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This is the problem for Brits looking to leave: We weren't eligible for many visas because we were part of the EU so we didn't need them. Now we are leaving but no one has setup visas on either side since there is ongoing negotiations and other issues to contend with. So now we've "fallen between two stools".

>It's also quite hard to get a work visa for UK

The UK has had enough of experts...
> Bandcamp takes only a 15% cut, which is better than Spotify's 30%, but the way people talk about it you would think there's a 10x difference or something.

It's not about the relative cut of the services, but the absolute value of the payouts. On one platform you earn fractions of a cent per stream while the other allows you to collect whatever price you set for your release directly. I'm sure the latter approach is significantly better for smaller, niche artists, if not all but the most popular ones.

Or put differently: The number of plays on Spotify required to match the payout of a handful of album sales on Bandcamp is probably out of reach for most artists.
Looking at number of total deaths, it's possible a lot of countries are undercounting coronavirus deaths.
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Anyone over 35 most likely didn't use the internet before they were 13. I know, hard to believe that people are older than the internet.
Banks haven't moved HQs out of London, and likely never will when #1 and #2 in the world are New York and London, and share the same language, and want to be as time-zone close as possible.
Excellent point about pragmatism. (although I suspect the long run in which it fails to work[1] is the same long run in which we are all dead.)

American politics I find makes a poor example, because the first-past-the-post system conflates majorities with mandates, discouraging compromise, so it results in a perpetual political Cupid Shuffle. On the other hand, the executive committee of my government has representatives of far-right (nativist populist) and far-left (socialist) parties, as well as the various centrist parties[2], and we expect them to make compromises which all sides can accept. (Indeed, part of the job of the excomm members is to defend government decisions to their own parties.)

"One person one vote" is a practice that allows people to seek to change the system in a way that is more conducive to coexistence than "One less person one less vote".

My guess is that the portion of a population who judge cases by referring to pure moral principles tend to get outvoted by the portion of a population whose decision making is more syncretic. In any case, I don't see populations as being bimodally split between pure individualists and pure collectivists, so I would expect that adherents of both, in large enough societies, would find the system immoral: the individualist because the system uses units of coordination which are too large, and the collectivist because the system uses units of coordination which are too small.

[1] pragmatism can judge cases by the measure of "how is that working out for you?" Would it be controversial to say that a pragmatic society, faced with either taking an individualistic approach to infectious disease control and a collectivistic approach to ethanol production, or the opposite choices, would not be able to decide if the outcomes of their decisions were favourable or unfavourable?

[2] and that's just the political balance. Recently it's been pretty well gender and language balanced as well.
Blue cards are extremely hard to get and most EU member states don’t issue them (they haven’t passed the legislation to support it).

There are far far easier way and often under much better terms to get a work visa in virtually any EU member state as both skilled and unskilled workers.
I don't think the hardware needs to become better as much as it
needs to get cheaper. You won't bring that tech anywhere on a
large scale as long as you need a recent gaming PC and a $400+ VR
headset to get more than horrible smartphone VR apps or a few
PlayStation games.
Do you mean a day or an hour?

One company asked me to find a bug in a library in a language of my choice out of a small list of languages in a bit under an hour. So I pick a language from a list of languages none of which I use regularly, and until the interview I was not sure which of dozens of combinations of tooling will be used by the project. It seemed like a reasonably sized bug that someone who was not worried about time pressure and had worked on a project tthar used the same tooling could reasonably do in the time given. So I failed, and I passed comparably difficult sections at other companies that I did not want to work at as much.
At least in Germany, they give special residence permits right now for British citizens as a temporary solution.

Edit: if you live in Berlin: https://service.berlin.de/dienstleistung/328595/
Note that while interest rates remain low almost every asset manager is going to remain invested. So are people like Buffet. Invest in Index. Don't pick stocks.
a lot of phones have this sort of tethering disabled by carriers, who then sell "internet access dongles" as an add-on.
You then (maybe) have a product...but no ecosystem. You can't just convince an entire industry to switch tomorrow and you've just sunk $30m+ into a "maybe".
> Not sure how Iran had formalized the similar symptoms and if they count death from another deceases that were triggered by COVID-19.

Why would you want to make that distinction and not count those people with pre-existing diseases who died as a consequence of contracting COVID-19?

For example weak cardiovascular health in overweight people already puts them at higher risk of dying after contracting COVID-19. I don't see why anyone would not count those cases unless they want to paint a rosier picture.
Last I checked, Brits couldn't apply yet as we were still technically part of the EU. Has that changed since we "left but not really" a few months back?
> It's cost him a lot of money in the past.

It actually made him a huge amount of money as the stocks he bought have increased in value by quite a lot.

It did cost him the position of chairman at Tesla however.
Come on now - the howls of outrage from the Guardian et al would be incessant were the UK to introduce policies that were properly deterrent to illegal immigration. The left is desperate for immigration of all kinds, legal and illegal, because it thinks it can get immigrants hooked on benefits and push politics left for ever. That's the plan, no?
"where software goes to die a slowly painful death"

Computer Associates (CA) is also pretty infamous for this.
> Apple could create a "kid mode" that you can enable on your less technical family members, it could require someone else to authorize "unsafe" activity. There are solutions and is obvious that if the solution is for Apple interest is always found if the solution is against Apple interest is never found.

Interestingly, Apple already has 99% of this in place on iOS - if you have a "child" device in a family share account (maybe not the right word?), the "parent" has to approve even free app installs on iOS. Child hits install, it triggers a push message to the parent account to authorise the install (via touch ID/PIN).

So while it isn't quite there for authorising all unsafe activity (in fairness, maybe it is, perhaps I didn't find the options yet), but it certainly lets you control app store installs. In essence it feels like a personal version of lightweight MDM.

It would be straightforward for this to be extended to "Name wants to enable installing apps from outside the app store. This means you won't be able to approve what they install. Allow this?"

To me, if Apple were to allow sideloading, it would be controlled via this route, and manageable by MDM policies as well (so managed work devices can't run sideload apps).
Maybe "much better" when it comes to distraction-less writing, although I don't think a DOS computer offers more than that, and the portability only enables going to places where there's more going on…

But a predilection towards WordStar isn't just about not having fancy icons and weird ribbons, as author Robert Sawyer[1] pointed out. The "long page" metaphor and a short-cut friendly environment should be somewhat understandable for us programmer people.

[1]: https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
My last course in competition law was a while ago, but I remember this: while there are many differences in detail between the US and the EU approach, the broad strokes are the same.

Also in the EU, having a monopoly is not illegal (as long as it was obtained fairly) - abuse of monopoly power is.

Surely being a monopolist means you are subject to additional rules, no doubt about that.
I think they're saying if you put together the hours spent by all developers who have ever worked on Autocad, it would add up to hundreds of years of work.
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The Journal of Marketing,

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It is, it's Hungarian.
One reasonable way to deal with that would be to subscribe to several sources which lean in different directions and then explore the situation from various angles.
As a sibling commenter I'm also from Norway. Here all magazines always had at least one full page with things one could buy for your phone. Ringtones, backgrounds, java games, util apps etc. On my old Sony Ericsson I even had a GBA emulator and used to play Pokemon, I used Opera Mini to cheaply browse wap/gprs etc.

I didn't feel the jump to a "smart phone" was particularly big at the time, actually.
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Lots of CDs and lossless digital is mastered like shit, for whatever reason. My fav to hate is Depeche Modes “Playing the Angel”. I was given it at release and couldn’t at first understand why my (very humble, late 80s) set played it so bad. Well, it’s clipped to hell.

Some vinyl releases seem to be just copy paste of a shitty digital master, but most vinyl is mastered well. This HAS to be a big reason many prefer vinyl.

Older vinyl also often has less range, but no clipping, which can make them soothing to listen to. I suppose automatic gain adjustment in Spotify gives the same result, so there’s that.

But the thing with vinyl for me are the physical things and the ritual. It’s sheer joy. I don’t have many records, maybe 30, but it’s a fun thing.
? so you also dispute the parent to my comment then:

> Whilst technically true Brexit has been happening since 2016, and people and companies have been making decisions based on it.
I moved to Portugal in 2017, mainly because of Brexit, though sun, sea, surf & lifestyle also played a part.
In this area Cascais-Lisbon, I’ve met umpteeen very wealthy entrepreneurs and professionals who have moved from the UK including many South Africans and Australians who were in London but had enough of the miserable weather.
I don’t miss the UK lifestyle is so much better here.
Right. It's not as if I enjoy my current routine. I feel like I sleep pretty deeply and reasonably long, but somehow I never feel rested. So I end up in this groggy cycle of alarms until I've finally had enough and get up.
The need for friction-free interoperability combined with the technical challenges of competing vendors implementing fully interoperable software means most domain-specific software markets are an economic natural monopoly where only one product can dominate.

There is no obvious good economic or technological solution to this, short of heavily regulating software vendors so they are responsive to customer needs or stripping vendors of their copyrights and open sourcing everything. Neither choice is politically possible.
> I also built my own solution which takes a different approach: https://github.com/leoncvlt/loconotion - it caches the Notion page as a static site - admittedly you lose the capability of "syncing" sites instantly but is also makes the site snappier and more responsive as it removes a lot of bloat.

Nice work! Another benefit you didn't mention is that it also makes it a lot more secure - there's no injecting anything into static pages!
"Not constraint based" = not CAD software.

Fusion 360 on the other hand is not a scratch-built product, but uses the same kernel as Autodesk Inventor, ShapeManager - which is based on ACIS, of which version 1.0 was written in 1985. That gives you an idea of how friggin hard it is to write a decent CAD kernel - all the commercial ones are decades old.

The only real free software CAD kernel is OpenCASCADE.
Remember when we were told by George Osborne there would be an immediate recession the day after a Leave vote?

Edit:

'Brexit could plunge Britain into an instant recession, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor have said in the starkest economic warning yet of the consequences of Britain leaving the European Union.'

'he Treasury said unemployment would be 520,000 higher, wages 2.8 per cent lower and house prices 10 per cent down. In a severe shock joblessness would be 820,000 higher, wages down by 4 per cent and house prices 18 per cent lower.'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-to-c...

Edit: downvoting facts now? ok HN.
I don't eat proteins but I do fill my stomach with raw veggies. The desire for sweets is really boredom turned into nutrition. When you're full you barely want anything anymore. Also the less sweet (and processed food which are allegedly heavy on fat and various sugar) you start to feel subtle taste better. Carrots are sweet.. I feel like eating candy, but it's not strong. Even lettuce has some delicacy to it.

There's an irony to our nutrition, we pay for industrial _ _ _ _ that is bad for us then pay for solutions. Just eat basic stuff and go do something fun.
Pay for quality, but understand the tilt. If you really want to, pay for two services with opposing tilts, but equal (high) quality.
I think almost everyone involved would have already been resident, if they are measuring it by passport issuance. I am moving (officially in the next few months, in practice already) to an EU country but won't qualify for a passport for 5 years. The deadline for most people to make a move like this is the end of this year, and in fact some countries (e.g. France) haven't even made the official process for changing residency available yet.
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Probably, but Solidworks is quite well regarded.
Hmm...that "all things considered" is doing a lot of work here.

Although the UK officially left in January of this year, we're still in the transition period, so none of the actual Brexit effects have happened yet, only anticipatory ones. So this is kinda like saying the fall off the cliff hasn't really been bad "so far" while still standing on top of said cliff.

And yet, the £ is at all time lows and the cost so far has already been $170 billion, with another $70 billion by the end of the year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/-170-bill...
I'm 50, and there were no commercial ISPs before I first got Internet access (also BITNET) at my university.
What can I say, mate? Reality has a well-known left-wing bias. So do "the better angels of our nature".
Start playing around with these

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(author here) Very good point(s) and thank you for the input! Treenee is indeed very minimal and it's supposed to be working basically "out-of-the-box". This also means that some features are obviously missing at the moment.

I use Treenee internally (even though I wanted to keep it on m y own name, not the company's) and I decided to put it out there as soon as it was "complete". I will add more examples and use cases in the near future (also screenshots, but I am a bit ashamed of the scarce "design").

Do you mind expanding a bit on what you would like "logging" to be?
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Are there some sort of bundle subscriptions available?

Buy all of that stuff separately won’t be cheap
It's also interesting to look at the trend. The daily number of deaths to the daily number of cases has dropped rapidly all around the world. Not sure why but it's a very good sign.

If I saw this trend only in a handful of countries I'd say they are undercounting (FWIW I still think they are) but because we can see this in US, EU and Asia, it'd say virus is getting less deadly/treatment is getting significantly better.
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I think by definition if you are able to naturalize then you haven't moved over recently.

As you say, I think way more significant will be the numbers of EU citizens resident in the UK deciding to leave.
> Perhaps a method where there is more talking and hashing out ideas rather than following trends and hashtags.

I have limited experience with Mastodon but I share many of your sentiments about Twitter and the current state of conversation on the internet. I think part of the problem is that Twitter (and Mastodon), are not optimized for actual realtime conversation, and additionally we need more competition.

I'm working on a new chat-based discussion site that I hope will add another option for people looking to have real conversations, in a very open, sharable, and simple experience that's easy for anyone to hop into and talk. Feel free to check it out, cheers! https://sqwok.im
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I see your 386 and raise you an 8088 at 4.77 MHz and 256K of RAM (or less, I'm not sure what the actual requirements of ircjr is if you want to push it): http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/IRCjr.html

Really, it's just text, it doesn't matter. Literally any general purpose computer will run IRC if it can do TCP/IP and someone bothers to write a client.
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What's the language barrier and job market like there? Portugal seems more appealing to myself than Spain for some reason, perhaps because I've never been to Portugal...
I'm a British software developer and SaaS business owner

I left the UK in 2017 because of Brexit. My company generates about GBP150k per employee. Prior to leaving this was 100% UK workforce. Following my relocation this is <50% and falling as we move to contract-based + remote. That's my n=1 experience with the "brain drain"

When I left the UK, there was a large & growing political/economic divide, unaffordable housing and poor/declining public services. It gave me a lot of stress and anxiety. Having left, I feel more disinvested from how things are turning out in the UK and it's helped greatly with my wellbeing

I've met other brits in my host country that share my n=1 experience. We're all just trying to quietly get along with it really - stay working and raising families
Interesting - it is almost a paradox how “inefficient” the most valuable companies are.
I tried both and it's much better than Mastodon IMO due to how much more lightweight, faster and easier to deploy it is.
Maybe it has less features, but they're fully worth the sacrifice.
There was a bit of a fuss over it a few years back. You can find mention of it in the Wikipedia article on Wordstar.[0] Robert J. Sawyer maintains a page on using Wordstar on modern computers.[1]

Authors have been seeking ways to avoid distractions for decades, and it goes well beyond pervasive connectivity. Sometimes the very features that aid them in their work can also hinder them. For example: computers vastly simplify the editing process, yet one of the earliest pieces of advice I saw was to turn off the computer monitor while writing in order to avoid editing prematurely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar#Notable_users
[1] https://www.sfwriter.com/ws-vdos.htm
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Twitter is literally selling data (tweets) that users generate via API.
Or gnome's hell.
I don't disagree that it's _been happening_, i.e. some of its effects have happened already and continue to do so, but I wouldn't want to say "done and dusted, economy's fine" until it's properly happened and we're into 2021.
I know there have been attempts (was it Iran and Kazakhstan that was in the news last year?), but is anyone aware of this actually being done in practice today? My understanding is that they were forced to roll back for practical reasons (which highlights my point).
Hope you’re joking but if not, that’s some amazingly shortsighted bad faith world view.
Performance is pretty good, probably even better than TFA, due to the hardware decode of the video.

That said, in both cases transparency of things like terminals is going to be very resource hungry.

Also, if you're doing the --wid=0, throw in --loop there too. :)
"Blue Card" is a directive. That means that the EU legislates the high-level principles, but implementation is up to each member state. So each member state's government and immigration authorities gets to fill in the missing details in the rules for themselves. Hence, the answer to your question is likely going to depend on which member state you are applying to.

Not all EU member states have implemented Blue Card. Ireland and Denmark have an opt-out of EU immigration policy under the EU treaties. (So did the United Kingdom prior to Brexit.) All other member states are supposed to implement it, but the issue with directives is that member states often fail to do so at all, or fail to do so properly. The European Commission can prosecute them in the European Court of Justice for those failures, which can result in them being fined by the EU.
But it's not like the problem is solved now. They still need to secure their systems, especially now that criminals know that this company is willing to pay out.
Is he really? The title is so mis-leading.
Coach of SV - Bill Campbell.
Yoda of SV - Knuth? Not really.

Knuth is more like the Yoda of CS. What is SV really? He is so far away from all the SV excesses - greed is good, VC shenanigans, founder hubris, drinking cool-aid, becoming new defacto destination for MBAs instead of Finance, FANG mania and worshipping, Leetcode grinding to get into FANGs and their brethren to chase insane comps, starry eyed and naive entrepreneurs who want to change the world

Where does any of this overlap with Knuth. Lot of pirates in SV. Yoda like figure - I can't even think of one. If tweets are any indication, I would nominate Naval and PG as Yoda's of angel-funded/pre-series-A start-up landscape.
This should give some perspective: https://www.vulture.com/2012/09/grizzly-bear-shields.html - you'd think that the members of a band like Grizzly Bear, while not outright rich, should be able to live comfortable without too many financial struggles. You'd be wrong.

And that was 2012 - I'm sure things haven't improved since then.
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Excellent, thank you!

Seeing that one can NAND things, everything makes a lot more sense.
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The standard way is to count how many deaths there were in excess of what would be expected in a normal year. That way you're not relying on testing capabilities and you're not relying on how different countries define a death due to COVID. You're simply asking "how many more people have died this year than would have died normally".

Of course this will also include deaths not directly caused by infections with the virus. But it gives an overall picture of the impact of the virus and its downstream effects on a country and allows comparisons between countries.