fludlight

Almost all bankruptcies in the next two years are going to blame COVID-19. "It wasn't us, it was the $external_factor" is a way for management to avoid blame. In some cases (restaurants especially) the health crisis has wrecked businesses that have been profitable for many years and the external factor is legitimately the main cause. In other instances, the company was already headed toward bankruptcy and the virus is just the straw that broke the camel's back.

This is why you never, ever sign a personal guarantee.

Sometimes I contemplate launching a copycat conglomerate like Rocket, but instead of international copies of American and Chinese ideas it would do fast, minimal bandwidth & js clones with real privacy. The main problem is that network economics are a hell of a moat.

I'll add two more points:

- Remove all non-essential scripts: ads, analytics, fonts, social, liveperson, disqus, truste, foresee, cookielaw, etc.

- Scale down or omit images

This is a chapter of the book:

Disease Control Priorities: Improving Health and Reducing Poverty. 3rd edition.

Jamison DT, Gelband H, Horton S, et al., editors. Washington (DC): The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank; 2017 Nov 27.

The Instagram and Etsy crowd need to popularize fashionable home-made masks like the ones the new Slovakian president wears.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/fmeyis/corona_fashi...

It's a fun engineering-art project. Don't depend on it for survival.

I'm sure Australia will be locked down soon. Maybe they can switch to a take-out model. Rural areas also need more grocery stores. Maybe sell bulk dry/canned goods since they already stock that.

If you get into a head on collision at high speed you'll both be dead.

This should be distributed geographically, meaning the pork could be spread around, meaning it is remotely possible to pass.

Maybe if you blink the light bar. Maybe.

Intentionally blinding problem drivers, while emotionally satisfying, is likely to cause accidents, road rage, and is probably illegal. Blinking your high beams is the socially acceptable thing to do. Going too far beyond that is the optical version of coal rolling.

You can also try emailing K-12 (6-12 really) schools offering tech support helping teachers and students set up and use tele-learning software.

Switching a large enterprise software system is almost as time consuming, expensive, and error prone as developing a replacement in-house. You would have experienced substantial problems even if it was in-house -> in-house-rewrite or external->in-house or external-a -> external-b.

The same argument is often made here about various programming libraries.

Rolling your own payroll is about as good an idea as rolling your own crypto.

> Because most work in the world is done despite the management, not because of it.

FTFY

"Cleaning up" is a phrase reserved for exits. Thoma Bravo is merely "acquisitive". They just raised a big new fund; it is common to have a couple of transactions lined up when raising a new fund so you can begin with a bang and deploy capital sooner rather than later.

Reasons why school was canceled in places I have lived: snow, hurricanes, floods, wildfire (smoke and danger of burning down), and weather related power outages.

Why didn't UC Davis test the patient themselves? Why did they need the CDC's permission?

Last few projects of mine:

- Prototyping: no graphics (text only); drew myself (so bad that I reverted to text only); free libraries

- Publicly available: paid a friend of a friend; hired someone on a popular outsourcing site (after I paid them it turned out that they stole it from a not-free illustration library); free library; paid for not-free library

- very limited (<50 users) beta: all of the above plus not-free-library with watermarks (users actually liked this because it gave the site an authentic, work-in-progress, exclusive vibe--their words)

Honestly, graphics are overrated and people of all walks of life appreciate high-information density above all else. Landing pages for marketing campaigns convert slightly better with fancy graphics, so you ideally want both. Most companies only have the pretty pictures, which is both a shame and an opportunity.

Why the tarp and duct tape?

I know Brave is supposed to be a privacy-centric browser, but their plan for advertising seems at odds with that. Advertising is a slippery slope and I wonder how long before these promises are eroded or outright reversed.

> 100% of your ad spend is placed for active users that opt-in to a rewarding private ad experience.

> Craft effective offers and provide captivating full-page experiences directly with consumers in Brave’s Private Ad Tabs.

> Brave uses local machine learning with the browser profile to only place ads in optimal conditions. Ads are matched to opportunities, and users become partners instead of targets.

> Private ad matching efficiently matches ads directly from the device, without breaching personal information.

https://brave.com/brave-ads-waitlist/

Most programmers want to build new things, not work on maintenance projects, regardless of tech stack.

That said, many people do enjoy that sort of work and finding them is not unusually difficult unless the project is so big that you need dozens of bodies.

Thanks, I updated the title.

Retraining isn’t as effective as one might hope. For one, it is cheaper to retrain large number of people in a handful of fields than a handful of people in a large number of fields. So you get an oversupply of, say, HVAC installers. Second, many of these miners (and factory workers) live in company towns. Once the company leaves the town slowly dies due to economic suffocation. The stores, plumbers, schools, doctors, etc that used to sell services to the miners now have fewer customers because people slowly move out and the ones that stay have less money because the mining jobs are gone. It would be better to bulldoze the towns and relocate everyone to places that aren’t dying but, unsurprisingly, people don’t like that. There are hundreds of small towns like this across America that have been hoping for a new company to come and save them for decades. When a new company comes along they want to pay low wages and no taxes, and desperate local politicians acquiesce.

Maybe she was avoiding having all of her eggs in one basket. If your employer fails you lose your income. If your employer holds your life savings you might lose that, too.

These days we have reliable, trusted deposit insurance, but that didn't exist until the 1930s. People didn't really trust it until a few decades later.

Check out the rest of this artist’s portfolio, some of them are quite good.

http://www.simonweckert.com/work.html

Some people are jerks. Discussions about them always begin or end by stating that. It's a cost of being a jerk. Why should companies be treated differently?

Circuits can and do disagree.

This only affects the ninth circuit—which includes the tech hubs San Francisco, Seattle, LA, and Portland. It would only apply to the rest of the country if the Supreme Court affirmed it. Even then, a well-funded company or zealous prosecutor could say that it doesn’t apply in your case because of some technicality. In that case you would need hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars and a few years to litigate the issue with no guarantee of the outcome.