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Six of one, half a dozen of the other. The difference is that Fed injections benefit the wealthy, and a UBI benefits the poor most. This is not inflationary, since we are in a depression. As far as devaluing the dollar versus other currencies, everyone else is creating tons of money as well. I'd really welcome a dollar devaluation, actually, to help with our trade deficit.
This is precisely why we need capitalism as well as strong, enforced antitrust laws.
> This is the dark side of monopolies.

Oh; no introduction necessary. We go way back.
A couple of things, there is not enough story here to get a clear picture. Namely did more than one pilot in the same flight capture these on RADAR and infrared and while the one pilot says he did not capture it on his helmet camera did any other pilots even see them with their own eyes?

If its just via sensors, even in the same flight, could it be some test program that just gets activated under the right conditions? Is there more story that goes into detail about how many pilots per flight saw them?
Even computable reals do not have computable ordering.

> but presumably they lie somewhere regardless of my inability to do it on a TM.

Why?

> Zermelo's theorem at that point right?

It is declared by fiat in standard set theory that infinite sets can be well ordered. This is no real mathematical justification. The real justification is social: that it is convenient for mathematicians to not care about the ontology of these nasty infinite objects so long as results are mostly reasonable for objects that mathematicians actually care about. You don't get into too much trouble pretending the reals are nice so long as you don't look too hard.
Sellers are more profitable and less risky overall because Amazon does not need to buy the inventory and they make a profit off of every interaction with the seller from transaction fees to storage fees to PPC ads and more. Amazon's vendor business sucks and is overall shrinking proportion of marketplace revenue.
Please thoroughly read the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is no way to argue on HN. Be respectful to others even if they seem to not understand your point, then clarify further. Rhetorical questions like this are insulting and lead to poor discussions.
Well, it is visible in documentation, but even those can be hard to parse:

uint startsWith(alias pred = (a, b) => a == b, Range, Needles...)(Range doesThisStart, Needles withOneOfThese)
if (isInputRange!Range && (Needles.length > 1) && is(typeof(.startsWith!pred(doesThisStart, withOneOfThese[0])) : bool) && is(typeof(.startsWith!pred(doesThisStart, withOneOfThese[1..$])) : uint));
What you present is sadly what most interviewers do. Which if you ever read books on interviewing they say many people received your resume 10 minutes before, if they even got it. That said I like to be very thorough, which makes my bosses roll their eyes.

1) Scan resume for applicable skills.

2) Scan for transferable skills, i.e. similar but different

3) Look for inconsistencies - most common is a job person was at for a short time but with huge description - indicates they either could not work well with others and got shifted, or they are taking credit for a project where they only attended meetings.

4) Derive specific questions based on their resume that explains how much involvement and what role they played. Here I am trying to find a reason to like them. But also trying to uncover bad habits.

5) I then sprinkle the questions from 4, with my standard list of questions, so as to avoid hammering them in one area. Save the file so I can then add their answers.

During the interview I jot down notes and scores, scores are usually 'Good', unhappy face, 'ok', 'perfect', or a check mark. Part of the scoring is based on the answer. e.g. I see in your current job you use Java, is that the primary language? An answer of yes, does not show me YOU did any Java at your job. The answer Yes we use the current version, and libraries xyzzy and plugh, we use the abc development environment and .... Shows you are very engaged. Getting more into the weeds tells me how much you understand about Java.

Of course I am technical guy, if you are applying for a business analyst job, then I am 'yeah sure, whatever', let me look over the resume five minutes before the interview.
You can already sort of see what direction this would go in with education. Just look at student loans. They're available to basically anybody, and as a result you see a growing industry of for-profit colleges and continually rising tuition even at established universities, as people figure out how to extract and siphon off the essentially unlimited free money from the government (actual source of money: the students' future selves).

This is what I would predict would happen with any UBI, more generally: it would just raise the prices of the things that people have to buy until all the money wound up with those who had the capital and the sophistication to capture it. It's not clear you'd even wind up with more of those things you listed, but it is certain you'd pay more for what you did get.
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> I don't think that within a company changing the user's language, effectively breaking the experience, is "reasonable."

And that's not what I said.

I said it's "reasonable" to switch to German store if you're in Germany (1), but they should still have a English display language for it if user prefers English (2). They failed at 2, not 1.
Ever heard of the "rootDirs" [1] option in tsconfig.json? You can use it to aggregate code files in the various folders as if they were in one flat folder (as far as TS is concerned) while editing. Before building with WebPack, you can copy all the code files into a temporary build folder and then run WebPack on it.

1. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/compiler-option...
I think your objections are already addressed by the comment
I think the difference between the two cases is in your example a large number of different incidents were involved while the OP’s example concerns a single incident (within a wider conflict).

Without taking sides I can see how difficult it can be to find wording that various interests can tolerate.
> Colleges are not going to let many people take gap years.

They're desperate, and they're about to be a lot more so. If your money's green, they'll let you.
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Templates don't exist until compile time, until you build the code, the IDE plugin doesn't have the full data on what types exactly are there. Java/C# generics are more limited in functionality, but it's a tradeoff in exchange for better ahead of time knowledge of types.
Hmmm, now how the heck would Soros use charging stations to further pervert or subvert western society?
Me too. I had same experience. A lot of fake sign ups from random email.
No argument from me! It's all just spreadsheet economics, with everyone attempting to shape the narrative to meet their ideology.
I agree with many of your complaints, this article[1] from Latacora comes to mind. However, a lot of the "good stuff" that fixes some of these problems already exist and are fully implemented in GSuite, they just happen to be locked behind the priciest service tier[2].

I've had many frustrations like these, because if you're on the lower tiers of GSuite you pretty much have to DIY using their API. But, if you choose to bite the bullet and pay up, your life will be way better in many of these aspects.

Also other things about the "GSuite way" just diverge philosophically from the standard IT operation playbooks, if you haven't already, I suggest giving the BeyondCorp paper[3] a read. Most of their IdP-related products build on top of these concepts, rather than plain "directory-management style" ITOps.

[1] https://latacora.micro.blog/gripes-with-google/

[2] https://gsuite.google.com/pricing.html

[3] https://research.google/pubs/pub43231/
Surely the authors did not create this application in a void without any idea of the intended usage.
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No, you don't have to accept that. In my Analysis 2 course we worked a whole bunch with [0, ∞], i.e. the positive real numbers together with infinity, and we defined 1/∞ = 0 and ∞ * 0 = 0. You lose some of your usual rules of arithmetic, but it gets a lot easier to talk about integrals.
It would need maintenance eventually.
Forget that part, since when do doctors get abused in Pakistan (except in the brawl by lawyers recently)? What’s a basis for this speculation?
Definitely not universally supported:

> Now, mail ballots — they cheat. Okay? People cheat. Mail ballots are a very dangerous thing for this country, because they’re cheaters. They go and collect them. They’re fraudulent in many cases.

- President Trump
They capture a second or two of (lower-resolution) video frames before and after the photo itself, plus audio. The UI on the iphone is that you hold your finger on the photo and it plays the "live" version. Under the hood IIRC it's just a short video + still bundled together in a container. The effect is reminiscent of the magical photos in the Harry Potter films, and when looking back at photos of one's kids from years prior it really is magical. To take them, the UI is the same as taking any other photo, except that you must know to keep the camera steady a second or two before and after taking the photo itself (it'll still be captured just fine regardless, but the "live" part will be a blurry mess if the camera's moving) which is the real genius of it—no extra effort, really, and it's automatic, provided live photos are enabled, so you don't have to decide whether you want to take a video versus a photo, you just take the photo and get a tiny little video to go with it.
> I admit that I don't have more than a passing familiarity with Nim. Rust certainly isn't the only language targeting this niche nowadays

Don't let the Nim folks fool you. Nim isn't targeting the same space as Rust. It's garbage collected.

Nim could see success in challenging Python or Golang, but Rust is rather uniquely positioned to go after bare metal (C, C++), yet have the ergonomics one would expect from Java, Python, Go, etc.

Rust is going to eat everything.
Even if you have var/auto, you don't have to use it every time.
Whole world? Seems that there are plenty of locations that simply mark your thumb to vote, no ID needed. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_ink
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Let us assume that your concerns about devaluation come true. Let us say that Poor Man has $10,000 and Rich Man has $10,000,000. Devaluation of dollar by 10% means poor man loses $1,000 and Rich man loses $1,000,000.

Who loses out more under devaluation?
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Hospitals are not overwhelmed, people not dying in droves.
There may be genetic immunity, with people already exposed to a lot more viruses, less obesity, and comorbid conditions. Also there may be different strains of the virus at work.
But we are comparing the lockdown measures here and there, and the anti-science Trumpards who think it's a conspiracy, and protesting. Individual states ( CA ) are doing a great job, Southern states with their nincompoop governors and people, not so much.
Btw, Sweden is paying the price for having a laissez-faire attitude to it.
It doesn't have to be Scheme but I'm skeptical you can do full justice to the metaprogramming parts of SICP if you're not using a homoiconic language.

Unsurprisingly, "SICP in Python" reverts to a Lisp dialect for those parts of the book.
> it works in chromium, what a piece of junk.

Google is what Google does.

And it’s not webstandards.
I think just about everyone with a 401k owns Amazon stock at least indirectly, and I think it's a safe bet that unless an HN comment is coming from Daddy Bezos himself, it's unlikely-bordering-impossible to move the stock price either way.
No this one:

"Returns:
A range with each fun applied to all the elements. If there is more than one fun, the element type will be Tuple containing one element for each fun."
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Voting services are the responsibility of the states. The Feds can require states to implement certain regulations, but it's up to the state to provide the enforcement.

You don't need a separate identification card. You can register to vote for free electronically or via mail, some state even allow in-person enrollment on the same day as the election.

In most states, the county maintains the voter registration. They should be removing people through a fair process as they become ineligible (die, move, felony, etc). They could track down most eligible people, but at what cost? As a citizen, it's not just your right to vote, but it is also your duty. The individual should apply, not be tracked down. This a how a democracy is supposed to work - citizens doing what's best for their country instead of waiting on the government, a government which is supposed to be a body of the people.

If you are concerned about the rights and freedoms of people without a photo ID being trampled, then you should be opposed to TSA since you need a photo ID to fly, or even ride a bus. You should be opposed to the ATF since you need a photo ID to buy a gun. You should be opposed to the DMV because you need a photo ID to drive. Even many states require the addition of photo ID when fishing to validate it against your fishing license. The fact is, you need a photo ID for literally anything you do. Your neighbor could even wrongly claim someone is breaking into your home and when the police show up, you have to prove you live there and are not a burglar. This lack of photo ID argue is soooooo old. Most states will issue an ID card good for 4-7 years for a very minimal cost, usually much less than even a driver's license.

Now, I'm not saying that political games aren't being played. Both sides play them on various issues, especially concerning timing, wrongfully expanding power, or botched implementation. But the trickery of the individuals involved should not be used as a defense against the underlying concept.
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I can guarantee you that a double-sized freshman class is a problem any university would kill to have.
I wonder how close to humans they can be deployed. I'd guess that thing can fly quite a distance before it comes crashing down in case anything breaks.
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.999... and 1 exist on a continuous line. If they are different numbers, name a number between them.
What single incident ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Aqsa_Intifada says it lasted
"4 years, 4 months, 1 week and 4 days"

It also has the Wikipedia standard conflict "Casualties and losses" tally.
If no country has ever achieved this, what's even the evidence that it's actually possible? There are some pretty fundamental reasons to think it wouldn't work, not least of which are asymptomatic, pre-symptomatic and barely symptomatic spread, and the fairly impressive R0 of this particular disease. If the person you're having dinner with doesn't have symptoms and you have a slight sniffle, how do you even know to get tested?

Also, how the amount of coronavirus testing the US is doing stacks up to other countries isn't an "particular opinion" - it's a fact, and it's a fact that pretty much the entire US press seems to have managed to misinform everyone about, including the fact check columns.
> Others don't need that, they can improve themselves for the sake of improving. Chaos and uncertainty keep them from focusing on improving.

So the question is, what % of people are like that, and what percentage are like me (complete security I didn't really have to work for robbed my motivation). If only a small % of people become more productive in free complete security, and the majority become less productive under free complete security... is free complete security still worth it?
This is just an opinion without personal experience, but as others indicated you likely have been snagged by a bot; your case seems really clear cut and a review with a human should fix this quickly.

The challenge is to get a human on your case. One option would be to give your rep a heads-up that in 24 hours you will ask your state representative (choose one which likes to bitch about Amazon or monopolies) for help. Or media. You like Amazon, blah-blah, but they are killing your livelihood. This has some risk that Amazon will retaliate and kick you out after releasing your money, but unless you seriously misrepresent your case they have way more to lose from publicity than you do. Good luck!
The "loss leader" behavior, in typical and non-monopolistic circumstances, does not typically last the whole year without interruption and is only performed during periods of intense consumerism such as Black Friday.
I wish we could all vote remotely! I'd vote a whole bunch of times!
I'm surprised that contingency plans weren't already in place and just needed to be activated. I mean, this is the government that has plans for when and where the President and VP can go together, succession, bombers in the air continuously, remote launch authorization, where to move the President in the case of attack... Seems odd that there weren't contingency plans for what Congress operation...
I view it like browsing in a store. Sure I can go to the Django community and find books on that there (and I do), but Amazon recently recommended me a book on Microservices.
They had been off my radar for a while, but I purchased it for later.

It is about uncovering things that are of value, but that I might not think of immediately.
Ask HN: Favorite Real-Time Economic Indicators?
With some places starting to leave quarantine in various forms, I'm looking for indicators to get a sense of when the economy is starting to recover.

Does anyone have any favorite real-time (or near real-time) economic indicators? One example is opentable's "State of the Restaurant Industry" (https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry), which shows the previous day's bookings rate. I'm not looking for ones global in scope, just ones that are short-term and not obvious (such as stock market indices, oil prices). Other examples could be traffic, electricity loadings, etc.

Many indicators published by governments are lagging indicators (e.g., unemployment numbers, WARN notices). I'm curious to get a sense if people are starting to return to normal life.
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No, it's only a problem on Hacker News because everything is Serious Business.
Did a glance through that thread and it didn't seem like there was a strong consensus on how to respect GPDR while maintaining historical data for reporting purposes. Any best practices?
In general Andrew intended that proposal to re-orient the conversation about spending priorities and service delivery.

In concrete terms, Andrew proposed a VAT, while also reorganizing existing social welfare programs, of which there are uncountable multitudes, each with highly specific eligibility requirements and screening and fraud machinery, into a more coherent, holistic delivery model that de-prioritized or eliminated eligibility.

His numbers "work" but at that scale they entail such an enormous reworking of federal and state machinery that they're in practical terms a non-starter. Cue up recent conversations about M4A, Obamacare, etc, but on an even larger scale. (disclaimer: I support the idea, but appreciate it is more conceptual value than concrete implementation.)

Right now, Fed govt takes in $3.8 trillion in revenues, mostly taxes, spends $4+ trillion, with two thirds of fiscal dollars going to human-oriented mandatory programs like social security, medicare, medicaid, various federally funded insurance programs, etc and one third going to discretionary, which itself is half military, then half everything else.

A VAT would essentially be a transaction tax that scaled to GDP, so from a model perspective, while GDP is $20T, a VAT would bring in $2T of new revenues, sufficient to begin a conversation about giving $10k/year to 200,000,000 people. In reality- who knows. A VAT would have huge implications and lots and lots of things would change.

A lot of the comments center around credit dollars that the Fed has created- basically large scale loans- to provide transitory liquidity to the financial system. Those comments misunderstand the nature of credit dollars, but IMHO they are not wrong. Credit dollars are a completely different tool than the above fiscal dollars generated from taxes. The US government has essentially infinite credit capacity.

To my eyes credit dollars are both a better and more appropriate funding source for something like UBI, particularly if UBI is tweaked to focus on the liquidity needs of children, women, and those whose current fiscal value is low relative either to future value or to the fiscal value of others. I would love Pelosi to consider that as a concrete option, the politics seem ideal for it.
And credit card processors as well.
Your last point is less impactful recently, as opposed to years ago. Years ago one needed to making numerous substantive contributions to earn downvoting power. Recently, a critical mass of users has been rewarding participants in reddit style humor threads and snarky comments, allowing new users to accumulate upvotes without substance, and without experiencing the more measured culture of traditional HN.
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Remote voting for senate and congress should be the norm. It create less corruption. Just imagine a special interest group needs to travel to 535 offices to get their message heard.
Jacks aside, you really need to get some quality headphones. The ones Apple delivers are beyond awful.
As someone who lives in a single party state with zero hope of my vote ever mattering in a federal election my vote would definitely be for sale if voting from home was the norm, not that anyone with a brain would buy it.
GP does nothing to justify or address why we "need" capitalism...
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> Amazon considers sellers to be a renewable resource that can be disposed of haphazardly

It's almost like... Amazon doesn't have to... compete to draw sellers to their platform
> The vet examines Kristy, but doesn't have anything she can prescribe for a human. Sam has an idea, and fills up Kristy's bottle with coffee, telling Bunny that the caffeine will help Kristy to breathe until they can get her some proper medicine.

Who knew? And it’s from 1990.
I mean that's Wildberger's whole point isn't it?
He's saying that alluding to the leftist extremist tampering with votes. It's an easy narrative to sell to his core after the meltdowns post-2016 and the refusal to acknowledge him as president
The problem with price as a mechanism to determine who truly needs a resource is that it excludes people who don't have money. For example, children who would greatly benefit from early therapeutic and/or psychiatric care.
^^ whoops make that(too late to edit)

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>That is a strategy only available to... monopolies.

Wait. And this is 100% not meant to be snide, it's a real question.

Isn't that the actual strategy for tech startups? Work with investor capital long enough to get established and own the market by selling at negative margins, then increase the price once you own the market?
Brit here...

I disagree.

You don’t sign yourself up for surgery at the first ache.

Health is a basic human right and if your country can support that I believe it has a duty to do so.

If the system was nationalised then it has massive negotiating power when buying equipment and supplies.

That’s what happens with what’s left of our NHS before greedy capitalists got hold of it.
My bad, in re-reading your comment I think I misunderstood your point.