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There is a concrete example of the Federal government seizing PPE, Ventilators ordered by the states. Then only giving them 20% of what they ordered.

Its basically legal theft.

k-godwinon Show HN: Tiny, fast, and free API to geolocate IP addresses

1) Agreements with ISPs [most accurate]

2) IP Spidering via traceroutes / RIPE/etc data.

3) Agreements with third parties that have IP/Address mapping due to data supplied from users. [least accurate]

That'd be my guess anyway.

k-godwinon Show HN: Version Control for Databases

I'm not sure what advantage this has over putting MySQL dumps into git (or manually versioning them with filenames)?

k-godwinon A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier

> I do support UBI too but it seems like an extreme stretch to say that is easier to sell than EITC. Especially when you consider that EITC already exists today as a federal law, and UBI does not.

To do what the person I'm replying to wants, it would be on the scale of UBI/negative income tax. Otherwise, its not the equivalent to $15/hour when they are being paid $10/hour.

k-godwinon A Week in the Life of a McDonald’s Cashier

> Should we be completely immune from minimum wage increases just because we can afford to pay for the finer things in life?

You aren't immune.

Minimum wage laws impact the supply chain that feeds Whole Foods and nice restaurants by increasing the cost of rural labor.

https://www.indeed.com/salaries/farm-worker-Salaries

A quick google will show you that farm workers are well below the $15/hour goal most progressives are touting.

The argument that "society should carry the cost" is based on your opinion that is in error. Society carries the cost of minimum wage increases because we all have to eat. We all have to patronize low margin businesses to some degree (even if it is indirect).

You can argue the EITC is a better "solution" than a minimum wage but if you are trying to ensure $15/hour for people paid $10/hour, you are really talking a negative income tax or UBI. At which point, you are probably better off supporting those proposals instead of pushing the EITC.

Personally, I'm not a fan of subsidizing low margin businesses that from a Capitalist perspective should probably be allowed to die if their workers can't afford to live on what they pay.

k-godwinon Show HN: A searchable list of self-hosted software with screenshots

Congrats on launching.

Search could use some work:

- Search for Bot, get a bunch of unrelated results.

- Search for Email, get accounting/translation/etc tools.

- Search for Accounting, seems to work correctly.

k-godwinon The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

Just fyi for anyone who finds it MIA in the brower, you just need to refresh to get the option.