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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.

You're creating a false choice - support action as you define it or be in favor of destroying Earth.

Indeed, if action only comes in the form of massive taxation and central control then yes, I'm willing to take my chances.

I believe any solutions that involve massive taxation and central control will result in massive warfare. Taxes and regulation might mitigate pollution in the first-world if you manage to get your way, but what about China? What about India? What about other emerging players?

Are you prepared to force China to dismantle its coal plants? Are you prepared to force India to cripple its means of production? Are you prepared to force Iran and Russia and Saudi Arabia to stop using petroleum? And if you are, how much destruction will be wrought in the process?

In summary I believe solutions that involve massive taxation, central control, and forcefully curbing human behavior will end in more misery than doing nothing at all.

Given that, of all the possible solutions I've heard curbing human behavior is the least likely to succeed. If a savior is necessary, it will be technology or nothing.
> COVID-19 doesn't mean there aren't regular flu / colds going around, too.

Which is exactly why everyone with those symptoms needs to be tested. One of the most important things we need to do right now is detect the people who got the virus through community transmission.

> Long distance travel and exposure to those who have been (e.g. hugging your wife got off a plane from Spain 2 days ago) is still a top predictor for exposure.

I'd say that testing those people should be lower priority, since an assumption they're infected is more likely to be accurate, so they can take preventative measures without needing a test.
This sounds really interesting, and reminds me of "Domain Modeling Made Functional".
But could you describe the pipes a bit more? EIP from the link your provided says that any interactor/filter in a pipe is interchangeable with another. Based on the model you described you say you'd have each interactor take in an entity and output a possibly different entity (which seems reasonable). But if you did that and had a chain of interactions, then removed one from the middle wouldn't you now have a type mismatch where you try to connect the remaining interactions?
Precious metals like gold is also underperforming when it supposed to act as a safe haven
Who is complaining about pricing? I merely pointed out that the Hololens is not a consumer product.
I mean, billions in trading volume says otherwise.
It's indexed because, as you say, it's transmited completely. So maybe just disabling js it's readable. I have economist.com disabled in uBlock Origin (it works), but I guess that disabling all js would work too?

Because of that, I think not taking measures against this behaviour is the lesser evil.

(edit: small potatoes)
Exactly, your strategy evolves as you age. But allocation, investment schedule and amount shouldn't change over a short time period or in light of any external factors.
Isn’t it suggested to wean off equities as one nears retirement age? Isn’t it done automatically by pension funds? I’m from India where the government owned retirement fund (EPF) is only now testing equity waters and the recent fund (NPS) isn’t big enough to cause damage so I’m not aware of how this works.
Most people close to retiring should have already been slowly moving their investments into lower risk forms of investments before now, anyway.
Apple didn't invent the smart phone or the mp3 player either.
That sudden slide to Biden looks like a big clue.

"Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back on!"
Historical analysis says that generally speaking, dollar cost averaging is inferior to one-time lump sum investments unless you buy lump-sum at the very top of a bull cycle. Lump-sum investment is usually better in all other cases, you get the benefit of interest as well, which is at least 30% of the total return.

This is even more true in cases of bear markets. Since the market will most likely rise compared to where it is now, going all-in in a severely depressed market is usually advantageous.

Psychologically, of course, it is more difficult to do so as you have to go against "common wisdom".

Don't get me wrong though,dollar-cost averaging is a great strategy if you don't have lump sums laying around.
I have switched to a keyboard without a numeric keypad for my desktop machine, really don't need one for a laptop.
Unless your time horizon was 1965-1982 or 1929-1940

I don't see why the current economy is substantially different from the past and sustained losses over a decade or longer aren't possible.
>Agreed. There was an article on HN about the demise of psychiatric care in US written from the inside by a psychiatrist. I can't find it though.

thelastpsychiatrist.com has criticism of modern psychiatry as well.
Invest in funds you know are bearish. That's the market for the next couple of months at the very least dealing with the shocks, even if we get a small rally after good news.

I don't trust Trump to handle this situation with any more grace than he has till now so I predict more crash days.

Buckle up. It's going to be a hell of a ride.
What cities in southern China? There is very little indoor heating in Changsha, and I assume nearby Wuhan as well but I’ve never been there. Guangzhou and HK have less indoor heating as well, but they have more mild climates than Changsha so it isn’t much of a problem. Shanghai and Hangzhou do much better with heat, but they are also the richest cities in China.

It stems from a decision Mao made more than 50 years ago. First, people expect the state to be responsible for heating, which is weird to us but follows the soviet model. So the state decided to provide central heating to people in the north but not in the south.

Now you could provide your own heat, but the majority of Chinese live in apartment blocks that are poorly insulated between units. So to heat your home you have to heat all of your neighbors also, which isn’t going to happen. It works fine in northern China because they just pump hit water through the whole building. So people are left with local heating options, eg the kokatsu.

So my wife and her family own a couple of apartments in hunan that we’ve thought about renovating for heat. No one local really knows how to do it because it isn’t done. Coupled with the fact that walls in China are concrete slabs, not wooden posts with room for insulation in the middle, so you have to add something on top of the walls and maybe do heating from the floors. Anyways, it is expensive.

And it’s not just your home, but where you work. The last time I went to the HSR station in my wife’s hometown, the girls selling snacks at the station were really bundled up and if you weren’t wearing gloves your hands with hurt...inside the brand new train station.

Indoor heating is a requirement in much of the states, even in LA (you can skimp on AC, but you can’t rent or sell a unit without heat), and building codes have improved a lot over the years so it’s unlikely you’ll freeze your butt off in something built within the last 30 years.
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if you bought near the top of the dot com bubble or the 2008 top, it took until 2013 for the S&P500 to reach new highs. not counting dividends though.
IIRC there is some evidence[0] that investing a lump sum at once will, on average, be better than DCA.
But DCA has significant psychological advantages, so it may still be a good choice.

Obviously if you do not hold significant cash and are going to invest your savings monthly there is no difference between DCA and lump sum investing.

[0] https://www.jstor.org/stable/2330513?seq=1
As someone posted on FB, the infection rate spikes a lot more with no measures, and flattens with more preventative measures. So while the same number of people may be infected overall, it lessens stress on the healthcare system when it is more spread out.
If you want to be contrarian:

DO the opposite of whatever the top comment here says
Absolutely. My plan is to increase my 401k and other market account contributions by a reasonable percent. I'm viewing this as a steep discount for 1-6 months or more.
The Pebble, as a black and white e-ink Watch, was more of a niche offering. Apple created a sleek, colorful product with mass market appeal that was also deeply integrated with the phone. So basically it was innovative in every way and also not in any way, as a matter of interpretation?
Wow, that's really inspiring. I also love beauty. Can anyone recommend a way for someone with undergrad level math to learn about Lagrangians?
You don't have to wait until half the country is sick, though. If you restrict movement, you see a sharp reduction in transmission when you start getting neighborhoods hitting 50%. Some will get there faster than others.
It's people didn't think it was as serious then they wouldn't be overloading the hospitals. Most people can probably stay home.
Are rainy day funds not savings?
Puts are investments too...
This is when the doomsayers come pouring out, as they always do no matter the crisis. In small ways they help provide the buying opportunities that should be taken advantage of as the equity streets fill with blood now and in the coming weeks.

In the last two weeks or so the doomsayers have seen their bullhorns acquire large volume increases, they're being given far too much credibility (like Merkel's obscene, wildly irresponsible statement about how up to 70% of Germans could get Covid; back in reality, it'll be a tiny fraction of that). The emotion and irrationality has now swung too far, per typical herd behavior. That irrationality may get worse yet, the panic is beginning to set in more fully.
That might be good for creatives like designers, but it's horrible for software devs. Plain confluence page is better than that.
>DCA is riskier

Actually no. Risk = Reward. DCA is less risky, but lower returns than lump-sum investing.

As always, you can cherry pick cases when it underperforms and when it outperforms.
Oh, the former employer of mine had these contracts already. So partnering with them, or someone similar, could have cut down the acquisition cycle a lot.

But I do understand why people don't want to work with the military.
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That Outline page is giving me an error. Meanwhile, the original article page is perfectly readable if JavaScript is disabled.
That doesn't follow. If people expected the markets to be back up in two years, they wouldn't be this low right now.

Just because the pandemic ends doesn't mean the value of companies returns - some will have shrunk, some will have failed.
Curious, what do you dislike about it?

I used it for a project recently and found it to be really nice and expressive. I love that it's got a functional feel but you can do loops and compose modules in a really powerful way.
Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286754
Nope. It because of angular momentum transfer between the Earth and the Moon due to tides. The Moon moves farther away and the Earth slows rotation.
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> If it were me, I will just invest small amounts periodically.

Dollar cost averaging is always a solid investment strategy.
Well personally I'm not going to retire tomorrow but in my specific case I do have a retirement plan which buys from an allegedly vast portfolio and yet right now, after almost 10 years, if I take into account commission fees I own like 10% less of what I put into it. So at least in this case, putting my savings under a mattress would have been a better option.
You say it's a bad time, and in the next sentence claim, no one knows the bottom. A bit contradicting.
It is common to maintain a significant amount in equities well into retirement. Due to low interest rates, it sometimes is the only valid strategy.

The key is to maintain a mix that allows for short to medium term fluctuations in the market (and economy) like this.

EDIT: I highly recommend the book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" for more details on asset allocation strategies at various ages.
A "perturbation" is usually short for a "small perturbation," which SARS-CoV-2 is definitely not. ;)
Lot of politicians are old as well so they will make sure their country has the resources to fight it just out of self interest.
Do you have a chart that includes dividend payments?
Whole moly, changing the sunset colour changes the whole thing. This is crazy.

100% would love to know how this is built and know more about the planning.
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The artist's account on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ivorjetski/status/1238063321015889921

I too am eager to read a blog post on the technique.
Who got puts? I think a lot of people called this yesterday.
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China has started making some of their own machinery in the last 30 years. The quality generally isn't going to be as good as machinery coming from a company that's been making the same thing for 300 years, albeit for them using it internally that doesn't matter as much when the person who designed the machine is right there and can trouble shoot it in person.
What's so great about it? I had that class too and I didn't think it was so hot. Maybe I missed something.
Good point, that sounds way less risky.
Very intuitive interface guys, you did a great job!
Why it’s free?
if you had been in the market for the last ten years with SP500 you would be up something like 150% of your initial investment, even with the latest drops. You would be very upset about the latest drop, but you would still be happy with your choice.

EDIT: saw your other reply: sadly many investment funds are just not worth it, it's not your fault, banks and similar are often incentivized to sell you a fund which has high fees and generally trails the market, the best choice is to invest in low cost index-tracking funds, but this is not obvious knowledge.
The market reacts to expected news, not just current news. The fact that bad news is coming might already be priced in. It's hard to say how bad a piece of news would have to be to make expectations worse.
I use an iPad Pro with an Apple Pencil, and then use Explain Everything on it. Desktop users can use the "text" tools, and everyone else with a better set up can use the pencil tools.
People don't know how far it's going to go down.

We have no idea what kind of disruption is going to happen to global GDP. As the situation clarifies itself, it may very easily become worse, which would continue to drive it down.
> Double this with plunging oil prices.

Who knows how long oil prices will be falling? In the end it's a pissing contest between Russia, Saudi-Arabia and the US. It may be over tomorrow, it may be over in a year...
not sure, banks suddenly getting flooded with formerly leased vehicles and stuff like that? banks can be bailed out though but supply chains can't.
I think modern American houses are still made out of paper. The ability to escape peer pressure was fundamental in progressing society, which would mostly stagnate with extended surveillance. I see no advantages of going back there. If you expect more security, I doubt the wishes will ever fulfill themselves. Would also be quite irrational if we look at the development of violence.
You have to keep in mind that that removable battery has disappeared from devices for a reason: it’s inefficient. Even having a case around it and providing the connector and latch means you’re making the battery smaller and the device bigger.

That said, I do feel like there’s a reasonable middle ground to be had: not a swappable battery, but a very easily replaceable one. No special hex screws, etc. Sure you can’t carry around six of them, but if you can replace it once a year you probably won’t need to... and you can always carry a power bank with you instead to recharge it on the go.

I think the SD card requirement is short sighted. As often as storage (and cables, not to mention other things) change I think the added space requirements in something like a phone, even for something as small as an SD card (plus the adapter and the spring mechanism, housing, etc.) is a waste. In a decade you may not be able to even find the same kind of storage anymore. Even if you can it’s not like the latest game that rings in at a bazillion gigathings that would so totally easily fit on your new SD card is actually going to run on your 9.5 year old phone - the processor, memory, etc. simply wont be up to the job.
The US courts have since explicitly rejected the reasoning used to justify the internment of Japanese-American citizens. It would not be legally possible today.
Not all governments are equal. The US has a lot more runway to devalue the USD than pretty much every other country.
What does "on 3.place" mean? Is that a typo?
If someone has some good, open source examples- please share!
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I'm saving money in case of lay offs. Investing is the last thing I'm thinking about.
besides drm stuff like netflix (don't know if it's back breaking there), virtually none, of course

unless someone publishes a very practical attack from userspace, I don't think this will affect personal computing atm
Ask HN: Which non-technical skills are important for Software Engineers?
I was discussing non-technical skills (soft skills if you like) and how we recruit for them with a colleague yesterday. Interestingly we were both of the opinion that they are equally as important as technical skills but that learning them is harder and therefore we should hire more for them than specific technical skills.

I wanted to ask the community, which non-technical skills do you think are most important for Software Engineers and more importantly what specific steps can someone take to develop those skills?
Firefox has a reader mode which is a little button next to the address bar. My eyesight is fine but I use it on websites like these.
By necessity, Abseil is full of dark template magic that would very rarely be used elsewhere in the codebase. That's the point - it encapsulates a lot of useful abstractions and allows them to be used without the client code author thinking about the guts of the abstraction. But it makes it pretty unusual relative to typical Google C++.
you should wait until people around you stop asking that question at least. grab some popcorn and wash your hands in the meantime.
It's amazing what they can discover looking at 1970s sh sources.
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> kids are not the main factor in spreading the virus, as seen in other countries.

Why did Japan close down schools, do they know something which Belgium does not or did Japan make a mistake by closing down schools.
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Why does it have to be a web-browser-based platform?

I've bought a ZTE Open[0] back when FFOS was made since i am in general a fan of Mozilla (despite their missteps now and then) since before Firefox was a thing. The phone was a disaster - applications were very slow, everything was sluggish and in some cases i lost calls because the UI had frozen due to swapping or whatever it was doing.

Now, you might say that it was a low end device, but here is the thing. Years before that i had a Nokia 6600 [1] which has literally less than 10% of the resources ZTE Open has, yet it was able to run multiple applications without a breeze (it was the first time i ran an IRC client on a phone) and even had several 3D games (which, imagine that, used software rendering despite the phone's limited CPU power).

(and of course there were PalmOS devices that were running on even weaker hardware yet they provided UIs so responsive that put even the fastest Android to shame -- but i have very limited exposure to those to judge properly)

Nokia 6600 puts in perspective how awful Android is nowadays, let alone FFOS that couldn't even manage to remain literally usable with more than ten times the resources.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE_Open

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_6600
Thx for making Tails, the world doesn't know what you did for it.
There also is a factory in Georgia that makes them. They probably are working three shifts.
executive orders are SUPPOSED to only be directives to the Executive Branch on how to conduct operations. Unfortunately this power has been abused by past Presidents. Executive Orders have no force of law.
Linguistically they can both define it as they please really. Just like how a joint can be anatomical, a place, or a drug delivery mechanism.

Really it is surprising that there isn't more contention over abbreviations.
> It is common to maintain a significant amount in equities well into retirement. Due to low interest rates, it sometimes is the only valid strategy.

Why are stocks a valid strategy (where there's possibility of easily losing 20-30%), while losing a few percent due to inflation in something like a savings account isn't?
"In the long term, we're all dead"
We’re tanking the world economy to try and stop the spread of a virus that cannot be stopped, and has a median death rate older than the expected life span. It’s so mild young people think they have the flu or a cold, and over 80% of people over 80 also recover.

The economic outcomes of the interventions could end up being worse than the disease, as people will lose their jobs, houses, and healthcare.
If you are a financial genius you will soon have money to invest, it doesn't take much to start, and every year there are a few doubling opportunities. Most of us are not financial genius and so we only realize they existed in hindsight. However there were always signs that could have been seen in advance - and there are always ways to cut your losses. If you don't start with might it might take 20 years but a real financial genius can be rich even if their source of income during that 20 years is flipping burgers.
It isn't contradicting at all. It's a bad time because it is hyper volatile, and there is a lot more room for it to drop than to gain.

That doesn't mean it will drop. It means that saying "it's a good time to buy everything is on sale!" is absurd but common (and people have been saying it since the first drop on February 24th, and will never learn from their wrong advice). There are few scenarios where there is going to be a rapid rise in the market in the near future.
Usage defines language not the other way around

That depends on whether you take a prescriptive or descriptive approach.
Disclaimer: not a specialist, this is what I gather from online research and discussions on reddit (please correct me if I get anything wrong!).

The issue is with corporate debt. A lot of it is unsustainable in the event of an economic downturn [1]. Already people are leaving the junk bond market [2]. There is a risk that BBB-rated bonds will get downgraded, which would mean that pension funds can no longer keep them in their portfolio. If this happens, these bonds will move into the junk bond market, increasing supply in that market with already decreasing demand. That means that interest rates on lower-rated bonds will go up, meaning that it will become harder for companies that are not in a strong position to obtain credit, which they might need to if times get harder.

Especially in a few sectors (tourism, shipping, oil) it's clear that companies are going to get hit this year. Central banks are aware that this is an issue and they are taking some steps to soften the blow.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/16/global-econ...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-11/junk-inve...
Why is dbt so important?
If you can find a dinosaur calendar it will be implemented.
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