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No, you would end up with another bank bailout, except this time the banks didn't do anything wrong and it was the government's fault for screwing up the pandemic response. In other words, it would be compensation for the government's failure, not a bailout.
The S&P 500 and NASDAQ are both up year to date. The government has already taken actions, including injecting trillions of dollars into the economy, to bail out shareholders.

> Why bailout any investor? Risk is part of investment.

The damage caused by this pandemic is so rare it is less than a 1-in-100-years event (1918 pandemic killed millions, but businesses were typically shuttered only for weeks at most, not 6 months).

Certainly bailouts for natural disasters are quite common in other respects. And if the government were to seize your property via eminent domain, they owe you money. Why shouldn’t they also in justice pay out if they order your business shuttered for a half a year?
The same. But you can add to home screen, so it feels like an app, kind of. It's pretty bad, but honestly I want social media apps to be bad to mitigate the addictiveness they build in.
Raises are nice?
I mostly agree. Minor correction: by itself it doesn't matter too much how large the sales team is or how many customers there are. What matter is how much money there is to be made.

In my experience, internal customers are also fine, _if_ they are close to the money making side of the company, and especially if they have alternatives. Think eg traders in an investment bank.

Stock price should be the outcome of making money.

Financial engineering, when done right, is just a set of optimizations that makes sense at larger scales given the regulatory and market environment.

A lot of superfluous financial engineering would disappear with simpler policies. Eg many jurisdictions tax interest payments less than dividend payments (or stock buybacks).

Companies respond to that incentive by shifting the ratio of debt to equity.

Put both on equal footing, and companies would be less interested in loading up their balance sheet with debt.

(And stock buybacks are perfectly harmless. They are economically exactly equivalent to dividend payments, and have the essentially the same effect on a company's balance sheet.)
Not really, as outlined here[0]. Even with penalties, becoming homeless and becoming homeless with a million in a 401(k) are vastly different despite some folks here thinking both are equally broke somehow.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24550715
I think the idea of laws whose purpose was to "prevent idleness" is interesting. Curious: Does this have some unexpected historical meaning? What was the justification for such laws? It seems today that Western society's whole goal is to increase our option for idleness. Can we learn something from the past regarding this?
They're probably a limited hangout.
Perhaps the "something" is simply antibodies and herd immunity?

1. In April (!!), 1 in 5 NYCers tested positive for antibodies: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/23/nyregion/coronavirus-anti...

2. Given asymmetric social contact patterns, experts estimate that ~20% may be the threshold for herd immunity of COVID: https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-could-it-be-burning-...

I support looking at the science, and this means looking at it both ways; not just cherry-picking doom and worst case scenarios while ignoring best case scenarios.

We can't afford to let an "overabundance of caution" kill businesses and our economy, for good.
I agree, probably even more polarizing than the Python 2/3 fiasco. All big applications in C# have been built on .Net Framework and migration to Core is non-trivial if you use any of the EOL technologies. OSS has mostly migrated by now, so on Framework you’re left with outdated dependencies that might have fixed security holes, but you cannot upgrade. Also we’re stuck with C# 7.3 as 8 requires .Net Core 3.
Xbox handles 7M service requests daily, speeds app delivery with ARM
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Which country implemented rent/mortgage forgiveness? The US implemented mortgage deferral, plus SBA loans for rent for small businesses. The lack of general rent deferral was to force larger companies to bear some of the cost of shut downs. France and Germany didn’t do appreciably more—they simply imposed deferrals or moratorium on eviction.
“If it’s Boeing, I ain’t going” rhymes better
Aside: yours is the only post on HN regarding this topic that hasn't gotten flagged, AFAIK [1][2].

HN has a frankly shameful record on race and racism, I'm sorry to say.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24530968

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24527138
FWIW, the GDPR doesn't have too much teeth, either; most big players haven't received big fines. The biggest fine to date has been the French fine of EUR 50m on Google, and Facebook has gotten off almost entirely scot-free so far. That should tell you almost everything you need to know about how effective the GDPR has been.

Of course, I don't mean to say the GDPR is useless. There's a lot of good work being done, and an Italian telecom was fined ~EUR28 mn for violations similar to what you had to face. I just think GDPR enforcement needs to step it up and hit the usual suspects with fines that go beyond a slap on the wrist for it to really change the world. You can track major fines using an enforcement tracker, I check on [1], but you can also just google it every now and then to stay up to date.

1: https://www.coreview.com/blog/alpin-gdpr-fines-list/
What would it take to turn GPT-3 into a profitable product?
I answered that already.

Because they paid taxes and employed people. It's like an insurance company that drops you as soon as you file a claim... you pay into a pool, expecting it to be there when you need it.

This is an unheard of situation, don't forget. The government (rightfully so, in my opinion) is forcing these restaurants to shut down dining. It's not like they're shutting down because they're "lazy".
Can you elaborate on this with an instance? How did you deal with them?
Iceland is in a similar situation. You don't throw money into a social service that isn't needed.
The author concluded that property rights were the deciding factor. A monarch would be the ultimate property holder, so it makes sense that he would strive to protect property rights.

To your point, I think responsibility goes a bit further than it does for you or I. A monarch is concerned with his historical legacy and dynasty. He is born into his brand. If I create an online biz and it fails, I can simply start again in a new space with a new brand. Meanwhile politicians are incentivized by short term goals and election cycles.
I worked for Google as well. They are fine as far as I can tell.

But similarly, the rank-and-file and the proclaimed policies at places like Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs were just as fine.

Especially Bloomberg seemed to go to crazy lengths to be squeaky clean in all respects. Eg when you leave Bloomberg they immediately put you on garden leave, and (here's the squeaky clean part:) then pay out your remaining leave instead of folding that into your one-month gardening leave.
ah sorry, misunderstood, thought you meant the boeing!
To me this is not a copyright troll, This is a guy whos photo keeps getting stolen and used without permission, If he was suing anyone using any photo of that skyline not just his then he would be a troll.
I wish this post had gotten more traction and at least some comments when it was posted here. I have seen the same (second hand, since I don't use Instagram) and believe that there is something sinister going on. Instagram had a few months of the beta releases to test this out and make sure that it works as the users would expect it to. What Instagram is doing now is trying to dissuade the user from using the select photos option and annoy the user into just giving permissions for the full photo library.

Every new privacy feature that Apple releases on iOS, there's a Facebook company standing in its way and trying to thwart it. Really shameless!
> The more we automate the creation of food, water, clothing, and shelter, the fewer people we need to keep the rest of us from starving or freezing to death. What do the rest of us do for a living? Why do we keep going?

Why would the few remaining workers elect to work only to provide for others?
"They're not lying, it's commercial real estate."
135% is staggering? What are the repercussions? Zero. None. The financial world doesn’t care. MMT is right here. People keep talking about how large debt will “ruin” the US but it hasn’t had any effect on the US and other countries.

That’s why Japan didn’t suffer any of the theoretical downsides and neither will the US.
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From what I've seen anti spam works almost entirely by two methods. Only accepting messages from trusted servers (which rules out having too many small servers), and information asymmetry where the spam artists don't know what signals you are looking for (which rules out open source).
> ... following six months of partial — and in some cases total — closure due to COVID-19 shutdowns.

At the risk of appearing churlish -- given the preponderance of nation states around the world that had significantly shorter full lockdowns, and the USA's apparent predilection for litigation, it sounds like an excellent opportunity to make a compelling case against the causative elements.
The Fed creates new emergency program / SPV that purchases foreclosed properties from banks, leases it to the original landlord at near-zero rates; until the outlook is more table equity value becomes positive again and then this 'troubled asset' will be sold back to the original bank.

Basically, expect several years of mortgage holidays for property owners, through the Fed.

To inflate the property market, the Fed will continue to purchase mortgage backed securities, (they currently own 1/3 of all MBSes) driving down the cost of interest, which increases borrowing power and demand, and drives up home prices.
There are some problems with a focus on making money.

Alas, when you remove that particular focus, you don't end up with something pure left over. But more often with the worst pathologies organisations have to offer. As the original commenter points out:

> The drive to make more money is the only thing that trumps every other petty motivation people follow at work. It trumps favoritism, empire building, and intra-office rivalries. It trumps good ol' boys networks and tech bro networks. Money brings people into the same room who would never normally be in a room together, and they do it willingly. It forces people in power to listen to small fries. While money corrupts on an individual level, it purifies on an institutional level. Its universally accepted value allows a variety of individual motives to flourish.
It wants to market private information of citizens. Justification is that big tech companies already do so. The difference is that not everyone is on facebook/instagram.
Yes, but that's not really easy at all. Saying "it's possible" fails to capture the amount of effort that would be required to fork Blink.
AFAIK there were no African slaves brought to Britain. In British colonies but not in Britain, and certainly not in numbers that lead their descendants being a significant minority of the overall population. Most black people in the UK are recent immigrants from either the Caribbean or Africa.

And that isn't splitting hairs as that is important in the context Cleese wrote about. Americans are hyperaware of and hypersensitive about slavery, whereas the British don't have day-to-day reminders, and slavery is not as defining in the culture as, say, 2 world wars and one world cup.

Think of it like Seattle vs New Orleans. The cultural consequences of geography and settlement/migration patterns creates a slightly different culture in each city, despite a shared US history.
Yeah, if we could email our customers that would be great. Unfortunately, I can't find a way to access the email addresses for our customers. Maybe I'm really dumb, but all I can find are anonymized transaction IDs.

It would be a lot better if they would allow us to contact our users via email. Instead, we're going to have to use pop-up messages that annoy users and are likely to be reflexively closed by many of them.

I'd love to know what they are communicating to users, and when. At least then we could wait to communicate with them until just after they send an email, so that users would be less likely to ignore our messages. As is, it feels like we're flying blind.
The landlord leech class will be the death of the city.
Please elaborate (If you can, I suppose - this is kind of blowing my mind).
What I'm saying is that despite Matrix and Mastodon saying they are federated services, in practice they (and things like them) tend towards centralisation anyway. The main selling point of Matrix and Mastodon is that they aren't meant to be centralised. Slack and Discord are much better products (at the moment) if you want a centralised solution. I have not yet seen a service/protocol/product that claims to be federated/decentralised, and actually is in practice. There's always a central server that heavily dominates or some kind of central system required for the whole thing to operate.
Ask HN: What domain registrar do you use/trust?
I have a domain that's pretty valuable to me registered on Godaddy and I want to move it from there after reading the recent thread on HN about how they can squat on domains.

I already found their 301 redirect to be a pain and would love to get some credible suggestions for a trustworthy alternative.

Thanks! :)
Nikola founder Trevor Milton forfeits $166M in stock and gets to keep $3.1B
The cure - Unionisation

seriously
notifications are an opt in feature, just like they are for native apps. If you don't want them you turn them off or don't opt in in the first place. Me, I want them on for private messages only. If twitter didn't allow that i'd turn them off. But apps like slack or at least apps like whatsapp etc would be kind of useless without push notifications.
I think people are missing that you can still charge for extension, just not with Google's payment system. Anyway, called this well over a year ago - whenever anyone asked for tips on how to integrate Chrome payments into their extension I would strongly recommend against it.

If you read the Chrome extension developers forums, you would have seen frequent posts about the payment system breaking, plus it was lacking lots of features like discount codes, letting you change subscription prices, being able to share purchases with Firefox (I wouldn't expect this from Google but it's a big negative) and letting you export user emails. It was clear Google wasn't interested in supporting the payments feature for a while. They've let it sit broken since the COVID lockdowns started which is completely insane (with unfortunate developers in the forums asking when it'll be fixed so they can integrate payments as if they think it's a one-off).

For what it's worth, I use Paddle + Firebase for a website SEO auditor extension I run (https://www.checkbot.io/) and it works well, where Paddle addresses all of the downsides above.

If anyone wants any tips on setting up something similar, feel free to message me. I know a lot of people recommend Stripe, but Paddle takes care of country specific tax and VAT for you which is a big plus for reduced admin.

My extension was originally meant to be a Chrome App but they deprecated those before I launched haha.
It is not pedantic to reply to "std::vector is three pointers" with "actually, it might use a size instead of a pointer". Replying to "std::vector is often three pointers, or something functionally equivalent" with that would just be wrong. I have not made any claims about performance, but if I was asked to I would say that the difference is likely so minor that it doesn't matter.
You just penned a passionate defence of how important competition is to keep company cultures functioning.

You don't need perfect leadership, if you have a reality check they can't ignore.
>If someone purposefully hides salient facts from you in order to coerce sexual intercourse then it can be that consent was only acquired by deception and that under the law consent was not freely given.

Assange could have Tuberculosis too. So that's also rape, right? The flu? Also rape. He could be a triple rapist!

Just forget all that systematic government murdering, spying, and lying he revealed, we won't entertain facts from a possible triple rapist!
Yeah seen that, not too well up on all this. Sounds like they are talking about converting their account. I guess maybe a lot of people aren't up on this sort of stuff or aware of all their options unless maybe they went to college to be an accountant maybe.
Yeah, lenses let you do

a & b.c.d .~ 5

To construct a new version of `a` where those nested fields have the new value 5.

Or for an in-place update in a context where that is allowed,

a.b.c.d .= 5

The lens concept is incredibly nice.
Cocktails have been around since the 1800s. They may have changed a bit during prohibition, but to claim that they were created during that time for that purpose is just wrong.
That seems plausible. Both New York and New Jersey have lots of high density areas, yet their numbers are very flat now. There's also some speculation that some people might have a natural immunity.
Email is totally feature frozen as well. There is infinite room to improve email but it will never happen because it requires the participation of too many parties. With centralized services there is always someone who has the final say and can force change.
I do. I have no illusion about it ever happening though.
Did you want to drop some weight?
You should be able to find a fair amount of published literature about it if you search "make parallel build issues".
I have a lot of domains registered on Gandi.net I don't have a lot of experience with other registrars, but they were recommended to me many years ago as an "ethical" choice
Microsoft’s newest sustainable datacenter region coming to Arizona in 2021
Also, cannot add search capabilities unless you

1. use a JS solution like lunr.js OR

2. integrate with Azure Search et al. and implement yourself a small JS based search results page.
If there is forgiveness in the hard time, there should be more to pay in the good time
Call of Duty Accounts Hacked? Activision Denies Any Compromise
What do you think restaurants are for?

It sounds like you think they’re a scam.
They still Poo in Loo.
They need to fix their problems first
Everyone wants to blame someone - e.g. its the governments fault! In reality, its just an external force that everyone is dealing with, a plague, if you will - its not anyone's fault; it just must be faced, that during a plague, there will be suffering, and there will be casualties. It's that simple.
It was a winning strategy after the Spanish flu too.
cross-immunity
Businesses don't pay taxes or employ people in the expectation of being bailed out, they pay taxes (like everyone else) in the expectation of goods and services from the Government. You may expect bailouts for restaurants as a Government service, but the vast majority of people do not.

As a business owner in a 1st world country, for paying taxes I expect infrastructure, security and a functioning legal system.
> Would the landlord prefer a smaller amount to none at all?

As was explained a week or so ago by somebody in that business on Reddit: for commercial real estate, many landlords would prefer none at all over a smaller amount, because the loan is written with the assumption of a certain rent per unit, and if the average rent goes down, it breaches the loan conditions and the loan is revoked (or something like that.)
They don't really need a website. Most VCs operate under the assumption that "if you are resourceful and connected enough to get introduced to the people you'll need to make your company successful then you'll find a way to get introduced to us."
I had a fresh coconut once on vacation it was amazing. nothing like any of the other coconut I've ever had before.
You're right on the money, but Democrats are hell bent on their corona virus scorched earth policy.

Make sure you vote accordingly in November.
The person I replied to stated that releasing a game with the help of a publisher means you’re not indie. Therefore my publication concerns were the terms at release.
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/lobbying
This is over simplified. It's better to lose a finger to an infection or cancer, versus have it spread to all parts of the body. Its the same thing with fiscal policy.
For providing food? I'm not sure what you are asking here, I can't imagine how a restaurant could be a scam.
You can still integrate another payment system though, just not Google's one.
The Federal Reserve seems primarily focused on keeping asset prices high. Their policies seem to react directly to downward pressure in the equity markets.

When you consider that the appreciation of these markets only serves to widen the wealth gap, it becomes clear that the Fed's mandate is to preserve the wealth of the rich. They're pursuing "trickle down" economics at full speed, despite the overwhelming evidence that "trickle down" is a myth.

The US population is too busy arguing over race issues and partisan politics to realize the financial system is stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.
Getting hit hard is probably why they don't see a second wave. They got the whole thing over with in one wave.
...because your company wants you to work two jobs for the price of one?
Lol I guess HN thinks solving problems is cool if it’s technology doing the solving, but perfectly normal to have a handful of people accumulate vast amounts of stuff people need to survive and hold them hostage with make work to buy it back. Y’all ain’t that wealthy, most of you never will be. You’re selling yourself out too
You're going to have to explain that one in detail for me. We have now generated trillions in liquidity for corporations. Maybe I'm dumb; walk me through how this would "crash the banks", real estate, and "the entire economy".
It is interesting to think of a future where wars between countries could be fought through duels between "champion robots" with no loss of innocent people's lives.

EDIT: I didn't expect this comment to be controversial/downvoted, and it is interesting that it is evoking some level of passive aggressive sarcasm.
Who is Harrison Bergeron? Never heard of him so are to be an allusion to someone I've never heard of.

I saw no examples of Google's evil from the OP

> Approved bundles,

what is this?

> no URLs,

This is from Apple, not Google. Chrome is just following what Safari has been doing for years.

> everything hosted on AMP

Arguable either way

> and deeply embedded ads.

not sure what this or how it's evil

Happy to be enlightened
No, it is not that simple. There are various ways to respond to a plague, and some are better than others. Some responses result in far more casualties than others, in addition to the economic damage. We can all see that some governments responded well and others did not.
>This ignores the fact that if there were such obvious financial incentives, then restaurant owners would simply just buy said properties.

They do when they have the capital.

>"If a landlord is rendered insolvent, they aren't even rendered destitute;" - ? why do you assume that?

Because I've been through the books of multiple major banks, REITs, investment funds, commercial owners, commercial tenants, private individuals with residential real estate portfolios, etc.

You have to be incredibly negligent to lose money in an industry where your assets have been skyrocketing in value for over a decade.
Bankruptcy is a form of debt forgiveness.

I don't see the problem, I see restaurants close only to see a new one move in a few months later. Even during good times its a risky business.