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Saving doesn't grow the economy, pretty much by definition as was already pointed out.

(Real) investment, in the sense of building up new productive capacity, is an important part of growing the economy. However, investment at least by the private sector cannot thrive in a vacuum. It needs a context of either existing or plausible demand. If the demand is missing, you'd be a fool to spend money on increasing productive capacity, i.e. you'd be a fool to invest.

Note the important emphasis on what kind of investment we're talking about. Unfortunately, the act of buying existing productive capacity (e.g. by buying stocks) is also called investing, and you have to be careful not to confuse the different meanings of the word.
They are independent, but not imune to pressure from a powerful person who doesn't recognize any boundaries to achieve his personal goals.
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It seems like one should be able to construct at least a first order reverse estimate based upon in-care serious cases and deaths that have turned out w/o testing combined other nation's data for the disease parameters.
It would be great if you could share your reasoning and information as to why you think this is just a bad flu. I have been seeing information from China that says the death rate is 20-30 times higher than the flu and that the hospitalization rate could be up to 20%. Other than China, most countries haven't been infected long enough to do studies on the final fatality or hospitalization rate.
The administration doesn't direct interest rate policy, the FED does, within the context of the FED's mandate a rate drop isn't unexpected during an event like this.
This does sound dysfunctional in a way that decision making is obviously happening more compartmentalized and individual ownership is severely limited.

There is a reason why many super successful companies have values/culture: shift ownership and decision making as much to the people at the forefront as possible to avoid “managing them from the top”.

Empowering engineers and scientists to develop a sense and say in product priorities is great, extremely difficult but speaks for a company that values contributions beyond a “specialization/niche”
At a corporate level I cannot think of a single co-op that is owned by its employees at this scale.
I think this is different than irrational exuberance. Maybe one could look to the 1970's oil embargo for clues on how this will play out. I really do not know. But I do know 2008 is not a good comparison because the circumstances are just so different.
It's almost like he lead GE towards the trend we see starting in 1997, and that the effects of his leadership are seen 19 years after stepping down.

I never understand people who think that the economy works in realtime. This article makes it clear that while he was CEO, he received nothing but praise for his successes. It is only today that we can look back and see the damage he actually did.

This is simpleton thinking in the same category as the belief that the current state of the stock market is a reflection of how well our currently elected politicians are doing in office...
I fail to see what my beliefs have to do with the topic. No legal obligation exists, my opinion is irrelevant.
Yeah that's exactly what I have in my mind.
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I agree with everything you wrote, and hence why I think plastic bags and straws and recycling in general is a waste of time and energy (ironically).

Reducing consumption by increased taxes (worldwide), and/or by reduced population, and finding an alternate source of fuel are the only solutions. But I doubt an alternative to fossil fuels with equivalent properties can be discovered in sufficient time.
Apple does like 80% of the open source development of LLVM; I don't really see a valid angle to criticize their participation in LLVM at this time.
And these people will lose big-time if it gets canceled. What's your point?
Reminds me of the old phrase John Wanamaker coined in the late 1800s:

"Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half."
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If making it happen is the standard, then nobody has made universal healthcare happen in the US. Does that mean we can't look for better policies than we have now because they've never happened?
Thanks! I actually hadn't heard of Orchestra before but will definitely check it out. Have you used it in production before? How was your experience?
I definitely did not mean to imply it was easy to do.

It requires good-faith actors and a long-term, holistic view. Humans are not very good at these things.
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I've been wrestling with a similar set of tasks, and have arrived at a similar set of tools and options.

How you process PDF depends greatly on the scale at which you're working with documents. For large-volume, high-speed processing, automation is necessary. Where you're translating a more stable corpus, human input may be tractable. The ability to look at source PDF, OCR, and an edited text version to correct for errors seems a part of that workflow.

Often it's possible to get close or approximate transcription using standard tools. I've found the Poppler library's "pdftotext" remarkably good with many PDFs, so long as there's some text within them: https://poppler.freedesktop.org

There's a general concept I've been working toward of a minimum sufficient document complexity, which follows a rough (though not strict) hierarchy. It's remarkable how much online content is little more than paragraph-separated text, with no further structure. Even images are not strictly informational, but rather window-dressing.

Typically, additional elements added are hyperlinks, images, text emphasis (italic and bold, often only the first), sections, lists, blockquotes, super- and sub-script, in roughly that order.

(A study looking at the prevalence of specific semantic HTML elements within a corpus would be ... interesting.)

Then there are the elements NOT natively supported in HTML: equations, endnotes/footnotes, tables of contents, etc.

It seems to me there should be an analogue to Komolgrov complexity as concerns layout of textual documents. That is: there is a minimum necessary and sufficient level of markup (perhaps: number, type, and relationship of elements) necessary to lay out a specific work.

I've tagged out novel-length books in Markdown with little more than the occasional italic and chapter marks.

Documents which use more markup than is required are overspecified. This is the underlying problem with a great deal of layout, and the ability to reduce texts to their minimum complexity would be useful. It's a nontrivial problem, though large swathes of it should be reasonably achievable.

Another approach would be for information-exchange formats to actually be, you know, information exchange formats rather than PDF.

(Though the latter is often, though not always, well-suited to reading.)
Nobody is being forced to go to SXSW, get sick, and die. This is simply about who foots the bill.
Very few mortals will ever see anything of use from it.

Most of that advancement will go to XXL sized chips for companies with too much money.

Its a big irony that reticle sizes became a competition point after so many years of them getting smaller.

Those interposers are dud pieces of silicon with just metal on them, and they can be easily done by decades old equipment with 200-300nm process. The problem is that even 2 decades old equipment don't use 1:1 masks anymore, so they are also limited by reticle sizes.

For all practical use cases, Intel's EMIB, and better organic interposers still have much more appeal
> It is one thing to have it in the news - or not

If by "news" you mean gate-keeping establishments owned by very large conglomerates. There's very little local independent news for the average person. There is only politicized news.

It's up to every individual to be their own arbiter of truth and morality. It's my opinion that both major parties in the US lie and deceive, so the things you're referring to have no special merit with me. Remember when Donna Brazile leaked the debate questions to Hillary? Hillary got up on that stage and lied to your faces. Manipulating voters is manipulating voters, the method is immaterial.

The only solution is to let the system buckle under it's own weight. You, as an individual, have to admit to yourself and others that the system is rigged and full of liars, criminals, and cronies regardless of side.
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Housing costs are reflected in CPI, as imputed rent. I couldn't find the exact weights with a quick search, but IIRC housing costs are around a quarter of the basket. Asparagus is less than that.
So Trump it is, seems simple enough.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg can't hang on for 5 more years, so the Supreme Court will be stacked. The failure of the Democratic Party leadership will reverberate for 20 or 30 years at least.

The leadership of the Democratic party is mostly white and all part of the 1% so they'll actually benefit from their own failure, so sad.
Well, Boomers remember the 70s, and gold has done extremely well vs USD since then.
I'm aware that GE Capital extended credit to suppliers (good, sometimes). However, my understanding is that it also enabled greater use of financing through off-balance-sheet derivatives for the core entity (bad). GE tried to create value through GE Capital, and it nearly destroyed the company. It's actually a good illustration of the agency costs of debt mentioned by M&M.
Italy has 2000+ cases and the US only has 100+.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/coronavirus-m...

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...

I understand this might be because of lack of testing in North America (Canada too) but it still makes a big difference with per capita rates like that in Northern Italy scaring people.
When people complain about socialization of losses, they're talking about socialization across parties that did not consent to bearing those losses, which doesn't cover the privately-run case, so I don't know why you think that comment is applicable.
Actually, you can buy carbon credits for less than that if you make bulk purchases. It's usually for preventing emissions from occurring rather than capturing carbon from the atmosphere.

But we couldn't keep this price so low if we scaled this to world emissions - the price of carbon offsetting is low now because we're still picking the low-hanging fruits of carbon offsetting.
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social distancing is the cancelation of conferences (google canceled theirs), not having sporting events (italy), not sending kids to school, etc, etc.
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While it has flaws, the Mondragon Corporation is the largest successful co-op that I know of.

It's not strictly tech, though.
This is an often-discussed topic on HN, though I think it's been a while since it was a hot topic.

> Both share similar ambitions: lots of customers, who all go home happily

Previous discussions pointed out that the goal of tipped staff is to increase personal income, which is not necessarily aligned with that of the restaurant.

As one example, if there are ways to imply that the wait staff is under high pressure, that might get higher sympathy tips, and lead to customers not returning.

> If customers have the chance to tip, we can assume that they will reward good service more handsomely than mediocre service.

No, we can't. Many people follow the rule of tip x%, (almost) no matter what. That's how I was taught, and as I recall that's what most people do.

Except assholes who like the power game.

> But experienced waiting staff will be skilful at spotting who is likely to appreciate superior service (and indeed what superior service means for individual patrons).

Part of this includes racial discrimination. Quoting https://rnbphilly.com/2440365/why-black-people-dont-tip/ "If you're an African-American and you've gone out to eat at a restaurant, odds are you've had to experience the hesitant and uncomfortable service from a presumptuous waiter. This is probably from the unspoken notion that black people don't tip or if they do, the amount is to disrespectful to even be considered."

For that reason alone, I say - get rid of tipping.

> In comparison with a fixed price arrangement, such price discrimination provides an advantage for all parties.

Then why don't doctors or lawyers take tips?

> Tipping is a pattern of behaviour that is consistent with care and attention for other parties in a transaction, way beyond narrow selfishness.

BS. It's a tricky cultural minefield. How do you know who to tip? It wasn't until I was in my late 20s that I learned that some people tip hotel housekeepers.

Try tipping your MD and see what happens.
I hate to say it, but I believe your confidence is severely misplaced. The indoctrinated airheads running the Fed are hardly the "best minds in monetary policy." This is the same central bank that stuck its head in the sand despite clear warnings approaching the 2008 financial crisis, then proceeded to overreact to appear as if they were doing something(1).

When is the last time the Fed's spastic behavior had a sure and long-term positive impact on the economy from the average person's perspective? I specify this perspective because the macro measures used by central banks are not always accurate indicators of the general welfare. Central banks are good for primarily one purpose, and that is ensuring the economic dominance of the groups controlling them. This has been their purpose throughout history(2), and I don't see that changing now. This most recent move is at best a platitude.

All that said, I agree with your sentiment that blanket statements, especially in the highly dynamic field of economics, tend not to be accurate or helpful.

(1) Danielle DiMartino Booth, Fed Up

(2) Look into the history of the Banque Royale of France 1716-1720 and the history of the Bank of England up into the 18th century. The long and short of it is these banks were used as mechanisms by the elite to retain control over currency systems which would otherwise have given too much power to the public for their liking.
I'm so glad that my meager words were of help to you.

I agree, this is an issue that we don't talk about nearly enough. I think this is a very common problem, and hearing other people's experiences handling it, both the good and the bad, can help everybody.
How can you be "almost certain" of the future based on numbers from 1 article you didn't even read?
I don't feel that kind of friction with man, but ok. That environment you describe is also common. Though I don't use it, in zsh, if I hit tab, I get that menu with inline documentation you describe. What are you arguing for anyway?
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No. AC Kinetics appears to offer significantly improved efficiencies over VFDs: http://ackinetics.com/wp-content/uploads/AC-Kinetics-60Hp-Tr...
Please explain the reason why you think they have it backwards. Does the "first world" survive on not-crops?
Incorrect. They have done it: http://ackinetics.com/wp-content/uploads/AC-Kinetics-60Hp-Tr...
Nothing changes here- this is solely about removing GCC 4.2 from the base/ repository; ports are almost entirely unaffected, and the GCC ecosystem in ports is fairly healthy.
That's fair. I think that, like many things, it's very important to a specific group of people, and irrelevant to many others. For a long time, SXSW was the cool place to launch your startup, and many people who still run in those circles remember launching their startups there, and have fond memories, etc.
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Wow that is an excellent site. Each page is a whole history.
LLVM recently re-licensed to the Apache License (v2) which explicitly provides relevant patent grants on contributed works to consumers of the software.
If given the choice between modern disease control and a wall I would choose modern disease control.

Your example of the flu is interesting. If humanity had modern resources to fight the ur-flu would it be worth the effort? How many lives would be saved over the generations if the flu hadn't become a common threat?
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GE has been selling off assets as part of a turnaround strategy in the past ~2yrs or so

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> Nobody asked for applications to support "more combinations of OS, input methods and data storage and accessibility and whatever else

Really?! Just look at all the effort that people have spent their personal time contributing to projects like WINE for Linux for example. MANY many people want cross-compatability. I for one have certainly done a lot of waiting for things to become available for Linux, and very much appreciate all of the cross platform frameworks that exist and have existed in the past (WINE, Adobe Air, Electron, Cordova etc.) to enable cross platform software. I think they have been GREAT for the whole ecosystem, both for consumers and developers.

Making computers more accessible for visually or motor impaired has also been one of the great victories of modern software... and certainly not because developers have shoved it down peoples' throats. In fact they have had to REGULATE it in order to drag developers kicking and screaming into building accessible software.

As for input methods, that is just a natural evolution required from the proliferation of devices (desktops, smartphones, etc).

So sorry to say I don't think your statement is rooted in any kind of reality beyond what exists in your head.
Please post the original source. This is in the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

It's fine to add links to workaround URLs in the thread.
The virus is certainly quite concerning, but those numbers are misleading. Italy almost certainly has far more than 2263 infected cases of covid-19. 2263 is just the number of individuals that sought medical attention, were given the test, and tested positive.

The big unknown is how many of those that are infected do not even seek medical attention (or were not administered the test). For instance, children appear to show either mild or no symptoms when infected.

Additionaly, speaking for myself, if I came down with something, with mild flu like symptoms, I wouldn't really be going to the hospital. I'd just take some over the counter medicine and power through. I would only seek medical attention if symptoms became severe. It stands to reason that this is how most people would be expected to behave. Therefore, people with severe symptoms would be much more likely to get medical attention, and therefore be tested, and to be hospitalized, or require emergency treatments.. making the stats look a lot worse than they are.