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From the site:

“Essential Businesses” may stay open and their employees may leave home to go to work. Examples of Essential Businesses include:

Healthcare organizations, such as hospitals, medical and mental health clinics, doctor offices, pharmacies, health care supply stores, and other health care facilities.
Grocery stores, certified farmers’ markets, farm and produce stands, supermarkets, food banks, convenience stores, and other store groceries.
Food cultivation
Gas stations and auto-supply, auto-repair, and related facilities.
Banks and related financial institutions.
Garbage and sanitation services and collection.
Hardware stores, and plumbers, electricians, exterminators, and other service providers who provide services that are necessary to maintaining the safety and sanitation.
Schools, for distance learning and providing meals.
Laundromats and laundry service providers.
Restaurants and other prepared food facilities, but only for delivery or carry out.
Businesses that supply products needed for people to work from home;
Businesses that supply other essential businesses with the support or supplies necessary to operate;
Businesses that ship or deliver groceries, food, goods or services directly to residences;
Airlines, taxis, and other private transportation providers providing transportation services necessary for Essential Activities and other purposes expressly authorized in this Order;
Home-based care for seniors, adults, or children;
Residential facilities and shelters for seniors, adults, and children;
Professional services, such as legal or accounting services, when necessary to assist in compliance with legally mandated activities;
Childcare facilities providing services that enable employees exempted in this Order to work as permitted, subject to certain conditions discussed below.
Well, as someone who has traded alot, i did always wonder when the 2013 gap would be filled.. but at ~ 150 spy that is still far away.
In English, Spanish and... Filipino? Is that a major language in SF for some reason?
By definition, any successful preventive action would always look like an overreaction.
Does the re-infection result from there being at least 2 distinct strains of COVID-19?
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Well, BERK-A is the canonical class. But Berkshire Hathaway is practically an index of its own, being a big, giant holding company. I don't think it belongs in any index.
You're young, and it's an asset already. Figuratively speaking, your Monopoly chance card stack is still big, it may have a plenty of good things to come for you, especially with those hard ones already out. Good luck.
When would these kind of measures ever not seem "all to convenient"? When absolutely nothing else is happening in the federal legislature or executive branch?
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> They're perfectly cromulent words, with shades of meaning different from their "synonyms", and can be used to enhance writing rather than obscure it.

I had to look up "cromulent." Your use was in jest, right?
> The math tells us that ~95% people will get through this with a week or two of downtime, rendering them immunized against this virus, and then they'll be right back to work.

I don't think this is right. 80% of people should get through this fine if they contract it, given numbers I read recently. The other 20% will have some level of big problems, and if too many of these happen in a given area, hospitals will be overwhelmed and more would die than otherwise.

Furthermore, from what I have read, there is no known long-term immunity to CoV, but maybe a 4-month window of some level of immunity.
Already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22597200
I doubt they are actually going to lock anyone up for violating this order. If they did, probably that person would have standing for a lawsuit. Everyone else is going to go along because it makes good sense to do this.
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I make a point of riding transit daily in my city (Toronto) because I think it's better for the community, planet, and myself.

Since last week I have been driving 100% & not using transit. Now is not the time for reusable mugs & public transit. Right now we optimize for distancing & isolation, not resource conservation.
It's defined in the order:

https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/files/HealthOrderC19-07-%20...

The definition is pretty complicated but thorough. Healthcare counts, and there are other categories of "Essential Businesses" (grocery stores, gas stations, banks, hardware stores, plumbers, delivery services, etc. etc.), and you're also explicitly allowed to go to work if it's needed to keep the company alive (inventory, security, pyaroll) or needed to keep the rest of your company able to WFH.
Which is why we have a, you know, society, to make sure we soften the blow when someone draws a short straw. But the answer will be what it always is - corporate tax cuts and trickle down voodoo.
I spent around 90€ on the audio interface (however, i think you can get a better one for less money now), 35€ on the mic stand, 15€ on the cable. I'm pretty sure you can get far with free software, and it wouldn't require a new machine - you just need the basics. I'm not sure how much the rest of the equipment cost because most I didn't buy myself.
What about shipping? Will this affect supply lines? I understand local things will be open but will the supply be able to get to em?
That is related to people coming off cruise ships being quarantined, where they are actually confined. This order is different, because you are still allowed to leave your house for essentials, exercise, etc. Not saying whether it's legal/illegal/good/bad/whatever. Just noting that it's a different scenario.
ASAP? Nothing, really. The American government operates at a glacial speed for various reasons and local governments are strapped for resources.

What we needed to do was improve our safety nets approximately 10-15 years ago. Now we're seeing the end result when an actual crisis hits. The best we'll be able to get is some bandaids that'll mostly just be a way of appeasing businesses rather than helping individuals.
Microsoft wants to make a profit, not to excite many devs. How would they profit from cross-platform GUI toolkit?
H1N1 was contagious 1 day before symptoms appeared. COVID-19 is contagious mean 5-6 days before symptoms appear. And it's not about the CFR, it's about healthcare system capacity.
The person described in that Vox article - upper respiratory symptoms, no direct contact with someone with confirmed Covid-19 - wouldn't meet the criteria for testing anywhere that I know of off-hand. Certainly not in the UK or Australia, probably not in South Korea (though they allow people who don't qualify to buy testing out of pocket), not in a whole bunch of EU states, and Italy has much bigger things to worry about. Maybe in the more urban parts of China?
The company did not deny it. To the contrary, the owner of CureVac, Dietmar Hopp, publicly confirmed the request.
This is untrue. They have an idea and all of those cases (grocery worker, HVAC repairmen, FedEx, and airports as necessary to support essential work) are accounted for in the actual order.
it's all in the same pick and place system in their warehouses, so i strongly suspect that everything will be impacted in some way.
That's jumping to conclusions very quickly. I could easily say the same thing about a monolithic spaghetti codebase where a change in one place led to unintended consequences somewhere else.
Sorry but that's completely wrong; the marketing moving is a reality. The issue is prediction - will the market move and in which way??
That's probably not true (yet). From what i have read, there are reports of community spread in bc, alberta, and ontario. That's a lot of Canada but certainly not all of it. If a significant portion of cases are still travel related, closing the border makes sense imo.
No. That's one of the key ways to differentiate between employees and contractors. Keep this in mind the next time you or anyone else cries bloody murder that the state was overreaching in requiring "gig economy" workers to be classified as employees.
This seems iffy; I don't think the reports from last week that people in China and Japan who were sent home and then tested positive again have been really confirmed. Do we have new info on that? We should be seeing more instances in Europe if it's a real phenomenon.

Even if it turns out that immunity doesn't happen, I don't think it changes the reaction that we need at this moment. It will change our decisions going forward, of course.
You are all Microsoft developers now :)
Here's what isaacs writes in the NPM blog post (https://blog.npmjs.org/post/612764866888007680/next-phase-mo...). It doesn't seem like anyone on the NPM team did great financially from this:

"I have a set of goals that I wrote down back then, and have shared openly with the team.

...

3. Get a big enough exit that I can quit my job and see what comes out of me a second time.
4. Share the rewards equitably with the people who got npm to where it is.

...

On (3), well, I’m still working a jobby job, but I always knew that was a long shot, and “make npm a better package manager” is a job I enjoy. And as for (4), I’m proud of the deals that we’ve been able to negotiate for the team.

It’s not a kajillion billion dollar 10x startup cinderella story, and we’ve taken our hits, but in the end we’ve done right by our community, team, and careers, and I’m extremely proud of what we’ve achieved."
This makes up for a large number of recently laid off service workers
> when a bank collapses, some money disappears (because of fractional reserve banking)

The money doesn't disappear when the bank collapses. It disappears if the loans that defaulted and caused the bank to collapse are written off instead of being assumed by some other party. If the borrower's inability to pay is only temporary, the loan probably won't be written off; it will just be restructured, and the money won't disappear.
Just to clarify - all of these travel restrictions apply to non-logistical/essential persons only and Canada still is emphasizing that goods movement won't be restricted - it's important too since Canada is a net importer of food.
Work remotely. Everyone needs leads.
Find remote online events for those that have to stay home
Exactly what I'm getting at. We can't judge our reactions to the current circumstances because that's not what we're reacting to.
> Also, the Italian government plans to hire a ton of medical and paramedical staff, money has been earmarked.

Where will this staff be coming from ? Are there medical professionals currently unemployed in Italy or working in other jobs ?
It works on iPads, but it's a pretty terrible experience. Many of the UI elements are much smaller than the iOS guidelines indicate, and in general nothing is using platform-optimal UI controls.
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Although enforcement is unclear, it appears you're not allowed to leave home in SF to visit your girlfriend even if you have a car.
So I know it's almost impossible to predict the stock market, but... a lot of this crash seems to be based on panic and human psychology concerning the virus (I know there is some effect due to the oil price war though).

My question is: if we assume 20-40% of people in the U.S. are drastically underestimating how bad the virus is going to be, then they are more likely to hold their stock until there is finally "proof" that the virus is as bad as everyone with some amount of scientific understanding knows it is going to be, at which point we would expect some portion of these people to panic sell. Wouldn't that indicate that in an event like this, we're not betting on essentially random fluctuations of an emergent economic system, but rather on many people not understanding the trajectory of the virus?

In other words, it's almost like a prediction market at this point — you're betting against other people about how damaging the virus is going to end up being. Am I off base here?
So don't educate people, just trust the Pharisees. Got it.
Sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease. What if there can be long term side effects? Now you have at least two problems...
~320,000 citizens of Filipino decent in the Bay according to the 2000 census, so yes it's a big population, though I know that number doesn't reflect Filipino as a person's primary language, but still it's a good indicator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Filipino_Ameri...
It's not a contradiction if it was meant to point how how ridiculous the market is behaving for something so relatively tame compared to the over-leverage that led to the great depression.
> It is likely a violation of Constitutional rights for the government to declare that you may not visit other people in person

Which particular constitutional right do you think this violates, precisely?
No need to couch it in such qualifications, although your information is a bit old. The Chinese delivery companies (Meituan, eleme) indeed went on a temp hiring spree for idle restaurant workers during the shutdown. That was a month ago; things are thawing out now.
Even if it is ruled unconstitutional, it could take a very long time to happen, and in the meantime, the effect could be beneficial to society.

Look at how long it took the Japanese internment from WWII to be ruled upon - and that was by modern standards not remotely beneficial to society.
Yes there is a large (aging) pinoy population in San Francisco and Daly City. Do you think they just pick languages for fun?
The whole article is worth reading, but my favorite part is the fact that the "mishap" mentioned in the title was inadvertently overloading a magnetic antenna, causing it to break and by coincidence become an electric antenna.
I think I see what you're trying to get at. It feels almost tautological, but I think it makes sense.
Yes, but you don't have to go outside to exercise.

Plenty of exercise can be done indoors, and without any equipment either.

You could do bodyweight exercise like push-ups, L-sits, burpees, and many others without any equipment.

For a small investment you could get a couple of barbells or a pull-up bar to extend even further the number of exercises you can do indoors and in a very small space.
The only way to combat this is to get checks into the hands of individuals.

The government will most likely be providing a subsidy to the airline industry, they are already requesting $50B.

Will the government step in to get 2 months pay to every individual, that is the big question.

Given that the democratic debate yesterday was primarily focused on paying for the tests and care of coronavirus rather than the larger societal economic impact it will have, it's seems like a stretch.

However, the one thing that Trump has proven is that he has definitely not done things like the establishment and given the poor handling of the crisis as well as it being an election year, a President sponsored bill to provide 2 months salary to every tax payer who is affected by this and under a certain level of income would certainly be one way to reclaim victory over this debacle.
Chill out. Closing the border means not allowing passenger transport, not turning back freight/cargo. Even Europe keeps the trucks going through their closed borders.
That's why this entire thing is a joke.

Supply chains needs every occupation short of (although maybe even including) telemarketers. The constant escalation without any escalation of cases should terrify everyone. We're now so far "all in" on "prevention" that we're likely to see life remain fucked for months.
Because that's all you had. If you had both modern well-designed iPad educational programming apps, and a DOS prompt, you would choose the iPad apps!
Well if its doubling every 3 days, its only the difference of 10 days...
I wasn’t aware that I was a commercial entity because I use github!
We know that sufficiently strong social distancing - and universal mask use - can reduce Re below 1, causing the epidemic to shrink exponentially instead of growing exponentially. Once it is small enough, good testing and contact tracing should be able to contribute a significant reduction to Re, so that you can back off on more costly measures.

As hard as it sounds for the economy to adapt to extreme social distancing for a short time and moderate for a long time, it seems like a better bet to me than trying to increase intensive care capacity - which already consumes a nontrivial fraction of gdp - by orders of magnitude and write off millions of lives.
> Most of Europe has suspended all domestic flights

As far as I can tell, this is untrue. Many countries have placed restrictions on international travel, but few have closed airports completely.

Details available here: https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restricti...
Awesome. How could the driver deploy such a mirror though?
Likely retirees and early graduation from students.
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How do you know it is unironic?
It's 64 grains
Are they using microservices though? I think it's Elixir+Rust nifs and go/c++ for media.

And we have zero informations on what the problem is.
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What does this actually mean?
I watched an interview with one of the Italian Drs. He said they were using retired medical staff and also cancelling routine procedures which frees up staff, and they are remote training staff from other specialities.
This is a great example of where to use the passive voice. Austen reverses the sentence structure to pack the punch at the end.

In general, 2 good principles are:

1. Put the punch at the end of a sentence.

2. Put familiar information at the beginning of a sentence and new information toward the end.

The passive voice can help you with both of these design goals.

Orwell talked about where the passive voice is most dangerous/bad. It mainly comes down to thoughtlessness or insincerity. The passive voice removes or hides the actor, so it's useful for people trying to cloak their beliefs or hide assumptions.

"Politics and the English Language" is a great read, as is the book "Style."
Right, so your argument is what? That no valuable idea is ever written down? Or that no written down idea is valuable? Why would either of these be true?
The UK is planning to re-train other medical staff to deal with respiratory illness. I think that probably includes things like psychologists, etc. who have medical experience and can quickly be brought up to speed. Might be something like that.
We will see the difference though. The people in places that overreacted can compare themselves with people in places that underreact.
So the USG claims. But they claim many things; without a trial and a proper defence who knows the truth? A lot of the claims in that case were dubious, like the idea that every transaction connected to Mexico should have been treated as inherently suspicious. Why? Well, because the Treasury decided that would have been convenient for their case. What about the huge numbers of non-suspicious Mexican transactions? Irrelevant - HSBC should have institutionally "just known".
That's awesome! Good to see a spark of positivity right now.
Which, due to the closeness of the US/Canada relationship, makes it pretty pointless. Unless they do something involving disinfecting truck cabins then switching from US to Canadian drivers, at the border.

Every trucker who goes to Canada pops into a Tim Hortons before heading back to the US, no exceptions.
I think that's a fair question. We have actually done this before when World War 1 started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Stock_Exchange#20th_c...

I think doing so now would be a massive disaster as it would cause extreme panic.
Resume assistance in this situation; that's just insulting.
H1N1: 0.4% CFR in the US

COVID-19: 0.6% CFR in South Korea (likely similar in other locations when we stop undercounting infections)

These aren't so dramatically different, are they?

But they are: H1N1 had a median death in the US of 37 years old, rather than 80+.

https://www.who.int/immunization/sage/1.Briand_epi_7th_July_...
I am not sure I agree with the thrust of this article. The gist seems to be: if we do a sufficiently good job with containment measures (e.g. social distancing), we might succeed in limiting short-term infections, but we will have to remain in this mode for years (with ruinous effects on the economy). The offered alternative is to acknowledge that a significant fraction of the population will be infected eventually, and so we should scale up hospital capacity to accommodate that.

This doesn't seem like a very good alternative. Even with adequate hospital care, the true fatality rate seems to be in the neighborhood of 0.5% to 1%, which would be quite harsh if allowed to spread throughout the population.

I am hoping that improvements in treatment can make the difference. A vaccine may not be available for quite some time, but drugs that reduce the fatality rate might be ready sooner.

Of course the actual course of action must include some mix of all-of-the-above: containment, new hospitals, new treatments.

EDIT: as voidmain notes, we might also hope to quickly reduce the number of infections to the point where we can contain them with testing and contact tracing, rather than blanket shutdowns.
If you have to go outside please keep your distance and wear a shirt like this one (https://socialdistanceshirt.com/products/social-distance-shi...) or a sign or something, there's zero need to spread this thing (accidentally or not) any more than absolutely necessary.
Covid-19 Remote Work and Study Resources (Open Source)
Unfortunately they're not exempt from the disease. :/
You balance the risk of the vaccine against the certainty of people dying without it.
Pubs in Ireland used to be closed on St. Patrick’s Day
Due to the COVID-19 situation many teachers, students and workers are facing a sudden need to work completely from home. This might prove to be a huge challenge for teachers who're not very technically adept and small businesses who don't have the budget to invest in collaboration tools or don't know enough about what's available and/or needed.

Many companies building these collaboration tools, distance learning services etc. are stepping up and offering their premium services for free to those affected by the situation. I wanted to do my part in helping aggregate this information into one repository.

If you know of more already free or exceptionally free services that would suit the list or great articles that would help people in the transition to fully remote work/studies/teaching, feel free to contribute!

I chose to publish this in the public domain with the CC0 1.0 Universal license so you can do pretty much anything you wish with the list that's already there!

Thank you for reading and I hope that you're safe, wherever you are.
The 40%/$400 item comes from a fed survey about liquidity. It includes 17% of households with $100,000 in income. It is an outlier, other surveys put it the percentage at 20%.
I've upvoted because the article encourages proactive thinking so that we don't just sit in our homes congratulating ourselves how well we socially distanced from each other. What is sadly missing is some back-of-the-napkin math estimating the required capacity increase. Like, is it closer to x2 or x100? is it feasible at all? What is the damage to economy from doing this compared to lock-down for N months?