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> No. It is wrong to take from those who want to work to give to those that don't want to.

It's also wrong to maintain a poorly working system just to prevent that scenario. Most money goes to corporate welfare to maintain jobs that should not exist. I'm not just talking about taxes, I'm talking about government debt, which dwarves tax revenue.

It's good if people want to work, but if they perform useless work, they're better off receiving money for nothing and maybe educate themselves. That's strictly less wasteful.

> I am just about to buy property (I've been working now for 20 years and 15 as a software engineer), If I hadn't been paying as much tax I could have bought a property years ago.

If property prices in the UK weren't inflated by debt-financed monetary policy served to protect those who already own them, you could've also bought a property years ago.

> I don't mind my taxes providing a support mechanism for those that are unable to work due to a disability, illness or simply becoming too old to work or have become unemployed for no fault of their own (e.g. business foreclosed).

This amounts to a huge bureaucracy to determine who and who isn't entitled. Inevitably, some people fall through the cracks. Other people game the system.

It's not going to be fair either way. Just incentivize people to work and they will work.

If people know they can fall back to a modest basic income, they will be able to take risks. They will be able to refuse jobs that exploit them. They will not be put to shame standing in line at the unemployment office.
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I took my kids to Disneyworld in Florida a few years back, and was impressed to notice the lifeguards pointing into the all corners of the swimming pools as they walked around and did their checks.
The article isn't by the Baymard institute, but by a fan. They publish on their own site
I have a major problem with the idea that death makes life precious. As if the value of something was determined by its inevitable demise. As if being everlasting made it worthless. This reeks of post-hoc rationalisation to me: we believe we can't avoid this Absolute Horror, so we embrace outright.

Sorry, no. Death does not make life precious. It just forces us to make the most of what little remaining time we have. We then concentrate as much value as we can in our first 80 years or so, since those are the only years we get.

A more distant death may dilute that effect, but not entirely: with more time, we get to do and experience more things. Thus, the value of life increases as it lengthens. Perhaps not linearly, but it's not at all clear there's an upper bound.
Disclaimer: I am affiliated with the project I am describing below.

You have a stab at one of the most important issues within the space here. You are right, most projects either do not have any utility or they are so far up their idea and tech that they think it will produce value by itself. Unfortunately, most things end here. For most, this value will never surpass the simple value of "exchanging value" or "storing value" (both are important I agree, but we are talking about tech, not money).

However, that is not how it should be. Projects should be building and solving issues, adding utility and providing solutions, otherwise, we are stuck in a system which produces the point zero problem. This can get us cemented in the past with no hope of any future.

Check out cyber. It is a decentralized google with a mission to open the semantics field and decentralize the service of the internet with the use of blockchain and economic incentives.

It's not an idea. Both, the chain and the initial app are working as planned. Yes, the project is still in testnets, but, it is 100% open-source and the idea is provably implemented.

Cyber managed to prove that it can change the current search mechanism and make it work. The main use of the network is to build an open, decentralized knowledge graph, by the users themselves to create a shared database of knowledge. All transactions in the network are made to target that purpose in one way or another.

Cyber utilizes the use of computation, bandwidth and storage and produces a useful computer with several use-cases, with the most obvious is the creation of an open and provable search in a trustless and censorship-free environment without the illnesses of web2 tech..
>It's not allowed to serve people that is "visibly intoxicated" but almost no one cares. At a normal Friday and Saturday night, Oslo is a battlefield of shitfaced people.

Strictly speaking the same is true in the UK, but lol.

Section 141 of the Licensing Act 2003:

"(1) A person [...] commits an offence if, on relevant premises, he knowingly—

(a) sells or attempts to sell alcohol to a person who is drunk, or

(b) allows alcohol to be sold to such a person.

[...]

(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale."

Where "level 3 on the standard scale" is £1,000.
Thanks, I'll look them up
Trump plays misleading clips of 'support' from Cuomo at coronavirus briefing
Editable tweets are a problem when combined with retweets and likes: you could end up liking something you really don't endorse and being harassed for it.

(I also suspect immutability simplifies their infrastructure a lot)
Can confirm I'm not part of a voting ring! I am a newyorker subscriber and I'm currently reading this book so was excited to see it reviewed.

I actually feel like there is a large cross over between software and politics. Look at the foundations of the free software movement. When I was a young idealist this was one of the things that drew me to the profession.
These are all things that are implemented now...
Basic on a C64 in the 80s. I had just enough sight to read the screen if I set it to all caps and adjusted the contrast on the TV.
It's hard for people to simply skip this thread if they can't answer the question. Hence we have now 144 comments and beside my own post I could not find anyone actually answering the question.
> There is no evidence that masks are a solution.

Masks are not meant to solve/prevent Corona. It's meant to slow down the spread of the virus. It needs to be used in combination with other measures such as social distancing.

Unfortunately the Dutch government keeps saying that masks do not help, sometimes they suggest that a mask can make things worse. The reason behind this seems to be to prevent people from stealing masks from hospitals, something that seemed to have happened in every country.

That said, please check the effectiveness of masks. It doesn't need to be perfect, just slow down the spread.
In the Netherlands we basically have UBI. at least when you are judged unfit for work (i.e. because of mental issues) you loose the obligation to apply for jobs when receiving welfare. It keeps people from becoming criminals, it keeps people from ending up in the streets and avoid healthcare. In the end it saves money and makes for a more pleasant society. Most people are nice and motivated to good you know, it does hurt to make them feel like they have some kind of safety net, in fact it motivates them even more. I think in the end it is about how you judge others: Are they motivated like you or are many people lazy unethical scammers? This is a nice book on the topic by the way: [0] (Humankind (2020)), I highly recommend it for people cynical about other people, like you seem to be (in Dutch the book is called: Most people are nice ("De Meeste Mensen Deugen", allthough "Deugen" is more like "Ethical" in this case).

It's nice if you are rich, but you're going to have to build a big wall around your house and stay inside if you let inequality go rampant.

[0] https://www.rutgerbregman.com/books/
I would take it at face value for now. I think astroturfing can be emmergent and dangerous regardless of political execution or oversight.
me too. Human time is very differently perceived and experienced. This puts it into some perspective.
Um don't you just prove that it does with your second paragraph!
PLEASE DO NOT SHOOT THE PIANIST

An old Elton John album was entitled, "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player."
> This spirit is used for personal use only and could not be sold.

Yes, that's what I meant. Sorry I wasn't clear.
>> As others mention, I've only very rarely seen cats catching birds around here

That's exactly opposite of my experience - my mum has two cats that only live outside and I'd say that on average they bring at least 2-3 birds every week + 4-5 mice. Them hunting rodents is great, the birds not so much.
Self-discipline is key. Either get better at it, or don't own a smartphone or a computer.
Hacker News is - in large part - a promotional activity of a set of venture capitalists.

Naturally it attracts people (although not _only_ people) who want to suck up to venture capitalists, or who share the same hyper-capitalist mindset.
Butteridge's law of headlines
Indeed. And I'm hoping that the steps I've taken here help build that self-discipline to a level that I'm personally happy with :)
I am not blind, but as a frontend engineer, I have noticed when myself or my colleges do frontend state, we will use TDD/Component testing using enzyme or react-testing library for days, and only do the final test visually.
Definitely used to be a thing in New Zealand AM broadcast stations. For example, here's an old antenna sign: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tzbJYT3nGpHELPWk6

I think the FM callsigns for the same station were different (four characters rather than three), however could be related, but the callsigns were eventually dropped or incorporated into the station name as it stopped being a thing broadcast stations needed to announce (or maybe even have.) For example, as the station that had that antenna above started FM, it had a callsign but now it's just left in the name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZM_Wellington
I don't mind weather it is tabs or spaces, as long as they are not mixed.
German tabloid 'Bild' demands China pay coronavirus damages
I clicked on the article hoping for information on how e-ink displays are illuminated and was (not unsurprisingly) disappointed, but this paper absolutely saves it.

It's pretty cool to see how they did it and thinking about how it could maybe be DIYed. Do you happen to know whether anyone has attempted such a thing before? I'm not totally clear about the chance of success here, but the 2 main components, clear plastic and a roughed up surface, seem generally DIYable. I very uncertain about the quality, however (since I'm not sure what exact shape the rough spots need to have, I'm basically limited to whatever a laser can make). My greatest fear is that the light won't actually go down onto the screen, but directly into the user's eyes, I guess.
Awesome idea, but I can't seem to make it work.
See both mobile and desktop screenshots here: https://imgur.com/a/LnM2Uej
(Safari on both iOS 13 and macOS 10.15)
The basic idea for the anti-aliasing is to take many samples inside every pixel and average them out which smooths outs the edges. The problem with the lights, as the other commenter explained, is that even with this the light is so bright that there is still a hard edge between the adjoining pixels.

[0] https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...
He was privileged in the sense of being born into a musical family who recognised and encouraged his prodigy at a young age, but they were by no means part of the aristocracy. Out of curiosity which composers do you see worth of 'fuzz' ?
"Once an outdoor cat, always an outdoor cat." That is true in many cases, but there are exceptions. One of my cats is a rescued feral -- he spent the first six months of his life outside, but has been an indoor cat (as all of mine are) ever since, some 13 years on, and has never shown any sign of wanting to go outside.
I find that a lot of my procrastination comes from the anxiety of the thing I want to start doing not being completed. Literally, because I am worrying that the thing I want to work on is not already completed, I procrastinate from doing it. This is obviously counter productive and creates a feedback loop.

Something I'm bad at but seems to work is to have a conversation with myself that sort of comforts me about the anxiety and says "hey, what does this todo list look like? does it really matter that everything won't be completed today? You've spent years on this project so why would it be done today? Okay now go and address this one thing you have to do."
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Crypto Yahtzee: rolling the dices, peer to peer
The brain is very good at self-sabotaging when it can't figure out what or how to deal with certain situations though. The best thing to do is figure out why you're procrastinating before trying to fix it.
I have made "device of purpose" that fixes this behavior over time.

1) Laptop is for work only ( every thing else is blocked )

2) Mobile is for social media and procrastination ( I switch off internet while working. )
No -rt patchset for PREEMPT_RT?

Odd.
> "I can still touch type with Qwerty, but my hands hurt after 5 minutes."

That's not a good metric. In your case, you might be right, but for the general public it's like when picking up any new exercise or sport, like running or biking or anything really, when untrained you end up for the first few days with sore ligaments, joints and muscles. You get used to it.

My hands never hurt, even though I love writing long texts, long emails, long code comments, etc. I can also do 120 wpm but I don't feel the need to do it because it's stressful, not necessarily on the hands, but on my thought process. Speed isn't an issue.

If Dvorak solved your RSI, that's awesome, I can understand why you switched, however I don't think this is a causality issue, meaning that I don't think it was Qwerty that caused RSI in the first place. If Dvorak is a good strategy for you to manage the pain, then great, but it's pain management, not a cure.

I also used to configure my machines a lot, going into a yak shaving rabbit hole every time it wasn't functioning properly. I was on Linux back then, but I gave it up and nowadays I'm much happier. The only yak shaving sink I still have is Emacs and I'll get rid of it as soon as I find something better.
I've long had the habit of putting stuff that I know I can waste a lot of time on into my /etc/hosts to point to the void (news sites, forums).
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This is super cool!

I’ve been idly thinking about something like this for a while so it’s cool to see it actually exists.

Has anyone used this? If so what’s it like, performance and ease of use? Are there any similar projects?
> At least 8448 people have died of COVID-19 in New York City

Just to add: be very careful to compare deaths across countries. Every country seems to count deaths differently. Some only count it if you didn't have any other condition. E.g. you had something with your lungs? That death might not be reported.

In Netherlands they compared the amount of people dying per week. There was a sudden huge increase of deaths. It seemed to indicate the number of deaths for Netherlands was 2x as high as they were reporting. Though they did report the deaths with a very clear remark that the numbers were highly likely to be too low. Unfortunately such remarks were often ignored by the public, leading to eventual distrust of any figure. Interestingly, the press at various times did make it clear that the figure could be unreliable. Seems people often just read a headline :-p

PS: My point is that the 8448 might be greatly higher. Depends on how the 8448 was collected/reported.
This is my next thing I want to trial. Complete block on anything non work related on the laptop. Complete block on anything that doesn't further my values on the phone. But then have an iPad for mucking around and consuming junk content. The idea that it's not easily accessible since the iPad won't be with me at work and it won't be in my pocket being constantly accessible.
Back in 2005 or so, I used Camino whenever a page insisted on being "IE only" — the browser seemed to have some magical compatibility layer built-in.

I still have it on my Mac, but it's only good for checking how pages look like if they're viewed on a browser that doesn't support the latest web standards.
I'm usually very scared of "breaking" something and if there's nothing there to break in the first place, why would I create something that will potentially break at some point.

I'm getting better at knowing that this is my issue though and just think to myself "If I break it, I can go back a few steps or just fix the problem as it comes".
Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in December 2020
Hello, I'm the author here. The frontend would stream the video/audio to Pxy via WebSockets. In turn, Pxy utilises FFmpeg to convert the incoming stream to FLV and send the FLV stream to your desired external RTMP service (in this case, I'm using mux.com).
None of the two, psychedelics are known for the spiritual/naturism effects so no wonder users advocate for a "down to earth" approach. Seems to me that you wouldn't get a similar response from a meth user.
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Allow me to comfort you then, as someone who exited the property market in 2006 because I felt it was way over heated and about to crash: it cost me a significant amount and was a terrible decision. Be glad you couldn't act on that in 2006 ;)
The "ping for accessibility" is a holdover from ancient times (think 1910s), when there was an actual bell that was rung by the elevator's passage (one ding up, two dings down, IIRC). Current technology has (and uses) far better capabilities, either by (common) samples or by (uncommon) speech synthesis: "ding" "Floor 6." "Doors opening..."
I think they want to guarantee an unbroken chain of entries because a malicious client could otherwise omit some entries as a means of tampering with the message that was intended to be conveyed, or to censor some messages.
Maybe your posts would be more appreciated if you posted them with your personal account and didn't write totally write them like ads. Oh, and if they were more relevant to what's being posted. I don't procrastinate because of clickbait.

I'm afraid that you'll get this account restricted if you continue like this. You're also tarnishing your brand.

Edit: Another notorious project-poster is burtonator, which I also find mildly annoying, but whenever he posts about his project at least it's actually tangentially related to what is being discussed. He's a good bit less over the line than you are, in my opinion.
Sorry for being too dry, i elaborated a little bit under the parent comment. I have no interest in dunking anyone
Traditional mitigation in my country is giving the cat a collar with a bell on it.
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This has been a problem since long before smartphones or even computers. Socializing, gardening, etc. Anything including literally self harming seems to be done by someone somewhere in this world to postpone work.

I had to find a way to deal with procrastination a few years ago and the most important thkng I learned was to banish perfectionism and admit that good results are more likely to emerge from repeated iterations than from carefully acting out a perfect plan made the first day you heard about the project.
Many answers assume that you have ADHD, that may be the case but here's another path to explore: undealt-with emotions.

Imagine you have a wire on your hand and you want to plug it to an electrical outlet that's on the wall right in front of you. You technically have all it takes to plug it. What if there's so much garbage between you and the wall that you can't reach to the electrical outlet? You can't plug the thing no matter how hard you try. Not that you're lacking something, but rather that some stuff gets in your way.

Emotions do get in the way. Some you may understand, some you may suspect, some you may not even be aware of. This is very common and you can work on these issues.. but probably not by yourself. If you decide that you're okay with discovering what's going on that you're not aware of yet (there always is some things we're not aware of), then a trained psychologist can help you a lot.

Oftentimes people suggest technics, tricks and whatnot to get around the symptoms. Maybe it's best to face the problem, understand it and fix it not with guilt but with kindness.

Good luck on your journey.
If you're in your home office, don't keep your private phone around. Put it in a separate room, ideally in flight mode and on silent.

On your work phone, remove all distractions.

Fore Firefox, the "impulse blocker" add-on can be helpful.
I expected the quality so I'm happy with them. "alleged" "attempted" sexual assult. 33% fact hit rate? That's pretty good.
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Nice, but using decade old and overly slow string search algorithms still is questionable.
There are hundreds of faster algos, the fastest and most stable currently being epsm (2013). https://www.dmi.unict.it/~faro/smart/algorithms.php?algorith...
I often put my phone on DND and only allow calls , that really helps. From morning 9 to 6 and everytime I am on my bed. Removing social media apps also helps. I wont say its 100% effective but I see drastic reduction in my screen time.
> If you make a package manager, but the only function it has is text editing

If it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it's a duck. If it doesn't quack and doesn't look like a duck, it's not a duck. So in your example, if npm just provides text editing, I'd call it a text editor, not package manager. If it manages packages, I'd call it a package manager. So this is judging things based on their functionality, rather than what they want to use it for.

Don't think the intended purpose matters too much in what something is. It is what it is, it is not what it was aimed to be but what the current state of it is.

And AFAIK, people _mostly_ use npm for managing packages, other use cases are not nearly as popular (like distributing assets).
I didn't know there was such a thing as 'salt healing', specifically but just goes to show that if a thing exists then there is snake oil of it.

Your prior post asserted crystals might pass (b) and (c) but fail (a); my response was simply that I am not entirely convinced that it would unless a was fairly rigorous.

And what the CDC appears to be doing-- requiring a RCT-- can be seen as an extremely rigorous (a).

Sorry about the communications failure-- communication is hard. I appreciated your response, even if I apparently missed the point.
Interesting. OTOH, while old builds here (electromechanical, no microcontrollers, <1990) lack even the basic ping, I haven't been in an elevator built in the new millenium which wasn't excessively chatty. (Central Europe mostly, but the same experience everywhere I went: "ground floor, main entrance, access to train station; mind the door; door is opening")
Based on their username, I think searching the page for "in collaboration with the Wells lab" would answer your question.
that's a good question, and I don't know the answer, I would presume nobody as been denied treatment as that never happened in Lombardy either, you can usually send people to other hospitals, and this has happened in NY too.

But you don't need to reach the level of people being denied treatment to be at an "overwhelming" level, where the hospitals are not operating at peak efficiency.

There have been many reports of hospitals not having masks, gowns and so on, or lacking ventilators or few people able to use them which need to be overworked. Many hospital workers have been infected, and hospitals had to switch to longer shifts.

It's just not business as usual.