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> we are being put at 80% pay / 80% time.

Uhm, you want to check the fine prints. If you've been furloughed, which is typically what people on "80%" are, then the Treasury is paying your salary, but you're NOT supposed to work AT ALL. If you are actually working, you and your company are effectively committing benefit fraud.

> Do you think in the current climate it would be doable to start freelancing

Everything is doable with enough grit and enough resources; IR35 is a big concern though, because it has cut demand significantly by scaring companies away from contractors - even if the postponed changes are postponed again next April, HMRC will keep the finger on the trigger.

This said, this is probably not the right time to sell in general; it's the right time to buy / invest / build while prices are rock-bottom.

> would like to look at turnkey work

That's not a great move at the best of times, unless that "turnkey" is highly automated (in which case it's likely to go away soon as somebody starts selling the fully-automated version). Fixed-price is a recipe for getting screwed.
> The US economy around 1800 was the first economy in history to produce a consistent food surplus.

Can you provide a source for this claim? Thanks.
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> In the medium to long term though high prices slowly incentivize people to produce more of that good. So it would be like if your hardware gained more and more CPU threads to dish out over time, until we reach some equilibrium again.

Except the demand is going to fall back down in the future, and your hypervisor is sentient and realizes there's no point in spending its own resources to provision more vCPUs if they're going to be running idle by the time they're activated.
wanted to share an offbeat method a friend shared the other day. he started plotting the weight of the local newspaper. lesser weight meant lesser advertisers.
Annotate is a valid git command though right?

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-annotate
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Oh, you're right. Honestly had I truly read the whole sentence I probably would have figured that out.
> So far, all the Covid19 stats out of China proofed to be fake

Can you provide a source on that? The only "proof" I have seen people confident of is speculation based on the urns delivered to funeral homes - which IMO can be attributed to non-Covid-19 related deaths continuing during the lockdown.
Self plug: founder at https://www.avesnetsec.com and launching something like this as a SaaS-offering very soon - doing limited access trials right now and expect full launch in 4 weeks' time.

Some of the comments here around usability echo our early customer feedback very much - which is why we want to be as smooth on the plug and play side as possible.
Iceland and a couple European countries did some sample testing studies where they tested a random sample of the population(1-2 %) to see how many people have coronavirus antibodies. Even in Italy in the most affected regions this was only about 10%, on Iceland it was about 1%.

So it's really unlikely large amount of the population anywhere has already had the coronavirus and might be immune without anyone noticing (without you know, all the totally overloaded hospitals and lots of people suddenly dying).
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Most Austrians I've heard see this to be a dollar crisis:

US has huge debt -> No US politician will ever default on it -> They will print money to pay it -> Dollar loses value.

That's fairly simplified but I hope you get the point. Since they see this as a dollar crisis, they are busy buying gold, silver, gold stocks, and assets in countries that have dollar-denominated debt.

I'm going to add my 2 cents here and say that in my opinion, if the Corona situation will be solved quickly enough, or at least be perceived to be solved by the public, a rush of optimism will allow the fed to inflate the bubble and postpone (and worsen) the depression.
I’m on the same team as you, but this is dangerous advice to take because that’s not the world we live in. Don’t buy gold because you expect the sky to fall tomorrow. In 20 years? Yeah, we’re pretty fucked. But right now? Markets can always stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
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See https://www.space.com/43015-interstellar-visitor-oumuamua-no... for the math.

But you're still focusing on the wrong thing. The idea of "a complicated gravity assist" getting something going this fast in the Solar System is laughable. The only thing in the Solar System heavy enough to do a gravity assist on the necessary scale is the Sun itself, and it started nowhere near the Sun.
Then you should buy umbrellas, and not listen to people saying it'll be sunny forever.
It's banners, so "reel estate"?
Less a pin to a bubble, more a wrecking ball to a house made of sticks

Effectively shutting down more than half of all business is slightly more than bursting a bubble. It is world war II scale event, with exception that there is no war that could take all the unemployed hands to the front and to producing weapons.
Complexity can only ever be moved, never removed. This means complex problems are impossible to make easy, only a single part of a problem can be swayed with equal or worse cost to others.

This is best seen in abstractions; they make certain functions much easier to do on a routine basis, but they are less flexible than the functions they represent, and thus you end up with creating more and more abstractions, cases for them and at the end, end up with the same or more chaos than you had in the beginning.

This results in what I'd say futile work being done trying to fight it without even realising. You can't do something complex with less, or it wasn't that complex in the first place.

To make a truly malleable system, is to make a fractal, which is by definition impossible to solve. A problem(fractal) always requires a problem-area and accuracy in order to solve it, in that accuracy. There is _always_ an equal or worse tradeoff.
>theory of immunosuppression from Cov2

A lot of the people it kills seem to be getting attacked by their own immune system though, can both these things happen at the same time?
Just because it is the default, it doesn't mean it cannot be changed.

I just thought that XmlConfigurationProvider wasn't in 1.x, as I avoided that crash train with multiple reboots how projects and .NET Standard was supposed to look like.

So I stand corrected regarding when it was introduced.
> As far as I know, in Swedish å does not have any ambiguity and is always read as "o" (as in "ocean").

perhaps in Geordie dialect!

it's actually closer to the "o" in "thought"
Maybe find a problem you like and study that?

Effectively programming is like writing or maths - as such it is intrinsically not that interesting to most people, but what you can do with it is.

I.e. most people find books more exciting than grammar, and specific application of math more interesting than just doing calculus disconnected from any practical problem.

While getting started with programming is more difficult than acquiring basic literacy, once you have it, it's not that big of a deal and to grow you need to move onwards (i.e. apply it to real problems or continue studying the theory).

Once you've mastered a certain level of basics, just learning a new language or API is quite pointless unless there is some value proposition tied to it.
> In my country, language protection is a big thing. It's also why we have such a terrible ability to speak english

The latter does not inevitably follow from the former. "Language protection" has been a big thing in Finland inasmuch as the Finnish intelligentsia has historically preferred coining new words from Finnish roots instead of adopting foreign vocabulary (so tietokone for ‘computer’) and there is heavy state subsidy for local cultural productions in Finnish, but Finns nevertheless have great proficiency in English.

> Every time a language dies, like latin or summerian did, we gain uniformity.

What? Latin died as a native language by splitting up into a large series of dialects across Europe that were no longer mutually intelligible by the late first millennium. Europe did not gain any uniformity by that process.
The response of governments around the world doesn’t look like it’s been informed by Austrian economics, and in places which have implemented some kind of policy derived from MMT (esp. Australia) things have been looking pretty good. What would Austrian economic policy have done differently and better?
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> Markets can always stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

That's very true. People will read and decide for themselves.
Just waiting for an ad buster plugin that puts kittens on all the buildings!
Making sense in what fashion, to what end? Investment opportunities? Proposed public policy changes? Where to look for a job?

To a large degree the economy is unknowable. That's why you can get two economists in a room and receive seven opinions. Don't get me wrong; there's good value there. It's just that economics is an odd mix of philosophy and math. On my more cranky days I call it astrology for people who know calculus.

If the economy were knowable to the degree that some economists claim to know it, they'd all be billionaires. So my advice is to scope down your question to something a bit more workable.
Generally yes, though it would depend on the exact context.

The Spanish monarchy in the 1600s or in the 17th century is the same for me, same if you say "the Spanish monarchy (1600-1699)", unless a specific event happened in 1700 (revolution?).
Wikipedia. Just yesterday I was explaining my layman's understanding of econ, namely that money itself is zero-sum, so the prices of goods and services float on the free market according to how much people are willing to pay for them.

Central banks inject money into the economy, inflating the economy, reducing costs across the board. This acts as a wealth transfer from wealth holders to wealth producers, by that I mean businesses.

Normal inflation happens in a healthy economy, in an unhealthy one like this one, they dust off the lever known as QE. In a QE environment, the central bank injects money directly into the economy by buying up government bonds and other financial instruments.

This coupled with fractional reserve banking means that the banks can make a whole lot more loans, flooding the system with liquidity so that money can start moving again.

I had implied that QE increases the money supply, and so was corrected and told that it was actually the money base that was increased. On to Wikipedia I went to upgrade my knowledge.

There I found out that the concept of money base is referring specifically to the amount of money banks can lend on using fractional reserve banking. So while nominally it's referring to the amount of hard currency in circulation, that 'in circulation' part is key, it's not just the amount of 'real' money out there.

Economics shouldn't be mysterious, one's first stop should be Wikipedia to understand the boring concepts. If you want to know how it got that way, the Wikipedia articles on the history of the banking system are pretty good.

It's dry, boring stuff. But you need to know it if you want to understand how the world works.
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The best theory I've seen for crash cycles is:

1. The establishment encourages making credit widely available in order to pacify the less well off who would otherwise demand a better deal out of the social contract.

2. This leads to unsustainable debt, as people are forced into borrowing to meet basic needs with no means to pay it back.

3. Eventually this comes to a head as people begin to default, causes a cascading chain through the economy as people are unable to meet their obligations, leading to crash.

4. At which point, governments step in and debt is forgiven, correcting the imbalance created in step 1.

Seemed to make a lot of sense to me. And the interesting thing is that it suggests a solution: replace widely available credit with direct wealth redistribution and you end up with the same net effect (as the debts are being forgiven in the end anyway), but without the destructive boom-bust cycles.
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Amazing work! I have been selling a product using a WhatsApp chatbot for some time now. iMessage would be a great addition to this so I will definitely get back to you once I find some more time to work on the project. Great work in getting this setup!
No one sane thinks it will be sunny forever, and there is great economic cost in carrying around a bunch of umbrellas when the sun is shining overhead.
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Oh, come on! haha I know it's just a silly example, but I assumed that everybody would get the (serious) idea anyway :(
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There are some very good points in the replies, but please also consider that old people are less capable of joy than young people.

There is a lot of good advice here, but some things will just never return. That is life. Read the Bible.
What you said is broadly right, but it's always nuanced.

Yesterday they disavowed economists who are apologists for price-gouging on life-essential goods, such as masks, whose production cannot quickly respond to pricing signals.
>Another tried to sell a single pixel for a million dollars.

That kind of sums up the whole dot-com boom and bust right there.
> What's peculiar about it? It's no more peculiar than any other culture. But I'm guessing you meant it's a unique culture. But even then, it's not. It's part of the greater nomadic central asian culture.

Mongolia’s elites adopted Buddhism and their intelligentsia has historically looked to Tibet. That has greatly set Mongolian culture apart from the peoples of Central Asia, who adopted Islam. Also, Mongolic is a completely different language family from Turkic.
> and threw a lot of dollars in ads/marketing without deeply analyzing its effectiveness, just because raising money at stellar valuations was free until a month ago.

And in turn, I think you're overestimating the impact of profit-limited capital dependant companies on the advertising landscape.

I was managing a 6 figure ad budget all by myself at an established but small non-tech company and had full E2E tracking flows for pretty much every £. "Burn" isn't a thing in almost all companies out there. You want to spend a dollar, you need to tell your boss exactly how it'll make you a buck fifty.
Two main reasons, in my view :

- It's way more profitable for the advertising platforms (that remains to be seen for the advertisers, see point 2) because you multiply/combine the number of different audiences infinitely or so => more campaigns, more budget...

- The user engagement metrics (clicks on your ads, return on invest, etc) are waaaay sexier with targeting advertising. It's pretty logical, since people you adress your content with are much likely to be at least a bit interested.

Privacy and user's anger might effectively have an impact, but we can also suppose advertising platforms will adapt anyway.
My company has recently switched to G Suite from Office, and I'm actually starting to consider this as an actual perk of working somewhere, just to avoid Office (Outlook above all, but also Sharepoint, etc…).
OP here. I changed the title to better reflect the content.
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Just came across this. Quite cool - the premium communication hook could be a pretty big pull.

I'm building a chat app that doesn't need phone numbers for communication and I'd love to have a brief chat (email/text) if its ok with you. Just want to get your thoughts on the problem since it's in a slightly similar space.
Heh, just to test it, I submitted this comment page, the space savings are pretty amazing: (original size of 14.3 kB to 23.3 kB) [-63%]. Also, something seems weird in the calculation, my browser shows "24KB transfers, 36.5KB of resources"

https://beta.trimread.com/articles/11158
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This is true but airplane mode used to be ‘all antennas off’. It would be really nice if there were an ‘all antennas off’ mode now that airplane mode means ‘cellular off’.
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If what you said was inaccurate, ie if there was no life after death, in my opinion it'd be harmful to claim that there is.
> A long term bull market does not define a bubble.

No, but inverted yield curves do.
It's highly unlikely he's been furloughed. I don't think a big tech company would make the mistake of having staff on that scheme working anyway, they would be in a lot of trouble if they did, but as the limit is £2500 per month I'm sure the OP would be on noticeable less than 80% of his previous pay as a London tech lead if he had been.

The 80% rate of the furlough scheme does seem to have prompted a lot of companies to think this is a suitable rate for a hard times haircut to give thier staff generally though, even they are still working 100%.
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If they thought it might increase to $40 a roll soon, they will hoard. They might not be able to hoard as much of it, but they might still do it. Doubling your money on $1000 worth of rolls is still the same outcome whether that represents 50 rolls or 500 rolls, excepting only the logistics.
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This is very insightful. I find that having to have a "reason" to code kind of takes away the joy of it. I.e. I start to think "is this useful?" or "is this a waste of time?". At that point all the joy is sucked out of the atmosphere and I end up doing work instead, which is very little fun most of the time.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted. I often need to remind myself of that.
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> At what point does personal responsibility factor in to the outcome of communities?

I'm from the Detroit area. Unless you have experience with that environment, it's difficult to understand.

An example is that I've met families where nobody in their known family tree spanning 200 years has graduated from high school.

So any assumptions you have need to be reset.

However, it's an interesting question to ask, "What would help a group develop personal responsibility, or enable children to graduate from high school?"

Not sure what the answer is, or for the matter, if anybody wants to be helped.
I deleted my rather cynical post, about how we can "age out" of frontline programming, and will replace it with this rather sunnier treatise:

Open source work.

I was a manager for over 25 years. I'm a really good manager. I could probably be an ideal CTO.

But I don't love it. I love writing code.

As my management track progressed, I found my technical work deprecating. It did teach me to be a lot more "strategic," and "architectural" in my approach, but I found that I was sitting down and banging out code less and less.

To make things worse, I kept reading about how the tools and techniques were progressing to levels far beyond what I had learned.

I didn't have a "shower clause" in my employment contract (where the employer insists that they own the ideas that you come up with in the shower before work), so I was free to write software in an extracurricular manner, as long as I didn't use employer time and/or resources to do so.

So I started to do open source. In the beginning (about 25 years ago), there wasn't a good infrastructure for shared configuration management, so most of the work I did was published "after the fact" (otherwise known as "deliverable"). I would make the source available, "on the side."

Nowadays, with things like GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket, you can actually run a distributed collaborative open-source (or closed-source) project, with the process open. It also works great for single-engineer projects.

The result, these days, is that I have a GIGANTIC portfolio. Hundreds of thousands of lines of crafted, artisanal, small-batch, single-source code, in dozens of repos. I like to use the MIT license for my work.

I tend to design architectures; not apps, and some of the designs I've done have lasted decades (although with many changes along the way).

I found a need in an underserved community, and designed an ecosystem to help them meet their needs. For free. It's now becoming the global standard (but for a small demographic).

If you can find a need that usually can't afford your level of skill, you can find a home. It can be quite challenging, but that which does not kill us makes us stronger. It taught me to plan for the future, and for limited resource pools and budgets. It taught me to support my work, and do work that can be supported and passed on to others.

Ironically, my open-source tech work informed my "day job," as well.

Open source work.

In the movie "The Graduate," the equivalent of the "OK Boomer" (in those days), lectures a young Dustin Hoffman with "One word: 'Plastics.'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk

So this "OK Boomer" says "Open Source." It worked for me.

I've spent the last couple of years "reinventing" myself to be a line programmer again.

It makes me happy.
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Hello! author here, i just wanted to address a few things i've seen in the comments:

* i absolutely built this for fun, it's an idea i had late at night and needed to scratch that itch

* the scolling sucks, laying out arbitrarily sized articles into a given layout is a challenge, and the scrolling hides a lot of the sins. I'm going to switch to truncating articles this evening, and linking to a single article page.

* thanks for the suggestions on hyphenation, i've been playing with a few different approaches but none have worked with all the browsers i tried, i'll give a few suggestions a go this evening!
The area under the infection curve does, but not the area under the death curve. The entire point of flattening the curve is to avoid doctors having to ration care due to overwhelming demand.

Fwiw, I'm also in the camp that cases are an order of magnitude off and there is significantly more immunity in the population than we think. However that's a hunch and with out widespread antibody testing it would be irresponsible for anyone to act on such a hunch.