I predict the sun will rise tomorrow... should I buy a lottery ticket? ;-D

I'm home, and so is my baby son... my wife is a healthcare worker so she's either at the hospital all day or when able to be home she's having to make patient calls and do televisits.

So I am working over more hours of the day, but overall I am working fewer hours because much of my day is spent taking care of him.

My first emails and checkins start at 6AM when I wake up and have an hour or two, and the last are at 10-11PM after I've been able to spend a few hours working without distraction... I'm bookending the heavy lift work and during the day still responding to email, slack, and meetings, so from the outside it might look like I'm doing 16+ hours but in reality it's more like 6.

I previously had gotten much better about separating work and personal time, so I wasn't working at nights or in mornings, but that's all out the window since early March.

I can't wait to feel comfortable sending my son back to daycare. At this point my state has closed all childcare until June 29th, but plans to open other non essential business before that - which means I'm due an awkward month+ where my company could expect me in, but I won't be able to. Essential worker daycare around here seems to be limited and families asked to only use it if they have no other option.

Use and consumption taxes are a larger burden on the poor and easily bypassed by the wealthy.

I think if UBI is balanced against existing aid, and funded by payroll tax and taxes on large corporations it can work, but keep the (directly) costs off the consumers.

I'm still waiting for NASA to want to study fat people in space. Until then I'll keep "training".

Their options are are to do nothing when the rules aren't followed, and be seen as impotent blow Garda...

Or, they can ban services and organizations that refuse to follow their draconian rules that require the creation of an India based executive roles and offices, but will only serve xenophobic interests and further hinder India's standing on the global stage.

As they say, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar...

India should be working to make their country somewhere that these organizations _want_ to set up shop. Better infrastructure, codifying fairness for all (and creating globally acceptable laws), crack down on folks behaving by an old set of cultural standards and laws, create paths where all of the population can do more than exist but can actually build and grow. Given their environmental issues, and relatively low of labor, they could be at the forefront of renewable manufacturing and technology.

It stops the local city police -- the most active law enforcement agency operating in the area -- from using face recognition...

Since state, federal, and private agencies are likely to seek help from the locals, I'd say this meaningfully reduces the likelihood of the average person from being face matched while in the town.

Internet connected cameras in your home are obviously creepy, anyone who doesn't recognize streaming their living room or children's room's to public faced servers as creepy is dangerously high ignorant.

Always on listening home assistants many people think they're creepy, but most are willing to ignore that because they have mute buttons (if you trust a soft button) and most importantly you can unplug their power.

Nightmare creepy, IMO, are these listening devices being embedded into thermostats (Google in Nest and Amazon in ecobee), smoke alarms, hardwired wall switches, and other devices which can't be easily powered off? and if you were to do so you'd lose critical functionality like maintaining above freezing temperatures or fire detection.

That to me is "the line" -- if the listening/watching ability is being built into something that gets placed out of reach and into something that is effectively impossible to cut power to without material repercussion.

Every ONVIF compatible camera could work for you is you're willing to block it's internet access.

We've got over 25,000 panels installed in our equipment, and as far I'm aware we've had 0 fire incidents related to panels.

I have an extremely hard time believing that a panel Itself spontaneously caught fire, especially considering there is nothing flammable as part of the typical panel assembly except for maybe a bit of labeling or wire insulation?

I remember when everyone said Netflix would die when it's mail order disc business faced competition from Blockbuster and Walmart...

I remember when no one thought Netflix's streaming service was worth it because it didn't have tons of content...

They have had the barrel of competition pointed square at them before and still come out on top.

I think Disney's stranglehold on licensing is their greatest challenge.

The market for content is getting tougher for Netflix, remains to be seen if they have a few aces ready to go.

I certainly wouldn't count them out anytime soon.

These companies will be beta testing their offering on customers, there be a huge number of initial issues... it makes sense to offer it at no/low cost to start to avoid value issues.

From TFA (summary):

"Tsunami Democratic moved the .apk file to Github. But the government shut that down, too, blocking the site in Spain"

Sounds like the government blocked Github?

This is the peaceful concept that the mil sells in order to build a space laser weapon, the twist here vs the movie being that instead of a mobile laser source they've decided to just reflect it from space using an extensive network of thousands of LEO "broadband" satellites... they just need Kent working on a low weight and low cost targeting mirror to install in the birds.

"We were trying to send power to a remote area of (some part of the Middle East) but due to uhhh... interference... maybe it was hackers or Russia or something... the target was off and a few of the lead vehicles in a nearby military parade in South America were accidentally vaporized... thoughts and prayers"

Any manager or recruiter who doesn't understand there is a difference between JavaScript and Java needs to be out of the position that has them making choices for roles that use it... no excuse for that by now.

There will be JavaScript jobs, probably not high paying like COBOL, but they will be there.

We're better poised now than ever before to rapidly transition from the /user/ point of view -- browsers auto update, and very few use systems that won't support new technologies as they appear, it's not like the bad old days of having to worry about supporting older versions of IE, Netscape, whatever... ...but from the developer side of things there are trillions of lines of JavaScript out there happily doing what needs doing for lots of entities. It's the same recipe we saw for COBOL. These folks don't necessarily have development resources to spend on rewriting something to be essentially the same as what they already have (in terms of functionality).

The variable in the mix is JavaScript support going forward... if a popular browser decides to drop, block, or otherwise obstruct, it then that could be the accelerant to get the next big thing to spread like wildfire.