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> Unions exist primarily to engage with employers, not government. Governments are very weary to permit any union to become politically important for historic reasons. And any wise union thinks twice before getting involved in politics.

Wise unions may not, but U.S. unions constantly do. Some governments may not permit politically-active unions, but the U.S. government does, and unions are consistently large contributors (cf. https://www.opensecrets.org/overview/toporgs.php?view=hm&cyc...).
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Goldman Sach may estimate the unemployment rate peaking at 15%, but the Fed said it could reach 32% by summer.
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It’s specifically set up to protect privacy. If governments didn’t care, or had anything near the power and data that conspiracy theorists always assume they do, or felt justified to disregard the law, or empowered to change it, they’d tell Apple & Google to flip the switch and all location matching would happen tonight, in some unlucky eurocrat’s excel table.

> Furthermore, you have to ask yourself why such an initiative suddenly springs to life exactly at this time.

I don’t get this paragraph at all. It’s no mystery why this is happening now and didn’t happen last year: there’s a pandemic on.

I realize you say as much. But somehow, with the “no more, no less” and “technological experiments” you make it sound sinister. Like C-SPAN, but with an iMovie horror sound & lighting preset.
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It's intentionally ambiguous.
I don't think it would solve the problem for everyone in those groups, but it would for some. I'd be very surprised if it didn't move the needle.

Also, there's another group that seems to have trouble turning out, and finds digital stuff perfectly accessible: young people.
I hope that tech industry employees do not feel immune to this.

I encourage you to take a look at your customer base and think very critically about where that money is actually coming from.
All communication via Signal is e2e. They have not shipped anything that does not.
And maybe performance too. It sucks. Watching a video call shouldn't eat 50% CPU on a rather well equipped iMac 4K.
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I found "Lisp In Small Pieces" an extremely difficult book to digest. Non for the contents per se but rather for the prose. I never managed to get past the second chapter. Does anybody share the feeling?
Keep in mind that state unemployment websites and call centers are often overloaded and there are many complaints that people can't even file in the first place.

It's is highly likely that these high numbers continue for additional weeks because all the people who couldn't get through will manage to get through in upcoming weeks.
I think it’s undeniable that union power has decreased over the last 50 years.

But it’s also just untrue that they aren’t political entities. In many ways that’s what they primarily are.
They do the monthly survey in the middle of the month. Most of the state shutdowns happened after the surveys were completed.

Don’t ask me why they don’t just use the weekly numbers.
An old (90s) parable Perry Metzger came up with - point being, they'll always use "heaven forbid, the children" as the final arbiter in removing all privacy rights.

http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/parable.html

"Meanwhile, the wise man talked one evening to his friends on how all of this was making a sham of the constitution of Ruritania, of which all Ruritanians were proud. "Why", he asked, "are we obligated to sacrifice all our freedom and privacy to make the lives of the police easier? There isn't any real evidence that this makes any big dent in crime anyway! All it does is make our privacy forfeit to the state!"

However, the wise man made the mistake of saying this, as the law required, in Ruritanian, clearly and distinctly, and near a microphone. Soon, the newly formed Ruritanian Secret Police arrived and took him off, and got him to confess by torturing him. Torture was, after all, far more efficient than the old methods, and had been recently instituted to stop the recent wave of people thinking obscene thoughts about tomatoes, which Dorothy Quisling noted was one of the major problems of the new age of plenty and joy."

It seemed absurd at the time but it's becoming a reality.

Note: I had to use Qwant to find that. Just sayin'
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You don't need a ham license to build and operate things under Part 15.23. https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/15.23
Authors own the copyright to FOSS code they write. If they are contributing to a project, they (usually) allow the project to use the code using the same license as the project. In certain cases contributors may sign copyright assignment agreements, but the copyright doesn't go away.

If the authors didn't retain copyright ownership, how would they enforce the terms of the license? The GPL would be unenforceable.
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> And they want us to believe that it will be ok because of a $1200 check and state unemployment benefits....

Not true. The unemployment benefits have also been augmented by up to $600/week above state unemployment benefits. This amount applies even if your state benefits have been exhausted.

The $1200 is an extra stimulus check for people whether or not they’re still employed. Not to be confused with the unemployment benefits.
The alphabet soup still makes more sense than names like USB Gen 3.2 2x2.
Then again, because the door has been opened now by marketing guys to stray away from engineer driven names. It won't be long until WIFI 7 ULTIMATE ULTRA EXTREME 4 PRO EDITION is a thing.
It is misinformation. It becomes an advance if your normal income suddenly skyrockets to a point where you wouldn’t have been eligible for the $1,200. That won’t be the case for almost anybody.
Plus the end user isn't the person who chooses, Zoom is a great monetary value if you don't know the technical downsides.
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You should check the numbers coming out of Italy. It’s not 1% if the medical system is overwhelmed. Moreover, you do realize that’s 3 million dead in the US alone?
> It's strange to me that technology workers are seemingly unwilling to unionise

A better model may be a guild like actors have (SAG).

Certain 'base-level' protections are agreed to with regards to health and safety, working hours, perhaps minimum salary guidelines, healthcare, retirement plans/pensions (?), etc. However things like salary can be independently determined. Paying dues would also give access to employment lawyers and dispute resolution mechanisms.

Just as (e.g.) SAG makes sure everyone on set is safe (both Tom Cruise and Jane Smith who plays Waitress #2), but people can be paid according to their (perceived?) importance to the project.
What do you feel is stupid about the response to this? 1% is a lot of people. The whole point of social distancing and staying at home is to not overwhelm the healthcare system and to give more time to develop proper care procedures.
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https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/1...

YouGov figures show British trust in the press to tell the truth has fallen, with less than half believing BBC news journalists are honest and impartial

Seems a lot of people can't really handle criticism of the BBC, judging that my list of facts is now at -3.

I used to love the BBC. Globally respected, good programmes, a voice I trusted to be neutral and fair. They helped me study, they introduced me to new music, made cool documentaries. I bought into it all.

I guess like many Brits I'm not quite sure if it's the BBC that changed or myself. It just doesn't seem the same anymore.

I think it used to benefit from a 'false aura' of trustworthyness because radio and TV news has very little space, so in any given day there were only a handful of stories the BBC could break. Of those it'd usually be obvious what they should be, so the journalists and editors had quite limited leeway to pick and choose.

Now there's BBC News Online and that's how I get their news output. I don't watch TV news anymore. Online there's infinite space and so they can write endlessly about whatever topics they like, including using it as their own personal blogging space. Combined with Twitter it's painfully revealed their biases and desire to shape the audience, desires that were probably always there but limited by available airtime.

Nowadays I don't see it as any higher quality than other outlets. Just yesterday their economics editor tweeted this: https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1245380143071342598

Throw in the millions of tests too, & I’m taken back to quote from developing nation’s diplomat in my book on financial crisis, saying he looked to Germany and Google as examples for how to run his country “both run by engineers, whereas US and UK run by journalists and lawyers”

This is just nonsense. Angela Merkel was never an engineer, she was an academic with a chemistry background but went into politics when the wall fell. She's been a professional politician for 30 years, so this tweet is just hopelessly misleading. I doubt Mr Islam is doing it deliberately, he just has low standards and doesn't bother to fact check even his own tweets, so what about the much harder job of checking stories?

When I go to BBC News Online and see endless articles with grotesque errors, distortions, biases and personal opinions I just can't care about them anymore. They should have stuck to TV. The internet is killing them, by revealing their true selves.
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Wasn't unemployment boosted by $600 a week plus state unemployment? Or is my linked NYT article wrong[1]? Because even if it were $600 a week that's the equivalent of $15 an hour. For NY it appears the max state unemployment benefit of $504 per week, for a total max possible of $27.6 an hour, assuming a 40 hour workweek. That's quite substantial, no? Or maybe I'm wrong, and you could enlighten me.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-stimulus-package...
It is free money, which is technically a tax credit for the 2020 tax year. Since that would not be filed for another year, they advanced the issue date based on previous tax returns. If you made $150k last year as a single person but just lost your job and end up out of work for 6 months, you won’t see your credit until you do your taxes next year. It is not an advance on your normal tax return.
Turns out those stupid things come in handy sometimes!
Your math doesn't check out. 5% of people that get it (among a wide range of ages) require serious medical care for weeks. And if we send 5% of any population to the hospital in a given month the death rate for ALL diseases goes way up.
The list is in alphabetical order, so “Select an element or list of elements” is down with the other S’s: https://htmldom.dev/select-an-element-or-list-of-elements
Hayek, the god of libertarians, advocate of UBI In the Libetarian Bible "The Road to Serfdom".

Strangely, I never hear Libertarians tell me that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hayek
You're perpetuating several dangerous myths with that comment
It's universally true that the people eager to feed the olds (and a bunch of non-olds, too) into the wood chipper never seem to have their, and their parents', do-not-treat orders signed.
People seem to care when made aware of it. I think most people are ignorant of most of the facts in your message.

An awareness campaign would help, but both the state and the large media companies are against that.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
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The safety net has never been more robust than right now. With the additional $600/week through the end of July people can expect to receive an annualized amount of nearly $60,000. Add on to that food and other benefits and people who were laid off should not be struggling.
With a decent enough antenna setup, the quality isn't poor. I've had stations come in super clear from eastern europe while I was sitting in southwest Wisconsin using an antenna that was just a bunch of speaker wire thrown up into a tree.
Implying they don't already have all that data and has been/is actively pursuing getting into it more for quite some time now.

https://www.palantir.com/palantir-foundry/impact/healthcare/
I agree that this helps as an _additional_ measure, but certainly not as a replacement.

But please see the problems with it!
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It kills 1% if ICU care is available. It kills a lot more if the healthcare system is overwhelmed. Look at Spain or Italy. Case fatality rate is around 10%.

Letting it run its course it needs to infect 60-70% of the population before herd immunity kicks in. 1% of 60% of the population of the US is 2 million people. World-wide you're looking at 45 million people for a very optimistic scenario. The numbers could easily be 5 or 10 times larger. If we're lucky and the number of asymptomatic cases is very high, the numbers could also be lower. At this stage we really don't know, but I don't think it's ethical to take that risk.
Unemployment benefits have been significantly expanded under the Coronavirus aid bill. The benefit amounts will sound small if you're living in an expensive city like SF or Seattle, but $600/week from the federal government and a similar amount from state unemployment insurance means that unemployment benefits can pay up to an equivalent of $50-60K/year right now. That goes a long way in most parts of the country, especially when you're stuck at home. Of course companies are going to opt to shift people to unemployment benefits while they're forced into downtime.

In some situations, people can actually earn more from unemployment benefits by being laid off due to some hasty oversights in the aid package (Reference: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/how-unemployed-workers-could... ). This doesn't account for lost benefits or the risk involved in losing a job, but it could disincentivize people returning to work if it means their income will go down.

Of the many people I know who have been “laid off”, all of them have been told they’ll be first in line to be re-hired the moment quarantine ends.

If a business can’t make money, it makes more sense for them to let employees collect unemployment during the downtime than to overextend the business’s balance sheet. During normal times, this is a common tactic for seasonal businesses. I have friends in seasonal tourism industries who received training on applying for unemployment benefits during their annual off-season layoffs each year. They even have an explicit system for tracking seniority in the re-hires.

Of course, the longer this quarantine lasts, the more likely their businesses are to disappear before they can re-open. Unfortunately we won’t know this number for many months. For now, the initial unemployment claims number can't discriminate between jobs that have been temporarily paused and jobs that have been eliminated.
Which of your family members do you volunteer to kill to help out the stock market?
I spent a ton of time looking at Jitsi yesterday because I’m getting fed up with FaceTime. I really want a living room solution on my large flatscreen because we’ve been spending loads of time doing extended video chats (30+ minutes) with family members. Stuff like family trivia night, etc. The iPhone/iPad screens are too small and really its a pain to hold it in place. I’ve been using a tripod to help some with the holding but the fixed lens is really limiting without an extended HDMI cord. I’ve been connecting to the TV via HDMI but the sound/input is still via the device and the iPhone refuses to do landscape mode. Overall, it’s just suboptimal.

Jitsi is open source, has an option for me to host my own server (avid self-hoster for privacy), and appears to work on just about any platform. So I should be able to get most of the family to adopt it.

So now I suppose my question is how do I get Jitsi running on my TV? Or can someone offer some other solution that might fit my use case? I really would like to be able to just go to my TV, turn it on, and have instant ability to video chat from my living room to family members on nearly any device.

My first thought was to get it running on an Raspberry Pi but it seems that’s not really something that works from all of my searching. Does anyone have any experience there?

If that’s the case is there a cheap Android device that could achieve this with some sort of decent camera? Or am I stuck running an x86 system attached to my TV?

Does anyone else have Jitsi setup in a conference room like setting with a TV?
Wow, I am not a python developer and avoid python as much as I can because I hear about problems with versions everywhere. I have no idea which documentation is correct and which is old/wrong. With your manual I might dare to try python. Anyone who says (as seen in this thread) that python is not that complicated to install and use should take a look at this monster of instructions and then shut up.
Yep, our business requires other business. Without users, servers are complicated heaters that require cooling.
Any speculations on how bad is this going to get? Should I stock up on TP, on food, or on vodka and ammo?
> "I don't like WFH, therefore other people shouldn't be able to WFH".

Could you point me to an example of this, because I dont think I've ever seen this. The opposite, however I've seen pretty commonly where since "I like WFH so everyone should WFH".
The server (jitsi videobridge) DOES have the keys to decrypt the traffic - i.e. its not e2e encrypted. This is par for the course with webrtc SFUs (there are some "workarounds" to support e2e encryption over webrtc I mentioned in another thread).
This seems like a confirmation that the Democratic Party is run by a cabal of insiders who subvert the democratic electoral process to promote party leaders' preferred candidates. That didn't go so well for the Party in 2016.
Ironically, the site itself uses ~100ko of gzip’d JS.
I've seen a lot of small businesses do the math, and realize that with the additional $600 provided by the stimulus bill, it actually works out better for some lower paid workers to lay them off (and presumably rehire later). I wonder if this might explain higher than expected numbers.
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A dialog box that prompts for your password. Never seen one?
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> WhatsApp doesn't do it and that's just for text. I'm pretty sure Signal doesn't either.

Wow this is news to me. Glad I'm not using whatsapp since forever.

Signal definitely encrypts group chats since forever: https://signal.org/blog/the-new-textsecure/
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And HN thinks they're the first ones to be mad about it ;)
I for one don't care as long as my important communication is. And should the US government ever turn authoritarian and malevolent then we can all use VPNs and switch to better communication as happens in China. It's not like Americans are forever accepting unsecure communications, they just don't feel a need for more security. When the need arises Americans will adapt. Hopefully they don't have to.
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> but a foundation, even a small one, is super valuable

Well, I mean, first example is "ele.classList.add('class-name');", beginner or not, you gotta understand where `el` is coming from. Seems like a big oversight to have incomplete samples, even from the first example.
Yes, the federal government is providing more stimulus juice (one time cash payment and unemployment top up), but no, it is absolutely not going to be enough for the economic challenge we're facing.
Not the Famicom according to GPs wiki.
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"The app can then compare its list with the list on the server". So the comparison takes place on each individual's phone ? To do this without leaking privacy, each phone will need to receive all the ids on the server i.e. all ids collected by the phones of people with positive diagnosis. This could require a lot of data to be distributed to a lot of phones.

If the comparison takes place on the server, it will save a lot of bandwidth. But then there will need to be a Tor like network to hide the IPs of the phones doing the requests.
Income taxes and property taxes exist.
Data released in New York alone is that they are getting 250-300k successful initial claim calls per day, and many people are not successful.

This is going to be the most profund economic event of our lives. Hopefully more like 1893 than 1929.
It's also not the reported number in Italy. The sources of error in the data are enough to make the data fairly meaningless.

1. We have no idea how many people were infected
2. We have no idea how many people who have died died from Covid 19
3. The population pyramid in Italy is extremely disparate from the rest of the world.

The medical system being overwhelmed is a portion of the contribution, and what it means to be 'overwhelmed' is about as clear as what it means to have an error in your application. Are you overwhelmed due to lack of beds? Lack of ventilator access? Lack of doctors? What are the numbers for these in the remainder of the world?

Treating any modeling we have of the impact of Covid 19 as reliable is an exercise in insanity.

EDIT: To be clear this isn't to say that the responses are unwarranted. It's just to say that they are conservative and acting on knowingly incorrect information. If they were the right decisions remains to be seen. The impact of global financial collapse isn't just 'stocks down', but has tangible impacts on life expectancy, healthcare quality, and quality of life globally. Time will tell.
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I have read both and I also like PAIP better. I find PCL good only for somebody that don't have much programming experience. I believe that somebody that is a seasoned programmer and that wants to gets some understanding of CL will appreciate PAIP better. This is because PAIP begins with an introduction of the language that just touches all the basic stuff upfront very clearly and only afterwards starts to build on examples. So if one wants only to get an introduction to CL he can just read the first chapters and forget the rest. PCL does the opposite introducing just a few features at a time and providing a lot of examples side by side. This might force the reader to pay attention to stuff he is not really interested in.

P.S: I found the examples/practice part quite boring in both cases but for sure PAIP is more interesting as there is a chance to learn something new/unusual.
According to the WHO, around 14% of cases require hospitalization. Is 14% a big enough number for you?

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/clinica...