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We submitted our app through Chase the morning it opened. Days went by before we heard anything and that was an automated email that basically said they received our app. This morning I got an email stating the program is out of money, but they will keep our app on file for if/when more funds are allocated to it.
With my wife's business we applied with Bank of America in the morning as soon as applications opened. They were one of the first banks to offer the loan. Like OP, the next day they asked us to fill out their template PDF which asked for the same information we had already provided. We did that ASAP.

Didn't hear anything else after that.

For my company we went through Chase the same day when it was available. They never asked for any information. We called, they said it was being processed. Still no info.

I have a few other friends who own businesses and none have received the loan. The only person I know that received the loan went through a local bank in New Mexico. I think the big banks just prioritized the really large loans > $1M.
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"[...]and it comes off as opportunistic activism to leverage this crisis to push a nakedly leftist political agenda."

That may be true, though I suspect it's equally plausible that this outrage is indicative of a nakedly capitalistic agenda promoted by Amazon's competitors via proxies. I don't see any reason why it can't be both.

Edit: To clarify, I should have ended my statement with "...why it can't be both, in addition to legitimate concerns."
The headline says possible dinosaur DNA has been found, and that quote agrees that these samples are possibly dinosaur DNA. That seems to match.
The mere existence of squatting is not as much an issue, as the scale when most domains are speculators and it's hard to get a reasonable name.

Also, some TLDs have prior rights and domain dispute processes for speculators. Namespaces can be handled much better than current .com situation.
Another disaster is ready to catch the US unprepared: Drought
> we take this opportunity to acknowledge that Keynes was right, and we don't have to work as much as we do.

That isn't what Kenyes said. He said that in a recession/depression the government should spend more than it takes in, and the rest of the time it should spend less. So, if that equates to working less during a recession, we're going to have to work more during the good times.

But as for working less in general: If we want all this stuff, we have to produce all this stuff. Printing money, or even government spending, doesn't make stuff magically appear. We still have to make it.
Certainly good for listening while on a Linux laptop.

I think Apple may be a bit late. Google premium music is our family choice since for $15/month everyone gets music and non-commercials YouTube. This bundling may keep us there long term.

Amazon music is also a contender. Not sure how typical I am as a music listener, but for years, back in the old days when I wanted to own music, I slowly bought all my favorite songs for about $0.99 a song, DRM free. Because of this I also use Amazon's music player when I want to focus on my old favorites.
That fits a bit. My nephew today told me, he would like a game, where he can draw a racecar (2D) and then be able to drive the car in the game. Sadly the demo is for faces only, otherwise I might have hacked something together to make it work ...
You don't buy anything anywhere? What do you not participate in? You don't buy from any store which doesn't pay 30$ per hour or something similar? You don't buy products made by poorly paid workers? So no laptop and no smartphones? You sir, have my salute if you are typing this on an ethically made computer.

Off course, it is totally fine to participate in things and also criticise them, as that is how things improve. But if everyone obsess on a company not in the bottom of bad behaviour, this simply gives more power to companies behaving worse. One can off course claim that their criticism depends on the PR perception of the company,but I guess that's not fashionable.

I don't think the argument is everyone else does it. The argument is Amazon is paying much higher than many other companies for the same job, and still being focused over, while companies paying less get a free pass.
Photographs have never been faithful records. The map never the territory.
There are always judgement calls.
The whole concept of JPEG is to throw away information.
I'm typically a person who would agree with an article like this; I think we _lost_ something with the modern age, even if we gained a lot. (especially in terms of developer "velocity" (I hate that word)).

However, I really feel like context is important. Computers today have a context given to them over time, users don't need so much hand-holding these days because the expected paradigms are ever so subtly changed. New entrants to computers understand these new paradigms innately because they are already surrounded by the new context.

It's only when we look back we think how much usability has suffered.

Language is a good example of what I mean. Travel back 100 years and the linquistical choices that are made would not only be slightly alien to us, ours would be absolutely muddy to them.

I think you can make a case that a lot of the new paradigms like electron do not promote usage of native UI styles and accessibility.

But the Title bar being an overloaded UI element in todays context is generally ok I think.
There is a decent chance this crisis wipes out Airbnb’s equity, with the recent lenders owning most of not all of it within a year.
That is what was thought but if the finding in the article turns out to be true then that might need to be reevaluated.
Great ideas, will do! Thanks for suggestions!
A modern CPU can do how many thousands of signatures per second?

How many internet routes change per second?

How many dollars per second would pay for enough CPU's to sign every changed route? I'd bet less than one... I'd guess 1000x less than one...
What if the DNA was frozen?
Here's a rephrase. You have to be understanding in order to positively influence people. Therefore, it's unproductive to be dismissive. Anti-scientific sentiment as phenomenon will not disappear, but will be shaped by that positive influence. It's misguiding to leave it at saying that the phenomenon will not disappear, because that implies that the groups in question are outside our influence.

Edit: if I'm still coming off vague, a sibling to my original comment says what I wanted to say more succinctly.
wyoming has more than ten times the population of lichtenstein and more than one thousand times the land area.
>This is insane. 5x markup and federal seizure of privately procured masks that will then get given to private companies to give to hospitals. Instead, the government could institute price controls and distribute directly to those in need or allow all private purchases to go through while controlling part of the market. Absolutely crazy. Not to mention having to hope your governor praises the federal government to get their masks back.

This is pretty much how it went here in Czech Republic - initially outright ban on sale on the PPE needed by medical personnel, that was only removed very recently. And the state (army & fire fighters to be precise) handling all the distribution of PPE. Mainly to hospitals, care homes and also to local municipality offices where local general practitioners could pick them up.

First state distributed the PPE from the (unfortunately rather small) existing emergency stockpile, later from a central warehouse located next to a suitable airport close to the middle of the country where most of the "aerial bridge" cargo aircraft with PPE ordered from China land.
Malta has less than a million people. Is it not a country?
When I read this kind of thing I am happy we live in a society that allows the free discussion of information. It is no exaggeration to say this kind of honest description of events by a senior health official could have lead to imprisonment or worse in many historical and some modern contexts.

Given how many people are currently unemployed - how is it that we can fail to ramp up our own ability to produce this needed equipment? There is no shortage of labor. Forget about the failures to prepare in January, February and March - what are we doing right now to prepare for the next 6 months?

I'm looking around for a leader who has that vision. Governors are blaming the federal government. The federal government is blaming China and the WHO. Who is organizing the effort to fill the gaps?
Yup, the majority of the people on this thread claiming complete disassociation with bad behaviour are not offering the alternatives used by them, as if it is a kind of secret society.
Ah! That's where I read it! Thanks, I read that book a year ago and couldn't remember where I'd heard that factoid.
Anyhow, in Canada, the federal government has created its own global supply chain to produce and distribute PPE as needed within the country, hiring two international firms to store and verify equipment sourced from China. Meanwhile, national air carriers are re-fitting their unused jets to carry PPE and the feds are happily paying them to fly them.

"The ministry of procurement has signed a deal with two international firms to temporarily store and verify equipment in China – awaiting Canadian jetliners to safely retrieve the materials and return home.

Bollore Logistics – of France-based Bollore Group, a multi-national transport and logistics firm – is providing storage and transportation services within China, as well as preliminary testing capabilities."

This is the sort of war-time posture that every country needs to take. It's sad to see the lack of federal government leadership in the US leading to hospital staff becoming PPE supply chain experts. What a horrible waste of their talents.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-establishes-its-own-p...
The courts are terrible at that.

Eyewitness testimony is awful but given gold status.
But that's what contentEditable already does?
You can't do that without commiting to not supporting pathological text, otherwise you're stuck adding new special cases to the layout engine every update anyway.

I do have some ideas for a better encoding (like, I assume, anyone competent with sufficient free time and interest in text encoding), but there's a lot of reluctance to put effort into something that's already completely eclipsed by a technically inferior but not completely unusable alternative, so I've had it mostly shelved.
While some are egregious usability disasters, like hiding the scroll bar, others points are just a sign of times moving on, like the ≡ for menu.
Homology studies. A DNA strand 17 bp long is pretty distinct. If a strand that long or longer was found, we would gain a lot of information about the evolutionary history of dinosaurs that we could never get from fossils.

However, the article isn't clear about what they found. It says DNA, then it says there may not be a recoverable sequence. In that case nucleic acids would be a better term than DNA. Without more info on what stain they used to identify the "DNA", the implications of this research are hard to figure out.
Submitted to PNC (here near Pittsburgh) the day it opened, got bounced a few days later with slightly incomplete form filling.

I stupidly dragged my feet in re-submitting, given all the steps required. Finally got it re-submitted yesterday, just as they announced the well's run dry.

PNC kindly got back to me today (via phone) and had me add one more piece of missing info, in readiness for the next wave of funding (if that happens).

Now I wonder if I had responded immediately last week if it might have made it under the wire. I guess who knows?
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The key is half-life. A few fragments of dinosaur DNA surely remain, because half-life means there is a certain probability of decay over a particular unit of time. But enough to re-assemble a dinosaur? That's unlikely to the point of near-impossibility.

Even if we got really really lucky and found some that had spent most of its existence frozen deep in Antarctica or something, that would only open the potential of restoring a single dinosaur lineage and not the vast array of species depicted in Jurassic Park. That's total fantasy.
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I use RSS/ATOM every day via the feature that introduced me to the concept - Firefox Live Bookmarks (via Waterfox).

I've hung on as long as I can, but between Waterfox Classic being on an older ESR and it getting sold to Privacy One, I'm ready to bite the bullet and move on to a non-browser rss feed reader.

what rss reader gets as close to live bookmarks as possible? There is the livemarks extension for FF but it doesn't actually update / tell you if a given link has been visited.
Definitely, if I were using rendered output primarily that'd make a ton of sense of course.

As you surmised, though, I use VS Code, vim, nvAlt, and iOS text editors as my primary tools (depending on setting) and actually create/read the journal in pure plaintext.

The markdown formatting is more so I can c/p rendered versions from a preview HTML page to Google Docs and other targets that understand rich text from clipboard but not markdown directly--I can create meeting minutes and whatnot from my notes very quickly that way.
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Japan is doing that - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/from-aben...

Not received very well for several reasons. But I have to say, as a US resident, I am impressed to see that Japanese TV shows politicians and others in public wearing masks now. While it's encouraging that the CDC now recommends use, wearing them is great from normalized yet.
Are you suggesting we may not be in disagreement? I really think we are.
Many banks were waiting to process the loans until the guidance settled down. Even the application form changed after the program officially launched. Guidance from the Treasury Department on how to apply and underwrite was a moving target for several days into the program launching.

Our bank said they were still doing diligence on all applications upfront before submitting the loans to the SBA
even though the bank isn't actually liable for anything. This was causing about a 2 day lag time from starting to process the loan application to submitting it to the SBA. In our case that meant not getting the loan submitted before the funding ran out.
Unless you think FB users for some reason would be infected at significantly different rates, that shouldn't be much of a problem.

I'm much more concerned about selection bias toward prior sick people; IIRC, Stanford offered to report positive results to the patient.
Afraid the answer will be None.
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Agreed

The crux of it is obvious: math is true from the perspective of a human consciousness

It’s defined after cognitive measure.

I won’t say it’s whittled down.

I would say ... it’s sight, sound, touch... attempt at quantifying our qualified experience

All the best math nerds were often deeply gifted and practiced forms of human art: poetry, music, sculpture... and many artists good at math, Brian May, for one example

IMO to get math one needs to build all those abilities

It’s really the people I know that don’t do that see math as a boring toolbox of rules and points

Not saying you’re not that

Math is not a thing like a rock because our ability to behave like more than a rock gave us the ability to define math. It has to be more than a simple this or that
Among the many problems with that idea is that no one agrees on the definition of a "fairly basic life." One leader's definition will be different from another, so we're ever at the mercy of gaining/losing benefits at the whim of (at least in the US) a distant and isolated ruling class.
You're right about Keynes' general approach to handling a recession or depression, but OP is referring to Keynes' theory that people would be working only 15 hours a week by now: https://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/432122637/keynes-predicted-we...
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BRK issues regularly at the insurance company level. I wouldn't overthink it. Even with the recently issued USD bonds much wider, they're still yielding around the same at issue with rates much lower. Strong issuers like BRK should be taking advantage of much lower rates and extreme demand for investment grade bonds right now to refinance higher coupon debt.
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It's not flat. When there was lack of food after the comet hit, dinosaurs licked it so it became round.
I think that comment is just from a bot that picks from an HN Greatest Hits API to farm karma?
Or bacterial DNA.

I think samples need to be isolated and sequenced before we know what we're dealing with.
Countries with larger safety nets have basically similar levels of absolute poverty to the US (it is kind of tricky because most of those countries in the former are also far far smaller, and have very different population density/growth/migration patterns). And btw...yes, in other countries if you lose your job you can lose your house...this is true everywhere (and the US already has a public health system that is 50-75% of most of Europe)...that is kind of how mortgages and debt work. Saying that you wish you could just repudiate all your debt is very American (ironically, given that you seem to hold a non-American view of govt).

The most effective way to move people out of poverty is to create jobs. Whatever system you have, the only way it goes wrong (as it did for Europe through most of the 90/2000s) is when you cannot create jobs. There is no other option. America has got it 95% right.

And the main issue in the US is: are people willing to accept significant intervention into their working life from the govt? Are people willing to accept living in a society that is run for large corporations (it is funny that most Americans think they live there already, not even close)? Can the US bring immigration down significantly? Can the economy still function with lower immigration? Can the US still function with high prices of basic goods? The answer to almost all of those questions is no. America has a system that suits America...that is why they have it (and btw, if you talk to social policy academics from the countries with higher social safety nets, they will tell you the same thing).

Maybe this is controversial now but it is far easier to suggest that we should tear everything down than work out how to make progress with something that is mostly working.
> I have serious doubts that GPU based 2D rendering in a way that it is done today will help performance or reduce power consumption at all.

Your doubts are entirely unfounded. Every mobile device uses Skia-style hybrid GPU/CPU rendering entirely due to performance, and power consumption didn't take a hit from it.

There's a question of why this hasn't also happened on desktop, but I think it's just because nobody cares if desktop GUI performance is garbage. It's not touch-driven, so it's less noticeable. It's not front & center on reviewer comparisons like it is/was for iOS vs. Android. And since so much is web-based, the number of commonly used GUI desktop apps has plummeted.

And on platforms where Cairo is relevant there's bigger problems in graphics than rendering speed anyway, like the abysmal state of composition foundations (aka, X11 still being so common and wayland being stuck in permanent not-quite-there).
While I can only speak for Europe, more particularly for Germany, I learned quite a lot about masks in the last couple if weeks when I tried to leverage my logistics contacts to get masks and stuff from China.

IMHO we see what a complete brake down of an established supply chain looks like. As end users in Germany are unable to source directly from Chinese suppliers, and these suppliers are unable to import, the high demand, combined with production shutdowns, resulted in a near global stock out.

While this is bad enough, the multi-tiered distribution chain (producer, importer, wholeseller, local distributor) is by definition not capable or fast enough to recover in any reasonable amount of time. And that is under ideal conditions, and not during a global shortage and run on the product in question.

One would be tempted to assume some central entity would be able to step in. But in Germany, that fell to the armed forces and other government entities. And those have not the slightest clue about international trade. So the insisted on suppliers to import. Remember why the supply chain is the way it is? So the only thing working is donations, because there logistics pros are running things.

It is not a question of availability of masks nor transportation capacity or lead times, just price.

Now it seems the import part is solved. I give the government 2 weeks tops to realize distribution is not that easy neither. Just having masks in some warehouse is only the first step of supplying the front line people.
The linguistic conundrum here arises due to the recently adopted mindless use of the word 'invented' instead of 'created' or 'designed.' (Indeed, Linus created Linux rather than 'invented' it as many would say today.) Invention is a form of discovery. So, the question should be, "is mathematics created or discovered?"