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I’m just responding to the common claim that means-testing UBI would be expensive relative to the expenditures of the program (well-illustrated by the quote “appropriating dollars to save pennies“ in the comment I responded to). This is a quantitative question, not a moral one. I don’t think it serves the movement to be making arguments that are obviously wrong if you do a bit of easy research or math, or just think critically about it. It makes the advocacy less credible. Since most people only read comments online and don’t post, you might not normally get any feedback from those who feel this way.

> Furthermore, you can solve the same problem just by increasing taxes on the rich. If you send every rich person $12k, but also tax them $12k more per year, the money spent/saved is exactly the same as not sending it to them in the first place.

This argument assumes you are identifying wealthy people, so again, it doesn’t support the claim that the overhead of identifying wealthy people will make UBI more expensive.
Yeah, but we don't have direct debit except in one bank for business customers (B2B). Not in EU zone or EEA.
listening to Zuckerberg yesterday in the testimony you would think fb is almost bankrupt. He tried to make it look, we're so small, don't waste your efforts on us. pick on the big guys, apple, google, amazon.
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I've only done a few 30+TB moves, largest being 50TB which had similar table structure - one table per machine holding calibration readings that were constantly streamed in from a MUCH beefier RabbitMQ instance. Old CPU, not a ton of cores, spinning disks, etc. Same base problem. I think the best thing to do here would be change the order of some things around.

1. Buy the hardware first with blazing drives and roaring CPUs and get it stood up before you start trying to change your schema on a potato

2. Do his last step now: set up an AG and let SQL Server do it's thing

3. Now go start planning your ETL/schema changes and writing scripts while you wait 1-3 days (or in my case 10 as we had to suspend during business hours) for data to migrate.

4. Fail-over and promote and start collecting data on your superbox

5. If the world didn't explode, you do the same thing at your other DC

6. Now, if you absolutely must, apply and test all your schema changes in production instead of dev first but enjoy the fact that those changes are exponentially faster!

You could also use log shipping, but with those restore times you'd have data loss I think. Haven't done that in years - I've been lucky enough to only have to deal with projects where we shutdown, restore, and do a full downtime migration. So much nicer...
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Okay, I'm sold, where's the API page and how do I get started with the docs?
Amazon didn’t have to. Netflix doesn’t. Apple is a lot more lenient about which apps can get on the AppleTV than Roku. Roku wants a cut of ad revenue and forces each provider to make special deals.
IBANs even in the US can only be used for transfer a direct debit doesn’t uses IBANs.

In the US a direct debit require a PAD/PAP authorization which is a binding contract and it’s cleared via ACH.
2FA can, but SMS-2FA depends on your cell provider being resilient to attacks, which they have proven they aren't.
Sensing a bit of a trend here. Didn't another major player recently make the same switch?
Especially when our defense department (which historically loved to entertain the wildest possible “what if”s in the name of keeping us secure) has literally dropped the ball w/ COVID in a monumental way. For decades they been worried about everything from communism, to searching your shoes at the airport, all because they can’t dare let anything happen to us. But they happily let a virus completely shut down are entirely economy and kill an order of magnitude more people than 911, without so much as a shoulder shrug.
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Sure, in theory you can eminent domain a neighborhood of low density housing and replace it with higher density housing. In practice though, its politically impossible most places.
I wouldn't get a lawyer until/if they contact you, and if they do I wouldn't reply until you talk to the lawyer.

I trademarked a name about 7 years ago, it was a long process, and here's a few things that I learned (from a non-lawyer perspective):

1. Like you, I had a reasonably generic name (SaaS and Hub are two established English words, and they are both commonly used in software and IT services). That was the motivation for trademarking, as the chances are high that others will use similar names purely by chance as opposed to copying.

So I trademarked under a defensive strategy so others couldn't come for me, rather than an offensive strategy of going after others. The point is, come up with a reasonably original name (like Google) that isn't a an English word or a mash of English words, and you probably won't have to worry about trademarking.

2. To continue on from point 1, and let's say you create an original name, like Covfefe. You're doing business with it, then 2 years later you find out that someone else is trademarking it. The originality of the name should make it a lot easier to be notified when someone enters the process of trademarking. I think there's a 3-6 month process is which anyone else can object to it being trademarked, and if you've been using it and the company attempting to trademark it hasn't, then it will be thrown out.

In a challenge it comes down to who's been using it longer.

3. Given that somebody has already trademarked the name, and you missed the grace period to object, you could either wait for them to send a cease & decease (maybe that'll never happen if they're defensive like me), or you could change your name.
Passing savings onto the customer because someone got to use fewer packaging peanuts isn't the right way to look at bulk/scale/term pricing.

You don't get a better deal from AWS by committing to yearly billing over monthly billing because you saving them transaction fees.

You get a better deal because they benefit more from enticing a bigger commitment.
Perhaps that app doesn't deserve to live. If the 30% forces you out you were pretty close to losing money regardless.
For better or worse, that probably is a more and more plausible strategy to deal with lawsuits and threats nowadays. If you can get enough people to vocally support you over the other side, paint the parties suing you as bullies going after the little guy, make it a giant media controversy that gets hundreds of newspaper articles and YouTube videos etc, then a large number of corporations will probably back down/drop the lawsuit.

After all, reputation is king, and companies fear a PR disaster more than just about anything.

Whether that'd actually work for the IA on the other hand... well that's a whole different story.
> Crono brings all your notifications, phone calls, Whatsapp messages, straight to your PC —so that you spend less time on your phone.

I understand how this leads to “less phone”, but I’m skeptical of the claim it will also lead to “less distractions, more productivity”. All you’re doing is moving the notifications and tasks to another place, you still have to deal with them.
"$100 Amazon gift card to anyone who manages to break into your coworkers account and reports it to IT."
Sorta, but I think you're missing the value proposition forest for the feature trees.

I'm going to speak to the docker-style containers because that's what I'm most familiar with.

Filesystem, process, and even network isolation facilitate the illusion of an application having a fresh install of an OS to a degree. This includes details like /dev/, a package manager, things sitting in /etc/.

Added to that there's decent tooling for sharing, composing/layering, shipping, baking images. They're declarative (enough-ish) too.

This is nice because that's a pretty decent compatibility layer across a ton of software like databases and webservers that have always run expecting a full host, services written with bare metal in mind, and new things too.

The kernel isolation features are powerful enablers, but don't undervalue how important it was to have things sorted out for you, like ldloader quirks with different glibc versions against the same kernel. Real issue I had.

Source: Too much futzing around with chroots.
>it took about 48 hrs from publicizing the vuln to a working exploit to appear on Github.

a real one? someone was trolling with a fake one https://blog.zsec.uk/cve-2020-1350-research/
It's called writing.
> Second, most libraries already have legal digital lending systems and so their digital stocks were going out too (which also negates IAs after the fact justification).

IIUC libraries buy separate digital copies for digital lending. IA's justification is that they were providing a substitute for the physical copies which are now sitting unusable. It might be legally suspect but it's not an illogical position.
Apple don’t sell their products on Amazon. Third party distributors do, but Apple couldn’t care two hoots about that. Chances are it would hit Amazon’s revenue more than Apple’s.
No, the UBI is a simplification of welfare, to reduce the cost of poverty.

It's mostly about social problems than economic problems. Inflation can be controlled.

> The same thing was tried many times before in many different places, and the result has always been the same.

Do you have sources that are comparable with UBI experiments?

> until the poor are in the same situation as before, even with the additional UBI income.

No. Unconditional money, whatever the amount, is what matters.

Generally there is a critic that economics tend to focus too much on the math, and not on the political, social, psychological and human side. Ideologies have always affected economics. It also does today.
Wow, the numbers that AAPL, AMZN, FB have reported. While everyone struggled I guess mid/big tech companies were unaffected.

I am surprised ad industry is not affected heavily. Isn't ads the first thing a company will cut if things look bleak.
There is an existence proof that isn’t true. All of the streaming providers have apps for the AppleTV - even those that don’t allow in app subscriptions.
Are you sure you aren’t confusing a bank transfer with direct debit? DD in the US requires PAD/PAP between the debtor and the collector and is cleared through ACH regardless of the size of the account or the sum.
Russia did not have to pay any reparations to germany, so the statement of similar harshness is blatantly false.
Wow so all I need to do to make the app store viable is have a brand worth more than anything else on the app store.
So is there a CPUID-like instruction in the base RISC-V instruction set? After a cursory search I couldn't find anything like it. If there is indeed no such instruction, it will be a real shame. Why would you not include it into a such extensible ISA?
> I try to not downvote to disagree. I downvote misinformation, statements that are egressive towards a person and not the point they are making, responses that say "This.".

I think vast majority of downvotes that I see on HN are more or less like that. Absolute trolls and disrespectful ones are on top of the list.

Usually the ones that people complain the most about are off-topic comments that get downvoted. I see them specially happening when the post itself is also kind of off-topic. Those posts tend to be open ended discussions. And if you are late to the discussion it's possible that the discussion is already headed to a more specific sub-topic. Some new comments are then considered off-topic by some users.

Upvote is more powerful. I personally try to use upvote to keep what I believe is relevant on the top. And that's what I see most of the users do as well. But, I also don't mind if my comment get downvoted. There is nothing negative about downvotes. It's just other users telling me that this is off-topic right now.
iPhone sales moved up 2% from last year to $26.4 billion in the June-quarter. Apple earnings infographic: https://news.alphastreet.com/apple-inc-nasdaq-aapl-earnings-...
Look at FB's taxes. Effective tax rate went from 46% to 16% if you compare last year to this year. Made FB 1.3B extra money this quarter.

I wonder if this is why Zuckerberg seems to be so friendly to Trump...
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People have such weird attitudes to IQ. Either denial of it's significance or hope to improve it by applying the right life experiences. It all seems based around the fear of the possibility that some of us really are born inferior and doomed to a worse life than others.

But we are. By far the easiest way to improve a child's IQ is to select parents with high IQ. But nobody wants to deselect themselves so wanting a high IQ child goes against the instinct of wanting to reproduce for most people and they're stuck in a cognitive dissonance.

We can reduce it through neglect and trauma but there's no known lasting way to enhance it beyond the natural limit each person is born with.

How about just accept that we're not all born equal? Nobody worries that a dog is less intelligent than a person but we still have pet dogs and happily accept their limitations.
Excuse me, optics just won't work that way with unmodified display. Some lens will be necessary.
My company makes us interview with whiteboard problems. It's stupid but not my decision. My favorite spin on this is the reverse problem.

Ask the candidate to talk about, solve, and explain their favorite whiteboard-style problem. Ask them for something they were initially intimidated by. Maybe ask them a slight twist of it. We all know candidates study riddle problems, so let's both take advantage of that rather than giving an anxiety-test even if it's phrased as low-key.
You just listed off all the psychological symptoms of long term poverty. Congratulations at being very shallow.

It's not the reason why people are poor, it's the result of being poor and being treated as such.
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You need food more than shelter. Why don't food prices rise until everyone is homeless but non-starving?

Actually, you need water more than food. Why isn't fresh water $1000/gallon? Why do we have discretionary income at all?
The way they actively leverage their collective power to protect individuals that are painfully obvious in the wrong is kinda alarming.

Sets a very dangerous precedent for "wrong (possibly fatal) decision has no consequences"
Lazy and poorly-considered article. It conflates Bitcoiners with shitcoin grifters like Cardano. It's also beyond stupid to purity-police the uses of a programming language. There's no collective tradeoff we have to make here. It doesn't cost me anything as a Haskell dev if someone is using it in some scam somewhere.
How much reparations had the french to pay in 1870?
Most American libraries have agreements with Rakuten OverDrive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OverDrive,_Inc.) or something similar. OverDrive supports apps like Libby that let you borrow and read ebooks (and send them to your Kindle) that the library system has paid for licenses of. I have no information about the status of things like OverDrive, or Kindle support outside the US.

As for me, I rarely use Libby because most of the books I'm looking for do not have digital editions and even if they did no library would bother to pay for the license. (I miss having a research library handy.) In fact, I usually only use it for light audiobooks for road trips, but they usually have so long a waiting list as to make it useless.
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You've gotten lucky. Imagine how many candidates have taken a look at your process and decided to value their own time and instead look at companies that don't jerk people around.
If that was the reason. Every CEO would be friendly with him.
Just look at the final section, quoted:

> Painfully, some of the very founding contributors to Haskell itself are the ones deepest involved in this ring.

> In this new era the Haskell community itself has simply become a tool to buy legitimacy and pump token values. The reputation of our community is now used to defraud the public and convince non-technical users of the soundness of an utterly unsound investment.

> I have avoided names ... however core Haskell companies such as Well-Typed, Tweag and FP Complete have been deeply complicit in building up this crypto industry for years now.

The article isn't easy to skim, and I think that's the point. The author wants to focus more on why cryptocurrency is a scam, and less on who's guilty.
The doctor's idea is excellent, but your right, the information can leak, and not just from data breaches but also via the Law enforcement, the government, and other companies via mergers and acquisitions or they just may sell the information or give it away. Doctors can sell their practices, or be acquired by large business interest.

Something else to consider though, any relatives will have pretty much that same information and may decide to have analysis done under terms you would not accept.

This is what lead to the Golden Stake Killer's capture.

You might also want to consider is who will interpret the information and will it yield reliable information, or just a guess?

Here are a few stories about identical twins getting different results:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/dna-ancestry-kits-twins-m...

https://www.healthyway.com/content/these-identical-triplets-...
You should have zero confidence in "the crypto community". On expectation, anyone who describes themselves in those terms is probably a scammer.

Bitcoin is not a scam, and maybe a small number of other "cryptocurrencies", but the same can not be said for any of the zillion products that try to ride on Bitcoin's coattails.
Developers do like anyone else - they are free to charge 43% more to make up the difference. If you can’t get someone to pay $1.49 instead of $0.99 was your app that innovative?
Not that it's interesting for americans, but I have stopped buying anything handled by Digital River because of their great fraud detection. As in, the card that is good enough for Amazon, Apple, Blizzard etc is not good enough for them.

Careful that you don't end up in the same bucket.
here's a cool example from somebody at Microsoft:

https://medium.com/@ahelwer/checking-firewall-equivalence-wi...

it's not a pure SAT problem, but Z3 works (in a way I don't understand) by reducing constraint problems involving integers and even more complicated domains into SAT problems.
Given the high rates of unemployment in the US and around the world (with possibly worse to come) this kind of consumer spending on luxury goods is pretty remarkable. Wonder how sustainable it is.
> You can't fight fire with fire and you can't fight scale with scale. The solution to these problems lies in eliminating the advantages of scale so that operating on a national or international level becomes an expensive liability, but competing on a local market is affordable and practical.

The problem was never the scale of the company. If YouTube was instead 100 different companies, there would still be a total of 49 years worth of video being uploaded every day which nobody would have the resources to review. Each company would have 1% of the video but also 1% of the revenue and the cost would be just as insurmountable.
Sick people are expected to fight? Not sure many could fight.
Many valid points, but I would say 2fa does help if malware has your creds buy can't be leveraged by an attacker without also successfully phishing the victim with an identical site.
May I ask what kind of production environments you have in mind? Are these large-scale FAANG-style deployments or something else?
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Thank you! I will admit that I really wanted to go with a shorter brandable name, and I am still considering it, but for now I think the name fits.

I am planning to tweak the mobile/responsive styles on some layouts to make them a little easier to read.

Some of the search layouts will show differently on mobile screens so maybe toggle between them to see if you like one of those better.
From what the guide at JPL said when I went on a tour there and got to see the Perseverance rover in the cleanroom, was that they simply had enough spare parts from building the Curiosity that it was easy/worth building this second one.
ACH is a ca 24 hour duration batch process that does not include authentication. 2fa isn’t even really a possibility with the ACH system.
What would you consider to be the correct term to use? I've seen a lot of posters arguing with the term "uncontrolled," and I agree that IA was utilizing some type of control when lending out their books. However, "controlled digital lending" is a very specific form of digital lending that most (if not all) libraries use for lending their digital resources [1].

I guess the correct term to use would be something along the lines of "lending that doesn't follow the legal definition of controlled lending" or something along those lines, but that is a somewhat unwieldy phrase to use as a part of most posts.

[1]: https://controlleddigitallending.org/
Apple, Google, and Amazon are each an order of magnitude bigger
It puts the members who side with a Police lobby-as-union on notice to others and to the public. It's the start of a movement to reform or quit.
And that seems like an equal competitive footing to you?
There are ways to do the above without specifically restricting inter-state commerce. The CCPA is one example of a state raising the barrier to entry that a business can either comply with or leave the market. I wouldn't exactly call it an ideal situation, but if each individual state created their own version there would certainly be businesses that refuse to do business in certain states rather than dealing with the regulatory headaches.
Remarkable? Perplexing. Like facebook revenues up while all companies are slashing their marketing budget.
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Look at Kodak.
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So light-weight virtual machines on a security-hardened code base.

Have we come full circle?
Apple has publicly available intents that any developer can take advantage of.
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Those AMZN numbers are completely nonsensical, how do you beat estimates by 9x? Who the hell did that estimating???
A side effect of Moore's Law is that as computing gets more powerful, the things humans do with computing can afford to get sloppier.

Bill Gates famously said "640K is more memory than anyone will ever need on a computer" in the 1980s. We could probably do most of what modern computers do with far less than 32GB of RAM, but that assumes that our software is much more optimized for compact runtime than they are.
Aren't they? The CEO at my company sucks up shamelessly.
Well Napoleon had pretty much stomped up and down on the Prussians and Austria during the Wars Of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars. I think part of the harshness of the treaty that ended the Franco-Prussian wars was a bit of revenge for the Germans.
How can noobs like me assess how good any given POS is?

Is there a rating system?

Any way to inspect transactions to see the whatnots?

Knowing nothing, I've been doing as much as possible using Apple Pay, because IIRC they do some kind of token exchange, vs sending my digits across the wire.
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I think the ad market was heavily affected. We saw that with Snap for example (their stock fell badly on the earnings release as it disappointed). Google just reported the first revenue decline in their history. Facebook's sales growth rate was a mere 11%, which is the slowest in their history and is very slow for them. It probably would have been considerably higher in normal times (more like ~18%-25% or more). Forecasts across the ad industry are quite weak going forward.