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> The government also said that companies which pay out dividends, buy back own shares or are registered in tax havens won’t be eligible for any of the aid programs...

Well first off, dividends are a normal method for business owners to make an income... they take all the risk, but reap some limited rewards by taking dividends rather than a salary.

Buying back shares I’m fine with. While that could actually be seen as a form of “reinvesting”, I get the point.

What sense does the “registered in tax havens” part make though? If they’re a foreign-registered company would they ever have been eligible for aid? Plenty of companies in Europe are employing thousands of people, but are “owned” by a company elsewhere, so how do we define that ownership and “tax haven”?
Labour laws, environmental and safety regulations, and numerous other requirements. "Flags of convenience" are a race-to-the-bottom Gresham's Law dynamic, also referred to as "the law of competing standards":

https://fs.blog/2009/12/mental-model-greshams-law/
It's interesting that the optimization chooses to increase the airplane's altitude throughout the day then immediately cut power to near zero in the evening. I imagine this is so that the solar energy from the solar panels can be "stored" as potential energy with gravity?

Is using Jupyter notebooks like this common in the mechanical/aerospace engineering design phase? Seems like a reasonable thing to do prior to CAD/full physics simulations.
The Book of Why by Judea Pearl may be a good starting point for anyone interested in this.
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Spouses wouldn't necessarily share any genetic susceptibility yet there are plenty of stories of husband and wife pairs dying. Whether these stories are over-represented, like most areas of "proof", is pretty much impossible to say for certain at this point.
It's probably a bit more nuanced than that. Dividends are often scheduled months in advance, based on (for instance) last year's profits. Having made a profit last year, and having promised a dividend months before corona doesn't mean you won't be struggling now.
Target snake-oil covid-19 "cures" to people who responded as having symptoms or being particularly at risk?

I've seen various scams (fake "hacking" services, weight loss products, etc) both organic (liked by tons of very obvious compromised/fake accounts) & paid, and when reported they said it doesn't violate our terms of use, so I wouldn't be surprised if this scummy company does the same thing again.
Last year I did a course on learning braille, run by two blind friends.

Definitely get a refreshable braille display, and learn it and set up your usual development workflow while you can still see.

I was amazed by how plug-and-play the braille display of my friend was. I plugged it via USB into my Ubuntu laptop with brltty and it worked out of the box: I could read my terminal output on it, and it even did the "blinking cursor" of where the cursor is on screen without any configuration.

Within 2 days, I learned basic Braille (we simulated learning it fully blindly, that is with closed eyes), could read things slowly, and also learned typing Braille with the 6-chord keys present on the refreshable braille display.

The blind friends that taught me can use both text-to-speech and the braille display at insane speeds.

They can give free-standing presentations, talking at high speed for an hour in perfectly sophisticated language while looking at the audience with the laptop apparently closed, when in fact they are just reading it off the braille device with a finger! Reading the braille device certainly has the chance to give you apparently-superhuman abilities. I found that so cool that I considered getting good at it already just for that purpose.

So, in summary:

1) I think you have very good chances of staying very proficient even if you go fully blind.

2) Play around with the tool set already now, and fix apparent pain points ahead of time that are easier to fix while still seeing.
> not everybody is well-equipped, or willing, to bear

Well yeah, but the people who are least equipped are also the people least likely to be introspective enough to realize they probably shouldn't be having children.
hey, check this out, it came up before: https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app

sometimes the reasons don't make sense to me even though people say they do.
I can't imagine the employees at a managed IT company care as much about your infrastructure's and/or data's security as the employees of the client company.
For anyone living in Canada (which has a serious lack of quality dairy products), I'd heartily recommend Emerald Grasslands butter. It's superb. Grass fed, Jersey cows, fantastic flavour.
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So by that reasoning, LeBron James (who earns a salary of $37 million) isn't a better basketball player than Maurice Harkless ($11 million); he's just "motivated by power and money". I wonder how you would take it if someone offered you a small fraction of your current salary and suggested you were "motivated by money" if you didn't accept it?

Are you also arguing that it's fundamentally impossible for any business executive to be as valuable to a business as LeBron James is to the Lakers?
Just moved from Scaleway to Hetzner's new AMD Epyc VPSs.Will see how it turns out.The CPX11 for 4.19/month seems a bargain.Their network seem a little slow though...With scaleway i was getting consistently Gigabit D/U.Now i sometimes get below 100mbps on hetzner.
This seems like the very exact case where you'd want to pierce the corporate veil. If this doesn't qualify then what does?
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There’s nothing wrong with having a toggle; it just needs to default to a “system” mode. Unfortunately this site doesn’t seem to implement this correctly, as changing the OS theme doesn’t update the site’s theme.
Ah! But his map isn't a representation of COVID-19 cases.

It's a representation of people who self diagnose symptoms that are associated with COVID-19.

The small print below the map matters:

> This map shows an estimated percentage of people with COVID-19 symptoms, not confirmed cases.

The self diagnose part is important as well, because people are asked to observe themselves and fill out a survey through Facebook. They don't take a test administered by a health expert and report the exact results back.

Put differently, you're looking at a map of people who report recognizing symptoms with themselves that are associated with COVID-19. But are also associated with the flu or any other respiratory affliction ranging from the common cold over allergies to early lung cancer.
Dividend and share buybacks are the same end result, just different mechanisms for enriching shareholders.

If you didn’t keep enough cash on hand (because you were shoveling profits out the door), you lose your ownership interest (insolvency with no bailout).

These are very reasonable conditions for a nation state bailout.
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> registered in tax havens won’t be eligible for any of the aid programs

This just common sense, wonder why its not the standard.
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You really didn't look that up? Ok, well done.

First the why would I. Because if you are in that state, anything's worth a try. My naive logic was if you stack antidepressants you get more effect. Yea, well, not the way I intended.

Prozac is an SSRI, StJW is an MAOI. SSRI + MAOI = serotonin event. I was lucky not to end up in hospital.

St. John's Wort has possible side effects including photosensitivity and eye problems (glaucoma or cataracts, can't remember). You can't say which is best or better, or even recommend anything except on an individual level. You can't talk about 'best' or 'better' except on an average level and you really need to understand what's appropriate for the individual patient. For example, if someone's struggling on prozac with the side effects then why not have them come off and try SJWort? What have they got to lose?

Quite a lot if things go wrong. The prozac has to clear from your system (weeks at least) and SJW may not work - so go back to prozac, no problem right?

But going back to prozac may not work - when you come off antidepressents and go back onto them, sometimes they don't work again. Unusual bit it happens. That is a really terrifying prospect if you have depression, so you may (as I did) choose to continue with bad side effects of prozac rather than take the chance (assuming the person is even aware this can happen). The alternative is too horrible.

So what I'm saying is I quite agree SJW may be a valid treatment but there's too much complexity involved for a layman to recommend anything. By all means suggest they talk to their doctor (or pharmacist) about it, and educate them as far as you can, but don't push any treatment, it's just too complex and risky a topic without decent knowledge.
I self-medicate ADD with nicotine and it does help. It's fairly addictive though, so, I wouldn't exactly recommend it.
I’m curious, what is that context? ...why is it “problematic” for an underrepresented group (such as in Harvard admissions), to rally around a claim it’s okay to be them?

Have you ever considered that if you need to do a lot of explaining, and not even your own parents follow your logic, but the other person can persuasively summarize their argument... you might just be wrong?

A question for people downvoting:

Do you think I’m wrong or do you just not like what I’m saying?

It seems easy to correct me about the Harvard admissions point, if I’m just factually mistaken.
Is that correlated to the price of gas - if it ever was?

I realize the above question is naive, but it's clear that the Russians and the Saudis having a pissing match over supply just as demand dries up (because COVID) has caused prices to collapse.

In some places, gas is under $1/gallon.[1]

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gas-prices-average-drop-k...
Perhaps the aids are to prevent insolvency, and perhaps dividends are illegal during insolvency. Not being sarcastic, I genuinely don't know.
Wow white nationalism apologism on HN. At least it's being downvoted quickly.
That is a beautiful machine, indeed
None of those were casual journeys the way a flight home for Christmas is. For colonists, it was generally the one long-distance trip they would make in their entire lives. In the glory days of the great trans-Atlantic liners, the only people who used them regularly were the very rich.
I think the "in tax havens" part applies to "pay out dividends" as well. Perhaps someone who speaks Danish can refer to the official sources and confirm?
It's not the statement's literal meaning (though that's plenty distasteful on its own), it's the use of a symbol for a philosophy that views social dynamics in the US as a zero-sum struggle between fundamentally distinct "whites" and "non-whites", which is itself just a restatement of reconstruction-era segregationist philosophy, used by the same demographics for largely the same semantic purposes.

It's yucky. It literally took us a century to kill that as policy, and that it survives as meme is deeply shameful.
> 1. Did you decide against including any script in the app bundle for more privacy? It looks like it.

Sorta.

My initial use case didn't need a bundled script. My current script involves heavily my local env (e.g. credentials, searching local file). Some use cases are very specific to company's internals (e.g. lookup user id).

I might consider embed a script. But I haven't given it much thought yet, and, because of App Sandbox, the script wouldn't be able to do much.

> 2. So all scripts must be appended in that same file? Have you thought about a behavior like a ".d" directory in the recent "Unix world", where each file can add configuration options? That would enable using different scripts and different languages.

Yes, that's some what in a roadmap. For now, you can workaround by having the main script calls out to the other script

Thank you for the questions. Please don't hesitate to let me know how it works for you!
It's a good common sense start. Companies that pay dividends or make share buy-backs are more vulnerable in a crisis (not only the current one), meaning they are riskier investments. Risk needs to be inversely correlated with reward for the markets to function. Investors in riskier companies deserve to get wiped out, not propped up.

Companies registered in tax-havens should have no business applying for EU or US aid. I would say, simply barring them doesn't go far enough. If one did apply while being simultaneously registered in the EU/US and any tax haven, that is fraud and should result in jail time.
There's a lot of misinformation about this out there.

The article does a bad job at explaining it, but companies that take aid cannot pay dividends or buy back stock until they return the aid.

This is so that aid is not redirected into the pockets of shareholders and is instead used to keep people employed.

>The Government and all parties to the Parliament agree that the extended and extended fixed cost scheme introduces a condition in the Compensation Orders that applicants, as a condition of receiving compensation for the extended period, must declare by faith and laws, that the companies will not pay dividends or buy back shares for the financial years 2020 and 2021. The condition will apply to companies that receive more than DKK 60 million. in compensation in 2020 in the compensation scheme for fixed costs. Companies will later be able to free themselves from these restrictions by repaying paid aid under this scheme in excess of DKK 60 million.

Translated from: https://www.fm.dk/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2020/04/regering...

DKK 60 million is about 8.8 million dollars.

If you have money to pay dividends, you have money to pay back your government aid.
This is why anything partisan or partisan-adjacent in the US, which includes most current "news" events of any kind, has become so supremely boring to me.

It's literally no longer about what is factual or not, or what is actually being said, simply what it it assumed that someone is attempting to imply.

It's a terrible situation, and one that has infected a lot of other areas of USian everyday communication: https://sneak.berlin/20191201/american-communication/

If you're not fluent in euphemism and current-events context, making a plain factual statement can frequently be heard/interpreted by the listener as you saying the opposite, and the listener is usually totally unaware of the fact that they're flipping things around like this.

It's one thing when I'm acting like like the beep boop robot I am, but it's leaked out and over, into just plain speech.
Here's GitLab's guide on async: https://about.gitlab.com/company/culture/all-remote/asynchro...

It's a challenge for suddenly-remote companies which aren't used to working this way, especially if all work communication isn't funneled through a tool that is designed for async workflows. The benefit of a remote organization which was designed as remote is people opt-in to those workflows.

Much has been said about transitioning from colocated to remote, but remote teams would struggle as well if suddenly forced into the office. It's worth recognizing that part of the challenge is the sudden shift in environment, regardless of origin and destination.

The super power you mention has elements of truth to it. Some people naturally prefer to work this way, while others prefer sync. It is tougher on those who prefer sync to suddenly need to work async.
In other words the Dalit caste but not surprised that this is happening in modern India.
Dubai is definitely a tourist destination, and it's not just for hyper-wealthy people. They get a huge amount of middle class tourism from South Asia and China. There's a wide variety of hotels, from 2* to 7* and you can stay in a superb 5* hotel for $150/night.

It feels like a destination for the hyper-wealthy to Americans because our tourist offerings here are so much better - but not everyone can come here. My best analogy for Dubai is that it's like Vegas without the gambling - and while that may suck for some people, it can definitely be done. Vegas is also done at every price point!
Unfortunately, you would have to write your own provider script to do the translation.

Otherwise, PopClip would be a great out-of-the-box alternative.
Dividends and share buy backs are effectively the same thing. Treating them differently is what makes no sense.
Also DXVK [1], an implementation of DirectX over Vulkan that allows (most) games to run on Linux with native or even better performance. Some people are using DXVK even on Windows to circumvent bugs or simply because it's faster for some DX9 games.

[1] https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
I love how people can post-rationalise that right is wrong. It is very clever, but you are being dishonest with yourself.

It is simply wrong to take from others who work to those who cannot be bothered to work. Everything you do afterwards is trying rationalise your desire for UBI because you believe it to be virtuous.
I've never understood the need for synchronization of transient content. It adds to much complexity, attack surface, and bulk to any project. Is it really that bad to just run a secure native, non-web, reader on every device?

And to answer my own question: No, it isn't that bad. It's fine.
The official reasoning for the current Fed's unprecedented quantitative easing is to prevent deflating prices like these from lasting long-term.
I doubt they collapse, this is a war of attrition started by the Saudis and Russia. They are attempting to force all of their competition (primarily each other) out of business by continuing to flood the market with oil. They are betting that they can outlast the other. These are both nations that care very little for their citizenry outside of the elites so both are willing to go to lengths other democratic nations would not.

Either side could likely stop this with the consequence only being loss of face.
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Tesla's the Apple of cars.

The Arch of cars: https://ea0e05a6ffc83d5fb84e-cbd7b9ff6ab9d7e4de0720aa602bc9d...

The Manjaro of cars: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c2/2a/eb/c22aebc3121882e6d54a12372...

The Debian of cars: https://barnfinds.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/right-front...

The Ubuntu of cars: http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/5/2017/05/2018-Honda-...
I bought a cheap used one off of eBay, it wasn't too expensive - a few hundred bucks. I know that nicer ones can get up there, though. Learning braille was an unusual challenge, but I didn't find it especially difficult. It only took a couple of days to become reasonably proficient with it. The braille display I ended up with is pretty nice despite its price tag, it has a good finger-feel to it and has a nice set of basic features.

The most difficult thing for me would be learning advanced levels of braille, which involves memorizing shortened forms of many words, but I reckon I can get away with just using long-form for a good long while.
GitHub does this as well. When I spoke to their recruiter they offered me 30 to 50% less than what I currently make because I live in a "tier 3" city.
That's how you get stagnation. It's also rather unfair.
the market is supposed to understand risks.
There are mid-ways.

We have 1 cat that is "internal" i.e. can enter the house (and is normally given food inside) but of course is free to go outside in the garden and 3 cats that are "outdoor" cats, meaning they won't enter the house but are always around the house and are fed as well (outside).
Have you tried higher quality butters? The difference is palpable, and can be easily picked out by uneducated palates under blind conditions.

Whether this butter is that noticeably different to other super high grade butters I wouldn't know, but I've frequently run into people who treat butter as some undifferentiated fat, which seems generally to be due to lack of exposure to the real thing.
My company tends to do something similar for starting salaries, but that's because we're a consultancy, and our rates per-market are different.

However: In the long term if employees stay with the company long term, salaries tend to get bumped up to approximately the same. So you might get started lower, but your yearly pay bump will be higher.
You aren't alone. It's easy to conflate "remote" with what's happening right now, but it's not the same. Crisis-induced work-from-home while doubling as a homeschool teacher is not the same as properly organized remote work.

Less to do with home and more to do with everything outside of work impacting work.

More here: https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1252040170783641600?s=...
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What worked for me is ditching the pillow to sleep when I'm on my back. I keep the pillow in the vicinity and use it if I switch to my side. People used to comment how bad my posture was, I don't get that anymore.
>If you didn’t keep enough cash on hand [...]

This is implying you could keep enough cash on hand. Outside of tech giants, how many companies keep enough cash reserves to survive months without revenue?
That’s how you get articles from angry web developers that break things in your browser and call it “the new IE”.
Honestly, if it was like a 5-10% difference it wouldn't be as nearly as insulting.
You don't literally get the barrel when you buy a 'barrel' of oil.
You're suffering from a low trait conscientiousness. It's going to get you in a lot of trouble and drive the main line of suffering in your life on so many levels.

There's nothing else as important in your life as fixing this. It's going to be difficult. Probably the hardest thing you've ever done in your life.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/raising-your-...
My pet peeve with computer form factors is depth. 40-50 cm depth was OK in times of CRT monitors, but with LCDs and disappearance of DVD drives, there is no reason to have significant depth.

Even with mATX SFFs it is still rare to have depth below 30 cm. mATX makes lower bound to about 26 cm, full-length GPUs are up to 32 cm, but there are still powerful GPUs with reasonable length.
I think you're being willfully obtuse, so there isn't much point to trying to help you understand. You're too stuck on the singular point of whether it's physically possible for something to be done electronically, and ignoring every other factor.
The dividend rule is dumb. Companies who pay out dividends are actually more responsible businesses, who return capital to shareholders. Just because they generate profits doesn’t mean they are also not in need of aid to maintain operations. Certainly it makes sense to prevent them from issuing future dividends based on aid, but why a businesses ability to return profits to shareholders implies anything about their cash flows sensitivity to covid is beyond me. Not to mention, this rule will give aid to profitable companies who chose to not return those profits to shareholders, an additional bizarre distinction.

That’s not to say bailout money shouldn’t be restricted, it just seems like a dumb rule. Why not delimit it based upon a company’s behavior, such as excessive risk taking or over leverage? The companies that were not anywhere near robust to financial shocks deserve to die, but dividend issuance seems a poor way to select for these.
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