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Dividends are, literally, the profits you're distributing to your owners. Buybacks, likewise, are giving corporate money directly to your owners (who then divest from the company in the process, of course). This isn't "bad", it's fine. It's the basic idea of how the stock market is supposed to work, we buy shares in companies we think will make money.

But by definition if you have cash to distribute to your owners, you could be using that to pay salaries instead and delay or avoid layoffs and furloughs. So it's very reasonable that a government bailout policy designed to prevent job losses (and not to shore up shareholder value) would incentivize giving money to the people who are targetted and not shareholders.
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What are some of the best (free) tools you guys use to manage/tack work - jira, personal notes, ideas, etc?
Not that relevant as the shock is slump in demand. Printing more money etc makes it cheaper to buy things but people are still not buying so oil etc is in a free fall. Traditional interest rate based intervention doesn’t make sense you are just adding even more money available to a system that doesn’t want to spend it. Instead it needs to be targeted intervention that transitions the economy to the new reality and measures something different than quarterly gdp.
In Chicago each gallon has $0.68 of tax, and that's before the 10.25% sales tax.
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I perceive the "It's okay to be white" slogan as a very moderate and constructive reaction to the propagation and even normalization of anti-white messages and memes. And I specifically mean anti-white as an ethnic hatred, not as part of an equality and justice argument. For example, see the "Karen" meme, which besides its horrible sexism, specifically focuses on white women.

Middle-class white people have increasingly witnessed a media and a left-wing political coalition that can vilify them with impunity for gain, be that entertainment value or the easy political cohesion that hate can generate. So, I'd argue it's important to make room for and accept the very tepid and nonthreatening "It's okay to be white." Because if we don't, what follows that will be less palatable.
Fired up the desktop to do some Folding@Home and also to work with Unity while I continue to use my MacBookPro as my main work machine. Desktop is now stuck in a Windows 10 reboot loop after I foolishly allowed it to install updates.
What cpu cooler are you running in the Setry case?
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> Companies that pay dividends or make share buy-backs are more vulnerable in a crisis

All public companies are anticipated to pay dividends or buy-back at some point in time, it's what underlies stock pricing.
Because no where in the article does the main thrust of religion--personal responsibility for doing good in the world--enter into the discussion.

It begs the question by trying to show that obviously doing good to get to Heaven is really about the community, therefore we should all be Marxists. Being a good person will have a positive effect on the community in which you live, but the point is not about how high your utility to the community is. The point of being a good person is that it reduces suffering, or at the least makes it meaningful.

But individualism, in this formal sense, is anathema to such discussions.
Sure, nothing strange about that. But having to quit a job because management can't get their heads around remote work is inconvenient for everyone involved. It would be much better if that weren't necessary, no? That's the "objection" I meant.

My last org had a really bad wfh policy, inconsistently enforced across teams. I ended up leaving over it (mostly). There are a lot of things that won't get done because I'm not around to do them, and they'll lose a good bit of money over it. Seems like a weird hill for them to die on, but they did so. I wish they hadn't.
I´ve seen plenty of them in Zurich. Not at Bahnhofstrasse of course but in Wipkingen for example they are everywhere. I had one in my backyard and there were multiple street facing ones as well.
Honorable mentions: WineTricks, and its successor - Lutris.
If you can't get it to run on Proton (or not a Steam game), try those.
Right but to cut tax you either need to be in a budget surplus, reduce your budget size or enter a budget deficit.

If you do that in January then you can't use the same money again in February when things are bad.
Develop itself and its product for future success?
Exactly. So, give breaks to companies that cannot pay dividends, because the ones that do are the ones who are obviously signaling that they are fine.

This isn't some slam against paying dividends, though. I do agree with you. I am fascinated at companies like Snapchat whose shares command no voting power and do not pay a dividend.

However, as far as signals go, "here, we are so well capitalized that we think you can invest this money better than we can" is pretty strongly saying your company is in good financial shape.
What distro are you using for Linux? Civ 6 is literally the only reason I keep my Windows partition and I can't get civ 6 to work with Proton.
> you buy the stock or sell it based on their current profits.

Yes, based on the anticipation of future dividends and share buybacks. Stock trading is more than just gambling but for profits.
True, but there will be checking to ensure that you want oil if you are not normally a destination for oil. Trying to deliver oil to someone without a loading dock will be a problem that hurts many people trying to correct.
I wouldn't oversell protondb since it's based on user submitted reports. I've tried multiple games that were rated platinum, but wouldn't launch or had other graphical issues that made them unplayable. Luckily the issues usually present themselves before you reach the 2 hour refund time limit.
You mean like Amazon? The stock price rises and if you want out you sell some.
I don’t think corporate tax break would actually be a useful tool right now - corporate taxes are on profits and the profits are going to tank for most businesses.
The article lacks some details. If you read the Danish text detailing this from the Ministry of Commerce you will see that:

Regarding buy-backs and dividends, companies receiving more than 60 million DKK in subsidy for fixed costs have to promise no buy-backs and dividends in fiscal years 2020 and 2021. If they pay back the subsidy they will be freed from this obligation.

60 million DKK is approximately 8.7 million USD or 8 million EUR.

Regarding "tax havens", the legislation states that the companies receiving these subsidies have to pay their taxes according to national rules and international agreements. Companies based in EU-defined "tax havens" will not be eligible for compensation unless denying them compensation would violate EU legislation or other international agreements.

You can read the press release and legislation from the Ministry of Commerce in Danish here:

https://em.dk/nyhedsarkiv/2020/april/covid-19-regeringen-og-...
I have adopted this a couple of years ago after stumbling upon a video about this.

I work as a web architect. Whenever I am involved in a large production deployment, I don't just go through the checklists. I verbally call out each configuration/setting pointing my finger at the specific line on the screen.

Although, I don't call out as loud as the Japanese train staff are seen doing. It helped me with being more conscious and not oversee things or skip items in the checklist.
Well, that's exactly it- everyone has been forced into it, and being forced into something is not always a great way to appreciate it. My employer has been surveying employees since this all started, and the last survey showed 70% of them looking forward to returning to the office.

Personally I've worked remote for almost 10 years; I might not ever take an in-person job again. But it seems most people don't feel that way.
Well China is pushing a narrative that the outbreak started in October at the Wuhan Military world games, you can bet that US intelligance was monitoring this event, and literally competing in the event..over 100 countries participated..things that make you go hmmmm.
Found it, for GNU it's `date -d @1577733633`
The problem is, people who stop are not an effective force for fixing this, as they effect good actors equally as much as bad ones. To fix this with consumer pressure, you need consumers who still buy cruises, but discriminate based on how well the workers are treated (and are willing to pay the premium for good treatment).
Ah oops, I forgot about the factor of 2 in the denominator of the equation
One rational reason is that there's a desire to preserve the state of the economy to speed the eventual recovery. Writing checks to a restaurant to keep its staff employed (but idle) vs. writing checks to the employees is the same from the perspective of the employees. But it also means the restaurant is going to fail.

Opening the doors of an idle restaurant at the end of the lockdown is a lot cheaper and more efficient than starting up an entirely new one.

A less rational reason, of course, is that the policymakers writing the bailout laws tend personally to be more affiliated with and sympathetic to business owners than employees. There is some of that too.
While I'm used to a lifetime of blaring fans and the pale dim glow, I'm getting more interested in building quiet machines. Especially for things like media centres or NAS. It sucks to have a computer blaring while you're trying to watch a movie, or think in your living room.
Damn React is complicated.
I added Dark mode in my app in a few lines of CSS (https://github.com/movim/movim/blob/master/public/theme/css/...) and used the variables across the whole code. I just have to toggle a class on the body and boom, it works.

Guys, you don't need all that JS, seriously. It's slow, it's useless most of the time. And in the end you have to spend hours for something so simple.

Theming the colors of your website is the role of one tech: CSS. That's it, you don't needs layers and layers of Javascript to change that.

Let's go back to server side rendering, a bit of HTML + CSS and JS and we're done.
"That Time I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil", an interesting read:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time...
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I know nothing about subway in the US, but living in Japan, most systems here still have 2 staff per train. The conductor job here includes confirming overall safety of the train (including confirming stop position), open-close door, and general communication to the passengers. There are systems here that use 1 man to operate, but those are generally the lower throughput system.
Yes, but a very very low percentage of the contracts that expire result in delivery. Delivery is expensive. It's cheaper to get oil through a supplier.
If you live in California, don't bother. It's illegal and they won't sell to you if it's going into a vehicle.
Related prior discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22124489 ("Procrastination is about managing emotions, not time (bbc.com")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22096571 ("Ask HN: I don't want to be a worker any more I want to be a professional")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20930439 ("how do you keep your programming motivation up?")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903886 "Ask HN: How do you motivate yourself to keep working on a project? "

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19777976 "ask hn: how do you stay disciplined in the long run?"
Like Google? Or Facebook? Or Tesla?
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Journalists found ties* on Friday too »

While protesters in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and other states claim to speak for ordinary citizens, many are also supported by street-fighting rightwing groups like the Proud Boys, conservative armed militia groups, religious fundamentalists, anti-vaccination groups and other elements of the radical right.

…

It was organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, which Michigan state corporate filings show has also operated under the name of Michigan Trump Republicans. It was also heavily promoted by the Michigan Freedom Fund, a group linked to the Trump cabinet member Betsy DeVos.

…

In fact the man is Phil Robinson, the prime mover in a group called the Michigan Liberty Militia, whose Facebook page features pictures of firearms, warnings of civil war, celebrations of Norse paganism and memes ultimately sourced from white nationalist groups like Patriot Front.

…

The protest has been heavily promoted by the Idaho Freedom Foundation (IFF), which counts among its donors “dark money” funds linked to the Koch brothers such as Donors Capital Fund, and Castle Rock, a foundation seeded with part of the fortune of Adolph Coors, the rightwing beer magnate.

…

The event is also being promoted on a website dedicated to attacking Little for his response to Covid-19. That website was set up by the Idaho businessman, pastor and one-time Republican state senate candidate, Diego Rodriguez.

Rodriguez launched the website at an Easter service held in defiance of the governor’s orders on Easter Sunday, which was also addressed by Ammon Bundy, the leader of the militia occupation of the Malheur national wildlife refuge in 2016 that become a rallying point for the anti-government right in the US.

…

Included in that number are members of the 3% of Washington, a group which has held a series of open-carry rallies in Seattle, featuring speeches from the far-right protest leader, Joey Gibson.

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/far-right-coro...
> So, give breaks to companies that cannot pay dividends, because the ones that do are the ones who are obviously signaling that they are fine.

This is correct - but the opposite of the GP comment.

> I am fascinated at companies like Snapchat whose shares command no voting power and do not pay a dividend.

Pricing here is based on the anticipation of future dividends or buybacks.
I imagine the GP also objects when remote work die-hards force remote work on people like them. According to the article, almost half of remote workers want to work for a company where all workers are remote, leaving people like GP commenter out in the cold.

It seems large groups from both sides are unwilling to meet in the middle.

And that's for good reason, really. The reality is that in-office workers have an inherent advantage when it comes to activities that require interaction between people, such as promotions or work assignments. People who want to work remotely are going to want everyone to work remote so that they aren't disadvantaged when it comes to those things, but then we are left with the problem of one group forcing their way of working on the other group.
See this classic article on the difficulties of actually trying to do this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-03/that-time...
Do you know a priori that none of these companies will ever pay dividends or buy back?

So many facile understandings of pricing in these comments - there is a real mechanism that ties profits to pricing, it's not just "sell when it goes up"
It sounds like you may be assuming the dividend is required, like a debt. It isn't. A company can stop paying its dividend at any time, so Denmark isn't excluding any company. Investors will grumble when the dividend stops, but so what? The taxpayers are grumbling too.

Of course some banks have recently argued that their dividends are something like debts. They argue that cutting the dividend would cause investors to panic, so they must be essential to the financial system. This is a weird argument, but if you took it seriously you would have to include dividends in their post-2008 stress tests. You would require regulatory approval before they increased the dividend, as you would if they increased their debt-to-asset ratio.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-06/a-virt...
I'm assuming that EM simulations are massively parallel. Depending on your budget you should consider a threadripper or the new Intel HEDT for a budget option.
How does the size of the business change the material facts here? You shouldn't be able to take profit when you're sitting on top of a 0% interest government loan intended to keep you solvent.
I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)
They're talking about actions taken before the pandemic.

We kept rates low and gave big tax cuts during boom times. This left little in our quiver for the end of the boom.
Why? Where exactly is the tipping point where dividends/buybacks become unacceptable? Unless you want to completely outlaw dividends and share buybacks (in which case you might as well do away with public companies), you're inherently putting the government in the position of defining completely arbitrary rules about how profitable a company is allowed to be.
This reminds me of when I was helping a friend debug his home-built computer. Couldn't get a POST message out of it indicating why it wouldn't boot. After a while of searching, discovered it was because there wasn't a speaker connected to the non-existent pins for the speaker (there were no pins, just the soldering points for them). Once discovering that, used a multimeter to read the POST error - no GPU detected. Fun times...
Anyone still talking about peak oil? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_peak_...
Paying for fish v.s. paying for fishing rod maintenance. The idea of the aid is to preserve the economy so it can go back to generating product not pay the rent for the next few months on individuals houses.
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Yup. A perfect ship team is the Philosopher's Stone of software engineering. If anyone gets it perfect, they get to knock Bezos out of top place.

I worked for a Japanese company for most of my career.

It was...challenging.

HUGE team of very, very capable engineers (I regularly worked with some of the finest scientists and engineers in the world), but hidebound like you wouldn't believe.

I quickly learned never to use the word "agile" when talking to my bosses. Frowny faces appeared everywhere. They considered it a "low quality" process.

The main issue, is that I was talking to top-shelf engineers and managers, who had been delivering top-quality products for 100 years. This was not trying to convince impressionable American VCs or play "buzzword bingo." These folks knew how to do something, and they had been having success for generations.

It's just that what worked so well for hardware, went pear-shaped with software, and I was never able to successfully convince them of that.

That made me very sad, as I think that they really lost a lot of benefit, because they couldn't pivot into modern software engineering. I loved that company, and I have tremendous respect for my peers in Tokyo.

Since leaving that company, I have been working on my own, and implementing the ideas that I cultivated while working there.

It's been fairly effective.

Those cranky bastards had one thing right, though. The software industry has a shockingly high tolerance for crap. It's a real challenge to try to advocate for doing quality work.
Here's some historical analysis from Ray Dalio: https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/
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So the power from the optical system is spread over the retina by the MEMS mirrors. What happens if the laser stays on and one or both of the scanners stops?
I suspect your downvotes are due to HN being tired of people proposing blockchain for problems it wouldn't solve.

Assuming your comment was sincere, I'll engage with your content instead of downvoting:

1. You don't need a distributed, P2P database to archive news. Archive.org already does it, for example. So do some libraries.

2. Saving things in immutable, distributed databases does not require a blockchain. BitTorrent has been mostly successful at this for decades, for example.

3. It's common for stories like this to be covered in thousands of reputable and unreputable publications. The reputable ones already have policies against changing old stories, though none seem to do routinely change stories in practice. Either way, to update a story like this, you only need one example of the coverage.
The stock value can still rise. Apple didn't pay dividends for a large part of its existence, yet especially after the year 2000 it would have been a great stock to own.

> Apple's long stretch of not paying any dividends reflected Jobs' opposition to them. During Jobs' second tenure at Apple from 1997 to 2012, the tech giant didn't pay a single dividend, even as its cash hoard ballooned to over $50 billion in 2011.

"The cash in the bank gives us tremendous security and flexibility," Jobs said in 2010.

But by 2012, and after Jobs had passed the reigns to Tim Cook, Apple finally reinitiated its dividend, making it the company's first dividend since 1995. The combination of Jobs' passing in 2011 and a cash hoard exceeding $100 billion in 2012 marked the beginning of a new era for Apple. Overnight, Apple became a formidable dividend stock -- and it looks like it's going to stay this way.

Source: https://www.fool.com/investing/2016/08/29/apple-dividend-his...
You'd probably do better not avoiding the elephant sized context in the room here. It makes your replies look deeply disingenuous.

To answer your point if I'm white there is still 50% of the equation that might not be. So my children are not necessarily "white" nor would the be considered so by white supremacists. My children might be adopted. My children might have some sort of genetic disorder that causes skin pigmentation changes. I might deeply consider my cats to be my children. Which is without even considering the deeper implications of whether it is simple to define "whiteness".

There are plenty of reasons why my own children and "white children" might not be part of the same set.
I cannot for the life of me understand why’d someone who’s not an institutional investor (say Buffet) would want to own stock in a company that doesn’t pay dividends. It’s basically buying a vanity plate and hoping someone else will buy it for more down the road.
I agree that cases are probably giving maybe a 10-20x undercount. That means that NYC has maybe 3 million infections. That means NYC is maybe half way to herd immunity, assuming reinfection doesn't happen and that immunity is lasting.

The only problem is that to get the other half way there, another 20,000 people have to die, just in New York City. That doesn't even count the already existing infections that haven't died yet.
CSS variables are the best way to do dark mode, just use the variable everywhere, set it on html or :root, and change it either in .darkmode or a @media for dark mode. They're pretty much supported everywhere dark mode is. Surprisingly simple dark mode support for greenfield sites.
Thanks both for the feedback and for the resources. Yes, I will definitely see a therapist.
Rave.io is an alternative that really impressed me. With features like watching videos with friends on Gdrive