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I know your situation really sucks, but you are in a fortunate position to reposition yourself as a UI (both web and mobile) accessibility consultant, given your experience in front end web.

A couple of folks mentioned this before - government contractors and federal agencies are required to be compliant with WCAG 2.0 A/AA standards.

I work at a financial institution in front end web. Accessibility is a big deal for us and I can tell you from experience that it is significant pain point for everyone (front end developers and testers). I would estimate that about 70% of the defects I work on are accessibility related. Also, my first job out of boot camp was doing only web accessibility work for a company that was trying to get their site WCAG compliant by 2017.

I toyed with the idea of starting my own accessibility consulting service, given how frustrating it can be. Its a challenge to get a UI to work visually consistent across browsers, operating systems, and devices. Add screen readers and focus placement to the mix, and the work becomes very annoying and time consuming.

I would speculate that accessibility becomes its own niche specialty, similar to how front end and back end work is often viewed as their own specialties. That's opportunity for you, my friend. I hope you can make the best of it. Good luck.
Yeah, but Chromium is doing that work for them.
I also encounter that kind of defensiveness in many other areas. A lot of people seem to crave validation that their life choices are the only correct ones. A lot of people see other people making different choices as some sort of threat to their own choices or lifestyle, whether it's religious, political, or 'alternative' lifestyles, or even dress style. The reality is that there's plenty of room for different choices, and we can give each other space to make those different choices.
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Why on Earth is it important or relevant to claim that a drug is backed by a politician?
And in doing so you're flushing tons of cash down the toilet. There are leaner, more optimal cloud native ways of serving content.
You could buy oil certificates, if you think prices will raise again.
Same difference, isn't it? In the EU buttermilk usually refers to the by-product of butter making. In the US and Canada it's commercially produced cultured milk.
Is that just a "that would be cool" or do you know of research into this (even so much as a feasibility study)?
> 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.

Shareholders should not just profit from the upside, but eat the downside too, which his exactly what this is. You can't take the dividends, claiming "I took all the risks", and then expect the state to bail you out. No upside without downside. Skin in the game.
It's not a future for "your own children" it's a future for "white children" generally that needs to be "secured" (from whom?) spoken in the context of white supremacy.

If it was "I want a nice future for my own children" that would be uncontroversial.
Dept payments before dividends is just a one way for a lender to secure their loans in limited companies.

It counters "Heads I win, Tails you lose" -strategy where the risk of business is offloaded to lenders while owners take profits. It's common tactic in distressed companies to load the company them with debt and suck the firm try with huge dividends. Lenders are left with nothing when the company goes bankrupt.
The day Adobe apps get ported to Linux is the day I fully switch to Linux. Sorry GIMP, but you kinda suck.
"My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Lamborghini, his son will drive a Lamborghini, but his son will ride a camel"
I'm from Germany, I know that slogan. Like I said, I think it's inherently wrong. Work is something that shackles you.

Your reply doesn't address my questions.
Costco and Woodmans in the Madison area are under $1 as of a few days ago(Costco because memberships, and Woodmans because no credit card fees). Smaller towns had 93c at the regular gas stations the week before.
This seems a stretch. The art, craft and social structures of Neanderthal can only be seen as 'very primitive' compared to modern humans. This PC insistence on making them seem 'as smart as us' does no service to science.

They are similar in kind to us, in that they could master (simple) crafts. But evidence shows they often learned it from Homo Sapiens, and imperfectly at that.
Could be: I had a parent just move as they transitioned to a retirement, fixed-income budget and needed to live somewhere with a lower cost of living. A big factor in the choosing where to settle was ease of travel back to where other family is located. They ultimately chose somewhere very close to a large airport that had frequent low-cost (sub $100) round trip tickets back back & forth.
There is a wide expanse between running your business razor thin as a profit extraction machine and keeping 12 months of cash reserves. This policy simply looks upon the former as a poor choice.
Highly correlated, in normal market conditions!
Firms applying for Danish state aid must promise not to pay dividends or make share buy-backs in 2020 and 2021. Companies would be allowed to pay dividends again if they pay back the aid.

This makes perfect sense, otherwise it's a textbook case of socializing the losses and privatizing the profit. Paying dividends (and stock buybacks) is a trade-off that companies make, that makes the company less resilient. Risk/reward needs to work in both ways, both in terms of gains as well as losses.
This is not good news. Oil/energy is an economic lubricant. The depth and breadth of its reach and power exceeds The Fed.

In the USA, the 2007/08 recession was softened (?) by keeping energy prices low. Increase in domestic product - via fracking - being the key.

Without fuel prices as an economic tool the dynamic and predictabily of the coming recovery will be greatly limited.
No, I don’t think the two are the same. Like I said, dividends are usually the “salary” an employer takes at the end of the year. It could be $1, it could be $100,000, but it all depends upon how the business did. This is exactly how everyone is constantly complaining that a business should be operating - pay all the employees, then the owner/CEO/etc. takes part of what is left over.
Ah, yes, now I remember the clipboard on Ubuntu. A selected text is immediately copied to clipboard, and we can use the middle mouse button to paste

The idea is very interesting. Basically, I only build the part where Tip takes the text and invokes a script. User then renders the tooltip themselves.

Thank you!
Interesting. Russia is less oil dependent than SA, but the Saudi's have more oil per capita.
> It’s not a great world to be raising kids right now.

This seems to be like one absolutely weird and baseless moral panic.

What was good time then? During medieval times/WW1/WW2/60s/80/90s? If any, world's been the same all the time. The have-nots being looted by those who have 'em. Just that the tech makes it a lot visible, is all.
Would you also be okay if software developers or whatever industry you were in capped salaries where the highest paid employees were only allowed to make 10x what the lowest paid employees made?

What if “employees” also included outside contractors that worked for the company (cooks, janitorial services, etc)?

What if “employees” included all of the invisible foreign workers that exclusively manufactured for your employer?
I understand the sentiment behind no aid if you're paying dividends (if you have enough money for dividends then you clearly don't need aid), but I don't see how it can be defined in any way that seems even remotely fair.

Is it whether you paid dividends recently in the past? Because remember businesses are supposed to pay dividends -- and you could have been profitable enough to pay a dividend in January but now deep in losses -- and whether they paid dividends in any particular recent timeframe can be fairly arbitrary.

And if it means being prohibited from paying dividends for a period of time going forwards, this seems similarly arbitrary -- basically any business can just pause dividends, then as soon as the time period expires, and immediately or gradually pay the previous dividends they didn't.

Coming up with any useful definition for whether a company deserves aid or not, short of whether they're actually filing for bankruptcy, is already incredibly difficult, but basing it on dividends is beyond simplistic. Different types of businesses have such wildly different patterns of savings and cash flows they're extremely hard to compare or draw any kind of line between "responsible" and "irresponsible" companies.
I know a guy that thinks Meijer is below him, and won't shop there. Likens it to a low-grade Wal-mart. And he lives near me and so I know which Meijer's he's been to, and there's nothing wrong with those stores.

I certainly have no problem shopping there, and I think it's cleaner than most local stores (that aren't high end, there's quite a few of those around here), certainly better than Wal-mart, although Wal-Mart does have a better delivery service, we just found out yesterday.

Meijer has cheaper Broccoli than that. Just checked their website, and you can get broccoli for $2 a pound, or a giant 32 oz bag of fresh florets for $5, which I guess is what you're referring to, but that's easier to cook with and prepare, so there's probably more demand for it in that form, and has similar prices elsewhere (my local Wal-Mart has that priced at $6 right now). You can also buy 12 oz bags of frozen broccoli for $1 each right now at Meijer.

And I'm near Chicago, which is probably more expensive than Indiana. Even the Whole Foods near me is only selling broccoli for $2.50 a pound.
I build a home nas last year in an InWin IW-RF100S: 2x3.5", 2x2.5", mini-itx, 1U height, FlexATX power supply.

It's a bit noisy, but it is the near perfect form factor that just slides under a bookshelf.
I heard, Bill Gates' mother helped him with the start.
I’m Danish so I can chip in who this is targeted at. A few of our larger corporations like Danske Bank (the one from the money laundering scandals) aimed at paying out its stock owners 8,50dkr per share while simultaneously planning to fire hundreds of employees to pay for their mishaps and Covid problems. Other companies that are less evil planned similar things.

Now Danske Bank is planning on using those money to secure their business going forward, and we expect some companies to follow this route. Others will go a head with their firings, like Vestas, to make sure share holders get richer.

Now this is not something we actually want in Denmark. I know it’s capitalism, but our most recent election results showed a record support of our social democracy. We’ve never had less support for liberalism (which is our branch of capitalism) than we do now since the end of WW2. So we value people keeping their jobs above shareholders making money.

I personally think we should be even tougher on taxing the rich. If we know companies sit in tax-havens then we should really do something about that, shouldn’t we
Flexibility is key. Even at GitLab, you don't have to work from home. You can expense external office and/or coworking fees: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/spending-company-money/#co...

This is a challenge at the moment, as those who do work outside of their homes have been forced back into them due to travel restrictions (which is what most of the suddenly-remote workforce is also managing).
There’s also a follow-up article about the brothers Chudnovsky, written by the same author, here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/11/capturing-the-...
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You are correct that the vast majority of publicly traded companies do not pay dividends.

However, that is a small minority of all firms and I hope you will find it interesting to learn that many, many small firms' owners (Doctors offices, car dealers, liquor stores, carwashes, etc.) take regular compensation in the form of dividends.

Further, I will point that in the United States, if you are an "S Corp" (and millions are) you cannot, for the most part, carry over liquid cash from one year to the next. You are forced to distribute any leftover cash, typically in the form of distributions to owners (dividends).

That being said, receiving state aid on condition of suspending dividend payments makes very good sense and is the first condition I would add to such aid - you shouldn't need state aid if you are distributing profits.
This is a nicely crafted example.

Human communication is so densely laden with nuance and context and subtext that it takes soooo much work and a dose of generosity to have a real conversation that doesn’t spin off into something useless.

In a technical context you can define things clearly, but in a political context it’s just too hard, there are so many things that mean different things to different people.

My attempt in daily life to deal with this is to offer a place where my “side” is wrong to foster generosity then try to tightly circumscribe the thing we’re discussing. I think it sometimes works. But it’s a ton of conversational work with unclear payoffs.

I don’t see how we’re not doomed to usually have largely fruitless conversation in the current climate. I don’t like the approach, but I understand why people move towards a “screw convincing them, let’s rally the base.” Bit of a prisoner’s dilemma there, I think, where the whole country is left impoverished by the individually rational approach to rallying the base
> We object when you force it on employees because it's what works for you, regardless of what works for them.

I think I'm a bit old school. My outlook can be summed up like this: If you like your job, and you want to keep your job, you'll do what your boss asks unless it's illegal or immoral.

So if my boss told me I had to work in an office, I'd weight that against the "if you want to keep your job" portion of the above, and decide if that's for me. If not, I quit and go find something where WFH is an option. If so, I go work in the office. Most likely I'd work in the office until I found something else or management realized that they were losing employees and changed the policy (I suppose in that way we can "force" the business to conform to our whims).

Perhaps that's a privileged point of view, or makes me a drone. But my life isn't work; I work to live, not live to work, so minor inconveniences at work don't derail my life; it's just a job, something I do to afford more important things.

For the record, I've worked from home for the last 9 years, and I have coworkers who had a really tough time adapting to WFH; they had to weigh if the trouble to change was worth it for them. Some felt it wasn't worth the trouble and left, many found it was and stayed.
There is a middle ground between having enough cash reserves to survive for months, and not having cash at all because everything has been bled out in dividends and buybacks; namely, having enough cash reserves to survive for some time, but not for several months.
>Note that this is for the May contract, which closes tomorrow, and anyone left with a contract then will have to actually take delivery of the physical product.

Not really. Almost all contracts are cash settled.
I make a habit of driving my car at least once every month to combat this.
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+1 for the information asymmetry. I'm currently working remotely 4 days a week and there are 2 other devs working remotely between 80% and 100% of the time.

One of the main issues is "oral tradition". Information is shared from dev to dev during coffee breaks, and everyone is supposed to somehow know it. The solution is to work as if everyone is working remotely, and in that case that means putting information into writing, either by communicating through archived and searchable channels (ie Slack) or writing docs.
The angry mobs is also 110% predictable and it's an clear indictment against the competency of the state that it so far have not been prepared to deal with what is an normal reaction to emergency powers being imposed with little warning/debate.
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My argument is not that the measures are wrong but that the messaging is indicative of an state that have lost it's willingness/ability to seek consensus, which can develop into a problem that can make the corona pandemic hitting the semi-affluent retiree communities look like an minor event in an interesting decade.

While the measures might be fully correct(mostly i agree with them) "the shut up and listen to your betters" mentality/rhetoric is only going to make the group of people fed up with the way they have been ignored for decades go even more rogue as they gather more and more "evidence" that their rights are being actively trampled on and become more willing to "fight the power!!" regardless of the "collateral damage" for doing so.
Or, we could just burn it, heat up the planet and not need to heat during the coming winter.
All of those seem very low from my European perspective. Fuel duty is the equivalent of $2.67/gallon here in the UK.
There's nice article courtesy UMich as well: https://www.influenzaarchive.org/cities/city-sanfrancisco.ht...
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Some content is even improved by being sped up. Doubling the speed made me enjoy cartalk again. Having to constantly wait through multiple seconds of hacking laughter was breaking the flow.
Right. But the point is the vast, vast (non-HNer) use case is not in favor of Linux. For every 1 Linux-on-the-desktop person, there are what, 1M others?
I read the top comment and I was like, WOW - I never thought of it that way, this is it! But then I read your reply to the top comment and again I was like: WOW - I never thought of it that way, this is it!

I'm going to read some of the other comments as well. I must confess, I'm a little bit scared now.
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That's a great point. Many people will find that the market doesn't value their labor much at all, so we should tax automation as well. We can use the funds to provide income to displaced workers.
As much as we want. Let’s just be honest about the fact that hardly anyone cares as much as they claim to.
And how do you get from this quote to the context of genociding other people? That's a pretty big non-sequitur. The quote is about securing a future, not to "kill all infidels".
Services is hard to google. The term is overloaded.

I think it's called (or was called at some point) "system-wide services". But official doc doesn't use this term.

I was simply fortunate to stumble upon it. Initially, I was thinking about building Tip on clipboard (or pasteboard), which would have been inferior.
> I NEED a dedicated office outside my house

Could this office be remote? If so, you've missed the difference between remote work and working from home. I work remote and have an office 5 minutes away in town. I share it with others, but before that I had a personal office in town. Both versions are better for focus than being at home.
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Awesome to hear this. The "same playing field" bit is significant.
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Why stop at execs? What if all employees at your typical FAANGM could only make 10x what the lowest paid employees/contractors made?
If a company goes “Omg, we won’t make it this year, we need 2 billions in aid just to keep going with business as usual, not even takeing our normal 10% growth into account!?” then the government will still not pay a dime to that company if their “business as usual” includes 15 billion buy backs.

The point is that companies need to take the hit on their owners and shareholders pockets first, and only then if they still need aid to survive, then the government steps in.

It’s aiming to protect the bottom, not the top.
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Is the promise of dividends binding? I don’t think so.
You're conflating Mushrooms with (Mu)Shrooms it seems to me. Shrooms are not primarily about the taste. And you can very well make Shrooms storable for up to several years.
Confirmed this still exists in W10 bit of web search and found there resrve from DOS days, others are AUX, NUL, COM1-COM9, PRN, LPT1-LPT9.

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This is what neuralink is doing.
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I don’t think any of the schools I mentioned have 10s of thousands of students or faculty ratios of more than 10to1. I think you’re comparing small schools (which most ‘mafia schools’ are) to big state schools which are usually much cheaper. Why liberal arts would be a good choice for a tech degree I don’t know, but I agree it’s not so important undergrad.

The big thing you get besides ‘the name’ is your relations and links to your cohort. That really helps get good jobs!
I can back this up. It's well-known that Fox is not a nice person. See [0] for previous discussion, or just browse around the old TT-RSS forums (warning: some mildly NSFW stuff there).

edit: Regarding your edit, no, it isn't a language barrier. He's quick to insult people and treats feedback/contributions as opportunities to feel superior or meme (e.g., [1]). It's like talking to 4chan.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16726998

[1] https://srv.tt-rss.org/oldforum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=2008
I’m sure a lot of people making minimum wage think that the average software developer’s salary is out of control too. Should we regulate that?
I will add an option to paste a YouTube's video URL, so you can search on YouTube and then navigate back to The Gives and watch it.
Paying a dividend is paying a person. It's like you're saying that 'as long as they can afford to keep paying employees' they don't need aid. Would you rather they stopped paying people but didn't take aid? The whole point of the aid is so they can keep going and keep paying people.
Danes obviously remember getting burned from the bailouts of bankers in 2008.
I think of it more as somebody trying to hold a raft together, spread-eagled on the deck hanging onto the mast, the tiller, the log decking, hoping the storm passes and it all hasn't broken up yet.
> Not really. Almost all contracts are cash settled.

The parent comment is 100% correct. You're missing the nuance of how commodity futures trading works. Yes most are cash-settled but there is a date after which if you hold the contract you're promising to make or accept physical delivery. The commenter is saying we reach that point for the May oil contract tomorrow so anyone who wants to settle in cash has to do so by tomorrow.
Stocks that never pay dividends are technically worthless. Because a stock's value is the net present value of all future dividends.
I get the 88 thing, but not the blood type tatooed 8 inches above the elbow, care to explain?