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> drastically overcorrecting

If anything, we've been undercorrecting. A simple example would be the many studies that show that IQ in children measureably increases in the years following a move from a poor area to a rich area, even if the child's family's income doesn't change.
Stockpiling money is much easier.
> At this point everybody seems to admit it's beyond containment and the only thing we are trying to do is flatten the curve and prevent the deaths.

No. Only the UK is operating on that fatalist assumption. South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Singapore have all successfully contained it, and Italy is starting to do so as well.
> It is very last measure as in that point you are basically admitting that capitalism has failed.

Capitalism fails all the time. I use the market for lemons as my default example [1]. It's ok. It the market works pretty well, and it's a good starting point for lots of situations. The problem is sometimes it doesn't. We know about a bunch of situations where it doesn't work so well, so we have regulations and such.

It's an extraordinary situation. I find it odd they're not implementing extraordinary responses. I guess, locally, we are taking extraordinary action with closing non-essential events and locations.

I guess I don't see much value in interest free loans for most people. I guess maybe personal loans? I don't quite see how I can get my hands on 10k interest free. We'll see.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
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The <thing> notation is pretty confusing and I find myself using my knowledge of python to understand what half of the examples are teaching rather than the other way around.
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I’m not an “older republican” but having been through post 9/11 changes, I am too of a similar opinion.
I think it is a poor translation of "resuscitation device" like an AED or likely a bag valve mask.
It seems like the alternative is to completely isolate everyone so I’m not sure why isolating just the at-risk population is worse than that.

We have ~100 cases in MA currently. On April 20th when we have ~100 do we have to lock down the state all over again?
You don't put a share of stock on your face to go treat a patient. You don't clean up from touching packages or other things with a share of stock.

They're not the same thing. I don't even know what point you're trying to make or what you're trying to get out of it. I know we're all bored and stir crazy but maybe now isn't the time.
Here you go: (Pete's got more than one! So we need at least two teams: https://twitter.com/vino_freakism/status/1237959739025149952...
Cases are recorded. If it's not in a medical record, it's not a case. Technically, the reference was to ~3000 but someone then wanted to dispute that cases was not the same as infections. The number is irrelevant. If it's not known for sure, it's not a case and it's not a known infection, medically. I don't understand how factual correction gets downvoted, but here we are.
The major problem here is cross patient contamination. Patients are literally inhaling virus laden exhales from the other patient.

...which aside from covid-19, might also contain other bacterial/viral co-infections.
Through all of my bookmark purges and reorganizations throughout the years, this url has always remained a part of them. The first one, in fact, as it's lasted the longest!

Had a field day with this back in college.
Amazon is up 289% YoY right now, give them some slack.
It's the pandemic thing everyone's working overtime
Italy is a unique situation with the world’s second-oldest population.

People continue analogizing without acknowledging that confounding factor.

I want no part of an armed national guard enforcing a nationwide quarantine. And I’m guessing the 70 and 80 year olds who are most affected would rather roll the dice than watch our country descend into such an autocratic look.
Yep, that's a great story too. It's so ridiculous that this is still in force:

> The Onion Futures Act is a United States law banning the trading of futures contracts on onions as well as "motion picture box office receipts".

> In 1955, two onion traders, Sam Siegel and Vincent Kosuga, cornered the onion futures market on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The resulting regulatory actions led to the passing of the act on August 28, 1958. As of January 2020, it remains in effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_Futures_Act

> The president of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, E.B. Harris, lobbied hard against the bill. Harris described it as "Burning down the barn to find a suspected rat". The measure was passed, however, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill in August 1958. Thus, onions were excluded from the definition of "commodity" in the Commodity Exchange Act.
> “When we did this trip, I had no idea that these stores wouldn’t be able to get replenished.”

> “It was never my intention to keep necessary medical supplies out of the hands of people who needed them,” he continued. “That’s not who I am as a person"

This doesn't follow a modicum of scrutiny. If he's buying to sell them at a markup, it MUST be because it's not getting replenished. Otherwise, people would just go to the store and buy it at retail price. It's a BS apology and shouldn't be accepted by anyone.
I had done this in a small office; it was definitely a fun prank to pull on folks. Of course with TLS everywhere, this is no longer possible.
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Frontline workers should get massive hazard pay right now, but they have no bargaining power. Never have had any
No, it doesn't. The difference is whether or not someone who intends to sell the product hoards it. In this case, people buying toilet paper are net harming the market. Sooner or later (manufacturer > retailer, or retailer > consumer) you have to raise prices to maintain liquidity.
People should be asking that question on a lot of life's essentials, where the "provider" removed it from the market only to sell it back at a higher price having added no value.
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Sorry if my tone came off as blaming like you said. I didn't mean to be blaming git or holding it responsible for something. I see a lot of existing inertia for Perforce in the AAA game development industry, and wanted to express that.

I think you're correct in that git is the go-to version control software. I'd reach for it as a default tool every time. I do work with older programmers where the majority of their careers have been in Visual C++ and Perforce, and I've definitely heard sentiments seeing it as wheel-reinventing. I don't agree with them, but it's what I've experienced.
Also, money usually doesn't have an expiration date. Drugs and most medical supplies do.
I can assure you the fear in the faces of the Walmart workers Thursday evening, as they had presided over emptier shelves every hour than any had ever seen, was fear of rationing more so than fear of contracting disease.

That was the last day before they limited hours.
I hope he kept one bottle for his own use.
Our family went on self quarantine a week ago because one of us is immunocompromised, but we have travel plans for a wedding in 6 weeks.
> This is one of them.

Can you give an explanation for the curious?
Temporary UBI has been proposed by legislators. Doesn't seem to be catching on with the mainstream republican or democratic wings though:

https://www.newsweek.com/tulsi-gabbard-alexandria-ocasio-cor...
Here's the original article that started it all, which has more information. It quotes the prices as ranging from $8 to $70 per bottle.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...
Out of pure curiosity, why won't it ?
Sounds worse than coronavirus.
The dengue fever vaccine disaster on the Philippines is another good example why one should be cautious. Dengue fever is the canonical example of antibody-dependent enhancement - someone who has antibodies against a certain strain of dengue fever will show a very serious reaction when he is infected with a different strain of the virus. That's why people who are given the dengue vaccine must have been infected with dengue previously.

On the Philippines, they gave the dengue vaccine to schoolchildren, a substantial number of whom were seronegative. The disease in that population was much more serious than it would have been otherwise, there were unnecessary deaths, and a good number of parents avoided the measles vaccine for their children, and a measles outbreak promptly followed.
How about buying up housing stock in popular inner city areas only to "provide" housing for people?

Housing is an essential good. Profiting off an essential isn't so great suddenly. Yes people need to rent, but many would buy if prices weren't pushed up.

Are they or the hand sanitizer guy assisting the market in any way here? Or are they parasitic?

People are going to be asking a lot about unfettered capitalism after this.

We are going to see many ugly examples in America before this is done.
This guy is an idiot for drawing attention to himself.
He was selling it for different prices, but the highest was $70 for a single bottle from the NYT article.
Interestingly, the price of that flight is now sitting at $163.40.

https://www.google.com/flights?hl=en#flt=PHL.SFO.2020-03-27....
What’s stopping all those <55 year olds from giving it to >55?
I genuinely can’t grasp the nerve required for this to have been decided and put into place. It feels like nothing is too scummy to not happen.
Or the Americans for trying to corner the market on a potential vaccine in development.
CDC says:
>Remember, a COVID-19 outbreak could last for a long time.

It's already becoming more memorable for its poorly-controlled spread of damage, forseeable over an increasing period of time to come.

Q. Have a COVID-19 outbreak?

A. No, thanks, we already have one.
Well, we’ll get to see it play out in the next few weeks, won’t we. France and Spain aren’t making me feel better. And given how unhealthy the American population is, I think you’re being incredibly cavalier with other people’s lives.
or they need to figure out a way to test everyone, or at least a significant sample, regardless of symptoms so we can get a baseline.

I am not comfortable with the tourniquets being applied to our open society.
You're right. I chose the optimistic end of fatality estimates because that's the conservative choice (for making the point I was making) but given that infrastructure will collapse in this scenario the true fatality rate is almost certain to be a lot higher.
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I'd like to think this is just a gui on top of kubectl because not everyone likes to write every single command over and over when a simple gui can tell you more and let you be more productive at the same time.
One of the reasons why I choose rancher instead of bare bones kubernetes.
Of price controls? The government says what (some) things have to cost, period. Typically accompanied with some quota mechanism (something like 10 pieces/head/week).

Typical use cases: epidemics, wars, inflationary crises (arguable; I prefer the Paul Volker approach), other types of special situations when supply is scarce and the demand needs to be controlled.

You could say most countries operate under constant price control of the most important price of them all: the price of money, or the price of time. I am talking about interest rates.
In my opinion, there are several paradoxes linked to COVID-19 that ought to be researched quickly to help screening susceptible individuals and drug development.

Children seem immune, which is in stark contrast with common flu. Furthermore, lots of patients that recover from COVID-19 have severe lung damage. Interestingly, I have seen reports of an inverse correlation between lymphocyte count and survival. To me this suggests some autoimmune damage in critically ill patients. Understanding host genetics (HLA) and viral mimotopes is a must. No idea why this is not being done.

Tocilizumab, a drug for rheumatoid arthritis, has been repurposed against COVID-19 in Italy, with promising preliminary results. This seems in line with the autoimmune hypothesis I outlined. Other autoimmune disease drugs are getting repurposed too, but there is a lack of basic principles understanding.
That's addressed in detail by anesthesiologists, ICU docs and other ventilator operators in the linked Reddit thread. I'm not an expert but they indicate while not ideal it's NOT as bad as it seems and can be mitigated.
There's a previous story which got quite famous which you're missing that went into great detail on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...
I’m not going to divorce my wife so I can run away with United, but I hope this crew has a lot more than the single example to level these charges I hope they are taking care buckets into consideration (right or wrong, changing this at the IT level can’t be quick or easy). It will be curious to see others replicate this and if so, United’s response, because that would be egregious and certainly something for them to resolve.
The commerce clause cannot be used to abrogate fundamental individual rights, people are seriously misunderstanding what can be done under that clause. There is a mountain of Supreme Court precedent that covers this explicitly, and the specific case of freedom of travel, and also covers attempts to use regulatory technicalities to do the same. The right of Americans to travel freely absent narrow circumstances requiring due process is settled law at this point. This may be inconvenient for anyone that wants to implement a lockdown but this is well-trod legal territory.

I think people are also conflating what the Federal government can do, which is very little, and what local governments can do, which is considerably more. Broadly speaking, the Federal government operates in an "advise and support" role, the legal authority resides with the States and localities. This is an example of where State sovereignty becomes very obvious. But even with the States exercising their broader powers, they are still restricted from violating fundamental Constitutional rights like freedom of speech, assembly, travel, etc.
I agree it’s not as simple as only mortgage freeze. But if the land lord needs the rent, probably that’s for their mortgage. But yes, I agree better unemployment insurance is a good idea.
The US will go under extreme lockdown at 100k cases. No way we will see 327m * 0.6 cases.
You mean like shutting down travel from contaminated countries, which was widely viewed as a terrible choice just a week ago?

There was only one way for the virus to get here, and that was through travel.

CDC fucked up the testing after that failed, which got us to where we are now. Testing is supposed to be fixed this week.

CDC just recommended people not gather in groups of more than 50. Things are starting to tighten down significantly.

At this moment, I feel like we have a very real chance of getting a handle on things within the next two weeks. From there, we live through another month or two of lockdown and slow burn our way into summer.

It's going to be hard, but I don't think we're dead in the water yet.
I don't think there's enough data to say for sure on this in the sense that outside of S Korea, very few asymptomatic people have been tested.
because they'll prosecute him anyway since he was price gouging?
> Banks have the infrastructure to run drive-thru only branches.

Maybe out in the suburbs, but here in NYC, where most bank branches are storefronts on the ground floors of larger buildings, that would be impossible.

Also, if banks closed, businesses could no longer accept cash payments, since there would be nowhere to deposit them. And lots of poor people rely on cash for buying life's necessities because they have no credit cards.
Is that realistic? School being done for the whole year (basically the remainder of this semester up until June). That just sounds so other worldly to me.
The use of the word "profiteers". It either assumes wrongdoing, in which case we can talk about ethics or law separate from the profit, or just making profit in general, in which case see my comment on stocks and bonds. Being successful in securities markets largely depends on exploiting other people's mistakes (which create mispricings).
I don't think it's clear at all what the death rate would be in a situation where we didn't intervene in the natural spread of the disease. It would make sense (and there is some data to support) that when the health system is overwhelmed, the death rate increases drastically.
Yeah, but AKAIK the codes themselves seem to often be manufacturer internal info.

People into automotive (and boat, uav) CAN stuff have figured out ways to reverse engineer much of it though.
Utrecht is dead flat.
In usa when a corporation does it, its legal. When individual does it, they get pinched.
I mis-linked. Here's the direct link to the paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16885402/
Making a profit is not the same as profiteering. The relevant statutes define what the latter is.
no one said it would. but I imagine that they would be an easier sell to politicians and the populace if we see more of the sort of price gouging that is going on with hand sanitizer and masks.

also, morbid I know, but if we lose a lot of the older segment of the population then we also remove a significant burden on healthcare and welfare to free up money for UBI
Not according to S Korea
It's temporary, and it's not worse than mass unnecessary deaths because there weren't enough ventilators.
> if they don't have a 3 to 6 month emergency fund that's on them

A lot of my friends are fresh college grads, moving into the world, and suddenly finding themselves without job opportunities. They haven't had time to get established in a career, much less build up a 3 to 6 month emergency fund.

There are plenty of people in the US who are living paycheck to paycheck, where an unexpected $500 expense would be financially difficult for them [1].

From a position of security and with the benefit of hindsight it's very easy to say "oh well, they just didn't prepare enough, it's their own fault" when in context that's a rather shortsighted take.

Part of it is poor financial literacy, I'll grant you that. We should take strides as a country to improve that.

But perhaps a larger potion is that simply most people don' t have the luxury of advanced financial planning, or the ability to actual act upon that planning.

Please have more compassion for your neighbors.

See also, this other comment from this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22588601

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=22588681&goto=item%3Fi...
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There are people under 35 who might have immune or other underlying conditions.

Also a lot of us have family over 35 that we care about.
The alternative is to implement incredibly thorough public safety measures like those currently in place in China and Korea, where mass screening, comprehensive and constant public sanitization programs, strict controls on travel and public events, and mass emplacement of new temporary hospitals are in place. Both countries are doing extremely well in controlling the spread of the virus on a per capita basis, and doing well enough that they will probably soon be able to lift those measures piece by piece as long as they also keep tight control of external travel.

This means actually spending money on public health infrastructure, though, so it seems unlikely to happen in the US.
Feral sheep do exist, if wikipedia is to be believed.
any reason or evidence for why you think it doesn't work?
The classic one often talked about in business schools is Robert Taylor buying up all liquid soap pump capacity in the US when he launched, "Softsoap" to head off other companies muscling him off the shelves through superior marketing and contracts with retailers.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/06/time-guy-cor...

Basically had the market to himself for a year.
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The most interesting part of this piece is how it strongly implies that the BGP announcement thing in question is single-threaded. The "overloaded" machine is showing utilization just below 1 CPU, while the normal ones are loafing along at < 10% of 1 CPU.
I strongly disagree with imprisonment here, but I can get behind fines.
Well, Imperial is a fine research institution indeed, but this still doesn't cut the mustard. Sure, Imperial boffins may be creating "real time infectious disease models" and those models may "allow" policy decisions to be made, but this tells us nothing about what we really want to know: whether these models were actually used to take the decisions we're discussing, instead of some other process.

Really, the claims of having done "careful modelling" absent any evidence of that modelling (say, a graph or a table of the results) is a really bad sign.
Don't worry - you're welcome in Germany!
The answer cannot be a choice between “lose all your freedoms forever” or “the virus kills a million Americans”.
I think the point is more, don't even bother giving the choice. Just do the right thing which will maximize the survival of the patient, which is B in this case. People on the verge of death from illness aren't in the best place to be making logical decisions, and that's assuming that they're even still conscious or can talk (many of them are unconscious at this point and/or intubated).

Just follow the Socratic oath and don't over-complicate things. Give the necessary treatments.
Interesting point about the tolerances, hadn't though of that. For making your own machined parts (eg crankshaft, engine block/heads), that makes sense.

Though, making your own engine block is pretty far from a "home garage thing" anyway.

People used to just buy those parts from a local supplier or wrecker, then fit them in their garage at home. That doesn't seem like it should have changed.
> I feel for your friends. However, if they dont have a 3 to 6 month emergency fund that's on them. This is an emergency in every sense of the word, and they should be saving money to weather a storm like this.

How is anyone supposed to get 3-6months rent as savings waiting tables in or just out of college? These aren’t salaried tech employees. This pronouncement is utterly divorced from the economic realities of Americans[0], and to me seem breathtakingly insensitive.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/christianweller/2019/07/30/are-...
The theory is more the humidity. The virus gets trapped in vapor and pulled harmlessly to the ground. The counter to the theory is that at least in developed countries people flee the humidity by living in low humidity air conditioning.
Yeah, definitely one of the group that was elected.
Worked for China. If we don't do anything we'll have 7% mortality rate that Italy is reporting.
There’s an update at the end of article, they already have some polymer SLS version in hand. Probably not using FDM prototype at this point
Well that was an interesting little rabbit hole with a grim end, thanks for sharing.

"His son, Jesse Livermore Jr., committed suicide in 1975. His grandson also killed himself."
Poster probably not human.
You'd be surprised how fast a decade goes...
Is this actually detecting COVID-19 or yellow rulers?

https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/4/15/notes-on-a...
Housing, food, water, Internet access, cell phones... all more or less essential goods in the modern world. How dare anyone expect to be paid for them?
I thought the OP was saying that the cocaine example won't help the trafickers
>How is anyone supposed to get 3-6months rent as savings waiting tables in or just out of college

Budgeting their income, not going out every single night and a myriad of other ways. You dont need a large tech salary to save money. You need common sense.