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But eventually the standard unemployment will run out too, right?

Well...I personally wouldn't want to stop at unemployment benefits, but I'm not trying to make that case here because I understand there's a lot more moving pieces and it's much tougher case to make.

First one is totally valid, and honestly a bit chilling. Not sure why that wasn't obvious to me.

The 2nd one seems dubious to me: in my experience, people are moving to remote-friendly jobs from within the US...it doesn't explain why we have a shortage of people making pizza.

The last one is the one I'm struggling with: I don't knock people at ALL for making those choices, but if they're struggling to survive and (as others have noted in response to me) unemployment insurance has ended, what are they doing instead of taking a job?

So then how are people paying to survive?

I posted a similar question here[1].

I'm not a GOPer, but I do hold some fairly free market beliefs, so I wanted to answer your question about the general case. I think some of this thinking comes from the fact that there's been a lot of legislation in the past that attempts to solve market "failures" with more government regulation or subsidies, and that those promises have fallen short. In my mind, there are a lot of liberals in the US who say things like "if only the stimulus was larger" or e.g. after the "assault weapon" ban failed to demonstrably change gun violence in the US that we "just needed to ban MORE guns".

For me, the big one on this is healthcare. I'm the first to admit that a single-payer healthcare system is my 2nd favorite system after a purely free market approach, but there's a lot of gaslighting going on that what we have today in the US is actually a free market approach. Liberals tell me that the free market failed, and that it's time to socialize healthcare. But from where I'm sitting, we've had massive governement intervention in healthcare for a century, and that intervention has made the market aspect of our system fail completely, govt subsidies for employer-provided insurance being the number one (inflates prices by increasing demand for lower-pri care, ties people to their employer for longer than they'd otherwise do), but also Medicare/Medicaid and the lack of insurance pools across state lines.

This debate falls out most cleanly when you debate the Laffer Curve. Are we on the left of optimum, or the right? There's really no way for us to know for sure in a vacuum, but "doubling down" is the only approach that either side can really take in pushing increased or decreased tax rates.

Obviously, I didn't flesh out all my positions here, and I don't mean to get into a debate on any of these things in particular. I'm just trying to help explain some of my own logic in response to your question.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27778374

I'm seeing a lot of "just raise wages" in this thread. The traditional GOP response on something like this is to get rid of the extended and special unemployment insurance programs, and you'd see folks re-enter for minimum wage jobs.

I'm not an expert in this field, but that naively seems like it would achieve the same result. Obviously there's a conversation to be had about fair wages, and whether a minimum wage is livable, but is there something else here that I'm missing about why that wouldn't also mitigate the current labor shortage?

FYI, Ctrl+Shift+V works as a paste without formatting shortcut in Teams. But for some reason I can't work out, they chose not to put it in the right-click UI.

This isn't about a service, it's about devices. The Google TV launcher is the de-facto UI for Android TV devices (like my Nexus Player, which is...7 YEARS OLD and now gets ads) and Google/Android TV-powered TVs, which are made by a bunch of different manufacturers. While my Nexus Player is rooted and I could theoretically install a different launcher, many of these TVs can't be modified. So if you purchased a TV thinking that it's smart capabilities were like a dumb OS UI into services like Netflix or Hulu (which may or may not have ads in their service agreement, as you point out), now they're getting pushed Amazon Fire-esque ads that prioritize spending money with Google from the UI over the services that you want to use.

IANAL, but I think the difference there is that game was standalone and playable without a ROM file. Theoretically, a ROM patch and a bunch of netcode would be legal (though most people would still illegally obtain the ROM to patch).

E.g. see Project Slippi[1], a patch for playing Melee online with rollback netcode.

Interestingly, a tournament using was Slippi was issued a C&D[2], but Nintendo has issued C&Ds to Melee tournaments in the past just for using their graphics and making money and stuff.

[1]: https://slippi.gg/

[2]: https://twitter.com/TheBigHouseSSB/status/132952108157785703...

Well, for example, if it ran Gecko like it does on Android, you'd be one step closer to running extensions like uBlock Origin that run fine over on the Android side of the fence. Similarly, you might be able to use a password manager extension (e.g. LastPass or Bitwarden) that doesn't support the full suite of features that Apple gives its own password manager (e.g. updating a stored password based on an updated entry--and yes, I COULD just use Firefox's password manager, but maybe my usage of password spans beyond the browser or even THAT browser specifically).

And also you might care because we're on a forum full of developers knee deep in a thread and walled gardens and their relation to customer architectures, and it might be relevant to that thread that code that's common to every other Firefox platform target isn't as common on iOS.

As someone who's used Android for a really long time, I've never set out to accomplish something like this. What do you use for it?

2000 series was expensive and underwhelming, and raytracing wasn't really viable in real-time with other graphical settings cranked up.

3000 series is a huge performance boost, reasonably priced (at least at MSRP), and gives comfortable buffer on lots of scenarios like high-end VR, 1440p at very high FPS, and comfy 4K with all the good stuff turned up.

Meanwhile, the GTX 1080 was cheap and could basically play everything at 1080p. I think gamers just skipped over the 2000 because it was lame.

But hell, I hope you're right. I'm still rocking a 980, and I've not had any success trying to grab a 3070 to upgrade. Maybe these LHRs will actually free stuff up. (But to be honest, the 980 is still doing fine with most of what I play at 1080p.)

Does anyone else remember EPIC 2014? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPIC_2014

I thought it was crazy how many of these turned out to be mostly right (even if the explicit stuff about mergers and lawsuits was wrong)

Surprised to see so many people in this thread who don't want to go back to the office at all, but I do understand.

I've been given the flexibility to define my own schedule with regards to when I'm in the office and when I'm working from home. I can't WAIT to go back: it's great having a dedicated work space, I like hallway conversations and in-person meetings, and it'll be AWESOME to be able to snag a hot meal at our cafeteria without having to prep or think about it.

BUT, I'll probably never go in for a Friday ever again, and realistically I'll be working from home 2-3 days/week.

So yes, I feel very fortunate my employer is extending that flexibility post-COVID.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it (yet!)[1]

I was really excited to be accepted into the beta, but ultimately didn't want to move stuff to GitHub just for CF Pages.

[1]: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-pages-with-git...

I'm not disagreeing with your assertion (though I do expect it's not as widespread as news articles make it seem), but...why didn't they vote to unionize then? Seems like if the unions said "we'll make sure you get bathroom breaks", then that'd be enough.

Oh yeah, I read all that after I started seeing problems, I know I'm in the wrong here. It works just good enough that I haven't addressed it yet (I just kick over the process when things get weird, and the db usually recovers just fine).

I learned this the hard way when I stuck some app containers down on a few RPis and mapped the folder of stateful stuff (including a SQLite database) to an NFS share on my NAS.

It's....not great.

Price fixing? You can buy music directly from artists for any price you want. I do it all the time on Bandcamp and independent stores, for both digital and vinyl releases.

Piracy set the price at 0, Spotify pulled the price up from there, but there is literally nothing stopping consumers today from paying more for music except that they don't want to.

Yeah, I also admin a few topical groups of 10-40 people with a few friends, and the level of engagement I've gotten is insane. I've never had a long-term group chat with so much content sharing, long-form opinions, etc, and I credit Telegram's UX and desktop clients for most of that engagement.

In many ways, it reminds me of the Web 0.x days on which the HN crowd so frequently reminisces.

Windows user here: secret chats are not supported on the desktop client at all.

That's my only gripe. The rest of the app is incredible, and absolutely the most delightful app I use every day. I cite it often as an example of a native app that beats the pants off of anything Electron-based, it's just so damn fast.

I think it does beg the question though, of whether it might be possible to dump the Switch OS and firmware and run it on some alternative ARM hardware (with some modifications for redirecting weird custom chips). IIRC the Switch is running an overclocked Tegra (X1?)

IANAL, but in the US at least, I think every person would need to buy their own Switch and dump the software themselves for it to be even remotely legal.

I didn't mean to get caught up on the specifics of electric cars vs. other technological innovations. I clarified a little more over here[1].

As for the decentralization aspect: I think a lot of people in countries outside of the US would disagree with you that trust is not a problem with the banking system. Not everyone out there can just get a credit card with 2% cashback that's backed by the rule of law I enjoy in the US.

I think you've also sidestepped the issue of inflation. Just because the American public hasn't yet learned that their money's value is being printed away doesn't mean that they're not going to be the ones feeling the hurt in 5-20 years, particularly if UBI et al don't keep pace with their decrease in purchasing power.

I saw another one of your comments allude to the idea that democracy is a solution to this, but I don't ascribe to the idea that we should shirk technology solutions because political ones might exist. In many cases, technological innovation drives demand for political action. I don't want to debate the merits of Uber as a company, but I think it's hard to ignore the idea that the introduction of car-hailing apps created demand for governments to completely rethink taxi monopolies.

Ultimately, I'm not trying to make a case for Bitcoin. I'm trying to make a case for the idea that the adoption of and furor around Bitcoin is going to significantly influence the vNext of our banking system, even if that just means e.g. that the near-instant clearing of large Bitcoin transactions is showing folks that ACH is garbage, or that T+1 stock settlement is achievable.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26322823

Yes, but do you think we would have reached the innovations and supply chain capabilities required to make modern electric cars if not for the supply chain build-out of trucks, the commutes of folks researching these technologies, etc.

And even if my specifics are wrong, my point is that some technology may be impossible to leapfrog because we build on the innovations and rollout of past technology in order to innovate further.

And again, you can debate that modern electric cars could have been more capable earlier if we had distributed more towards innovation than to rollout of old tech (e.g. would a carbon tax on gas cars 20 years ago that went towards battery research have accelerated us towards our current position more quickly?). But my uber-point is that gas cars were probably required for some period of the last century. Maybe even to make, like, internet, smartphones, and all kinds of stuff

You're right in that the stock market and the banking system are not the same thing, but I'd argue that they're intrinsically linked.

I move USD from my checking account into my investment accounts in order to buy equities, and I do that more when the Federal Reserve is pumping more liquidity into the market via low interest rates. There are many folks out there using e.g. TSLA as an inflation hedge (which is why it has a P/E > 1000) because they know that USDs will decline in value as liquidity keeps getting pumped.

If we're all using a decentralized currency like Bitcoin with a fixed inflation rate, you're going to see a lot more sanity and price stability in the equities markets.

But do you think we ever could have gotten to electric cars if we hadn't used gas-powered cars as a stepping stone? I'd probably agree with you if you were to say that it's taken too long, but I'd argue that the crappy fuel-burning stuff is a necessary milestone on the transition to something better.

I see Bitcoin as the Model T of new currency models. Decentralization is the future of currency and contracts, even if Bitcoin itself is wasteful and inefficient as a v1 product.

Thanks so much for the response! Unfortunately, I'm probably less concerned about the prettiness about more about the ease of install and (maybe) mouse support to fallback to when I'm feeling lazy.

I'm looking to avoid learning Vim plugins (again...again), setting up an environment, and learning keybindings for sidebars, filenav, etc...

It might be blasphemous, but I'd actually love a pretty, distraction-free Markdown editor like this that supports Vim keybindings, but isn't Vim.

Am I just being lazy in learning the Vim plugin system? Are there pretty Vim frontends now that render all nicely like Ghostwriter et al?

And yet, how is quality of life in Japan?

I think this thread did a great job of explaining how volatility can affect collateral requirements: https://twitter.com/KralcTrebor/status/1354952686165225478