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I doubt Apple or Bill Gates have very many incriminating Twitter DMs. Kanye is a non-factor, nobody serious cares what a, respectfully, manic-depressive is DMing about.

Elon Musk might have some suspect DMs, but honestly I think his crazy Twitter behavior is priced into TSLA already.

You think the FBI and SEC couldn't get a warrant, look through 10000 people's trading activity and have a list of 100 most likely suspects within a single day?

No Amazon generally does not provide you a company phone, at least not when I was there.

That isn't what OP was talking about, but to answer your separate question--in Seattle you have unarmed people who pushed some concrete blocks into the street, in Oregon you had well armed people occupying a federal building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Malheur_Nati...

Like this scenario in 2016 that ended when the last far-right occupiers of a national wildlife refugee left after 6 weeks?.

isn't most text you'll see nowadays going to be printed and standardized? I can't remember the last time I read a handwritten anything, aside from my own notes.

Just because they've cut these projects or they're not generating revenue today doesn't mean they don't "need" them. What if the economy tanked in 2007 and Amazon decided to dissolve AWS?

The average American didn't (and probably doesn't) distrust their government on anywhere near the same visceral level as someone living in the soviet union.

What constitutes a high vs low effort application?

In North America are non-supermarkets and non-warehouses even 5% of grocery retail? I think that restaurants being allowed to sell groceries would've been cool. But I don't see how mom and pop grocers move the needle at all here.

Do you have an international driver's license or whatever that is?

In the live address they said that most implementations will be left to the county and local govts. The state isn't giving any specific guidance on masks, for example, leaving that to specific locales.

Does anyone have any tips for the "micro" lulls? I'm a professional programmer of 5 years. Back in December I was floating high, feeling so empowered and at the top of my powers. Now I feel just meh. Opening an IDE, writing tests, etc, all feel like a drag.

1. It's old people AND people with comorbidities, which is a ton of people.

2. Lots of old people, which for Covid is about 65, still work full time jobs. Some of them fly every week. These aren't 95+ year olds.

3. I'm sure people of all ages think their life is very valuable, and very few people consider themselves candidates for sacrifice. Certainly not for privacy concerns.

4. 10x deadlier than the flu.

I feel like that is the least of their problems

Why does anyone talk to a journalist when they don't get anything out of it or advance their interests? People like to tell their story, especially when aggrieved.

That's a great point I always struggle with coming up with UIs for side projects, but really everything I come up with will always look cheap compared to the efforts of 13 experts.

I personally don't think that ~10% of people who are in the low food security box are doing great. They still seemed to do horribly in some of the metrics they gathered. For example, 80% of them felt they could not afford a balanced meal.

Then if you look at the very low security group, roughly 4% or 5 million people, it gets really worrisome. 32% of households said an adult had gone an entire day without eating anything.

And I think this is compounded by something like Covid-19. 85% and 95% of the low and very low food security groups said they were worried food would run out. What happens to them when people make a run on the stores like this last month? Their ability to buy food is strongly tethered to the day of the month when their EBT card is reloaded.

I think a lot of this is subjective, and globally the US is doing quite well compared to all countries. But I suspect we do poorly compared to other industrialized/advanced economies.

I don't think that's a low bar. The US is an advanced economy. Why would people being unable to get fresh produce or have a balanced and varied diet be acceptable? Especially when you consider the obesity problems the country is facing.

I think that food insecurity meaning literal hunger pains is way too low a bar for the US. That number should be literally 0%. Food security for us should mean food that is healthy and excellent.

Does the US government subsidize them at all? I wish we would pivot faster to renewable energy, but in the meantime we should also ensure we are not reliant only on authoritarian states for energy.

I don't mean to be glib, but isn't this a good opportunity for her to learn those skills? I wasn't a good self-learner until I was in AP Bio and the teacher was very incompetent and I had to just face down the book. That groundwork helped me so much as a freshman in college where there were lots of kids who had always had awesome, attentive teachers. Especially if you are there with her!

I love Khan Academy, and the cool thing about youtube is there are so many content creators that there will be someone your daughter thinks has a nice voice or is easy to understand or funny.

Actually, yes I recall now this is exactly what happened to me! I applied and forgot about it, assuming it didn't matter to them when I responded. What a bummer

Has anyone ever been refused a developer account? I wanted to write some scraper and did the form, but they rejected, told me in the email there was no appeal, and I guess that's it?

Totally talking out of my butt here, I have no finance knowledge. But just as a matter of general game theory stuff I understand that sometimes you have to push all your chips in on a position, but that doesn't seem sustainable? Like how often is it reasonable for a big bank to have a position in a single security that could bankrupt them?

Robinhood isn't a bitcoin company. That's just a feature they have. Its main product offering is the commision free trading--and their presence pushed a lot of big players to adopt the same offering. The wallstreetbets gang is silly and all, but I think they have really democratized stock trading, and made the whole idea seem much more accesible. I think they founders are former finance guys. I hope this doesn't sound like guerilla marketing. I don't even use the app, I have used it but I'm just not that interested in picking stocks. I just think it's cool as an ex-code monkey to entreprenur story.

I'm almost positive your job cannot tell people about your health.

This seems very related to the blog post that introduced me to Paul Graham, and in turn Hacker News, about a phenomenon he calls Schlep Blindness.

http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html

I would be curious what people think today's most obvious schelps or hard problems are? Nuclear Fission as in OPs post is cool, but Im thinking more along the lines of something a team of competent developers could do.

I guess that is an easier system to implement, but that's obviously less ambitious and much less magical.

Why does Amazon do one day shipping? That's also huge overkill for 99% of the stuff they sell. They do it because consumers want it, and will instantly forget about all their disdain for Bezos, who btw seems to be growing in unpopularity by the hour, for a more streamlined and hassle free product. I'm not a huge introvert but my instinct is already to do self checkout. I can keep listening to my music, don't have to do the "alright please insert your card" dance, etc.

OP is saying he was leaving Kashmir. Generally US authorities ask this stuff when you arrive.

I don't see why it would take years to learn to write an app in Swift or Kotlin (or React Native or Flutter), even starting from zero. I'm not trying to be cute here.

There are probably 50 high quality end to end tutorial for building a video streaming app. I guess using Firebase is tying you in to a service, but so what? If it's for 4 friends it doesn't have to be infinitely scalable. Just by writing an iOS app you're tied to Apple, right? And surely an app isnt a failure just because it has dependencies?