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It's definitely not the first tax I'd choose to pay for all this. But it's the one the parent comment mentioned. I'd much rather see wealth taxes or raising income taxes, etc.
Serfdom was also not the state of nature. Over the long millennia of human existence, it has usually been difficult to leave all the bullshit behind, but it has nearly always been possible. One problem that stone age humanity did not have was moving their "stuff", because that hadn't been invented yet.
No @#$^. I have a traditional quartz wristwatch that I like but that I never use anymore because my $150 Garmin smartband is so much more capable, and I'm not gonna wear things on both wrists. The Garmin does an unbelievable number of things that the wristwatch doesn't do, including: (a) telling time more accurately and automatically adjusting for daylight saving time and travel timezone changes, (b) email/text/IM notifications, (c) GPS logging of biking/running, (d) step tracking, (e) heartrate monitoring. And this isn't even the pinnacle of what smartwatches can do; there's ones that play music directly to Bluetooth earbuds so you don't even need to bring along your phone.

I like the styling of a traditional wristwatch more, but I'm not gonna give up so much functionality to continue wearing it. It's just a no-brainer to get the more capable device.
This post

This post right here

This is peak HN

We're facing potentially the worst global pandemic in a century and you're talking about takeout and pet sitting

And this is the top post
That kind of tool will give you accuracy without precision. There are so many unknown assumptions involved that a model like that is going to give at most qualitatively correct results.

People who model the effects of climate change, like Nate Silver and the 538 crew, run thousands of simulations and present a summary. Even then you can get hung up on the "unknown unknowns".

For instance 1970s estimates of nuclear reactor accidents assumed the main risk was that the pressure vessel was going to burst. That's an easy risk to control, so you hardly ever hear of a pressure vessel bursting at a chemical plant, but all the time people blow up or suck in storage tanks that can't handle 1 psi of under or overpressure.

Now really a legacy nuclear power plant melts down 100% of the time if the power goes out and they can't start the emergency generators. That happens a lot more than bursting pressure vessels!
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The code is super clean, I'm pretty sure it was done manually.
> Microsoft is actually selling Hololens (a direct competitor to Magic Leap)

Like MS selling zune and music subscription decades before it became a norm ?
"Entrepreneurs starting their companies from 2009 to 2011 had nearly a 51 percent chance that their firms would still be in business five years later—almost 3 percent higher than the survival average for the previous decade and a half. The only other stretch during that period when survival rates hit 50 percent was in 2002 and 2003, right after the tech crash. So it would seem that right after a market downturn is a good time for entrepreneurs to start new ventures."
I think it's antithetical to individual liberty to destroy our shared life support system. It's about as antithetical to liberty as you can get.

What we're currently doing is externalization of costs on a gargantuan scale. We're dumping humongous amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and are ignoring the problems that causes for the whole ecosystem.

I fail to see how you can try to defend our current climate regime from a libertarian perspective. A libertarian should be outraged by this appropriation of the common good, an infraction on the freedom of us all.

And the damage done to our biological life support system is devastating!

We've wiped out 60% percents of mammals, birds, fish and reptiles since the 1970 (https://s3.amazonaws.com/wwfassets/downloads/lpr2018_summary...).

We've killed about 30% of the insect population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations

Phytoplankton has been reduced by 50% since the 1950s https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09268 . You know, that's the stuff that produces our oxygen (https://earthsky.org/earth/how-much-do-oceans-add-to-worlds-...). An increase in temperature of about 5°C and more will probably kill off most phytoplankton.

Damages like these are infractions on our freedom to live healthily, they even encroach on our most basic right; the right to reproduce, endowed to us by our nature as biological organisms.

I don't think inaction on the climate crisis is supported by a libertarian worldview.
Skagen is an overpriced faux-minimalist brand.
Scrum burndowns should not be related to time spent at all. That’s not an actual agile technique, that’s your company not trusting you and not understanding how software works. Story points that are meant to represent unknowns and complexity, not hours, used for estimation and burndowns are one solution to this
S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week
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Can't fathom a Google thing being great ?
Agreed, but then they should give the users a way of overriding that. Google in particular knows what users want because they force you to answer it when you create your account. I've set every single location setting to UK, and yet when I travel abroad they insist of ignoring it. No excuse there.
Which products, services, whatever have impressed you?
Ight imma head out, this is clearly not a good direction for the discussion.
The case #'s only go up if you test more people. In Ohio for instance they are only testing very few people and there is now evidence of community spread because the 4th person confirmed had no known contact but you basically need to be in intensive car to get tested or have an obvious connection. So the case # in and of themselves could vary based upon testing criteria. Not sure if they have the same standards in Denmark vs France.
We don’t know whether you get immunity after recovery because the antibodies can be too weak. There are also already multiple strains and immunity to one strain wouldn’t guarantee immunity to the other strain.

Source: https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-warn-coronavirus-mo...
How hard is it to guide test case generators with branch coverage feedback?
Those don't meet my definitions of basic. If shelters were sufficient we wouldn't have people sleeping rough. And basic medical care includes preventative care, medications, visits to specialists, urgent care, childbirth, etc.
Just a detail. Have you seen Microsoft Access query builder? Please do check it, especially how you create joins. As far as I have seen tools for building queries none came close. Maybe sqlyog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcjXQqKWWNw
I'm trying to refinance my mortgage. Is now a bad time to put 20% of my savings into the market?

I've been waiting for this moment since 2018
Functional core, imperative shell is how this is commonly described!

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18043058
That's not a mental health issue at all. If you ever visited a homeless shelter, you'd know they're only slightly better than prisons (sometimes even worse, as theft is common) and are definitely not good for transient homeless at all, while the ones with serious issues get kicked out.

Shelter is not enough of help and rather terrible at fixing reasons for homelessness. In fact some of the rules in these seem designed to prevent job and house searching.

If anything, the programs would have to be extended to allow most anyone to crash and not strip people of hope.
Marketing your product that helps people be more productive in an unfortunate situation is not unethical or taking advantage of anyone. Every business needs a catalyst for people to realize you are solving a genuine problem for them. Embrace your established position with a functional product and solution and become a market leader by solving the current problem of the day better than anyone else! Good luck!
They do end up complying. But it's not as fast and efficient as in China.

Not saying it's good or bad, but it's definitely a different system.
I have not experienced this as a big problem for teams. There are many ways to collaborate, iterate, capture, and communicate ideas other than whiteboards, and people naturally find and adapt such methods based on their remote culture.

In fact, whiteboards, imo, are not particular good for this as they require everyone to be present in one place at one time to participate, you can add links, you can't capture side comments, there is no edit history, etc...

We use Google Docs heavily to capture rough ideas, blast them out, get comments and input, and iterate. If we decided that we would benefit from the input of someone that we did not anticipate, it's trivial to send them a link and ask them to comment when they have a chance. Those docs often get thrown away after they served their purpose, in the same way that a whiteboard gets erased.
Do not "buy the dip". It will go down more, like in 2008.
I refreshed that page a few times to see if it was one of those dynamic business jargon generated websites!
Probably a bad time, no telling where the bottom is. Especially if you need the money soon?
Can we trust those numbers though?
I wouldn't think we are at the bottom yet. But no one knows.
officially into the bear market.. so far 8000 points down from its peak in a month, Now this may be good for the option sellers or biggies, regular investors should stay away (or use this to accumulate)
I would wait. Don’t even try to buy into a dip unless there’s at least some period of stability first.
I'm not a financial advisor, but the phrase "don't try to catch a falling knife" comes to mind here.
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We could use this. We have lots of carriers and this could make life much easier.
Only the css reference pixel. In other contexts a pixel is a point sample with no size
Buy a little each week to spread the risk. Corona will probably get worse for a few more months.
Its a good time. Divide your savings over a couple of months, and every week put in a bit to DCA into the market
The long term impact on U.S. politics is hard to gauge. As a member of the Democratic party, I am in favor of emergency legislation that provides direct financial payments to impacted individuals. In particular, we have close to 30 million uninsured and they have a strong disincentive to get tested for Conrna virus due to unexpected/unknown costs.

This is likely the same segment of the population who have a strong incentive to go to work ignoring risks of community spread. They live pay check to pay check and can't afford to be sick and take time off.

As an emergency measure, the federal government should carry all costs associated with virus testing. Any individual who is quarantined or must stay home to care for those quarantined should receive direct cash transfers to off-set the immediate economic dislocations this causes.

The current federal administration's argument for suspending payroll taxes does nothing for those who are unemployed or work in the informal, cash economy.

Luckily, at the state and local level officials appear more competent placing the health related impacts above politics. As an example, the governor of New York took the unprecedented step of quarantining New Rochelle just outside New York city.

If there is any possibility of a silver lining from all of this, it would be how the U.S. electorate might see the true economic cost of allowing roughly 10% of the population to be uninsured. To me, it is immoral that the richest nation on earth permits those who are most vulnerable not having equal access to adequate healthcare.

Finally, as an indication of how the federal government continues to politicize the pandemic, the Secretary of State continues to call the Covid-19 pandemic, Wuhan virus, as an insult to China.

As a US citizen lucky enough to not be significantly impacted by all of this, I'm deeply embarrassed by such an outrageous insult from a federal official.
The fact that China is sending ventilators to Italy gives me some confidence that they really do have the virus under control for now.
This is only for users that have public facing IPs. Most users are behind NAT, so WebRTC will still require relays (TURN servers). I'd assume majority of users are behind NAT.
this so much this. For some reason Microsoft does all these awesome things without winning the market (again)
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Your response refers to the mission of the CDC. That's a misdirect. No one said that the mission has changed. What the article states is that "the Trump administration axed the executive branch team responsible for coordinating a response to a pandemic and did not replace it"

Also, every budget that Trump has proposed has cut CDC funding and the current proposal is to cut it by 16%. Fortunately Congress has interceded every time.

These are verifiable facts, not opinions.

The term "fake news" used to annoy me, until I realize that it always means "a truth disliked by Trump / his minions". (Minion: "a follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile or unimportant one"). I've been at peace with the phrase ever since, having a better understanding of the person who used the phrase and why they used it.
Improvement due to the seasons isn't simply due to the physiology of the virus itself. People spend less inside and in confined spaces where its easier to contaminate each other. Additionally, the flu does have significant seasonality, and flu season will be tapering off in the coming weeks and months, meaning more healthcare resources to dedicate to coronavirus infections.
It was ... a different epoch
Not to mention the prevalence of "Mystery Meat" navigation, where you couldn't know what a graphical link did until you hovered or clicked on it.

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/mysterymeatnavigation.html

(For whatever it's worth I still agree with the sentiment of the author here, just worth pointing out that the 1990's weren't a panacea and that usable web design has existed throughout history.)
Yeah, I was trying to come up with a way to address the parent comment’s first slight inaccuracy — that the revolution period (year timescale) of our planet is being slowly changed by some other force. It’s essentially not.

Or, stated another way, anything that could account for that large of time variation in our year over that short of a time period... imagine ocean tides but with the Earth’s mantle instead. Then we’re not here to have this debate.

For all practical purposes, the rotational period of the earth around the sun can be considered a constant.
As long you have tolerance for it to keep dropping further you’ll be fine. Don’t expect to know where the bottom there is.
People forget the second part of the famous saying. “But when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own.
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I believe deep fake detection should be accessible to anyone anonymously so I made this
Thank you. A lot of people asked how it was developed so I decided to document it. Glad you liked it.
It seems everyone is a financial guru these days. I wonder what these people are doing on their keyboards. Why aren't they all on gold plated yachts?
That's not really a good excuse, since the PDF is made from a source document that could be repurposed to be more web-friendly if they were willing to make a small amount of extra effort.
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If asking HN for financial advice is your strategy I'd probably reconsider. But the vastly contradictory replies you've already received probably already told you that.
If your time horizon is more than a year, why not buy the dip?

Sure, I wouldn't put 100% of my cash to work right now, but I think it's sensible to come up with a list of stocks you feel are beat up, and dollar cost average buying them.

Of course this is hard to do if your portfolio is 100% invested already, and you have little cash left.
IMO, its a very good time. I'd suggest spacing the investments out over a period of time (maybe 2-3 months), though. If it keeps going down for a while, this will lower your total cost of purchasing shares. Obviously the downside is that it would slightly decrease your returns if things move back up in the short term.
Halt air travel, reduce large gatherings, let people live their lives knowing that:

1) Test kits are not helpful because of their high false positive rates.

2) The goal of these activities is to slow the spread, because it is not possible to stop.

3) Slowing the spread gives vaccine developers more time
It's cute, you really think it is a choice to move to an expensive place for a high paying job?
Believe me, you have no choice, you MUST move there! Then work hard to hang on otherwise you are f*d, paying a lot just for your bare existence!

Also some are born there perhaps, all human connections tie them there...?

Choice of lifestyle? Hahaha!
No one knows, no one will know until it's over, and anyone telling the opposite is lying. It's impossible to time or predict the market, especially in crisis like these.

People bought boeing stocks at the dip, a few months ago, needless to say this wasn't the best time to buy.
The only thing that can be said with certainty is that it's a better time than a week ago.
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Especially since the number of "confirmed" cases is extremely limited by the number of tests.

The infected numbers will rise precipitously as testing rolls out, and the apparent growth rate will freak people out and roil the market more.

By all means, please keep selling! Personally, I'm betting that the markets will recover pretty quickly after things actually start to improve, and I'll be surprised if this skittishness doesn't pay for the trip to Venice that I'm now planning to take in the Spring :D

It'll still be gamble, but I like these odds.
Wash your hands frequently, sneeze in your armpit, use disposable tissues, don't touch your face, don't shake hands, don't go to large meetings. This is the standing advice in the Netherlands.

Those are basic precautions that depend only on the availability of soap. Face masks need to be worn properly to work, and in cultures where people don't wear them normally this is an issue. Only medical staff really has a valid use for face masks now, also because of limited availability.
You could use free Chat with Jabber(XMPP).

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Or feel free open a new chat room on a server you like or at your own server if you want to.

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That isn't agile. Tickets should be based on relative effort, not hours, and certainly not more hours being better.
I think there’s a simpler explanation which is that governments are comprised of people, and people are — to borrow a phrase — predictably irrational. We consistently prioritize the short term over the long term.

Take Climate Change. There’s no shortage of brilliant scientists who have warned us of the long term costs (in human toll and wealth) of inaction. Yet we wait.

Unfortunately, scientists are not the ones flying the plane, so to speak. There are brilliant epidemiologists here in the United States. What are their recommendations behind closed doors? Classified. We don’t know. We do know the opinions of the ones who are free to speak their minds, and they have been warning us to be proactive. For years, before this crisis, actually.

The rest of us are sitting in the back of the plane, uncomfortably contemplating whether the pilots have perhaps made a fatal error in their judgement. It happens. Now we wait.

To quote Carl Sagan:

“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness“
It has everything to do with deflection, point out that the problem is over there, even though the virus is spreading inside already unchecked. The Governor of Ohio is putting an order to shut down all mass gatherings like sporting events and also suggesting people stay at home. Ohio State was closed before any cases where confirmed but it doesn't seem like other states are taking it as serious outside of California and Washington and testing is still only happening for cases that are in intensive care or had traveled still. So we have no idea what the true lay of the land is at this point.
Apparently there is big money (and lobbying) in wildlife markets in China, so I have my doubts.
How's it a good time? This is the second time this happened. How do you know a third and fourth won't happen?
As someone who has very little grasp of global markets, I'd kind of assumed that bitcoin and other cryptos would rally if stock markets were falling under a global pandemic, but the cryptos seem to be tanking along with them. Is this down to reduced consumer confidence?
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+1! And just to be sure, I would add social media.

But in all seriousness, I am absolutely disappointed with the reactions of Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on this. Everybody made a well deserved fuzz about the 2016 US election. So these companies are absolutely aware of this. Now that the stakes are much higher. Still no response, no action.
How many examples (this being 1) would an "open minded" person need to find it plausible?
Yes, it's a bad time. In that there is absolutely no understanding of where the bottom might be, and anyone claiming otherwise is a charlatan or a fool.

While shares have been pummeled, for many large caps this just erases a few months of gains during a particularly frothy period. If some airlines start declaring bankruptcy, Boeing declares bankruptcy, etc., things can get a lot worse.

In the coming months the actual financial impact is going to start hitting a lot of organizations.
This is going to turn out to be the great investment opportunity that I mostly missed out on in 2008.
it's early. Usually steep consecutive drops take a while to recover. You might miss the very bottom, but you'll do better than jumping in too quickly. Relax and watch it, cash in this moment is a good thing to have.
Facial recognition is spreading faster than you realise
I'm not sure anyone here is a big advocate for off-shoring as a cost savings measure, and I don't see anyone in this thread defending it as a practice.
There's no one left in the world to get sucked into that scam, they all got obliterated in that last run to $21k
Hmm, they say they don't support Firefox or Safari, only chrome - although it seems to basically work in both Firefox and Safari
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Are there no keyboards on gold plated yachts?
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