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Not in my experience.

Then extend those programs. That should be obvious. Open up socially distanced food lines for kids and their parents that give out free food. None of this is impossible especially with the amount of wasted food we have. None of these problems lead to the conclusion that we should open schools when we can resolve these side issues in smarter, better ways that don't put the entire society at risk for covid. The House passed a relief bill 3 months ago. The failure of the Senate to do the same is simply inexcusable. That failure should not be the reason for even more people to die. This is so fucking absurd.

The rest of society is certainly not happy to make that sacrifice for your extreme selfishness and callousness and frankly, we shouldn't have to die because your kids might grow up fearful. What a selfish, disgusting attitude.

> Their ability to spread to adults is their biggest risk factor, not the disease itself.

Even if this is true (we already have evidence it's not for some children), it's completely irresponsible to allow schools to open. We know children are infectious and easily spread the disease. There are other members of society besides children. Letting the virus run rampant in schools will lead to parents and other adults getting sick and dying. It's not ok for children to die but if their parents, grandparents, teachers, or parents' friends die it's somehow ok? What kind of logic is that?

I assume this is based on the CDC recommendation which doesn't seem to be based on any scientific research. On the other hand, this study finds that valved masks are as effective as cloth masks as far as leakage is concerned. (1) Also, I would assume a valved mask covered by a surgical would be ok (doctors and nurses do this sometimes) but that's not clear. Otherwise, they are asking people to wear less protection based on nothing but conjecture.

(1) https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/early/2020/...

You're asking that businesses think about long-term goals, efficiency, and what is best for the business. After having worked at over a couple dozen companies, I've never seen such an attitude from any business. Industry and size are irrelevant. Occasionally things line up by accident and the business does well, but every single business I've ever worked at or seen has a culture of shooting itself in the foot:

* No training (Not just for engineers but for anyone, including for specialty positions that simply don't exist outside the business)

* No focus on employee retention

* No significant raises / bonuses (Lucky to get a cost of living raise these days)

* No consideration for employees' goals

* Stressing employees unnecessarily with shit vacation benefits and no sick time

* Stressing employees with shit equipment

* Stressing employees with shit hours

* Stressing employees with shit office conditions

* Reducing benefits to slightly cut costs

The list goes on and on. Businesses succeed despite their own best attempts at hurting themselves, not because of it. Owners, executives, and other stakeholders are deluding themselves into thinking this isn't the case and often driving the business into actual bankruptcy or just below mediocre performance.

It's no wonder most employees are disengaged from their work. When you treat employees like shit, they will treat your business like shit to the greatest extent possible. They will do the minimum and it's extremely hard to change that course once it's been set. Employees are humans. Most businesses treat them like slaves, or machines at best.

This will be a disaster as is usually the case with government outsourcing duties to the less qualified private sector. Surely there must be a "law" named after this by now.

Realid itself is a clusterfuck. I tried to get a driver's license with it. Presented all the paperwork. Was told my signed lease was not acceptable proof of residence and that it would be impossible. I'd have to get a regular driver's license or come back at a later time, pay again and more this time for a second license. Fuck that. What a clusterfuck of stupidity. I'll try again when it renews, assuming the pandemic in the US is completely done. Or not. It's just a fact of life that to fly from state to state, one needs to carry a passport now. In a "free" country. How ridiculous.

This ban is clearly a distraction by the white house to take attention away from actual national security matters, specifically the foreign hacking of elections. It's absurd that this is a priority but protecting our electoral process is not. Only fools would believe a social network like this is a real threat.

People have seasonal behavioral patterns, not the virus. The end result is similar.

It's interesting to see the election being manipulated right in front of the public's eyes and be unable to do anything about it. This post office bomb is only one part. We are being told by our representatives about their briefings from intelligence agencies on foreign attacks on our elections, yet are not allowed to know any details. The white house clearly supports both domestic interference and foreign. They are actively perpetrating the fraud domestically and passively doing nothing about foreigners. There are other players, like Facebook which intentionally allows conservative conspiracy theories to thrive. It's hard to imagine this year's elections will be fair with so much meddling allowed to happen. Will we have another election decided by the Supreme Court because ballots can't be counted quickly enough? Full me once shame on ...

It works as a rule if it only applies if the loser is the plaintiff who brought the case in the first place. That would indeed discourage the filing of frivolous lawsuits. In some cases, it should work the other way, but that should be up to the judge and be based on the circumstances of the case.

Edit: The downside is that it would also prevent poor plaintiffs from suing richer ones. But that is already generally the case. It's probably best to judge on a case by case basis.

About as much as an apple looks like a pear.

In software, remote work is way more productive in my experience working remotely for the last almost seven years. It's a win win. More productivity and way better working conditions (home office, nice desk etc.). Less hours needed to finish. Easier to concentrate. Easier to deal with bad bosses or co-workers or take time out and breaks during the day. More flexible schedule. Much less stress. The pros go on and on. The only negative for work is promotions and visibility, but when everyone's remote, even that works itself out.

That's exactly the end result of capitalism, at least in America, due to lack of proper regulations. There's nothing more capitalistic than a monopoly or duopoly. Oligopoly at worst. This is the goal every single capitalistic organization in the world strives for. From Google to Apple to drug dealers and slavers they all want monopoly or close to it. To claim that monopoly is not capitalistic is delusional. It's the most capitalistic situation possible and the most desired and sought after universally. It earns the winner the most capital. America has really perfected this system in its legal markets, although on the black market many other countries have too.

Wouldn't any company hiring workers in Europe need to provide the same benefits as any European company, roughly the ones listed above? Or can an American company just hire remotely and offer American benefits directly to employees (not talking about independent contractors of course)? It would seem like the former no? Or is there a possibility of the latter? Say I'm remote and would like to work in Europe. I think this is the big problem with trying to keep a remote American job there without becoming a consultant and getting paid Corp to Corp. Is remote work for an American company even possible if that company doesn't have a European presence in the country the work would be conducted in or would they need to get such presence first before it was legal? If it's the latter (seems like it would be) it could really limit the companies willing to hire in Europe.

I think it's likely genetic (though I'm no expert in the biology), however addiction is not a flaw. It's a dominant trait for a reason. Addiction helps people achieve amazing goals when directed at the right problem. The problem is when it gets directed towards negative things like alcohol, some drugs, or other destructive addictions (like hn or reddit ... partially joking). When directed at exercise, learning, building, writing, creating, or other positive passions, it can help addicts achieve what most non-addicts can't even fathom. It needs to be balanced though, which is sometimes the most difficult part, if it's even possible.

Applying addiction to work can be beneficial, but overdoing it (which is always the struggle) leads to workaholism. Even drugs and alcohol work the same way. A little can be amazing. A lot can lead to rehab or death. Or videogames. Programming. Technology. Music. Anything. Addictive behaviors can lead to a lot of good or a lot of bad. Great artists, musicians, programmers, designers, etc. Or living on the streets drinking, shooting up, or smoking crack/meth. Two sides of the same coin. It can be a thin line. It depends on the individual, their mentality, the support around them, and many other factors.

Only one thing's for sure. It's not a genetic flaw.

These are all Chinese people the article is talking about. It's quite obvious that using Chinese apps as a Chinese person is dangerous. That's not what I asked about and certainly no reason to ban the app in America.

Chinese contacts who have never been to China. Fascinating.

I wish I could play soccer but that'd be incredibly stupid during a pandemic and everything is shut down anyway. Running yes. Contact sports hell no.

Please provide examples of US citizens who have never been to China being abducted by the Chinese for searching the wrong thing. Or is this just your own delusion?

Isn't this obvious? What's China going to do with an American's data? Mine it and store it. What can the US do with the data it grabs from US companies? Land you in jail or worse. What can other US entities do with that data? Raise prices. Blacklist you. Sell it to other companies to do the same. Sell it to the government to put you in jail. Unless someone has ties to China or lives/visit China, the Chinese can't do shit. They could have a data breach as can anyone, but I bet they have better security practices and worse consequences for disclosure (so nations can't get proof of the data collection) than any US entity. This should all be quite obvious.

The $600 per week is definitely sustainable as are all the other payments that are going directly to people. If we can afford all the unrelated stuff you mention and a ton you didn't, we can afford to help people directly, which is the absolute number one priority.

The real pandemic is people dying and being disabled, not debt. Saying it's debt is callous and cruel as people are dying and becoming disabled all around us. How is it possible to have no empathy at all like this?

Can't have China influencing the election. That's Russia's job. It's not like these companies are new or doing things that every tech company in the world isn't doing. National security is clearly a pretense that's laughable. If that was the case, we'd see Facebook, etc. banned in many countries.

In many European countries this is doable and employers are required to accommodate a shorter schedule in some cases.

I've migrated a production app from mysql to pgsql although not with django but a different orm and language. The app also had some custom sql. The reason was for proper json support as we have a 2tb table with unstructured data (1tb at the time) that was slowing mysql down severely (most used table by far). A later version of mysql with json support was not available on aws so wasn't an option. This was about two to three years in so the app was actually almost finished and in maintenance mode.

It worked. It took many months and copying the data and doing the migration was a pita. The orm helped in that I had to modify fewer queries by hand, but modifying the queries we did have was trivial also. It's one of only two times off the top of my head that the orm was a net benefit rather than a liability in the apps that use it. Would I use an orm in the future in case this comes up? Hell no. I'd pick a proper db first, aka pgsql (that decision was before my time). But even if I didn't, I'd still prefer to convert the sql one by one from mysql to pgsql rather than incur the horrific penalties and extremely slow run time and development time the orm imposed on us. Developing with the orm was many times slower and the runtime was ten times slower than the actual query time due to hydration. Rewriting a few thousand queries is nothing compared to losing months to the slow development speed and the slow runtime speed which required a completely separate rewrite of most of our functionality alongside the orm just so we could serve api requests in a manner somewhat reminiscent of not completely slow.

So yeah, even when switching from mysql to pgsql, the orm wasn't worth it. It never is or has been.

Socially and legally, we are ok with it, indeed. Otherwise, we wouldn't allow such a short support window. Our culture is now completely based upon planned obsolescence. I don't agree with it, but that's reality. These are the incentives society provides. In theory, it could easily provide others. In reality, Apple/Google are in many way more powerful than our government so it's unlikely. Like I said above, if this is a problem, it can be fixed. It's not a problem for me. I'd like more support, but I'm ok without support also. Not ideal, but I'm also not going to waste a thousand bucks on a phone either. Or even $400 for the cheapest iphone.

You are right. Few do. If people cared about the environment that much, they would have lobbied for laws against planned obsolescence. Me buying 5 phones or even 500 won't make a difference to the environment. Laws forcing phone makers to support their phones for a minimum of x years might. Clearly, our society is not interested in that. Why should I then go out of my way to inconvenience myself to do something that will make zero difference? No reason to at all.

This reopening is criminal. The DA should charge the superintendent with endangering child welfare and I'm sure they can think of a dozen other types of charges times for a few hundred student victims they could bring on. Well at least now we know that even "think of the children" was always a lie in our culture. The culture does not care if children die unnecessarily.

Yeah, but I can buy 5 to 6 android phones for the price of Apple's high end phones. So while this makes sense for their cheapest product, even that is twice the price. So the comparison is between 2 to 5 generations of android phones and one generation of an apple phone.

Hands back to home row? Mine never left. The fade is a little better, almost usable, but not quite. Certainly not something I want to see hundreds of times a day while I'm trying to get work done. Same problem with full screen apps which also use this system.