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What's "half baked" about Google Voice for this purpose? Verification code shows up in email and hangups client, select and paste into snake oil annoyance. This has worked everywhere I have tried it (number originally ported from Sprint).

Plus the more people that give out Google numbers, the harder it will be for banks to push back on this.
FastMail supports regex matching any header, including To/CC/BCC: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/regexprules.html

Multiple rules can be ANDed or ORed as well, if you don’t want to make a single regex that’s more complex.

They use - and expose - Sieve: https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/sieve-howto.html
This isn't the only thing driving that effect. In any situation, a price tag can be higher when those receiving the service don't feel it in the wallet immediately, whether for reasons of insurance or even loans (homes, tuition, etc.) and those facilitating (insurers, lenders) would surely be incentivised to do whatever they can to make using their services the best way to get a fair price. Look at rental car rates where a retail walk-up customer pays double or triple what insurance pays -- for the same exact car.
I worked at LinkedIn for a short time, their business Has multiple components. I believe they break out less post msft acquisition, but it’s reasonable to think of their business like this:

Recruitment help (hr services, hr recruiter memberships etc)

Marketing (ads on the site)

Sales services (sales people memberships)

LinkedIn learning (Lynda.com), but sold to companies as SaaS.

Other memberships

We know from their last 10k earnings that marketing was the largest growth +44%.

Every single one of their businesses has a lot of exposure to the macro and should see a significant hit. On the other hand, their penetration is still very low, both in terms of % of companies and globally and they don’t really have any competition on a number of their businesses.

If they decide to lay people off, it’s to upgrade their PnL.
Also Lolo for NES was similar.
You’re touching on what this whole thing is.

It’s rushed and woefully incomplete data enabling media companies to write apocalyptic headlines without exposing themselves to any legal liability. They have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, so that’s what they’re doing.

I think to most people with a background in statistics it’s very easy to tell how bad the data is at a glance. It’s downright blatant. They don’t have a platform though, because in this media climate your platform is only as big as your level of sensationalism and hysteria.

There are multiple factors skewing the data toward coronavirus appearing more deadly than it actually is. It’s new and sudden, so there wasn’t a lot of infrastructure in place for testing. It’s causing a rush on hospitals. Combine those and you have one massive shortage of testing. You obviously want to care for the most critically ill first, so globally, only the most sick get tested, and only the cases most likely to be fatal are even represented in these numbers everyone is seeing.

Then they take wildly differing medical, economic and political environments all over the world, and merge all the data as if it’s equal. In many cases, in addition to the inadequate testing, that data is only as accurate as their governing bodies want it to be.

Do we really believe there are 5x as many cases in the US as in China?

Do we really believe there were only 5,000 cases in India?

Do we really believe the virus is 10x as likely to be fatal in Italy as compared to Germany?

Take the “confirmed cases” number and just add a zero, and you might be closer to the reality of what’s going on out there.

People are simply blind to the difference between “confirmed cases” and “cases”.

It’s very unfortunate that this nomenclature has a natural tendency to make “confirmed cases” feel like it must be more accurate, and also unfortunate that the term “cases” could only ever be an approximation. But those labels were chosen carefully and for a good reason, and they represent very, very different things.
Another good one if you're in the midwest is Menards. They regularly have an 11% rebate which, for me, adds up quite a bit.

Pro tip for if you can physically go to one of their stores: If you make a purchase and they run their 11% rebate the next week, ask at the front desk for the pre-rebate adjustment, which lets you get it for your previous purchase.
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I haven’t considered that angle but I think it comes down to human nature mostly. Trust in authorities seem to be our default mode of operation, and critical thinking is not something that’s taught in med school or valued in hospitals. Doctors are mostly not scientists. Ask your doctor to read a study and they might read the abstract. Most have no ability to evaluate the quality of a study
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Also there is less concern with an auto “death panel” where cost of repair exceeds replacement value. I can’t imagine Aetna offering you $50k to just die already...
I'm sorry if you don't like it, but it's true.
I think if you use Google Fi, then you can lock down your account pretty well and you'll need your hardware key to change things.
It has nothing to do with being "big firm" - I didn't say that. I said Linkedin as a product is way too big, being pretty much a monopoly on work-social media and with that sort of power they aren't facing any layoffs because of a dip in economy.
This is an interesting concept -- I would assume "mating call of the airlines" is a similar phenomenon that exists in the US airline industry (pre-corona of course) -- all want to raise fees / stuff planes, so there's this pantomime of whatever ails the industry covered in the media, before one (and then all) change policies that are pro-airline-profit but net-negative-passenger.

All this is possible of course due to the consolidation allowed over the past 15 years, but separate topic for a separate thread.
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Ive received a check from State Farm within the last 5 years or so. Don't recall precisely when, but that it was before I got married 3 years ago.

It would be nice to get an adjustment while self isolating. Farthest Ive driven my car in the last 2.5 weeks was to back up and pull into the adjacent spot next to my wife to jump her car so she could run the 1 mile to the pharmacy.
This looks/feels an awful lot like Google Wave did 10 years ago. At least conceptually.
Given the number of new covid sites flooding in, you probably have a better shot contributing to some of the more popular/existing projects.
It's easy to let your mind wander and get lost in your thoughts when there is so much turmoil and uncertainty.
This is absolutely correct. The best teams I've worked on understand both the business and the technical domain, and are able to leverage synergies to keep things simple.
We should manifest a website that we can both find right now, agree on the search terms and operators used...

... and then meet again, in say, 3 years, where this content is either only findable on tiktokterest or not at all anymore.

Google has not a search problem. It has a chronological and social one.
Basically, the strategy is "death by a thousand paper cuts." There may be legit cases for it, but in the end, it's a wrong solution. It could easily explode to be abused for minor complaints where a real class action lawsuit would be more proper. There should be a cost to a frivolous lawsuit. This seems to eliminate it.
I hadn't considered the local tax aspect. I understand that many areas are projecting large shortfalls in the near future, so I suppose there could be some issues. I guess it would probably depend on how the education taxes were levied in a given jurisdiction (property, sales, or something else).
> I wonder if policy could be useful here: temporary rent and mortgage freezes perhaps?

That's the big question. Can't everyone just be cool with deferring payment on rents and mortgages? Ultimately this all bubbles up to banks and investment products, right?

I wish it were possible to just declare this "the lost Spring of 2020" and allow the market to take a hit and then recover steadily without entire cities beset with many months of boarded-up storefronts and foreclosed properties.
In the narrow sense that capacitance retains the value instead of a bistable pair, sure
Yup absolutely and I do love the SRE book and adopt many practices of it.

Might be my own bias towards the SRE word.
Does that mean that someone is getting $1500 because their pizza arrived cold? I hope not.
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State Farm is a mutual company. That means that the policyholders (i.e. you) actually own it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Farm
In the left corner we have Derek Lowe, who's not a doctor.

In the right corner we have the Yale School of Medicine which recommends HCQ for both the mild and severely ill patients: https://files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/7801c631-3...

Let's see who will win.
They've raised exactly a marathon worth (26.2mil) in VC.
OTOH, insurers might not pay if rents are voluntarily forgiven. Then again, a pandemic quite likely falls outside the remit of many policies anyway.
How would the program get the value? It has to pack all of the scraping frameworks and abstract it so it could be interacted enough for text configs? Then it would have more scraping code than whatever program intended to do.

> To me it seems like this would lead to poor reproducibility.

I'm not sure how reproducibility matter here. You're not writing tests - it's a program on your computer for your personal use.
No one owns the logistics and transportation chain like Amazon. it provides a level of integration and service that no big box can match or afford.
I just wanted to say thank you for letting me know that a horse can pull that much, and even more for letting me know that two horses can pull 12 tons. Just, wow.

Best TIL I've had in a while :D
>>It'd be painful but it might make sense for mall owners to forgive the rent while everything is closed

You are assuming that the owner himself does not have a mortgage with a bank. A bank would never just waive mortgage payments. The preferable thing to do is to make a payment agreement for the late rent payments. With the first payment for the late rent not due until conditions improve.

Although, this is what the 2 trillion stimulus package is supposed to address. I think.
Seems like the next step would be for the video conference tool to create a transcript of when questions were asked for recorded meetings so you can skip to the point when a question was asked if you're rewatching or missed the live version. Do any tools out there do this and I just don't know about that feature?
To me the entire portion of that interview with Joe Rogan was just someone talking about absolutely everything but the elephant in the room. Then he eventually talked himself out of all other topics and detailed why he was really there - to discuss his GUT.

Yes, it’s weird for someone outside of a field to try and introduce a whole new concept to it. But it’s been done. Einstein was a parent clerk, I think one of the Bernoulli’s was a lawyer for an entire career before contributing anything, and Galois made a huge contribution to math immediately before being killed and from absolute obscurity.

Look, academia is sick and has been sick for as long as anyone can remember. I left math because all it takes is one grudge from one professor to tank your entire academic career. For as long as that’s going to continue people will be contributing to human knowledge through out of band channels.
How is it going to go away sooner?
Newegg has a good website, but their customer service and return policy is not up to par with other retailers and I have started buying from other vendors if the price is remotely close for this reason.
Some of my favourite diffs were related to linters:

- Linting files different from origin/master in a pre-commit hook.

- Linting everything in CI.

- Making the linter rules stricter (mypy does a great job of having several orthogonal strictness flags, so you can pick the set appropriate for your familiarity with the tool).

- Implementing project-specific lint checks.
If you like this type of game check out 'Adventures of Lolo' on an NES emulator, circa 1989.
Agreed. They lost me at "Front Matter".

Is it just me or does a reasonable concern for documentation over time ossify into rent-seeking by corporate moochers?
> What happens if the arbitrator decides the case against you? Do you owe that fee? Does this vary from one contract to another?

They can award fees, yes. Usually depends on a myriad of factors, much the same as the court uses when determining sanctions and fees.
SpaceX is wasting resources questing for Mars, and satellite launches are the ultimate in discretionary spending—not popular in these uncertain times.
Your argument against this valid criticism that the current consensus is wrong about what sources can be trusted to be authoritative is an appeal to consequences which relies entirely on reductio ad absurdum.

The alternative to "something we thought we could trust and rely on but wow they really got it wrong and won't admit it" isn't "now we have nothing", its "now we need to hold these people accountable or find something else." It means that blind, unthinking trust in authority is what got us here. It means reevaluating your assumptions, not the end of the world. Doubling down simply because you can't imagine what the world would be like without CNN or the NYT is ridiculous.
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Looking for awesome new places to read things written by actual human beings.

So where can I find your blog? why is it awesome? And why should I (and everyone else) read it?
Hey jbeam, I’m exploring a working relationship with The Institutes, and am currently trying to understand the industry from as many angles as possible. Would it be ok if I reached out to you and ask you a few questions? Something along the lines of your personal workflow.
Americans are much richer than Europeans so this doesn’t seem like an obvious choice. As of 2011 the UK and France were poorer than all but two US states, Germany poorer than all but six[1]. That understates how much richer the US is. Look at average household consumption [2]. The US, 5% of the human race, is behind Hong Kong, a city state and almost $10,000 ahead of Switzerland. Average individual consumption would probably show the US as number 1 given bigger households than either Hong Kong or Switzerland. And as far as working conditions go in the US it’s generally actually possible to get a job. All of Southern Europe and most of Northern Europe have higher unemployment than the US and has for decades.

[1] https://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/06/americas-economic-succe...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_househo...
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There are many “in-network” auto body shops, which get referrals from insurance companies in exchange for negotiated rates. The industry’s term for this is Direct Repair Program (DRP).
I've had nothing but excellent experiences ordering online from staples, although their email notifications leave something to be desired. I've learned to just trust that my package is actually on the way now, but usually I get the "your package has shipped" email some time after I actually get the package, if I get a notification at all.
This is easily pointed out, almost to the point where it's a lazy counter-point. In this case layoffs are a clear sign of distress and all those who have been laid off will have a hard time getting new jobs, which is something we should also feel bad about.
Are there tax implications for rent forgiveness vs lease defaults?
For anyone interested:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_Paganitzu_1991
Sounds like a solution to a first world problem, no wonder they've become a bygone.
Correct. I spoke with their digital team recently and got the low-down. Your full name and the phone number you type in is compared (not sure what entity does this comparison) with the telco billing records that also obviously have your name and number paired. In my case I only have a business cell phone which was problematic to use with my personal Capital One account for step-up auth.

It's disgusting to think about the record sharing, and I doubt it even protects against SIM swapping (or does it?).
> I never said the private key would be embedded inside the ID. In fact, I would think a paper copy at home would be most appropriate.

As soon as such a thing existed, people would want to start using it for everything, and nobody is going to want to do cryptography with pen and paper. It would end up in a card or device people would carry on their person so they could use it and then it would be a huge theft target.

> DMV, Passports, Banks, RealID already get our fingerprints.

It's the same problem, you'd have a central database mapping public keys to fingerprints and then it's a single point of failure/compromise. The attacker could get your fingerprints from the DMV, associate their public key with them and then start impersonating you using two factor authentication because they have your fingerprints and the corresponding private key to the public key the DMV has on record for you.

Let each entity maintain the mapping themselves. Your employer has a computer that says the ID badge with public key 1234 is yours. You don't need the DMV to do anything there, and then nobody can cross-correlate anything and if anybody breaks it they only compromise one system.

> I hear your argument about centralization, but that genie is already out of the bottle. Making it better is a good idea, no?

Getting rid of it is a better idea. Or start by making the centralized system worse and more restrictive so people use it for fewer things and replace existing uses with decentralized alternatives, and then get rid of it.

> Also, if any vulnerability occurs, I can go back to DMV and register a new PP pair.

They stole all your money, broke into your company and stole the trade secrets, filed separate fraudulent claims against your home, life, car and medical insurance policies, took out a second mortgage on your house, sold the title to your car and gained access to your computer where they found some information they're now using to blackmail you.

You can go to the DMV and change your public key, but that's closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. Better that only one of those things happen than all of them, no?
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All system programs could operate and manage the containers running on the system, meaning you can use your existing knowledge to manage a bunch of containers.

For instance, you could run your package manager across all containers to see if they have packages with known CVEs. Or manage the filesystems of all containers on the system (the usefulness of this is only clear with filesystems like ZFS and btrfs). This is effectively what you can do with Solaris Zones.

These kinds of improvements to usability aren't as sexy now that everyone is really excited about Kubernetes (where you blow away containers at whim) but it is useful for the more traditional container usecases that Zones and Jails. LXC (and LXD) is probably the one Linux container runtime that is closest to that original container model.

There's also a very big security argument -- it is (speaking as a maintainer of runc) very hard to construct a secure container on Linux. There are dozens of different facilities you need to individually configure in the right order, with hundreds of individual knobs that some users might want to disable or quirks you need to work around. It's basically impossible to implement a sane and secure container runtime without having read and understood the kernel code which implements the interfaces you're using. If containers were an in-kernel primitive then all of the security design would rest in one single codebase, and all of the policies would be defined by one entity (the kernel).
Unrelated but similar: https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/why-taxpayers-pay-mckinse...
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My wife owns a small business with a retail location. I had to personally guarantee the lease.

Don't worry, landlords will get their money one way or another.
The whole point of you saving for 3 months is specifically to avoid the downturn scenario you described in your own post, so you obviously wouldn't have to lay people off because you specifically prepared for it by saving money.
There's a difference between breaking news and lamenting the state of the world. Journalists don't write articles that say nothing but "Serial killers are terrible. I want to live in a world without serial killers."

We can agree to disagree. I personally do not find any value in people complaining without illuminating the problem they're complaining about, and seeking or proposing a different vision or solution.
yes, you moved, the wall just pushed you back.

bad jokes aside, I designed it that way.
Not disagreeing at all, but note that the article is about commercial property, not housing.
I believe some parts of this are important:

1. Describing the problem, the business value, and the key words/definitions

2. Defining the goals _and non-goals_ for the project

3. Describing the implementation's logic and data model (a simple schema with boxes and arrows)

I like how it is done in "Domain Modeling Made Functional". However I agree too much of this is counterproductive.
For what it’s worth, interest rates are very, very low, so commercial mortgage rates should be fairly low.

If tenants don’t pay, the landlords are just as screwed. And if commercial real estate values crash, the lenders may have problems.
> If their tenant goes out of business, they're not getting the back rent and now they'll have a vacancy in a time they're unlikely to find another tenant quickly.

In some cases (I have first hand experience - perhaps it is limited to small businesses), the business owner has to agree to be personally liable (with his/her own personal assets) if the business fails to pay the rent. The business may go bankrupt, but the landlord can still go after the owner's personal assets.

That's one way for the landlord to lower his/her risk exposure.
What is the benefit of leaving HN for another site/forum to discuss when you could just comment and engage right here where the question was posed?
Letting masks sell for $25/ct now so that companies can afford to go to 24/7 production NOW and not have to worry about paying unemployment in 2 months might be, though.
yeah, I wondered if it should say "Some landlords say only 25% of their retail tenants paid April rent"
> That's $1,500 a pop!

Some arbitrators make over $1,000 per hour.
Speaking of Turing complete text editors, here's a Turing Machine implemented in TECO by Marvin Minsky in 1981, that I once ran across in home directory on ITS. (Thanks to Harold Ancell (hga) for saving it and posting it!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161002

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Menards has great rebates too. I tend to think of them as tax-free income.
thank you. but I swear I had never seen a sokoban game that counts your moves. Well, I haven't search it either, so it doesn't count, but I remember playing sokoban on DOS when I was a kid and it didn't count the moves.
My buddies and I play Risk on http://landgrab.net and it's very nice, tons of different boards to choose from. We do 24 hour turns so it's different than playing live, it's more like correspondence chess.