe everyone in China is obsessed with blaming the US for the virus origins, or, worse, that Chinese people believe it's a bioweapon, you're wrong, sorry.

They contained a crazy new pathogen in the biggest country on Earth, they don't need to play the blame game, and domestically their media is taking a victory lap. It's just revealing of Western incompetence, and insecurity that Western media is fanning these blaming narratives.

If you want to make me feel better, I thank you. Start by admitting your pro-Western propoganda does not tell you what's really happening in China.
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> I'm making good money off of their panic

Stop profiteering off a misery, if you've been hawking over priced toilet paper you're exploiting people in their time of need.

> We'll see what happens in a few months, but it looks like a lack of information causing people to assume the worst.

Assume and prepare for the worst - the US government has had a critical shortage of test kits and it's nigh on impossible that the case numbers we've seen are accurate. Trump has previously specifically and openly acted to keep the numbers artificially low[1] along with generally showing a large amount of concern over the appearance of things to the detriment of dealing with the actual crisis.

The actual numbers are worse than they look right now - everyone outside of the US trusts the US's numbers as much as we trusted China's numbers, the government (though this time almost certainly through incompetence rather than maliciousness) is not a trusted reporter of real data.

Also, stop profiting off of misery.

1. Specifically "[...] would like to have the people come off. I’d rather have the people stay, but I’d go with them. I told them to make the final decision. I would rather—because I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault." https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2020/03/trump-keep-em...
Check out Microsoft's new Windows terminal (https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ItsTimeForYouToInstallWindows... ) It may be the most modern, capable, and yet compatible terminal I've come across, and works well regardless of the environment you want to run it in/with. (To be fair, a modern Windows terminal is a good 20 years overdue, but MS deserves credit for finally getting it right...)
Reducing global catastrophic biological risks
Do you really want to set a precedent that (intellectual) property rights are suspended in times of crisis?

Maybe, but I'd argue that the problem was granting IP rights too strong in the first place. Patents are, in principle, a useful incentive for R&D, but when the products of that R&D are medical in nature, the ethics of allowing them to be withheld become very shaky. In particular, granting patents that allow R&D organisations to recover the true overall cost of their work and make a sufficient profit to justify the endeavour is one thing, but granting patents that allow monopoly providers to set arbitrarily high costs on essential treatments is another thing entirely.

And before anyone suggests that there is no alternative to keep that research going, consider that typically it is not actually the researchers who are raking in those big profits. It is entirely possible that a centrally funded public research service that hired the same experts and provided the same labs and then used its own or external manufacturing facilities for mass production would work out more cost effective for a centralised healthcare system than the current way things work particularly in the US.
> This patent describes a generic architecture for a machine that automates testing for the presence of substances in bodily fluids. In the system described by the patent, an operator inserts a "test device" (which contains both the bodily fluid to be tested and the reactants required to perform the test) into a "reader device." The reader device then triggers the necessary chemical reactions to perform the test and reports the results. Theranos' patent isn't limited to any specific bodily fluid, reactants, or testing protocol.

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>I am worried about this: Long hours means stress and stress means susceptibility to illness.

Is this a 0.1% chance or a 90% chance? One matters, the other doesn't :)
Corporations are owned by people. "84 percent of all stocks owned by Americans belong to the wealthiest 10 percent of households."[0] Bailing our corporations bails out the wealthy.

Send money to everyone equally. It's fast. It's fair. And it will quickly increase the velocity of money. [1]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/business/economy/stocks-e...

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/v/velocity.asp
The original was designed for both hands in the software. I think it's likely the new one will be as well, and any insinuation by the author otherwise is probably wrong.
This. totally agree.

Patent trolls are nothing but Net-negative for society.
Covid-19 vs. Temperature (Not Real Science)
I was curious to see if I could find any correlation between the Coronavirus and the temperature. In this post, I explain why and how I did it. DISCLAIMER: This is very unscientific and I just hacked a script together as fast I could on a boring night in quarantine.

https://blog.cude.io/covid-19-temperature/
Customization is no crime. Simplicity and minimalism is way worse... You think that this is what power-users would accept? Why use people Vivaldi, Otter, Seamonkey for example?

Because they WANT features. People HAVE THE RIGHT to demand THAT. Rather selfish opinion of yours, to deny power users rights! Is this a democracy or leftist fascist dictatorship? BC that is how the leftist fascists argue.... NO features which simple users do NOT understand as that would violate their safe space!

Honestly...
No. The Mysterious Island was written in 1874. Chloroquine was discovered in 1934:

https://www.mmv.org/malaria-medicines/history-antimalarials
Thanks. Heaven forbid the times from cross linking to references.
Of course their days are numbered, no regime lasts forever.
Pay down your mortgage. Guaranteed to save you money in the long term.
I don't think it's that great for reading. It does not have a backlight. I own both the reMarkable and Kindle Paperwhite and I prefer to read books on the Kindle.
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Interesting thought. At that point (or for that fact - at this point) it's is essentially a reusable printable paper. For people arguing about the low resolution of the $70~ model, I would not disregard their argument because we haven't seen it in real life and would love to see how documents scale up on that display.
normally a stimulus works because if you give people $1000, people will go and spend at least some of it. With most options for discretionary spending shut down, there's really just two things left to spend on: rent and groceries (and i guess: amazon orders).

$1000 to every american right now will end up just being a huge payment to landlords. i'm not saying it's a bad idea, people still need to make rent and buy food, but it's not going to stimulate anything. grocery stores are already bringing in record revenues, and landlords don't need the money. It's financial aid, not a stimulus.
As officers of the court these lawyers have taken an oath to act in good faith when advancing claims:

Morgan Chu

Alan J. Heinrich

Keith A. Orso

S. Adina Stohl

Dennis J. Courtney

Brian M. Weissenberg

Chaplin J. Carmichael

It would be nice if the California bar considered their actions in this matter.
I don't know the state of it today, but even in summer last year custom components with Shadow DOM were still excluded from Form Submission. Form-associated custom elements proposal was enabled in Chrome, no idea if Safari or Firefox went and implemented it, too.

Shadow DOM also throws off accessibility IIRC if aria-labeledby and similar cross shadow dom boundaries [1] but I do agree they should be largely accessible to assistive technologies.

You can't truly lazy-load them. See Rich Harris' (author of Svelte) take on Web Components [2] And these two articles by a Web Components proponent listing the many issues they still have [3]

[1] See for example this tweet https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1198069119897047041

[2] https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...

[3] https://dev.to/webpadawan/beyond-the-polyfills-how-web-compo... and https://dev.to/webpadawan/the-journey-of-web-components-wron...
Remember to start your FORTRAN statements in Column 7!
Yeah, I feel like this would be cheaper without propping up banks or landlords who don’t have a mortgage. I don’t know if most payment software can handle it but you basically set back any mortgages by N months. Similar for rent you somehow mark it as paid, whatever that arrangement looks like.
That was the UK, not NL.
You are a plain fool if you don't understand that the CCP literally sets the narrative out of China, imposed with force. Tow the line or, at best, lose social credit points, at worst enjoy your permanent stay at gulag.

The Soviet Union only collapsed some 30 years ago. The CCCP was literally the model that the CCP is based on. Don't be naive.
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Loads of my friends deal with stress by actively confronting it and none like numbing themselves..weird. Its almost like they chose amphetamines cos raving on herion doesn't really work.
Ah, yes. Probably driftnet
And you will not need trolls for that.

As the debian description says:

==
...Driftnet is a program which listens to network
traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. It is
interesting to run it on a host which sees a lot of web traffic.
.
(Obviously, this is an invasion of privacy of a fairly blatant sort.
Also, if you are possessed of Victorian sensibilities, and share an
unswitched network with others who are not, you should probably not
use it.)
==
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Hey! I posted it on my blog - I want to redesign it, however, its working::

https://alt-romes.github.io/#/march2020/-M2VLHK-TP_orVo9_FjI
So the Chinese Gov thought the proper way to respond to racism is to fuel misinformation and conspiracy theory?
Looks like that article was for shipping-to-them (from suppliers/3rd parties to the fullfillment centers)
[On the original, you could not] rotate the device 180 and use it normally, but you could click a toggle in the settings which would reflect the UI laterally, for left-handed people.
Also the sick leave bill? pretty half assed to start with and they just made it even more half assed. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1239729011187744773.html
There is a lot of hate for the patent system because it is obviously broken. First, as noted in the Ars Technica article, you don't actually have to show that your invention works to get a patent. Second, you don't actually have to be the one producing your invention and making it available to those who can benefit from it to claim patent rights. Third, independent invention doesn't defend you against a patent lawsuit. And fourth, the patent office does not even try to apply the actual standards required for an invention to be patentable: that it must be original, non-obvious, and an enhancement over prior art.

If those things were fixed, I think there would be a lot less hate for the patent system. Also, of course, this particular patent lawsuit would never have been possible.
>The only incentive for innovation on this planet is monetary

This reads very much like the anti-atheist argument of, "Who's going to stop you from raping and pillaging if there's no almighty being keeping you in line?"

It seems more like an indictment of the speaker than of the rest of society.
I'm not sure about "Chinese Virus" but including Wuhan, the place of origin, in the systematic name is standard practice for naming viral strains.
There are no credible sources in China, since there is no free press. Information and narrative is carefully controlled by the party through:

State controlled media

The great firewall of China. Most of the internet is blocked, including Facebook, Twitter and HN.

Monitoring and censoring of all social media

For alternative news we are depended on rogue reporters, whose credibility is tragically also unknown.
> Linux comes with Firefox pre-installed (or some variant of it, depending on distro).

A number of distributions ship with GNOME Web.
Here is what you are looking for. https://www.medrxiv.org/search/coronavirus
Are these results surprising? Probably not. But does that mean we shouldn't talk about them? Because that's what (a portion of) this comment section seems to think.
I feel like that's their play. To legitimize their IP for potential resale, valid use of the patent can only serve to increase their value, ignoring the bad publicity.
A huge issue here is that venture capital's classic business model isn't compatible with SpaceX-scale ventures because they take way too long to return value to investors. SpaceX took 6 years just to complete a demonstration flight to LEO, for instance, whereas a VC is looking for a liquidation event in the ~7 year timeframe.
When colleges shut down, some students have nowhere to go
Or refinance your mortgage and get paid for it...
How do you decide who needs it? I think the sane option really would be to give it to everyone and increase taxes to compensate. Progressive taxes fall most heavily on those that can afford them. They are the best tool for this job.

Of course to really get this fair, you should tax wealth too, which tends to be difficult...
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The point of patents is to protect IP for a while. If the company was fraudulent, who are we protecting? Whoever now owns the IP, it’s as if they purchased stolen goods.
So logically, mathematically, in a vacuum, sure.

In a world you share with other humans, not so much.

Let's say you are in a freak accident, and are paralyzed. Will you commit to only getting the care you can actually pay for by your own earnings for the rest of your life?

And how do you bootstrap yourself out of the hundreds of thousands in medical debt for the lifesaving care you get before you even get home?

A lot of things happen around this planet because we care for each other, and we help each other. Sorry you can't see that.
No, but that would be my dream job...
The calculus has changed; to put it simply. People don't like sitting around idly, and if there is the risk the official supply chain infrastructure can't keep up, people will rise to try to actually solve a problem.

Without the threat of an overwhelmed healthcare system, why worry about a DIY ventilator? It would comfortably register as SEP (Someone Else's Problem) on most people's radar given the complexity of the rat's nest of regulation around the industry. With the crisis being what it is, however, you suddenly have a very interesting optimization problem, with very high stakes.

I can't fault folks for at least trying; and at the end of the day, who knows, someone may make something better/more efficient/cheaper/reliable/good enough to help. You'll never know if you don't try.

Just remember: do your research, learn why the current state of the art is what it is first, then make sure you can justify any design alteration you make in your particular implementation, then consult a regulator. They are there to either help or to specifically be part of whether or not your design is good enough given the logistical shape of the field.

That doesn't mean everyone go spam the FDA at once, mind. You don't want to DDoS the regulatory pipeline. If you're serious about it though, and willing to jump through the hoops in hope of being able to provide an alternative just in case; do so. Note it doesn't hurt to put a little more strain on the regulatory infrastructure as well. It helps the regulator to justify innovating how they can do their job more efficiently to!

Then, once you have regulator buy-in, go to your investors, and make the case for getting some mass production spun up, or figure out whether your job is done in the sense you're more of a design person, and less of an implementer, and get your design to those who can run with it.

This is the magic of the market at work! Not some arbitrage scheme, but an honest to God shift toward creating a greater supply capability to fill increased demand.
Check it out here:
https://blog.cude.io/covid-19-temperature/
how would you know that ? Can you provide sources to backup this claim ? I'm interested to know.
> The price of the stocks does not affect company in any way.

That would be the case in the ideal world. However, stockholders care a lot about stock prices being low, and they elect the board, which in turn chooses/advises the CEO (and other executives). When it's the CEO's butt on the line, the company will be reactive to share prices; just to make sure the stockholders are happy.

A secondary concern is that low share prices makes a company vulnerable to non-/hostile takeover bids - which again is bad for CEO job security.

TL;DR: The tenure of the top echelon (board & executives) of public companies is directly tied to (relative) stock performance due to share voting rights.
> Do you think it's fair, that the government issues you a Dollar one year, and the next year, they devalue it by 2% or more?

Inflation is at record lows. If anything, deflation is rearing its ugly head.
Can you promise that it's good? When I try to read up on it,
it just seems to be some 'android clone' intended for playing-card-stack-navigation? (IE UI's where you keep flipping back and forth between full-page layouts) ?
How would you word it? Other than medical supplies to its warehouses suspending all shipments Amazon is amid coronavirus crisis?
You're acting like the government invented inflation; it didn't. Before central banks, inflation fluctuated freely in the economy, sometimes very high, sometimes into significant deflation. This volatility exacerbated other economic or financial fluctuations, causing a lot of problems. The goal of central banking is not to introduce or create inflation, but to manage it for greater certainty in long-term investment. A steady 2%/year inflation is a stable currency.

If you think it's bad knowing that your dollar will devalue 2% every year, imagine trying to make plans not know whether it was going to drop or go up 7% next year--or anything in between.
I've seen companies waste some pretty serious time on admin and maintenance of room reservation screens by the doors. Oddly enough they had chose not to go with an iPad based system because of cost
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Covid-19: Trump tries to get exclusive rights for vaccine from a German firm
This is not racist and if you're not a Chinese astroturfer you're playing right into their hands by spreading this idiotic take.

China is a geographic region. The virus most originated from China. In any case it has become associated with China. If you can't hear the words "Chinese Virus" without feeling ill will towards Chinese people, the problem is with you, not with semantics.
Most lawsuits filed by vexatious litigants about absurd and ridiculous things can be thrown out of court before ever getting anywhere because the judge can plainly see they are ridiculous.

One of the annoying things about patent law is because it is so technical, it requires experts to determine if what the plaintiff is saying is ridiculous on its face as the judge may be clueless about the technical aspects of the case.
Um dividends reduce the price of the shares. But, investing in a stable blue chip company to preserve wealth is a good idea. But 'stable, blue chip' doesn't mean dividend paying. They're two disjoint groups.
> I live in Spain, country where I pay a compensation copyright tax for every ...

I don't know specifically about Spain, but this 'copyright tax' [that was introduced in most, if not all European countries, probably a directive] was for you to legally be able to create copies on your devices of legally acquired contents.

The interpretation you have been giving it, is mentally satisfying, but not legally tenable

There seems to be contents on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=manouche . I leave it for you as home-work to ddgo the solution from there.
Without disagreeing with what you wrote, you are conflating ethical and moral with legal and criminal. They are not the same and it makes it difficult to understand the foundation upon which you rest.
Absolutely. Condenser mics often don't work well with the kind of voice you're describing. They end up sounding shrill and a bit clippy even if they don't officially hit the clip level.

Mics like the 57, or the old re20 that you used to see in studios have a warmer, analog sound that's more forgiving and softens the harshness that you can hear in condenser mics.