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I feel really bad about having cancelled our reservation for tomorrow. It is my 67th birthday. My husband, 74, is compromised after 3 bouts of bronchitis and/or pneumonia in the last 15 months. We felt we had to make this decision. I plan to support you with a gift certificate purchase until we can reschedule and celebrate my bd and our community surviving this unprecedented situation. My good thoughts are with you and your staff and loved ones as we go through this uncertainty.
It s look great.good idea. I Like it.
Tracking and testing doesn't destroy economic activity. Complete lock-downs, as we're seeing in China, Italy, Spain and soon elsewhere do. But it does let you get a grip on the situation when you have millions infected.

However you're right that you can't maintain that long term, so what's the off-ramp? South Korea has proved you can do mass testing and tracking which, combined with voluntary and state-enforced control of movement, lets you keep infections at a low level. What I'm contending is that, if the situation is bad enough, all countries that can will implement similar controls, and those controls will a permanent situation, not a temporary one. People will still be able to go to work, just not if they're potentially sick or infectious.
Except that sterilised items usually are repackaged in some way that removes this doubt.

I have seen many different techniques for this kind of workflow.
I think bullshit jobs are the consequence of a developed country, not the source.
Not even the strongest proponent of civil liberty would allow a person to walk down the street shooting bullets in every direction. It's not hard to imagine that spewing viruses all over the place will be treated just the same in a society with knowledge of modern epidemiology. Your rights ends where they begin to impinge on those of others.

We do need a better standard of privacy, though, than what South Korea is currently offering to the unfortunate souls who are infected. The tracking data is supposedly anonymized, but nobody gives any thought to the fact that anonymized data from multiple sources can be easily combined to de-anonymize them.
Some solutions that already exist, are already in use and could be firmed up:

1. Working from home.

2. Ordering online and getting takeout.

3. Using self checkout.

4. Collaboration and socialization via phone and internet.

You can't get sick if you aren't exposed. People don't get sick due to some random number generator. You have to have a vector.

We already know a great many ways to disrupt the spread. The antidote to a global crisis is not a global solution. It's a local solution.

When Ebola was initially a problem, the epidemic was stopped by African tribal elders, not advanced Western medicine. They told their people "Don't go to the white man's hospital" because you would go for something fixable, like a broken leg, and die of Ebola.

They blockaded the roads and stopped letting outsiders in. They quarantined those who were infected and left food on the doorstep to take care of them.

If the food stopped disappearing, they burned the hut down.

We know a lot about how to stop this. What we currently lack is some means to get people to do all the basic stuff we already know works, like wash your hands, stop touching your face and don't lick your fingers to separate bags.

I'm disappointed in seeing this handwringing, angsting piece at number one. It's not really factual. It's someone being emotional.

It isn't 1918. We have vastly better technology and information these days.

We just have to deploy it and leverage it. This is mostly about shaping culture. The primary question is "How do you get people to voluntarily comply instead of blowing it off as usual?"
> Don’t do this. It makes for boring reading. Your post was otherwise filled with pretty bog-standard leftist stuff that does just fine on HN.

Speaking of boring reading...
Predictability is essentially determinism, not necessarily superdeterminism.
With this advanced model of the virus, it's unlikely to be the first trend of any search.
I meant that the "in particular" link just doesn't apply to this situation.
I know one of the people who literally wrote a chunk of the matching engine on one of the larger exchanges. He’s not absurdly rich but a book from him on high performance order book management at scale would absolutely worth a read.

The metaphor is appropriate because quite frequently people who use things to the greatest effect know very little about the implementation or how it actually works.
You are correct, I was mistaken, it was a 1792 Act of Congress.

Not Constitutional, but going back before 1792, precious metal is still the only true currency the USA as young Ford knew it had been built upon since the beginning.

With gold and dollar still locked together having equal and excellent stability over longer terms, it was still possible to more meaningfully extrapolate relative wealth and value for labor in terms of gold & silver, and back much further in time than a single century, in some ways back millennia.

After the Fed, removal of gold coins & certificates, eventual confiscation of gold, then abandonment of the dollar's link altogether in the most recent century, not so much.

But the further you go back the less realistic units other than gold still turn out to be.

Anyway, with Ford putting out USD5 per day, the rare worker who could go 100 days without other obligations could then afford a nice Model T Ford family car for cash taking home their gross pay, which is what you needed since financing was not so common.

Seems like Ford probably is putting out close to USD300 per day now, the present worker just takes home a much smaller percentage and needs to settle for relatively less expensive cars than the _nice_ full-sized ones.
Huh, in Dutch as well. That might be useful knowledge if I ever get in a situation where I need an AED in an English-speaking country.
move more of it online. Thanks to decades of e commerce the economy can already function without brick and mortar. More of this, in a health-conscious way (e.g. special uniforms for deliverypeople, drop-off stations for products, contactless payments). It needs to be deployed fast, too
I would measure it in terms of daily life being completely altered in most regions of the world and persisting after the event (which is yet to be determined but pretty much impossible to think it wont).
Random guys on YouTube have saved me at least a dozen trips to the car repair shop; but there's all that noise I gotta sift through. Good luck and Godspeed sorting through all the quackery if you ever come down with a rare health issue. There are so many junior-whatevers that flat out shouldn't be putting out content for anyone anywhere; much less the internet.

It's a double edged sword.
Imagine a future where you do a swab every morning while brushing your teeth and your testosterone and adrenaline levels are evaluated for likelihood of engaging in Anti-Social or Anti-Authority Activity. Individuals with high levels are locked into their apartments and subject to online training courses. Repeated violations result in a visit from the authorities.

Yeah, no thanks. Not every solution to a serious problem needs to be some surveillance state dystopian nightmare.
2-5 million dead seems perfectly plausible at this point. But remember we're not only talking about deaths, we're also talking about disruptions in society.

IMHO, we're already well into reorganization to a war economy in many countries, USA included. Meaning, truly exceptional circumstances where the status quo is suspended and different, urgent priorities are taken.

Also, at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if Trump tries to postpone the elections in November.
Do you have any source/reference on the Ebola stuff you're talking about?
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Really nice. Also lots of good stuff in his other repositories (Oberon, Verilog, Ebnf).
I think the book was called The Hot Zone.

Here you go. This should be it.

http://projectavalon.net/THE_HOT_ZONE_Richard_Preston.pdf
a small business, e.g. a hair salon will shut down if having
to pay people without any customers for a month. Amazon can wait
Let me dream: how hard would it be to create a test that can be distributed by the billions on paper strips like a ph test? You take one every evening and by the morning it tells you if you can go out or not.

Is it conceivable or (borderline) impossible?
Yes this is my predection too. We are enforcing evolutionary pressure that favours a less dangerous strain of the virus.
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> If the interpretation of the standard results in a behavior that makes the result obviously worse, nobody should favor such an interpretation.

This would be true if everyone actually agreed that the more aggressive interpretation is obviously worse. Since said interpretation is claimed to result in better performance, though, it's not very clear-cut.

That's the nature of ambiguity; either you rely on convention to establish a canonical behavior, which doesn't appear to be likely to happen any time soon and isn't guaranteed to remain the same over time, or you change the wording to no longer be ambiguous.
The sane/benovelent governments will probably switch to universal basic income, i.e. go deep into debt and just pay everyone money to live. And no, actually going into debt is not a huge problem, ask Keynes, or what happened in WW2; it was an emergency and governments borrowed and borrowed with no fear.
I think you're right that is is an opportunity to think about what we really need done in society, but the implications are simply enormous.

One concrete thing that will come into focus, especially in this US election year, is the healthcare system. If the virus overwhelms the capacity in the US, it will be constantly in the news. There's no better use of the attention than to have that debate about how healthcare should be done.

About the BS jobs, yes, there's undoubtedly a lot of those. I think the only way they go is if the crisis hits the economy so hard that many businesses collapse and are rebuilt, without those jobs. This would be a catastrophe for an awful lot of people. Now, one thing that might prove to be the difference between business going down and not is government intervention. So it's going to be interesting what level of aid is offered.

My sense is the government will try to save as many businesses as possible, not taking the chance to clean out the mess left from two decades of excessively cheap money.
I'm so sorry you really have to ask that question...
Good idea for the free time if you have to work remotely!!! Thaks!!
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There are so many overloaded reasons to scale back the disastrous global 'economy' (not least of which is that we either do it at a time of our choosing, or ecosystem collapses will eventually do it for us), that the pandemic is almost redundant as motivation. So I'm sympathetic to your notion.

On the other hand, I suspect heavily propagandised blinkers are even harder to shift during a crisis than in more stable times. Fearful people are driven to protect what they have, and are apt to react violently to do so. The "normal" global economy is a catastrophe, but we'll have to return to it (if such is possible) for some time at least.
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When the CPU hits the thermal envelope regularly and throttles itself that seems like a serious enough problem. Sure, if it's a normal part of cost optimization, then it won't stand out.
You’d have to have a staggeringly low false positive rate to be able to do this, because you’d basically have no prior, and you’re testing for multiple things.
Yes. But South Korea is still at 0.6%, and they've tested everyone and their dog, and provided top care to everyone.
It's fantastic, looks lika a great job! Good luck
Well, I would say no, since there were multiple famines since then.

1) Post-WW2, most of the Eastern Hemisphere experienced famine and underemployment for a decade. (Britain had food ration coupons for 9 years afterwards.)

2) The Cold War was pretty scary and greatly impoverished the Eastern Bloc, Cuba, N. Vietnam and N. Korea. China had the Great Famine from 1959 - 1961, killing "tens of millions."

4) Polio was a scourge until vaccines were developed: 2 to 5 percent of children and up to 15 to 30 percent of adults die

5) USA has a serious crack and meth epidemic, and Russia lost a lot of men to vodka poisoning.

We'll see about Covid-19, but the next famine will dwarf it by 10x or 20x in total fatalities.
> 1. any bug can be corrected at runtime without having to stop the program

Can you do this in an automatable and testable way? I.e. can you provide a migration script as part of an automated deployment to an Ops team?
You are wrong on almost every count.

Crowd control is a real fix for an epidemic. And while we don't know the details of the infection, we know enough to understand that we can't let it roam free.

Your advice to young people is horrible, and based on nothing. One of the things we don't know is whether there is any lasting damage in recovered patients. We don't know if the virus might mutate. The only safe thing to do is to avoid catching it, whether you are 80 or 20. Note that SARS left permanent damage in some recovered patients. Even without that, the death rate among less than 40 is similar to the flu in the entire population. This is all not to mention that young people have old relatives that may need their help, especially if they are to stay in isolation for extended periods of time.

And while fake news in the media is a problem, it is one of the last things that governments should be spending resources on at this time,especially as there have been no cases of breaking quarantine or isolation based on fake news.
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OP doesn't advocate anti-militarism, it's advocate to keep army at home. This is two very different things. A country can keep a top-notch army while not invading another country every decade. Japan is the best example of that, with its use of military largely restricted by the constitution.
I understand the risks. I wouldn't expect/want every body else in the country to hide away in their houses to protect me from getting Coronovirus either. That would imply a self-centered attitude and lack of empathy that is probably better applied to people such as yourself.
> Ordering online

Annoyingly, this got disrupted in my area. I was hoping to do all ordering online instead of cherry picking some of the things like before. Unfortunately the shop is overrun by customers so all staff are busy. On top of that, because of many items are out of stock, online orders have been disabled. I'm really disappointed in those decisions - not only we have more people waiting in lines in the same area, you're not allowed to order even the fresh produce which is not missing. It changed a 5min pickup into 30min shopping + 15min checkout wait.
"At a minimum, I hope the CDC ensures there are plenty more ventilators ready for the next one."

My only thought here is that we don't know that "the next one" will require ventilators. While I'd certainly like to see our national stockpile of PPE and emergency equipment like ventilators improved, I'd like to see the CDC preparing to face a wider-set of the "next one".

I think we should be looking at our manufacturing infrastructure and ability to rapidly ramp-up the production of any life-saving hospital equipment in the face of a sudden need. With a national stockpile that's strong enough to cover the ramp-up period.
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Im currently learning frontend but i stopped because i felt like, employability-wise, backend skills are a better option due to the easier transition into devops/cloud. but then people suggested fullstack is just as good (front+back) for remote employability. so i am not sure if i shoould continue learning frontend or if i should jump to python in the backend? keep in mind, i am from a developing country
Try /r/covid19 for more scientific oriented discussions and information sharing. Mods are trying to do their best to keep the subreddit focused on scientific discussion.

It’s sister subreddit /r/Coronavirus is more for general public discussion.
Flagged because there is nothing in the article but a tweet author admitting he/she doesn’t know much and is guessing without sources.

> and have spent five years in a world class 'pandemic response modelling' unit

A pretty damming thing for the field of “pandemic response modeling”, but not really worth worrying about on its own.
On my 0x00000000. Repeatedly.
David Graeber is a stupid person, and the thesis of that book is stupid. There are boring jobs, and there are jobs that wouldn't exist in utopia, but he has no idea why jobs exist or what function they serve. His book is paradoxically feel-good, in that just because we can imagine a world in which nobody has to shovel shit that we can eliminate all shit-shoveling jobs today.

Shit, I actually worked at the kinds of jobs he calls "flunkies" as a temp, and it wasn't a big mystery to me what the jobs were for. When I had a temp job as a receptionist, my job was literally answering the phone. People would call, and I would answer. It did not require a Ph.D. in anthropology to figure out the function of the job, or why someone would pay me to do it.
The UK model also happens to be the Germany model: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51835856 .

The UK are focused on minimising deaths, by avoiding COVID-19 striking during next winter, when the NHS is at peak load due to winter flu. Instead, they will guide the first strike towards summer (NHS's least load), and impose measures to protect at-risk folk during that time.
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I drive a car. Some day I might kill somebody because of it. It would bother me if it happened of course, but I'm not going to stop driving just in case.
I wash with soap and water wherever I can. I want sanitizer for when I'm getting in the car after leaving stores and stuff.
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I was just reading this book on Bullshit Jobs

https://www.loniya.org/storage/pdf/1535752644.pdf

It's an excellent introduction into the problems of capitalism for those not particularly interested in communism and just trying to get their feet wet.
South Korea has also shown that restrictions on movement don't need to be particularly draconian. The subway in Seoul is still packed with people every day, but I haven't heard of any mass infection related to the subway. Everyone cleans their hands and wears face masks, so it's okay to be out and about. Oh, and there's a clean bathroom in every subway station.
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It's fine to write this if you know it's OK. There's nothing inherently wrong with it, as far as C99 is concerned. Of course, if you want to zero the entire region of the struct, sizeof(MyGuy) is better. (Though, it may write to useless padding bytes that never get read... but, it might not be useless if you're a kernel and don't want to leak information via uninitialized padding!)
It's probably accurate. But the assumption that this is a game changer is more questionable.

This variant of CV is fairly infectious and makes some people very ill. It also kills a non-trivial percentage.

So the worst case is an incredibly dangerous virus that mutates every season. We'd have to get used to taking extreme measures, or losing around 1% of the population every year.

But the usual trend is for viruses to mutate in a less dangerous direction. And immunity isn't binary. It's more like molecular pattern matching with variable memory. So the population as a whole wouldn't be starting from scratch every season - any more than it does with colds or flu, even though they both mutate quickly.

Short term we're likely to have the equivalent of a few years of very bad flu seasons, and longer term that would settle down to a less dangerous cycle - still lethal for some people, but not a perpetual state of danger and crisis.
It's a beautiful thing if it can bring humanity together towards a common aim.

But if it leads to the collapse of monetary systems, the collapse of civil society, looting, rioting, the rise of nationalism, and WWIII that's most certainly going to lead more death and destruction than the virus itself.
The local Little Caesar's has too little business at the moment to keep pizzas on hand "hot and ready." This means if you go in, you have to wait while they cook it, potentially exposing you to infection.

Meanwhile, their "pizza portal" sits completely unused. You could theoretically order online and pick up without interacting with anyone.

I suggested this on the local Reddit for my area. I got snarkily asked when I became the manager of the local Little Caesar's.

We have the technology. We just aren't using it to solve this.

We could.
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UBI could be possible in a closed society, but not if you are open for uncontrolled influx of people from outside your society. Because the offer "get free money" is just too good.

There was the choice what to focus on, and we decided we wanted uncontrolled immigration. Fair choice, but the consequence is that UBI won't work anymore.
I'm +1 on the UK's model for the UK. Different apporaches can be right for different countries: different health systems, different seasons, different levels of connectedness, ...

The UK's Chief Medical Officer is the right person for the job: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Whitty

If you want to hear him talk about the UK's plan, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfJcwDaZrsA is long but informative.
One potential path here is:

- Local and state governments provide bailout funds to suffering local businesses

- Said governments issue new bonds to pay for this relief

- Fed uses the recently-announced QE funds to buy the government bonds

The question then becomes if communities can get organized enough to approve this, and then convince ratings agencies that the new bonds are good.
So they tried to reinfect monkeys 28 days after the initial infection, and the monkeys were immune.
This looks good, at least for the very short term. For the long term, see previous link
What's wrong with looking at smoke? Maybe it pays off to put the smokey ones into a separate class, eg batch processing, so they will unlikely impact frontend serving requests.
Like a fact statement.
As a sibling said, this is already where we are in Europe.

But if we had a system such as this, we could have prevented the first patients from spreading it around, and so we wouldn't have had to have millions of people stay at home.
they used to run a lot of modern music, I'd wish they didn't do that.
No, but "since the end of the cold war", probably.
Given the lack of any incentives to prioritize productive work and useful products over feel-good products, it would actually be strange to discover that the economy is actually only producing useful items.
Thats exactly what HR did in many companies.